Eisig, H.

Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Ichthyotomus sanguinarius. Eine auf Aalen schmarotzende Annelide.

Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1906. Large 4to (33.3 x 27.2 cm). 300 pp.; 34 text engravings, ten lithographed plates, of which one (showing an eel as host species and living animals in situ) in full colour, and some others tinted. Original wrappers with printed text and wood engraving of the Institute' s building in Naples.

€350.00

A fine copy, in a nice contemporary binding of one of the first books on intestinal parasitology

Leclerc, D.

Historia naturalis et medica latorum lumbricorum, intra hominem & alia animalia, nascentium ex variis auctoribus & propriis observationibus. Accessit, horum occasione, de ceteris quoque hominum vermibus, tum de omnium origine, tandemque de remediis quibus pelli possint, Disquisitio. Cum variis figuris.

€400.00

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.

€2,250.00

Rare monograph of a peculiar worm genus, with fine illustrations