Adam, [J.] V. [V.]

Lion and snake.

€150.00

Published in 100 copies only

Bourguignat, J. R.

Histoire des Felidae fossiles constatés en France dans les dépots de la période quaternaire.

€380.00

Rare early treatise on European fossil mammals

Devèze de Chabrol, J. S. and J. B. Bouillet

Essai géologique et minéralogique sur les environs d'Issoire, département du Puy-de-Dôme, et principalement sur la Montagne de Boulade.

Clermont-Ferrand, Thibaud-Landriot, 1827. Folio (41.0 x 26.2 cm). xii, 104 pp.;hand-coloured lithographed geological map and hand-coloured profile, and 30 lithographed plates depicting vertebrates and several tables, including one very large, folded in the text. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges.

€750.00

A very rare contemporarily coloured plate from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie

Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)

Histoire naturelle Planche X. Le couguar, le linx. [Contemporary hand-coloured plate].

€250.00

Desert animals, including a new cat, plates done à la poupée

Loche, [V.]

Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Sciences physiques. Zoologie. V. Histoire naturelle des mammifères.

€1,200.00

A collection of beautifully produced large plates and much more

Spagnesi, M., S. Toso and A. M. de Marinis (eds.).

Italian mammals.

[Roma], Ministero dell'Ambiente, Servizio Conservazione della Natura, and Instituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica A. Ghigi, 2000. Two parts in two. Elephant folio (Atlas), 4to (text). 204 pp.; 83 fine coloured loose plates, all by Umberto Catalano. In original cloth portfolio with gilt title and vignette (49.2 x 34.6 x 5.1 cm).