Natural History

EGERTON, Philip Grey. A systematic and stratigraphical catalogue of the fossil fish in the cabinets of Lord Cole and Sir Philip Grey Egerton; together with an alphabetical and stratigraphical catalogue of the same species, with references to their published figures and descriptions.
London, Richard & John E. Taylor, 1837. Large 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). Contemporary blue wrappers. [22] pp. Full description

EHRENBERG, Christian Gottfried. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones avium quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem ... Decas secunda
Berlin, Officina Academica, Mittler, 1829. Large folio (48 x 35 cm). With 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Original publisher's printed gray portfolio. Full description

EISENBERG, Friedrich Wilhelm Baron d'. La perfezione e i difetti del cavallo.
Florence, Giuseppe Allegrini for the Stamperia Imperiale, 1753. Folio. With an engraved title-page (with a variant of the title in French), a woodcut vignette on the title-page, the typographical title-page is printed in red and black, 22 full-page engraved plates, showing horses in several positions in 119 figures, and 1 folding engraved plate depicting a horse in full. Contemporary vellum, with the title lettered in gold within a small gold-tooled frame on the spine, blue edges. [4], CXLIII, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ENDLICHER, Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus and Carl Friedrich Philipp von MARTIUS (editors). Flora Brasiliensis sive enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum ... Fasciculus I-XVIII(1-3), XIX-XX, XXIII, XXIX, XXXIV-XXXV, XLIV, and XLVII.
Vienna, Friedrich Beck and Leipzig, Friedrich Fleischer, 1840-1869. 28 fascicles in 20 volumes. Large folio (ca. 48 x 32.5 cm). With one large folding lithographed map of Brazil (hand-coloured in outline), 572 lithographed botanical plates (depicting numerous illustrations of plants and their seeds) and 57 tinted views (printed on 56 leaves) depicting landscapes with native vegetations lithographed by F.W.E. Bollmann, A. Brandmeyer, F. Hohe, M. Kuhn and C.A. Lebschée after designs by J.A. Ackermann, F. Deppe, T. Ender, G. Leuzinger, B. Mary, J.M. Rugendas, J.J. Steinmann, F.J. Stephan and H.A. Weddell.
Loose as issued in the original publishers printed wrappers or sewn with the spines covered in 19th century cloth. Full description

ENKLAAR, Evert Cornelis. Engelsche rundveerassen. Naar het werk van Dr. Youat. Met 32 figuren.
Zwolle, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink, 1852. With 32 charming handcoloured illustrations of British cattle breeds on 9 folding lithographed plates by L.J. Tordoir in Zwolle. Contemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine. [8], 342, [2] pp. Full description

ES, N.J.A.P.H. van. De hippische sport en het korps rijdende artillerie 1793-1908 ... 1e gedeelte [valkerij]. 2e gedeelte [hippische sport].
Arnhem, Coers & Roest and G.J. Thieme, [1913]. 2 volumes. Large 4to (37.5 x 31 cm). With ca. 80 lithographed plates and numerous illustrations and decorations in text, many beautifully coloured by hand and some highlighted with silver and/or gold. Original publisher's gold-blocked blue cloth, with a coloured hooded hawk on front boards, upper edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. [16], 172, [18], [2 blank]; [14], 221, [1 blank], [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[FALCONRY - JAUME III OF MALLORCA]. [Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses].
[Mallorca?], Saturday, 12 June [1330s?]. 4to (ca. 165 × 230). Catalan manuscript on cotton paper. 2 written pp. on a bifolium and a single leaf. Full description

FALLÉN, Carl Fredric and Petrus ELFWENDAHL. Dissertatio de beta pabulari.
Lund, Berlingianis, 1792. 4to. Disbound. 29, [1 blank] pp. Full description

FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pieters Berg bij Maastricht. ... Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. 8vo. With an engraved title-page with a small illustration by D. Vrijdag, a folding engraved map and folding engraved plan of the St. Pietersberg, and numerous illustrations of minerals and fossils on 52 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, [4], 340, [4] pp. Full description

FERRARI, Giovanni Battista and Bernhard ROTTENDORFF (editor). Flora, seu de florum cultura lib. IV.
Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1646. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece with an engraved portrait of the author on its verso and 45 full-page engraved plates, including 31 botanical illustrations, 8 plans for gardens, and 6 allegorical illustrations. Further with an ornamental woodcut vignette on the title-page and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties [48], 522, [12] pp. Full description