110 items found

Java's mysterious nature, never depicted more convincingly

Salm, A.

Java. Naar schilderijen en teekeningen van A. Salm, lid der Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam. Op steen gebracht door J. C. Greive, Jr.

Amsterdam, Frans Buffa & Zonen, [1865]-1872. Folio (64.0 x 48.0 cm). Title page in red and black. 24 fine chromolithographed plates, finished by hand and heightened with gom arabic, mounted on larger sheets, and each with an original, small, printed caption mounted. Original green grained cloth portfolio with gilt title on the front board. A second, smaller, duplicating title-index leaf on thick paper, also printed in red and black (43.0 x 28.3 cm) loosely inserted.

€28,500.00

An outstanding provenance for an outstanding work: The neighbour, the cousin, the future husband

Bonaparte, C. N.

Vues pittoresques de l'Amerique dessinés par la Comtesse Charlotte de Survilliers 1824. [Picturesque American Scenes by Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte].

[Brussels, Stapleaux et Jobard, 1824]. Oblong folio (23.8 x 30.3 cm). Lithographed pictorial title page, printed by Jobard after a drawing by Michel Stapleaux; 12 original - early - lithographs with script captions and signed Charlotte. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title.

€25,000.00

"One of the great classics of herpetology" (Adler) with the very rare supplement

Russell, P.

An account of Indian serpents collected in the coast of Coromandel; containing descriptions and drawings of each species; together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons. [WITH] A continuation of an account of Indian serpents containing descriptions and figures from specimens and drawings transmitted from various parts of India. [Complete].

London, 1796-1801. Elephant folio (51.5 x 35.3 cm) (Board size 52.5 x 37.0 cm). Volume I (1796): 91 pp.; Volume II (1801): v, 45, [iv] pp.; Appendix I-III [1804-1809]: pp. 47-53, [iv]; and 91 [46; 42; 3] finely engraved and mostly hand-coloured plates on 87 sheets (first plate 31 and 46, and three Appendix plates intentionally uncoloured). Contemporary blind-tooled half calf over marbled boards. Spine with rich gilt bands and morocco label with gilt title.

€18,500.00

Utterly rare and perhaps the most complete copy known

Deyrolle, T.

Illustrations zoologiques.

€17,500.00

The complete work, with nearly each specimen drawn after living or recently dead animals

Smith, A.

Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. Mammalia. Aves. Reptilia. Pisces. Invertebratae. [Complete].

London, Smith, Elder and Co., [1838]-1849. Five volumes in five. Large 4to (31.6 x 26.6 cm). Reptilia: (ii [index], 28 [appendix] pp., errata leaf; 78 plates (75 plates hand-coloured, plates 30, 42, and 48 plain as intended); Mammalia: vii pp. (including index); 52 plates (numbered I-XVII, XIX-XXXVI, XXXVIII-LIII, VIIIbis); 48 hand-coloured, four (8bis, 15, 21, 25, plain, as intended); plates 18 and 37 not published - see Mammalia index list); Pisces: [i] p. (index); 31 hand-coloured plates; Aves: [ii] pp.; 114 hand-coloured plates; Invertebratae: [ii], 75 pp.; four hand-coloured plates, making a total of 279 plates (272 hand-coloured) most by and after George H. Ford, and all with descriptive text on unnumbered leaves. Uniform publisher's green blind-stamped cloth with floral pattern on the boards and gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers.

€16,500.00

A wonderful, extremely well-preserved copy

Delaunay, S.

27 tableaux vivants.

€12,000.00

A superb set with the often-missing portrait of Ruysch

Ruysch, F.

Alle de ontleed- genees- en heelkundige werken van Fredrik Ruysch. In zijn ed. leven vermaard geneesheer en hoog-leeraar in d'ontleed- en kruydkunde tot Amsterdam; als mede lid der Keyserlyke, Londensche en Parysse genootschappen. Met veele koperen plaaten. Eerste - Tweede - Derde deel. [Complete].

Amsterdam, Janssoons van Waesberge, 1739-1744. Three volumes in three. 4to (26.2 x 21.7 cm). Engraved frontispiece and engraved portrait of Ruysch. Three half-titles, and three titles in red and black, additional title in black; 1575 pp. (104; 1280, [183], 554[bis], 547-552[bis]); 133 engraved plates (Neerd 8-139, 93*), of which 18 large to very large, folding, and eight (groups of) numbered text illustrations, numbered I-IX, 3-4, but with III-V in one figure. Contemporary uniform full calf with blind-tooled borders. Spines with five gilt-bordered raised bands, and red morocco labels with gilt title. Speckled edges.

€10,000.00

The most breathtaking views of Java and its volcanos in a fabulous copy

Junghuhn, F.

Java-Album: Landschafts-Ansichten von Java, nach der Natur aufgenommen von Franz Junghuhn.

Leipzig, Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1856. Oblong folio (38.0 x 53.8 cm). Letterpress title, and two-page description of the plates; eleven fine chromolithographed plates, some finished by hand. Loose as issued in original pictorial portfolio, front cover with mounted lithographed illustration and an embossed glazed gilt decoration.

€9,500.00

Daudin's best-illustrated work - in the very rare 4to version

Daudin, F. [M.]

Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds.

Paris, Levrault, An XI (1802). 4to (28.7 x 22.2 cm). 108 pp.; 38 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Early 19th-century polished, gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented vands; compartments with gilt vignettes, and with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.

€9,500.00

The true first edition of the beginning of bacteriology as a science

Pasteur, L.

Mémoire sur la fermentation appelée lactique.

€8,800.00

A very rare, hand-coloured copy

Feuillée, L. [É.] (Huth, G. L., ed.)

Des Pater Ludwig Feuillee, Ordensmönchen des Heil. Francisci von Paula, Königlichen Mathematici und Botanisten, wie auch Correspondentens der Königl. Academie der Wissenschaften, Beschreibung zur Arzeney dienlicher Pflanzen, welche in den Reichen des mittägigen America, in Peru und Chily vorzüglich im Gebrauch sind, in dem Land selbst auf königl. Befehl, in den Jahren von 1709. 1710. und 1711. Aufgesezet, nebst verschiedenen andern aus eben desselben Tageregister physischer Beobachtungen gesammelten und zur natürlichen Historie gehörigen Anmerkungen. Aus dem französischen ins Deutsche übersezet.

Nürnberg, Johann Michael Seeligmann, 1756-1758. Two volumes in two. 4to (26.1 x 22.2 cm). Title pages, 368 pp. (I: [vi], 3-136, [vi]; II: [ii], 208, [xii]; 102 [ 50; 52 (two unnumbered, opposite pp. 126, 148] engraved and finely hand-coloured plates. Original hand-coloured woodcut head piece. Uniform full mottled calf. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and borders, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt dentelles.

€8,500.00

The founding of Thanatophidia, signed by the author

Fayrer, J.

The Thanatophidia of India. Being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula with an account of the influence of their poison on life and a series of experiments. second edition, revised and enlarged.

London, J. and A. Churchill, 1874. Folio (43.7 x 31.8 cm). [Board size 44.5 x 33.0 cm]. xii, 178 pp.; 31 lithographed plates of which 28 in fine chromolithography, of which two double-sized. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with six raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt and with red and blue morocco labels with gilt title. Edges speckled red.

€7,500.00

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