Natural History / Zoology (General incl. Faunas)

SCHLOSSER, Johan Albert. Epistola ad virum expertissimum, peritissimumque Ferdinandum Dejean, … de Lacerta Amboinensi, novae plane hujus speciei, pulcherrimae et hucusque fere incognitae, accuratam descriptionem ac fidelem a peritis artificibus elaboratam delineationem aeri incisam, sistens. - Brief … Behelzende eene naauwkeurige beschrijving der Amboinsche haagdis. Benevens eene zeer wel-gelijkende afbeelding deezer vostrekt-nieuwe, fraaije en tot heden toe genoegzaam onbekende soort, door bekwaame kunstenaars vervaardigd.
Amsterdam, for the author, 1768. With a beautiful large hand-coloured engraved folding plate (28.5 x 49.5 cm) of an Ambonese lizard by Simon Fokke after Gerrit Dadelbeek.
With: (2) BOLTEN, Joachim Frederick. Ad illustrem sytematis naturae authorem Carolum a Linné … epistola de novo quodam zoophytorum genere. - Uitvoerige beschryving en naauwkeurige natuurlyk gekleurde afbeelding van een nieuwelyks ontdekt geheel onbekend plant-dier. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald.
Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1771. With a large folding engraved plate (43 x 27.3 cm), hand-coloured and printed in gold, by Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen after H. Fischer. 2 works in 1 volume. Royal 4to (29 x 24 cm). Contemporary calf. [4], 18 ll.; [2], 11, [1 blank], 8 pp. Full description

SMITH, Edgar. Descriptions of five new shells from the Island of Formosa and the Persian Gulf, and notes upon a few known species.
Including: BOCK, Carl. Descriptions of two new species of shells from China and Japan.
[London], 18 June 1878. With a chromolithographed plate depicting 14 shells. Modern paper wrappers. 727-732 pp. Full description

SOTHEBY'S. The library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle. Part two: Science A-C; part four: Science D-H; part five: Science I-O; Part six: Science P-Z plus addenda.
With: The library of the Earls of Macclesfield … Part one: Natural history.
London, Sotheby's, 2004-2005. 5 volumes. 4to (27.5 21.5 cm). Original decorated blue cloth. Full description

SPARRMAN, Andrea (Anders). Iter in Chinam. Dissertation praeses Car. v. Linné.
Uppsala, Joh. Edman, [1768]. 4to. With a woodcut tailpiece. Sewn as issued. 16 pp. Full description

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and the description of its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guiana ...
London, printed by J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 29 x 22.5 cm). With an engraved frontispiece, 2 identical engraved title pages with a vignette, and 80 engraved plates (including 3 folding maps and a large folding view of Paramaribo), all beautifully coloured by hand, and occasionally heightened with gold. Uniform contemporary gold-tooled calf, re-backed with a later gold-tooled spine with two red title labels lettered in gold. XVIII, 407, [9]; IV, 404, [7] pp. Full description

SUNDEVALL, Carl Jacob and Carl Fredric FALLÉN. Specimen academicum genera araneidum Sveciæ exhibens.
Lund, Berling, 1823. 4to. Disbound. 22 pp. Full description

THUNBERG, Carl Peter. Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, fo¨rra¨ttad a°ren 1770-1779.
Uppsala, tryckt hos directeur. Joh. Edman, 1788-1793. 4 volumes. 8vo. With 11 engraved plates (1 folding, 9 full page, and 1 in the text). Contemporary or slightly later gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a beige morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a volume number lettered in gold underneath, sprinkled paper sides, blue sprinkled edges. [26], 389, [1]; [32], 384; [14], "414" [= 402]; [36], "341" [= 339], [1 blank] pp. Full description

THUNBERG, Carl Peter and Jonas Niclas AHL. Specimen ichthyologicum de Muraena et Ophichtho, ... in audit. Horti Botanici, d. 27 Jun. 1789. ...
Uppsala, Johan Edman, [1789]. 4to. With 2 engraved plates by Ahl, showing 4 different species of Muraena. Disbound. 14 pp. Full description

THUNBERG, Carl Peter. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779.
London, printer for F. and C. Rivington, and sold by W. Richardson, 1795. 4 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, and 10 engraved plates (1 folding, 9 full page). Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a volume number lettered in gold underneath, gold-tooled board edges, blue sprinkled edges. [2], xii, 317, [3 blank], [18]; xiv, [2], 316, [15], [1 blank]; xiii, [3], 285, [1 blank], xv, [1 blank], 31, [1 blank]; xix, [1 blank], [4], 293, [1], [17], [1 blank] 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