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Entomology
All works on insects, butterflies, beetles, spiders, scorpions, etc
General Zoology
Herpetology
All works on lizards, snakes, frogs, toads, newts, turtles, etc
Ichthyology
All works on extant and extinct fishes, and on angling & fishing
Invertebrates
All invertebrates except molluscs, insects, spiders and allies
Malacology
All works on shells, snails, slugs, bivalves, cephalopods, etc
Mammalogy
All works on mammals from mammuths to mice, extinct an/or living
Ornithology
All works on birds and birders, including oology, nidology, etc
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The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. [Atlas]
€1,200.00
London, John van Voorst, [1853]-1858. "8vo" size (24.5 x 14.9 cm). Half title, title page; 138 plates of which most are hand-coloured, with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on the spines.
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The very rare hand-coloured edition
Estudios sobre ophidios Neotropicos XVII-XXII.
€200.00
São Paulo, Instituto Butantan, 1929. 4to (26.4 x 18.3 cm). 337 pp., with several plates and text figures. Original printed wrappers.
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A collection of rare papers on Brazilian snakes
[Lijst van Nederlandse Lepidoptera].
€350.00
[unknown place and publisher], after 1901. Two copies in two. 8vo (21.0 x 13.5 cm). 31 pp. Uniform early 20th-century (contemporary) half cloth over marbled boards.
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An apparently very rare work on Dutch butterflies, which seems to be unrecorded
Naturhistorischer Atlas. Zu Kaisers sowie zu jeder anderen Naturgeschichte. Enthaltend: zahlreiche Abbildungen zum Gebrauche für den anschaulichen naturgeschichtlichen Unterricht in Land- und Bürgerschulen. Dritte Auflage.
€200.00
Langensalza, Hermann Beyer, [N.D. but ca. 1875]. Oblong folio (42.0 x 34.0 cm). Printed front wrapper, and twelve chromolithographed plates. Contemporary blind, green, pebbled quarter cloth over marbled boards. Later paper label with gilt title mounted on the front board.
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A surprisingly rare and colourful natural history atlas
[Aquatic animals]. Fine drawings of fish, a crustacean and a cone-shell.
€500.00
No place, not published, ca. 1700. Broadsheet (28.5 x 20.3 cm). Drawings on laid paper.
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Fine, red-ink paintings of European fish - and a tropical cone
Xenopus rothschildi [lithographed plate of an undescribed frog]
€250.00
London, no publisher, ca. 1910. Single sheet (31.9 x 25.3 cm). With eight lithographed images of Xenopus species.
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An unknown plate containing a possibly valid name and illustration of an undescribed frog
Histoire naturelle des singes, peints d'après nature. [AND] Histoire naturelle [des singes et] des makis. [Complete].
€15,000.00
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.
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Primatology at its most beautiful - by an artist-turned-scientist
[Portrait by J. G. Nordheim, after a photograph]
€165.00
Leipzig, Brockhaus, ca. 1851. Engraved portrait with caption on one side of a single leaf (29.6 x 19.5 cm); printed surface approximately 16 x 9.4 cm.
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A nice portrait of the most famous American ornithologist
Antillean terrapins.
€600.00
Cambridge, MA, The Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1940. 4to (30.0 x 25.1 cm). Title page, 35 pp., nine plates (eight in full colour) of tortoises, four text figures, errata slip. Later blind wrappers.
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A surprisingly rare work on tortoises
Tableaux analytiques illustrés des coléoptères de la faune Franco-Rhénane (France, Hollande, Belgique, Région rhénane, Valais).
€275.00
Uzès, Miscellanea Entomologica, 1920. 8vo (24.0 x 15.7 cm). xii, 472 pp., 799 [220, 465, 16, 17, 71, 7, 3] text engravings. Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-chained bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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A well-bound copy of a very uncommon work on beetles
Ichthyographia Chinae borealis scripta a Doctore Medicinae Stephano Basilewsky.
€900.00
Moscou, Université Imperiale, [1852]-1855. 4to (28.2 x 22.5 cm). Title page to the work, 45 pp. [numbered 218-263]; eighth finely engraved and hand-coloured plates, where appropriate heightened with silver. Later green cloth with the original green, printed front wrapper mounted.
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Fine illustrations of new Chinese fish
Les arachnides de Belgique. [Volumes] I-III. [complete].
€750.00
Bruxelles, l'Académie royale de Belgique, 1882-1896. Three volumes in four. Folio (40.0 x 28.0 cm). 751 [I: 246; II: 127; III: 378] pp., 70 [I: 27; II: 25; III: 18] hand-coloured lithographed plates. Some text figures. Original uniform printed boards.
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A rare, comple copy of this finely illustrated work