Natural History

VRIJDAG ZIJNEN, Theodoor Daniel. De in den handel voorkomende kina-basten, pharmacologisch behandeld en toegepast op de soorten welke in de Pharmacopoea Belgica vermeld zijn.
Rotterdam, P.H. van den Heuvell (back of half-title: The Hague, A.D. Schinkel), 1835. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. XII, 120 pp. Full description

WAD, Gregers. Fossilia Aegyptiaca Musei Borgiani Velitris.
Velletri, 1794. 4to. Contemporary boards. VIII, 32 pp. Full description

WALLERIUS, Johan Gottschalk (praeses) and Gustaf Adolf GYLLENBORG. Agriculturae fundamenta chemica, Åkerbrukets chemiska grunder, ...
Uppsala, 1761. 4to. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. [4], 321, [1] pp. Full description

WALSINGHAM, Thomas de Grey, Baron. Pterophoridae of California and Oregon.
London, John van Voorst, 1880. 8vo (24.9 x 15.7 cm). With 3 hand-coloured plates depicting 46 specimens, drawn by E.W. Robinson and printed from steel engravings. Later half light blue cloth. XVI, 66, [12] pp. Full description

WARREN, John. The conchologist.
Boston, Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. Small 4to. With a lithographed frontispiece showing 2 shells and XVI numbered lithographed plates of shells and related items showing 71 figures. Modern (21st-century?) green calf. [4], 204 pp. Full description

WEDDELL, Hugues Algernon. Voyage dans le nord de la Bolivie et dans les parties voisines du Pérou ou visite au district aurifère de Tipuani.
Paris, P. Bertrand & London, H. Baillière, 1853. 8vo. With two lithographed plates, three woodcut illustrations in text (one music) and a folding engraved map. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine. [4], XII, 571, [1] pp. Full description

WEINKAUFF, Heinrich Conrad. Die Conchylien des Mittelmeeres, ihre geographische und geologische Verbreitung.
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1867-1868. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, title in gold on spine, red painted edges, red endpapers. XIX, [1], 301, [1 blank]; VI, 512 pp. Full description

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

WILHELM, Gottlieb Tobias. Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Die Amphibien.
Vienna, for the publishers ["auf Kosten des Herausgebers"], 1818. 8vo. With engraved title-page mounted on a separate leaf and 40 full-page folded-out plates with 70 figs. engraved by Jacob Schmuzer, alle colored by hand. Contemporary half calf. [18], 328 pp. Full description

WILKES, Benjamin. One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies, representing their changes into the caterpillar, chrysalis, and fly-states, and the plants, flowers, and fruits, whereon they feed. Coloured with great exactness from the subjects themselves. With a natural history of the moths and butterflies, describing the method of managing, preserving, and feeding them.
London, R. N. Rose (printed by G. Verrall, Worthing), 1824. 4to. With 120 engraved plates (mainly 27.5 x 22.5 cm) hand-coloured for the author. Mid-19th-century half gold-tooled dark green morocco. VIII, [22], 63, [5] pp. Full description