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[ ] ACERBI, J. Voyage au Cap-Nord, par la Suède, la Finlande et la Laponie.
Traduction d’après l’original Anglais ... par J. Lavallée. Paris, Levrault,
Schoell et Comp., 80 . text-volumes & atlas. 8vo ( 9 x 20mm). & to
(287 x 2 mm). pp. xliv, 20; pp. xiv, 29; pp. vi, 82; pp. 8, with engraved
portrait of the author, 27 engraved plates and large folded engraved map.
Contemporary mottled calf, spines with gilt ornaments, red and green gilt
lettered labels (atlas half calf). € . 00
French edition of this interesting work describing the ethnology and natural history of
the north of Europe. Special attention is paid to the Lapps. Acerbi ( 77 - 8 6) was an
Italian explorer of a very wealthy family. 2 plates show birds, plates insects and 2 plates
musical notation. In the present book he published some Finnish folk melodies which
he used in a Clarinet Concerto. Two text leaves of the atlas with brown spot at the upper
margin.
Schiötz. Itineraria Norvegica, p. ; Horn & Schenkling .
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[2] ARTEDI, P. Ichthyologia sive opera omnia de Piscibus... edidit Carolus
Linnaeus. Lugduni Batavorum, apud Conradum Wishoff, 7 8. parts
(bound in one). 8vo ( 90 x 20 mm). pp. (2 ), 66, (2); ( ), 02 (wrongly
numbered as 92); (8), 8 , ( ): ( ), 8, (22); (2), 2, (2). Contemporary
vellum, gilt lettered spine. € 2. 00
First edition of the foundation of modern Ichthyology. 'This taxonomically most important
work assured Artedi the honor of being the father of the science of ichthyology'
(DSB). Petrus Artedi was a Swedish physician and died at the early age of 0. He was
entrusted by Seba to write the third part of his 'Thesaurus' dealing with fishes and one
evening after meeting with Seba and some friends he lost his way in the darkness and
was drowned in one of the Amsterdam canals. He was a close friend of Linnaeus who
published his work after his death, without altering anything. In the second part Artedi
presents his famous system of classification which was adopted by Linnaeus in his
'Systema Naturae'. The book was issued in parts. I. Bibliotheca Ichthyologia, a critical
bibliography of books on fishes. II. Philosophia Ichthyologia. III. Genera Piscium. IV.
Species piscium. V. Synonima piscium.
Provenance: Amorial bookplate, without name; library stamps of 'Museum Britanicum',
with 2 deaccession stamps dated 8 8; E. Bibl. Gehler; C. Wallis 897; Grent Gration-Maxfield
9 0.
Wood p. 20 ; Soulsby, Linnaeus 6 .
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[ ] BARRANDE, J. Système Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première
partie: RECHERCHES PALEONTOLOGIQUES (all published!).
Prague & Paris, chez l'auteur & éditeur, 8 2- 9 . 8 sections (bound in
0 volumes). to. pp. 822 , with 606 lithographed plates. Original cloth,
covers blind stamped, spines with gilt lettering ( volumes re-bound to
match, one volume in wrappers). € 8. 00
Joachim Barrande ( 799- 88 ) "collected, described, and drew the fossils of the central
Bohemian basin - this area has been called the Barrandian ever since. The strata of this
basin are Proterozoic - early Paleozoic in age. The results formed the outstanding monograph
'Système Silurien'. Because this work is so comprehensive, its drawings so accurate,
and its descriptions so fine, it is still used as a reference book by paleontologists (D.B.S. I,
pp. 68/ 69). Zittel (pp. / 6) called this handbook "a work which stands almost unrivalled
in palaeontological literature". It contains descriptions and figures of 6 species,
with a few exceptions all coming from the Lower Palaeozoic marine beds of Bohemia. The
most sumptuously produced work ever produced in paleontology. Barrande was a pupil
of Cuvier, Orbigny and Brogniart.
Contents as follows, volume I: Trilobites - II: Céphalopodes - III: Ptéropodes - IV:
Gastéropodes - V: Brachiopodes - VI: Acéphales - VII: Echinodermes: Cystidées - VIII:
Bryozoaires, Hydrozoaires, Anthozoaires, Alcyonaires. A complete set of this monumental
classic on the paleontology of Bohemia, which was privately printed in a very small
limited edition of 2 0 copies only. The first volume of the Tilobites pp. 9 , with plates
in xerox-copies.
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[ ] BATTARRA, (G.A.). Fungorum Agri Ariminensis historia ... quam
sub auspiciis plurimum reverendi DD. Francisci Raynaldi Gargani... in
hac secunda editione nec aucta nec diminuta publici juris fecit. Faventiae,
Typis Martinianis, 7 9. to (280 x 200mm). pp. viii, 80, with engraved
vignette on title and 0 engraved plates. Later half calf, spine with gilt lines
and lettering, marbled sides. € .000
Second edition of this rare and beautifully produced work describing a great variety of
fungi growing around Rimini. Antonio Giovanni Battarra ( 7 - 789) was an Italian clergyman
(of Rimini), physician and mycologist. The interesting engraved vignette on the
title has the following motto (in Greek) 'We study fungi, we do not eat them'. Ainsworth
considers the engravings 'excellent'. In "Zur Geschichte der Mykologie, das XVIII. Jahrhundert"
by Lütjeharms pp. to 7 a large comment is given of this publication.
Battarra attempted to prove that mushrooms were really plants growing from spores and
not just putrefying matter as was generally believed in those days. C.H. Persoon knew of
the work of Battarra and even named a new genus of Fungi, Battarra, after him. The 200
figures on the 0 plates are finely engraved and give a very good impression of the mushrooms
depicted. The first edition was published in 7 and the present edition has only
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Battarra
some minor alterations. Owner's stamp (Henry Bonnet) on lower margin of title.
Stafleu & Cowan 9; Nissen BBI, 9 ; See also G. Lazzari, Storia della Micologia Italiana
pp. - .
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[ ] BELON, P. La nature & diversité des poissons. Avec leurs pourtraicts,
representez au plus pres du naturel. Paris, Charles Estienne, . Oblong-
8vo ( 0 x 6 mm). (20) leaves, pp. 8, with 92 woodcuts in the text.
Contemporary limp vellum, gilt edges. € . 00
A very fine copy of the first French edition. "Belon is looked upon as the founder of
modern ichthyology as well as an authority on ornithology. The illustrations of fishes
and some other aquatic animals in this volume are of exceptional quality for the sixteenth
century, although some of them are fanciful." (Wood p. 2 0). The present work
is a translation of his "De Aquatilibus ..." printed in , it describes about 0 species
of fishes of which 9 marine. 'Belon's treatise contains figures of several molluscs which
are among the earliest to be published (the very first being of a crawling snail reproduced
in Conrad von Megenberg's 'Puoch der Natur' published in 7 " ('Delight for the eyes
and the mind' by Peter Dance). Belon was a student of Valerius Cordus and became one
of the first explorer-naturalists of the near East. In Rome he met the zoologists Rondelet
and Salviani, both eminent disciples of ichthyology after Aristotle, both of whom published
important illustrated works on fishes. Apart from fishes the above work depicts a
whale, dolphin, beaver, otter, crocodiles, tortoise, hippopotamus, as well as the famous
sea-monk, which supposedly washed on a beach in . "Belon enriched the biological
sciences by new observations and contributed greatly to the progress of the natural history
in the sixteenth century ... (his) observations were generally correct. He looked at
the world as an analyst devoted to detail. He succeeded in winning the confidence of the
great and was famous during his lifetime" (DSB).
Nissen ZBI, 0 .
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[6] BERTOLONI, A. Florula Guatimalensis sistens Plantas nonnullas
in Guatimala sponte nascentes. Bononiae, ex Typographaeo Emygdii ab
Ulmp, 8 0. to ( 0 x 2 0 mm). pp. , ( ), with 2 ( folding) handcoloured
lithographed plates by Bettini. Contemporary blind wrappers, with
dedication inscription on front wrapper. € .900
The first edition of the first flora of Guatamala and a presentation copy from the author
to Giovanni Casaretto, Italian botanist ( 8 2- 879). Antonio Bertolini ( 77 - 869) was a
Italian botanist and professor of botany at Bologna and wrote predominantly on Italian
botany. Joaquin Velasco, a Mexican physician, collected the plants in Guatamala. He
came to Italy in 8 6, as part of the Mexican papal delegation, and brought with him numerous
dried plants and seeds which he presented to Bertolini. Most of them were new or
rare species, and their description and classification forms the present work. Several were
successfully grown in the Bologna Botanical Gardens.
This work is an offprint from the 'Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientarum Instituto
Boniensis', with new numbering of the pages and the plates finely handcoloured.
Nissen BBI, 7; Satfleu & Cowan 9 .
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[7] BIANCONI, G.G. Specimina Zoologica Mosambicana. Fasciculus
XVIII & XIX et XX. [Bologna 867- 870]. to (29 x 2 mm). pp. - 6 ,
with 6 lithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth. € 7 0

A very rare work published in 20 parts on the zoology of Mozambique published in the
'Mem. Accad. Sci. Istit. Bologna'. We offer the last parts. Part 8 deals with birds and
has 2 plates and is the last part of 2 (part 6 deals likewise with birds); parts 9 and 20 deal
among other things with shells and crustacea. Two plates show shells and 2 crustacea. The
shell section is the concluding part of . Stamp on title-page. The author is not mentioned
on the title-pages.
B.M. (Nat. Hist. I) p. 9.
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[8] BOCK, H. De Stirpium, maxime earum, quae in Germania nostra
nascuntur... His accesserunt a fronte praefationes duae: altera D. Conradi
Gesneri... rei herbariae scriptorum, qui in hunc usq; diem scripserunt, catalogum
complectens: altera ipsius Authoris, herbariae cognitiones laudes...
Adiectus est Benedicti Textoris Segusiani de stirpium differentiis... Strassburg,
Wendel Rihel, 2. 2 parts bound in 2 volumes. to (200 x 0mm).
pp. (lxviii), 200, (6 ), with handcoloured woodcut portrait of Bock and
68 fine handcoloured woodcuts in the text. Recent blindstamped pigskin
over bevelled wooden boards, with clasps. € .000
A fine contemporary handcoloured copy of the first Latin edition, translated by David
Kyber, with 8 new woodcuts which appear for the first time, and the first edition to
include the Gesner and Tessier material. The first illustrated German edition of Bock,
was published in 6, and contained 68 woodcuts (enlarged to 0 in the edition)
by David Kandel. Kandel for the most part based his woodcuts on those of Fuchs and
Brunfels, but some one hundred are entirely original, and include several with charming
genre scenes accompanying the plant depictions, many with his initials.
Bock was one of the 'Fathers of German Botany', the triumvirate that included Brunfels
and Fuchs. As a botanist Bock was their decided superior. He was not shackled to the
classical authority of Dioscorides and Pliny, and therefore could recognise new plants
without his perception being clouded by supposed classical precedents. He pioneered
descriptive botany, giving a detailed developmental history of each plant in its stages of
growth, and was the first to discuss plant communities, thus foreshadowing the science
of ecology.
Gesner's contribution to this edition comprises a preface to the work and a 0-page bibliography
of botanical writers, constituting the first botanical bibliography. Tessier provided
a commentary on Dioscorides.
A few leaves with old repairs, including inner margin of title. Some running titles and
shoulder notes shaved. Apart from a very light marginal staining on the first leaves of the
first volume, a crisp and fine copy in attractive contemporary colouring.
Durling 97; Hunt 66; Nissen BBI, 8 ; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 76.
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[9] BONAPARTE, C.L. Iconografia della Fauna Italica per le quattro classi
degli Animali Vertebrati. Tomo I. MAMMIFERI E UCCELLI. Roma,
dalla tipografia Salviucci, 8 2- 8 . Folio ( 7 x 26 mm). With 7 (of 8)
fine hand-coloured lithographed plates and descriptive text. Contemporary
green half calf, spine with 2 red gilt lettered labels. € 2.900
The complete section on mammals with 2 plates and text, the second section on birds

lacks plate Emberiza durazzi, Erythrospiza githaginea and the explanatory text to this
plate. Three volumes were published of this monumental fauna of Italy. The second volume
deals with amphibians and the third volume with fishes. The splendid plates were
lithographed by Battistelli, most of them from drawings by Carolus Ruspi and Petrus
Quattochi. Charles Lucien Bonaparte was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. Despite
his family connections and the disruptions that followed the Napoleonic era, he became
a competent and highly respected naturalist. "Now he intended to increase the knowledge
of all branches of the vertebrates by his researches and theoretical works; with his
'Iconografia della fauna Italica', begun in 8 2 and completed in 8 , he added to the
understanding of Italian mammals, reptiles, amphibia, and fishes, as well as birds' (Stresemann.
Ornithology p. 8). The lacking plate and the explanatory text to this plate was
never bound in. A fine copy.
Provenance: Armorial book plate of Frederick Du Cane Godman, famous English ornithologist
and entomologist, as well as the book plate of Sir Giles Loder.
Nissen ZBI, 9; Wood p. 2 8; Anker 8.
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[ 0] BOOTH, E.R. Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five
years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands. London, R.H. Porter,
88 - 887. volumes. Large-folio ( 2 x mm). With handcoloured
lithographed plates and 2 coloured maps. Contemporary full blue morocco,
covers with richly gilt borders, frontcovers with the gilt coat of arms of
Baron Sherborne with motto 'Servabo Fidem' (I will keep the faith), richly
gilt spines in 6 compartments with red gilt lettered label, inside dentelles,
gilt edges. € 0.000

A superbly bound and well preserved copy of this beautiful and important work, which
is based on years of birdwatching, especially in the highlands of Scotland, off the Scottish
coasts, and in the western isles. The work is much in demand for its notes on these
birds, as well as for its wonderful and impressive plates (after drawings by E. Neale), of
which the ones showing birds of prey, are of outstanding quality and are reminescent of
Gould. "Neale's most important assignment was given him by Edward T. Booth. This
bird-watcher was a very wealthy man and could indulge himself fulltime in his hobby.
With his gun in hand he stalked the marshed near Rye, then the Norfolk Broads, and
finally went further afield to the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, in search of birds'
(Jackson p. 9 ). "The beautiful plates show the birds in different plumages" (Anker ).
Some light occasional foxing as usual with this book.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Sherborne Library on inside of frontcover.
Nissen IVB, 2 ; Zimmer pp. 79/80: "A series of well written field notes accompanied by
good plates"; Wood 2 9.
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[ ] BOULENGER, G.A. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in
the British Museum (Natural History). London, printed by order of the
Trustees, 909- 9 6. volumes. Royal 8vo (27 x 8 mm). pp. xi, 7 , with
270 figures; xii, 29 with 82 figures; xii, 26, with figures; xxvii, 92
with 9 figures. Publisher's gilt cloth [Together with:] original copper
engraved blocks, all representing fishes, for the book. € . 00
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An interesting collection of of the original copper engraved blocks (of 98), all well
preserved, of this important treatise on the fishes of Africa. All copper engravings are
mounted on oakwood and have the volume number and plate number inscribed at the
back. Boulenger's publication is the first major work on the fresh water fishes of Africa
and together with a large collection of the original blocks, serving for the illustrations, this
represents a unique occasion for any naturalist studying the ichthyological fauna of Africa.
"The past decade has been productive of an enormous increase in our knowledge of
the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa. The explorations of the Congo and the Nile, undertaken
at considerable expense... and of the great lakes of Central Africa, initiated in this country
have resulted in the discovery and description of an unexpectedly large number of generic
and specific forms, types of most of which are deposited in the Natural History Museum"
(From the Introduction). George Albert Boulenger ( 8 8- 9 7) was a Belgian-British
zoologist who worked at the British Museum. He was famous for his monographs on
amphibians, lizards and other reptiles and fishes as well as his monographs on the fishes
of Africa. "Boulenger's contemporaries have noted his incredible memory for specimens,
species descriptions, and for the associated literature, which was the key to the great speed
at which he worked. He could read six languages well and converse in most of them, and
wrote with equal facility, but his manuscripts were never typed and went straight to the
typesetter in longhand. Boulenger was a tireless worker with strict self discipline, and he
also had great charm: a distinguished figure in the London scientific establishment and a
proper Victorian gentleman" (Adler p. ).
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[ 2] BUFFON, G.L.L. COMTE DE. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 77 - 786. 0 volumes. Imperial folio ( x
2 mm). With 97 handcoloured engraved plates, drawn and engraved
by F.N. Martinet under supervision of E.L. Daubenton. Contemporary
mottled calf, sides with gilt borders, richly gilt ornamented spines in 7
compartments with red and green gilt lettered labels, inner dentelles, gilt
edges. € .000
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A splendid, uniformly bound, large paper copy. "This edition was certainly the most ambitious
and comprehensive bird book which had appeared at the time of its publication,
and ranks still as one of the most important of all bird books from a collector's point of
view" (Fine Bird Books). 'Les planches de l' édition grand in-folio (dont le er volume est
daté 77 ) semblent plus soignées que celles de l'édition du format inférieur' (Ronsil p.
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). The beautifully hand coloured plates, here in their largest format and most refined
colouring, are the most influential suite of ornithological plates of the eighteenth century.
The text of the present work is based on the nine ornithological volumes of Buffon's
forty-four volume 'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière', Paris 7 9- 80 .
George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ( 707- 788) was France's foremost scientist and
a preeminent literary figure of the 8th century. In 7 9 Buffon was appointed director of
the Royal Garden in Paris, a position he would hold for 9 years. He was one of the most
important scientists of the French Enlightenment and the unique literary quality of his
encyclopedia won him a place among the Immortals of the French Academy. A few copies
of this work have non ornithological plates bound in, which are not present here and
which do not belong to the above work.
Provenance: R.O. Oates bookplate as well as circular owner's stamp in titles; Armorial
bookplate 'Esse Quam Videri'.
Fine Bird Books p. 6 ; Nissen IVB, 8. See backcover illustration.
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[ ] BUTLER, A.G. Lepidoptera Exotica, or Descriptions and Illustrations
of Exotic Lepidoptera. London, E.W. Janson, 87 . to (27 x 2 mm). pp.
( 2), 90, with 6 plates of which 6 chromo-lithographed. Contemporary
green morocco, richly decorated spine, sides with gilt borders and ornaments,
gilt edges (head of spine a bit rubbed). € .800
A splendidly bound copy. Only 220 copies were published. The fine plates were drawn
and lithographed by the author. "... the species which I have described up to the present
time amount to 827, of these 60 have appeared for the first time in 'Lepidoptera Exotica',
7 having been figured by myself, of them, illustrated by 9 figures, in this work"
(From the Introduction). Arthur Gardiner Butler ( 8 - 92 ) was assistant to Dr. J. Gray
of the British Museum. 'He retired in 90 on account of ill health, but lived, however, for
another twenty-four years. He described some thousand species as new, unaware like his
contemporaries of seasonal variation within a single species (Stearn, The Natural History
Museum, p. 2 0). A fine copy.
Nissen ZBI, 779; Musgrave, Bibl. of Australian Entomology 77 - 9 0, p. 6.
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[ ] CASTELNAU, F. De. Expédition dans les parties centrales de
l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro à Lima, et de Lima au Para: exécutée
par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 8 à 8 7. Paris,
P. Bertrand, 8 0- 8 . volumes (bound in ). 8vo, to and folio. With
92 (of 9 ) plates and maps, many tinted, handcoloured or handcoloured
in outline. Contemporary half calf, half morocco & recent half calf.
€ 8.000
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An almost complete set, lacking plate 28 'Campement sur le Rio Paraguay' in the 'Vues et
Scènes', of the most important 9th century scientific expedition to the interior of South
America.
"Castelnau and his party sailed to Rio de Janeiro on board the French brig 'Petit-Touards',
and began his meteorological, magnetic, botanical, and zoological observations there.
The expedition resolved to cross South America from Rio via Minas Geraes, Goias, and
Mato Grosso. They explored the north of Mato Grosso, the Paraguay River as far as
Asunción, and from Vila Bela they travelled to Bolivia through Potosi, finally reaching
La Paz. From there they journeyed to Lima, where they spent some time, then proceeded
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to the source of the Amazon from whence they sailed to Pará. Owing to the death of a
member of the expedition, d' Osery, who was killed by Indians, a large part of the records
were lost... However, the minutes were saved, which made the writing of this history of
the expedition possible. This monumental work is today still of great scientific value, and
sought after not only for its scientific content, but also by bibliophiles because of its very
fine beautiful coloured plates... The first edition, complete in all its parts, commands a
high price." (Borda de Moraes p. 67-8). François de Castelnau ( 8 0- 880) was a French
naturalist and studied natural history under Cuvier and Saint Hilaire. The collection of
hundreds of zoological specimens and ,000-6,000 plant specimens resulted in the discovery
of many new species.
The set is composed as follows:
Part I:
'Histoire du Voyage', Paris 8 0- 8 . 6 volumes. 8vo (2 0 x 2 mm). With folding lithographed
map, with routes marked by hand in colours. Contemporary red half morocco.
Part II:
'Vues et Scènes recueillies pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amerique
du Sud'. Paris 8 2 (- 8 ). to ( 0 x 2 2mm). With 9 (of 60) lithographed plates, by
Champin, printed by Lemercier comprising handcoloured ethnographic plates of Indians,
(of 6) tinted views. Bound together with:
Part III:
'Antiquités des Incas et autres peuples anciens, recueillies pendant l'expédition dans les
parties centrales de l'Amerique du Sud'. Paris 8 2 (- 8 ). to. With 60 lithographed
plates of which by Champin, 6 by Llanta [comprising: tinted portraits, 9 plates of
antiquities (9 handcoloured, 2 tinted, uncoloured), 6 tinted views (6 of Bolivia, 0 of
Peru)]. The text makes clear that plates 9 and 28 are not required, and were replaced by
plates 6 and 62. Contemporary half morocco.
Part IV:
'Itinéraires et coupe géologiques à travers le continent de l' Amérique du Sud. Paris 8 2.
Folio ( 7 x mm). With 76 double-page handcoloured maps and geological sections by
L. Bouffard. Contemporary half red morocco (a bit worn).
Part V:
'Géographie des parties centrales de l' Amérique du Sud, et particulièrement de l'Équateur
au Tropique du Capricorne'. Paris 8 . Folio ( 7 x 28mm). With 0 double-page map
sheets, 29 handcoloured in out-line ( 6 by L. Bouffard, by Bouffard and F. Delamere).
Contemporary half red morocco.
Part VI:
[Botanique]. H.A. Weddell, Choris Andina, essai d'une flore de la région alpine des
Cordillères de l'Amérique du Sud.Paris 8 - 8 7. 2 volumes, bound in one. to ( 96 x
2 0mm). With 90 lithographed plates by Alfred Riocreux, printed by Gény-Gros. Contemporary
half calf, spine rebacked.
Part VII:
[Zoologie] F. Castelnau, P. Gervais, H. Lucas, H. Hupé, A. Guichenot & M. Desmurs,
Animaux nouveaux ou rares recueillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de
l' Amérique du Sud. Paris 8 - 8 9. volumes. to ( 02 x 2 6 mm). With 76 plates (
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Curtis

handcoloured by Oudart, Delahaye, Bocourt and Werner). Recent half morocco.
The Zoology is presented under seven section headings, each with their own title and
author.
I: Anatomy by P. Gervais with 8 lithographs by Delahaye of which handcoloured;
Mammals by P. Gervais with 20 lithographs ( 2 handcoloured by Werner and 8 uncoloured
by Delahaye); Birds by M. Desmurs with 20 handcoloured lithographs by Oudart.
II: Fish by Castelnau, with 0 lithographs of which 8 handcoloured by Oudart and 2
uncoloured by Delahaye; Reptiles by Guichenot, with 8 handcoloured lithographs by
Bocourt. III: Entomology by H.Lucas, with 20 handcoloured plates by Nicolet; Myriapods
& Scorpions by P. Gervais, with 8 plates (6 by Nicolet and 2 by Oudart); Molluscs
by H. Hupé, with 22 handcoloured lithographs by Oudart.
Barba de Moraes I, p 67; B.M. (Nat. Hist.) I, 2 ; Brasilien Bibliothek der Robert Bosch
GMBH, 0.
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[ ] CURTIS, W. Flora
Londinensis: or Plates and
Descriptions of such Plants
as grow wild in the Environs
of London: with their places
of growth, and times of flowering;
their several names
according to Linnaeus and
other authors: with a particular
description of each
plant in latin and english. To
which are added their several
uses in medicine, agriculture,
rural oeconomy and
other arts. London, printed
for the author, ( 77 -) 777-
798. 2 volumes bound in .
Folio ( 7 x 280mm). With 2
engraved title-vignettes and
2 fine handcoloured engraved
plates. Contemporary
full calf, spines in 7 compartments
with gilt lines and lettering, sides with gilt borders. € 2 .000
First edition. A very fine copy with the bookplate of the Earl of Stradbroke. William
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Curtis is one of the great names in botany, the present work and his famous 'Botanical
Magizine' are landmarks in English botany. The impressive 'Flora Londinensis' is much
more comprehensive in scope than its title suggests, for it embraces most of the English
flora, and as a result of which it should be properly regarded as the first colour-plate national
flora. "Curtis adopted the novel plan of having specimens drawn to a uniform scale
and to life size, and most of the plates display a high degree of accuracy. In the opinion
of Salisbury, the majority of the figures 'represent the most successful portrayals of British
wild flowers that have ever been achieved'" (Henry II, p. 67). The fine plates are by James
Sowerby and Sydenham Edwards. Our copy has the list of subscribers, the indices, the
'General observations on the advantage which may result from the Introduction of the
Seeds of our best Grasses' (2 leaves), and 'A catalogue of certain plants... in the environmens
of Settle' ( leaves). The book was published in 2 volumes. Our copy, however, is
bound in elegant volumes, the title-page to the rd volume, which was never published,
is here replaced by an extra title-page of the first volume, the volume number I altered to
III in neat contemporary handwriting.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate 'Je vive en espoir' of the Earl of Stradbroke.
Nissen BBI, 0; Great Flower Books, p. ; Stafleu & Cowan 286.
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[ 6] CUVIER, G. De l'histoire naturelle des Cétacées. Paris, Roret, 8 6.
8vo (2 0 x 60mm). Atlas only: With 2 engraved plates of which handcoloured,
and 'Explications des Planches of pages. Publisher's printed
wrappers. € .000
The fine stipple engraved plates are by E. Blanchard and Borromée. The work was published
as part of 'Suites à Buffon'.
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[ 7] DARWIN, C. The variation of animals and plants under domestication.
London, J. Murray, 868. 2 volumes. Royal-8vo (222 x 0mm). (I:)
pp. viii, , ( ), 2 (advertisments dated April 867), with wood-engravings
in the text; (II:) pp. viii, 86, 2 (advertisments dated February 868.).
Publisher's gilt-and blind-stamped green full cloth (tiny part of the upper
end of lower joint of second volume insignificantly shaved). € 2. 00
A very fine copy of the first edition, first issue. "After the 'Origin of Species', Darwin wrote
three more books expanding different aspects of the work. 'The Variation of Animals and
Plants....' took up in detail that subject which had been confined to one chapter of the
'Origin'. It contained his hypothesis of pangenesis, by means of which Darwin tried to
frame an explanation of hereditary resemblance, inheritance of acquired characters, atavism,
and regeneration. It was a brave attempt to account for a number of phenomena
which were beyond the bounds of scientific knowledge in his day, such as fertilization by
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the union of sperm with egg, the mechanism of chromosomal inheritance, and the development
of the embryo by successive cell division. His hypothesis of pangenesis could
not therefore give a permanently acceptable account of the multitude of phenomena it
was designed to explain. It was, however, a point of departure for particulate theories of
inheritance in the latter nineteenth century" (DSB).
Freeman 877.
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[ 8] DESCOURTILZ, M.E. Flore
[Pittoresque et] Médicale des Antilles,
ou traité des plantes usuelles
des colonies Françaises, Anglaises,
Espagnoles et Portugaises...
Peinte par J.Th. Descourtilz. Paris,
Pichard, Mme Veuve Pichard,
Gauthier, Royal, 82 - 829. 8 volumes.
Royal-8vo (20 x 0mm).
With 600 fine colour-printed stipple
engraved plates with extensive
handfinishing. Contemporary
brown half calf, richly gilt spines
in compartments, sides marbled
boards.
€ . 00
A fine copy of the first edition. A beautifully
illustrated flora of the West Indies.
This is one of two major French works
published on this region. The other work
is by Tussac 'Flore des Antilles' 808- 828
and is equally rare. Descourtilz ( 77 - 8 6) was a French physician, naturalist and traveller.
"Following his marriage to the daughter of Rossignol-Desdunes, who had plantations
in Artibonite, he went to Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in 798, on the way visting Charleston,
South Carolina, and Santiago de Cuba. Descourtilz became involved in the Negro revolution
... Most of his original drawings and manuscripts, as well as his herbarium, were
burned in Haiti... (DSB). The present work is a great rarity and sets usually consist of
mixed issues (see for example the de Belder copy Soth. 27 april 987 no. 99 or the Cleveland
Herbal, Botanical... collection no. 926). The words 'pittoresque et' appear in the
title of the third volume. The fine plates of exotic flowers and fruit are after drawings by
the author's son J.Th. Descourtilz, who became a famous ornithologist. The plates were
engraved by Gabriel, Bessin, Péréee and Prieur.
Dunthorne 90, Great Flower Books p. ; Stafleu & Cowan 9 .
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[ 9] DORIA, L. Origine propagazione, e danni delle Locuste. Operazioni
praticate per la loro estirpazione nell'agro Romano, ed in vari altri territori
dal 807. all'anno 8 . Natura, e properieta di tali insetti. Leggi, decisioni,
e divisione delle spese. Opera divisa in tre parti. Roma, dai Torchi di Crispino
Puccinelli a S. Andrea della Valle, 8 6. to (280 x 2 0mm). pp. xxx,
90, ( , errata). Title vignette with 2 locusts. Contemporary half calf, gilt
ornamented spine with green gilt lettered label, marbled sides. € .200
A fine copy of this rare item with the blind stamp of the Corsini library, not recorded on
COPAC or NUC. "Luigi Doria è autore, nel 8 6, di un bel volume, di circa 200 pagine,
"sull'origine, propagazione e danni delle locuste". Si tratta delle invasioni dell'autoctono
Dociostaurus maroccanus (Thunberg, 8 )" (Mus. Zool. Roma). A beautifully printed
treatise to rid the country around Rome of locusts between 807 and 8 .
Horn-Schenkling 978.
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[20] DRURY, D. Illustrations of exotic Entomology, containing upwards
of six hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of foreign insects, interspersed
with remarks and reflections on their nature and properties. A new
edition ... by J.O. Westwood. London, H.G. Bohn, 8 7. volumes. to
(28 x 22 mm). With 0 handcoloured engraved plates and plain engraved
frontispiece. Contemporary half calf, spines with gilt lettering.
€ 7.200
A fine copy of the second and last edition of one of the most attractive English entomological
works on exotic insects, with superb hand-colouring of the plates. The first edition
appeared from 770- 782. Dru Drury ( 72 - 80 ) was the son of a silversmith. "By virtue
of his marriage and inheritance of the family business he was a reasonably wealthy man
who could afford to support his most serious hobby entomology. Drury's collection had
great fame during his life time. He spent much time and money persuading others to
collect specimens for him from foreign countries. He had a wide correspondence with
entomologists around the world. Linnaeus ( 707- 778) and Willliam Kirby ( 7 9- 8 0)
both named species after him" (Harvey, Gilbert & Martin, A catalogue of manuscripts in
the Entomological library... 9). The majority of the fine plates were drawn and engraved
by Moses Harris.
Provenance: 'William G. Bowditch from his friend Mrs Wigglesworth' on inside frontcover
and a few more lines by the same person on free endpaper 'that the study of nature
may lead directly, to the knowledge, and love, of our kind, Heavenly Father'.
Nissen ZBI, 60; Horn & Schenkling 2 89 .
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[2 ] DRURY, D. Illustrations of exotic Entomology, containing upwards
of six hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of foreign insects, interspersed
with remarks and reflections on their nature and properties. A new
edition ... by J.O. Westwood. London, H.G. Bohn, 8 7. volumes. to
(280 x 2 mm). With 0 handcoloured engraved plates and plain engraved
frontispiece. Contemporary cloth, spines later black half calf with
gilt lettering. € .700
The second and last edition of one of the most attractive English entomological works on
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exotic insects, with superb hand-colouring of the plates. The first edition appeared from
770- 782. Dru Drury ( 72 - 80 ) was the son of a silversmith. "By virtue of his marriage
and inheritance of the family business he was a reasonably wealthy man who could afford
to support his most serious hobby entomology. Drury's collection had great fame during
his life time. He spent much time and money persuading others to collect specimens for
him from foreign countries. He had a wide correspondence with entomologists around
the world. Linnaeus ( 707- 778) and Willliam Kirby ( 7 9- 8 0) both named species after
him" (Harvey, Gilbert & Martin, A catalogue of manuscripts in the Entomological
library... 9). The majority of the fine plates were drawn and engraved by Moses Harris.
A few text leaves at the beginning of each volume, including the titles, with some foxing,
not affecting the plates. Small inkstain at the upper corner of the rd volume of first 0
leaves. All plates fine and clean.
Nissen ZBI, 60; Horn & Schenkling 2 89 .
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[22] DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, (H.L.). Traité des Arbres Fruitiers;
contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, &c. Paris, Saillant &
Desaint, 768. 2 volumes. Large- to ( 0 x 2 mm). pp. ( ), xxix, ( ), 7;
( ), 280, with engraved frontispiece and 80 engraved plates. Contemporary
full calf, richly gilt decorated spines with 2 red gilt lettered labels, gilt
edges. € 7. 00
A fine copy of the first edition. The beautifull illustrations (after drawings by Aubriet,
Basseporte, and Le Berriays) show an enormous variety of peaches, apples, prunes, stawberries,
nuts, pears, vines, etc. in clear and strong impressions. Henri Louis Duhamel du
Monceau ( 700- 78 ), the famous French dendrologist, worked a.o. on animal and vegetable
physiology. His botanical work may be regarded as the inception of forest botany.
The above offered work was of great importance and is one of the finest and rarest books
on fruits. According to this importance, a second and third edition appeared in 782 and
8 ; both with plain plates. The much augmented edition (by Poiteau & Turpin) with
22 coloured-printed plates was practically a new work.
"The outcome was 'Traité des arbres fruitiers....', Paris, 768, in two quarto volumes with
80 engraved plates. Numerous cultivars of 6 fruit species are first characterized in Latin,
then thoroughly described in French. Many illustrated in foliage, fruit, blossom, and
seed. An engraved fruit-laden frontispiece carries the title 'Pomona gallica'... Du Hamel's
dedication was admirable. In 76 , to describe just one cultivar, he rode 60 kilometers and
back to view the original tree and fruit of the 'Bézi de Chaumontel' pear, which Merlet
had seen and declared a novelty in 67 "(Janson, 'Pomona's Harvest' p. 290-29 ).
Nissen BBI, 0; Great Flower Books p. ; Stafleu & Cowan 6; Dunthorne 09;. Raphael,
'An Oak Spring Pomona' 28.
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[2 ] DUPERREY, L.I. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du
Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 822,
82 , 82 et 82 . ZOOLOGIE par Lesson et Garnot. Paris, A. Bertrand,
826- 8 0. text volumes (bound in 2). Large to (29 x 22 mm) and
folio atlas ( 92 x mm), with 7 (2 plain) beautifully colour-printed
engraved plates, finished by hand. Contemporary half calf, gilt lettered
spines (one text volume recently bound to match, the remaining volumes
a bit rubbed) . € .000
The complete zoological part of Duperrey's famous circumnavigation with the "Coquille".
Louis-Isidore Duperrey ( 786- 86 ) made his first voyage around the world with
L. de Freycinet in 8 7- 820. Already 2 years later he set sail on the "Coquille" with
J.S.C. Dumont d'Urville as second in command. On this long voyage, an impressive array
of geological, botanical and zoological specimens were collected, which were housed
in the "Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle" after their return in Marseille in 82 . On board
the well-known French pharmacist and ornithologist R. Lesson served as naturalist and
surgeon. The large collections and exhaustive zoological descriptions (especially regarding
the birds) were made by him, together with P. Garnot and F.E. Guérin-Méneville. Of
the beautiful 7 plates, depict birds (of which many were new to science), 8 fishes, 9
mammals, 7 reptiles, 6 molluscs, 6 zoophytes, crustaceans, and 22 insects. All are very
finely colour-printed (many finished by hand) after drawings by J.G. Prêtre, R.P. Lesson,
Bévalet, Prévost, and a few others.
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"The aims of the expedition, it will be remembered, had been largely scientific and Duperrey
had well carried out his instructions in this respect... The geologists thanked Lesson
especially for the 00 samples of rock he had brought back. D'Urville was praised for
his botanical work, and the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle received with gratitude ,200
insects, 0 of which had not been available before, most of them collected by d'Urville.
There were in addition 26 birds and quadrupeds, 6 reptiles, and 288 fishes, more than
80 of them new specimens (Dunmore II, pp. 2- ).
The work is usually found with some foxing. In our copy about one third of the plates
have been more or less seriously affected.
Fine Bird Books 7 ; Nissen ZBI, 2 0 & IVB, 280; Wood 27; B.M.(N.H.) II, 60 .
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[2 ] ELWES, H.J. A Monograph of the Genus Lilium (including 9 supplements).
London ( 877-) 880, 9 - 962. 2 volumes. Folio ( 0 x 80mm).
With handcoloured lithographed map, photograph and 88 beautifully
hand-coloured lithographed plates (last 0 plates in colour lithography).
Contemporary green half morocco, spines with 6 raised bands, gilt lettering
and ornaments. [Together with:] Illustrations of Lilies, by Lilian Snelling.
Hitchin, Wheldon & Wesley, 970. Folio ( 0 x 80mm). With 0
fine hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth.
€ 7.000
"A work of the greatest interest and value to all Lily growers" (Great Flower Books 6). A
fine complete copy including the rare supplements as well as an extra set of the plates by
Lilian Snelling of the first seven parts of the supplement. These plates are therefore double
in our copy. According to a printed note ( 970) of the Antiquarian Booksellers Wheldon
& Wesley 'The supplement to the Monographs of the Genus Lilium has been out of print
for a good many years, but there remained a few sets of the beautiful plates which came
into our hands a short time ago and they are now reissued in a limited edition."
Henry John Elwes ( 8 6- 922) was a British botanist who visited the Himalayas, Tibet,
China, Asia Minor and many other countries collecting and discovering many new and
beautiful plants. His 'Monograph of the Genus Lilium' is his most splendid publication.
The work was issued in three separate and distinct stages, that is the 'Monograph' published
between 877 and 880, with 8 superbly handcoloured plates by W.H. Fitch, then
the first seven parts of the 'Supplement' by A. Grove and A.D. Cotton between 9 and
9 0, illustrated by Lilian Snelling and finally parts 8 and 9 of the 'Supplement' by W.B.
Turrill between 960 and 962 illustrated by Margaret Stones.
Walter Hood Fitch, the artist of the first 8 plates, was one of the most prolific botanical
artists of the Victorian era 'His flamboyant but accurate drawings gained him international
fame and recognition and provided vitally important records of an immense

number of plants new to botany' (J. Lewis, Walther Hood Fitch. A celebration p. ).
"At the age of sixty, Fitch began work on his last great series of lithographs, which were
to form the illustrations of the 'Monograph of the Genus Lilium' ( 877-80) of H.J. Elwes.
The supplement to this famous book… was illustrated by Miss Lilian Snelling, who

proved a worthy successor to the industrious Scot. In the words of Sir Jospeh, Fitch was
an 'incomparable botanical artist' with an 'unrivalled skill in seizing the natural character
of a plant…'" (Great Flower Books p. ). Fitch made numerous plates for Curtis's 'Botanical
magazine' from 8 to 877. He also made the illustrations of another splendid
flower book, Hooker's 'Rhodondendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya'.
Provenance: First volume with armorial bookplate of J.A. Mullens
Nissen BBI, 9 ; Great Flower Books, 6;. Tomasi, An Oak Spring Flora pp. 97- 99.
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[2 ] ES, N.J.A.P.H. VAN. De hippische sport en het Korps Rijdende Artillerie
1793-1908, I: DE VALKERIJ. Met illustratiën van Hoynck van Papendrecht,
Krabbé, Staring en van Es en ornamentatie van Colenbrander
en Roskam. Arnhem, Coers & Roest - G.J. Thieme, ( 908). Folio ( 70 x
290mm). pp. ( 6), 72, ( 8), with plates of which beautifully handcoloured,
many of the plates with coat of arms of the Royal Family in
gold and silver, many handcoloured figures in the text, numerous richly
ornamented handcoloured text borders, painted partly in gold and silver
showing falcons, initials painted in red. Original extensively gilt pictorial
full cloth. € 9.000
The rarest Dutch book on falconry. Only a few copies were printed for the Royal Family
and Members of the Royal Loo Hunting Club. Together with Schlegel and Vester van
Wulverhorst's 'Traité de Fauconnerie', the most impressive work published in the Neth-
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erlands on Falconry. Printed for private circulation only (as stated on the title page), this
sumptuously produced work with the ornaments heightened in silver and gold is virtually
unknown and not cited by bibliographies. The present copy has a written dedication of
the author Van Es to Otto Eerelman, famous Dutch painter of horses.
The first pages describe the life of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, who died at
the early age of 29, and who was the president of the Royal Loo Hunting Club, and a
keen hunter. The majority of the attractive handcoloured plates and figures show falcons,
hunting scenes and hawking attributes. The book has chapters on falconry in France,
Germany, England and the Netherlands as well as a large chapter on the Monarchs of
Oranje-Nassau and falconry. A list is given of the members of the Royal hawking club.
The list consists of Dutch members of which the majority is nobility as well as members
of the Dutch Royal Family and 2 non residing members.
The second volume of this publication seems to be less rare and treats military matter. An
uncut and very well preserved copy.
There is a copy in the Royal Library in The Hague from the famous falconry collection
of A. Swaen.
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[26] FAUCHE-PRUNELLE, A.A. Papillons Exotiques. [Grenoble c.
8 0). Oblong to (22 x 0mm). With watercolours incorporating
wing specimens each with Latin and French nomenclature and the country
of origin. Contemporary green half morocco, gilt ornamented spine
with gilt lettering. € 20.000

A superb collection of Exotic butterflies collected and drawn by André Alexandre Fauché-
Prunelle. The butterflies are transferred on paper, each approx. 0 x 70mm. and mounted
on blue grey thick card, tissue gards throughout. The wings of the insects have been
transferred to the paper and the bodies of the insects have been meticulously coloured
by hand. The butterflies are for the greater part from the Caribbean, Central- and South
America (many from Brazil), but also from India, Sri Lanka and other parts of Asia. Two
are from Australia. The process of making such tranfers has been practised before and
even a book, in a limited edition, with original butterfly transfers was published in 900
by Denton on the Butterflies of the United States.
André Alexandre Fauche-Prunelle (Grenoble 79 - 86 ) is known for his historical publications
such as 'Recherches sur l'origine du parlement de Grenoble', 8 9. He must also
have been a keen naturalist as he likewise published 2 botanical works: 'Coup d'oeil sur la
végétation des Alpes', 8 8 and 'Coup d'oeil sur la végétation de Briançon', 860. According
to H.H. Trouvelot 'Les Faucher ou Fauché' p. 2 , Fauché-Prunelle was well known for
his paintings of butterflies, which he exhibited 'au Salon de Grenoble'.
Fauché-Prunelle must have made more collections of butterflies. years ago we sold a
collection of 682 butterly transfers by him with the following title: "Papillons du Dauphiné'.
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[27] FORSTER, J.R. Zoologica Indica Selecta ... Indische Zoologie oder
systematische Beschreibungen seltener und unbekannter Thiere aus Indien.
Nebst einer kurzen vorläufigen Abhandlung über den Umfang von Indien
und die Beschaffenheit des Klima, des Bodens und des Meeres daselbst,
und einem Anhange, darin ein kurzes Verscheichniss der Thiere Indien...
Halle, J.J. Gebauer, 78 . Folio ( 77 x 26 mm). pp. (viii), iv, 2, with
handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum, marbled sides.
€ 7.600
First edition. The work is based upon Thomas Pennant's unpublished 'Indian Zoology',
769, which Pennant abandoned after 2 plates had been issued. Pennant gave the stock
of plates along with three further unpublished ones, to Johann Reinhold Forster, who
translated and expanded the text. It was Forster's work which in turn formed the basis
of Pennant's later formally published 'Indian Zoology', 79 . The original plates for the
work come from the collection of Joan Gideon Loten ( 7 0- 789), Dutch Governor of
Ceylon, in service of the VOC. Loten was a keen naturalist and commissioned Pieter
Cornelis De Bevere to make drawings of the fauna of Ceylon and Java. These drawings
are now kept at the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem.
Loten lived part of his life in London and was well acquainted with Joseph Banks and
other naturalists such as Thomas Pennant. The artist Sydney Parkinson, who would in
768 accompany Joseph Banks as his draughtsman on his voyage aboard the Endeavour
( 768- 77 ), was commissioned in 767 to copy and enhance those plates of the Loten
collection which would serve to illustrate the 'Indian Zoology'. The plates were engraved
by Peter Mazell.

"It was entirely based upon Joan Gideon Loten's watercolours and annotations. The work
is considered to be the first attempt at a systematic study of the birds of Sri Lanka and
Java" (A.J.P. Raat p. 26). In 79 Pennant published a second edition in to. The plates
were reduced in size and the colouring is poor.

Traces of old library stamp on German title. A fine copy, the text is in German and
Latin.
Nissen ZBI, ; Fine Bird Books p. 7 . See A.J.P. Raat's recently published work 'The life
of Governor Joan Gideon Loten ( 7 0- 789). A personal history of a Dutch virtuoso'.
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[28] GMELIN, S.G. Reise durch Russland zur Untersuchung der drey
Natur-Reiche. St. Petersburg, gedruckt bey der Kayserl. Academie der
Wissenschaften, ( 770)- 78 . Volumes , & (of ). to (2 0 x 80mm).
pp. (8), 82 with 9 folded engraved plates; pp. (2), 08, with 7 folded
engraved plates; pp. (2), xxvi, 2 8, with 8 engraved plates. Contemporary
half calf, spines with red gilt lettered labels, marbled sides. € . 00
A very important and scarce work on the natural history of Russia, beautifully published
by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Our set comprises the mostly lacking th
volumes which was posthumously published by P.S. Pallas, years after the third volume
was published. Our copy lacks the second volume and according to the Staatsbibl. Berlin
a map in the first volume. The first volume has the following subtitle: Reise von St.
Petersburg biss nach Tscherkask, der Hauptstadt der Donischen Kosacken in den Jahren
768 und 769. The third volume: Reise durch das nordliche Persien, in den Jahren 770,
77 , bis im April 772. The fourth volume: Reise von Astrachan nach Zarizyn und von da
durch die Kumanische Steppe, über Mosdok zurück; imgleichen zweite Persische Reise;
in den Jahren 772 und 77 , bis im Frühling 77 . Nebst dem Leben des Verfassers.
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin ( 7 - 77 ) was born in a well-known family of naturalists.
Born in Tübingen he earned his medical degree in 76 from the University of Leiden at
the age of 8. In 767 he was invited to St. Petersburg and became an academician of the
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. "One of the expeditions undertaken by the command
of the Empress Catherine II …. The first volume described the journey from St.
Petersbourg to the Don area in 768-69, while the second deals with the journey to and
the period in Astrakhan in 769-70. In 770-72 Gmelin travelled in Northern Persia and
was the first naturalist to explore this country" (Anker 62). While travelling in the Caucasus
he was taken hostage by Usmey Khan of Khaïtakes and died of ill treatment at the
age of 29. The work describes many new species of animals and plants. In some cases two
plates are printed on one leaf. The fine engraved plates portray mammals, birds, plants,
town views, two plates show amphibians, fishes, maps and people. The posthumously rare
th volume issued by Peter Simon Pallas has a large biography of Gmelin. A fine copy. A
few leaves with some occasional marginal staining.
Provenance: armorial stamp of 'De la Bibliothèque du Comte de Rehbinder' (noble
Swedish family) on inside front cover.
Anker 62; Stafleu & Cowan 20 9.
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[29] GODMAN, F. DU CANE. A monograph of the Petrels (Order
Tubinares). With hand-coloured plates by J.G. Keulemans. London, Witherby
& Co., 907- 9 0. Large- to ( 27 x 2 mm). pp. lv, 8 , with 06 fine
handcoloured lithographic plates by J.G. Keulemans. Contemporary red
half morocco, spine in 6 compartments with gilt lettering and lines.
€ 7. 00
A beautifully bound copy. Only 22 copies published of which this is copy 0. "Altogether
22 species, belonging to 2 genera, are discussed. The plates (lithographs coloured by
hand) show figures of 0 species. The majority were drawn and lithographed by J.G.
Keulemans (Hanhart, some few Mintern Bros., Imp.), but a few were executed by H.
Grønvold (Witherby & Co. imp.), while the colouring of the plates was entrusted to Dr.
Sharpe's daughters" (Anker 6 ). John Gerrard Keulemans ( 8 2- 9 2) was undoubtedly
the most popular and most prolific bird artist of his day. "Many ornithological works
stand out as a tribute to his skills and the praise which is to-day lavished upon such works
as those by Sharpe, Buller, Dresser, Elliot, Rothschild, Legge, Seebohm, Sclater, Shelley
and Mathews, was accorded to both artist and author in their own time" (Keulemans &
Coldewey, 'Feathers to Bush' p. 7). "Petrels are dispersed throughout all oceans of the
world, penetrating to the Ice Barrier at both poles, though they are probably more numerous
in the southern than in the northern hemisphere. They are purely oceanic wanderers,
and unless driven ashore by storms, seldom, if ever, come to land except for the purpose
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of breeding... "(From the introduction). Plate 02 with tiny marginal paper loss at one
corner.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Alan Francis Brooke and bookplate of Sir Giles Loder.
Nissen IVB, 6; Anker 6 .
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[ 0] GOULD, J. The Birds of Great Britain. London, Taylor and Francis
for the Author, [ 862] - 87 . volumes. Folio ( x 80mm.). With 67
fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, many heightened with gum-arabic,
after John Gould, Joseph Wolf, H.C. Richter and W. Hart. Contemporary
green half morocco, richly gilt decorated spines in 6 compartments
(minor skilful repair to spines). € 6 . 00
First edition. The most splendid work on the birds of Great Britain ever produced. "The
most popular of all Gould's works is always likely to be the 'Birds of Great Britain'" (Fine
Bird Books p. 29). The work had almost 00 subscribers and 'Gould was especially proud
of this work on the birds of his native land. As a 'novelty' he included quite a few drawings
with the figures of young birds. As would be expected, there were more subscribers
for this set than any other...'(Sauer p. 7 ).
"However, Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', ... did add a great deal to our knowledge
of British birds, besides being a more complete set of pictures of our native birds than
previously printed. Furthermore, for the first time we have a lot of chicks, eggs and nests
depicted. This title is outstanding for the attention paid to the young of the species.
Gould had reached high and low for specimens of the nestlings of rare species and their
nests. Wherever possible, drawings were done from freshly killed specimens. The result
is that this book has much more lively birds than in Gould's previous folios, and there is
much more freedom in showing the birds in different attitudes. Gould did the sketches
himself, Hart and Richter did the full-scale water-colours and then the two lithographers
drew the patterns on the stone... The illustrations show Gould's work at his best and it
demonstated the work of all his artists and lithographers except Lear and Mrs. Gould.
Lord Lilford, when preparing a similar work, fifteen years later, wrote of Gould's book,
'For really beautiful and correct illustrations of British birds, you will find Gould's great
work on that special subject in the library, but the books are so large that you will require
a boy to help you carry them from the house' (Jackson pp. - 2).
As usual some occasional light foxing, mostly to the text.
Fine Bird Book p. 78; Nissen IVB, 72; Sauer 2 .
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0 Gould
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[ ] GRAY, G.R. A fasciculus of the Birds of China. (London, Taylor and
Francis, 87 ). Folio. pp. 8, with 2 handcoloured lithographed plates. New
half red morocco, spine with gilt lettering. € .800
Nissen IVB, 89; Zimmer I, 27 : "A series of handcoloured plates, originally designed
for another publication, with a short account of each species". The beautiful handcoloured
illustrations are drawn and lithographed by W. Swainson. The present copy has
the following handwritten dedication: "John Bolton Hodgson with his uncle's kind love.
George Robert Gray".
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[ 2] GUMILLA. J. El Orinoco
ilustrado, y defendido, historia
natural, civil, y geographica de
este gran rio, y de sus caudalosas
vertientes; govierno, usos, y costumbres
de los Indios sus habitadores,
con nuevas, y utiles noticias
de animales, arboles, frutos,
aceytes, resinas, yervas, y raices
medicinales... Secunda impression,
revista, y aumentada por su
mismo autor, y dividida en dos
partes. Madrid, Manuel Fernandez,
7 . to (220 x 0mm).
pp. ( 8), 0 , ( ); pp. (8), 2,
( 6), with large engraved folding
map of the Orinoco and 2
engraved plates. Contemporary limp vellum, with contemporary manuscript
title on spines (remains of ties). € . 00
A very fine copy of the second enlarged edition. The first edition was published in 7 .
José Gumilla ( 686- 7 0), Spanish Jesuit, stayed for 0 years at the Orinoco missions and
was the first to publish a comprehensive account on the Orinoco river, its people, tribes
and natural history. "The work of father Gumilla is one of the most curious and interesting
hitherto published upon the country of the Orinoco." (Sabin 29276). "He travelled
widely on the Middle Orinoco and had ascended to Apure, Arauca and Meta rivers... and
in 7 published what was the first descriptive account of the Orinoco and its tributaries...
In his book Gumilla spoke bitterly of the slave traders who invaded his country"
(Howgego p. 6 ). The present work is based on Gumilla's personal observations as well
as material he found in manuscripts left by fathers Mercado and Ribera. The beautiful
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engraved folding plate shows the Jesuit missions, towns and tribes along the Orinoco.
Sabin 2927 ; Leclerc 7 .
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[ ] HANLEY, S. & THEOBALD, W. Conchologia Indica: Illustrations
of the land and freshwater shells of British India. London, L. Reeve &
Co., 876. to (2 0 x 27 mm.). pp. xviii, 6 , with 60 handcoloured lithographed
plates. Contemporary black calf, gilt. € . 00
A beautifully produced iconography on the shells of British India. The excellent plates are
drawn and lithographed by G.B. Sowerby, the son of G.B.S. Sowerby. He continued the
family tradition of writing and illustrating excellent works of natural history especially
conchological works. G.B. Sowerby became the best illustrator of conchological works of
his time and e.g. illustrated Reeve's monumental 'Conchologia Iconica' in 20 volumes.
Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley inherited a small fortune at an early age and devoted a
lifetime to conchology, giving special attention to bivalves, on which he was a leading
authority. Old damage to title, which was once torn and which has been repaired and
mounted, else a good copy of this rare item.
Nissen ZBI, 828.
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[ ] HAPPE, A F. Abbildung auslaendischer Materialien. Berlin 767.
Folio ( 7 x 2 mm). Decorative watercolor title, manuscript text within
a garland of flowers and insects, and 86 watercolors of plants, manuscript
index leaf at end. Preserved in a modern half cloth clamshell box.
€ 28.000
A beautiful original manuscript of foreign, mostly exotic, useful and medicinal plants.
The fine watercolors are heightened with gouache and are numbered - a, b-8 , and
inscribed with their Latin names. At the lower margin the Linnaean nomenclature is
given with reference to his 'Genera Plantarum'. The index leaf lists a plate 86 Euphorbia
which is not present in the collection.
The manuscript portrays many spices and pharmaceutical plants such as: Jamaican pepper,
cashew, cacao, camphor tree, caper, cardamom, cloves, quinine bark, China root,
Arabian coffee, bitter cucumber, Indian saffron, date palm, Indian fig (the tree is considered
sacred in India as it often shelters a little temple underneath), dwarf gensing, tree-oflife,
indigo, nutmeg, opium, Indian pepper, black pepper, St. John's bread, Indian date,
vanilla plant, poison nut, many originating from India.
Andreas Friedrich Happe ( 7 - 802) was a well-known artist, engraver, naturalist as well
as pharmacist. He was born in Aschersleben and died in Berlin in 802. He published a
number of books on pharmaceutical botany of which the most important is his 'Botanica
pharmaceutica…' Berlin 78 (- 806). He was also the artist for the plates of the first two
volumes of Martini & Chemnitz 'Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet'. However

he is better known for his botanical artwork. The Oak Spring Garden Library has a four
volume 'Herbarium pictum', an impressive collection of 0 watercolors. The Hunt Botanical
Library possesses a manuscript by him 'Flora Happiana', with 7 watercolors.
We sold a manuscript of Happe in 997 'Insecten-Belustigung. Worinnen eine Sammlung
sowohl Ausländischer als Einheimischer Tag-Vögel, Abend- und Nacht-Vögel enthalten
nach dem Leben gezeichnet von Andr. Frid. Happe. Berlin 769- 78 ', with a fine frontispiece
(title within a garland of flowers), and original watercolors. In 2008 a large
collection of original watercolors by Happe 'Conspectus Praecipuarum Plantarum…'
Berlin 790- 79 , with 6 original watercolors was offered by the Parisian bookseller
Thomas-Scheler.
The Latin captions have some ink bleeding. Three plates with marginal repair. A unique
and interesting collection.
An Oak Spring Herbaria 9; Hunt 6 9.
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[ ] HAPPE, A.F. Botanica Pharmacevtica exhibens Plantas Officinales
quarum nomina in dispensatorio Brandenburgico recensentur ...; adjectis
nominibus tam pharmaceuticis, quam e systemate Linnaei depromtis.
Berolini 78 (- 806). 6 volumes (bound in ). Folio ( 6 x 22 mm). pp.
(6), 2, - 8, (2, index), 9- 78, general title with engraved vignette, 6
hand-coloured engraved frontispieces and 60 (last plate plain) fine handcoloured
engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gilt ornamented spines
in 7 compartments, the third volume containing volume 6 is in a non-uniform,
somewhat rubbed, contemporary half calf binding. € 2 .000
This is one of the rarest German iconographies on pharmaceutical botany. Complete copies
with 9 plates and 20 pages of text are pratically unknown and the British Museum
of Natural History is one of the few libraries to have such a copy. No complete copy has
been offered at auction, the most complete copy to have been offered at auction was in
Germany in 200 with 89 plates. We sold a copy in 98 with coloured plates for
2.000 dutch guilders. The present copy is the most complete one offered for sale during
many decades. The rarity, of especially the last volume, is due to the great upheavel caused
by the Napoleontic Wars and the long period of publication.
Andreas Friedrich Happe ( 7 - 802) was a well-known artist, engraver, naturalist as well
as pharmacist. He was born in Aschersleben and died in Berlin in 802. His 'Botanica
Pharmacevtica' is his major publication. As the work does not have a publisher it is likely
that Happe was also the publisher. The rarity of the last volume can also be explained by
the fact that Happe died prior to its publication. The title vignette show the author drawing
plants in front of a lovely countryside. All plates are drawn and engraved by Happe
and most probaly colourerd by him. The colouring is exquite with a lot of detail. Our
copy has plates - 00 and plates 0 - , 0, 2- , , 8- 60, 6 , 6 , 72, 8 - 87,
9 - 9 . The text is in German.

Provenance: Title with old signature 'Sprenger' and a more recent label of 'Deister Apotheke
in Springe'.
B.M. (Nat. Hist.)II, 78 ; Stafleu & Cowan state: "... Botanica Pharmaceutica ... not seen
by us. We should welcome information on the location of copies".
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[ 6] HASEGAWA, KEIKA. Keika Hyakukiku [Illustrations of Chrysanthemums].
Japan, Meji 6 ( 90 ). volumes. to ( x 22 mm). With
7 colour woodblock prints, 9 prints on double page. In original stitched
bindings (preserved in a recent Japanese style cloth box). € . 00
A reissue of the Kyoto 89 edition. A beautiful and decorative album of Japanese chrysanthemums,
several of the plates have hand finishing. The chrysanthenum is probably
the most popular Japanese flower and of great symbolic importance. A yearly festival of
'happiness' is held in Japan to celebrate this magnificent flower. The present work is one
of the most attractive Japanse flower books, printed in lovely delicate colours, and of a
high artistic level. The work is rare and Kerlen only quotes the first volume of the 89
edition. The 90 and 89 editions are identical. A fine copy.
Kerlen 8 .
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[ 7] HAÜY, R.J. Traité de Minéralogie. Tome Cinquième [Atlas]. Paris,
Louis, (X) 80 . Oblong to (2 x 0mm). pp.(6), 0, (2), with 86 fine
engraved plates. Contemporary red marbled boards, spine gone. € 900
The atlas only of this important mineralogical work. Abbé René Just Haüy ( 7 - 82 ) is
the founder of mathematical crystallography and raised mineralogy to the rank of a science.
'This is the man who truly founded and developed the science of crystallography
and as Adams says, was simple, modest, a lover of learning, whose attention was directed
to the study of mineralogy almost by chance. In handling a group of calcite crystals at
the home of a friend, Haüy accidentally dropped them. When he reexamined the broken
prism he noticed a new form, bounded by faces as smooth and shining as the original.
A new light broke upon the subject' (Hoover 9 ). Worming in the inner margin not affecting
the plates.
Ward & Carozzi 02 .
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[ 8] HERBST, J.F.W. Natursystem der ungeflügelten Insekten. Berlin,
G.A. Lange, 797- 800. parts (bound in one). to (27 x 2 mm). pp.
viii, 88; pp. iv, 26; pp. (2), 0; pp. ( ), 86, with 2 fine handcoloured engraved
plates. Contemporary marbled boards, red gilt lettered label on
spine (head of spine a bit worn). € 2. 00
A very scarce work with excellent plates intended according to the introduction as a
kind of supplement to Herbst's equally rare work 'Naturgeschichte der Krabben und
Krebse'. The four parts have the following subtitles: I. Naturgeschichte der Insekten-
Gattungen Solpuga und Phalangium; II. Naturgeschichte der Insecten-Gattung Opilio;
III. Fortsetzung der Naturgeschichte der Insectengattung Opilio; IV. Naturgeschichte
der Skorpionen. The first part is written by Lichtenstein and Herbst, the following parts
are by Herbst alone. "In the meanwhile W. Herbst, a German entomologist, had given
fuller treatment to the 'Afterspinnen', or near-spiders, and in Volume III ( 799) of his
'Natursystem der ungeflügelten Insekten', ... he described twenty-eight species, illustrated
by unusually clear figures. Herbst discarded the old name Phalangium, on the insufficient
grounds that it had been used by the ancient writers as a name for true spiders, and
replaced it by Opilio, of which genus he is thus the author" (Savory p. 6). Johann Friederich
Wilhelm Herbst ( 7 - 807) was a German naturalist, theologian and a chaplain
for the Prussian army.
Nissen ZBI, 89 ; Junk Rara, 0.
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[ 9] HILL, J. The Vegetable System. Or, the Internal Structure and the
Life of Plants; their Parts, and Nourishment Explained; their Classes, Orders,
Genera, and Species, ascertained, and described; in a Method alto-

gether New: comprehending an Artificial Index and a Natural System.
With figures of all plants designed and engraved by the author. The whole
from nature only. London, the author, 76 - 77 . 26 volumes bound in .
Folio ( x 290mm), with 6 engraved plates on leaves. Contemporary
calf, richly gilt decorated new spines in 7 compartments with red
and green gilt lettered label, frontcover with gilt ornament. € .000
First editions (excepting volumes , and which are in the second edition) of the greatest
and largest botanical publication of the eighteenth century. The work is in complete
state exceptionally rare and the present copy is one of the most complete ones to come
on the market. In our catalogue 28 (2006) item 96 we offered a complete copy with 8
engraved plates. Most sets contain a mixture of first and later issues. Our copy lacks plate
of volume ; plate 0 of volume 2 (in its place is bound plate 6 which is double), and a
text leaf in volume 2. A few copies of the work were also issued with the plates coloured.
A total of some 26,000 plants are illustrated and described. 'The Vegetable system is of
great importance because it gave for the first time in the vernacular a comprehensive treatment
of the plant kingdom, on a lavish scale... adopting the Linnaean generic names and
introducing binary nomenclature' (Stafleu). Numerous species are described for the first
time, most being recently introduced exotics.
The Vegetable system is dedicated to the Prince of Wales, later George III. Its publication
was instigated by, and partially financed by, John Stuart, Earl of Bute, a notable patron of
botany and the initiator of Kew Gardens as a botanic garden. He may well have contributed
to the text. John Hill was involved in lengthy financial disputes with Bute, and the
publication of the Vegetable system ended in Hill's bankruptcy and death. For a detailed
history see Henrey II pp. 0 -8. A very fine set.
Provenance: Armorial bookplates of Sir Edward W. Watkin and Baron Dickinson Webster.
Great flower books p. 9; Henrey 8 2; Nissen BBI, 886; Stafleu & Cowan 2772
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[ 0] [HOEFNAGEL, J.] SADELER, J. [Archetypa Studiaque Patris
Georgio Hoefnagelii]. Venetiis, aput Iust. Sadeler, circa 6 . A suite of
9 engravings ( 92 x 260mm) after Hoefnagel's 'Archetypa'. Early 9th
century marbled boards. € 2.000
Copies by Justus Sadeler of Hoefnagel's beautiful and influential pattern book, one of
the principal sources of seventeenth century still life painting. Hoefnagel's 'Archetypa'
consists of parts with 2 engravings. Sadeler copies Hoefnagel, albeit with quite some
changes. The lettering is different and there are a number of spelling mistakes. Many of
the plates are slightly different adding small animals or replacing others. The second plate
of the present work is dedicated to 'All' Illmo Sigr. mio Sigr. et Pron. Colmo. Il Sigr.
Lorenzo Soranzo Podestà et Capitano di Treuiso' engraved by Jo. De Fris. DD. Each
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plate is illustrated with insects, small animals, flowers, fruits, vegetables, etc, most have
captions in Latin.
Comparing Sadeler's suite of plates with Hoefnagel's 'Archetypa' the former does not
contain the frontispiece title of pars prima; plate of pars I; plate 6 of pars I; plate 2 of
pars I; frontispiece title of pars tertia; plate 2 of pars III; plate of pars III; plate of pars
III; plate 6 of pars III; plate 2 of pars III; frontispiece title of pars qvarta; plate of pars
IV; plate 8 of pars IV.
Saderer's suite of plates seems to be even rarer than Hoefnagel's original. According to Dr.
Sam Segal our copy is the most complete copy known. He only knows of 2 copies. One
copy formely in the library of C.G. van Tubbergen, Haarlem with plates and another
one with 9 plates. WorldCat lists a copy in America with 7 plates, which was purchased
from Lathrop Harper's catalogue 97 no. 8. The Tubbergen copy contains some plates
which are not in our copy. It is however unknown if Sadeler's suite of plates ever contained
the same number of plates as Hoefnagel's work.
Justus Sadeler (Antwerp 72?-c. 620) was a member of a famous family of engravers
and the son Jan Sadeler I. "He was a pupil and assistant of his father, whom he followed
to Munich and then to Italy. In 60 Justus was recorded in Venice, where he spent the
greater part of his career… Justus left a very small number of his own work… Otherwise
his oeuvre consists mainly of copies after prints by Adrian Collaert, Joris Hoefnagel, Hendrick
Hondius and Hans Vredeman de Vries" (Dictionary of Art).
"The series of engravings in the 'Archetypa', published in Frankfurt in 92 - showing
close-up portraits of plants, insects, and small animals, with their sources in paintings
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y Joris Hoefnagel - immediately aroused the admiration of lovers of art and nature. The
impressive depictions of the 'little world', the microcosm, were intended not merely as
representations, but through their penetration into form and structure were also meant to
provide a means of explaining the plan of creation - the macrocosm. Joris Hoefnagel was
the last significant miniaturist of the late sixteenth century. His fame was, and continues
to be, based on the illuminated manuscripts and cabinet miniatures that he produced
on commissions from the Emperor Rudolf II and other courtly patrons. His son Jacob,
building on his father's fame, produced a series of engravings based on his father's nature
motifs, under the title 'Archetypa'… the engravings are accompanied by epigrams that
give the images an emblematic quality extending beyond superficial representation" (T.
Vignau-Wilberg p. 7).
The full title of Hoefnagel's work is: 'Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii
Jacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta omnibus philomusis amice D. ac perbenigne communicat'.
[Archetype and verses by G Hoefnagel, his father, are presented, engraved in copper under
the guidance of his genius and communicated in friendship to all lovers of the Muses
by his son Jacob].
Later copies of Hoefnagel's 'Archetypa', are known to have been published by Christian
Weigel in Nürnberg, Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg, as well as single sheets by Nicolaes
Johannes Vischer in 6 0.
Apart from some occasional light foxing a fine copy with strong impressions.
T. Vignau-Wilberg. Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii. München 99 ; Nissen
ZBI, 9 .
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[ ] HOOKER, J.D. The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery
ships Erebus and Terror in the years 8 9- 8 , under the command
of Sir James Clark Ross: Volume I. Flora Antarctica. Part II: BOTANY OF
FUEGIA, THE FALKLANDS, KERGUELEN' LAND, ETC. London,
Reeve, Brothers, 8 . to ( 0 x 2 0mm). pp. 209- 7 (including bis pages
0 - 0 ), with hand-coloured lithographed plates 8 - 98, and plates 07bis
& 07ter. Contemporary green half morocco, gilt ornamented spine. [Together
with:] The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage… Volume II. FLORA
NOVAE-ZELANDIAE. Part I: FLOWERING PLANTS. London, Lovell
Reeve, 8 . to. pp. (6), xxxix, 2, with 70 hand-coloured lithographed
plates. Contemporary green half morocco, gilt ornamented spine. [Together
with:] The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage… Volume III. FLORA
OF TASMANIAE. Part I: DICOTYLEDONES. London, Lovell Reeve,
860. to. pp. viii, cxxviii, 9, with 00 hand-coloured lithographed plates.
Contemporary green half morocco, gilt ornamented spine. € 2.000
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A large section of Hooker's botanical publication of 'The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage
of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror..'. Three sections were published, each section
in two parts. Of the first section 'Flora Antarctica' we offer the complete second part.
The first part is devoted to the 'Botany of the Lord Auckland's Group and Campbell Island'.
Of the second section, the 'Flora Novae-Zelandiae', we offer the complete first part.
The second part describes 'Flowerless plants'. Of the third section 'Flora of Tasmaniae' we
offer the first part. The second part deals with 'Monocotyledons and Acotyledons'.
A fine uniformly bound set. Complete copies are very scarce and a large section as here
offered is rare as well. Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 8 7- 9 ), was the second son of William
Hooker. Through his father's contacts Joseph joined the James Clark Ross Expedition in
the 'Erebus' and 'Terror' to the Antarctic to determine the position of the South Magnetic
Pole. Hooker was appointed Assistant Surgeon and Naturalist. The expedition sailed in
September 8 9 and returned almost exactly four years later. Hooker in his 'Flora Tasmaniae'
was the first major British man of science to openly support Darwin's theory of
natural selection. The excellent plates are by Walter Hood Fitch, one of the best botanical
artists of the period and Kew's official botanical artist.
Stafleu & Cowan 296 .
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[ 2] HOOKER, W.J. Musci Exotici.; containing figures and descriptions
of new or little known foreign mosses and other cryptogamic subjects.
London, printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, for Longman,... 8 8- 820.
2 volumes bound in one. to (290 x 2 0mm). With 76 fine hand-coloured
engraved plates, each plate with a leaf of explanation. Contemporary green
half morocco, spine with gilt lettering. € 2.900
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A very fine copy of the rare quarto edition with the plates finely hand-coloured, the regular
edition was published in octavo either with plain or coloured plates. This is the best issue
of this beautifully illustrated work. The plates are by the author, engraved by Edwards,
probably Sydenham Edwards. "Hooker thoroughly described and figured 7 species of
mosses and liverworts from different parts of the world, contributed by a number of his
correspondents, e.g. Humboldt, Gardner, Menzies and R. Brown. A large number of species
were new, representing singular bryophytes, which were later segregated into several
new genera" (Margadant p. ). William Jackson Hooker ( 78 - 86 ) was a British botanist,
professor of Botany in Glasgow and director of the Royal Kew Gardens. He was the
father of Joseph Dalton Hooker, who became one of the most famous British botanists
of the 9th century.
Stafleu & Cowan 2990; Nissen BBI, 92 .
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[ ] HUMBOLDT, F.H.A. VON & BONPLAND, A.J.A. Beobachtungen
aus der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie, gesammelt auf einer
Reise nach den Tropen-Ländern des neuen Kontinents, in den Jahren 799,
800, 80 , 802, 80 und 80 . Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von dem
Erstern. Tübingen, bey F.C. Cotta/ Paris, bey Levrault, Schoell und Compagnie,
806. to ( 2 x 2 0mm). pp. x, 2 2. Contemporary blue boards (a
bit worn). € .000
All published however, without the plates. "Diese deutsche Fassung wurde von Humboldt
selbst bearbeitet oder beaufsichtigt... Für den Abbruch des Unternehmens waren
neben Misshelligkeiten zwischen Schoell und Cotta wohl die für den deutschen Buchhandel
ungünstigen Zeitverhältnisse verantwortlich" (Fiedler & Leitner . . ). "Die übersetzung
des Werkes blieb unvollendet, sie beschränkte sich nur auf drei Lieferungen"
(Löwenberg 2). The volume comprises the flollowing monographs: Über das Zungenbein
und den Kehlkopf der Vögel, der Affen, und des Krokodills; Über den Löwen-Affen,
eine neue Species aus den Missionen des Putumayo; Über den Eremophilus und den
Astroblepus, zwey neue Fisch-Gattungen aus der Ordnung der Apoden; Über eine neue
unterirdische Art der Fisch-Gattung Pimelodes, welche von den Vulkanen des Königreichs
Quito in grosser Menge ausgeworfen wird; Beobachtung über den elektischen Aal
des neuen Welttheils, (Gymnotus electricus. Linn.); Über eine neue Art von Gymnotus
aus dem Magdalenenstrom; Versuch einer Naturgeschichte des Condor. (Vultur gryphus
Linn.); Cuvier, G. Anatomische Untersuchungen über die von den Naturforschern bis
jetzt für zweifelhaft gehaltenen Reptilien, angestellt bey Gelegenheit des Axolotl, den Hr.
von Humboldt aus Mexico nach Europa gebracht hat.
Fiedler & Leitner, Alexander von Humboldts Schriften . . ; Löwenberg, Alexander von
Humboldt 2.
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[ ] HUMBOLDT, F.H.A. VON & BONPLAND, A.J.A. Monographie
des Melastomacées, comprenant toutes les plantes de cet ordre recueillies
jusqu'à ce jour, et notamment au Mexique, dans l'île de Cuba, dans
les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la
Nouvelle Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du Rio Negro,
de l'Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones. MELASTOMES & [vol. II:]
REXIES. Paris, Librairie Grecque-Latine-Allemande/Gide fils, 8 6- 82 .
2 volumes. Folio ( 90 x 0mm). pp. ( 2), vi, 2, ( ); (8), ii, 8, (2), with
20 fine colour-printed engraved plates and finished by hand. Contemporary
half calf, richly gilt decorated spines, with 6 raised bands, red and
green gilt-lettered labels and A.V. monogram (one volume with small skilful
repair). € 2 .000
First edition. These splendid monographs form part of Humboldt's 'Voyage aux régions
équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent fait en 799- 80 '.
"It is perhaps one of the grandest works on American Botany ever put forth" (Sabin).
"The expedition to South America and Central America in the years 799 to 80 by
Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt ( 769- 8 9) and Aimé Jacques Alexander
von Bonpland ( 77 - 8 8) has long been accepted as the most important ever made to
America, because its results, based upon study by many specialists of the immense quantity
of specimens and observations relating to botany, zoology, geology, geography and
history which they amassed with almost incredible industry and often under great difficulty,
were... made available within a comparatively short time afterwards.... Humboldt
and Bonpland journeyed into regions then little known or never before scientifically investigated"
(Stearn, Humboldt and Bonpland's 'Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales').
The botanical section of the voyage consists of 6 sections, of which the present second section,
here offered, is probably the most beautifully produced one. The complete account
was published in volumes (with about .200 plates) over a period of 2 years and cost
about 780.000 French francs. The publication of this immense work was done in Paris
where Cuvier, Gay-Lussac, Latreille, and many others co-operated with him.
The beautiful plates of the here offered volumes are all printed in colour by the famous
French printing establishment Langlois, after drawings by the leading French artists Poiteau
and Turpin.
"Pierre Turpin ( 77 - 8 0), who has been hailed as possibly the finest French natural
botanical artist of his period, came from humble beginnings. He was the son of a poor
artisan and learned the elements of drawing at the art school at Vire before enlisting in
the batallion du Calvados at the age of fourteen.
Pierre Poiteau ( 766- 8 ) was a self-taught botanist and artist who spent his early career
working as a gardener at the Jardin des Plantes where he made enough of an impression
to be chosen to be sent to set up a botanic garden at Bergerac. This accomplished, he was
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next sent as a plant collector to Santo Domingo by the Jardin, where fate stepped in as he
met and became friends with Turpin, who was stationed there with the French army. The
friendship developed into an artistic collaboration which provided illustrations for some
of the most elaborate botanical publications of the period including several of the botanical
volumes depicting the discoveries made by Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt and
Aimé Bonpland in the course of their exploration of Central and South America from
799 to 80 " (Stanley Johnston).

Some very occasional offsetting.
Provenance: The copy of the Archduke A(lbert) V(ictor) of Austria with his monogram
A.V. on spines.
Nissen BBI, 9 ; Sabin 762 & 76 ; Stafleu & Cowan 2.
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[ ] JABLONSKY, C.G. & HERBST, J.F.W. Natursystem aller bekannten
in- und ausländischen Insecten. SCHMETTERLINGE. Berlin, Pauli/
Reimer, 78 - 80 . text-volumes (bound in 8), 8vo ( 90 x mm) and
atlas, oblong- to (202 x 2 mm). With handcoloured frontispiece,
handcoloured title-vignettes and 28 handcoloured engraved plates. Text
volumes in contemporary uniform half calf, spines with gilt lettered labels,
atlas volume later half calf, with old label. € 8.000
First and only edition of this rare and superbly illustrated work on exotic (including
Australian) and European butterflies. Carl Gustav Jablonsky was private secretary to the
Queen of Prussia. After Jablonsky's untimely death Herbst edited the work from volume
on. Jablonsky and Krüger of Berlin designed the plates with the exception of the fron-

tispiece, which was made by Krüger's father, J.C. Krüger. The engravers are the same ones
as those working for Bloch, primarily Ludwig Schmidt. The work is one of the most attractively
illustrated entomological works of the period, with brilliant colouring. A sequel
was published to the above work dealing with coleoptera. "The Frenchmen were however
preceded in their illustrated compilation of the Cook voyage entomology by Johann
Herbst in Berlin, whose illustrated monographs on beetles (Natursystem der Käfer) were
published between 78 and 79 . Although he may have visited London, it is more likely
that Herbst saw duplicates given to Fabricius by Banks and taken by the former to Kiel,
which is relatively more accessible from Berlin. His illustrations of New Zealand insects
are the earliest published" (Andrews, The Southern Ark p. ). In the present work on
butterflies many descriptions refer to butterflies of New Holland, however only one has
been portrayed. This is the 'Papilio Bankia' on plate 7 .
The last text volume contains a manuscript index at the end which was never published
(see Horn-Schenkling 0 0). A fine copy with very clean plates.
Provance: Name of Johann Friederich Samuel Claus 8 on free endpaper and ticket of
our company 'W. Junk Berlin' on inside frontcover.
Nissen ZBI, 2078; Junk. Rara I, 0.
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[ 6] KANNEGIESSER, G.H. De cvra Piscivm per Slesvici et Holsatiae
Dvcatvm vsitata, libellvs, secvndvm constitvtionem Academiae Imperatoriae
Leopoldino-Franciscanae natvrae cvrios. Kilonii, G. Bartschii, 7 0.
8vo. pp. 70, ( ), with folded engraved frontispiece. Contemporary
blind stiff boards. € .000
Scarce early treatise on the fishes of Schleswig-Holstein (North-Germany).
Agassiz III, ; Mulder Bosgoed 28; not listed by Dean.
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[ 7] KNIP, P. & TEMMINCK, C.J. Les Pigeons, par Madame Knip,
née Pauline de Courcelles, Premier Peintre d'Histoire Naturelle de S.M.
l'Impératrice Reine Marie-Louise. Le texte par C.J. Themminck. Paris,
Mme Knip & Garnery, ( 809-) 8 . Large-folio ( 20 x 0 mm). With 87
engraved plates, printed in colours, heightened with gold and finished by
hand. Contemporary green morocco by J. Mackenzie, 'bookbinder to the
King', covers with wide dentelle border, each inner corner with small tool
of a bird perched on a tree stump, gilt spine compartments tooled with a
repeated design of six long-tailed birds perched on tendrils within a multiple
fillet frame, turn-ins with palmette and floral rolls, gilt edges.
€ 2 .000

A superbly bound copy, bound by J. Mackenzie 'bookbinder to the King', of the most
splendid and sumptuously produced work on pigeons, made possible by patronage of the
Empress Marie-Louise. Fine Bird Books attributes the highest rate of stars.
The beautiful plates were engraved by César Macret after the drawings by Madame Knip,
printed in colours and heightened with gold by Imp. de Millevoy, and retouched by hand
under the direction of the artist. "Superbly painted and reproduced these are among
the finest of all bird plates" (Fine Bird Books). A second volume, not present here, was
published in 8 and is said to be the rarest item in the whole range of ornithological
literature. An unusually clean and mint copy, with some occasional very slight foxing,
from the famous collection of Beriah Botfield, known for its oustanding condition. The
numbering of the pages is erratic, but the number of leaves is the same as given by Zimmer
and Ronsil. Small loss of paper at the lower margin of one page.
Provenance: Beriah Botfield Library at Longleat.
Anker 26 ; Nissen, IVB ; Ronsil 2890.
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[ 8] KNORR, G.W. & WALCH, J.E.I. De natuurlyke historie der versteeningen,
of uitvoerige afbeelding en beschryving van de versteende zaak-
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en, die tot heden op den aardbodem zyn ontdekt: ... Uit het hoog- in 't
nederduitsch vertaald door M. Houttuyn, met verscheide aanmerkingen.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 77 . volumes (bound in ). Folio (260 x 20
mm). pp. ( ), xiv, 6 ; ( ), - 8 ; (2), 8 - 8 ; ( ), 2 6, with double-page
handcoloured engraved plate 'Marmer-Groeve na by Solnhofen', some
engraved head- & woodcut tail-pieces and 272 handcoloured or colourprinted
engraved plates. Recent mottled half calf, richly gilt ornamented
spines in 7 compartments with the original green and red gilt lettered
labels. € 28.000
A fine copy of 'one of the best illustrated and most complete accounts on fossils...'
(Landwehr 9 ). "The outstanding work of this period is undoubtedly that of Knorr and
Walch in four volumes ... The first volume was written by the Nürnberg collector and
artist, Georg Wolfgang Knorr (born 70 , died 76 ), and the other three volumes were
prepared after the death of Knorr by Professor Walch of Jena ..." (Zittel pp. 2 -22). The
rare Dutch edition of the German original 'Naturgeschichte der Versteinerungen' (Nuremberg
768- 77 ) with the same beautiful plates. Volume II almost entirely concerns
fossil shells. "It is hardly possible to exaggerate the beauty and fidelity of the representations
of the fossils in his plates. No such illustrations had ever before appeared, and they
have hardly been surpassed since. By delicate lines on the copper plates the most minute
intricacies of structure are reproduced, and by thin washes of colour the tints of the original
specimens are represented. His renderings of dentritic markings, landscape-marble,
fossil plants, crustacea, crinoids, fishes and other fossils are admirable examples of the
union of artistic workmanship with scientific accuracy ..." (Geikie, Founders of Geology,
pp. 0 - 02). 'The extraordinary quality of the plates, representing the eighteenth-century
continuation of the tradition of Dürer, led to an expansion of the work by Walch, as well
as to French and Dutch editions... the detail and accuracy of Knorr's engravings not only
made possible zoological classification but firmly established the distinction between fossils
of organic and sports of nature' (DSB).
The books portrays and describes a.o fossils in the cabinets of famous collectors such as
Walch at Jena, Adam Hildebrand at Naumberg, Jac. Theod. Klein, Johann Hermannus
at Regensburg, S.R. Genzmer at Stargard, as well as the large collection of Casimir
Schmidel.
Nissen ZBI, 22 ; Ward & Carozzi 28 ; Landwehr 9 .
See frontcover illustration.
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[ 9] KOCH, C.L. Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Nürnberg, in der
C.H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, 8 7- 8 0. parts. 8vo (200 x 2 mm).
pp. vi, 9; 8, 0, (2); 6; 0 , with 8 engraved plates of which 2 handcoloured.
Contemporary half calf, spine with gilt lettering. € 7 0
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Carl Ludwig Koch ( 778- 8 7) was a famous German arachnologist and inspector of water
and forest. His principal work 'Die Arachniden' ( 8 - 8) was commenced by C.W.
Hahn and Koch was responsible for ther last twelve volumes.
Nissen ZBI, 22 0.
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[ 0] KOPS, J. Flora Batava, afgebeeld door en van wegens J.C. Sepp
en zoon; beschreven door Jan Kops. Amsterdam, Leiden, Haarlem,
s'Gravenhage, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, and others, ( 800)- 920. Volumes -
2 (of 28) & index volume. to (29 x 2 0mm). With handcoloured

engraved title page and 2000 coloured plates, engraved and coloured by
hand, lithographed and coloured by hand and chromolithographed. End
9th century uniform half calf, gilt and blind-stamped spines, marbled
sides (some vols. early 20th century). € 8. 00
A fine, almost complete set, of the most beautiful flora of the Netherlands. During a period
of years 6 parts were published. As this is a most unusual long period of time
complete sets are of the greatest rarity.
It is one of the great national floras and comparable in extent and span with the 'Flora
Danica', the 'Flora Graeca' and a few others. The first volumes were published by Sepp
& Zoon, a firm which excercised the utmost care in producing colour-plate books of
outstanding quality. The first 2 volumes have the plates handcoloured, the remaining
volumes have chromolithographs. For the first 0 volumes Kops was the editor, to be followed
by several other editors and publishers. The quality of the plates, especially of the
earlier volumes, is excellent, and makes it one of the most attractive botanical illustrated
works published in the Netherlands.
The index volume covers vols. - . The text is both in Dutch and French. A complete
copy has 28 vols with 22 0 plates. The work was issued in 8vo and to. The present copy
is the precious to edition. The first volume has a list of 2 2 subscribers. Little did they
know that it would take years for the whole work to be completed, so that none of
them was to see the last instalment. As publication took so long, it became a true monument
of nineteenth-century book production, since it is extremely rare for so many developments
in printing and illustration techniques to be reflected in one single work.
Great Flower Books, p. 6 ; Nissen BBI 22 7. Stafleu & Cowan II, 87 (giving a very
detailed collation and description); See also J. Baert, Jan Kops pioneer van Hollands
landbouw, 9 .
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[ ] KRUSENSTERN, A.J. VON. Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 80 ,
80 , 80 und 806 auf Befehl seiner Kaiserlichen Majestät Alexander des
Ersten auf den Schiffen Nadeshda und Newa... St. Petersburg, gedruckt
in der Schnoorschen Buchdruckery, auf Kosten des Verfassers, 8 0- 8 2.
volumes. to (26 x 2 mm). pp.(8), xx, , ( ); ( ), 6; ( ), iv, 76,(2),
with folded table. Contemporary calf, spines with 2 gilt lettered labels
(slightly rubbed). € . 00
Very rare text volumes of the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe. A large folio atlas
accompanying the German text was published in 8 . The work was first published in
Russian in St.Peterburg 809- 8 2 likewise in to. "Its historic importance lies in the fact
that the expedition commanded by Kruzenshtern was the first Russian circumnavigation
of the globe, during which two ships - the Nadezhda and the Neva - visited and chartered
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the North Pacific area, including Alaska. They also discovered a number of hitherto unknown
islands in the South Pacific" (Lada-Mocarski 62).
Second volume with some slight occasional marginal staining, the third volume with
strong browning at the lower margin of the first 2 leaves sometimes affecting the printed
text, the same to the last 0 leaves. The collation is similar to Lada-Mocarski, with one
acception that our copy of the rd volume has one more leaf at the beginning; leaf 9/ 60
is numbered twice as is correct.
Arctic Bibliography 9 77; Lada-Mocarski 62; Nissen ZBI, 2 0.
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[ 2] LACORDAIRE, J.T. Introduction à l'Entomologie comprenant les
principes généraux de l'anatomie et de la physiologie des insectes, des détails
sur leurs moeurs... Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 8 - 8 8.
2 text volumes and atlas. Royal-8vo (207 x 0mm). pp. ( ), ix, 6 ; ( ),
68 , ( ); ( ), 6, with 2 ( hand-coloured) engraved plates. Contemporary
half calf, spines with gilt lettering. € 0
Jean Théodore Lacordaire ( 80 - 870) was a famous French coleopterist. "Le Professeur
Lacordaire publie de 8 à 8 8, l' "Introduction à l'Entomologie", éditées par Roret.
Cette Introduction composée de deux volumes et de 2 planches développe tous les aspects
de l'entomologie alors connus: métamorphoses externes et internes, physiologie,
'facultés psychiques', biogéographie et une histoire de l'entomologie" (Lhoste p.60).
Nissen ZBI, 2 .
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[ ] LAMBERT, A. B. An illustration of the genus Cinchona; comprising
descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new
species. Baron de Humboldt's account of the Cinchona forests in South
America: and Laubert's memoir on the different species of Quinquina. To
which are added, several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz, on various
medical plants of South America. And a short account of the Spikenard
of the ancients. London, John Searle, 82 . to (290 x 2 mm). pp. ix, ( ,
errate), 8 with folded engraved plates. Recent black half calf, red gilt
lettered label on spine. € . 00
A.B.Lambert ( 76 - 8 2) was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean
Society. The present work serves as a kind of supplement to his earlier published work
on the same subject 'A description of the genus Cinchona' published in 797. Lambert
assembled one of the largest herbaria of his time which attracted visitors from many countries.
The upper margin of about the first 0 leaves with brown spot.
Stafleu & Cowan 7.
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[ ] LEACH, W.E. Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniae; or, descriptions
of such British species of the Linnean genus Cancer as have their eyes
elevated on footstalks. Illustrated with figures of all the species, by James
Sowerby. London, printed by B. Meredith, published and sold by James
Sowerby, 8 . to (29 x 2 0mm). pp. ( ), (96), with 7 ( folded or double-page)
handcoloured engraved plates. Recent half calf, spine with black
gilt lettered label. [Together with:] SOWERBY, G.B. Malacostraca Podopthalmata
Britanniae ... continued and completed, with a new generic
and specific index to the whole, and seven new plates. London, Bernard
Quaritch, 87 . to ( 6 x 260mm). pp. (28), with 7 ( double-page) handcoloured
engraved plates. Publisher's blue printed wrappers (a bit worn).
€ . 00
One of the most splendid works on Crustacea ever published and comparable to J.F.W.
Herbst's work on the Crustacea published 2 years earlier. The work was published in 9
parts and the concluding double issue by George Brettingham Sowerby was published
over a half century afterwards by the antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch, who had
bought the remaining stock of the foregoing issues. Having been published over such a
long period complete copies are very rare. The work is dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks,
who may both have supported his application to the Museum, and his candidature to
the Royal Society.
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William Elford Leach ( 790- 8 6) was an English zoologist and marine biologist and assistant
keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum. "In 8 , when Konig
was appointed Keeper of the Natural History Departments, he was given an assistant,
William Elford Leach ( 790- 8 6), perhaps one of the more brilliant minds to enter the
Museum. In every generation English science has been fortunate in attracting men with
intuitive feel for nature who by their gift and enthusiasm infect others and leave their
inspiration planted in those who follow. Anyone, who knew Leach and even the greater
number who did not, came to revere his memory and example. After over a century and
half, in spite of the shortness of his service, he stands out from his contemporaries as a
'profound naturalist'" (Gunther, The Founders of Science at the British Museum p. 9).
Nissen ZBI, 2 0 ; B.M. (Nat. Hist.) III , 07 .
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[ ] LEONHARD, C.C., KOPP, J.H. & GAERTNER, C.L. Propaedeutik
der Mineralogie. Frankfurt am Main, in der Joh. Chris. Hermannschen
Buchhandlung, 8 7. Folio ( 0 x 26 mm). pp. (2), xii, , with 0 engraved
plates of which coloured by hand. Later half cloth. € . 00
First edition. "In 8 7 Leonhard, together with J.H. Kopp and C.L. Gärtner, published
"Propaedeutik der Mineralogie" considered at the time the most instructive source work
in mineralogy". (DSB, VIII p. 2 6). Leonhard was the foremost mineralogist in Germany
at the beginning of the 9th century. Pages 229 to 09 'Literatur der Mineralogie' contains
an interesting bibliography of early mineralogical publications. According to Concklin
among the most complete of its time.
Title a bit dust-soiled. Subtitle 'Einleitung und Vorbereitung zur Mineralogie' paper repair
at the inner margin.
Ward & Carozzi 72.
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[ 6] LEPELETIER DE SAINT-FARGEAU, A. Histoire des Insectes.
HYMÉNOPTÈRES. Paris, Roret, 8 6- 8 6. volumes of text & atlas.
8vo (2 0 x 0mm). pp. ( ), 7; ( ), 680; ( ), 6 6; viii, 680, with 8
engraved plates, of which 9 finely handcoloured and 9 printed in bistre.
Contemporary green half calf, spines with gilt ornaments and lettering,
marbled sides; atlas loose in publisher's printed wrappers. € .800
Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau ( 770- 8 ) was a French entomologist.
From the year 8 until his death, he served as president of the Société Entomologique de
France. Most of the excellent plates were drawn by Prêtre and have delicate colouring. The
work was issued with plain or coloured plates. The present copy is the rare coloured issue.
The work was published as part of the series 'Suites à Buffon' by the publisher Roret.
Nissen ZBI, 2 2.
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[ 7] LESSON, R.P. Histoire naturelle des Zoophytes. Acalèphes. Paris,
Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 8 . 8vo (26 x 6 mm). Atlas only:
With 2 finely handcoloured engraved plates and 2 pages 'Explications des
planches'. Original wrappers. € 00
The superb plates are by Prêtre, one of the foremost natural history artists of the period.
A scarce volume of the "Suites à Buffon".
Nissen ZBI, 2 6 .
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[ 8] LINNAEUS, C. Materia Medica Liber I. De Plantis secundum Genera,
Loca, Nomina, Qualitates, Vires, Differentias, Durationes, Simplicia,
Modos, Usus, Synonyma.... digestus. Holmiae, L. Salvius, 7 9. 8vo ( 97
x 2 mm). pp. ( 2), 2 2, with fine engraved frontispiece and engraved
folded plate. Contemporary calf, richly gilt ornamented spine.
€ 2. 00
Rare first edition of Linnaeus' work on medicinal plants. It replaced the 'Stockhom Pharmacopoeia'
which Linneaus considered useless for treating ailments, he modernised the
list and motivated choises in his 'Materia Medica'. In his botanical garden Linnaeus kept
all the important plants that could be cultivated in Sweden as well as many plants he
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wanted to observe as a botanist. He used his garden to demonstrate medicinal plants and
botany to his medical students. Some that could not be cultivated in Sweden he kept as
dried powder in a medicine cabinet. This cabinet is still kept at the Linnaeus Museum in
Uppsala.
Sously 968.
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[ 9] LINNAEUS, C. Philosophia Botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta
botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus
rariorum, adjectis figuris aeneis. Stockholmiae, G. Kiesewetter, 7 .
8vo (20 x 2 mm). pp. (6), 62, with portrait frontispiece of Linnaeus and
2 fullpage woodcuts in the text and 9 engraved plates. Contemporary calf,
richly gilt ornamented spine in 6 compartments and frontcover with gilt
lettering. € .800
Scarce first edition with the mostly lacking portrait of Linnaeus (J.M. Bernigeroth sc.
Lips. 7 9). "The 'Philosophia botanica' consists of the 6 aphorisms of the 'Fundamenta'
(only a few of them in a changed form or actually different) with the addition
of extensive explanations, commentaries, references or other documentation printed in
smaller type.... The 'Philosophia botanica' is the key to Linnaeus and the epitome of the
predominance of aristotelian-thomistic methodological thinking in taxonomic botany"
(Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans. p. 2).
Soulsby 7.
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[60] LINNAEUS, C. Species Plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas,
ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis
selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Holmiae,
impensis Laurentii Salvii, 7 . 2 volumes. 8vo (200 x 2 mm). pp.
( 2), - 60; (2), 6 - 200, ( 2). Contemporary calf, gilt ornamented spines
with 2 red gilt lettered labels (very slightly rubbed). € 8.000
First edition of the most important work in the world's botanical literature, the foundation
of binary nomenclature, and thus the starting point of modern nomenclature.
There are two issues of the first volume of the first edition; the present one is the second
issue, for which Linnaeus had revised and reprinted three leaves (i.e. E6, F & R2). It is
therefore to be regarded as the definitive edition. Linnaeus himself named this work his
"Magnum Opus". The corrected leaves F and R2 are bound in at the beginning of the
first volume. The publisher of the 'Species Plantarum' 'used cheap paper' (Hunt 8),
for which reason the work is always prone to some browing. The present copy has some
marginal browning to the first few leaves of each volume. Title pages with with very faint
old library stamp.
Hulth 89; Hunt 8; Pritzel 27; Soulsby 80a; Stafleu & Cowan 769.
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[6 ] LONITZER, A. Kräuterbuch
und Künstliche Conterfeyungen.
Ulm, Daniel Bartolomae,
70 . Folio ( 02 x
9 mm). pp. ( ), 7 0, (2 , index).
Title printed in red and
black with woodcut printer's
device, handcoloured woodcut
portrait of the author, and over
200 beautifully contemporary
handcoloured woodcuts. Contemporary
blindstamped panelled
pigskin, with armorial device
on front- & back cover.
€ 2. 00
A beautiful, interleaved, contemporary
coloured copy of this later and
enlarged edition of Lonitzer's famous
herbal. The first German edition appeared 7 and was published by Egenolph. It is quite
unusual to find a relatively late edition of this work with such fine colouring. The herbal
was very popular and the last edition appeared in 78 . "No other botanical work of the
period had a success comparable to that of Egenolph's herbals of which that of Lonitzer is
the most important and valuable. It passed through numerous editions (in Latin and German)
until late in the 8th century" (l'Art Ancient, Early Books on Medicine p. 0).
"In 7, according to Anderson, Lonitzer took Rösslin's 'Kreuterbuch', which was itself a
reworking of the 'Gart der Gesundheit' and the 'Distillierbuich', Dorsten's reworking of
the herbal portion of Rösslin's work known as the 'Botanicon', re-edited, combined, and
reworked them with additions of his own to form the present work (i.e the first German
7 edition)" (Johnston, The Cleveland Herbal... 8 ).
98 of the woodcuts concern plants, 2 depict mammals, reptiles, birds and insects, some
0 woodcuts depict metals, minerals, corals and precious stones. There is a special title for
the mineral part 'Beschreibung Natur und Eigenschafft der Metallen und Ertz'. Lower
corners of first few leaves and edges of last few leaves lightly worn; a very well preserved
copy.
See Nissen BBI, 228, listing an edition by the same publisher of 7 ; B.M.(Nat. Hist.)III,
p. 7 also listing the 7 edition.
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[62] LUCAS, H. Histoire
naturelle des animaux articulés.
Exploration scientifique
de l'Algérie, pendant
les années 8 0, 8 et 8 2
... Paris, Imprimerie Nationale,
( 8 6)- 8 9. volumes (
text-volumes & atlas). Folio
( 60 x 270mm). pp. (6), xxxv,
0 ; (6), 90; (6), 27, with
22 fine handcoloured engraved
plates. Contemporary
red half morocco, gilt lettering
on spines, edges gilt.
€ 6. 00
The complete Entomology and
Crustacea section of the 'Exploration
scientifique de l'Algérie'. "Lucas
was responsible for the volumes entitled 'Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés'.
J, Macquart is the author of the Diptera, p. - 0 , in volume " (Evenhuis p. 98). The
complete expedition comprises 2 volumes and was published from 8 to 867.
Hippolyte Pierre Lucas ( 8 - 899) was a French invertebrate zoologist at the Paris Natural
History Museum, he was in Algeria from December 8 9 - March 8 2, and worked
at his collections from 8 2 to 8 9. He began working in the museum at the age of
and later obtained the "Chaire d'Entomologie". He was likewise the author of some fine
books on butterflies.
The illustrations of the present work are outstanding and belong to the finest natural
history illustrations produced in France. The plates are by Nicolet, Vaillant, Bury and
Corbon of which the first two artists belong to the foremost artists of the period.
Hercule Nicolet ( 80 - 872) was a French-Swiss artist, lithographer, and entomologist. He
was a well-known lithographer in Neuchâtel and was closely connected to Louis Agassiz.
In 8 6 he was asked by Milne-Edwards to contribute to the 'Velins du Museum'. He
illustrated many fine natural history works such as all the entomological works by James
Thomson.
A.J.B. Vaillant ( 8 7- 8 2) was one of the illustrators of some of the finest French zoological
works of the period such as Chenu's 'Illustrations Conchyliologiques'', Cuvier's 'Le Règne
animal', Ferret's 'Voyage en Abyssinie' and Orbigny's 'Voyage dans l'Amérique…'
The atlas is composed as follows: Crustacées (8) - Arachnides (22) - Myriapodes ( )
- Hexapodes (2) - Coleoptères ( 7) - Orthoptères ( ) - Hemiptères ( ) - Nevroptères ( )
- Hymenoptères ( 9) - Lepidoptères ( ) - Diptères (6).
Nissen ZBI, 2 78; B.M. (Nat. Hist.) II, 602.
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[6 ] MARBODUS (Bishop of Rennes). Marbodei Galli Poetae Vetustissimi
de lapidibus pretiosis Enchiridion, cum scholijs Pictorij Villingensis.
Eivsdem Pictorii De lapide molari carmen. Lectori. Qui cupis emunctim
gemmarum scire medullas, Huc uenias, totum continet iste liber: Qui
decies senis capitellis nomina dicit, Et species, patrias, quid ualeant 'qz
simul. Anno M.D.XXXI. [Freiburg in Breisgau, P. Willig], . 8vo ( 2
x 9 mm). [2], - , [ ], leaves. Recent boards, covered with old printed
paper. € .800
The work of Marbodus is the earliest lapidary of the middle ages and also the one which is
quoted more widely. Marbodus was Bishop of Rennes and wrote his lapidary, in 7 Latin
hexameters describing 60 stones, between the years 06 and 08 . This is the first edition
of Georg Pictorius's annotated redaction of Marbode's book on the medical and magical
properties of precious stones. Many manuscripts of this lapidary have survived. After the
invention of printing, editions appeared between and 7 0 and still others at later
dates. This copy is the third edition overall of this work that first appeared in .
Two library stamps on title. A very fine preserved copy of this rare lapidary.
Sinkankas 70; Wilson, Mineral books pp. 29- 2.
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[6 ] MARTINI, F.H. & CHEMNITZ, J.H. Neues systematisches
Conchylien-Cabinet fortgesetzet durch Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz:
Fünfter Band. Nürnberg, G.N. Raspe, 78 . to (290 x 22 mm). pp. (2 ),
2 , with an engraved title vignette, some engravings in the text and fine
handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, richly gilt decorated
spine with red and green label. € . 00
The th volume of this large and rare iconography on shells is of particular interest as it
describes and portrays many shells from New Zealand and some from Australia collected
during Cook's voyages into the Pacific. In the preface Chemnitz states: "… viele dem
Kenner wichtiger Conchyliologische Nachrichten aufgetrieben, auf jeder Kupferplatte
einige ganz neue, äusserst seltene, auch vorzügliche Südländische, bey den Cookischen
Seereisen, zuerst entdeckte Gattungen geliefert".
Below we give the pages where these shells are described (as well as portrayed). Vol. V: pp.
26, 27, 28, 6, 2, 7, 97, 00, 6 , 66, 87, 207, 2 , 2 , 229, 2 0, 272, 28 , 296, 2 .
For example page 6 of volume V describes 'Der Cookskräusel von Cooks Meeresenge
bey Neu-Seeland'; page 97 describes 'Der genabelte grünliche Perlenkräusel von Neuseeland;
page 66 describes 'Das Bretspiel… diese Schnecken sind nach meinem Verzeichniss
von Diemensland'; page 207 describes 'Die rötliche geperlte Neuseeländische Mondschnecke';
page 2 describes 'Die Schmaragdschnecke von Neuseeland … Dass ich so glücklich
gewesen vom Herrn. D. Solander eigener dieser Schönheiten durch die Fürsprache
eines Freundes zu erobern'; page 229 describes 'Die schwarze weissgefiederte Mondsch-
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necke von Neuseeland'; page 2 0 describes 'Die ungenablte kleine Elsterschnecke von
Neuseeland'.
Many of the shells come from the cabinet of Lorenz Spengler of Copenhagen (ex Museo
Spengleriano). His cabinet contained many Cook related items and Spengler was a regular
customer of Humprey, 'who wrote to Spengler on October, 77 , apologizing for the
delay in sending him shells and explaining that he needed to be on hand to take care of
transactions on the return of the 'Resolution" (Andrews, The Southern Ark p. 8).
"Friederich Wilhelm Martini, a Hamburg physician, conceived the idea of publishing the
first large-scale encyclopaedia of shells illustrated with hand-coloured plates. His ambition
was to describe and portray every kind of shell known, an ambition virtually impossible
to fulfil, as others have discovered since. No sooner was the third volume of the 'Neues
Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet' in print that its author died, in 778. Publication
was continued by Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, a Danish clergyman who, between
779 and 79 , added a further eight volumes" (Dance, Shells p. 2 ).
Nissen ZBI, 2722; B.M. (Nat. Hist.) III, 2 2.
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[6 ] MARTINI, F.H. & CHEMNITZ, J.H. Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet,
fortgesetzet durch Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz.
Eilfter Band. Nürnberg, in der Raspeschen Buchhandlung, 79 . to (270
x 2 0mm). pp. (2 ), 0, (2), with engraved title vignette, some text engravings
and fine handcoloured engraved plates. Recent half calf, richly
gil spine. € . 00
The th volume, and the final volume published by Chemnitz, of this large and rare iconography
on shells is of particular interest as it describes and portrays many shells from
New Zealand and Australia collected during Cook's voyages into the Pacific. Below we
give the pages where these shells are described (as well as portrayed). Vol. XI: pp. 8, 7, 2 ,
, 9, 8 , 7, 66, , 62, 6 , 68, 79, 80, 2 7, 27 , 28 .
For example p. 8 'Die Magnificens. Die prächtige Volute… lieget diese Volute alleine in der
reichen Conchyliensammlung des Herrn Kunstverwalters Spengler. Er hat davon einige
Exemplare aus London bekommen. Jedes hat ihm fünf Guineen gekostet… Ob wir bald
mehrere von dieser prächtigen Gattung aus Norfolk zu erhalten das Glück haben werden,
wird die Zeit lernen'; p. 2 'Die Südseeische wilde Musik… Voluta Pacifica Solandri'; p.
'Aurora. Die Pomeranze… Cypraea Aurora Solandri'; p. 9 'Der Südseeische Kegel…
Conus Australis…Es wohnet dieser Kegel in der Südsee, vornehmlich bey Südwallis. Es
ist durch Englische Schiffe die von Botanybay hergekommen, in China, an Dänische
Seefahrer verkauft worden'; p. 7 'Der Spenglerische Murex… so hat man vor kurzen
diese Gattung am Strande von Neusüdwallis entdecket…' p. 62 'Die Südseeische Perspectivschnecke...
Tronchus Perspectivus Australis…… die von Botanybay nach China
gekommen, und einen Theil ihrer Conchylien Dänischen Chinafahrer verkauft…' p. 66
'Die Südseeische Dicklippe… Trochus Labeo Australis… bey Neuseeland sollen die Dick-
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lippen die gemeinsten Schnecken
seyn'; p. 79 'Die Sattinpatelle…
welche von Neusüdwallis herstammet…';
p. 27 'Das Riesenhorn,
Helix Cornu Giganteum… welch
auf den Inseln der Südsee und auf
Neuseeland wohnet…'; p. 28 'Die
Sultanin unter den Hennen, Helix
Gallina Sultana… Es wohnet diese
seltene Schnecke auf Neuseeland'.
Many more shells of the South Seas
and the Pacific are described and
portrayed in this volume.
Many of the shells come from the
cabinet of Lorenz Spengler of Copenhagen
(ex Museo Spengleriano).
His cabinet contained many Cook
related items and Spengler was a
regular customer of Humprey, 'who
wrote to Spengler on October,
77 , apologizing for the delay in
sending him shells and explaining
that he needed to be on hand to take care of transactions on the return of the 'Resolution"
(Andrews, The Southern Ark p. 8).
"Friederich Wilhelm Martini, a Hamburg physician, conceived the idea of publishing the
first large-scale encyclopaedia of shells illustrated with hand-coloured plates. His ambition
was to describe and portray every kind of shell known, an ambition virtually impossible
to fulfil, as others have discovered since. No sooner was the third volume of the 'Neues
Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet' in print that its author died, in 778. Publication
was continued by Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, a Danish clergyman who, between
779 and 79 , added a further eight volumes" (Dance, Shells p. 2 ).
Nissen ZBI, 2722; B.M. (Nat. Hist.) III, 2 2.
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[66] MERCATI, M. Metallotheca. Opus posthumum, auctoritate, &
munificentia Clementis undecemi Pontificis Maximi ex tenebris in lucem
eductum; Opera autem, & studio Joannis Mariae Lancisii... illustratum.
Cui accessit appendix cum XIX. recens inventiis iconibus. Rome, apud Jo.
Mariam Salvioni Typographum Vaticanum, 7 9 (colophon: 7 7). 2 parts
in one volume. Folio ( 66 x 2 mm). pp. (x, including half-title and frontispiece),
xiii-lxiv, 78 (with an additional cancel leaf z , pp. 67-8(bis),
( 8); , ( ) with engraved frontispiece, 2 portraits (of Mercati and Lancisi),
6 engraved plates of which 2 are double-page, 9 engravings in text (sev-
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eral full-page), and engraved vignettes on titles, 2 initials and one tailpiece.
Contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt decorated spine woth red gilt lettered
label (short split to upper joint). € 8. 00
First edition, second issue with the inclusion of the Appendix and the cancel title dated
7 9, of the first catalogue of the first significant European mineralogical museum. This
copy also contains an unrecorded cancel leaf with a different version of the engraving of
the sleeping Cleopatra. This is one of the most attractive 'museum' books ever published,
with excellent engravings of fossils, minerals, statues, etc. Mercati ( - 9 ), director of
the Vatican botanical garden, had prepared this catalogue of the Vatican collection of fossils
and minerals, assembled under the aegis of Pope Sixtus V, as early as 7 , although
some 0 years elapsed before Lancisi edited and published this work. Besides Mercati's
text, Lancisi discovered the original copper-plates for the engravings, which are printed
here for the first time.
The collection, 'one of the most important of such collections in Europe' (Torrens, The
origins of museums), contained minerals, fossils, classical statues, palaeolithic tools, and
various other natural and man-made artefacts exhibiting the general property of 'stoniness'.
As a record of an important renaissance palaeontological museum, Mercati's work
is of great significance, even though his views on fossils are typical: he believed them
to be lusus naturae, and in fact illustrates, side by side, Glossopetrae (fossilised sharks'
teeth) with the famous depiction of a shark's head with teeth, commenting that one
should not be deceived by their apparent similarity. Mercati did understand the artefact
nature of palaeolithic stone tools, at the time generally held to be products of lightning
bolts. It is fitting that Mercati, the great cataloguer of 'stones', suffered from bladder and
kidney stones which contributed to his death; his autopsy, possibly done by his mentor
Cesalpino, revealed 98 stones. One of the engravings in the text illustrates bladder stones
extracted from Pope Pius V. 'The Vatican collection consists of a series of cabinets with
drawers, or 'armaria', in which are housed collections of earths, salts, alums, gums and
resins, marine products, ores, fossils, marbles, and other objects collected by Mercati...
The plates can scarcely be equalled for fidelity to originals and the exquisite care employed
in their engraving and printing' (Sinkankas, Gemology, an annotated bibliography).
The frontispiece, depicting the presentation of Mercati's Metallotheca to Clement XI, is
by Jakob Frey after Pietro Bianchi. The portrait of Mercati is by Benoit Farjat after Pietro
Nelli's copy of Tintoretto's original. Most of the plates of antique statues in the Marmora
section are by Vincenzo Franceschini and Louis Gaumier, in part after G.D. Campiglia.
The majority of illustrations in the text are from the original sixteenth-century plates
prepared for Mercati, printed here for the first time. The cancel leaf z contains a different
version of the engraving of the sleeping Cleopatra; the original leaf has an engraving
drawn by Giovanni Domenico Campiglia and engraved by Hieronymus Rossi, and the
cancel leaf has a different depiction drawn and engraved by Maximus Justus Limpach of
Prague. The appendix, with 20 (not 9 as per the title) new plates, contains new illustrations,
and re-engravings of most of Gaumier's plates (statues and a few natural history
specimens) with slightly finer detail; obviously for some reason his illustrations in the
main text were considered inferior to the others and therefore a new suite of engravings
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was prepared. There is a fine double-page view of the 'Metallotheca' and each section is
headed by an engraved depiction of the appropriate cabinet.
Some occasional marginal spotting spotting as often. A fine copy.
Hoover 82; Cobres p. 07 n 20; Sinkankas 90; Ward and Carozzi
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[67] MERIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA. Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa
metamorphosis... Amsterdam, J. Oosterwyk, ( 7 8). parts bound
in one. to (2 0 x 8 mm). With engraved frontispiece by J. Schijnvoet,
other frontispieces of floral wreaths to each part, and 0 engraved plates.
Contemporary Dutch mottled calf panelled in gilt, spine gilt in compartment
(small skilful repair to head of spine). € .000
A superbly bound large copy of the first Latin edition of Maria Sibylla Merian's 'Der
Rupsen Begin', published one year after the third volume of the Dutch language edition.
The work was first published in German 'Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung'.
Of this German edition only 2 parts were published. For the Dutch edition a third part
was added. After Oosterwijk published the present Latin edition he sold the plates to the
Amsterdam publisher J.F. Bernard who published a French edition under quite a different
name 'Histoire des Insectes de l'Europe'. This was a folio work with the plates rearranged
in folio format, mostly plates on one leaf.
New in the first Latin edition is the frontispiece by Schynvoet, and the sometimes present
portrait of Sibylla Merian by Houbraken. As this portrait is lacking in about half the copies,
it is likely that the early issues do not contain this portrait and that is was added later.
All plates show butterflies with their food plants.
The Latin edition was published posthumously as Sibylla Merian died the previous year.
Maria Sibylla Merian was one of the most remarkable naturalists of the 7th and 8th
century, daughter of the renowned publisher Matthäus Merian of Frankfurt. Already at
the very early age of thirteen she began studying insects. She became the most celebrated
woman artist of her time and many of her drawings were acquired by Tsar Peter the Great.
"The work of these years consisted of both scientific and artistic activity: Merian collected
and raised insects, fed them with their host plants, observed them, described and drew
their metamorphoses from egg to caterpillar and from pupa to butterfly imago. She then
compiled her individual observations and studies in pictorial compositions" (Maria Sibylla
Merian, Artist and Naturalist 6 7- 7 7, p. 0 ).
In 699 Sibylla Merian embarked upon the dangerous journey from Amsterdam to Surinam
in the company of her daughter Dorothea. The result of this was her famous 'Metamorphosis
Insectorum Surinamensium' published in Amsterdam 70 .
I have seen or had several copies of Merian's 'Der Rupsen Begin...' or the 'Erucarumn...'
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in very similar splendidly tooled Dutch bindings. For example Christie's catalogue of 22
March 2000 items 22 and 2 shows pictures of bindings with very similar tooling.
Nissen BBI, 2; Pfeiffer, Die Werke Maria Sibylla Merian, Nr. A7; M.S. Merian artist
and naturalist no. .
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[68] MEYER, H.A. & MOEBIUS, K. Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Erster
Band: Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia. Leipzig, W. Engelmann,
86 . Large- to. pp. xxx, 88, with 26 (20 coloured) plates. Contemporary
half cloth. € 2 0
Nissen ZBI, 280 . Some foxing.
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[69] MILLIÈRE, P. Iconographie et description de Chenilles et Lépidoptères
inédit. Lyon 860- 870. volumes. Royal-8vo (27 x 77mm). Parts
-26. With 07 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates. Disbound and preserved
in recent wrappers. € . 00
The complete parts -26, extracted from the 'Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon'.
A complete copy has plates. This beautifully produced work was issued in parts.
Parts -28 were also published in the 'Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon', parts 29were
separately issued in a very small edition. "... il est bien estimé comme les figures
des insectes et surtout des chenilles - avec leur plantes de nourriture - sont excellentes
et comme la description est vraiment scientifique. Cette belle iconographie est devenue
très rare. Mais c'est le III. volume (les livrais.: 29 à ) qui est rarissime. Les planches
de l'ouvrage de Millière sont toujours coloriées dans les exemplaires qui ont été publiés
comme volumes complets mais sont souvent noires dans les années des 'Annales'" (Junk
Rara, II, pp. - ). "Pierre Millière ( 8 - 887) fait appel à Mignot et à Poujade, tous deux
remarquables artistes, pour illustrer ses trois volumes ..." (Lhoste p. 0 ).
Nissen ZBI, 282 .
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[70] MILLIÈRE, P. Lépidoptérologie. Sept fascicules. Cannes, Impr. et
lithogr. H. Vidal, 88 . 8vo (2 x 60mm). pp. 6; ; 2 ; ; ; 20; 22; -
79, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Millière and 6 fine handcoloured
lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf, spine with gilt lettering
(Part 8 loosely inserted). € .200
A rare complete copy. Intended were 7 parts, which were published from 87 - 88 in
the 'Annales des Sciences Naturelle de Cannes', in the 'Annales de la Soc. Entom. de
Belgique', and the 'Annales de la Soc. Linnéenne de Lyon', the off-prints assembled here
with a new title and a portrait of Millière. However in 88 a concluding 8th part was
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published in the 'Annales de la Soc. Linnéenne de Lyon', which is loosely inserted in our
copy..
Index Litt. Entom. II p. 0 .
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[7 ] MÜLLER, J. Die vorzüglichsten Sing-Vögel Teutschlands mit ihren
Nestern und Eijern nach der Natur abgebildet und aus eigener Erfahrung
beschrieben. Nürnberg, In der Kaijserl. priv. Kunst- und Buchhandlung
Adam Gottlieb Schneider- & Weigels, 799- 800. to (2 0 x 8 mm). pp.
( ), -20; pp. ( ), 2 - 2; pp. ( ), - ; pp. ( ), -70, with hand-coloured
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engraved title frontispiece, printed title and 2 superbly hand-coloured
folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine with red gilt lettered
label (a bit rubbed). € . 00
A fine complete copy of this very scarce work on song birds of Germany. We could only
trace 2 copies having been sold in the last decades. An incomplete copy was sold at Christie's
(London) 2 November 99 and a complete, but mediocre copy, at Zisska & Kistner
Auktion 2/II ( 998). The last copy had 2 plates remounted, text page lacking part of text
and numerous restored damaged margins and was sold for DM. 600 (not including the
premium). The charming title-frontispiece shows a nightingale. The unusually fine handcoloured
plates show the birds in their natural habitat, always with their nests and eggs.
The work was published in parts and in part 2 pagination jumps from 27 to 0, which
is the case in all copies. At the end of our copy a part of Levaillant's 'Naturgeschichte der
afrikanischen Vögel', the section 'Raubvögel' pp. - 8, 7-6 , with 2 hand-coloured
engraved plates, has been bound in.
Nissen IVB, 6 6; Anker 7; Schlenker 2 6.
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[72] MURCHISON, R.I., VERNEUIL, E. DE & KEYSERLING,
COUNT A. VON. The Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural mountains.
London, J. Murray, 8 . parts (bound in 2 volumes). Large- to.
pp. 8, with engraved dedication-leaf, 2 tinted lithographed plates of
views (including 2 frontispieces), 2 lithographed plates of fossils, folded
handcoloured engraved plates of sections and 2 large folded handcolourd
engraved maps. Contemporary publisher's gilt cloth. € . 00
Great classic on the Geology and Paleontology of Russia. "The following year ( 8 0) Murchison
resolved the matter by discovering in European Russia a sequence of undisturbed
starta in which the Devonian was clearly underlaid by Silurian and overlain by Carboniferous,
and in which Devonian invertebrates were interbedded with Old Red sandstone
fish. This established the temporal equivalence of the Devonian and Old Red Sandstone
despite their contrasting lithology and fauna. A second expedition to Russia in 8 took
Murchison as far as the Urals and confirmed this Paleozoic sequence" (DSB IX, p. 8 ).
One of the important and influential works of Murchison, which brought him worldwide
fame and recognition. The second volume, dealing with palaeontology and almost
entirely with fossil shells, was published in French only.
Almost all plates show fossil shells. A fine copy.
Ward & Carozzi, 62 ; B.M.(Nat. Hist.)III, 80.
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[7 ] MYERS, A. Histoire Naturelle, Botanique. [Paris], circa 8 0. Folio
( 7 x 270mm). Manuscript title signed Ada Myers with a bouquet of
flowers and a portrait of Jean Jaques Rousseau in pencil studying a flower
through a magnifying glas, calligraphical title in gold and blue, full-page
watercolours on thick wove paper, each facing a manuscript page laying
out various orders of flowers, original tissue guards. Contemporary red
half morocco, spine in 6 compartments with gilt floral ornaments, frontcover
with gilt monogram A.M. Backcover with gilt oval stamp 'Congregation
de Notre-Dame, Monastère dit des Oiseaux'. € . 00
Ada Myers was presumably a nun at the Order of our Lady. The botanical album is beautifully
executed and shows flowers like: Lis du Japon, Glaïeul, Aristoloche siphon, Belles
de nuit, Phlox, Azalées, Camélia, Fuchsia écarlate, Euphorbe épineuse. The accompanying
text is nicely calligraphed, within a blue and green border.
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[7 ] NOVÆ FLORUM ICONES Hujus generis atrium cultoribus perutiles,
maximâ curâ deliniatæ, et tabulis æneis incisæ. Ex Officina Nicol:
Visscher. A series of 6 copper engravings, numbered lower right, 2 7 x 7
mm, within the borders c. 229 x 6 mm. € 7. 00
The only other copy known is in the British Museum, London, Department Prints and
Drawings, location 6 .c.2 , registration number 9 7, 09 . 9. 7- . The 6 plates are
reported on a website, without illustrations, with Nicolaes Visscher II [ 6 9- 702 = Nicolaes
Visscher III] as the publisher and dated c. 670- 700. Dimensions c. 2 0 x mm
[within the borders]. Bound in an album of ornamental prints. Transferred from British
Library in 9 7. Several of the flowers are copied in a British series published by John
Overton in London in a slightly larger size (2 7 x 6 mm), without a title; see Hollstein
p. 286).
A series with the identical title 'Novae…incisae', has been published under 'Amstelodamum
Renard 6 0', is in the Bavarian State Library, published as an e-book with two
different physical descriptions: " Platten" [plates] and "[ 0] Bl.: nur III". The e-book
can be ordered via the website. It needs further research to know if this is a similar or an
identical series, and if the series is complete and the other 29 plates are by the same hand
or by different hands.
These data give a confusing view on the artist and publisher as well as the date of publication
and its content and eventual other series or prints. Another complication is a better
known version or copy of the same prints conversed by Jeronimus Falck (c. 6 7 - Gdansk
- 677), published in Hamburg in 662 as well as by Frederick de Wit in Amsterdam 662,
most probably after the series by Nicolaes Visscher, named 'Novae et exquisitae florum
icones. Hujus generis atrium cultoribus perutiles, maxima cura delineatae et tabulis aenaeis
incisae per Jeremiam Falck Hamburgi ano 662', and the same with a text below:
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''t Amsterdam gedruckt bij Frederick de Wit in de Kalverstraat bij den Dam in de Nieue
Paskaert' ( ). The series shows 2 plates of the 6 by Visscher, inverse and less subtle executed,
but at least one copy has plates by another hand added, perhaps later, but all
numbered. The other series is named 'Verscheydene Nieuwe Tulpen, en andere Bloemen /
Novae et exquisitae Florum Icones', a series of 6 prints with Jeremias Falck as the inventor
and Frederick de Widt as the publisher, probably a later edition of an original from
the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Both series have been seen in auctions during
the last 60 years (2).
References
Hollstein Text, vol. XXXVIII, Roosendaal & Amsterdam 99 , p. 286, nos. 89- 0 [without
locations], and vol. XXXIX, p. 2 8 the illustration of the title page. An unpublished
typescript by M. Simon on works by Claes Jansz Visscher of 9 8 lists the items with own
numbers, see under concordance (taken from Hollstein) and literature.
Bridson & White 990, p. , no. C6 : "Visscher, Nikolaas J.? [ca. 62 ] Novae florum
icones. Amsterdam, L. Renard. 2° 2 ; pts. Eng. t.p. & + 2[?] pl. **Ref. Warner & Brown
p. 8 . Suites of prints. The first part has unnumbered plates; the second part comprises
2 [or 0] plates, printed on 6 [or ] sheets. (Warner & Brown describe a copy which has
only plates -8, - 2 in the second part.) Cf: Univ. cat. p. 70 (as Flores. - Novae…); BM
cat. v9 p. 68 (sa: Flores Novae… 680? 6 pl.)." See under literature.
The author and publisher
Three seventeenth-century publishers in Amsterdam are named Nicolaes Visscher.
Number I is known as Claes Jansz Visscher ( 87- 6 2). He originally illustrated maps
from other publishers and started to publish his own atlases, historical- and genre prints,
landscapes and portraits, and had an art gallery. He also published four (rare) series of
flower still-lifes: after Adriaen Collaert c. 6 2, after Giovanni Battista Rosso, and two by
his own hand, one dated 6 0, next to other copies of flower pots after Elias Verhulst,
Johan Mer ( 609), Adriaen Collaert ( 609, 6 6 and 6 ), Jan Baptist Jacops and Jacob
Savery ( ).
Other engravers, like Peter Schenk, worked after Claes Jansz Visscher. Nicolaes Visscher
II ( 6 8- 679) was a son of Claes Jansz and is sometimes referred as Nicolaes I. He worked
in his father's workshop and took it over after his death. He is most known for his atlases
and town views, partly copied from others. Nicolaes Visscher III ( 6 9- 702) was a son
and follower of Nicolaes II, but is sometimes referred as Nicolaes II. He also published
atlases and historical prints, partly after others.
It is most likely that the series by Nicolaes Visscher is published in or about 6 0 in the
print room of Claes Jansz Visscher. We don't know yet, however, if the series published
that year in Amsterdam with the identical name is the same. The series published by Falck
is, most probably, a copy after the Visscher series. It contains 2 plates in reverse, and
completely different plates. The copy might be after an incomplete series of 2 plates, as in
the Cincinnati copy, the other four added to make it 6. The Bavarian album of plates
is, most probably, a combination with one or more different series. It is not completely
certain if Claes Jansz is the inventor of the series or his son Nicolaes II in his father's print
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oom, but that is most likely, because his father usually printed his name as 'Claesz J' or
the like.
The series
. Title within a wreath of flowers, clockwise from lower centre:
Damask Rose (Rosa x damascena); Persian Tulip hybrid (Tulipa clusiana hybrid) (with
different leaves); Poppy Anemone (Anemone coronaria); Eranthis (Eranthis hyemalis);
Hollyhock (Alcea rosea semiplena); Meadow Cranesbill (Geranium pratense); Anulated
Sowbread (Cyclamen hederifolium); Red Lily (Lilium bulbiferum); Orange Lily (Lilium
bulbiferum)
2. Provins Rose (Rosa x provincialis) x
. A nosespray of flowers; Kurdistan Tulip hybrids (Tulipa stapfii hybrid) 2x; white Snake
Head's Fritilary (Fritillaria meleagris alba); full Primrose Pearless (Narcissus x intermedius
plenus)
. Carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus plenus) lower left; Liverwort (Hepatica nobilis) x;
Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) top
. French Rose (Rosa gallica duplex) lower left; Peony (Paeonia officinalis plena) upper
left; Prikneus (Lychnis coronaria) upper right; Florentine Iris ( Iris x florentina) lower
right
6. Incomparabilis Narcissus (Narcissus x incomparabilis) lower left; Poppy Anemone
(Anwmone coronaria plena) mid left; Poppy Anemone (Anemone coronaria) upper left;
Kurdistan Tulip hybrid (Tulipa stapfii hybrid) upper right; Italian Clematis (Clematis
viticella) mid right; Poppy Anemone (Anemone coronaria pseudoplena) lower right
7 Alpine Clematis (Clematis alpina) lower left; Daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) mid
left; French Marigold (Tagetes patula) upper left; Red Turban Cap Lily (Lilium chalcedonicum)
upper right; Liverwort (Hepatica nobilis) mid right; Martagon Lily (Lilium
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martagon) lower right
8. Pansy (Viola tricolor) 8x; Poppy Anemone (Anemone coronaria striata) centre; Spanish
Broom (Spartium junceum) upper right
9. unknown lower left; Greater Jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum) left and top; Liverwort
(Hepatica nobilis) 2x top; Red Turban cap Lily (Lilium chalcedonicum) lower right
0. unknown lower left; Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) upper right; Persian Tulip hybrid
(Tulipa clusiana hybrid) upper right; Spanish Iris (Iris xiphium) lower right
. Poppy Anemone (Anemone coronaria striata) lower left; Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus
acris) 2x; Love-in-a-Mist (Nigella damascene duplex) top; Tazetta Narcissus (Narcissus
tazetta) lower right
2. Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris duplex) lower left; Liverwort (Hepatica nobilis) 2x top;
Snake's Head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) top; German Flag (Iris germanica) lower
right
. Persian Tulip hybrid (Tulipa clusiana hybrid) lower left; Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
upper right (with rose leaves); Brown Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva) upper right;
Primrose Pearless (Narcissus x intermedius)
. Orange Lily (Lilium bulbiferum)
. French Rose (Rosa gallica) lower left; Crown Anemone (Anemone x fulgens) upper
left; Yellow Daylily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus) upper right; Lesser Bindweed (Convolvulus
arvensis) lower right
6. White Narcissus (Narcissus poeticus duplex) x; Full Campernelle Narcissus (Narcissus
x odorusplenus) x; unknown centre; Stock (Matthiola incana); White Narcissus
(Narcissus poeticus plenus) upper right
Concordance of the numbers from Visscher, Hollstein, the list of Simon, and the Jeremias
Falck publication of 662
V H S F (all inverse)
89 287
2 90 288 2
9 289 -
92 290 0
9 29
6 9 292 - different
7 9 29
8 96 29 - different
9 97 29
0 98 296
99 297 6
2 00 298 2
0 299 7
02 00 8
0 0 9
6 0 02 - different
F nos. , , and 6 different.
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Literature
Gavin D.R. Bridson & James J. White, Plant, Animal & Anatomical Illustration in Art &
Science - A Biographical Guide from the 6th Century to the Present, Winchester 990.
Christiaan Schuckman, in Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts
ca. - 700 - Claes Jansz Visscher to Claesz. Claesz Visscher II (Nicolaes Visscher
II), vols. XXXVIII and XXXIX, as Hollstein.
M. Simon, Claes Jansz. Visscher, Freiburg im Breisgau 9 9, TYPESCRIPT.
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, An Oak Spring Flora, Upperville (Virginia) 997.
Marjorie F.Warner & Janice S. Brown, 9 9. Early horticultural literature - A checklist of
works published in the 6th, 7th and 8th centuries with other materials for the history
and bibliography of horticulture. Washington DC. TYPESCRIPT of an alphabetical author
catalogue with an alphabetical title index, the latter also including full catalogue entries
for anonymous works. Together with a prefatory "Critical report on its aims, failures,
and possibilities" by the senior author in 9 . The original report in the United States
Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, Washington DC. Bound photocopy
in the Library of the Hunt Institute in Pittsburgh. [ii]+ +9 + ff.
( ) E.g., Rachel Mellon collection, Upperville (Virginia), 2 plates, see Tongiorgi 997,
pp. 82-8 no. 9, the title page illustrated; Umeå University Library, 6 plates; with Junk,
Amsterdam 986 cat. 2 9 no. 77 and Quaritch, London, cat. 062 no. 20; cf. Bridson &
White 990, p. 6 no. C 0 and C 02; Warner & Brown 9 9, p. 27 ; and British Museum
cat. vol. 8, p. 2 7. See under concordance.
(2) E.g., Umeå University Library; and Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 6 June 998, lot no. 76.
Frederick de Wit also as Widt.
( ) Complete data in typescript for a publication on flower still-lifes in print.
With thanks to Sam Segal who catalogued above item.
Condition: The impressions are strong and clear. Considering the extraordinary rarity of
the item the condition is quite good. Plate : One small tear and another slightly larger
one going into the plate mark; Plate 2: Missing part of left margin not affecting the plate
mark; Plate : Missing small part of right margin not affecting the plate mark, brown old
spot in the middle of image; Plate : Small damage to left upper corner not affecting the
illustration; Plate 2: Tear at the lower margin affecting the plate mark, small marginal loss
at the upper left corner not affecting the plate mark.
A few plates have their names added in old writing.
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[7 ] OLIVIER, G.A. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes, avec
leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie
et leur figure enluminée. COLEOPTERES. Paris, Baudouin/ Desray,
789- 808. Large- to ( x 22 mm). Atlas volume only: 9 (of 62) fine
handcoloured engraved plates. Later half calf, spine with blue gilt lettered
label and gilt beetle ornament. € . 00
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The plates belong to the first volumes but represent not all the plates published for these
volumes. The present work is complete in 6 volumes with 62 handcoloured engraved
plates and one handcoloured engraved frontispiece. The fine plates, depicting thousands
of various species of Coleoptera, are by J. Audebert, J.L. Reinold and Meunier, and engraved
by Copia, Desfontaines, Manceau, Sellier and F.L. Swebach. Guillaume Antoine
Olivier ( 7 6- 8 ) was one of the greatest of the early French naturalists and an entomologist
of high standing. He was a close friend of J.C. Fabricius and a patron of P.A. Latreille.
His large collection of beetles (now for the larger part in the Paris Natural History
Museum), gathered on journeys through European & Asiatic Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia,
Egypt, and various Mediterranean Islands, is described in his famous work, by which he
became nationally known as a great entomologist.
Hagen I, 2 ; Horn & Schenkling 899; Nissen ZBI, 0 2; W. Junk, Bibliographia Coleoptera
2 'Très -rare'
1
[76] PALAEONTOGRAPHICA. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Vorwelt.
Herausgegeben von Wilh. Dunker und Herm. von Meyer (& K.A.
Zittel). Cassel, Theodor Fischer/ Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, ( 8 6-) 8 -
89 . Volumes - 0. With 7 , mostly lithographed plates of which some
tinted, 2 maps. Contemporary half calf, spines with green gilt lettered label,
marbled sides. € 2. 00
A very rare, almost complete, early run of this most important paleontological periodical.
Volume 2 lacks 6 plates and volume 0 does not contain the monographs published
between 898 and 906, as the library stopped subscribing after 89 . This beautifully
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produced periodical containing numerous monographs on fossil shells was edited by the
leading 9th century German paleontologists Herm. von Meyer, Wilh. Dunker and K.A.
Zittel. All famous German paleontologists of the second half of the 9th century contributed,
by publishing larger or smaller monographs in the Palaeontographica. "Ein Hauptverdienst
Dunkers war es, mit H. v. Meyer zusammen in 8 6 die Palaeontographica
begründet zu haben, das die deskriptiven Grundlagen der Paläontologie schuf. Dunker
gab mit Meyer 8 dieser Bände heraus, anschliessend noch 6 Bände mit K.A. von Zittel.
Besonderer Wert erhalten die zahlreichen paläontologischen Veröffentlichungen durch
seine selbstgefertigten, vorzüglichen lithographischen Tafeln" (NDB IV, 99).
Added to the present set are some volumes of the 'Palaeontographica Supplementbände'
(supplement volumes)
Supplement volumes to Palaeontographica were published on individual topics. Volume
I ( 862-66): Hellmann, A. Die Petrefacten Thüringens nach dem Materiale des Herzogl.
Naturalien-Kabinets in Gotha; Volume II ( 870-8 ). We have of the 7 monographs, of
which one does not have the plates, it however contains the superbly produced monograph
by Zittel in large folio 'Die Fauna der älteren cephalopenführenden Tithonbildungen';
Volume III ( 87 -82), complete and bound 2 vols containing 20 monographs.
A very well preserved set, one fasc. of vol. 0 bound in half cloth.
Provenance: Small stamp on some title pages 'Stadtbibliothek Winterthur'.
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[77] PILLER, M. & MITTER-
PACHER, L. Iter per Poseganam
Sclavoniae Provinciam mensibus
Junio, et Julio anno MDCCLXXX-
II. Budae, typis Regiae Universitatis,
78 . to (262 x 200mm). pp.
7, with 6 (7 folded) engraved
plates of which 8 finely handcoloured.
Contemporary half calf.
€ 2.700
The rare coloured issue of this work describing
the natural history of Slovenia.
The 2 bird plates and 6 entomological
plates are superbly handcoloured, two of
the entomological plates are partly heightened
with gold, 7 plates show plants and
one plate instruments.
"Diese schöne naturwissenschaftliche
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Reisebeschreibung ist äusserst selten. Es existieren meist Exemplare mit schwarzen Tafeln.
Bei einem kleinen Teil der Auflage wurden 8 Tafeln (2 Vogel- und 6 Insektenkupfer)
minutiös ausgemalt. Diese Exemplare sind besonders wertvoll und daher auch gesucht
... Das Buch wurde durch den Wiener Maler und Stecher Ignaz Kibler ausgezeichnet
illustriert" (Rautenberg). A fine copy with some insignificant tiny worming in the lower
margin of a few leaves. Matthias Piller ( 7 - 788) and Ludwig Mitterpacher ( 7 - 8 )
were both professors of natural history in Budapest
Nissen ZBI, 8 ; Horn-Schenkling 7292 'Sehr Selten'.
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[78] REEVE, L.A. Conchologia Iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of
molluscous animals. London, Reeve Bros., 8 - 86 . volumes. to.
With 892 lithographed plates, all but (as is always the case) beautifully
handcoloured plates. Contemporary half calf. € 0.000
A beautifully preserved set of one of the most splendid works on shells. All published
by Lovell Augustus Reeve. The 'Conchologia Iconica' comprises 20 volumes of which
the continuation volumes to 20 were by G.B. Sowerby. After Reeve's death, Reeve's
widow requested Sowerby to publish the remaining volumes. "It was from his London
emporium in King William Street, Strand, in 8 , that Reeve issued the first part of his
most ambitious and best known work, the Conchologia Iconica, the publication of which
occupied him for the rest of his life... Sowerby was responsible for all the illustrations,
this time employing the medium of lithography ... in most of its illustrations shows the
shells life-size and this accounts for its greater number of volumes. The figures are widely
recognized as the most accurate and the most beautiful of all those published prior to
the widespread use of photographic reproductions. The Cuming collection was Reeve's
principal source of illustrative material" (Dance pp. 2 - 22).
Nissen ZBI , ; B.M. (Nat. Hist). IV, p. 66 .
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[79] RHEEDE tot DRAAKESTEIN, H. A. van. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus,
continens regni Malabarici apud Indos celeberrimi omnis generis
plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, & Bramanum characteribus
nominibusque expressas... Amsterdam, Johann van Someren et al.,
686 [ 688-] 69 . 2 volumes. Folio ( 9 x 270mm). With two engraved
frontispieces and 79 engraved plates (on 79 sheets), mostly double-page.
Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked in the eighteenth century, spines
with gilt coronet and coat-of-arms of the Dukes of Beaufort. € 69.000
A very clean, fresh copy in first edition of the first comprehensive flora of the East Indies,
containing the first illustrations of a great number of tropical and sub-tropical plants and
fruits. Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, born in 6 7 in the castle Draakesteyn, near De Vuursche,
a village in the province of Utrecht, became the colonial governor of Malabar, on
the south-west coast of India, and from 68 the head of the Dutch East Indies Company
in India. He was an enthusiastic botanist and investigator of the Indian sub-tropical flora,
and was interested in the medical and traditional uses of the plants he encountered. He
had as collaborator Johannes Caesarius, a missionary in Indochina, who edited the first
two volumes, but died before their appearance in print. After his death the editorship was
taken over by Arnold Seyn ( 6 0- 678), the director of the Leiden Botanical Garden, and
by Jan Commelin ( 629- 692). Commelin’s connection with Rheede and other patrons in
the East Indies Company made the Amsterdam Botanical Garden, of which Commelin
was director, the richest in Europe at the time. In 'Philosophical transactions' for 698
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there is a note by James Petiver saying that the Dutch physician at Batavia, Willem ten
Rhyne, who had served as resident physician at Deshima in Nagasaki Bay, Japan, also
worked for Rheede in collecting and describing plants. As soon as enough material for
a volume had been assembled Rheede sent it home to Holland, where botanists such as
Commelin and others added notes and saw it through the press.
Rheede writes that several artists contributed drawings, but much of the credit he gives
to Pietro Foglia, or Father Matthias, a Neapolitan Discalced Carmelite, ca 6 7- 69 ,
who both drew and engraved many plates. The engraver Bastian Stoopendael ( 6 6- 707)
signed the first plate, which was drawn by Antony Jakob Goedkint. Rheede compiled the
work also with the help of other missionaries, native doctors, native princes, and most
probably native draughtsmen. ‘It is quite clear from the nature of these engravings that
most of them were taken from drawings by Indian artists in Malabar. They show all the
decorative qualities found in the drawings done for the British by Indian artists a century
later, and even the details of techniques are similar. In particular, the tendency for them
to spring straight out of the edge of the paper and to slant diagonally across it are very
characteristic...’ (Hulton and Smith, Flowers in art from East and West).
Each plate has the name of the plant in ‘Latin’ (in fact a transcription of the native name),
Malayalam, Arabic, and Sanskrit. The plates depict both wild and cultivated plants, and
many now familiar tropical fruits and spices. Several plates are devoted to ‘Tenga’, the
coconut palm, the most important economic plant of Malabar. There are also the first
illustrations of a large number of orchids.
Bridson and Wendel 7; Johnston 267; Nissen BBI, 62 ; Stafleu and Cowan 9 2
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[80] ROESEL VAN ROSENHOF, A.J. De Natuurlyke Historie der
Insecten; Voorzien met naar 't Leven getekende en gekoleurde Plaaten.
Volgens eigen ondervinding beschreeven ... Met zeer nutte en fraaie Aanmerkingen
verrykt, door C.F. Kleemann. Uit den echten Hoogduitschen
Druk ... vertaald. Haarlem en Amsterdam, C.H. Bohn en H. de Wit,
( 76 - 768). volumes (bound in 8). Large- to (278 x 220mm). With
handcoloured engraved frontispieces, engraved portrait of Rösel and 9
( folded) handcoloured engraved plates (printed on 288 leaves). Contemporary
half calf, richly gilt ornamented spines, with red and green gilt lettered
labels (skilful repair to top of spines). € 9.000
Nissen ZBI, 67; Landwehr 6 . A fine uncut uniformly bound copy of one of the
most beautiful entomological publications. This Dutch edition is more attractive than the
original German edition, which was published in Nuremberg from 7 6- 792. The Dutch
edition is printed on almost twice as large, much thicker, paper, and has far better colouring.
The translation was made by C. Kleemann, the son-in-law of the author. He added
new material and the excellent colouring of the plates is by him and his wife Katharina
Barbara Roesel von Rosenhof. Kleemann also published a "Vervolg" with 26 plates, which
was never finished and which is not present as almost always.
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"Roesel, who studied at first with his father and then with his uncle Wilhelm, an animal
painter in Merseburg, later became a pupil of the famous Preisler in Nuremberg. After
living in Copenhagen from 726 to 728 he returned to Nuremberg for good, and there,
besides painting portraits and drawings, he applied himself in particular to the study of
nature. He collected insects, their eggs and larvae, studied the process of hatching, pupation,
and emergence, and painted all this in a most meticulous way, as Kleeman tells us.
His manuscripts, with 06 illustrations, are now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in
Munich. Roesel also made the engravings of his drawings ..." (Nissen, Bestiaries).
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[8 ] SCHULTZ, F.J. Abbildung der inn- und ausländischen Bäume,
Stauden und Sträuche, welche in Oesterreich fortkommen, nebst einer
vollständig gegründeten Anweisung, wie diese Gewächse anzupflanzen
sind, damit die Güterbesitzer, der Forstmann, Landwirth, ja auch der Gartenliebhaber
nicht nur selbst seinen Garten auf jede mögliche Art zieren,
sondern auch aus den Blättern, Blühten, Früchten, Harze, Säften, und
Holze einen Nutzen ziehen könne. Wien, R. Sammer, 792- 80 . volumes,
bound in two. Folio ( 90 x 2 0mm). pp. (6), vi, 6, (2, separate title
'Abbildung der blätterlosen Zweige'; (2), 0 , (2, separate title 'Abbildung
der...'); (2), 2, (2, separate title 'Abbildung der...'). With engraved titlevignettes
and 00 handcoloured engraved plates of trees (shrubs, flowers
etc) and handcoloured engraved unnumbered plates depicting buds.
Contemporary calf, gilt ornamented spines in 7 compartments with red
and green gilt lettered labels, sides with gilt border fillet (one volume a bit
rubbed). € 28.000
The work is complete in volumes and the text gives explanations from plates to 00.
A th volume was planned but never published. A few copies exist which have a number
of plates of this unpublished volume. The present work is very rare and the only bibliographies
which mention the book are Nissen, Pritzel and Rehder (The Bradley Bibli-
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ography). Nissen copies Pritzel and both are calling for 00 plates, 60 numbered, with
additional 0 unnumbered plates illustrating buds.
Pritzel bases his description on a copy in the Royal Library in Vienna. This is certainly in
error as this copy, now in the Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, has only 28 plates and
has the same number of text-pages as our copy. Our copy has one more plate on buds in
the third volume than other copies. Publication of the work must have been problematic
due to the 'Napoleonic pause' in book production. Three of the plates on buds in the
third volume are original watercolours and it is most likely that the engraved plates were
never made.
This beautifully illustrated work devoted to the native, foreign and exotic trees and shrubs
is splendidly executed in the tradition of the Austrian Golden Period of botanical book
illustration. Franz Johann Schulz was an Austrian botanist and artist. The description of
the ornamental trees, of the fruit trees and of the shrubbery are presented first by means of
an introduction with nomenclature in Latin, German and French, followed by information
on the cultivation and blooming seasons. The images provide scientific information
on flowers, leaves and seeds with a double definition in Latin and German.
Provenance: Small stamp on verso of title 'Ex Bibl. Mavr. Com. Fries'
Nissen BBI, 8 ; Pritzel 8 6 : Rehder, The Bradley Bibliography I, 29 , quoting a copy
with 27 plates.
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[82] SEITZ, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische
Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Stuttgart, Kernen
Verlag, 909- 9 . 20 volumes (bound in 0). to. Text and 8 chromolithographed
plates. Publisher's uniform half calf or cloth and some volumes
recently bound to match. Gilt titles and decorations on spines.
€ 22. 00
A complete and uniformly bound set of this rare work. The fine plates are made by process
of 0- colour lithography, and its excellent quality has remained unsurpassed. The
editor Seitz planned to finish the whole work in 9 2. This proved to be quite unrealistic
as publication stopped in 9 , and several volumes remained unfinished. The most important
collections of butterflies were consulted including those of L.W. Rothschild of
Tring, the British Museum, the Paris Natural History Museum, the Senckenberg Museum
at Frankfurt, as well as collections in Tokyo, Hong-Kong, Australia, South- and
North- America etc. The German edition is textually larger than the English one as it has
the complete supplement of volume (publ. in 9 ), which remained unfinished in the
English edition. The unfinished volumes 7 and of the German edition also have more
text. Apart from the th supplement-volume the same volumes remained unfinished as
in the English edition. The work was published in 6 volumes with supplements and
is composed as follows: volumes - , Palaearctic Fauna with supplements; volumes -8,
American Fauna (volumes 7 and 8 remained unfinished); volumes 9- 2, Indo-Australian
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Fauna (volumes and 2 remained unfinished); volumes - 6 African Fauna (volumes
and 6 remained unfinished). All the unfinished volumes have been recently bound to
match. A splendid set.
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[8 ] SEITZ, A. The Macrolepidoptera of the world. Stuttgart, Kernen
Verlag, 909- 9 . 20 volumes (bound in 29). to. Text and 8 chromolithographed
plates. Publisher's uniform half calf or cloth and some volumes
recently bound to match. Gilt titles and decorations on spines.
€ 2 .000
A complete and uniformly bound set of this rare work. The fine plates are made by process
of 0- colour lithography, and its excellent quality has remained unsurpassed. The
editor Seitz planned to finish the whole work in 9 2. This proved to be quite unrealistic
as publication stopped in 9 , 7 years after the death of the author, and several volumes
remained unfinished. The most important collections of butterflies were consulted including
those of L. W. Rothschild of Tring, the British Museum, the Paris Natural History
Museum, the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, as well as collections in Tokyo, Hong-
Kong, Australia, South and North America, etc. The English edition is textually shorter
than the German edition because the latter has the complete supplement of volume
(publ. in 9 ), which remained unfinished in the English edition. The German edition
also has some more text of the unfinished volumes 7 and . However both editions have
the same number of plates. We have added the German text in loose sheets for those
volumes where the German edition is more complete than the English edition. The work
was published in 6 volumes with supplements and is composed as follows: volumes -
, Palaearctic Fauna with supplements; volumes -8, American Fauna (volumes 7 and 8
remained unfinished); volumes 9- 2, Indo-Australian Fauna (volumes and 2 remained
unfinished); volumes - 6 African Fauna (volumes and 6 remained unfinished). All
the unfinished volumes have been recently bound to match. A splendid set.
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[8 ] SEITZ, A. Les Macrolépidoptères du Globe. Révision systématique
des Macrolépidoptères connus jusqu' à ce jour. Stuttgart, Kernen, 9 -
9 . 20 volumes (bound in 28). Large to ( 20 x 2 8mm). With 6
chromo-lithographed plates. 2 volumes uniformly bound in half calf, titles
lettered in French, 7 volumes in portfolio. € 7. 00
A fine complete copy and in some ways a supernumerary copy of the rare French edition
of Seitz' 'Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'..... The German and English edition
were both published by Kerner Verlag in Stuttgart. Due to the second World War some
volumes remained incomplete. The French edition, however, was published by Eugène Le
Moult ( 882- 967) and also distributed by him. The plates of all three language editions
were printed by Kernen Verlag. The French edition is the least complete edition. Otto
Kerner gives the following comment why the French edition sometimes has less plates:
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'Nous avions réservé toutes les planches pour Le Moult, mais il n'avait pas l'argent pour
les payer et enfin nous les avons maculées'.
The set is composed as follows:
Faune Paléarctique:
Vol. I: pp. viii, 80 with 89 plates (complete and all published); Vol. II: pp. 79, with 6
plates (complete and all published); Vol. III: pp. iii, , with 7 plates (complete and all
published); Vol. IV: pp. v, 79, with 2 plates (complete and all published).
Supplément:
Vol. I: pp. vii, 0 , with 6 plates (complete and all published); Vol. II: pp. vi, 2, with
6 plates (complete and all published); Vol. III: 26 plates, (no French text was published
and only the 26 plates appeared); Vol. IV: 26 plates (no French text was published and
only the 26 plates appeared).
Faune Americaine:
Vol. V: pp. xi, , with 20 plates (complete and all published); Vol. VI*: pp. -600,
with 98 plates (all published of the French edition); Vol. VII: pp. - 6, with 7 plates (all
published, the text was not completed); VIII: 6 plates (all published, no text appeared,
only the 6 plates).
Faune Indo-Australienne:
Vol. IX: pp. xii, 2 0, with 77 plates (complete and all published); Vol. X: pp. ii, -66 ,
with 0 plates (all published of the French edition); Vol. XI**: pp. -296, completed with
the German edition pp. 297- 96, with 7 plates (all published); Vol. XII: pp. - , with 7
plates, (all published of the French edition).
Fauna Africaine:
Vol. XIII: pp. 6 , with 80 plates (complete and all published); Vol. XIV: pp. 600, with
80 plates (complete and all published); Vol. XV: pp. iii, -22, with 0 plates (all published
of the French edition); Vol. XVI: 6 plates (all published, no text published of the French
edition).
*Volume VI is all published of the French edition, the copy has been completed however
with the English text, which runs from page 600- (the numbering of pages of the
French and English and German edition is the same) and has more plates than the
French edition.
**Of volume XI we offer pages -296 of the French text. The French text should run to
28, which is all published of the French edition. We have however completed the copy
with pp. 297- 96 of the German text (the numbering of the pages of the German, English
and French edition is the same).
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[8 ] SEITZ, A. Les Macrolépidoptères du Globe... Ie Partie. Les Macrolépidoptères
de la Région Paléarctique. Tome III: HÉTÉROCÈRES
NOCTUIFORMES. Paris, Le Moult, 9 . to ( 2 x 2 0mm). pp. iii, ,
with 7 chromo-lithographed plates. Unbound in portfolio. € 00
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[86] SEITZ, A. Les Macrolépidoptères du Globe... Ie Partie. Les Macrolépidoptères
de la Région Paléarctique. Tome IV: GÉOMÉTRIDES.
Paris, Le Moult, 9 . to ( 2 x 2 0mm). pp. v, 79, with 2 chromolithographed
plates. Unbound in portfolio. € 00
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[87] SEITZ, A. Les Macrolépidoptères du Globe... IIe Partie. Les Macrolépidoptères
de la Région Américaine. Tome V: DIURNES AMÉRIC-
AINES. Paris, Le Moult, 926. to ( 2 x 2 0mm). pp. xi, 68, with 20
chromo-lithographed plates. Unbound in portfolio. € 800
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[88] SEITZ, A. Les Macrolépidoptères du Globe... IIe Partie. Les Macrolépidoptères
de la Région Américaine. Tome VI: LES BOMBYX ET
LES SPHINX AMÉRICAINS. Paris, Le Moult, 9 . to ( 2 x 2 0mm).
pp. 600, with 98 chromo-lithographed plates. Unbound in portfolio.
€ 7 0
Of the French edition the text to the 'Sphinx' was never published.
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[89] SEITZ, A. Les Macrolépidoptères du Globe... IIIe Partie. Les Macrolépidoptères
de la Faune Indo-Australienne. Tome IX: DIURNES
INDO-AUSTRALIENS. Paris, Le Moult, 929. to ( 2 x 2 0mm). pp.
xi, 2 0, with 77 chromo-lithographed plates. Unbound in portfolio.
€ .000
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[90] SEITZ, A. Les Macrolépidoptères du Globe... Tome XIII: MAC-
ROLÉPIDOPTÈRES DE LA RÉGION AFRICAINE. DIURNES. Paris,
Le Moult, 909. to ( 2 x 2 0mm). pp. 6 , with 80 chromo-lithographed
plates. Unbound in portfolio. € 00
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[9 ] SERTUM BOTANICUM. Encyclographie du règne végétal. Collection
de plantes remarquables par leur utilité, leur élégance, leur éclat
ou leur nouveauté; consistant en six cents planches soigneusement lithographiées
et coloriées, accompagnées d'un texte particulier pour chaque
plante, exposant son ordre méthodique... par une Société de Botanistes.
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Bruxelles, Établissement Encyclographique, 828- 8 2. volumes (bound
in 6). Folio ( 0 x 270mm). With 600 handcoloured lithographed plates
and descriptive text. Contemporary black half calf, richly gilt spines with
flower and bird ornaments. € 8.000
Belgium saw a remarkable revival of botany and plant cultivation during the 9th century.
In 'Hortus Belgicus' this period is called 'the wonder of the 9th century'. Belgian
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lithographers reached the ultimate of craftmanship in a relatively short period in which
colour printing from stone dominated the scene of botanical illustration. The present rare
botanical work is one of these examples. The fine and beautifully handcoloured plates are
all lithographed by Burggraaff after drawings by G. Severeyns, who became one of Belgium's
most famous lithographers. Van Geel and possibly P.A.J. Drapiez were the editors.
A new edition of this much demanded flower book was published in 8 under the title
"Flore des Serres et de Jardin de Paris". The last volume contains an alphabetical index
of all figured plants. Normally the work is bound in volumes. As this set is bound in 6
volumes, the title pages of the last 2 volumes have the volume number pasted over by a
small paper strip with the imprint 'Tome Cinquième' and 'Tome Sixième'.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Caroli de Hoffmann, Bruxelles.
Nissen BBI, 2 86; Great Flower Books p. 8 ; Stafleu & Cowan .90 .
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[92] SIEBOLD, P.F. VON, TEMMINCK, C.J. & SCHLEGEL, H. Fauna
Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam annis
82 - 0 collegit ... Volume III: AVES. Lugduni Batavorum, Arnz, ( 8 -
) 8 0. Folio ( 9 x 00mm). pp. , with 9 (of 200) lithographed plates.
Later half cloth, marbled sides. € .800
A rather poor copy of the famous ornithological section of the 'Fauna Japonica'. Our
copy is not coloured and lacks the title and plate B. About a third of the plates have
marginal damage, nowhere affecting the image. In some cases the cornes have been cut
away. Of some of the plates the paper is bittle and a few are loose. The most important
publication on the avi-fauna of Japan. The text is by Temmick and Schlegel and is written
in French. Twenty of the illustration, most of them birds of prey are by J. Wolf, the
others by Schlegel.
Nissen IVB, 877.
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[9 ] SLABBER, M. Physicalische Belustigungen oder microscopische
Wahrnehmungen in- und ausländische Wasser- und Landthierchen. Aus
dem holländischen übersetzt von P.L.St. Müller. Nürnberg, Adam Wolfgang
Winterschmidt, 77 . to (2 x 9 mm). pp. (8), 2 , with 6 hand
coloured engraved plates (Bound up with:) GLEICHEN, W. F. FREY-
HERRN VON (genannt RUSSWORM). Auserlesene mikroskopische
Entdeckungen bey den Pflanzen, Blumen und Blüthen, Insekten und
andere Merkwürdigkeiten. Nürnberg, Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt,
777. to. pp. 2 , with 6 hand coloured engraved plates. Contemporary
blind boards. € .200
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First German edition. An enlarged second German edition appeared in 78 . The Dutch
original edition appeared in 8 parts from 769- 778. Martinus Slabber ( 7 0- 8 ) was
born in Middelburg and was a president of the Court of Justice. In his leisure time he collected
and described North Sea organisms 'especially the smallest forms as seen under his
Cuff's microscope... Slabber was among the nonagenarians along with, up to this point,
only Leeuwenhoek' (Damkaer pp.88-9). The fine plates are after Slabber's own drawings.
The second work by Gleichen is the first part of a work which was published in 6 parts
from 777-8 .
Nissen ZBI, 862.
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[9 ] SOWERBY, J. DE CARLE & LEAR, E. Tortoises, Terrapins, and
Turtles drawn from life. Text by John Edwards Gray. London, Sotheran,
Baer & Co., 872. Folio ( 7 x 272mm). pp. iv, 6, with 60 lithographed
plates of which 7 beautifully handcoloured and enhanced with gum arabic,
all drawn on stone by Edward Lear after J.D.C. Sowerby. Original
brown half morocco, gilt lettered spine. € 27.000
First complete edition of this exquisite and rare work on turtles and tortoises. Four men
were responsible for this classic herpetological work, i.e. Thomas Bell as superintendent
of the plates and intended author, James de Carle Sowerby as artist, John Edward Gray as
writer of the text to the final publication of the plates, and Edward Lear as lithographer.
0 plates first appeared in Bell's 'Monograph Testudinata' ( 8 2- 2). This work was never
finished due to the publisher's bankruptcy. The 0 plates together with 20 additional,
previously unpublished, plates were re-issued in 872 by Sowerby and Lear.
The plates were reproductions of paintings by James de Carle Sowerby, produced by the
process of lithography by Edward Lear. Bell was the first person to attempt to write a
comprehensive account of the tortoises, and went to great lengths to acquire living tortoises
which Sowerby was to draw. The book is the most outstanding collection of tortoise
illustrations ever produced.
The unsold parts of Bell's 'Monograph of the Testudinata', together with Sowerby's plates
for the rest of the work were acquired by the publishers Sotheran, who wished to publish
a new edition of the 8 parts, incorporating the remaining plates. As Bell had declined to
write the text for the last plates, it was natural that Gray should have been asked to do it.
In this way, a complete edition of the book Bell had started in 8 2, was finally published
0 years later in 872. It had a new 6 page introduction by Gray.
"The names 'Sowerby and Lear' are forever linked herpetologically as artist and lithographer,
respectively, for the greatest atlas of turtle illustrations and one of the finest productions
among natural history books... Beforer achieving fame as a writer and landscape
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painter Lear began as a natural history artist. He issued a series of drawings of parrots
in 8 0- 8 2 and, unlike other zoological artists of the day, specialized in drawing living
animals, which appealed to Bell" (Adler, vol. 2 pp. 6 -62).
Nissen ZBI, 70 ; Adler, vol. p. ; Wood 872.
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[9 ] SPIX, J.B. VON. Simiarum et Vespertilionum Brasiliensium species
novae, ou histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de singes et de chauvessouris
observées et recueillies pendant le voyage dans l'intérieur du Brésil...
dans les années 8 7, 8 8, 8 9, 820. Monachii, typis F.S. Hübschmanni,
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82 . Folio ( 60 x 00mm). pp. (2), viii, (6), 72, with 8 lithographed
plates of which 6 finely hand-coloured. Later blue half morocco, spine
with gilt lines and lettering, blue marbled sides. € 22.000
First edition. The first book and the only one in folio of a series of publications by Spix
on the zoology of Brasil. It is a very important study of new world primates and bats and
probably the rarest of the series. 6 plates concern monkeys of which handcoloured
and 2 plain plates of skulls. Two plates concern bats. Spix and Martius were selected by
the Bavarian government to take part in an expedition to South America. "Spix and
Martius were the first European scientists to visit the Amazon after La Condamine. Their
collections - including specimens of eighty-five species of mammals, 0 species of birds,
nearly 2,700 species of insects, and fifty-seven living animals, provided material for a vast
number of works by other scientists" (DSB XII, p. 78). The monographs of this scientifically
very important expedition were beautifully produced by the Bavarian government
and printed on thick wove paper. The fine plates are superb examples of early lithography,
especially in Munich. The plates of the present work were lithographed by H.J. Mitterer
after drawings by Michael Schmid and coloured by F. Weishaupt. The text is in Latin and
French. A fine copy of this rare work.
Bosch 7; Barba de Moraes 9 .
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[96] SPIX, J.B. VON. Testacea fluviatilia quae in itinere per Brasiliam
annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX ... collegit et pingenda curavit... Lipsiae,
T.O. Weigel, ( 827). to ( 70 x 270mm). pp. [viii], 6, with 29 handcoloured
lithographed plates. Contemporary quarter cloth and marbled
boards (ends of spine with small repair). € .000
First edition of this monograph on the freshwater molluscs of Brazil, the first work devoted
to Brazilian shells, and one of several publications resulting from Spix and Martius'
expedition to Brazil from 8 7 to 820. The expedition was under the aegis of the King of
Bavaria, Maximilian Joseph I. 'His plans for sending scientific explorers to South America
were realized in 8 7, when an Austrian expedition was sent to Brazil. Martius and several
other Bavarian scientists, including his companion, the zoologist Spix, went along. They
left Trieste on 2 April 8 7 and returned to Munich in December 820' (DSB).
'Spix and Martius were the first European scientists to visit the Amazon after La Condamine.
Their collections ... provided material for a vast number of works by other scientists.
Spix himself was occupied entirely with publishing his findings after his return to Munich...
Weakened by the fevers that he had suffered on his voyage, he died [in 826], leaving
other zoologists, including Louis Agassiz, to complete the publication of his works'
(ibid.). For this volume the descriptions were provided by J.A. Wagner. It was edited by
Paula von Schrank and Martius.
Borba de Moraes II 280; Nissen ZBI, 9
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[97] SPRENGEL. C.K. Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und
in der Befruchtung der Blumen. Berlin, Vieweg, 79 . to (2 0 x 2 0mm).
pp. ( ), , ( ), with an engraved title page showing a graceful border of
flowers and insects by Jaeck and Arndt, and 2 fine engraved plates, drawn
by the author. 9th century boards, spine with green gilt lettered label.
€ .800
A cornerstone in the study of pollination. First edition of Sprengel's remarkable work,
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printed in double columns, with 2 plates showing more than 000 drawings of floral
parts, representing over 00 species.
The work was forgotten for over half a century until Darwin brought it back to life and
showed its importance in the discussion on the theory of evolution and descent. Dr. Wilhelm
Junk ( 866- 9 2) stated that Sprengel's case was similar to that of Mendel, whose
'Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden' ( 86 ) remained unnoticed for years. Mendel's paper
and Sprengel's book are both of legendary importance. Christian Konrad Sprengel ( 7 0-
8 6), was rector of the Great Lutheran City School at Spandau, where he taught languages
and natural sciences between 780 and 79 . There in 787, he became fascinated
by the process of pollination when he noticed hairs on the petals of Geranium flowers.
For the next six years he devoted himself with complete absorption to examining and
recording the relations between flowers and their pollinating insects. In 79 he published
his great work, which translates into: 'Revelation of the secret of nature in the construction
and fertilization of the flower'. This was quite revolutionary for the time. When the
book was published it was no success at all; in fact Sprengel was so depressed by its poor
reception that he abandoned botany. The last plates with insignificant faint dampstain
at the upper margin.
Provenance: Signature of Carl Gruner at lower margin of title and another signature at
the upper margin.
Nissen BBI, 88 ; DSB vol. 2 p. 87; Junk Rara, 6 ; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 0; Norman,
990; Stafleu and Cowan, 2672; Pritzel 88 6.
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[98] STEPHENSON, J. & CHURCHILL, J.M. Medical Botany: or, illustrations
and descriptions of the medical plants of the London, Edinburgh
and Dublin Pharmacopoeias: comprising a popular and scientific
account of all those poisonous vegetables, that are indigenous to Great
Britain. A new edition edited by Gilbert Burnett. London, John Churchill,
8 - 8 6. volumes (2 x 0mm). With 87 fine hand-coloured engraved
plates. Contemporary green half calf, gilt decorated spines with red
gilt lettered label. € .800
A very fine copy of the second edition of this attractive illustrated work. The first edition
was published in 8 . The plates are after drawings by W. Clark, C.M. Curtis, R. Reid, G.
Spratt and Weddell. At the end of volume there is a 'Tabular Index of the Latin names',
and an 'Index of English names'. The colouring of plates is to a high standard. This second
edition has 2 more plates than the first.
Stafleu & Cowan .0 .
00
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[99] STOLICZKA, F. Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission;
based upon the collections and notes of the late F. Stoliczka. Published
by order of the Government of India. Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent
of Government Printing/London, Taylor & Francis, 878- 89 .
parts. Folio. With large folded handcoloured lithographed map and 7
( handcoloured) lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers (many
covers slightly worn). € 8. 00
A good complete set of this scarce British expedition to Central Asia. The work is composed
as follows: HUME, A.O. Introductory note and map. pp. vii, with coloured map
- BALL, V. Memoir of the life and work of F. Stoliczka. pp. 6 - BLANFORD, W.T.
Geology. pp. 9, with text-illustrations - DUNCAN, P.M. Syringosphaeridae. pp. 7,
with plates - BLANFORD, W.T. Mammalia & DOBSON, G.E. Chiroptera. pp. iv, 9 ,
with 29 ( 9 coloured) plates - SHARPE, R.B. Aves. pp. xvii, , with 2 coloured plates
- BLANFORD, W.T. Reptilia & Amphibia. pp. 26, with 2 plates - DAY, F. Ichthyology.
pp. 2 , with plates - CAMBRIDGE, O.P. Araneidea. pp. , with 2 plates - SMITH, F.
Hymenoptera. pp. 22, with coloured plate - MCLACHLAN, R. Neuroptera. pp. 6, with
text-illustrations - DISTANT, W.L. Rhynchota. pp. , with coloured plate - MOORE,
F. Lepidoptera. pp. 8, with coloured plate - BATES, H.W. Coleoptera. pp. 72, with 2
plates - NEVILL, G. Mollusca. pp. 2 , with plate. As the ornithological section is the
most attractive part, a more detailed description follows. Anker 6 : "The ornithological
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collections were first treated by Allan Hume, but his manuscript was stolen and sold as
waste paper. Altogether 0 forms are described, with synonymies and extracts of notes
from the diary of Dr. Stoliczka and notes given by Colonel Biddulp in manuscript to
Hume. The report also includes all the species obtained by Dr. Henderson and Dr. Scully
and previously treated in publication by them. The work does therefore deal with the
whole of material secured by the British expeditions into Central Asia". Most of the fine
plates are by Keulemans and some by W. Hart. Very rare in complete state as above.
B.M.(N.H.) II, 90 ; Nissen, ZBI, 760.
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[ 00] STÖRCK, A. Libellus, quo demonstratur, Stramonium, Hyosciamum,
Aconitum. Non solum tuto posse exhiberi usu interno Hominibus...
Neapoli, ex Typographia Benedicti Gessarii, 762. 8vo ( 7 x 0mm). pp.
( 0), 7-99, ( ), with folded engraved plates. [Together with:] STÖRCK,
A. Supplementum necessarium de Cicuta. Neapoli, ex Typographia Benedicti
Gessari, 762. 8vo. pp. 2, with folded engraved plates. Contemporary
vellum. € 00
Anton von Störck ( 7 - 80 ) was a German physician and pharmacologist and from 760
private physician to the emperor.
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[ 0 ] SUSEMIHL, J.C. Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller
Vögel Teutschlands. Herausgegeben von Borkhausen, Lichthammer und
Bekker dem Jüngern. Damstadt, im Verlage der Herausgeber, 800- 8 .
Folio ( 0 x 00mm). 2 parts (of 22), bound in 2 volumes. With 26
hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gilt ornamented
spines with 2 gilt lettered labels (slightly rubbed). € .000
A fine large copy of one of the most splendid German bird books. As usual without the
last part, which was published in 8 7. This final part is almost always lacking due to the
interruption of publication by the Napoleonic wars. Our copy contains all the 2 printed
upper wrappers to the parts. A great rarity is the title-page which is found in a few copies
and here replaced by the printed wrapper to the first part. Many bibliographies consider
the work complete in the first edition with 2 parts. The 22nd part was in fact the first part
published of the second edition.
"... a work by which it was attempted to create a German parallel to the sumptuous
ornithological works of other countries, notably of France, e.g. Levaillant's works, to
which it was compared at that time ... and with which it is quite comparable on account
of its beautiful plates. These were drawn, engraved, printed, and coloured, by Susemihl
in co-operation with his brother, J.Th. Susemihl, and lateron his son, Eduard Susemihl"
(Anker 2). "Nicht minder lobenswert ist auch die 'Teutsche Ornithologie', die Johann
Conrad Susemihl gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Johann Theodor und später mit seinen
Kindern Eduard und Emilie in Darmstadt mit Hilfe eines Kreises begeisterter Natur-
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freunde schulf... die Tafeln, die in Stich wie Kolorit zu den Spitzenleistungen des späten
Kupferstiches gehören... (Nissen p. ). The work is frequently listed under Borkhausen.
One plate in part 0 lacks small part of lower corner not affecting the illustration, part
with some marginal dampstaining at the inner margin.
Schlenker , ; Nissen IVB, 907; Fine Bird Books 6 .
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[ 02] TSCHUDI, J.J. VON. Untersuchungen über die Fauna Peruana.
St. Gallen, Von Scheitlin und Zollikofer, 8 - 8 6. 2 volumes (text &
atlas). Large- to (2 0 x 0mm). pp. xxx, (2); 262; 6; 80; , with 72
lithographed plates of which 66 beautifully handcoloured. Contemporary
half calf, gilt spines with raised bands, marbled sides. € .000
The first major work on the vertebrate fauna of Peru, based on the author's investigations
during years of travelling in that country, on which occasion many new species were
discovered. Johann Jacob von Tschudi was a Swiss naturalist and explorer. He studied
zoology under Lorenz Oken and Heinrich Schinz in Zürich. He then went on to study
under the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz in Neuchâtel. In 8 7 the Natural History Museum
in that city commissioned him to create a collection of exotic animals. He went to
Chile, exploring large sections of the coastal regions, the Andes, and the jungles on the
eastern face of the Cordilleras and brought back some 600 bird skins, 70 skins of mammals
and 2000 insects.
The work is composed as follows: Therologie (Mammals) pp. 262, with 8 handcoloured
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plates; Ornithologie pp. 6, with 6 handcoloured plates; Herpetologie pp. 80, with 2
handcoloured plates and Ichthyologie pp. with 6 plain plates (these were not intended
to be coloured). The work starts with a general introduction and is dedicated to Alexander
Von Humboldt. The attractive plates were executed from drawings by Jos. Dinkel,
Schmidt and J. Werner and lithographed by Lith. Inst. v. J. Tribelhorn in St Gallen.
Some occasional foxing to the text volume. Library stamp on end-papers, one on the title
page and one faint stamp at the lower margin of one plate, else a good copy of this rare
work.
Anker ; Nissen ZBI, 80; Zimmer II, p. 6 9.
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[ 0 ] TULASNE, L.R. & C. Selecta
Fungorum Carpologia, ea documenta
et icones potissimum exhibens quae
varia fructuum et seminum genera in
eodem fungo simul aut vicissim adesse
demonstrent. Parisiis, in Imperiali Typographeo
excudebatur, 86 - 86 .
volumes. Folio ( 7 x 28 mm). pp.
xxviii, 2 2, with 2 vignettes and engraved
plates; pp. xix, ( ), 9, with 2 vignettes
and engraved plates; pp. xvi,
22 , with 2 vignettes and 22 engraved
plates. New half calf, spines with gilt
lettering. € .800
First and only edition of one of the rarest and most beautifully illustrated works on
mycology. Louis René Tulasne and his brother Charles coöperated in a life-long study
of botany. Charles was an artist of unusual dexterity, and he made the illustations of
the above work. They represent the finest on the subject and have never been excelled,
and are almost of a surrealistic nature. "Their magnum opus was the 'Selecta Fungorum
Carpologia' in three magnificent quarto volumes published in 86 - 86 , in which they
demonstrated the pleomorphism of ascomycetes which had been denied by some contemporary
mycologists. They depicted for the first time the conidia, perithecia, and asci
of many important parasitic ascomycetes" (Reed. A short history of Plant Sciences p.
272). "Sehr selten in der lateinischen Erstausgabe. Die Tafeln von Charles Tulasne mit
detaillierten Mikrozeichnungen zählen zu den feinsten Darstellungen der mykologischen
Literatur" (Volbracht 2 6). An English edition was published in 9 . A few plates with
some foxing and of one plate the magins are a bit frayed, one vignette leaf with tear. An
attractively bound copy.
Nissen BBI, 20 0; Stafleu & Cowan, . .
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[ 0 ] VERNER, W. Sketches in the Soudan. London, R.H. Porter, 88 .
Oblong to (28 x 90mm). With lithographed title, 78 tinted lithographs,
and one coloured map. Contemporary boards, frontcover with oval medallion
of a camel head. € 700
First edition. The fine plates are by J.G. Keulemans, famous illustrator of birds. The text
and lithographs are all taken from the dairy of the sketch-book of Captain Verner ( rd
Battalion Rifle Brigade) kept during the Nile Expedition in 88 - . A very fine copy with
the signature of the author on dedication leaf and map.
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[ 0 ] WALLACE, A.R. The geographical distribution of animals with a
study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past
changes of the earth's surface. London, Macmillan, 876. 2 volumes. Royal
8vo (222 x mm). pp. xxi, ( ), 0 ; pp. viii, ( ), 607, with 7 coloured
maps and 20 plates. Publisher's green cloth, top edges gilt. € .200
A very fine and mint copy of the first edition. Wallace is best known for independently
proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin
to publish his own theory. He was considered the 9th century's leading expert on the
geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the "father of biogeography".
'Wallace studied the fauna of the Malay peninsula and was struck both by its
resemblances to and differences from that of South America. His studies resulted in this
world-wide study, a pioneering work in zoogeography, and Wallace's most comprehensive
monograph' (Norman 2 78). Copies is mint condition are rare.
Provenance: Name of J. Wüthrich on titles.
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[ 06] WERNER, J.C. & A. DE BAR. A collection of 6 original watercolours,
titled in manuscript: Mammiferes. 6 Dessins représentant les
principaux individus de la race Mammalogique. Dessins de Mr. Werner,
Dessinateur du Museum d’Histoire naturelle. Paysages de Mr. Alexandre
de Bar. Paris, L Curmer. 8 . Folio ( 78 x 26 mm). With calligraphic title
in pen as above and 6 paintings, watercolours, gouache, and pencil on paper,
each signed by the artists in pencil, most titled and with notes on the
scale of the drawings; in fine condition, bound in contemporary red half
morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, top edge gilt, engraved bookplate
of Grandidier. € 0.000
A fine series of original paintings for Paul Gervais’ 'Les Trois Règnes de la Nature: Règne
Animal. Histoire naturelle des mammifères' (Paris, 8 - ). This album includes the
original paintings for all 6 plates in the work, and a further 7 paintings that were not
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used. The animals were all painted by Werner, and the uncoloured backgrounds, in finely
shaded pencil, were executed by Alexandre de Bar.
Jean-Charles Werner ( 798- 8 6) was a natural history artist and comparative anatomist
for the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where he contributed some 0 paintings of
animals on vellum for the famous Collection des vélins between the years 826 and 8 6.
The Collection, initiated in 6 , contained work by the finest natural history artists in
France, including Nicolas Robert and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Werner provided illustrations
for the publication of Dumont d’Urville's expeditions to Australia and the South
Pacific, and also worked with Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Henri Ducrotay
de Blainville. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire named a species of monkey after him.
The animals depicted include many recently discovered on the voyages of Dumont
d’Urville and others. On plate 0 there is a note by Werner to the colourist Alfred Joseph
Annedouche ‘faire l’animal plus forcé’. The published plates were engraved on steel, and
the animals alone were hand-coloured, leaving the backgrounds plain as here.
Provenance: engraved bookplate of Alfred Grandidier ( 8 6- 92 ), French naturalist and
explorer, and author of the monumental 0-volume survey of Madagascar 'Histoire physique,
naturelle et politique de Madagascar' ( 87 - 9 7).
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[ 07] WIED-NEUWIED, MAXIMILIAN PRINZ ZU. Abbildungen
zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens. Recueil de planches coloriées d'animaux
du Brésil. Weimar, Landes Industrie Comptoir, 822 (- ). Folio ( 27 x
280mm). With 89 (of 90) engraved plates, of which 88 beautifully handcoloured,
and descriptive text. Contemporary half calf, spine in 6 compartments
with gilt lines and lettering. € 2.000
"This magnificent publication... is very rare today" (Barba de Moraes p. ). The present
copy lacks the first plate 'Ateles hypoxanthus, Der Miriki' (a monkey), it also lacks the
descriptive text leaf to the 'Copias Jararaca' and 'Coluber Rabdocephalus'. Most copies
lack the general title, in our copy replaced by the title to the first part.
"Alexander Philipp Maximilian, prince of Wied-Neuwied, one of the great explorer-naturalists
and ethnologists of the 9th century, was also a specialist on reptiles. Wied's first
exploration was in Brazil, where he spent the period 8 - 8 7 studying the natural history
and primitive Indian tribes of the forested areas in the coastal states north of Rio de
Janeiro. His collections were rich in reptiles, especially snakes... Prince Max, as he was
known to his contemporaries, was the first well-trained naturalist to explore Brazil... The
90 plates in 'Abbildungen', 6 of them on reptiles, were taken from originals drawn and
colored by the prince himself, and these formed the basis for his descriptions of many new
species. Most of his specimens are now in New York City, at the American Museum of
Natural History, which purchased his zoological collections" (Adler p. 22).
First 9 leaves with some browning in the lower margin, resulting in the first text leaf in
small paper damage not affecting the text.
Nissen ZBI,
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98; Barba de Moraes p. ; Brasielien-Bibliothek Robert Bosch 67.
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[ 08] WILLUGHBY, F. De historia
Piscium libri quatuor, jussu &
sumptibus Societatis Regiae Londinensis
editi ... Totum opus recognovit,
coaptavit, supplevit, librum etiam
primum & secundum integros adjecit
J. Raius e Societate Regia. Oxonii, e
Theatro Sheldoniano, 686. Folio ( 72
x 2 mm). With engraved frontispiece,
engraved title-vignette and 87
engraved plates. Contemporary calf
(some wear to head and tail of spine, a
few corners reinforced).
€ 7.000
The rare first edition of the first large work
on fishes in England, marking a new era in
ichthyology. Although Ray states with his
characteristic modesty to be only the editor of the manuscript of his deceased friend
Willughby ( 6 - 672), his share in compiling the material for the work should not be neglected.
The text was printed at the expense of bishop John Fell (founder of the University
Press), the plates engraved by Paul van Somers under the supervision of Martin Lister at
the expense of several members of the Royal Society of London, among them particularly
the Society's president Samuel Pepys to whom the work is dedicated. One text leaf with
small old repair.
Dean III, ; Keynes 6; Nissen, 'Schöne Fischbücher', 0.
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[ 09] WYDER, J.F. Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des serpens de la Suisse.
Genève, Barbezat et Delarue/ Paris, Naudin, 826. 8vo (200 x 2 mm). pp.
(2), iv, 90, ( ), with 2 folded hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary
marbled boards. € . 00
A very rare work on the snakes of Switzerland. Not in Adler. "Plusieurs membres de la
Société Helvétique des sciences naturelles, et d'autres personnes ont manifesté le désir de
me voir publier les observations sur les serpens de la Suisse, que j'ai eu l'honneur de lire
dans les réunions de cette Société qui ont eu lieu à Berne en 8 6 et à Genève en 820"
(From the introduction). Some foxing to first 8 leaves.
B.M. (Nat. Hist.) V, 2 69.
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[ 0] ZORN, J. Dreyhundert auserlesene Amerikanische Gewächse nach
Linneischer Ordnung. Nürnberg, auf Kosten der Raspischen Buchhandlung,
786- 789. 6 parts bound in volumes. 8vo (200 x 2 mm). pp.
72, with 00 beautifully handcoloured engraved plates [Together with:]
ZORN, J. Auswahl schöner und seltener Gewächse als Fortsetzung der
Amerikanischen Gewächse. Nürnberg, im Verlag der Raspeschen Handlung,
79 - 798. 8vo (200 x 2 mm). pp. - 8; - 2; -68. parts bound in
volumes. With a handcoloured engraved frontispiece plate and 2 0 beautifully
handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary uniform calf, spines
with yellow gilt lettered label (one volume with skilful repair at head of
spine, some slight wear to bindings). € .000
A fine copy of this great classic on the botany of the West Indies and Central America,
together with the supplementary volumes which are of the greatest rarity.
In 76 Jacquin's "Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia", was published of which
only coloured copies exist. 7 years later a larger edition appeared with original watercolours
of which only 8 copies were printed. In order to make this important publication
available to a larger public Zorn published the present 8vo edition with handcoloured
plates on a reduced format. Although not as rare as the coloured Jacquin edition it is
also very scarce. The work is the result of Jacquin's travels in the West-Indies and tropical
America in 7 - 9. The first volume is dated 789 and is a reissue of the 78 edition. The
numbering of the pages of the second work is erratic but agrees with Stafleu & Cowan
and is complete.
Junk Rara I, p. ; Nissen BBI, 220 & 220 ; Stafleu & Cowan 8.7 8 & 8.7 9.
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Selective Subject Index
Africa: , 0
Algeria: 62
Antarctica:
Australia/ New Zealand: , 6 , 6
Austria: 8
Birds: 7, 9, 0, 2, 27, 28, 29, 0, , 7, 7 , 77, 92, 99, 0
Botany: 9, 9, 60, 79, 97
Brazil: 9 , 96, 07
Butterflies: , 20, 2 , 26, , 67, 69, 70, 82, 8 , 8
Central America: 6
China: , 99
Coleoptera: 7
Crustacea:
England: 0, , 0
Entomology: 9, 8, 0, 2, 62, 77, 80
Falconry: 2
Fishes: 2, , , 6, 08
Floras: 6, , 8, , 0, 79, 0
Florilegia: 7
Flower books: , 8, 2 , , , 6, 9, , 0, 7 , 79, 9 , 0
Fossils: , 8, 72, 76
Fungi: , 0
Germany: 6, 7 , 0
Herbals: 8, 6
Hydrobiology: 9
Hymenoptera: 6
India: 27, , , 79
Italy: , 9, 9
Japan: 92
Lapland:
Mammals: 9, 28, 99, 06
Medicinal plants: 28, , , , 8, 98
Mineralogy: 7,
Monkeys: 9
Mosses: 2
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Mozambique: 7
Peru: 02
Pomology: 22
Precious stones: 6
Reptilia/ Amphibia: 9 , 07, 09
Russia: 28, , 72
Scandinavia:
Shells: 7, , 6 , 6 , 78, 96
Slovenia: 77
South America: , 2, , ,
Spiders: 9
Switzerland: 09
The Netherlands: 0
Travel: , , 28, 2, , 99, 0
Trees: 8
West Indies: 8, 0
Whales: 6
Wunderkammer/ Museums: 66
Zoology: , 2 , 27, , 02