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Medical plants from Asia and America View picture(s) 1 ACOSTA, Christoval. Tractado delas drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al bivo. Burgos, Martin de Victoria, 1578. 4to. 19th-century red morocco, spine gilt, triple gilt fillets on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles (CHAMBOLLE-DURU). With the title-page containing the coat of arms of the city of Burgos, an oval portrait of the author, 47 mostly full-page botanical woodcuts (including 2 woodcuts of elephants after drawings by Acosta), all woodcuts. [24], 448, 38, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany [Herbals]  Medicine  Natural History  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to use a microscope View picture(s) 2 ADAMS, George. Essays on the Microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar  habits and oeconomy: an account of the various species, and singular properties, of the hydrae and vorticellae: a description of three hundred and eighty-three animalcula: with a concise catalogue of interesting objects: a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts, when under the microscope. Second edition, with considerable additions and improvements by Frederick Kanmacher, F.L.S. London, Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones, 1798. 2 vols. Large 4to. 20th-century blue half calf. With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates. XVII, (7), 724, 14, 2 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Entomology  Microscopy  Natural History  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most esteemed works in the history of conchology View picture(s) 3 ADANSON, Michel. Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la Relation abrégée d'un Voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53. Paris, Claude J.B. Bauche, 1757. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf. With general title and 2 half-titles, large folding engraved map of Senegal by Ph. Buache after the author, and numerous illustrations of shells on 19 folding engraved plates by Thérèse Reboul after sketches of the author. (8), 190; XCVI, 275, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Conchology  Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Largest assembly of natural history illustrations published before the 18th century View picture(s) 4 ALDROVANDI, Ulisse. Opera. Bologna, 1599-1667. 13 volumes. Folio (35 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With engraved title to each volume, engraved full page portrait of Aldrovandi in 3 volumes and several thousand woodcut illustrations in text, mostly after designs by J. Ligozzi and many full-page. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Botany  Collections  Encyclopædic Works  Fishing  Italy  Natural History  Science  Shells  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive description of present Namibia View picture(s) 5 ALEXANDER, James Edward. An expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa, through the hitherto undescribed countries of the great Namaquas, Boschmans and Hill Damaras. Performed under the auspices of her Majesty's government, and the Royal geographical society. London, Henry Colburn, 1838. 2 vols. 12mo. Later green morocco (ca. 1890), spines richly gilt in compartments with beautiful illustrations of the wild animals of Africa, sides with gilt fillet borders in a Empire design, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Large folding map, 7 etched plates (3 in 1st and 4 in 2nd vol.) depicting scenes of African landscapes, villages, animals and people all by William Heath and 7 wood-engraved illustrations. XXIII, (1), 302; VIII, 306 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Allioni's first publication on Piedmont flora View picture(s) 6 ALLIONI, Carlo. Rariorum pedemontii stirpium. Specimen primum. Turin, Zappata and Avondus, 1755. 4to. Contemporary green painted vellum. With the title-page printed in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates. X, 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Illustrated Books  Italy  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important treatise on South American zoology View picture(s) 7 AZARA, Don Félix de. Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupedes de la province du Paraguay. Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco. LXXX, 364, [2]; 499 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Cartography  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The middle of South America at the end of the 18th century View picture(s) 8 AZARA, Don Félix de. Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale, depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801; contenant la description géographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la rivière de La Plata;... Paris, Dentu, 1809. 4 text volumes: 8vo and one atlas: folio. Modern half black calf, gilt spine. With 3 folding tables and 25 engraved maps, plans, views and plates of animals and birds. LX, 389; [4], 388-562; [4], II, 479; [4], 380 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  America, North  Americana  Cartography  Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The hydra viridis under the miscroscope View picture(s) 9 BAKER, Henry. Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du polype, insecte. Traduit de l'anglois par P. Demours. Paris, Durand, 1744. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt in compartments, with red title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, marbled edges. With woodcut headpieces and 2 folding tables (530 x 85 and 460 x 310 mm). VIII, 359 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Entomology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous British gardener translated into Dutch View picture(s) 10 BASTER, Job. Philip Miller's maandlyksche tuin-oefeningen in moes-  vrugt- en bloemhof, in boomgaard en oranjehuis, in  stook- en broeikas, en in ent- en kweekery. Derde druk. Amsterdam, Erven H. Gartman, Erven J.W. Vermande, J.J. Schmidt, W. Holtrop, 1821. Original wrappers. With frontispiece engraving by C. Brouwer after J. Smies, a large folding engraved plate, 5 (of 6) large folding tabels. VIII, 292 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Gardens  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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South African flora View picture(s) 11 BERGIUS, Peter. Descriptiones plantarum ex capite bonae spei, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus et synonymis auctorum justis. Secundum systema sexuale. Stockholm, L. Salvus, 1767. 8vo. Modern boards. With 5 folding engraved plates. [18], 360, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Natural History  South Africa  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Complete course on hunting View picture(s) 12 BLAZE, Elzéar. Le Chasseur au chien d' arrêt. Contenant les habitudes, les ruses du gibier, l' art de le chercher et de le tirer, le choix des armes, l' éducation des chiens, leurs maladies, etc. Paris, Chez l' un des éditeurs, au dépot de la collection culinaire de Carême, 1846. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, blue sprinkled edges. With illustration of two dogs by A. Guyot on title, full-page plate "Contemplation" signed Pauquet. XXVII, 420 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hunting  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous Dutch ichthyologist on Mauritius View picture(s) 13 BLEEKER, Pieter. Contribution à la faune ichthyologique de l'île Maurice. Amsterdam, Chez C.G. van der Post. 1878. Large 4to. Original wrappers. 3 coloured chromolithographes of fishes by L. Speigler, after the drawings by Bleeker of which 1 folding. (Chromolith. by Emrik & Binger). (1), 23 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Ichthyology  Mauritius  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Epoch-making work on historicalness of nature View picture(s) 14 BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Zweyte durchgehends verbesserte Ausgabe. Göttingen, J.Chr. Dieterich, 1782. 8vo. Later boards covered with blue paper. With 3 folding engraved tables. (8), 561, (27) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  German  Natural History  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Scarce, beautifully illustrated 17th-century herbal View picture(s) 15 BOCCONE, Paulo. Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eiusdem classis facile distinguitur. (Oxford), Sheldonian Theatre, 1674. 4to. Early 19th-century treecalf, gold-tooled spine, black sprinkled edges. With title-engraving depicting the Sheldonian Theatre, 52 fine engraved illustrations showing numerous plants and flowers in text. [8], 96, [7, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Botany  France  Italy  Natural History  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition in the desirable large 4to issue of the Complete Works of one of the fathers of modern biology View picture(s) 16 BONNET, Charles. Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie. Collection complette des oeuvres de Charles Bonnet. Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche, 1779-83. 8 vols. 4to. Uniformly bound in full contemporary calf, richly gilt spines with two green morocco title-labels lettered in gold, gilt border along the edges, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, blue endpapers, g.e. With engraved vignettes on titles, many head- and end-pieces (some by Bradt), one folding and 55 full-page engraved plates, some signed by Billé and R.B... (4), XXXII, (4), 1-114, (8), 115-574, (2); (4), II, 524, (2); (4), IV, VII-XVI, 579, 2; (4), XX, 396; (4), IV, 396; (6), XXIV, 422, 215/6, 425-428; (4), II, VIII, 698; (4), XIV, 509 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Natural History  Philosophy  Switzerland  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Introducing a new science: vegetative physics View picture(s) 17 BONNET, Charles. Recherches sur l'Usage des Feuilles dans les Plantes, et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs a l'histoire de la vegetation. Gottingue, Leide, Elie Luzac, 1754. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with black titel-label. With engraved vignet on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations and figures on 31 folding engraved plates, by J. Wandelaar, J. van der Schley after designs by Soubeyran. VIII, 343, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most extensive manual on the beetles of New Zealand View picture(s) 18 BROUN, Thomas. Manual of the New Zealand coleoptera. Wellington, James Hughes, 1880-1893. 7 parts (all published) in 3 volumes. 8vo. 20th-century blue half cloth with gilt lettered spines, marbled boards, original front wrappers of part 2-4 preserved. [2], XIX, [1 blank], 651, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Entomology  Manuals  Natural History  New Zealand  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare and important work on fossils View picture(s) 19 BUCH, Christian Leopold von. Recueil de planches pétrifications remarquables. Berlin, Académie Royale des Sciences, 1831. Folio. Contemporary green morocco, the boards covered with the original publisher's printed paper wrappers. With 8 lithographed plates. [22] pp. [incl. 7 blank]. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Earth Sciences [Geology]  Lithographs  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare complete and uniformly bound set of the first German edition of a classic zoological work View picture(s) 20 BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, [& Louis J.M. DAUBENTON]. Allgemeine Historie der Natur nach allen ihren besondern Theilen abgehandelt; nebst einer Beschreibung der Naturalienkammer Sr. Majestät des Königes von Frankreich. Mit einer Vorrede Herrn Doctor Albrecht von Haller. Hamburg and Leipsic, G. Chr. Grund and A.H. Holle (parts I-IV), Leipsic, Holle (parts V-VIII)/ J. Heinsius (parts IX-XI), 1750-1782. 11 parts in 22 volumes. 4to. Contemporary uniform speckled half-calf, red and green morocco labels. With 720 numbered engraved plates, of which 717 full-page and 3 half-page, plus 2 unnumbered engraved plates, 2 maps, 2 folding tables, 11 full-page tables in text, 7 engraved vignettes and 1 woodcut vignette in text, engraved vignettes on title-pages. Full description >> Related Subjects: Natural History  Ornithology  Printing and the Mind of Man  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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