13 items found

An unknown plate containing a possibly valid name and illustration of an undescribed frog

[Anonymous]

Xenopus rothschildi [lithographed plate of an undescribed frog]

€250.00

Seldom seen early work on the anatomy of amphibians

Dugès, A. [L.]

Recherches sur l'ostéologie et la myologie des batraciens, a leurs différens ages, présentées a l'Académie Royale des Sciences en réponse a la question suivante: déterminer, a l'aide d'observations, et démonstrer, par préparations anatomiques et des dessins exacts, les modifications que présentent, dans leur squelette et dans leurs muscles, les reptiles batraciens, tels que grenouilles et les salamandres, en passant de l'état de larve à celui d'animal parfait.

€175.00

Unusual views of the elephant, horses, frog and man by one of the founders of comparative anatomy

Camper, P.

Planches pour les oeuvres de P. Camper, qui ont pour objet l'histoire naturelle, le physiologie et l'anatomie comparée.

€570.00

A fine monograph on the amphibians of Southeast Asia

Bourret, R. [L.]

Les batraciens de l'Indochine.

€1,200.00

Swammerdam's essential work on the morphogenesis of insects and frogs

Swammerdam, J.

Historia insectorum generalis in qua verissina mutationem...duce experientia... recepta vulgo insectorum metamorphosis solide refutatur... adjicitur dilucidatio... Ex Belgica latinam fecit Henricus Christianus Henninius. Editio Secunda.

Ultrajecti [Utrecht], Ottho de Vries, 1693. 4to (19.3 x 15.6 cm). Half-title, title in red and black with woodcut vignette, 212 pp., [xvii]; 13 (mostly) folded engraved plates, one folded table. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, spine with gilt title on morocco label, gilt name embossed on front board.

€1,250.00

Daudin's best-illustrated work - in the very rare quarto version

Daudin, F. [M.]

Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds.

Paris, Levrault, An XI (1802). 4to (28.7 x 22.2 cm). 108 pp.; 38 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Early 19th-century polished, gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt vignettes, and with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.

€9,500.00

'His most elaborate herpetological work' (Adler)

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.

€950.00

Sicut plurima rerum naturalium prosunt homini, ita alia in usum aliorum condita sunt