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Coleoptera, Orthoptera et Hemiptera faunae insectorum Lapponicae.

ZETTERSTEDT, Johan Wilhelm (1785-1874).: · 1828

€450.00 ($495.96 | £375.43 | ¥79,199)

Hammone {Hamburg]: Schulz, 1828. 8vo, 18.6cm. Pp. xx,564. Contemporary quarter calf, gilt title and elegant decoration to backstrip. marbled boards. Browning or faint foxing to some pages, very good otherwise. - Rare.- [phd.106]

Diatomeeënflora van Nederland.

WERFF, A. van der & HULS, H.: · 1957

€225.00 ($247.98 | £187.71 | ¥39,599)

[Z. pl.: uitgave van auteurs,] 1957-1974. 8vo, 22cm. 741 ongenummerde éénzijdig bedrukte bladen, talrijke gedetaillerde figuren en beschrijvingen (één soort per blad), losbladig in 10 afleveringen in originele dun kartonnen omslagen. In uitstekende staat. - Zeldzame komplet...

Fauna insectorum Fridrichsdalina, sive methodica descriptio insectorum agri Fridrichdalensis [...]

MÜLLER, Otto Friedrich (1730-1784).: · 1764

€450.00 ($495.96 | £375.43 | ¥79,199)

Copenkagem & Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gledisch, 1764. 8vo, 29cm. Pp. xxiv,96. Old marbled boards, gilt title to backstrip. Little wear to backstrip, fine otherwise. - Very rare. The author's first important work, an inventory of the insect fauna of the estate of Frederiksda...

Tyd-Wyzer der Rupsen, vervattende, van maand tot maand, den tyd der verschyning van de, door Rösel en Kleemann, beschreeven en afgebeelde rupsen beneevens haar voedzel. Uit het Hoogduitsch.

MADER, Johann (1745-1815) & KLEEMANN, Christian riedrich Carl (1735-1789).: · 1779

€175.00 ($192.87 | £146.00 | ¥30,799)

Haarlem: C.H. Bohn, 1779. 8vo, 21.8cm. 161. Contemporary half calf, backstrip with title label, gilt line decoration and 5 raised bands, sprinkled boards. Clear waterstain to top margin of few pages, blue inked stamp to foot of titlepage, very good otherwise. - Rare. Dutch e...

Echinodermen (Stachelhäuter). I. Buch. Die Zeewalzen. // II. Buch.Die Seesterne. [Dr. H.G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs [...] zweiter Band. Dritte Abtheilung. Echinodermen (Stachelhäuter).]

LUDWIG, Hubert Jakob (1852-1913) resp. HAMANN, Otto (1857-1925).: · 1889

€150.00 ($165.32 | £125.14 | ¥26,400)

Leipzig: C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung, 1889-1899. Zwei Bände, Gr.-Oktav, 24.2cm. Bd. I: VI,[3],1-460 S. Bd.II: V,[3],461-744,[58] S., sehr zahlreiche fein detaillierte Abbildungen auf 29 Steindrucktafeln. Gebunden in 1 marmor. Pappband d. Zt. mit handschriftl. Rückentite...

Historiae Avium Prodromus cum Praefatione de Ordine Animalium in Genere. Accessit Historia Muris Alpini et Vetus Vocabularium Animalium msc. cum Figuris.

KLEIN, Jacob Theodor (1685-1759).: · 1750

€1,250.00 ($1,377.66 | £1,042.85 | ¥219,996)

Lübeck: Jonas Schmidt, 1750. 4to, 26cm. Pp. [xvi],238, 8 engraved plates (one folding, of the Alpine Swift), large engraved vignette to title. Paperbound,, contemporary marbled stiff wrappers, uncut. Significant foxing/browning thoughout (as usual, regretfully), little rubbi...

Monographia Apum Angliae; or, An attempt to divide into their natural genera and fanmilies, such species of the Linnaean genus Apis as have been discovered in England [...].

KIRBY, William (1759-1853).: · 1802

€425.00 ($468.41 | £354.57 | ¥74,799)

Ipswich: Printed for the Author by J. Raw, and sold by J. White, Fleet-Street, London, 1802/ Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, 21cm, Vol. I: pp. xxii,258, numerous figures on 14 engraved plates. Vol. II: pp. 388, 4 engraved plates (incl. frontispiece in vol. I). Old quarter cal...

Coléoptères carabiques de la région Malgache. [Faune de l'Empire Français VI, X, XI.]

JEANNEL, René (1879-1965).: · 1946

€200.00 ($220.43 | £166.86 | ¥35,199)

Paris: Office de la Recherche Scientifique Coloniale, 1946-1949. Three parts in one volume, 4to, 27.3cm. Pp. Modern nfull red cloth, gilt title to backstrip. [iv],1-372,[iv],372-766,[2],[iv],767-1146, 548 figures in text, systematic index. Paper of second part very slightly ...

Révision des Bathysciinae (Coléopères Silphides). Morhpologie, Distribution géographique, Systématique. [Biospeleologica, Tome 6.]

JEANNEL, Jean (1879-1965).: · 1941

€175.00 ($192.87 | £146.00 | ¥30,799)

[Paris] 1941. 8vo, 23cm. Pp. 641, 59 photos on 2 double-page heliogravure plates, 579 finely detailed figures on 21 double-page lithographed plates, list of 397 grottes (pp. 572-605, bibliography, index. Quarter red morocco, marbled boards. - Tome VII of 2e Série of "Archive...

Recherches sur les moeurs des fourmis indigènes

HUBER, Pierre (1777-1840).: · 1910

€450.00 ($495.96 | £375.43 | ¥79,199)

Paris & Genève: J.J. Paschoud, 1910. 8vo, 20cm. Pp. iii-xiii,[3],328, 2 engraved plates, errata leaflet tipped-in at foot lf final page. Old half calf, marbled boards, backstrip with 5 gilt decorated raised bands and red title label. Half-title leaf wanting, fine flawless ...

Nouvelles observations sur les abeilles. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée.

HUBER, François (1750-1831).: · 1814

€600.00 ($661.28 | £500.57 | ¥105,598)

Paris & Genève: J.J. Paschoud, 1814. Two volumes, 8vo, 19.7cm. Vol. I: pp. [iv],362. Vol. II: pp. [iv],479,[5], numerous figures on 20 finely engraved plates. Later 19th century quarter morocco, backstrips with gilt letterig and line decoration, marbled boards, marbled endpa...

Tableau méthodique et descriptif des Mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agennais.

GASSIES, Jean-Baptiste (1836-1883).: · 1849

€175.00 ($192.87 | £146.00 | ¥30,799)

Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1849. 8vo, 22.7cm. Pp.[iv],209,[11], 27 figures on 4 lithographed plates with remarkably fine hand-colouring and finished with albumen, each plate with protective tissue guard. Contemporary quarter calf, gilt lettering and decoration to backstrip, mar...

Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species adjectis synomymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus.

FABRICIUS, Johann Christian (1745-1808).: · 1803

€275.00 ($303.09 | £229.43 | ¥48,399)

Braunschweig: Kark Reichard, 1803. 8vo, 20.8cm. Pp; iii-x,314,[2]. Sprinkled paper-lined flexible old noards, uncut. Little age rubbing to binding extremities, half-title leaf wanting, some local foxing, good otherwise. - `Very rare classic work on the systematics of Rhyngo...

Philosophia Entomologica sistens Scientiae fundamenta adjectum definitionibus, exemplis, observationibus, adumbrationibus.

FABRICIUS, Johann Christian (1745-1808).: · 1778

€275.00 ($303.09 | £229.43 | ¥48,399)

Hamburg & Kiel: Karl Ernst Bohn, 1778. 8vo, 19cm. Pp. [xii],178, woodcut vignette to title-page. Contemporary quarter calf, sprinkled boards, remains of gilt title label to backstrip. Binding rubbed, contents very good. - Scarce first edition of this early work by the Danish...

Genera insectorum eorumque characters naturales secundim numeum, figuram, situm et proportionem omnii partium oris adjecta Mantissa specierum nuper detectatum.

FABRICIUS, Johan Christian (1745-1808).: · 1776

€450.00 ($495.96 | £375.43 | ¥79,199)

Chilonii [Kiel[: Michael Frierich Bartsch, [1776]. 8vo, 18cm. Pp. [xvi],310. contemporary half calf, label and gilt decoration to backstrip, marbled boards, red edges. Very good. - Very rare first edition. With inked signature "DFEschricht" to front end-paper, this is Daniel...

The expression of the emotions in man and animals.With photographic and other illustrations.

DARWIN, Charles [Robert] (1809-1882).: · 1872

€500.00 ($551.07 | £417.14 | ¥87,998)

London: John Murray, ,1872. 8vo, 18.7cm. Pp.vi,374, 4 pp. of publisher's list of "recent works" dated November 1872, 7 plates (3 folding) of photos, 21 wood-engraved figures in text, index. Original green cloth. uncut, gilt title to backstrip. Light foxing to titlepage, litt...

Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, où l'on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs animaux dont les révolutions du Globe ont détruit des espèces Quatrième édition.

CUVIER, Georges, Baron (1769-1832).: · 1834

€2,950.00 ($3,251.29 | £2,461.12 | ¥519,190)

Paris: Odmond d'Ocagne, 1834-1836. 10 volumes of text (8vo, 20cm) & 2 volumes of plates (4to, 28cm). Vol. I: pp. . [iv],xxiv,587. Vol. II: pp. [iv],500. Vol. III: pp. [iv],436. Vol. IV: pp.[iv],iv,691. Vol. V: pp. [iv],688. Vol. VI: pp [iv],452. Vol. VII: pp.[iv],534. Vol. V...

Illustrationes florae Atlanticae seu icones plantarum novarum, rariorum vel minus cognitarum in Algeria necnon in Regno Tunetano et Imperio Maroccanmo nascentium [...] Fasciculus I.

COSSON, Ernest Saint-Charles (1819-1889).: · 1882

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,000)

Oaris: Imprimerie Nationale / G. Masson, 1882. Folio, 36cm. Pp. 1-26, several figures on 25 lithographed plates. Unbound, as issued, loose-leaf in original printed linen-backed boards portfolio with ties, text uncut and unopened. Some dust or age marking mainly to binding, p...

Die Diatomeen von Schweden und Finnland. [Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 4. Serie, Bd. 2, No. 1 / Bd. 4 No. 1 / Bd. 4 No. 5 / Bd. 5 No. 4 / Bd. 3 No. 3.]

CLEVE-EULER, Astrid (1875-1968).: · 1951

€350.00 ($385.75 | £292.00 | ¥61,599)

Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1951-1955. Five volumes, 4to, 30cm. Vol. 1: pp. 163, very numerous figures on 50 plates, several microphotos on 6 plates, bibliography, index. Vol. II: pp. 158, 36 plates, index. Vol. III: pp.265, 41 plates, index. Vol. IV: pp. 232, 50 plates, ...

L'Argot au XXe Siècle. Dictionnaire Français-Argot. Deuxième édition augementée d'un Supplément.

Bruant, Aristide.: · 1905

€95.00 ($104.70 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1905. 8vo, 21.8cm. Pp. [iv],468,[2] pp. printed in double columns, vignette on title-page (reproducing medal portrait of B.), decorated initials. Modern boards lined with green vergé paper, printed title label on backstrip, orig. printed decorated w...