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Introduction à l'entomologie comprenant les principes généraux de l'anatomie et de la physiologie des insectes, ...Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1834-1838. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 8vo. With 24 engraved plates of insects and their anatomy (3 hand-coloured) in the seperate atlas volume. Contemporary half calf.
Introduction à l'entomologie comprenant les principes généraux de l'anatomie et de la physiologie des insectes, ...Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1834-1838. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 8vo. With 24 engraved plates of insects and their anatomy (3 hand-coloured) in the seperate atlas volume. Contemporary half calf.
LACORDAIRE, Jean Théodore. · 1801
€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)
[4], IX, [1 blank], 463, [1 blank]; [4], [1 blank], 681, [3]; [4], 16 pp.Introduction to entomology by the famous French entomologist and coleopterist Jean Théodore Lacordaire (1801-1870). In this work he particularly gives attention to the anatomical and physical aspects of t...
A monographic revision and synopsis of the Trichoptera of the European fauna.London, John van Voorst; Berlin, Friedländer (colophon: printed by Napier, London), 1874-1880. Royal 8vo (25 x 17.5 cm). With 59 lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf.
A monographic revision and synopsis of the Trichoptera of the European fauna.London, John van Voorst; Berlin, Friedländer (colophon: printed by Napier, London), 1874-1880. Royal 8vo (25 x 17.5 cm). With 59 lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf.
MCLACHLAN, Robert. · 1837
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
[2], IV, 523, [1 blank], CIII, [1] pp.Very rare work on Trichoptera, commonly known as caddisflies. The present publication is considered the greatest work of the British entomologist Robert McLachlan (1837-1904), the first editor of the Entomologist's monthly magazine and the...
Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères.Paris, Roret (back of half-title: printed by Fain & Thunot), 1843. Large 8vo (22 x 15 cm). With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary black half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères.Paris, Roret (back of half-title: printed by Fain & Thunot), 1843. Large 8vo (22 x 15 cm). With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary black half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
AMYOT, Charles Jean Baptiste and Jean Guillaume AUDINET SERVILLE. · 1799
€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)
LXXVI, 675, [1], 6 pp.First and only edition of a comprehensive monograph on Hemiptera, the most important publication of the French lawyer and entomologist Charles Jean Baptiste Amyot (1799-1866). Upon the death of his father, Amyot went to live with his neighbour, the entomo...
Ichneumologia Europaea.Wroclaw, 1829. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved plates and 2 folding tables. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Ichneumologia Europaea.Wroclaw, 1829. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved plates and 2 folding tables. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
GRAVENHORST, Johann Ludwig Christian. · 1777
€625.00 ($688.88 | £521.34 | ¥110,018)
XXXI, [1 blank], 827, [4]; 989; 1097.First edition of an extensive work on Ichneumonidae, a family of parasitoid wasps from the order Hymenoptera, compiled by the German entomologist Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst (1777-1857), professor at the University of Göttingen and ...
Naturgeschichte der Insekten, besonders in Hinsicht ihrer ersten Zustände als Larven und Puppen. ... Erste Lieferung.Berlin, in der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1834. 8vo. With 10 lithographed plates. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.
Naturgeschichte der Insekten, besonders in Hinsicht ihrer ersten Zustände als Larven und Puppen. ... Erste Lieferung.Berlin, in der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1834. 8vo. With 10 lithographed plates. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.
BOUCHÉ, Peter Friedrich. · 1784
€275.00 ($303.11 | £229.39 | ¥48,408)
[8], 216.First edition of a study on larvae and pupae by the German entomologist and botanist Peter Friedrich Bouché (1784-1856), who was the institutional gardener at the Botanical Garden at Schöneberg. It includes many different insects, describing the appearance of their la...
Lexicon Entomologicum, oder entomologisches Wörterbuch, in welchem alle in diese Wissenschaft einschlagende Begriffe und die in den Linneischen und Fabrizischen Schriften vorkommende Terminologien überstezt, erklärt und mit Beyspielen, nach beyden Systemen, erläutert werden.Erfurt, Georg Adam Keyser, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary blue boards.
Lexicon Entomologicum, oder entomologisches Wörterbuch, in welchem alle in diese Wissenschaft einschlagende Begriffe und die in den Linneischen und Fabrizischen Schriften vorkommende Terminologien überstezt, erklärt und mit Beyspielen, nach beyden Systemen, erläutert werden.Erfurt, Georg Adam Keyser, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary blue boards.
MÖLLER, Christian Heinrich. · 1902
€975.00 ($1,074.65 | £813.29 | ¥171,629)
XVI, 704 pp.First edition of an entomological dictionary, compiled by Christian Heinrich Möller. It lists the Latin nomenclature of numerous words commonly used when describing insects, followed by their German translations. The book opens with an introduction and closes with ...
Historiarum naturae libri XXXVII, post omnes omnium editiones, ...Paris, Jean Parvum (index: Jean Petit), 1532. Folio. 18th-century cat's paw calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
Historiarum naturae libri XXXVII, post omnes omnium editiones, ...Paris, Jean Parvum (index: Jean Petit), 1532. Folio. 18th-century cat's paw calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (PLINY the Elder). · 1532
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[36], 671, [188] pp.Praised 1532 edition of Pliny's Naturalis historia: "Cette édition citée avec éloge par Ernesti et par Rezzonico..." (Brunet). Pliny's Natural history is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire and purports to cover the entire...
Catalogo metodico dei pesci Europei.Naples, Stamperia e cartiere del Fibreno, 1846. Large 4to (32.5 x 23.5 cm). With a vignette of two fish on the title page. Contemporary green wrappers.
Catalogo metodico dei pesci Europei.Naples, Stamperia e cartiere del Fibreno, 1846. Large 4to (32.5 x 23.5 cm). With a vignette of two fish on the title page. Contemporary green wrappers.
BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien. · 1803
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
97, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of the standalone version of a systematic classification of European species of fish by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803-1857). This publication - in Latin but with an Italian title - was also publishe...
Histoire naturelle de Buffon, classée par ordres, genres et espèces, d'après le systême du Linné; avec les caractères génériques et la nomenclature Linnéenne.Paris, Crapelet, An VII (1799). 3 volumes. 12mo. With a hand-coloured engraved portrait of Buffon in the first part. Contemporary half calf.
Histoire naturelle de Buffon, classée par ordres, genres et espèces, d'après le systême du Linné; avec les caractères génériques et la nomenclature Linnéenne.Paris, Crapelet, An VII (1799). 3 volumes. 12mo. With a hand-coloured engraved portrait of Buffon in the first part. Contemporary half calf.
BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, and René-Richard Louis CASTEL. · 1758
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)
XXVII, 332; [4], 319; [4], 387 pp.The first three volumes, containing the complete introduction, of the Cours complet d'histoire naturelle pour faire suite à Buffon (80 volumes), edited by the French naturalist and poet René Richard Louis Castel (1758-1832). The first part con...
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Die Amphibien.Vienna, for the publishers ["auf Kosten des Herausgebers"], 1818. 8vo. With engraved title-page mounted on a separate leaf and 40 full-page folded-out plates with 70 figs. engraved by Jacob Schmuzer, alle colored by hand. Contemporary half calf.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Die Amphibien.Vienna, for the publishers ["auf Kosten des Herausgebers"], 1818. 8vo. With engraved title-page mounted on a separate leaf and 40 full-page folded-out plates with 70 figs. engraved by Jacob Schmuzer, alle colored by hand. Contemporary half calf.
WILHELM, Gottlieb Tobias. · 1758
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
[18], 328 pp.Fourth edition of this attractively illustrated work on amphibians and reptiles: frogs, turtles, lizards and snakes. It was written and published in the educational, encyclopaedic tradition of the Enlightenment by the Bavarian clergyman and naturalist Gottlieb Tob...
Koninglyke dwaesheid, of het gevaer van de verleidingh der hoeren. Vertoont in een predikaetie uitgesprooken te Oxfordt, ... Uit het Engelsch vertaalt.Haarlem, Jan van Lee, 1743. 4to. With a woodcut emblematic device on title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
Koninglyke dwaesheid, of het gevaer van de verleidingh der hoeren. Vertoont in een predikaetie uitgesprooken te Oxfordt, ... Uit het Engelsch vertaalt.Haarlem, Jan van Lee, 1743. 4to. With a woodcut emblematic device on title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
[SERMON ON KINGS AND WHORES]. · 1740
€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)
21, [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only Dutch edition of a sermon on the dangers of succumbing to the temptations of whores and adulteresses, first delivered in Oxford in 1740 and published by Thomas Robins in London in that year under the title, Royal folly: or, the danger of be...
Placaten ende ordonnancien op 't stuck vande wildernissen.The Hague, Beuckel Cornelisz. Nieulandt, 1605. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31 x 20 cm). With attractive engraved title-page (showing Diana, goddess of the hunt, a hunter and a falconer surrounding an elaborate cartouche together with hounds, birds of prey, and prey) and 2 double-page woodcut plates showing the castles of Teylingen and Warmond. Contemporary vellum.
Placaten ende ordonnancien op 't stuck vande wildernissen.The Hague, Beuckel Cornelisz. Nieulandt, 1605. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31 x 20 cm). With attractive engraved title-page (showing Diana, goddess of the hunt, a hunter and a falconer surrounding an elaborate cartouche together with hounds, birds of prey, and prey) and 2 double-page woodcut plates showing the castles of Teylingen and Warmond. Contemporary vellum.
MERULA, Paulus.
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
[24], 264; 124; 59, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the most important early Dutch book on hunting ("das wichtigste Buch der frühen niederländischen Jagdliteratur" Lindner). It is divided into three "books", the first on forestry (including regulations for hunting grounds and th...
Relation veritable de l'horrible et detestable assassinat commis en la personne de Mr. De Schade, conseiller et resident du Roi de Pologne a la cour de Dannemarc; avec les cruelles persecutions & les injustices criantes, qui lui ont été faites pendant son sejour a Copenhague, & qu'on a continué d'exerces après sa mort contre sa veuve.Utrecht, widow of Ernestus Voskuyl, 1713. 8vo. With a woodcut vase of leafy flowers on the title-page, a woodcut decorated initial, Contemporary tanned half sheepskin.
Relation veritable de l'horrible et detestable assassinat commis en la personne de Mr. De Schade, conseiller et resident du Roi de Pologne a la cour de Dannemarc; avec les cruelles persecutions & les injustices criantes, qui lui ont été faites pendant son sejour a Copenhague, & qu'on a continué d'exerces après sa mort contre sa veuve.Utrecht, widow of Ernestus Voskuyl, 1713. 8vo. With a woodcut vase of leafy flowers on the title-page, a woodcut decorated initial, Contemporary tanned half sheepskin.
[MEIBOM, Anna]. · 1703
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[2], 212 pp.Rare first and only edition, in the original French, of a horrible story of the 1703 murder of Hans (Johan) Schade (1671-1703), King August II Mocny of Poland’s councillor and resident representative at the Danish royal court in Copenhagen. Schade was a Danish dipl...
Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur.Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1780. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of James Cook as frontispiece of part 2, 5 engraved plates (including one coloured by hand), 4 folding engraved plates (including one printed on blue paper and with highlights in silver) and one folding plate with letterpress music. Modern paste-paper boards.
Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur.Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1780. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of James Cook as frontispiece of part 2, 5 engraved plates (including one coloured by hand), 4 folding engraved plates (including one printed on blue paper and with highlights in silver) and one folding plate with letterpress music. Modern paste-paper boards.
LICHTENBERG, Georg Christoph and Georg FORSTER. · 1742
€4,750.00 ($5,235.48 | £3,962.19 | ¥836,139)
[8], 168; [1], [1 blank], 169-334;First edition of the complete first series of a scientific and literary periodical, compiled by the German writer Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) and the German writer, naturalist and ethnologist Georg Forster (1754-1794), who joined C...
Beyträge zur Anatomie der Pflanzen.Kiel, Königlichen Schulbuchdruckerei (printed by C.L. Wäser), 1812. 4to. With 6 engraved folding plates, 3 partly handcoloured. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, black spine label.
Beyträge zur Anatomie der Pflanzen.Kiel, Königlichen Schulbuchdruckerei (printed by C.L. Wäser), 1812. 4to. With 6 engraved folding plates, 3 partly handcoloured. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, black spine label.
MOLDENHAWER, Johann Jacob Paul. · 1812
€2,800.00 ($3,086.18 | £2,335.61 | ¥492,882)
xii, 335, [1] pp.Rare first edition of a botanical classic, the principal work of Johann Moldenhawer, published in 1812. This copy was part of the collection of the famous German botanist and explorer of Brazil Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), as the book-plate on the front pa...
Expériences sur les végétaux, spécialement sur la propriété qu'ils possèdent à un haut degré, soit d'améliorer l'air quand ils sont au soleil, soit de le corrompre la nuit, ou lorsqu'ils sont à l'ombre; auxquelles on a joint une méthode nouvelle de juger du degré de sa salubrité de l'atmosphère ... Traduit de l'anglois, par l'auteur.Paris, P.F. Didot le jeune, 1780. 8vo. With a folded engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Expériences sur les végétaux, spécialement sur la propriété qu'ils possèdent à un haut degré, soit d'améliorer l'air quand ils sont au soleil, soit de le corrompre la nuit, ou lorsqu'ils sont à l'ombre; auxquelles on a joint une méthode nouvelle de juger du degré de sa salubrité de l'atmosphère ... Traduit de l'anglois, par l'auteur.Paris, P.F. Didot le jeune, 1780. 8vo. With a folded engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
INGEN-HOUSZ, Jan. · 1779
€425.00 ($468.44 | £354.51 | ¥74,812)
LXVIII, 333, [2], [1 blank] pp.First French edition of a study that formed an important contribution to the discovery of photosynthesis. "Ingen-Housz showed that the green parts of plants, when exposed to light, fix the free carbon dioxide of the atmosphere, but that in darkne...
Nöthige, zuverlässige und kurze Nachricht von denenjenigen Stücken aus dem Pflanzenreiche, welche in den Apotheken der meisten Länder Europens aufbehalten werden müssen, zum Gebrauche der Apotheken verfertiget und dem Drucke übergeben.Dresden, Johann Nikolaus Gerlach and son, 1764. 8vo. With an engraved plate showing the annual flowering plant Chenopodium botrys. Contemporary boards, spine strengthened with marbled paper.
Nöthige, zuverlässige und kurze Nachricht von denenjenigen Stücken aus dem Pflanzenreiche, welche in den Apotheken der meisten Länder Europens aufbehalten werden müssen, zum Gebrauche der Apotheken verfertiget und dem Drucke übergeben.Dresden, Johann Nikolaus Gerlach and son, 1764. 8vo. With an engraved plate showing the annual flowering plant Chenopodium botrys. Contemporary boards, spine strengthened with marbled paper.
[HERBAL].
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[8], 724, [2] pp.Rare first and only edition of a basic herbal intended for apothecaries, giving descriptions of ca. 750 plants. All entries are alphabetically ordered using Linnaean plant names and are followed by the common name in German, other nomenclature, a visual descri...
Anweisung zum Seidenbau, wie solcher auf das leichteste und vortheilhafteste zu treiben sey. Aus den richtigsten und zuverlässigsten, theils fremden, theils eigenen vieljährigen Erfahrungen des Züllichauischen Waysenhauses mitgetheilet.Züllichau, R.S. Frommann, 1761. 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). Contemporary wrappers, stapled.
Anweisung zum Seidenbau, wie solcher auf das leichteste und vortheilhafteste zu treiben sey. Aus den richtigsten und zuverlässigsten, theils fremden, theils eigenen vieljährigen Erfahrungen des Züllichauischen Waysenhauses mitgetheilet.Züllichau, R.S. Frommann, 1761. 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). Contemporary wrappers, stapled.
STEINBART, Johann Christian · 1760
€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)
[12], 212 pp.First edition of a local example of sericulture in Prussia under Frederick the Great. The author Johann Christian Steinbart was a pastor and the director of the orphanage of Züllichau, but also kept a silk farm. In this manual for cultivating silk he describes all...
La palingénésie philosophique, ou idées sur l' état passé et sur l' état futur des êtres vivans. Ouvrage destiné à servir de supplement aux derniers écrits de l'auteur ...Genève, Claude Philibert and Barthelemi Chirol, 1770. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.
La palingénésie philosophique, ou idées sur l' état passé et sur l' état futur des êtres vivans. Ouvrage destiné à servir de supplement aux derniers écrits de l'auteur ...Genève, Claude Philibert and Barthelemi Chirol, 1770. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.
BONNET, Charles.
€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)
XXVI, [2], 431, [1 blank]; [2], II, 448 pp.Third edition of an important work in theoretical biology. "Yet Bonnet was less doctrinaire than his colleagues; he supported, for example, a very elastic thesis of the germ cell, which according to him, was not only "an organized bod...
Geschichte der Botanik.Frankfurt a.M. Literarische Anstalt (J. Rütten), 1854. 8vo. Later blue wrappers, manuscript title on the spine.
Geschichte der Botanik.Frankfurt a.M. Literarische Anstalt (J. Rütten), 1854. 8vo. Later blue wrappers, manuscript title on the spine.
WINCKLER, Emil. · 1854
€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], xvi, 640 pp.First and only edition of a rare and important handbook on the history of botany. Nissen notest that it hasn’t lost it’s value today as a handbook for the history of this field: “Das Werk habe selbst damals, also 1854, noch nichts vo...