Natural History / Botany (General)

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

FRIES, Elias Magnus and others. Öfver Vexternes Namn.
Uppsala, Leffler and Sebell, 1842. 4 parts. 8vo. Disbound. [2], 16; [2], 17-32; [2], 33-48; [2], 49-64 pp. Full description

FRYER (FREYER), John. Negenjaarige reyse door Oostindien en Persien, ... Begonnen met den jaare 1672 en geeyndigt met den jaare 1681.
The Hague, Abraham de Hondt, Jacobus van Ellinkhuysen and Meyndert Uytwerf, 1700. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 3 folding engraved maps, 7 folding engraved views and other plates, and several woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. [8], 566, [26] pp. Full description

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

HASSELQUIST, Friedrich and Carl LINNAEUS. Reise nach Palästina in den Jahren von 1749 bis 1752. auf Befehl ihro Majestät der Königinn von Schweden herausgegeben vond Carl Linnäus aus em Schwedischen.
Rostock, Johann Christian Koppe, 1762 (colophon: Leipzig, Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1761). 8vo. With woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary half vellum. [18], 606 pp. Full description

HENCKEL (HENKEL), Johann Friedrich. Flora saturnizans, die Verwandtschafft des Pflanzen mit dem Mineral-Reich, nach der Natural-Historie und Chymie aus vielen Anmerckungen und Proben ...
Leipzig, Johann Christian Martini, 1722. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece showing a mining operation, and 9 engraved plates. 18th-century vellum. [10], 671, [17] pp. Full description

HILL, John. A general natural history: or, new and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world; with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics: ...
London, Printed for Thomas Osborne, 1748-1752. 3 volumes. Folio. With 56 hand-coloured plates (16 on plants, 28 on animals and 12 on fossils, some signed by B. Cole) and in volume 3 also 1 folding table.Contemporary green morocco, richly gold-tooled spines with red morocco labels, gold-tooled frames on the boards, marbled endpapers. Volumes misnumbered on the spines (vols. 1-3 labeled 3, 1 and 2 respectively). [12], 1-228, 333-592, *457-*592, 593-654, [6]; XXVI, 642; [7], [1 blank]; [8], 584, [4]; pp. Full description

INGEN-HOUSZ, Jan. Expériences sur les végétaux, spécialement sur la propriété qu'ils possèdent à un haut degré, soit d'améliorer l'air quand ils sont au soleil, soit de le corrompre la nuit, ou lorsqu'ils sont à l'ombre; auxquelles on a joint une méthode nouvelle de juger du degré de sa salubrité de l'atmosphère ... Traduit de l'anglois, par l'auteur.
Paris, P.F. Didot le jeune, 1780. 8vo. With a folded engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. LXVIII, 333, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

KEVENTER, Matthias and Gustavus HARMENS. De transpiratione plantarum.
Lund, Carl Gustav Berling, 1756. 4to With a woodcut headpiece and initial. Disbound. [2], 22 pp Full description

KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Sleutel der Latynsche konst-woorden, welke in de botanye, pharmacye en medicyne 't meest gebruikt worden. Waar in namentlyk de gemelde konst-woorden uit t Latyn in t Nederduitsch vertaalt ... opgeheldert en verklaart worden.
Leeuwarden, Arent van Leeuwarden, 1758. 8vo. With woodcut vignette (crown) on title-page and some woodcut initials. Half red sheepskin, sprinkled paper sides, manuscript spine label. [2 blank], [10], 300 pp. Full description