93 items found

Two zoologists, grabbed by crabs

Agassiz, A.

Original handwritten letter, signed.

€750.00

A fine monograph on the amphibians of Southeast Asia

Bourret, R. [L.]

Les batraciens de l'Indochine.

€1,200.00

Darwin's last work - published posthumously

Darwin, C.

The late Mr. Darwin on instinct.

€1,800.00

Daudin's best-illustrated work - in the very rare quarto 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 bands; compartments with gilt vignettes, and with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.

€9,500.00

De Montfort's ground-breaking work on genera - remarkably illustrated

Denys de Montfort, P.

Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles; offrant leurs figures, leurs arrangements génériques, leurs descriptions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs langues. Ouvrage destiné à faciliter l'étude des coquilles, ainsi que leur disposition dans les cabinets d'histoire naturelle. Coquilles univalves, cloisonées & non cloisonnées.

€1,200.00

Utterly rare and perhaps the most complete copy known

Deyrolle, T.

Illustrations zoologiques.

€17,500.00

One of Escher's rarer works - sealing a prolific friendship

Escher, M. C.

Bookplate Albert Ernst Bosman. [Ex Libris].

€2,000.00

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

A very good copy of a very rare work

Gerstaecker, A.

Die Gliederthier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. Nach dem von Dr. O. Kersten während der v. d. Decken'schen Ost-Afrikanischen Expedition im Jahre 1862 und von C. Cooke auf der Insel Sansibar im Jahre 1864 gesammelten Material.

€2,400.00

A rare scene: the ultimate battle of the second Opium War

[Gobaut, G.]

Combat de Pa-Li-Ki-Ao (21 septembre 1860, à midi).

€850.00

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.