Manuscripts and Letters
74 items found
Improving published works
[after T. H. Ekart]
Synopsis Hepaticarum. Descriptiones Jungermanniarum. [Original Manuscript].
France, no place, no date [ca. 1860-1880]. Small folio (24.7 x 20.0 cm). Manuscript of 46 pp. with 31 original, fine, mounted, ink drawings of liverworts, most with handwritten descriptions at the foot or on loose leaflets. Patterned quarter linen over burgundy grained linen. Marbled endpapers
Read more
€750.00
Two zoologists, grabbed by crabs
Alexander Agassiz in search of crustacean knowledge
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
An entomological manuscript by the malacologist, ecologist and entomologist Herbert Ant
[Ant, H.]
Manuscript based on Staudinger's printed list of Palaearctic Lepidoptera.
Not published, no date [but after 1936; probably ca. 1950]. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.1 cm). 161 ruled pages with mounted strips with printed text. Mid-20th century black blind cloth over marbled boards.
Read more
€250.00
A wonderfully, sensuel, original drawing
From the Red Sea to the Atlantic
Van Beneden - in pursuit of succeeding Louis Agassiz
A rare work illustrated by Armand Massonet with one of his original drawings added
An illustrated letter
One of North America's most colourful butterflies: a fine watercolour drawing
Wonderful after nature watercolour of a North American cutie
A fine letter from Tunisia