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The middle of South America at the end of the 18th century View picture(s) 1 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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Extremely rare complete and uniformly bound set of the first German edition of a classic zoological work View picture(s) 2 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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The family Frisch on German birds View picture(s) 3 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 volume. Folio. 19th-century half black morocco, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, gilt title. With an engraved frontispiece (black and white), 255 beautifully engraved and very detailed plates of birds (20 x 31 cm), all magnificently coloured by a skilful contemporary hand. Some nice woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. 108 ll. with descriptions and indexes, including 25 printed titles. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Germany  Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare work on the economical meaning of the birds of Java View picture(s) 4 KONINGSBERGER, Jacob Christiaan. De vogels van Java en hunne oeconomische beteekenis. Batavia, G. Kolff & Co., 1901-1909. 2 parts in 1 vol. Contemporary half morocco with gilt title on spine, raised bands. With in total 112 plates of numerous birds of Java. (6), 108, (60 plates); (8), 88, (52 plates). Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Dutch  History  Indonesia  Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the time when unicorns and dragons were still a common sight View picture(s) 5 MERCKLEIN, Georg Abraham. Neu ausgefertigtes historisch-medicinisches Thier-Buch in vier besonderen Theilen verabfasset; I. Von vierfüssigen Thieren ... II. Von Vögeln ..., III. Von Fischen ..., IV. Von Gewürm ... Sammt eine jeden Thiers Namen, Gestalt ... Eigenschaft. Wobei verschiedene, wieder allerhand Kranckheiten bewehrte Geness-Mittel: angezeiget. Nuremberg, Johan Friedrich Rüdiger, 1714. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Double-page engraved allegorical frontispiece engraved by Johan Lorentz Hönnig (Nurenberg), title printed in red and black on two facing pages, 95 full-page engraved plates each depicting two, three or more animals. [26], 732, [72] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ichthyology  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Natural History  Ornithology  Textile  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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British birds before they were shot View picture(s) 6 MILLAIS, John Guille. 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 Platebooks  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) 7 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 Platebooks  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) 8 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 chromo-lithographs 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) 9 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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The authority on British falconry View picture(s) 10 SALVIN, Francis Henry & William BRODRICK. Falconry in the British isles. London, John van Voorst, 1855. 4to. Original blind-stamped cloth with title and large illustration of a falcon on both sides (front cover gilt). With 24 full-page handcoloured lithographed plates by William Brodrick showing 21 falcons and 5 hawks; plates 22-24 depict equipment used for falconry. VII (1 blank), 147 (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Falconry  Lithographs  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first monograph on the Ibis. With 6 hand-coloured plates after Redouté and Barraband View picture(s) 11 SAVIGNY, Marie Jules-César Lelorgue de. Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l'ibis. Paris, Allais, 1805. 8vo. 19th-century half roan. With 6 handcoloured engraved plates (2 folding) by Bouquet after Redouté and Barraband. XIII, [1], 224 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Egypt  Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated by Redouté and Barraband View picture(s) 12 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) 13 SONNERAT, [Pierre]. 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 & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to keep canaries View picture(s) 14 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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Verses on birds View picture(s) 15 [ALBERTSZ, Hendrick]. 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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Canary with deformity on its beak View picture(s) 16 [SCHULTZ, Ernst Christoph]. Portrait d'un monstrueux Serin de Canarie, il est sorti de la partie inférieure de son bec une longue corne tortillée. Traduit de l'Allemand. Hamburg, J.P.C. Reuss, (ca. 1780). 4to. Original printed boards.  With a finely hand-coloured engraved plate. 17 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Natural History  Ornithology  Veterinary Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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