Natural History / Mammals

SOLLEYSEL, Jacques de. Le parfait mareschal, qui enseigne à connoitre la beauté, la bonté, & les défauts des cheveaux. le signes & les causes des maladies: les moyens de les prévenir, leur guerison, & le bon ou mauvais usage de la purgation & de la saignée.
The Hague, Henry van Bulderen, 1691. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author, an engraved frontispiece, the title page printed in red and black, one folding engraved plate in the first part, one engraved plate, and 29 woodcut illustrations in text in the second part. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. [8], 359, [7]; 250, [8] pp. Full description

THUNBERG, Carl Peter (praeses) and Petruus Magnus ACKSELL. Fauna Chinensis. Quam venis. exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. Praeside C.P. Thunberg … P.P. Petrus Magnus Acksell a Sacris Med. Theolog. Gestricio Helsingus. In Audit. Botanico die XII Junii MDCCCXXIII.
Uppsala, Palmblad et C, [1823]. 4to. Unbound. [4], 8 pp. Full description

VOSMAER, Arnout. [Natuurkundige beschryving eener uitmuntende verzameling van zeldsaame gedierten, bestaande in Oost- en Westindische viervoetige dieren, vogelen en slangen, weleer leevend voorhanden geweest zynde, buiten Den Haag, op het Kleine Loo van Z.D.H. den prins van Oranje-Nassau].
Amsterdam, P. Meijer (parts 1- 14 and 29-31) and heirs of P. Meijer and G. Warnars (parts 15-20), 1766-1787. 31 parts in 1 volume. 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). With 33 hand-coloured engraved plates and 1 uncoloured folding engraved plate. 19th-century black half morocco, gold-tooled spine. 15; 8; 8; 12; 22; 8; 9; 6; 7; 7; 7; 10; 8; 20; 12; 6; 6; 6; 10; 10; 6; 6; 8; 8; 23; 15; 12; 14; 14; 44; 12 pp. Full description

[WHALING - WATERCOLOUR]. [A Dutch whaling scene].
[ca. 1801?]. Illustration 29 x 39 cm; frame 44 x 53 cm. Pen, ink and watercolour whaling scene with a coloured border, on laid paper, mounted on paperboard. Framed. Full description