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Histoire abrégée des coquillages de mer, de leurs moeurs, et de leurs amours.Versailles, P.D. Pierres, An VIII (1799/1800). 4to. With an engraved headpiece and 21 engraved plates printed in brown. Contemporary blue boards.
Histoire abrégée des coquillages de mer, de leurs moeurs, et de leurs amours.Versailles, P.D. Pierres, An VIII (1799/1800). 4to. With an engraved headpiece and 21 engraved plates printed in brown. Contemporary blue boards.
CUBIÈRES, Simon Louis Pierre. · 1747
€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.90 | ¥123,220)
[3], [1 blank], VIII, 202.Second edition of a conchological work, addressed to female readers, by the French writer and naturalist Simon Louis Pierre Cubières (1747-1821). He opens with a preface, headed "aux femmes", followed by a general introduction to natural history and s...
Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles d'Asie-Mineure.Paris, Paul Lechevalier (colophon: Rouen, Lecerf), 1936. 8vo. With 17 plates with photographic reproductions and many illustrations in text. Modern brown half morocco, gold-tooled spine; with the original publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in.
Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles d'Asie-Mineure.Paris, Paul Lechevalier (colophon: Rouen, Lecerf), 1936. 8vo. With 17 plates with photographic reproductions and many illustrations in text. Modern brown half morocco, gold-tooled spine; with the original publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in.
GERMAIN, Louis. · 1878
€375.00 ($413.33 | £312.80 | ¥66,011)
492 pp.First edition of an extensive work on the land- and water molluscs, especially gastropods, of Asia Minor (Anatolia) by the French malacologist Louis Germain (1878-1942). The extensive introduction deals with the different families to which the molluscs of Anatolia belon...
A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, with figures of each of the kinds.London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates and some small wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth.
A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, with figures of each of the kinds.London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates and some small wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth.
TURTON, William and John Edward GRAY (editor). · 1762
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)
IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 324 pp.Enlarged second edition of an illustrated work on British land and fresh water shells by the British naturalist William Turton (1762-1835) and extensively enlarged and corrected by the British zoologist John Edward Gray (1800-1875). Descri...
Shells of Peitaiho.Beijing, Peking Laboratory of Natural History, 1928. 8vo. With 11 plates with photographic reproductions. Contemporary red cloth.
Shells of Peitaiho.Beijing, Peking Laboratory of Natural History, 1928. 8vo. With 11 plates with photographic reproductions. Contemporary red cloth.
GRABAU, Amadeus William and Sohtsu G. KING. · 1870
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)
[1], [1 blank], VI, 279, [2], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.Revised and enlarged second edition of a work on the shells of Peitaiho (Beidaihe), a district in China near the Bohai sea, by the German-American geologist Amadeus William Grabau (1870-1946), often called the father o...
The conchologist.Boston, Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. Small 4to. With a lithographed frontispiece showing 2 shells and XVI numbered lithographed plates of shells and related items showing 71 figures. Modern (21st-century?) green calf.
The conchologist.Boston, Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. Small 4to. With a lithographed frontispiece showing 2 shells and XVI numbered lithographed plates of shells and related items showing 71 figures. Modern (21st-century?) green calf.
WARREN, John.
€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)
[4], 204 pp.Rare first edition of the first American conchological manual, following the classifications of both Linnaeus and Lamarck. Warren gives an introduction discussing shells and their beauty, the three classes and the several conchological genera in them, including the...
Tableau méthodique et descriptif des Mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agenais.Paris, J.B. Baillière; Agen, J.B. Barrière, 1849. With 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates. With: (2) GASSIES, Jean-Baptiste. Malacologie terrestre et d'eau douce de la région intra-littorale de l'Aquitaine.Paris, J.B. Baillère and F. Savy, 1867. With one lithographed plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers.
Tableau méthodique et descriptif des Mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agenais.Paris, J.B. Baillière; Agen, J.B. Barrière, 1849. With 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates. With: (2) GASSIES, Jean-Baptiste. Malacologie terrestre et d'eau douce de la région intra-littorale de l'Aquitaine.Paris, J.B. Baillère and F. Savy, 1867. With one lithographed plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers.
GASSIES, Jean-Baptiste. · 1816
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)
[4], 209, [4], [1 blank]; 30, [1], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: First edition of a monograph on the land and fresh-water molluscs that can be found in Agen and surroundings (France), by the French malacologist Jean-Baptiste Gassies (1816-1883). He describes four classes of snails and mu...
A conchological manual.London, G.B. Sowerby (colophon: printed by George Odell), 1839. 8vo. With 1 handcoloured, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding tables and 23 engraved plates. Late 19th century half calf.
A conchological manual.London, G.B. Sowerby (colophon: printed by George Odell), 1839. 8vo. With 1 handcoloured, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding tables and 23 engraved plates. Late 19th century half calf.
SOWERBY, George Brettingham II. · 1836
€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)
[1], [1 blank], V, 130, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a richly illustrated introduction into the science of conchology by a member of the Sowerby family, which included many scholars and artists of shells. According to the introduction: "this little volume … is strictly c...
Report on the invertebrata of Massachusetts, published agreeably to an order of the legislature. Second edition, comprising the mollusca. Edited by W.G. Binney.Boston, Wright and Potter, state printers, 1870. Large 8vo. With 12 full-page chromolithographed plates, numbered XVI-XXVII, containing figures 214-349, after the drawings by B.F. Nutting, Mary Peart, Fanny van Horn, S. Morse, J. Burckhardt, and Alex. Agassiz. Original publisher’s green buckram over thick boards.
Report on the invertebrata of Massachusetts, published agreeably to an order of the legislature. Second edition, comprising the mollusca. Edited by W.G. Binney.Boston, Wright and Potter, state printers, 1870. Large 8vo. With 12 full-page chromolithographed plates, numbered XVI-XXVII, containing figures 214-349, after the drawings by B.F. Nutting, Mary Peart, Fanny van Horn, S. Morse, J. Burckhardt, and Alex. Agassiz. Original publisher’s green buckram over thick boards.
GOULD, Augustus Addison. · 1841
€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.83 | ¥35,206)
V, [2], 524 pp.Second - much enlarged - edition of Gould’s Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts which first appeared in 1841. It was the first monograph published in the United States that attempted to describe the entire molluskan fauna of a geographical region. The bo...
Die Conchylien des Mittelmeeres, ihre geographische und geologische Verbreitung.Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1867-1868. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, title in gold on spine, red painted edges, red endpapers.
Die Conchylien des Mittelmeeres, ihre geographische und geologische Verbreitung.Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1867-1868. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, title in gold on spine, red painted edges, red endpapers.
WEINKAUFF, Heinrich Conrad. · 1817
€575.00 ($633.77 | £479.63 | ¥101,217)
XIX, [1], 301, [1 blank]; VI, 512 pp.Extensive work on shells in the Mediterranean Sea by the zoologist, conchylogist and malacologist Heinrich Conrad Weinkauff (1817-1886). During his life. Weinkauff became "an acknowledged authority" on conchology, because he spent all his s...
Relation des differentes especes de peste que reconnoissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remedes qu'ils prennent pour en empêcher la communication & le progrès; et de ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guerir.Paris, Jacques Quillau, 1721. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the arms of Philippe d'Orléans (1674-1723) on both boards, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.
Relation des differentes especes de peste que reconnoissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remedes qu'ils prennent pour en empêcher la communication & le progrès; et de ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guerir.Paris, Jacques Quillau, 1721. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the arms of Philippe d'Orléans (1674-1723) on both boards, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.
GAUDEREAU, Abbé Martin. · 1663
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
134, [5], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a work on the treatment of the plague in the Middle East, by the French priest Martin Gaudereau (1663-1743). In 1689 Gaudereau went to Persia (Iran) in the company of Bégnine Vachet (1641-1720), a director of the seminary of foreign miss...
Review of the accounts of the trade and navigation of India for 1874-75, as compared with previous years.Calcutta, Office of the superintendent of government printing, 1876.With:(2) Memorandum reviewing the accounts of the trade and navigation of British India for 1875-76. Dated the 24th February 1877. [Calcutta?], Government central press, 1877.(3) Review of the trade of British India for the official year 1876-77.Calcutta, 25 October1877.(4) Review of the trade of British India with other countries, for the official year 1878-1879.[Calcutta?], Government central press, 1879.(5) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1879-80.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1880.(6) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1880-81.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1881.(7) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1881-82.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1882.(8) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1883.Simla, Government central branch press, 1883.(9) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1884.Simla, Government central branch press, 1884.9 parts in 1 volume. Folio. Near contemporary red cloth.
Review of the accounts of the trade and navigation of India for 1874-75, as compared with previous years.Calcutta, Office of the superintendent of government printing, 1876.With:(2) Memorandum reviewing the accounts of the trade and navigation of British India for 1875-76. Dated the 24th February 1877. [Calcutta?], Government central press, 1877.(3) Review of the trade of British India for the official year 1876-77.Calcutta, 25 October1877.(4) Review of the trade of British India with other countries, for the official year 1878-1879.[Calcutta?], Government central press, 1879.(5) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1879-80.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1880.(6) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1880-81.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1881.(7) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1881-82.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1882.(8) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1883.Simla, Government central branch press, 1883.(9) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1884.Simla, Government central branch press, 1884.9 parts in 1 volume. Folio. Near contemporary red cloth.
O'CONOR, James Edward. · 1917
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
First editions of the official yearly accounts of the trade between British India and other countries, all compiled by the British administrator James Edward O'Conor (d. 1917). Included are the reviews of the years from 1874 to 1884, only lacking the official year 1877-1878. L...
A treatise on the wealth, power, and resources, of the British Empire, in every quarter of the world, including the East Indies: the rise and progress of the funding system explained; ...London, 1814. 4to. With many letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled spine; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down.
A treatise on the wealth, power, and resources, of the British Empire, in every quarter of the world, including the East Indies: the rise and progress of the funding system explained; ...London, 1814. 4to. With many letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled spine; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down.
COLQUHOUN, Patrick. · 1745
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
XII, 451, [1 blank], 91, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a work on the wealth of the British Empire at the end of the Napoleonic wars, by the Scottish merchant and magistrate Patrick Calquhoun (1745-1820). "The object of this work is to explain, as far as explanation had been pr...
Bibelsche figueren, ofte afbeeldingen van al de gedenckweerdige historien, ende andere geschiedenissen des Ouden ende Nieuwen Testaments.Amsterdam, Gerrit Jansz., 1662. Oblong 4to (19 x 6 cm). With a general title-page plus a separate title-page for the New Testament, each with the same new woodcut rendition of the device Michiel Colijn used in his 1613 editions, 97 (of 119) engraved and etched Bible scenes, 1 large woodcut headpiece and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Early 19th-century half vellum, sewn on 2 tapes, marbled sides, with the remains of a gold-tooled spine-label that originally read “BIBELSCHE|FIGUEREN|1662”.
Bibelsche figueren, ofte afbeeldingen van al de gedenckweerdige historien, ende andere geschiedenissen des Ouden ende Nieuwen Testaments.Amsterdam, Gerrit Jansz., 1662. Oblong 4to (19 x 6 cm). With a general title-page plus a separate title-page for the New Testament, each with the same new woodcut rendition of the device Michiel Colijn used in his 1613 editions, 97 (of 119) engraved and etched Bible scenes, 1 large woodcut headpiece and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Early 19th-century half vellum, sewn on 2 tapes, marbled sides, with the remains of a gold-tooled spine-label that originally read “BIBELSCHE|FIGUEREN|1662”.
BARREFELT, Hendrik Jansen, known as “HIËL” (illustrations by Pieter van der BORCHT). · 1662
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
44 [lacking 15-16, 41-44]; 52 [lacking 41-48] pp.Very rare 1662 edition (first issue), in the original Dutch, of an important and influential interpretation of the stories of the Old and New Testament, in the popular form of (originally) 119 engraved illustrations by Pieter va...
Figures de toutes les plus remarquables histoires, et aultres evenements du Vieil et Nouveau Testament ...Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1613. Large oblong 4to (21 x 27 cm). With 113 Bible scenes printed from 35 (Old Testament) and 48 (New Testament) engraved illustration plates (New Testament plates 7-9, 18-19 & 24-48 include 2 scenes each). 17th-century vellum.
Figures de toutes les plus remarquables histoires, et aultres evenements du Vieil et Nouveau Testament ...Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1613. Large oblong 4to (21 x 27 cm). With 113 Bible scenes printed from 35 (Old Testament) and 48 (New Testament) engraved illustration plates (New Testament plates 7-9, 18-19 & 24-48 include 2 scenes each). 17th-century vellum.
BARREFELT, Hendrik Jansen, known as “HIËL” (illustrations by Pieter van der BORCHT). · 1535
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
[6], 35, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 48 pp.Rare first separately published French edition of an important and influential interpretation of the stories of the Old and New Testament, in the popular form of 113 engraved illustrations by Pieter van der Borcht (1535-1608), from Mec...
Traité général de musique, ou l'Art musical ramené a ses vrais principes; humblement dédié a Son Altesse Royale le Prince des Asturies ...[back wrapper:] Bayonne, Imprimerie de Duhart-Fauvet, [ca. 1807?]. Large 4to (27 x 20 cm). With 11 folding "plates" containing manuscript examples of mensural music. With no title-page, but with the letterpress title and composer's name on the front wrapper and the letterpress imprint on the back wrapper. Bound with the wrappers in contemporary gold-tooled, long-grain red goatskin morocco, gilt edges.
Traité général de musique, ou l'Art musical ramené a ses vrais principes; humblement dédié a Son Altesse Royale le Prince des Asturies ...[back wrapper:] Bayonne, Imprimerie de Duhart-Fauvet, [ca. 1807?]. Large 4to (27 x 20 cm). With 11 folding "plates" containing manuscript examples of mensural music. With no title-page, but with the letterpress title and composer's name on the front wrapper and the letterpress imprint on the back wrapper. Bound with the wrappers in contemporary gold-tooled, long-grain red goatskin morocco, gilt edges.
BORGHÈSE, Antonio D.R. · 1808
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
V, 65, [2] pp.Second copy known of a general introduction to music theory, composition and performance by the Italian composer and music teacher Antonio Borghèse, printed but probably never published due to the chaos resulting from the abdications of the Kings of Spain at Bayo...
Western Arabia and the Red Sea, B.R. 527 (restricted) geographical handbook series for official use only.(Colophon: Oxford, University press), Naval Intelligence division, 1946. 8vo. With 357 reproductions of photographs on 90 plates, numerous (folding) maps and illustrations in text and 1 separate folding map. Original publisher's green cloth.
Western Arabia and the Red Sea, B.R. 527 (restricted) geographical handbook series for official use only.(Colophon: Oxford, University press), Naval Intelligence division, 1946. 8vo. With 357 reproductions of photographs on 90 plates, numerous (folding) maps and illustrations in text and 1 separate folding map. Original publisher's green cloth.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION, [SCOTT, Hugh, a.o.].
€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.49 | ¥105,618)
XIX, [1 blank], 659, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a geographical handbook to the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea, published on behalf of the Naval Intelligence Division (NID) of the British Admiralty. "The text is aimed at arming British Naval officers with everyth...
Verhandeling over de klootsche driehoeks-meeting. Bevattende alle de regelen, die men nodig heeft, om, op de kortste en gemakkelykste wyze, allerlei soortAmsterdam, J.W. Yntema & Comp., 1801. 8vo. With numerous woodcut geometrical illustrations in text. Contemporary blue paper wrappers.
Verhandeling over de klootsche driehoeks-meeting. Bevattende alle de regelen, die men nodig heeft, om, op de kortste en gemakkelykste wyze, allerlei soortAmsterdam, J.W. Yntema & Comp., 1801. 8vo. With numerous woodcut geometrical illustrations in text. Contemporary blue paper wrappers.
STEENSTRA, Pybo. · 1788
€475.00 ($523.55 | £396.22 | ¥83,614)
XVI, 207, [1 blank] pp.Second edition of a manual on spherical trigonometry by the Dutch mathematician Pybo Steenstra (d. 1788). It opens with a preface, followed by the main text, divided into five chapters. The first chapter is an introduction to the geometry of spheroids an...
Entomologia Parisiensis; sive catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secundum methodum Geoffraeanam in sectiones, genera & species distributus: cui addita sunt nomina trivalia & fere trecentae novae species.Paris, Via et Aedibus Serpentineis, 1785. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo (14.5 x 8.5 cm). Later marbled boards.
Entomologia Parisiensis; sive catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secundum methodum Geoffraeanam in sectiones, genera & species distributus: cui addita sunt nomina trivalia & fere trecentae novae species.Paris, Via et Aedibus Serpentineis, 1785. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo (14.5 x 8.5 cm). Later marbled boards.
FOURCROY, Antoine François de and Étienne Louis GEOFFROY. · 1755
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
VII, [1], 231, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 233-544 pp.First edition of an extensive list of insects found in Paris and its surroundings, compiled by the French chemist Antoine François de Fourcroy (1755-1809) and the French entomologist and pharmacist Étienne Louis Geoffroy (17...
Histoire naturelle des Lépidoptères de Madagascar.Paris, l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1885-1887. 2 volumes (text & atlas). Large 4to (32 x 25 cm). With 63 aquatint plates printed in brown and black. Later brown half morocco.
Histoire naturelle des Lépidoptères de Madagascar.Paris, l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1885-1887. 2 volumes (text & atlas). Large 4to (32 x 25 cm). With 63 aquatint plates printed in brown and black. Later brown half morocco.
MABILLE, Paul. · 1835
€975.00 ($1,074.65 | £813.29 | ¥171,629)
[4], V, [1 blank], 364 pp.First and only edition of a monograph on the butterflies of Madagascar by the French entomologist Paul Mabille (1835-1923). It was published as volume 18 & 19 of Grandidier's Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. A very good copy, w...
Les hylophtires et leurs ennemis, ou description et iconographie des insectes les plus nuisibles aux forèts, ainsi que des autres animaux causant des dégâts dans les bois, avec une méthode pour apprendre à les détruire et à ménager ceux qui leur font la guerre.Nordhansen, Leipzig, B.G.H. Schmidt, 1842. Large 8vo. With 4 folding tables, 2 woodcuts in text and 6 full-page engraved plates, one with useful insects and five with harmful insects, all six hand-coloured by the publisher. Original green publisher's printed paper wrappers over stiff boards.
Les hylophtires et leurs ennemis, ou description et iconographie des insectes les plus nuisibles aux forèts, ainsi que des autres animaux causant des dégâts dans les bois, avec une méthode pour apprendre à les détruire et à ménager ceux qui leur font la guerre.Nordhansen, Leipzig, B.G.H. Schmidt, 1842. Large 8vo. With 4 folding tables, 2 woodcuts in text and 6 full-page engraved plates, one with useful insects and five with harmful insects, all six hand-coloured by the publisher. Original green publisher's printed paper wrappers over stiff boards.
RATZEBURG, Julius Theodor Christian (Edgar Bourée de CORBERON, transl.). · 1841
€325.00 ($358.22 | £271.10 | ¥57,210)
XXXIV, 246 pp.French translation of a pioneering ecological treatise and one of the earliest scientific studies on noxious wood insects. It was first published in German as Die Waldverderber und ihre Feinde in 1841, followed by a second expanded edition in 1842. Count Edgar Bo...