Ornithology
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From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
Early illustration of a notorious duck
Germans illustrating krauts
Two great, great bustard plates
A not-so-ordinary rendering of a very common bird
The same bird... and its nest
Two kingfishers. Rare in original hand-colouring
Vosmaer, A.
Description de deux petits alcyons des Indes Orientales, très-beaux, a queuë courte, ayant deux doigts devant, & un derrière; admirable, n'ayant presque point de queuë, pourû de deux doigts de devant, & de deux derrière; lesquels se conservent dans le cabinet de son altesse sérénissime monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, Stadhouder héréditaire, gouverneur, capitaine général et admiral des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.
Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1768. 4to (27.1 x 21.0 cm). Title page, seven pp.; text vignette, one finely engraved plate in contemporary hand-colouring.
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€350.00
The ultra-rare hand-coloured Dutch translation, emended and augmented by Pieter Boddaert
Pallas, P. S.
Dierkundig mengelwerk, in het welke de nieuwe of nog duistere zoorten van dieren door naauwkeurige afbeeldingen, beschryvingen en verhandelingen opgehelderd worden. In het Latyn beschreeven door den heer P. S. Pallas ... vertaald en met aanmerkingen voorzien door P. Boddaert M.D. VI. Stukken. Met plaaten.
Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg en J. Van Schoonhoven, 1767-1770. 4to (26.6 x 21.0 cm) [board size 27.5 x 22.0 cm]. General title in red and black, dated 1770; viii, 195, [ii] pp.; ten fine, contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary polished half calf over speckled boards. Spine with triple gilt lines and grained tan morocco label with gilt title.
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€2,250.00