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Two very interesting letters on the salamander and other subjects
to Hermann Schlegel of the Rijksmuseum of Natural History at Leiden

VERSTER VAN WULVERHORST, Abraham Hendrik. Two signed autograph letters to Hermann Schlegel.
Noordwijk, 10 March and 9 October 1834. Folio (23 x 38.5 cm & 26 x 44 cm). 2 autograph letters, each written on a single leaf and folded for posting with the address and remnants of a seal. [2] ll. Full description
€ 1,500
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Exotic animals from the menagerie of William V

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
€ 7,500
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Volume on amphibians from the monumental Augsburg series Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte

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
€ 750
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