Zoology
631 items found
Jäger, G. [E.]
Über eine neue Species von Ichthyosauren ( Ichthyosaurus longirostris Owen & Jäger), nebst Bemerkungen über die übrigen in de Liasformation Würtembergs aufgefundenen Reptilien.
Breslau und Bonn, Eduard Weber, 1855. Folio (29.6 x 22.5 cm). Title page, 30 pp. (including errata page); one large, folded, lithographed plate. Contemporary blue pebbled cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreAlberti, B.
Über die Stammesgeschichtliche Gliederung der Zygaenidae nebst Revision einiger Gruppen (Insecta, Lepidoptera).
Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1954. 8vo (24.0 x 17.0 cm). 366 pp. [numbered 115-480]; 33 text illustrations, 62 plates (including one larger, folded). Original printed wrappers.
Read moreGravenhorst, J. L. C. [C.]
Über die im zoologischen Museum der Universität Breslau befindlichen Wirtelschleichen (Pseudosaura), Krüppelfüssler (Brachypoda), und einige andere, denselben verwandte Reptilien aus den Zünften der Schleigen und Dickzüngler.
Breslau, Academia Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae, 1847. 4to (29.6 x 22.6 cm). Title page, 102 pp.; 19 engraved plates. Later blind green cloth boards, printed paper label on the spine.
Read moreOberthür, C.
Études d'entomologie. Faunes entomologiques. Descriptions d'insectes nouveaux ou peu connus. I. Étude sur la faune des lépidoptères de l'Algerie.
Rennes, Oberthür et fils, 1876. 4to (27.9 x 18.8 cm). 74 pp.; four nice hand-coloured engraved plates. Slightly later half cloth over marbled boards. Dark green morocco strip with gilt title mounted on spine. Original printed wrappers preserved.
Read morePervinquière, L.
Études de paléontologie Tunisienne - I - Céphalopodes des terrains secondaires. Texte - Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, F. R. De Rudeval [for the Regence de Tunis - Protectorat Français, Direction générale des Travaux Publics], 1907. Two parts in two. Large 4to/Folio (31.0 x 23.0 cm). v, 438 pp. 158 text illustrations, 28 heliotype plates (several double-sized). Uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreOberthür, C.
Études de lépidopterologie comparée. Volume I.
Rennes, F. C. Oberthür, 1904. 8vo (24.4 x 15.8 cm). 77 pp.; plates I-V; all finely hand-coloured, one heightened with silver, one in double suite; an extra, handwritten plate explanation to plates I-IV bound in the rear. Later blind half cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreMéheut, M.
Études d'animaux. Tome premier - Tome second. [Complete].
Paris, Albert Lévy, 1911. Two parts in two [and an addition, described below]. Folio (44.0 x 34.0 cm). Title page in red and black, pp. 5-9 (introduction), index leaf; second title page in red and black, half-title; 100 [42; 58] loose, unnumbered plates in original, printed passepartouts. Uniform quarter cloth portfolios (45.0 x 35.0 cm); front boards with large vignette and printed title.
Read moreSteindachner, F.
Zur Fisch-Fauna des Magdalenen-Stromes [AND] Über einige neue und seltene Fisch-Arten aus den k. k. zoologischen Museen zu Wien, Stuttgart und Warschau. [AND] Zur Fisch-Fauna des Cauca und der Flüsse bei Guayaquil. [AND] Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flussfische Südamerikas I, II, III, IV. [AND] Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fische Afrika's und Beschreibung einer neuen Sargus-Art von de Galapagos Inseln. [AND] Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fische Afrika's (II) und Beschreibung einer neuen Paraphoxinus-Art aus der Herzegowina.
Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1878-1882. Nine papers in one. Large 4to (29.6 x 23.2 cm). Nine titles with blank versos, 348 pp.; 72 finely lithographed plates (three larger, folded). Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt floral vignettes and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreEhrenberg, C. G.
Zur erkenntniss der Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Zweiter Beitrag. Entwicklung, Lebensdauer und Structur der Magenthiere und Räderthiere oder sogenannten Infusorien, nebst einer physiologischen Characteristik beider Klassen und 412 Arten derselben. Vorgetragen in der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin im Jahre 1831.
Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (F. Dümmler), 1832. Very large 4to (38.1 x 26.5 cm). Title page, 154 pp.; four engraved plates, of which two hand-coloured. Near contemporary marbled boards.
Read moreSemon, R. [W.] (ed.)
Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und den Malayischen Archipel. Mit Unterstützung des Herrn Dr. Paul von Ritter ausgeführt in den Jahren 1891-1893 von Richard Semon. Zweiter Band: Monotremen und Marsupialier. Mit 39 lithographischen Tafeln und 86 Abbildungen im Text.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1894-1897. Two parts in two [text and atlas]. Large 4to and folio (both 35.6 x 27.6 cm). 433 pp.; 39 lithographed plates of which many tinted or in chromolithography, and all with explanatory text leaves, 86 text engravings. Uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreAnnandale, [T.] N.
Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-12.
Calcutta, The Director of the Zoological Survey of India, 1912-1918. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). pp. 1-77, 191-410, 493-621 [of 629] pp., errata leaf; plates I-V, XVI-XXVII, XXXVIII-LIV [of 57] (mostly lithographs and photogravures), several text illustrations. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreTapparone-Canefri, C. [M.]
Zoologia del viaggio intorno al globo della R. fregata Magenta durante gli anni 1865-1868. Malacologia (gasteropodi, acefali e brachiopodi).
Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1876. Large 4to (28.5 x 21.1 cm). 155 pp.; four chromolithographed and partly hand-coloured plates, heightened with gum arabic. Later brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. Edges sprinkled red.
Read moreSterzl, A. (ed.)
Zeitschrift des Vereines der Naturbeobachter und Sammler. Volumes 1-9. [Last Published].
Wien, Verein der Naturbeobachter und Sammler, 1926-1934. 8vo (22.3 x 15.0 cm). Eight title pages, 271 pp.; 19 plates [1-18, 13(bis)] of which 17 in colour. In slightly later grey blind half cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreMawe, J.
Wodarch's introduction to the study of conchology: describing the orders, genera, and species of shells: with observations on the nature and properties of the animals; and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells. Fourth edition, with considerable additions and alterations.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and J. Mawe, 1832. 12mo (18.2 x 10.6 cm). xii, 149 pp.; full-colour frontispiece and six hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary dark green diced morocco; spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, and green morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined and blind-tooled borders. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled.
Read moreWade, H. T.
With boat and gun in the Yangtze Valley (second edition) by Henling Thomas Wade (with special chapters by valued contributors).
Shanghai, Shanghai Mercury, 1910. 4to (27.8 x 21.8 cm). vi, 284 pp.; eight maps and plates, numerous text figures. Original full cloth with printed text on the front board. Purple endpapers.
Read moreOrbigny, A. [C. V. M. D.] d' [Brullé, G. A. and C. É. Blanchard]
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome sixième. 2.e Partie: Insectes.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1837-1846. Text and atlas. Large 4to and folio (33.3 x 24.9 cm). 220 pp.; 32 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-32] with captions providing the species names. Recent quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with printed label with title.
Read moreOrbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 3.e Partie: Mollusques.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1834-[1847]. In two volumes (text and atlas). Large 4to and folio (33.0 x 25.4 cm). Half-title to the Voyage, title to the Mollusques, half-title to the Mollusques; xliii, 758 pp.; 86 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-85; 41bis; plates 83-85 not coloured, as always]. Uniform period style half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreValenciennes, A. and A. D. d'Orbigny
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième, 2e partie: Poissons. Catalogue des principales espèces de poissons rapportées de l'Amérique méridionale.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1847. Folio (33.8 x 25.0 cm). 11 pp.; 16 lithographed plates (numbered 1-16) in fine, original hand-colouring. Later quarter linen over printed boards.
Read moreMilne-Edwards, H. and [P.] H. Lucas [A. C. V. M. D. d'Orbigny (ed.)]
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 1.re Partie: Crustacés.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1843-[1844]. Text and plates. Large 4to/folio mix (33.7 x 25.8 cm). Half-title (to the Voyage), title and half-title (to the Crustacés); 39 pp.; 18 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-12, 14-17, 7bis, 8bis]. Later marbled wrappers.
Read moreOrbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Mammifères. Plates 21, 22, 25. [Dolphins]
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1846. Folio (33.8 x 25.0 cm). Three lithographed plates.
Read moreOrbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Mammifères. Plate 4.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1846. Folio (33.8 x 25.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate.
Read moreOrbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Atlas. Zoologique. Mammifères. Plate 5. Callithrix donacophilusd'Orbigny.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1840-[1847]. Folio-size (33,9 x 25,3 cm). Hand-coloured engraving with printed caption.
Read moreOrbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Atlas. Zoologique. Mammifères. Plate 3. Cebus fulvus var.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1840-[1847]. Folio-size (33,9 x 25,3 cm). Hand-coloured engraving with printed caption.
Read moreOrbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. 4.e Partie: Paléontologie.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1842. Folio (34.0 x 25.9 cm). Title page, half-title, 182 pp.; 22 finely lithographed plates. Spine with gilt lines and title. Later blind linen spine over contemporary boards. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreSaulcy, [L.] F. [J. C.] de
Voyage autour de la Mer Morte et dans les terres bibliques exécuté de décembre 1850 à avril 1851. Relation de voyage; atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1852-1853. In two text volumes and one atlas volume. 8vo (24.5 x 16.0 cm [text]). 1054 pp. [399; 655]). Folio/large 4to (31.0 x 23.7 cm [atlas]). 172 pp. [4, vii, 20, i-iv, 5-19; xxvi, 96]; 15 maps on 14 sheets (one double-sized); 61 (LVII; 4) lithographed plates (several tinted). Text in near contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title; Atlas in contemporary half morocco over grained, cloth with gilt title on the front board and spine. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers of the text volumes bound in.
Read morePawlow, I. [P.] [Pavlov, I. P.]
Vorlesungen über die Arbeit der Grosshirnhemisphären. Autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Russischen von Prof. Dr. G. Volborth.
Leningrad, Medizinischer Staatsverlag d. R. S. F. S. R., 1932. 8vo ( 21.9 x 14.7 cm). viii, 480 pp.; several figures and tables. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the front board and spine. Original printed dustjacket, in transparent protective sleeve.
Read moreSchmidt, F. C.
Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung, Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und Gegenstände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme, welchen ein Verzeichniß der am meisten bekannten Conchylien angehängt ist, wie solche nach dem Lamarkischen System geordnet werden können.
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1818. Small folio (27.2 x 18.0 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, [iv], 252 pp. 20th-century green buckram with gilt title on the spine.
Read moreTemminck, C. J. (ed.)
Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, door de Leden der Natuurkundige commissie in Indië en andere schrijvers. Uitgegeven op last van de Koning.
Leiden, S. Luchtmans and J. Luchtmans, 1839-1844. Three volumes in five, including a matching drop box. Folio (42.6 x 29.1 cm). 1379 pp.; 258 plates on 257 sheets (and one double, not counted), of which all but 81 finely hand-coloured, and four maps, of which one double-sized, and all but one partly hand-coloured. Uniform contemporary dark green half morocco over grained boards. Spines with five raised bands; gilt ornaments at head and foot, and gilt title. Speckled edges.
Read moreBarruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Verdin, Auriparus flaviceps. [Original watercolour].
Paris, Larousse, [ca. 1970, but published 2013]. Single sheet (24.4 x 17.5 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of grey paper (32.4 x 25.0 cm).
Read moreLe Verrier de la Conterie, J.
Venerie Normande, ou l'école de la chasse aux chiens courants, pour le lievre, le chevreuil, le cerf, le daim, le sanglier, le loup, le renard & la loutre; avec les tons de chasse, accompagnés de chacun une explication sur l'occasion & les circonstances où ils doivent être sonnés; et un traité des remedes, un traité sur le droit de suite, & un dictionnaire des termes de chasse, &c.
Rouen, Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). xvi, 526 pp.; 27 fine mostly folded woodengraved plates (some printed on blue paper and/or on recto and verso), mostly by Caron and including 12 large text engravings of music being "Tons de Chasse et Fanfares". Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges.
Read moreStradanus, J. [J. van Straet]
Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum: & mutuae bestiarum.
[Antwerpen,] Philip Galle, [ca. 1600]. Oblong folio (27.4 x 35.5 cm). Engraved allegorical titlepage; 21 engraved plates with engraved captions. Near contemporary blind quarter vellum over marbled boards.
Read moreEdinger, L.
Untersuchungen über die vergleichende Anatomie des Gehirnes. 3. Neue studien über das Vorderhirn der Reptilien. Mit IV Tafeln und XIV Textfiguren.
Frankfurt am Main, Moritz Diesterweg, 1896. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.1 cm). Two title pages, 75 pp.; 14 text engravings, four fine, chromolithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreWilhelm, G. T.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Die Amphibien.
Wien, privately published, 1809. 8vo (18.4 x 11.1 cm). Engraved title page, [xvi], 328 pp., 40 engraved and finely hand-coloured plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. The spine with gilt vignettes, gilt patterned foot, red and green morocco labels the red one with gilt title. Patterned endpapers.
Read moreWilhelm, G. T.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Die Amphibien.
Wien, the "Herausgeber", 1818. 8vo (18.1 x 11.1 cm). Frontispiece, [xvi], 328 pp.; 40 hand-coloured plates with 70 images. Contemporary tree-calf resembling paper covered boards. Spine with gilt lines, vignette, and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges dyed yellow.
Read moreSturany, R. and A. J. Wagner
Ueber schalentragende Landmollusken aus Albanien und Nachbargebieten.
Wien, Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Alfred Hölder), 1914. Large 4to (30.4 x 23.2). 120 pp.; 18 plates, one coloured map. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Patterned endpapers.
Read moreMeyer, C. E. H. von
Ueber den Nager von Waltsch in Böhmen [AND] Physichthys Höninghausi aus dem Uebergangkalke der Eifel [AND] Schildkröte und Vogel aus dem Fischschiefer von Glarus [AND] Helochelys Danubia, aus dem Grünsande von Kelheim in Bayern [AND] Trachyteuthis ensiformisaus dem lithographischen Schiefer in Bayern.
Cassel [Kassel], Palaeontographica, 1855. Six papers in one. 4to (31.0 x 23.2 cm). 35 [5; 4; 12; 10; 4] pp.; six engraved plates [1; 1; 2 (one shared); 2 (one shared); 1], the two turtle and one cephalopod plate double-sized. Contemporary wrappers with the title added in script.
Read moreMeyer, H. von
Ueber den Archegosaurus der Steinkohlenformation [AND] Fische, Echinodermen und andere Versteinerungen aus dem Muschelkalk Oberschlesiens [AND] Sphyraenodus aus dem Tertiärsande von Flonheim.
Cassel, Palaeontographica, 1849. 4to (29.2 x 23.0 cm). 76 [5; 68; 3] pp.; four engraved plates. Contemporary wrappers with the titles added in a neat old hand.
Read moreBox, H. E.
Typescripts, correspondence and papers.
Various places and publishers, 1923-1953. 4to and 8vo. Over 60 items of various size and shape. Many thousands of pages, numerous illustrations including some original photos. Preserved in two similar cardboard folders with punch holes.
Read moreMader, J. and C. F. C. Kleemann
Tyd-wyzer der rupsen, vervattende, van maand tot maand, den tyd der verschyning van de door Rösel en Kleemann, beschreeven en afgebeelde rupsen, benevens haar voedzel. Ten nutte en dienst der liefhebbers opgesteld. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Vermeerderd met eene naamlyst der planten, volgens het samenstel van Linnaeus.
Haarlem, C. H. Bohn, 1779. 8vo (22.0 x 14.4 cm). Title page, [vi], 161 pp. Contemporary mottled boards, no spine cover.
Read moreLevaillant, F.
Two framed prints of parrots [by Barraband] from the Histoire naturelle des perroquets.
Paris, Levrault, 1801-1805. Two colour-printed plates with printed captions in French. In uniform glazed frames with elegant gilt wooden frames. Visible surface 34.5 x 28.0 cm; frame size 55.0 x 48.0 cm.
Read moreOberman, A.
Twenty etchings of cattle.
[Amsterdam, the artist], 1809-1811. Oblong folio (17.1 x 25.6 cm) [17.7 x 26.0 cm]. Mounted. Printed surface ca. 11.5 x 17.0 cm. 19th-century quarter morocco over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt floral ornaments. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
Read moreZoological Society of London
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Volume XVI.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., for the Society, [1901]-1903. Large 4to (31.7 x 25.0 cm). 427 pp.; 38 plates, of which several in fine chromolithography. Contemporary blue half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title.
Read morePictet, F.
Traité de Paléontologie où histoire naturelle des animaux fossiles considérés dans leurs rapports zoologiques et géologiques. [Text and atlas, complete].
Paris, Baillière, 1853-1857. Five parts in five. 8vo (four text parts; 20.7 x 12.7 cm) and 4to (atlas; 30.7 x 23.5 cm). 2742 pp. [I: xiv, 584; II: 727; III: 654; IV: xvi, 768; Atlas; 77]; 110 fine lithographed plates. contemporary uniform pebbled half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with gilt-bordered bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreBulliard, P.
Traité de la chasse aux oiseaux et de toutes les ruses dont on se sert pour les prendre, suivi d'une collection considerable de figures et de pièges nouveux propres à différentes chasses. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de la méthode pour faire les filets; de beaucoup de détails sur la chasse au gibier-plume, et ornée d'un grand nombre de figures représentant les oiseaux que l'on chasse en France.
Paris, Audot, 1818. 12mo (16.3 x 9.5 cm). 270 pp.; 57 engraved plates of birds and utensils to catch them. Contemporary full speckled calf. Spine with four raised bands, rich gilt compartment and brown morocco label with gilt title. Boards with thin gilt line border. Edges speckled red.
Read moreSoemmering, S. T. et al. [translated and edited by A. J. L. Jourdan]
Traité d'anatomie générale ou histoire des tissus et de la composition chimique du corps humain. Volumes II-VIII, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1843-1847. Seven text parts in eight, and two atlas parts in one. 8vo text (20.5 x 12.7 cm), and folio atlas (31.1 x 23.5 cm) with 33 lithographed and engraved plates with descriptive text. Uniform contemporary green morocco over green mottled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt vignettes and black morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers, speckled edges.
Read moreLacaze-Duthiers, [F. J.] H. de
Three important, published works by Henri Lacaze-Duthiers, including a collection of proof copies and handwritten notes and corrections to one of them.
Paris, 1877-1885. Various sizes. 468 pp. [160, 220, 88]; 28 [8; 14; 6] lithographed plates, of which 22 hand-coloured. Preserved in a burgundy cloth covered clamshell box (30.4 x 25.2 x 9.2 cm) with printed label.
Read more[Bates, H. W.]
The Zoologist. A popular miscellany of natural history conducted by Edward Newman, F.L.S., Z.S., &c. Volumes 1-11.
London, John van Voorst, 1843-1853. 11 volumes in 11. 8vo. (21.4 x 13.6 cm). 4156, cciv pp.; illustrations in the text. Contemporary uniform black half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title, volume year, and decorative lines. Speckled edges.
Read moreWilliston, S. W.
The University survey of Kansas. Vol. IV. Paleontology. Part 1. Upper Cretaceous.
Topeka, KS, Geological Survey of Kansas, 1898. Large 8vo (26.0 x 19.0 cm). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 594 pp.; 120 plates. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette on the front board.
Read moreCotton, J.
The song birds of Great Britain; containing delineations of thirty-three birds, of the natural size, (incl. the genus Sylvia of Latham,) coloured principally from living specimens, with some account of their habits, and occasional direction for their treatment in confinement.
London, privately published, [1835-]1836. Title-page, [xi] pp. [prefaces]; 33 beautiful, originally hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary dark green grained full morocco. Boards with double rich gilt borders with floral corner pieces; gilt lines on the edges, and inner gilt lines. Spine with ornamental gilt rectangles and title. All edges gilt.
Read moreVan Denburgh, J.
The reptiles of western North America. An account of the species known to inhabit California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. [AND] Volume II. Snakes and turtles. [Complete].
San Francisco, CA, California Academy of Sciences, 1922. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (26.5 x 18.0 cm). 1,028 pp.; 128 plain plates. Uniform, near contemporary red buckram. Spines with gilt titles.
Read moreGraves, G.
The naturalist's pocket-book, or tourist's companion, being a brief introduction to the different branches of natural history, with approved methods for collecting and preserving the various productions of nature.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. 8vo (22.5 x 14.0 cm). [iv], viii, [ii], 335 pp. Eight engraved plates of which five zoological plates in original hand-colouring (as intended). Original pink boards with original printed label on the spine.
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The miscellany of natural history edited by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. F.R.S.E. Volume II. The feline species. [OR] The natural history of the feline species by William Rhind, Esq., M.R.C.S. with a biographical sketch of Baron Cuvier by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart.
Edinburgh, Fraser and Co., 1834. 8vo (16.5 x 11.0 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Cuvier; engraved title with vignette of a lion and tiger, two letterpress titles, engraved medallion of Cuvier, [iv], 44, 45-184 pp.; 36 engraved plates of which 35 hand-coloured and one plain, as intended. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title.
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The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and description of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. Volumes I - II.
London, J. Sowerby, 1812-1818. Two volumes in two. 8vo (23.2 x 15.5 cm). 482 pp. [I: 234, x; II: 235, iii]. 205 hand-coloured engravings (eight larger, folded), numbered 1-203, A (between 184 and 185). Number 33 used twice; no. 177 also numbered 173[bis]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands, blind-tooled compartments and two black morocco labels with gilt title. Green endpapers. Edges speckled red.
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The Malay Archipelago: the land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of Man and Nature.
London, MacMillan, 1886. 8vo (18.7 x 12.6 cm). Half-title, title page, dedication to Charles Darwin, xvi, 653, [ii] pp.; engraved frontispiece, seven engraved plates, two folded, tinted maps, and numerous steel-engravings in the text. Original green cloth. Spine with black bands, gilt title, and gilt vignette of a bird of paradise; front board with black blind-stamped border and gilt central vignette with an orangutan. Green endpapers.
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The Macrolepidoptera of the World. [A complete, fully bound set]
Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1909-1954. 20 volumes in 29. 4to (31.5 x 25.0 cm). Text and 1,458 chromolithographed plates. Uniform publisher's - and later, matching half calf. Spines with gilt ornamental bands, gilt lepidopterological vignettes, and coloured shield with gilt titles.
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The genera of Recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology. With original plates.
London, George Brettingham Sowerby, [1821-1834]. 8vo format (21.3 x 13.4 cm). [iv] pp.; 262 (of 267) lithographed and finely hand-coloured (all but three) plates. Contemporary uniform polished half calf over grained cloth boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and title. Brown endpapers. Edges finely sprinkled red. Preserved in custom-made pictorial shell-themed double slipcase.
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The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania.
Washington, DC, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Fisheries, 1906. Large 8vo (27.3 x 19.0 cm). Title page, 283 [numbered 173-455], xxx (index) pp.; 21 plates [numbered XXXIII-LIII], of which 16 in fine chromolithography; 111 fine text illustrations. Slightly later dark blue grained cloth; spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
Read moreBlanford, W. T. [AND] H. H. Godwin-Austen [AND] G. K. Gude [AND] H. B. Preston
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Mollusca. Parts I-IV. [Complete].
London, Taylor & Francis, 1908-1921. Four parts in four. 8vo (22.8 x 15.8 cm). More than 1,500 pp.; two plates, numerous text figures. Uniform red cloth with gilt titles on spines. Black endpapers (white in Vol. II).
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The Echo. The Western Society of Malacologists Annual Report. 1-20.
Pacific Grove, CA, The Western Society of Malacologists, 1968-1987. In 20 volumes. 8vo and 4to (28.0 x 21.7 cm). Numerous pages, several illustrations (shells, meeting participants, etc.). Original pictorial wrappers.
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The compleatest angling booke that euer was writ, beingdone out of ye Hebrewe and other Tongves, by a person of honor. Adorn'd with scvlptvres. [One of two known original coloured copies].
Newcastle upon Tyne, the author, 1881. 4to (28.0 x 22.8 cm). 238 pp. [in Roman numerals]. Numerous etchings, wood-engravings and text vignettes, of which many hand-coloured. Contemporary full embossed morocco. Spine rich gilt, with five raised bands; boards with triple gilt, and blind-tooled borders, gilt vignettes and, on the front board, the title, "The compleatest angling booke by a person of honor". Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreHumphreys, H. N.
The butterfly vivarium, or, insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium.
London, William Lay, 1858. 8vo (18.2 x 13.8 cm). xii, 288, [iv] pp.; eight originally hand-coloured plates, the first (unnumbered) acting as frontispiece. Original burgundy blind-stamped cloth with large gilt vignette on the front board, and gilt ornaments and title on the spine. Red endpapers. All edges gilt.
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The butterfly vivarium. Or, insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium. Illustrated with coloured engravings.
London, William Lay, 1858. 8vo (18.2 x 13.2 cm). xi, 288, [iii] pp., eight hand-coloured steel-engraved plates. Original blue, blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine and large gilt vignette on the front board. All edges gilt.
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The angler's complete guide and companion: being a practical treatise on angling and its requirements, with beautifully-executed illustrations, in colours, of the artificial flies for the different months, and highly finished engravings of all other necessary tackle.
London, published by the author, [no date, but 1881]. 8vo (18.1 x 12.2 cm). 203 pp.; 12 hand-coloured plates of flies, 33 text engravings. Original pictorial embossed cloth with black, silver and gilt printings. All edges gilt.
Read moreBorkhausen, M. B. [Susemihl, J. C.]
Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuden Abbildungen und Beschreibungen.
Darmstadt, 1800-1817-1841. In two parts. Folio (46.3 x 31.3 cm). 132 [67; 65] colour-printed plates, in careful, original hand-colouring, with accompanying descriptive text leaves in German, and, often, also in French. Uniform polished half calf over floral-patterned, embossed boards.
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Testudo ex suo scuto, ut vulgus putat, exire non potest [AND] Vespertilionem habere caudam, sceleton ejus domonstrat. [Contained in:] Miscellanea curiosa medico-physica Academiae naturae curiosum sive ephemeridum medico-physicarum germanicarum annus quartus et quintus.
Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, Johann Fritzsch, 1676. Small 4to (20.0 x 16.5 cm). vi, 315, [xvi], [vi], 334, [ii], [ii], 76, 15 pp.; several engraved plates. Contemporary full leather. Spine with four raised bands.
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Tentamen methodi ostracologicae sive dispositio naturalis cochlidum et concharum in suas classes, genera et species. [AND] Lucubratiuncula de formatione, cremento et coloribus testarum, quae sunt cochlidum et concharum, [AND] Commentariolum in locum Plinii Hist. Natur. Libr. IX. Cap. XXXIII. [AND] Sciagraphia methodi ad genus Serpentium ordinate digerendum.
Leiden, G. J. Wishoff, 1753. Three works in one volume. 4to (24.7 x 19.6 cm). [3], [5], 177, [5]. [18], [4]; [6], 44; 16, (2) pp.; 12 engraved plates (to first work), and one engraved plate in the text (in second work), a few text vignettes. Contemporary mottled half calf over speckled boards, spine with five raised bands, gilt linings and gilt and black lettered morocco and vellum labels. Edges marbled.
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Tentamen herpetologiae. Cum perpetuo commentario. Accessit J. A. Unzeri Observatio de taeniis. Latine reddita, cum dubiis circa eandem.
Leidae & Gottingae, Elias Luzac Jun., 1755. 4to (26.2 x 21.0 cm). Title in red and black; [ii], 72 pp.; two large, double-folded engraved plates. Contemporary blind half vellum over marbled boards. Speckled edges.
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Tableau méthodique et descriptif des mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agenais.
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1849. 8vo (23.0 x 15.3 cm). 209 [iv (index)] pp.; four tissue-guarded hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. Contemporary half morocco over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt four raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature. Insectes.
Paris, Agasse, 1818. Folio (28.5 x 21.4 cm). 165 engraved plates (numbered 1-165). Contemporary full tree calf. Boards with gilt-ruled borders, spine with rich Louis XVI-style gilt-ornamented red and green morocco labels. Marbled endpapers.
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