Natural History

[GOVANTES, Felipe Maria de]. Estudios ó cartilla sobre el cultivo del tabaco Filipino.
Binondo, J. de Loyzaga and company, 1869. 8vo. Later green stiff paper wrappers, red paper spine. 11, [1 blank] 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

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

GUIOT. Catalogo de flores.
[Barcelona, Francisco Suria y Burgada, ca. 1775]. Small 8vo (14 x 9.5 cm). Later(?) decorated-paper wrappers. XX 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. 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

HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Joseph von. Falknerklee, bestehend in drey ungedruckten Werken über die Falknerey. ...
Pest (now part of Budapest), Conrad Adolf Hartleben (verso of title-page: [Vienna], printed by the widow of Anton Strauß), 1840. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece, elaborately decorated Turkish title-page and opening page. Set in fraktur, Arabic and Greek types with incidental roman. With a modern index of ornithological, zoological and botanical names. Later 19th-century half tanned sheepskin, with the publisher's original tinted lithographed wrappers bound in; the modern index is separately bound in modern goatskin, designed to match the main volume. Frontispiece plus [8], XXXII, [2], 115, [2], [1 blank] pp.; 48 ll. Full description

HARDTMAN, Christian Fr. and Engelbert JÖRLIN. Specimen botanico oeconomicum sistens trifolium hybridum.
Lund, Berling, 1780. 4to. With a woodcut tailpiece. Disbound. 14 pp. Full description

HARMONT, Pierre. Le miroir de fauconnerie, ou se verra l'instruction pour choisit, nourrir, & traicter, dresser & faire voler toute sorte d'oyseaux, ...
Rouen, Clément Malassis, 1650. 4to (23 x 16.5 cm). With a woodcut illustration of a hunt using falcons on the title-page (9 x 9.5 cm) and 7 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations of birds of prey on integral leaves. Half red goatskin morocco (1930s?) signed on the free endleaf "F. SAULTIER REL.". 38, [2 blank] pp. Full description