Natural History

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Essai sur la métamorphose des plantes.
Geneva, Paris, J. Barbezat, 1829. 8vo. Original publisher's grey printed paper wrappers. XIV, 15-87, [1 blank] pp. Full description

GOULD, Augustus Addison. Report on the invertebrata of Massachusetts, published agreeably to an order of the legislature. Second edition, comprising the mollusca. Edited by W.G. Binney.
Boston, Wright and Potter, state printers, 1870. Large 8vo. With 12 full-page chromolithographed plates, numbered XVI-XXVII, containing figures 214-349, after the drawings by B.F. Nutting, Mary Peart, Fanny van Horn, S. Morse, J. Burckhardt, and Alex. Agassiz. Original publisher's green buckram over thick boards. V, [2], 524 pp. Full description

GRABAU, Amadeus William and Sohtsu G. KING. Shells of Peitaiho.
Beijing, Peking Laboratory of Natural History, 1928. 8vo. With 11 plates with photographic reproductions. Contemporary red cloth. [1], [1 blank], VI, 279, [2], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GRAVENHORST, Johann Ludwig Christian. Ichneumologia Europaea.
Wroclaw, 1829. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved plates and 2 folding tables. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XXXI, [1 blank], 827, [4]; 989; 1097. Full description

GREW, Nehemiah. Anatomie des plantes qui contient une description exacte de leurs parties & de leurs usages, & qui fait voir comment elles se forment, & comment elles croissent. Traduite de l'anglois.
Paris, Lambert Roulland, 1675. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece by François Chauveau, 12 half-page and 2 full-page engraved illustrations of parts of plants printed on 14 leaves outside collation, and several head- and tailpieces, both woodcut and engraved. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [24], 215, [1], [12] pp. Full description

GROENVELT, Joannes (John GREENFIELD or GROENVELD). A treatise of the safe, internal use of cantharides in the practice of physick.
London, Jeffrey Wale, John Isted, 1706. 8vo. 19th-century tanned half sheepskin, tree-marbled paper sides. [40], 363, [3] pp. Full description

GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried. Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût.
Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. With an engraved title-page and 37 numbered engraved plates showing numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs, and tables. 19th-century gold-stamped artificial green leather, marbled paper over boards, blue sprinkled edges. [38] leaves. Full description

HAECKEL, Ernst. Arabisch Korallen.
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1876. Folio (36 x 27.5 cm). With a tinted lithographed title page, 5 lithographed plates (including 3 in colour), and 20 woodcuts in the text. Original gold- and blind-tooled green rib-grained cloth with the title lettered in gold on the front board, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. [4], 48 pp. Full description

HAGENDORN, Ehrenfried. Tractatus physico-medicus de catechu, sive terra Japonica, in vulgus dicta ad normam Academiae Naturae-Curiosorum.
Jena, Johannus Bielk, (printed by Samuel Krebs), 1679. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece depicting a Japanese man holding a shield with the inscription: "E.H.D. Catechu" designed by C. Nisius. Contemporary boards, wholly untrimmed. [22], 82 pp. Full description

HALLER, Albrecht von Nomenclator ex Historia plantarum indigenarum Helvetiae excerptus auctore.
Bern, Societatis Typographicæ [colophon: [D.] Brunner & [Albrecht von] Haller], 1769. 8vo. With title-vignette. 19th-century boards, covered with sprinkled paper. [4], 216 pp. Full description