New Arrivals

Aldini, T. and P. Castelli

Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, que continentur Rome in horto farnesiano.

Roma, Jacobi Mascardi, [1623-]1625. Folio (30.7 x 21.5 cm). Engraved title page; 117 pp. [x, 101, (vi; index)]; 26 engraved plates. 20th-century green half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title.

€1,800.00

Fine illustrations of plants in the first private botanical garden in Europe

[Anonymous but possibly J. Sturm]

Four proof plates for Monographiae Insectorum XVIII. In valle Plauensi delectorum. Verzeichnis der merkwürdigsten Insecten welche in Plauischen Grunde gefunden werden . In: W. G. Becker (1799). Der Plauische Grund bei Dresden, mit Hinsicht auf Naturgeschichte und schöne Gartenkunst.

[Nürnberg, Frauenholzische Kunsthandlung, 1799]. Four loose plates. Folio (24.3 x 18.5 cm or slighly larger). Each finely engraved and carefully hand-coloured.

€1,200.00

Four unique proof plates of insects from near Dresden

[Anonymous]

De zoogdieren, vogelen en visschen. Afgebeeld en beschreven voor Nederlandsche jonge lieden.

Amsterdam, Gebroeders Diederichs, 1835-1836. Three volumes in one. Small 8vo (14.0 x 8.7 cm). General title page; three title pages (to each Class), half-title (to the Vogelen only); three engraved frontispieces; 575 pp. [ Zoogdieren (1835): viii, 210; Vogelen (1836): x, 187; Visschen (1836): viii, 152]; numerous text engravings. Original – publisher’s – full cloth with printed paper label on the spine. Pink endpapers.

Sold

One of two complete copies known

Beaumont, S. van

Placaet, op het visschen in de rivieren, meeren en binne-wateren.

's Gravenhage, Jacobus en Paulus Scheltus [for the Staten van Hollandt en West-Vrieslandt], 1708. 4to (21.2 x 17.1 cm). Drophead title with large engraved vignette and initial letter, 10 pp., seven text engravings, three of which forming a plate.

€350.00

A very rare publication on fishing regulations

Bickmore, A.

Travels in the East Indian Archipelago.

London, John Murray, 1868. Thick 8vo (22.2 x 14.5 cm). 560 pp.; wood-engraved frontispiece, two folded maps and 31 attractive engraved plates and three smaller illustrations in the text. Original pictorial cloth. Brown endpapers.

€600.00

In search of Rumphius

Bookmarks

A fine collection of nearly 300 19th-Century and early- to late-20th-century bookmarks.

Great Britain (mainly), various publishers, ca. 1855-1980. 300 different bookmarks, of which of silk or other cloth; and made of paper or cardboard, with printed text.

€950.00

A collection worth bookmarking

Bosch, G. van den

[Sculpture] Amazon parrots.

ca. 1965. Bronze sculpture. Ca. 175 x 100 x 75 cm.

€9,900.00

Heavy Metal parrots

Bose, S. N. [AND] A. Einstein

Wärmegleichgewicht im Strahlungsfeld bei Anwesenheit von Materie.

Braunschweig, Friedrich Vierweg & Sohn; Berlin, J. Springer, 1924. 8vo (22.8 x 15.4 cm). 10 pp. Original printed wrappers.

€500.00

Bose's second paper: recommended and challenged by Albert Einstein

Boyer d'Aguilles, J. B. and J. Coelemans

Un Vaze de fleurs paint par Mario dy fioré [from Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France ].

Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1744. Single sheet (27.0 x 20.0 cm) on thick laid paper with a fine engraving – in very nice hand-colouring – by Jacques Coelemans. Printed surface ca. 24 x 19 cm. In modern passe partout with salmon linen cover.

€600.00

An excellent engraving from a rare work

Ceresoli, A.

Bibliografia delle opere Italiane, Latine e Greche su la caccia, la pesca e la cinologia, con aggiunte di mammologia, ornitologia, ittiologia ed erpetologia.

Bologna, Forni, 1969. Large, thick 4to (35.0 x 25.0 cm). xi, 569, [i] pp., 34 plates. Original pictorial paperbound.

€375.00

Rare, highly limited edition: copy of an important bibliography

Darwin, C.

Sexual selection in relation to monkeys.

London, Nature, 1876. Folio (28.2 x 19.6 cm). pp. 17-18 in: issue 15(366) [pp. i-viii, 1-20]. Original printed wrappers.

€1,500.00

Sex in the monkey

Darwin, C.

Remarks upon the habits of the genera Geospiza, Camarhynchus, Cactornis and Certhidea of Gould.

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1837. 8vo (22.7 x 13.9 cm). p. 49. Original blind blue wrappers, preserved in a green clamshell box with gilt title.

€4,200.00

The fundaments of evolution: Darwin on "his" finches

Advanced Search