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Sea shells - Albertus Seba, 1735-1765

Seba-- Albertus · 1734 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,350.00 ($1,487.98 | £1,126.10 | ¥237,639)

TUN AND HELMET SHELLS FROM TROPICAL SEAS Copper engraving from the famous "Thesaurus" of Albertus Seba, published in Amsterdam between 1734 and 1765. With original hand colouring. Size: 68 × 79 cm (frame). This richly coloured engraving depicts a wide variety of shells of tun …

Barbet - Jean Baptiste Audebert and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, 1800-1802

Audebert-- Jean Baptiste · 1759 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€685.00 ($755.01 | £571.39 | ¥120,580)

“Le Barbu Oranvert” engraving from Oiseaux dorés ou à reflets métalliques, Part I: Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, created by Jean Baptiste Audebert (1759–1800) and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748–1831). Published in Paris by…

Homeri poetarum omnium seculorum facilè principis Gnomologia, duplici parallelismo illustrata:. uno ex locis S. Scripturæ, quibus gnomæ Homericæ aut propè affines, aut non prorsùs absimiles. Altero ex gentium scriptoribus; ubi citationes, parodiae, allusiones, & deniq; loci paralleli. Insertis hinc inde observationibus ethico-politicis in sententias, & ad voces insigniores notis criticis. Cum triplici indice: sententiarum, locorum S. Scripturae, vocabulorum. Quibus mantissae loco accessit appendix, continens syllogen testimoniorum de Homero, ex variis autoribus, quà antiquis, quà neotericis collectam. Per Jacobum Duportum Cantabrigiensem...

Duport, James. -. · 1660 · Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

Cantabrigiæ [Cambridge], Excudebat Johannes Field, 1660. 40 nn., 291, 100 nn. S. Pgt. d. Zt. mit (späterem) hs. Rücken- u. Deckel-Titel. [Listed by Wing as D2651 on reel 814:17 and as H2538 (entry cancelled in Wing 2nd ed.) on reel 670:21]. - James DUPORT (1606-1679), englisch…

Where the Wild Thyme Blew: Growing up with nature in the Fifties and Sixties

Marren, Peter · 2016 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Pisces Publications xiv, 399, b/w photos. . HB. Fine in d/w (in removable protective sleeve). Signed by the author.. This book is the story of a boy growing up in the lost England of sixty years ago. And turning, most reluctantly, into a man. It is also about the circumstances t…

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Wilson, Robert · 2008 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Jonathan Cape London 192, full-page col photos throughout. . HB. Large 4to (298x314mm), orig. patterned boards. Fine in d/w.. Introduction by Brigadier Andrew Mackay. First edition. Robert Wilson, a commercial photographer, was invited by the Brigadier in command of the 52nd Inf…

Perspectives in Running Water Ecology

Lock, M.A.; Williams, D.D. (Eds) · 1981 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Plenum Press New York and London x, 430, text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w (spine faded). From the library of Prof. Jim Green (1928-2016), Professor of Zoology at Queen Mary College, University of London, with his name to endpaper.. The discipline of stream ecology has grown exponentia…

The Nature of the New Forest: celebrating the wildlife of a working common

Chatters, C. · 2024 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£34.95 (€41.90 | $46.18 | ¥7,375)

Pisces 312, col photos. A4. HB. NEW. . The New Forest is an extraordinary survivor of a medieval landscape and pastoral economy which supports one of the greatest concentrations of wildlife in the lowlands of north-west Europe.At the heart of the Forest is a common, a single int…

In the Footsteps of Audubon

Clavreul, D. · 2022 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Princeton University Press 256, 272 col illus. 241x298mm. HB. NEW. . Foreword by David Allen Sibley, translated by Martha Le Cars. An artist's uniquely personal journey across America.In the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a com…

Extraordinary Insects: Weird, Wonderful, Indispensable. The ones who run our world

Sverdrup-Thygeson, A. · 2020 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£10.99 (€13.18 | $14.52 | ¥2,319)

Harper Collins xxvi, 294, 8 b/w figs. 222x141mm. PB. NEW. . A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. When Charles Darwin declared that the brain of an ant was 'perhaps more marvellous than the b…

Gardening for Bumblebees: A Practical Guide to Creating a Paradise for Pollinators

Goulson, D. · 0 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£13.99 (€16.77 | $18.49 | ¥2,952)

Square Peg 288, . . HB. NEW. . From the Sunday Times bestselling author of <i>A Sting In The Tale</i> comes this practical guide to creating a paradise for pollinators. There are twenty six different species of bumblebees to be found in the UK, of around 250 species worldwide. B…

Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany

Goodman, J. · 2020 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Harper Collins 560, 16 col + b/w plates, 7 b/w maps. 240x159mm. HB. NEW. . The history of how botany and global plant collecting - centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks - transformed the earth. Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the ei…

The Art of the Bee: Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies

Page, R.E. · 2020 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Oxford University Press 256, . 235x156mm. HB. NEW. . The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. Bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants, animals, and microbes. They've paint…

Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly a Poisonous Plant and their Remarkable Story of Coevolution

Agrawal, A. · 2017 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£22.50 (€26.97 | $29.73 | ¥4,748)

Princeton University Press xii, 283, 80+ col illus. . HB. NEW. . Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than i…

The Natural History of the Tineina. Vol. I-XIII

Stainton, H.T. · 1855 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£1,000.00 (€1,198.83 | $1,321.36 | ¥211,030)

John van Voorst London xv, 338, [4]-ads; ix, 318; ix, 270; ix, 292; ix, 228; ix, 284; ix, 252; ix, 315; vii, 276; ix, 304; xiii, 330; vii, 260; vii, 378, 104 hand-coloured plates. . HB. 13 vols, 8vo, orig. publisher's blue cloth (later binding variant), a little rubbed to extrem…

A General History of Quadrupeds

Bewick, Thomas · 1791 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick Newcastle upon Tyne x, 483, wood engravings to text. . HB. Demy 8vo (220x140mm), near cont. half calf, rubbed, wear to corners and spine, slight loss to head/foot of spine, leather title piece, marbled boards, rubbed/scuffed. Hinges cracked but…

Sketch of the Geology of North America being the substance of a Memoir read before the Ashmolean Society Nov. 26, 1838

Daubeny, C. · 1839 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Ashmolean Museum Oxford [i-iii] iv-xviii, [1] 2-73, folding map. . PB. 8vo, stitched booklet, orig. printed wrappers. Fine copy with gatherings still unopened. Vg.. First edition. Scarce. Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1795-1867) was professor of Chemistry and of Botany at the Un…

Reports to the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society. Reports I-V. 1902-1909

Bateson, W.; Saunders, E.R.; Punnett, R.C.; Wheldale, M.; Marryat, D.C.E.; Sollas, I.B.J. · 1910 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

The Royal Society. Sold by Harrison & Sons London [4], 160, 154, 53, 60, 79, ix, 2 col + 1 plain plate, text figs (2 tinted), 1 folding table. . HB. 5 parts bound in one volume, 8vo, orig. two-tone blue cloth, with orig. printed front wrapper to each report bound in. Vg.. Rare.F…

Illustrations of British Entomology. Mandibulata Vol. I-VII [and] Haustellata. Vol. I-IV [and] Supplement

Stephens, James Francis · 1828 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£1,650.00 (€1,978.07 | $2,180.25 | ¥348,199)

Baldwin and Craddock/Henry G. Bohn London , 95 hand-col engraved plates. . HB. 12 vols, roy. 8vo, cont. qtr leather, marbled boards, heavily scuffed, worn, spines fragile with some loss to head or foot; several joints partly split to top or bottom. Haustellata, Plate 5 (Albin's …

Lettres de Madame de Sévigné; Avec une Notice et des Notes par Maxime Formont (Complete in Two Volumes)

Madame de Sévigné [Marie de Rabutin-Chantal], 1626-1696; Maxime Formont (Preface & Notes) · 1909 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

Paris, France Alphonse Lemerre, Éditeur (23-33, Passagge Choiseul, 23-33) pp. 312; 297. Sextodecimo (16mo.), measuring 6.75" x 3.75". Bound in sumptuous full crushed olive-green morocco with titles stamped in gilt on the spines. Five raised bands to the spines, six compartments,…

Sultur [Sult]; Translated from the Norwegian by Jón Sigurðsson frá Kaldaðarnesi ; Rare First Icelandic-Language Edition of Hamsun's Hunger

Hamsun, Knut (1859-1952); Jón Sigurðsson frá Kaldaðarnesi (Translator); Halldór Pétursson, 1916-1977 (Cover Illustration) · 1940 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

Reykjavík, Iceland Bókaútgáfa Menningarsjóðs sult pp. 203, [1]. Small octavo (5" x 7.5"). Publisher's original illustrated card covers featuring striking cover art and typography, designed by the renowned Icelandic artist and illustrator Halldór Pétursson (known perhaps most no…