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A hummingbird, the great sapphirewing, Pterophanes temmincki Gould. By John Gould.

Gould, J. · 1849

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, the author, 1849 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile. = A stunning, gigantic plate by the famous bird painter and ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881), depicting a colourful bird from tropical America, first published in Gould's famous A ...

A toucan, Ramphastos dicolorus Gmelin. By John Gould.

Gould, J. · 1854

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, [the author], 1854 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile. = A stunning, gigantic plate by the famous bird painter and ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881), depicting a bird from tropical South America, in particular Brazil but also in parts...

Fauna Bulgarica. Trichoptera. Integripalpia.

Kumanski, K. P. · 1988

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Sofia, Academia Scientiarum Bulgarica, 1988. Large 8vo (23.7 x 16.8 cm). 353 pp.; 168 (groups of) text figures. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt title on the spine and front board. = A seldom-seen monograph of the Bulgarian caddisflies. Well-illustrated, showing taxonomically...

A hummingbird, the refulgent woodnymph, Thalurania refulgens Gould. By John Gould.

Gould, J. · 1849

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, the author, 1849 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile. = A stunning, gigantic plate by the famous bird painter and ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881), depicting a bird from tropical America, first published in Gould's famous A Monograph ...

Botanica Pharmaceutica exhibens plantas officinalis quarum nomina indispensatoris recentur, cum Iconibus… Plate 22. Bellis perennis L. [Daisy].

Happe, A. F. · 1788

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Berolini (Berlin), 1788. Folio-size (35.8 x 22.2 cm) delicately hand-coloured loose lithograph of plants with printed caption. = The Pharmaceutica is a very rare work; it is seldom found complete and even individual plates of plants are rare. This "everlasting beauty" (its Lat...

Botanica Pharmaceutica exhibens plantas officinalis quarum nomina indispensatoris recentur, cum Iconibus… Plate 218. Lilium Martagon.

Happe, A. F. · 1788

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Berolini (Berlin), 1788. Folio-size (35.8 x 22.2 cm) delicately hand-coloured loose lithograph of plants with printed caption. = The Pharmaceutica is a very rare work; it is seldom found complete and even individual plates of plants are rare. The martagon or turk's cap lily is...

La géometrie des espaces de Riemann.

Cartan, É. · 1925

€850.00 ($936.87 | £709.13 | ¥149,558)

Paris, Gauthier-Villars (for the Académie des Sciences de Paris), 1925. 8vo (25.2 x 16.5 cm). Half title (to the series), title page; 57 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Élie Joseph Cartan (1869-1951) "did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems (coo...

Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons et des gallinacés; par C. J. Temminck, Chevalier de l'Ordre Impérial de la Réunion, Directeur de la Société des Sciences à Harlem, et membre de plusieurs Sociétés d'Histoire naturelle. Ouvrage en trois volumes. Accompagné de planches anatomiques. Tome premier - second - troisième. [Complete].

Temminck, C. J. · 1813

€2,500.00 ($2,755.50 | £2,085.69 | ¥439,878)

Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp & Fils, Paris, G. Dufour, 1813-1815. Three volumes in three. 8vo (22.5 x 13.5 cm). 1736 pp. [499, (i); 477, (i); 757, (i)], 12 engraved plates ([I]; I-III; IV-XI). Uniform 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt-rolled, floral bands; ...

Natuurbeschouwer of verzameling van de nieuwste verhandelingen over de drie ryken der natuur, welke thans in Duitschland uitgegeven worden. Vertaald en met aanmerkingen vermeerderd.

Boddaert, P. · 1779

€950.00 ($1,047.09 | £792.56 | ¥167,153)

's Gravenhage, Isaac Du Mee, 1779-1781. Two parts in one. 8vo (22.2 x 13.3 cm). Title pages with woodcut vignette, xvi, 160; [ii], 220 pp.; six engraved plates (I-II; III-VI) of which five in beautiful original hand-colouring. Contemporary polished half calf over speckled boar...

Recherches sur l'oeuf d'Arion empiricorum (Fér) (accroissement, maturation, fécondation, segmentation).

Lams, H. [J. C.] · 1910

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Bruxelles, Hayez, 1910. Large 4to (29.5 x 23.3 cm).144 pp.; 9 text figures, 9 plates of which four in chromolithography. Original printed wrappers. = Written by the Belgian zoologist Honoré Julien Charles Lams (1883-1978). Uncut. Rare. Wrappers somewhat soiled, and frayed at e...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Abteilung I. Die Groß-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Band I-IV. [Complete original edition].

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1906

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.28 | ¥114,368)

Stuttgart, A. Kernen, 1906-1913. Four volumes in six (text and atlases). Large 4to (31.4 x 24.0 cm). Text volumes with title pages to the volumes and to the parts; 1869 pp. (I: 379, [vi]; II: vii, 479; III: iii, 511; IV: v, 479]. Atlases with plate indexes, and 245 chromolitho...

Mlekopitayushchiye Rossii i sopredel’nykh regionov. Usatye kity [Mammals of Russia and Adjacent Regions. Baleen Whales].

Sokolov, V. E. and V. A. Arsen'ev · 1994

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Moscow, Nauka, 1994. 8vo (23.8 x 16.3 cm). Frontispiece portrait, 208 pp.; 75 text illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth. = A seldom-seen work on the baleen whales of the seas adjacent to Russia (i.e., Polar Sea, Northern Pacific, Sea of Japan, Baltic Sea, Black Sea). In ...

A folio of fruit. [Dedication copy with unique extra drawing by the author].

Riefel, C. [von] · 1957

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

London, The Ariel Press, 1957. Folio (40.4 x 30.0 cm). vii pp.; 12 full colour plates showing fruits and nuts. Full colour pictorial limp board sleeve. = A fine, large, and seldom-seen album by the Austrian botanical illustrator Carlos Riefel, also known as Karlos von Riefel (...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Abteilung I. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Volume IV. Die Spannerartigen Nachtfalter.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1915

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.17 | ¥31,671)

Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1915. 4to (32.3 x 26,0 cm) in two volumes (text & atlas). Two title pages to each volume; (iii), v, 479 pp.; 25 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's uniform gilt-bordered pebbled half calf over linen boards with bevelled edges; spines rich gilt wit...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Abteilung I. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Volume IV. Die Spannerartigen Nachtfalter.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1915

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1915. 4to (32.3 x 26,0 cm) in two volumes (text & atlas). Two title pages to each volume; (iii), v, 479 pp.; 25 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's uniform gilt-bordered pebbled half calf over linen boards with bevelled edges; spines rich gilt wit...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Abteilung I. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Volume III. Die Eulenartigen Nachtfalter.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1914

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1914. 4to (33,5 x 25.0 cm). iii, 511 pp.; 75 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's uniform gilt-bordered pebbled half calf over linen boards; spines rich gilt with lepidopteral vignette, gilt ornamental bands and blue morocco label with gilt title. B...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Abteilung I. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Volume I. Die Palaearktischen Tagfalter.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1909

€225.00 ($247.99 | £187.71 | ¥39,589)

Stuttgart, Fritz Lehmann, 1909, 4to (33.5 x 25.0 cm). 379, [i] pp.; 89 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's uniform pebbled half calf over linen boards; spines rich gilt with lepidopteral vignette, gilt ornamental bands and gilt morocco labels. Green endpapers. Blue edges. =...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge in Verbindung mit Namhaften Fachmännern herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Adalbert Seitz. Abteilung I. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Supplement zu Band I. Die Palaearktischen Tagfalter.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1932

€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥65,982)

Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1932. 4to (33.0 x 25.5 cm). Two title pages (to the series, to the part); vii, 399, (iii) pp.; 16 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's pebbled half calf over linen boards; spine rich gilt with lepidopteral vignette, gilt ornamental bands and dark gr...

Nadrági Vasipar Társaság. Nadráger Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft.

[Trade Catalogue - Hungarian Heaters] · 1913

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Nadrág, Nadrager Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft, 1913. Folio (28.5 x 22.4 cm). 27 colour-printed pp. Original marbled wrappers with gilt title on the front wrapper. One additional printed leaf loosely inserted. = A very rare, carefully designed catalogue of heaters manufactured i...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge in Verbindung mit namhaften Fachmännern herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Adalbert Seitz. I. Palaeartkische Fauna. Supplement zu Band 2. Die Palaearktischen Spinner und Schwärmer. Supplement.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1933

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1933. 4to (33.0 x 25.5 cm). title pages; vii, 315, (iii) pp.; 16 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's pebbled half calf over linen boards; spine rich gilt with lepidopteral vignette, gilt ornamental bands and dark green morocco label with gilt title...