163 items found

The rare first reprint, published in Batavia, of the rare first volume of this series of Asian studies

Radermacher, J. C. M. (ed.)

Bataviaasch Genootschap der Kunsten en Wetenschappen: Verhandelingen. Volume 1.

€650.00

Neither in the British Museum library nor in Ward and Carozzi

Torcia, M.

Relazione dell'ultima eruzione del Vesuvio. Accaduta nel mese di agosto di questo anno 1779. Rélation de la dernière éruption du Vésuve. Arrivée au mois d'Août de cette année 1779. [Very rare with coloured plate].

Napoli, Raimondi, 1779. 8vo (18.6 x 12.0 cm). Two title pages (Italian and French) with different engraved vignettes, [vi], 135 pp. (separated by a blank page), one folded engraved view of the eruption engraved by Boilly and nicely hand-coloured by Volaire. Contemporary vellum. Spine with gilt-lettered label.

€3,000.00

A well-illustrated early work on the development of bones in human foetuses

Kerckring, T.

Opera omnia anatomica; continentia spicilegium anatomicum, osteogeniam foetuum: nec non anthropogeniae ichnographiam. Accuratissimus figuris aeri incisis illustrata. Editio tertia.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Theodorus Haak and Samuel Luchtmans, 1729. Three works in one. 4to (23.2 x 18.3 cm). Frontispiece engraving by A. Blotelingh; title page with woodcut vignette "Tuta sub Aegide Pallas", xx, 303 pp., including titles to the Osteogenia foetuum, in qua quis cuique ossiculo singulis accedat mesibus, quidve decedat, & in eo per varia immutetur tempora, accuratissimè oculis subjicitur (with copper engraved vignette "Structa super lapidem qui ruet ista domus" and blank verso) and Anthropogeniae ichnographia sive conformatio foetus ab ovo usque sad ossificationis principia, in supplementum osteogeniae foetuum (with wood-engraved vignette); 40 engraved plates (several large, folding); Marbled limp paper boards, green label with script title on the spine.

€1,600.00

An 18th-century illustration as rare as a two-bodied guinea pig

Regnault, [N. F.]

Cochon d’Inde à deux corps. [ Les ecarts de la nature, ou recueil des principales monstruosités que la nature produit dans le genre animal planche 2].

€650.00

Van Beneden - in pursuit of succeeding Louis Agassiz

Beneden, P. J. Van

Original handwritten letter, signed.

€1,400.00

A gathering of geckos from one of the 18th-century's most splendid natural history achievements

Seba, A.

American lizards [Plate 108 of Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio Volume I].

€360.00

The rare second, enlarged edition

Bourguet, [L.]

Traité des pétrifications. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée.

€1,800.00

Signed and approved by the author

Sepp, J. C. [S. C. Snellen Van Vollenhoven]

Proof prints from: Nederlandsche insecten, naar hunne aanmerkelijke huishouding, verwonderlijke gedaantewisseling en andere wetenswaardige bijzonderheden, beschreven en afgebeeld door Jan Christiaan Sepp. Tweede Serie. Eerste - Tweede deel.

€2,400.00

The founding of glaciology

Agassiz, L.

Untersuchungen über die Gletscher. [Complete text and atlas].

Solothurn, Jent & Gassmann, 1840-1841; Neuchatel, H. Nicolet, 1840. Text: 8vo (21.5 x 14.2 cm). xii, 326, [i] pp. 19th-century pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title. Greenish endpapers. Subtly marbled edges. Atlas: Oblong folio (29.7 x 44.0 cm). 18 lithographed plates of which 14 with printed overlays (as intended). Contemporary green quarter calf over green boards. Spine with gilt bands. Original pictorial title mounted on front board.

€7,000.00

A great image of a great, extinct bird

Audubon, J. J.

Great Auk. [Original hand-coloured print for The Birds of America].

€14,000.00

Very good copy in the rare, original hand-colouring

Costa, E. Mendes da

Elements of conchology: or, an introduction to the knowledge of shells. With seven plates containing figures of every genus of shells.

London, Benjamin White, 1776. 8vo (21.4 x 13.0 cm). viii, iii-vi, 319, [i] pp.; seven large, folded, engraved plates in fine, contemporary hand-colouring; two large, folded charts. Contemporary full speckled calf. Boards with gilt vignette and monogram; spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt stars, vignettes; Greek key bands at head and foot, and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

€1,450.00

The tides explained, so simply - unlike Newton - that even a king could understand

Halley, E. [Newton, I.]

The true theory of the tides, extracted from that admired treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton, intituled, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; being a discourse presented with that book to the late King James.

€500.00

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