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Verses on birds View picture(s) 1 (ALBERTSZ, H.). Tydtkorting der Jeugd, of May-Gift, van verscheyde Vogelen, aan Alle eerbaare Jonge Lieden. Eerst aan de Jonkmans. 2. Aan de Jonge Dochters. 3. Stigtelyke Zinnebeelden. Waer agter gevoegt zijn Verscheyde aerdige Vermakelijkheden en Gezangen. Amsterdam, David Weege, (ca. 1760). Sm.8vo. Overlapping vellum wrappers. With woodcut of a peacock on title, and 28 woodcuts of birds in text. 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Natural History  Ornithology  Popular Books  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With an account on whaling in Greenland View picture(s) 2 (BOREMAN, Thomas, ed.). A description of above three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents & insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the use of all capacities. Edinburgh, for Bell & Bradfute, and W. Creech, 1797. 8vo. Contemporary calf. 98 engraved plates, of which 97 with 2 or 3 animals and one folding, depicting a whaling ship. (11), 211 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Fishing  Ichthyology  Natural History  Ornithology  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With 50 attractive zoological engravings View picture(s) 3 (SARTORIUS, Johann Chr. and Caspar WUSSIN). Neues Thier-buch, Oder: Merckwürdige Beschreibung Der Thieren und Vögeln, Worinnen Deren unterschiedliche Arth, Grösse, und Kleine ... zu ersehen; Sambt allerhand lehrreichen Historien und Exempeln, ingleichen nebst mancherley guten Artzney-Mitteln, wie auch mit viel schönen Kupfern gezieret. Erster und Anderter Theil. Prague, Caspar Wussin, 1718. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Nineteenth-century green  boards, red title label lettered in gold on spine, gilt ruling on covers. With full-page engraved frontispiece of Adam in the Garden of Eden, playing harp to listening animals, engraved vignette on title-page of Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve and animals, and the snake is offering Eve the apple, 50 half-page engravings of animals in text, 30 of which are mammals and 20 birds. (6), 216 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Butterflies  Czechia  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Natural History  Ornithology  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fine Jeudwine copy of the first edition of one of the most important natural history books of the Renaissance and "one of the earliest books dealing entirely with birds" (Zimmer) View picture(s) 4 BELON, Pierre. L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naifs portaicts retirez du naturel: escrite en sept livres. Paris, Benoist Prevost (colophon: imprimé ... par Benoist Prevost), for Guillaume Cavellat, 1555. 7 parts in one vol. Folio (33 x 22 cm). Contemporary French brown calf over thin pasteboard, covers with three concentric borders each consisting of triple fillets in blind, with a centre piece composed from two stamps with arabesques, tooled in silver (oxidised to black), the inner border with gilt floral corner pieces, the middle border with the same corner pieces tooled in silver (oxidised to black), spine in eight compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by double fillets in blind, the compartments each with a single floral stamp, alternately gilt and tooled in silver (now oxidised); preserved in a modern half black morocco box, lettered and tooled in gold. General title-page and 6 divisional titles (books 2, 4-6 with Cavellet's large woodcut device of a fat hen, books 3 & 7 with Corrozet's device of a hand holding a heart bearing a rose device). Woodcut portrait of Belon 'Anno Aet. 36' on the verso of the title-page, large woodcuts of the skeletons of a man and a bird o pp. 40-41, 158 woodcuts of individual birds, numerous woodcut headpieces and decorated initials. (28), 381 (p. 275/6 blank), (3; the last 2 blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anatomy  Illustrated Books  Natural History  Ornithology  Paris  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) 5 BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de and (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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Rare work on eagles View picture(s) 6 BUREAU, Louis. Association Française pour l'avancement des sciences. L'aigle botté, aquila pennata (cuvier), d'après des observations recueilles dans l'ouest de la France. Séance du 20 août 1875. Nantes, Imp. Vincent Forest et Émile Grimaud, 1875. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco, spine gilt, boards covered with marbled paper. With a double-page coloured lithograph by Arnoul, depicting several kinds of booted eagles. 22, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exotic birds View picture(s) 7 BUS DE GISIGNIES, Bernard Léonard du. Esquisses ornithologiques; descriptions et figures d'oiseaux nouveaux ou peu connus. Bruxelles, A. Vandale, impr. Em. Devroye & Co., (1845-1848), (1851). 5 parts. Folio. Original blue wrappers. With 37 numbered handcoloured lithographs, some heightened with white, after drawings by G. Severyns and J. Dekeghel. (12); (11); (14); (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Plate Books  Lithographs  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The physician of Charles I & II on animals and fossils View picture(s) 8 CHARLETON, GUALTERI (Walter). Exercitationes de differentiis & nominibus animalium. Quibus accedunt mantissa anatomica et quaedam de variis fossilium generibus deque differentiis & nominibus colorum. Editio secunda, duplo fere auctior priori, novisque iconibus ornata. Oxford, Theatro Sheldiano, 1677. 3 parts in one volume. Folio. Contemp. calf, spine gilt  in seven compartements, with red morocco titel label lettred in gold, gilt binding edges, red sprinkled edges. Engraving of the Theatrum Seldonianum  in Oxford on title, 13 half-page  and 2 full-page engraved plates of birds, other animals and anatomical plates in the text and 2 full-page engraved plates of birds (the Alchata and Merops) outside text, woodcut initials. (20), 119, (1) ; 106, (2); (2), 78, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Anatomy  England  Ornithology  Reptiles & Amphibians  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The family Frisch on German birds View picture(s) 9 FRISCH, Johann Leonhard. Vorsstellung der Vögel in Deutschland und beiläufig auch einiger Fremden nach ihrer Eigenschaften beschrieben. Berlin, Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1817 (=1733-1763). 12 parts in 1 vol. Folio. 19th century half black morocco, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, gilt title. Engraved frontispiece with the portraits of Johann Leonhard and Ferdinand Helfreich Frisch being depicted by a cherub and 255 beautifully engraved and very detailed plates of birds (20 x 31 cm), all magnificently coloured by a skillful contemporary hand. Some nice woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. 108 lvs. with descriptions and indexes, including 25 printed titles. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Plate Books  Germany  Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming print series of birds and butterflies View picture(s) 10 FRISIUS, Simon Wynouts. Birds and butterflies. Series of 12 engraved plates. (Amsterdam), Frederick de Wit, ca. 1650-1660. Oblong 4to. Modern boards. 12 lvs. (255x178mm). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Butterflies  Emblem Books  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to preserve and stuff birds View picture(s) 11 HÉNON MOUTON-FONTENILLE, CITOYENS. L'Art d'empailler les Oiseaux, Contenant des principes nouveau et sûrs pour leur conserver leurs formes et leurs attitudes naturelles, avec la méthode de les classer d'après de Linné. Lyon, Chez Bruyset Ainé et Comp., An 10 (1802). Contemp. marbled calf, spine richly gilt, with red title-label. With 5 large folding engraved plates of stuffed birds. (8), XVI, 283 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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British birds before they were shot View picture(s) 12 MILLAIS, J.G. The natural history of British game birds. London, New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. Folio. Original gilt red cloth. With 18 chromolithographed plates, and 17 photogravures  of game birds, beautifully drawn within their natural environment by Archibald Thorburn and J.G. Millais, and with 2 ills. after photographs by T. Tait. XI, 142 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chromolithography  Colour Plate Books  Colour Printing  England  English  Hunting  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on the eggs found in the Netherlands View picture(s) 13 PELT LECHNER, Arnold Anthon van. Oologia Neerlandica. De eieren der in Nederland broedende vogels. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1910-1913. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary half brown morocco, spines gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. With 191 plates containing 667 separate illustrations of eggs of all the different sorts of birds of the Netherlands, of which 617 in colours and 50 in collotype, taken from specimens in the author's collection and pasted in. 117 lvs., 1-99 plates; 92 lvs., 100-191 plates. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Plate Books  Natural History  Netherlands  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Birds, fish and eskimos from the Alaska region depicted View picture(s) 14 ROSSE, Irving C. Cruise of the revenue-steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic ocean in 1881. Medical and anthropological notes. Washington, Governement Printing Office, 1883. 4to. Modern cloth. With 9 full-page chromolithographs with birds, fish and one with tattoed eskimos, and 3 full-page heliotypes. 120 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alaska  Botany  Discovery & Exploration  Eskimo  Fishing  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Facsimile of a 17th century ornithology classic View picture(s) 15 RUDBECK, Olof. Book of birds. A facsimile of the original watercolours (c. 1693 - 1710) of Olof Rudbeck the younger in the Leufsta collection in Uppsala University Library. Stockholm, Björck & Börjesson, 1986. 2 vols. Folio. Blue cloth. Both volumes preserved in a slipcase. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Facsimiles  Ornithology  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated by Redouté and Barraband View picture(s) 16 SAVIGNY, Marie Jules-César Lelorgue de. Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l'ibis. Paris, Allais, 1805. 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt. 6 engraved plates of which 3 are folding, designed by Redouté and Barraband and executed by Bouquet. XIV, 224 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Natural History  Ornithology  Redouté  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The flora and fauna of New Guinee View picture(s) 17 SONNERAT, (P). Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, Dans lequel on trouve la description des Lieux, des Observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l'Histoire Narurelle dans le Regne Animal & le Regne Végétal. Paris, Ruault, 1776. 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides, gilt inner borders, blue marbled edges. With engraved frontispiece of an explorer sitting under a palm tree and assisted by natives drawing a bird form nature, engraved by Therese Martinet after the author, 6 large folding views of the isles Coetivy and Sechelles, of Caldera, the fortress of Sambouangue, a Chinese sailing boat, etc., engraved by Avril, 33 full-page plates of plants and fruits, including one of insects, engraved by Therese Martinet, and 70 beautiful full-page plates of birds, engraved by C. Baquoy, all after drawings by the author, Pierre Sonnerat. XII, (4), 206, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Botany  Ornithology  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to keep canaries View picture(s) 18 WICKEDE, F. van. Kanari-uitspanningen of nieuwe verhandeling van de kanari-teelt, den oorsprong, de voortteling, aenkweking, onderscheiden aert, ziektens en gebreken, middelen ter herstelling van de kanarien, en alles wat een liefhebber nodig heeft, 't zy hy dezelve wil doen broeden of niet. Alles naeuwkeurig na een meer dan vyf en twintigjarige ondervinding beschreven. Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt, 1750. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece by Frankendaal, small engraved vignette with a landscape on title. (8), 6, 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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