Natural History

GASSIES, Jean-Baptiste. Tableau méthodique et descriptif des Mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agenais.
Paris, J.B. Baillière; Agen, J.B. Barrière, 1849. With 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates.
With: (2) GASSIES, Jean-Baptiste. Malacologie terrestre et d'eau douce de la région intra-littorale de l'Aquitaine.
Paris, J.B. Baillère and F. Savy, 1867. With one lithographed plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. [4], 209, [4], [1 blank]; 30, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GENESY, Amedeo. Trattato razionale di frutticoltura. ... Nuova edizione.
With: (2) GENESY, Amedeo. La vite piramidale. … Seconda edizione.
Torino, Francesco Casanova (back of title-page: printed by Vincenzo Bona), 1891. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut frontispiece showing the Fresia Grossa variety of grape vine and a fruit tree, each volume with several woodcut illustrations in the text and with a publisher's catalogue bound at the end the Trattato. Both in original publisher's printed paper wrappers. [2], X, 200; 64 pp. Full description

GENOOTSCHAP VOOR LANDBOUW EN KRUIDKUNDE TE UTRECHT. Lijst der planten voor de jaarlijksche waarnemingen.
Including: Lijst der planten voor de dagelijksche waarnemingen der bloemen.
Utrecht, W.F. Schultze, 19th century [after 1841]. Large 4to (28.5 x 23.5 cm). Contemporary blue paper wrappers, stitched through 3 holes. [12] pp. Full description

GERMAIN, Louis. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de Syrie.
Paris, Baillière and son (colophon: Rouen, Lecerf), 1921-1922. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 118 figures on 23 plates and some smaller illustrations in text. Later blue cloth. 523, [1]; 242, [2] pp. Full description

GERMAIN, Louis. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles d'Asie-Mineure.
Paris, Paul Lechevalier (colophon: Rouen, Lecerf), 1936. 8vo. With 17 plates with photographic reproductions and many illustrations in text. Modern brown half morocco, gold-tooled spine; with the original publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in. 492 pp. Full description

GERMAR, Ernst Friedrich (editor). Zeitschrift für die Entomologie. Erster [-Fünfter] Band.
Leipzig, Friedrick Fleischer, 1839-1844. 10 parts in 5 volumes, bound as 6. 8vo. With 15 numbered plates, including 5 hand-coloured engravings. Including 2 publisher's advertisements "Ankündigung die Forsetzung von Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturgeschichte betreffend" (2 pp.) and "Nachricht für Freunde der Enteimologie" (4 ll.). Modern green boards with original wrappers bound in. VII, [1], 196; [4], 193-400, [3], [1 blank]; [4], 240; [6], 241-450; [8], 408; [6], 434, [6]; VI, 482 pp. Full description

GIBSON, William. A new treatise on the diseases of horses: wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his siseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed … with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies.
London, for A. Millar, 1751. Large 4to. With an engraved frontispiece of a perfect stallion and 31 numbered engraved plates of skulls, bones, legs, intestines, bloodstreams, ulcers, swellings and other diseases. 20th-century half calf. [12], 464, [12] pp. Full description

GIORGI, Federico. Libro ... del modo di conoscere i buoni falconi, astori, e sparavieri, di farli, di governarli, et di medicarli, come nella tavola si puo vedere.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. 8vo. With Giorgi's woodcut phoenix printer's device on title-page and a stunning larger one at the end. Blue stiff paper wrappers (ca. 1800). 53, [2], [1 blank] ll. Full description

GIOVIO, Paolo. De Romanis piscibus libellus, doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens aeditus.
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1528. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a full-page woodcut decorated illustration, incorporating Grapheus' device on the verso of the last leaf. Modern vellum. [64] ll. Full description

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Prosperitatis Germaniae. Pars prima [-Pars secunda]. In quâ de vini, frumenti, & ligni concentration, eorumque utiliore, quam hactenus, usu agitur. …
Amsterdam, Johannes Jansonnius, 1656-1657. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [10], 118; [4], 72 pp. Full description