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Important treatise on South American zoology View picture(s) 1 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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Cows and bulls of Europe View picture(s) 2 BAUDEMENT, Émile. Le races bovines au concours universel agricole de Paris en 1856. Études zootechniques. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1862 (1864). 2 parts in 1 volume (text and atlas). Oblong folio (ca. 35 x 48 cm). Contemporary green half roan, marbled boards and endpapers. With in total 5 maps with hand-colouring and 87 numbered plates. Text part: [6 = half-title, title, approbation dated 1864], LXXIV, [2] pp; the atlas part with 5 part-titles. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  French  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The discovery of a new genus of dolphins View picture(s) 3 BENEDEN, Eduard van. Mémoire sur un dauphin nouveau de la baie de Rio de Janeiro, désigné sous de nom de Sotalla Brasiliensis. (Brussels), 1873. 4to. Boards covered with marbled paper; spine with red morocco label lettered in gold. With two large folding plates of the dolphin itself (coloured) and its skeleton and various bones, lithographed by G. Severeyns at Brussel, and two illustrations in the text. 44 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ichthyology  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Complete course on hunting View picture(s) 4 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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First edition in the desirable large 4to issue of the Complete Works of one of the fathers of modern biology View picture(s) 5 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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Extremely rare complete and uniformly bound set of the first German edition of a classic zoological work View picture(s) 6 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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An interesting combination: the description of the hippopotamus and the decapitation of snails View picture(s) 7 BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. De natuurlyke historie, van den hippopotamus of het rivierpaard. Vertaald door den Hr. C. van Engelen. Met eenige byvoegzelen uit oude en nieuwe schryvers vermeerderd. Verrykt met eene afbeelding van dit wonderlyk dier; nauwkeurig getekend en in 't koper gebragt naar het opgezette, dat tegenwoordig berust in het Kabinet van Natuurlyke Zeldzaamheden, van zyne doorlugtige hoogheid den Heere Prins van Orange, enz., enz. Neffens eenige waarneemingen gedaan by het opzetten, van 't voorgenoemde rivierpaard. Door den Hr. J.C. Klockner. Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1775. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in 7 compartments, orange title label lettered in gold. Full-page engraved plate of a hippopotamus standing on the banks of the Nile by B. de Bakker after the drawing by A. Andriesen. 24 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Colour Platebooks  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most important scientific expedition to South America in the 19th century. With over 400 hand-coloured plates View picture(s) 8 CASTELNAU, Francis de. Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro à Lima, et de Lima au Para; exécutée par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 1843 à 1847. Paris, P. Bertrand, 1850-1859. 7 parts in 15 volumes. 8vo (6 volumes), 4to (7 volumes), folio (2 volumes). Later gold-tooled red half morocco. With 493 lithographed plates and maps (in black, in two colours or fully coloured, including 401 hand-handcoloured). Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Bolivia  Botany  Brazil  Hydraulics  Meteorology  Natural History  Peru  Science  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Anthrax in the 18th-century View picture(s) 9 CHABERT, Philibert. Traité du charbon ou anthrax dans les animaux. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1782. 8vo. Later half calf,  red gilt title label, marbled endpapers. With woodcut vignette on title. 109 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Veterinary Medicine  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dog manual View picture(s) 10 CLATER, John. Natuur- en huishoudkundige historie der honden, of onderrigt hoe men honden opvoeden, oppassen en gewennen kan. Derde druk vermeerderd met een nieuwe en volledige geneesleer van alle ziekten der honden. Amsterdam, Diederichs, (1842). Small 8vo. Wrappers of Buntpapier. Engraved folding plate depicting 22 dog races and a wolf and a fox. (8), 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The natural history of India View picture(s) 11 DELESSERT, Adolphe. Souvenirs d´un voyage dans l´Inde exécuté de 1834 à 1839. Paris, Bétrune et Plon for Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclerq, 1843. Two parts in one volume. 4to. Modern half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. With 35 lithographed plates: 8 of landscapes and cities in India by V. Dollet in the first part, and 27 plates of mammals, birds and insects in the second part after the designs by J.G. Prêtre, Delahaye and Vaillant, of which 24 are beautifully coloured by hand by the famous 'coloriste' Gérard; one large folding map of Europe, Africa and Asia, indicating in red the traject of Delessert's journey. (6), III, 134; (4), 107 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  India  Travel & Voyages  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Royal Whale of Ostend dissected View picture(s) 12 DUBAR, J. Ostéographie de la baleine échouée a l'est du port d'Ostende, le 4 novembre 1827. Précédée d'une notice sur la découverte et la dissection de ce Cétacée. Brussels, Laurent Frères, 1828. 8vo. Modern half black calf, spine gilt. With 13 folding lithographed plates depicting bones of the whale, all designed by Bossuet and lithographed by Jobard. [2], 61, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Natural History  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a detailed account of whale fishery View picture(s) 13 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. Allgemeine Abhandlung von den Fischereyen, und Geschichte der Fische ... Von Herrn Duhamel du Moceau ... imgleichen von Herrn de la Marre. Leipzig & Königsberg, Johann Jacob Kanter, 1772-1775. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. With 3 title-pages, 6 half-titles of which one engraved half-title, 98 folding plates, 1 folding table, numerous tables in volume 1, a few head-pieces. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Lecture on the different species of the tiger View picture(s) 14 DUVERNOY, Georges Louis. Notice critique sur les espèces de grands chats nommées, par Hermann, Felis chalybeata et Guttata, ... lue à la Société d'histoire naturelle de Strassbourg dans sa séance du 4 mars 1834. Strassbourg, 1835. 4to. Wrappers. 12 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Handcoloured Dutch edition of "Cattle, their Breeds, Management, and Diseases" View picture(s) 15 ENKLAAR, E.C. Engelsche Rundveerassen. Naar het werk van Dr. Youat. Zwolle, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink, 1852. Orig. half calf, spine gilt. With 32 half-page illustrations of British cattle on 9 folding lithographed plates by L.J. Tordoir at Zwolle, all beautifully coloured by hand, and lightly glazed. (8), 342, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Lithographs  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare first edition of a manual on horse training View picture(s) 16 GALIBERTO, Giovanni Battista di. Il cavallo da maneggio. Libro dove si tratta della nobilissima virtu del cavalcare, come il cavagliere deve star' à cavallo ... Diviso in tre parti, nella prima si tratta del conoscer li cavalli;  nella seconda il modo di cavalcare; nella terza il modo di medicar' ogni sorte d'infirmità, con tre tavole. Vienna, Giovan Giacomo Kyrner, 1650. Small folio (300 x 197 mm). Contemporary vellum, three gilt ornamental borders along the edges, corner pieces and coat of arms in the centre of both sides (two different coat of arms, probably of members of the family of Habsburg kings of Hungary and Bohemia: Ferdinand III or IV?), leather ties, g.e. Engraved frontispiece, engraved coat of arms on verso of title (of the dedicatee King Ferdinand IV of Hungary and Bohemia (?), with the motto 'Arte, Virtute et Marte'), 56 engr. plates (30 of which in the text and 26 printed on 14 leaves (one double-page plate indicating the anatomical parts of the horse), depicting horse training scenes, harnesses, bridles, spurs etc., woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. (6), 107, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Cavalry  Horses & Horsemanship  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated by Otto Eerelman View picture(s) 17 GOEVERNEUR, Johan Jacob Antonie. Fabelen en Gedichtjes.- Hoe langer hoe Liever.- Vertelseltjes op Moeders Schoot.- Het Laatste Boekje. Leeuwarden, Hugo Suringar, (1888). 4 vols. Sm.4to. Contemp. half cloth, with chromo-lithographed plate by Otto Eerelman on front covers. With 98 full-page chromo-lithographed plates by Otto Eerelman, 24, 26, 24 and 24 in the four vols. respectively. 72; 64, (2); 66, (6); 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Chromolithography  Education  Fable Books  History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Gottwald's lectures on the anatomy of the beaver View picture(s) 18 GOTTWALDT, Christophorus. Physikalisch-anatomische Bemerkungen über den Biber, aus dem Lateinischen übersezt. Nuremberg, G.N. Raspe, 1782. 4to. Contemporary leather-backed boards. With 7 engraved folding plates. 31 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous and enormously influential Italian work on horsemanship View picture(s) 19 GRISONE, Federico. Ordini di cavalcare, et modi di conoscere le nature de' cavalli, di emendare i lor vitii, & d'ammaestrargli per l'uso della guerra, & giovamento de gli huomini: con varie figure di morsi, secondo le bocche, & il maneggio che si uvol dar loro.- IDEM. Scielta di Natabili avvertimenti, pertinenti a' cavalli, distinta in tre libri. Nel primo si descreve quel che adoperar si deve per far razze eccellenti. Nel secondo spiegasi l'Anantomia de' Cavalli; & narransi le cause d'ogni loro interna indispositione, & le cure à lor necessarie. Nel terzo si ragiona della Chirurgia, & de' suoi effeti. Col ritratto del Cavallo: ove si veggono tutti i suoi morbi, co' medicamenti appicati  à loro. Venice, Andrea Muschio, 1610. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut vignette on title, 2 woodcuts in text, 50 full-page woodcuts showing the different kinds of bites and harnesses in the first part and woodcut vignette on title and a full-page woodcut of a horse, detailing the areas where signs of illness can be seen in the second part. (12), 164; 70, (13) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Horses & Horsemanship  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most beautiful shell books in first edition, complete with the almost always lacking portrait of the author View picture(s) 20 GUALTIERI, Nicolo. Index testarum conchyliorum quae adservantur in museo Nicolai Gualtieri philosophi et medici collegiati Florentini regiae botanices Florentinae academiae socii in Pisano athenaeo medicinae professoris ameriti et methodice distributae exhibentur. Florence, Caietani Albizzini, 1742. Folio. Contemporary full calf with gilt title on red morocco title-label on gilt and decorated spine, decorated gilt edges on sides. With full-page engraved portrait of the author by Antonio Pazzi after Maria Maddalena Gozzi, engraved full-page frontispiece by A. Pazzi after J.D. Campiglia, 110 numbered full-page engraved plates by A. Pazzi or Bernardo Sgrilli after Giuseppe Menabuoni, 18 unnumbered mostly full-page engraved plates in text by B. Sgrilli, D. Miserotti or A. Pazzi after G. Menabuoni, engraved vignette on each of the 17 red & black section titles, 2 engraved initials. XXIV pp. (incl. frontispiece); (126) ff. Full description >> Related Subjects: Conchology  Shells  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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