Tropics
99 items found
Abendanon, E. C.
Expédition de la Célèbes Centrale. Voyages géologiques et géographiques à travers la Célèbes Centrale (1909-1910). Volumes I-III (text), atlas. [Complete].
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1916. Three text volumes in three. 8vo (27.3 x 19.1 cm). 1615 pp. [xxviii, xvi, xxii,1549]; 183 plates and maps, 140 text figures. [AND] atlas folio (55.0 x 38.0 cm). Text with eight photogravures, 138 photographs, maps, numerous figures [AND] atlas with title page (double, French/Dutch) one coloured explanatory chart (36 different colours) and 17 mostly coloured folded geological maps and/or profiles (numbered 1, II, 3-11, 12a, 12b, 13-16). Original uniform black and gilt printed olive cloth (text), original printed portfolio (atlas).
Read more
Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. [Complete, in four volumes].
Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1912-1914. In four volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.5 x 18.0 cm) [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.0 x 26.5 cm). 1636 pp.; 58 photographs on 26 sheets, 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and four coloured folding maps (two showing adjacent regions). Original uniform quarter cloth over printed boards.
Read more
Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. Tweede, geheel omgewerkte druk. [2nd, revised edition. Complete, in five volumes].
Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1950-1951. In five volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.0 x 18.0 cm). [AND] Deel platen; octavo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). total of 1558 pp. [xii, 478; viii, 557; viii, 484; 11]. [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.2 x 27.0 cm); 159 photographs in "Deel platen"; 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and two coloured folding maps. Original uniform printed wrappers (text and platen volumes); atlas in original printed portfolio with linen spine.
Read more
Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, C. R. W. K. van
Malayan Ferns. Handbook to the determination of the ferns of the Malayan Islands (incl. those of the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and New Guinea). [AND] (Correcting sheet).
Batavia, The Department of Agriculture Netherlands India, 1909. Two parts in two. 8vo (26.2 x 17.5 cm). 948 pp. [xl, 899; 9]. Uniform printed wrappers.
Read more
Audebert, J. B.
Histoire naturelle des singes, peints d'après nature. [AND] Histoire naturelle [des singes et] des makis. [Complete].
Paris, l'Auteur, [AND] H. J. Jansen, 1797-[An 8 = 1799]. Two volumes in one. Folio (49.2 x 31.8 cm). Three half-titles, two title pages; 178 pp. [24, 4, 4, 10, 4, 8, 10, 24, 14, 8, 10, 8, 44, iv, 2]; 63 engraved plates of which 61 finely colour-printed, with additional original hand-colouring, and two plain, as intended. Contemporary, empire style, full calf. Boards with triple gilt borders and embossed floral vignettes, central vignette of a lyre. Spine with seven raised bands, gilt vignettes (vases) and morocco label with gilt title. Later marbled endpapers.
Read more
Barboza du Bocage, J. V.
Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices du Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies.
Lisbonne, Imprimerie Nationale, 1895. Very large 8vo (27.0 x 17.6 cm). xx, 203 pp.; 20 plates (numbered I-XIX, X.A). Contemporary rich gilt Iberian-style quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments rich gilt-patterned or with gilt fleur de lis vignette, and with gilt title. Patterned endpapers.
Read more
Blanford, W. T. [AND] H. H. Godwin-Austen [AND] G. K. Gude [AND] H. B. Preston
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Mollusca. Parts I-IV. [Complete].
London, Taylor & Francis, 1908-1921. Four parts in four. 8vo (22.8 x 15.8 cm). More than 1,500 pp.; two plates, numerous text figures. Uniform red cloth with gilt titles on spines. Black endpapers (white in Vol. II).
Read more
Bleeker, P.
Over eenige nieuwe soorten van Notopterus van den Indischen Archipel.
Breslau and Bonn, Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher, "1852" [1854]. 4to (30.6 x 24.0 cm). Title page and 12 text pages [numbered (51)-62]; five chromolithographed plates (one much larger, folded) [numbered 6-10]. Contemporary blind blue wrappers.
Read more
Blume, C.
De Indische Bij, Tijdschrift ter Bevordering van de Kennis der Nederlandsche Volkplantingen en Derzelven Belangen. Eerste Deel. [Volume I; All published].
Leiden, Hazenberg en Comp., 1843. iv, 663 pp.; four lithographed plates, of which one hand-coloured, depicting a Dyak called Sigan as a warrior, with his shield, spear, and feathers. The others depict landscapes and Dyak writing. Original pictorial paper boards.
Read more
Bonaparte, R. [N.]
Les récents voyages des Néerlandais à la Nouvelle-Guinée. [AND] Les derniers voyages des Néerlandais à la Nouvelle-Guinée.
Versailles, l'auteur, 1885. Two papers in one. Small 4to. Half-titles and titles in red and black; 16; 40 pp.; two chromolithographed folded, tissue-guarded maps, one table. Later blind quarter cloth over marbled boards. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read more
Bond, J.
Birds of the West Indies. An account with full descriptions of all the birds known to occur or have occurred on the West Indian Islands. [The rare true first edition].
Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936. 8vo (19.0 x 13.0 cm). xxv, 456 pp.; full colour frontispiece, numerous fine engravings. Original grey buckram with gilt title on the front board and spine. Map on front endpapers.
Read more
Box, H. E.
Typescripts, correspondence and papers.
Various places and publishers, 1923-1953. 4to and 8vo. Over 60 items of various size and shape. Many thousands of pages, numerous illustrations including some original photos. Preserved in two similar cardboard folders with punch holes.
Read more
Brown, R.
On Cyrtandreae. From Horsfield's Plantae Javanicae rariores. [Preprint or "preissue"].
London, R. and J. Taylor, 1839. Folio (38.0 x 27.6 cm). Title page, 22 pp. (numbered 1-3, [4 blank) 105-122]; two fine, tissue-guarded engraved plates. Contemporary quarter cloth over blind boards.
Read more
Bruin, C., De [De Bruyn or Bruijn]
Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en planten, die door gevonden worden: voor al derzelver oudheden, en wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig, die van het heerlijke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door befaemde hof van Persepolis, by den Persianen Tchilminar genaemt. Alles door den Autheur zelf met groote naeukeurigheit na 't leven afgetekent, en nooit voor dezen in 't ligt gebragt.
Amsterdam, R. and G. Wetstein, J. Oosterwyk and H. van de Gaete, 1714. Folio (33.3 x 21.1 cm). Allegorical frontispiece (by Picart, dated 1711), title page (in red and black); engraved portrait of de Bruyn (by G. Kneller), [vi], 472, [xii] pp.; 260 numbered engraved plates (many double, folded), two large maps, and 34 large text engravings, not numbered, including portraits, views, etc. Contemporary blind ruled and embossed vellum. Spine with six raised bands, title written in ink, in a neat contemporary hand.
Read more
Buijsero, C. [IJzerman, J. W. (ed.)]
Cornelis Buijsero te Bantam. 1616-1618. Zijn Brieven en Journal. Met Inleiding en Bijlagen uitgegeven door J. W. IJzerman.
's-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1923. 8vo (23.1 x 15.7 cm). Title in red and black. xxiv, 272 pp.; two text figures. Contemporary quarter black buckram over pictorial batik boards. Spine with burgundy morocco label with gilt title.
Read more
Butler, A. G. [AND] Owen, R.
The butterflies of Malacca. [AND] On Hypsiprymnodon, Ramsay, a genus indicative of a distinct family (Pleopodidae) in the diprodont section of the marsupialia.
London, The Linnean Society, 1879. 4to (30.3 x 24.0 cm). 36 pp.; two lithographed plates (one very nicely hand-coloured), table; [AND] ten pp.; two plates, including one hand-coloured, by Joseph Wolf. Original printed wrappers.
Read more
Camper, P.
Account of the organs of speech of the orang outang. [Philosophical Transactions, 1779 Part I].
London, The Royal Society, 1779. 4to (25.5 x 19.7 cm). 21 pp.; one large, double-folded engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt-bordered raised bands. Black morocco label with gilt title. All edges speckled red.
Read more
Chevalier, A. and É. Perrot
Les végétaux utiles de l'Afrique tropicale Française. VI. Les kolatiers & les noix de Kola.
Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1911. 8vo (23.7 x 15.7 cm). xxiv, 484 pp.; two large, folded, coloured maps, 16 phototype plates and 52 text figures (mostly page-sized plates) and maps. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and title. Marbled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read more
Chevey, P.
Iconographie ichtyologique de l'Indochine: Poissons des campagnes du "de Lanessan" (1925-1929). 1re partie. [All published].
Saigon, Institut Océanographique de l'Indochine, 1932. 4to (31.5 x 25.2 cm). 155 pp., 50 brightly coloured plates, some augmented with silver. Original printed wrappers.
Read more
Collet, O. [J. A.]
l'Or aux Indes orientales Néerlandaises. Étude sur l'etat actuel de l'industrie aurifere.
Batavia, G. Kolff, 1889. Small 4to (24.4 x 16.3 cm). 51 pp. Original crimson pebbled and embossed cloth with gilt ornamental bands and gilt title on the front board. Floral-pattered endpapers.
Read more
Descourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A magnificent parrot plate. Plate 8. Ara hyacinthus [Hyacinth ara].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read more
Descourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A magnificent toucan plate. Plate 13. Ramphastos toco and Pteroglossus piperivorus [Toco or giant toucan and Guyana toucannet].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read more
Descourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A pair of magnificent parrot plates. Plates 6 and 7. Ara ararauna, and Ara severus [Blue-and-yellow macaw, chestnut-fronted macaw], and Ara aracanga, and Ara cryssosema [Scarlet macaw and colour variety].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Two chromolithographed plates with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read more
Descourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A pair of magnificent toucan plates. Plates 12 and 14. Ramphastos ariel and Ramphastos dicolorus, and Pteroglossus aracari and Pteroglossus ulocomus. [Ariel toucan and green-billed toucan; and black-necked aracari and curl-crested aracari].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Two chromolithographed plates with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read more
Descourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 1. Sarcoramphus papa [King vulture] and Percnopterus jota [Black vulture].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read more
Descourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 2. Harpyia cristata. [Harpy eagle].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read more
Descourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 5. Otus clamator, Strix perlata, and Strix pumila. [Striped owl, pearl-spotted owlet, and pygmy owl].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read more
Descourtilz, M. E.
Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, ou histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies Françaises, Anglaises, Espagnoles et Portugaises; Peinte d'après les dessins faits sur les lieux par M. J. Th. Descourtilz.
Paris, Privately published by Descourtilz (1827-1829, 1833). In eight volumes. 8vo (20.2 x 12.8 cm). Half-titles, title pages, 2810 pp.; 600 hand-coloured engraved plates. Beautiful contemporary style uniform black grained half calf with gilt ornaments and titles on spines.
Read more
Exell, A. W.
Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Supplement Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Corrected proof of the Supplement.
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1944-1956. Two papers in three. 8vo (24.6 x 18.8 cm) 551 pp. [xi, 428; 58; 54]; three maps; 32 [26; 3; 3] large text illustrations. Original green buckram with gilt title on the spine (main work); green printed wrappers (Supplement), and plain brown wrappers (proof copy).
Read more
Faber, F. C. Von
Die Kraterpflanzen Javas in physiologisch-ökologischer Beziehung.
Buitenzorg, 's Lands Plantentuin - Botanischer Garten, 1927. Large 8vo (24.1 x 17.0 cm). iv, 119 pp.; 12 text illustrations, 18 fine photographic plates. A unique pattered batik-cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
Read more
Godefroy, P. J. and M. J. E. Muller and P. A. Fromm and P. Bleeker (eds.)
Natuur-en Geneeskundig Archief van Nederlands Indie. Volumes I-IV. [All published].
Batavia, the editors, 1844-1847. Four volumes in four. 8vo (22.0 x 12.7 cm). More than 2300 pp. (Volume I: vi, [1], [8], vi, [1], [7], 638 pp; Vol. II: v, 710 [1] pp.; Vol. III: v, 616 [1] pp.; Vol. IV: 340 [2] pp.), several plates (some larger, folding), many folding tables (mostly with meteorological data), errata leaf to Volume I. Matching red cloth with snakeskin-patterned boards.
Read more
Hanley, S. [C. T.] and W. Theobald
Conchologia Indica: illustrations of the land and freshwater shells of British India.
London, L. Reeve, [1870]-1876. 4to (27.2 x 20.8 cm). xviii, 65 pp.; 160 hand-coloured, lithographed plates. 20th-century dark green buckram. Gilt title on the spine.
Read more
Hardouin, E. and W. L. Ritter
Java. Tooneelen uit het leven. Karakterschetsen en kleederdragten van Java's bewoners in afbeeldingen naar de natuur geteekend door E. Hardouin met tekst van W. L. Ritter en een voorwoord van H. M. Lange, gepensionneerd Luitenant Kolonel van het O. I. leger. Benevens eene kaart van Java naar de nieuwste bronnen bewerkt.
Leiden, A. W. Sythoff, 1855. Large 4to (28.7 x 20.7 cm). Title page with finely engraved vignette; xv, 242 pp.; hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 25 other hand-coloured lithographed and tissue-guarded plates; large, triple-folded coloured double map of Java, Madoera and Bawean. Original green embossed cloth. Spine and front board rich gilt with floral patterns and ethnographical vignettes. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read more
Hogendorp, W. van, a.o.
Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Konsten en Wetenschappen. Tweede deel. [Volume 2].
Rotterdam, R. Arrenberg, 1784. 8vo (22.5 x 13.7 cm). 488, 90 pp.; two engraved title vignettes. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands; two morocco labels with gilt title and volume number.
Read more
