Natural History

WILHELM, Gottlieb Tobias. Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Die Amphibien.
Vienna, for the publishers ["auf Kosten des Herausgebers"], 1818. 8vo. With engraved title-page mounted on a separate leaf and 40 full-page folded-out plates with 70 figs. engraved by Jacob Schmuzer, alle colored by hand. Contemporary half calf. [18], 328 pp. Full description

WILKES, Benjamin. One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies, representing their changes into the caterpillar, chrysalis, and fly-states, and the plants, flowers, and fruits, whereon they feed. Coloured with great exactness from the subjects themselves. With a natural history of the moths and butterflies, describing the method of managing, preserving, and feeding them.
London, R. N. Rose (printed by G. Verrall, Worthing), 1824. 4to. With 120 engraved plates (mainly 27.5 x 22.5 cm) hand-coloured for the author. Mid-19th-century half gold-tooled dark green morocco. VIII, [22], 63, [5] pp. Full description

WILLDENOW, Carl Ludwig and Friedrich Gottlob HAYNE Abbildung der deutschen Holzarten für Forstmänner und Liebhaber der Botanik, herausgegeben von Friedrich Guimpel ...
Berlin, in der Schüppelschen Buchhandlung, 1815-1820. 2 volumes, the first in 2 parts. 4to. With 216 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled brown half calf. [4],147; [2],149-302 [=154] pp. + 216 plates in volume 2. Full description

WINCKLER, Emil. Geschichte der Botanik.
Frankfurt a.M. Literarische Anstalt (J. Rütten), 1854. 8vo. Later blue wrappers, manuscript title on the spine. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], xvi, 640 pp. Full description

[RÖSSIG, Carl Gottlieb] and Jan Baptist van WINTERSHOVEN. Handboek voor liefhebbers van vreemde plantzoenen en tuiniers, of aanleiding tot de kennisse van alle in- en uitlandsche boomen en heesters, welke bij ons in de opene lucht kunnen gekweekt worden.
Utrecht, Gijsbert Tieme van Paddenburg and son, 1795. 8vo. Small woodcut device on title-page and a small woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary, stiff, sprinkled paper wrappers, letterpress spine label. VIII, 580 pp. Full description

ZEKELI, Lukas Friedrich Die Gastropoden der Gosaugebilde in den nordöstlichen Alpen. [...] Aus den Abhandlungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. 1. Band. 2. Abtheilung, Nr. 2. Mit 24 lithographirten Tafeln.
Wien, K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei bei Wilhelm Braumüller, 1852. Folio. With engraved coat-of-arms of the Austrian Empire flanked by two eagles on the title-page and 24 numbered full-page plates of (snail-) shells with more than 400 figures, lithographed by J. Strohmaijer, Zehner, Heinrich Backer and A. Paschinger. Contemporary half calf. [4], 124 pp. Full description

SACHS, Julius. Geschichte der Botanik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1860.
München, R. Oldenbourg, 1875. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, gold-tooled title on spine. "xii" [= viii], 612 pp. Full description