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Iconographie zoophytologique, description par localités et terrains des polypiers fossiles de France et pays environnants.Paris, P. Bertrand (back of title-page: printed by Fain & Thunot), 1840-1847. 4to. With 79 lithographed plates by Ludovic Michelin and Delarue fils. Contemporary half calf.
Iconographie zoophytologique, description par localités et terrains des polypiers fossiles de France et pays environnants.Paris, P. Bertrand (back of title-page: printed by Fain & Thunot), 1840-1847. 4to. With 79 lithographed plates by Ludovic Michelin and Delarue fils. Contemporary half calf.
MICHELIN, Jean Louis Hardouin. · 1546
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
XII, 348; [4] pp.Rare first and only edition of a monograph on fossils of coral polyps in France. Coral is made by millions of tiny invertebrate carnivorous animals called polyps. After their death hey leave behind a limestone deposit, which forms the foundation for a next pol...
The geology and fossils of the tertiary and cretaceous formations of Sussex.London, Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1850. Large 4to (32 x 24.5 cm). With a hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 44 lithographed and engraved plates (including 2 coloured by hand and 2 double-page). Contemporary green cloth, new endpapers.
The geology and fossils of the tertiary and cretaceous formations of Sussex.London, Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1850. Large 4to (32 x 24.5 cm). With a hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 44 lithographed and engraved plates (including 2 coloured by hand and 2 double-page). Contemporary green cloth, new endpapers.
DIXON, Frederick. · 1804
€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.90 | ¥123,220)
XVI, I-XVI, 422, [2] pp.First edition of a richly illustrated geological and palaeontological description of Sussex, England, during the Triassic and Cretaceous period, by Frederick Dixon. The work was published posthumously and edited by the British biologist and palaeontolog...
Der Gold- & Silberarbeiter und Juwelier nach allen seinen praktischen Verrichtungen. Ein vollständiges Handbuch dieses Gewerbes...Ilmenau, B.F Voigt, 1823. 8vo. With 8 tables on separate leaves (6 on 3 folding plates bound at the end of the book), 109 tables in the text and 4 lithographed folding illustration plates signed by Uckermann. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, gold-tooled spine with light brown label.
Der Gold- & Silberarbeiter und Juwelier nach allen seinen praktischen Verrichtungen. Ein vollständiges Handbuch dieses Gewerbes...Ilmenau, B.F Voigt, 1823. 8vo. With 8 tables on separate leaves (6 on 3 folding plates bound at the end of the book), 109 tables in the text and 4 lithographed folding illustration plates signed by Uckermann. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, gold-tooled spine with light brown label.
SCHUL[T]ZE, Heinrich. · 1823
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
XII, 340, [4] pp.Only copy located of the first edition of handbook for goldsmiths, silversmiths and jewellers, written by the goldsmith and silversmith Heinrich Schultze. It describes the techniques used for work with gold and silver in the early 19th century. From page 245 o...
Description méthodique du Cabinet de l'École Royale des Mines.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1784. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, paste paper sides.
Description méthodique du Cabinet de l'École Royale des Mines.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1784. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, paste paper sides.
SAGE, Balthazar-Georges. · 1783
€2,200.00 ($2,424.86 | £1,835.12 | ¥387,264)
XVI, 487, [1 blank], XI, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a descriptive catalogue of the mineralogical cabinet of the Paris School of Mines, established a year earlier in 1783. At the time it was one of the most complete collections in Europe. "The specimens are ordered ...
Essais sur la minéralogie et la métallurgie.Maestricht, J.E. Dufour & P. Roux, 1779. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (22.5 x 13.5 cm). Contemporary decorated paper wrappers.
Essais sur la minéralogie et la métallurgie.Maestricht, J.E. Dufour & P. Roux, 1779. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (22.5 x 13.5 cm). Contemporary decorated paper wrappers.
LUCHET, Jean Pierre Louis de (= Marquis de LA ROCHE DU MAINE). · 1720
€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)
[4], XXVII, [1], 232 pp.Very rare first edition (printed in Maastricht) of a mining manual by a French enlightened marquis who worked as chief librarian at the Hessen-Kassel court of Friedrich II (1720-1785). Although mentioned reference literature, the book is very rare on th...
Das Norddeutsche Unter-Oligocän und seine Mollusken-Fauna.Berlin, Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstat, Im Vertrieb der Simon Schropp, 1889-1894. 7 parts (bound in 7). Large 8vo (25.5 x 17.5 cm). With 101 folding plates. Original printed brown paper wrappers, with the title on the spine (printed for volumes 1-6, manuscript for volume 7).
Das Norddeutsche Unter-Oligocän und seine Mollusken-Fauna.Berlin, Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstat, Im Vertrieb der Simon Schropp, 1889-1894. 7 parts (bound in 7). Large 8vo (25.5 x 17.5 cm). With 101 folding plates. Original printed brown paper wrappers, with the title on the spine (printed for volumes 1-6, manuscript for volume 7).
KOENEN, Adolf von. · 1458
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
1458 pp.Richly illustrated scientific work written by Adolf von Koenen (1837-1915), which deals with the mollusks of the Lower Oligocene in northern Germany. It was published by the Royal Prussian Geological Survey as a part of the Abhandlungen zur geologischen Specialkarte vo...
Élémens de minéralogie docimastique ... Seconde édition. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1777. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of B.G. Sage by J. Beauvarlet after F.G. Colson and 2 tables (1 folding).With: (2) SAGE, Balthazar-Georges. Mémoires de chimie. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1778. With 1 folding table. 2 works in 3 volumes (ad. 1 in 2). 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines with red and black labels, marbled edges, marbled endpapers.
Élémens de minéralogie docimastique ... Seconde édition. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1777. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of B.G. Sage by J. Beauvarlet after F.G. Colson and 2 tables (1 folding).With: (2) SAGE, Balthazar-Georges. Mémoires de chimie. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1778. With 1 folding table. 2 works in 3 volumes (ad. 1 in 2). 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines with red and black labels, marbled edges, marbled endpapers.
SAGE, Balthazar-Georges. · 1772
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
XLVII, [1], 339; [2], 400, XLVI, [2]; VII, 262, XXXVIII pp.Two works on mineralogy and chemistry by the founder of the Paris École des Mines and the Museum of Mineralogy, the Élémens de minéralogie docimastique in its second, greatly expanded edition (first edition 1772) with ...
Elémens de minéralogie.Paris, Cuchet, 1785. 8vo. With a small woodcut decoration on the title-page, some letterpress tables in text. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with brown title-label, marbled endpapers, red edges.
Elémens de minéralogie.Paris, Cuchet, 1785. 8vo. With a small woodcut decoration on the title-page, some letterpress tables in text. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine with brown title-label, marbled endpapers, red edges.
KIRWAN, Richard. · 1733
€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)
[4], XLVIII, 432 pp.First edition of the French translation of a well-known mineralogical work by the Irish chemist, mineralogist and geologist Richard Kirwan (1733-1812). The original English was first published as Elements of mineralogy in 1784, and was "the first systematic...
Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts; ouvrage destiné a l'einseignement dans les lycées nationaux.Paris, Crapelet; Deterville, 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 16 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines.
Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts; ouvrage destiné a l'einseignement dans les lycées nationaux.Paris, Crapelet; Deterville, 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 16 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines.
BRONGNIART, Alexandre. · 1770
€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)
XII, 564; [4], 443, [1] pp.First edition of a work on mineralogy by the French geologist and mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847), intended as a textbook for the mineralogical courses given by Brongniart and René Just Haüy at the Faculté des Sciences and the Muséum d'...
Die Gastropoden der Gosaugebilde in den nordöstlichen Alpen. [...] Aus den Abhandlungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. 1. Band. 2. Abtheilung, Nr. 2. Mit 24 lithographirten Tafeln.Wien, K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei bei Wilhelm Braumüller, 1852. Folio. With engraved coat-of-arms of the Austrian Empire flanked by two eagles on the title-page and 24 numbered full-page plates of (snail-) shells with more than 400 figures, lithographed by J. Strohmaijer, Zehner, Heinrich Backer and A. Paschinger. Contemporary half calf.
Die Gastropoden der Gosaugebilde in den nordöstlichen Alpen. [...] Aus den Abhandlungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. 1. Band. 2. Abtheilung, Nr. 2. Mit 24 lithographirten Tafeln.Wien, K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei bei Wilhelm Braumüller, 1852. Folio. With engraved coat-of-arms of the Austrian Empire flanked by two eagles on the title-page and 24 numbered full-page plates of (snail-) shells with more than 400 figures, lithographed by J. Strohmaijer, Zehner, Heinrich Backer and A. Paschinger. Contemporary half calf.
ZEKELI, Lukas Friedrich · 1852
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
[4], 124 pp.Rare original edition of the thesis ("Habitilation thesis"), previously published as an article in the journal Abhandlungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt in the same year 1852 by Lukas Friedrich Zekeli (1823-1881), a paleontologist teaching at the University ...
A systematic and stratigraphical catalogue of the fossil fish in the cabinets of Lord Cole and Sir Philip Grey Egerton; together with an alphabetical and stratigraphical catalogue of the same species, with references to their published figures and descriptions.London, Richard & John E. Taylor, 1837. Large 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). Contemporary blue wrappers.
A systematic and stratigraphical catalogue of the fossil fish in the cabinets of Lord Cole and Sir Philip Grey Egerton; together with an alphabetical and stratigraphical catalogue of the same species, with references to their published figures and descriptions.London, Richard & John E. Taylor, 1837. Large 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). Contemporary blue wrappers.
EGERTON, Philip Grey. · 1806
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[22] pp.First and only edition of a privately issued catalogue by the owner of one of the cabinets holding the fossils, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet (1806-1881), an English palaeontologist and Conservative politician. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Soci...
Die Jura-Formationen des Breisgaues geognostisch beschrieben.Karlsruhe, Christian Theodor Groos, 1838. 4to. With 2 hand-coloured lithographed geognostic maps by B. Herder, one of the Schönberg near Freiburg and one of the whole area of Breisgrau with both maps showing the different earth layers and their materials by using different colours. Contemporary marbled boards, red morocco spine label.
Die Jura-Formationen des Breisgaues geognostisch beschrieben.Karlsruhe, Christian Theodor Groos, 1838. 4to. With 2 hand-coloured lithographed geognostic maps by B. Herder, one of the Schönberg near Freiburg and one of the whole area of Breisgrau with both maps showing the different earth layers and their materials by using different colours. Contemporary marbled boards, red morocco spine label.
FROMHERZ, Karl. · 1797
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
IV, 51, [1 blank] pp.Treatise on the geognosy (geology, minerology and subterranean structure) of the German region Breisgau, situated near the Black Forest, written by Karl Fromherz (1797-1854). Fromherz was professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Freiburg ...
Das Flözgebirge Würtembergs. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den Jura.Tübingen, H. Laupp, 1851. 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with paste-paper.
Das Flözgebirge Würtembergs. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den Jura.Tübingen, H. Laupp, 1851. 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with paste-paper.
QUENSTEDT, Friedrich August von. · 1809
€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)
VIII, 578, [2] pp.Enlarged second edition of an important treatise on strata from the Jurassic period by the German mineralogist Friedrich August von Quenstedt (1809-1889). The work can be seen as a precursor of Quenstedt's famous work Der Jura, published in 1858. Quenstedt di...
Minéralogie des volcans ou description de toutes les substances produites ou rejetées par les feux souterrains.Paris, Cuchet, 1784. 8vo. With 3 full-page engraved plates.Contemporary goatskin, gold-tooled spine with a yellow-brown morocco spine label, sprinkled edges.
Minéralogie des volcans ou description de toutes les substances produites ou rejetées par les feux souterrains.Paris, Cuchet, 1784. 8vo. With 3 full-page engraved plates.Contemporary goatskin, gold-tooled spine with a yellow-brown morocco spine label, sprinkled edges.
FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthelémy. · 1741
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
XV, 16-20, 511, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a treatise on the mineralogy of volcanoes and a description of all kinds of gravel produced by underground fires, written by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819). Faujas de Saint-Fond was a former lawyer who decided to devot...
Tableau des corps organisés fossiles, précédé de remarques sur leur pétrification.Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine.
Tableau des corps organisés fossiles, précédé de remarques sur leur pétrification.Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine.
DEFRANCE, Jacques Louis Marin. · 1820
€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)
[4], XVI, 136 pp.Rare first and only edition of this important early contribution to the founding of paleobotany: the study of fossil plants. The study expands on the first works that formulated the basic conceptions of this new field of research by Rhode, Pflanzenkunde der Vo...
Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. Herausgegeben von F. Römer und F. Schaudinn.Jena, G. Fischer, 1902-1933. 6 volumes. Large 4to (36 x 28 cm). With 2 photogravure portraits (of both editors), 8 lithographed maps, 49 (a few chromo-) lithographed plates and 609 figures in the text. Contemporary half cloth (volumes II-IV & VI) & wrappers (volumes I and V).
Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. Herausgegeben von F. Römer und F. Schaudinn.Jena, G. Fischer, 1902-1933. 6 volumes. Large 4to (36 x 28 cm). With 2 photogravure portraits (of both editors), 8 lithographed maps, 49 (a few chromo-) lithographed plates and 609 figures in the text. Contemporary half cloth (volumes II-IV & VI) & wrappers (volumes I and V).
RÖMER, Fritz and Fritz SCHAUDINN (editors). · 1898
€1,350.00 ($1,487.98 | £1,126.10 | ¥237,639)
Scarce important expedition-report. Plates 2-3 (of volume V) not present as in most copies. "The expedition was a private undertaking by Römer and Schaudinn, in the steamer Helgoland, June-Sept. 1898, to carry out zoological research in the waters off Svalbard and along the Mu...
Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. Fascicolo I.Naples, Fernandes brothers, 1823. Large 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). With 4 engraved plates. Modern black cloth, original publisher's printed wrappers bound in.
Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. Fascicolo I.Naples, Fernandes brothers, 1823. Large 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). With 4 engraved plates. Modern black cloth, original publisher's printed wrappers bound in.
DELLE CHIAJE, Stefano. · 1794
€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)
XII, 84 pp.First and only edition of the first fascicule on the taxonomy of invertebrates in the Kingdom of Naples, by the Neapolitan zoologist, botanist, anatomist and physician Stefano Delle Chiaje (1794-1860)On the same subject and in the same mould Chiaje published later h...
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce qui vivent en France.Paris, Masson, 1847-1852. 2 volumes (text and atlas). 4to. With a letterpress folding table and 31 lithographed plates. Contemporary green half sheepskin.
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce qui vivent en France.Paris, Masson, 1847-1852. 2 volumes (text and atlas). 4to. With a letterpress folding table and 31 lithographed plates. Contemporary green half sheepskin.
DUPUY, Dominique. · 1812
€575.00 ($633.77 | £479.63 | ¥101,217)
XXXI, [1 blank], 737, [1 blank] pp.First edition of an extensive monograph on French land and fresh-water molluscs, by the French botanist and malacologist abbot Dominique Dupuy (1812-1885). The text volume contains descriptions of many different species of land and water snai...
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France. Contenant des studes sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés.Paris, Bailliere, 1855. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. Royal 8vo. With 54 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France. Contenant des studes sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés.Paris, Bailliere, 1855. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. Royal 8vo. With 54 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.
MOQUIN-TANDON, Alfred. · 1804
€875.00 ($964.43 | £729.88 | ¥154,026)
VIII, 416; 646; 92 pp.The French botanist Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804-1863), professor of zoology and botany at Marseille and Toulouse, published his present history of French molluscs in 1855, the fruit of nearly twenty years of labour. It is recognised as one of the finest st...
Leçons élémentaires d'histoire naturelle comprenant un aperçu sur toute la zoologie et un traité de Conchyliologie à l’usage des gens du monde.Paris, Lacrampe fils for Dauvin et Fontaines & J.J. Dubochet, le Chevalier et Cie, 1847. 4to. With 863 small engraved figures in the text and 12 numbered plates of shells by Jean Gabriel Prêtre and N. Rémond, all expertly colored by hand. Publisher’s buckram.
Leçons élémentaires d'histoire naturelle comprenant un aperçu sur toute la zoologie et un traité de Conchyliologie à l’usage des gens du monde.Paris, Lacrampe fils for Dauvin et Fontaines & J.J. Dubochet, le Chevalier et Cie, 1847. 4to. With 863 small engraved figures in the text and 12 numbered plates of shells by Jean Gabriel Prêtre and N. Rémond, all expertly colored by hand. Publisher’s buckram.
CHENU, Jean-Charles. · 1808
€475.00 ($523.55 | £396.22 | ¥83,614)
[4], lxxxvii, 284 pp.Original edition of this finely illustrated handbook on conchology and mollusks, preceded by a dedication to Madame François Delessert by Chenu and a general introduction on zoology, including mammals, fishes, birds and various insects. A slightly differen...