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).

€250.00

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

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 rarely-seen and lovely work on cats with fine illustrations

Rhind, W.

The miscellany of natural history edited by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. F.R.S.E. Volume II. The feline species. [OR] The natural history of the feline species by William Rhind, Esq., M.R.C.S. with a biographical sketch of Baron Cuvier by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart.

Edinburgh, Fraser and Co., 1834. 8vo (16.5 x 11.0 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Cuvier; engraved title with vignette of a lion and tiger, two letterpress titles, engraved medallion of Cuvier, [iv], 44, 45-184 pp.; 36 engraved plates of which 35 hand-coloured and one plain, as intended. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title.

€750.00

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 cat, a bat, more bats, an otter, dolphins, human crania

Orbigny, A. [C. V. M. D.] and [F. L.] P. Gervais

Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome quatrième.2.e Partie: Mammifères.

Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1847. Text and atlas. Large 4to/folio mix (33.2 x 24.6 cm). General title; 32 pp. (including title to the mammals); 22 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-6, 8-18, 20-23; 2bis; 7 and 19 not used]. Recent blue boards with general title printed on the front board.

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