Natural History / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry

GOES, Willem and Nicolas RIGAULT Rei agrariae auctores legesque variae. Quaedam nunc primum, caetera emendatiora prodeunt curâ.
Including: Antiquitatum agrariarum liber singularis.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1674. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an integral engraved allegorical frontispiece, a general title-page with a woodcut decoration, 6 integral divisional titles including one for the Antiquitatum agrariarum, 3 folding engraved plates, 55 further engravings on integral leaves (15 full page), numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly geometric diagrams) and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, sprinkled edges. [20], 360, [60]; 328 pp. Full description

[GOVANTES, Felipe Maria de]. Estudios ó cartilla sobre el cultivo del tabaco Filipino.
Binondo, J. de Loyzaga and company, 1869. 8vo. Later green stiff paper wrappers, red paper spine. 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description

HAGENDORN, Ehrenfried. Tractatus physico-medicus de catechu, sive terra Japonica, in vulgus dicta ad normam Academiae Naturae-Curiosorum.
Jena, Johannus Bielk, (printed by Samuel Krebs), 1679. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece depicting a Japanese man holding a shield with the inscription: "E.H.D. Catechu" designed by C. Nisius. Contemporary boards, wholly untrimmed. [22], 82 pp. Full description

HARDTMAN, Christian Fr. and Engelbert JÖRLIN. Specimen botanico oeconomicum sistens trifolium hybridum.
Lund, Berling, 1780. 4to. With a woodcut tailpiece. Disbound. 14 pp. Full description

KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving en afbeelding van de beste soorten van appelen en peeren, ...
Amsterdam and Dordrecht, Allart, Holtrop, De Leeuw, and Krap, 1790. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. With 39 folding engraved plates (12 of apples & 8 of pears in the first work, showing 90 sorts; 19 of fruit and nut trees in the second work, showing 24 sorts), 4 woodcut tailpieces (plus 1 repeat) and 4 decorated woodcut initials (from 2 series). All coloured by a contemporary hand. With:
(2) KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van vruchtboomen en vruchten, ...
(3) KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschrijving van plantagie-gewassen, ...
Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. VIII, 36; [4], 70, [2 blank]; [4], 87, [1 blank], [4], [2 blank] pp. Full description

KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beknopte huishoudelyke hovenier. Inhoudende eene verhandeling en meernamige lijsten van alle soorten van ooft-vrugten. Insgelyks van alle boom- en heesteragtige plantagie-gewassen. Gelyk ook van alle keuken-gewassen, veld-vrugten, verfstof-gewassen en anderen.
Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, [1760-1762]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a small woodcut vignette on the title-pages, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut tailpieces. Modern quarter paper. X, 294; [8], 415, [1 blank]; [8], 362, [42] pp. Full description

LAUREMBERG, Peter. Petri Laurembergii Rostochiensis, Apparatus plantarius primus...
Frankfurt am Main, Matthaeus Merian, [1632].
With: (2) LAUREMBERG, Peter. Petri Laurembergii Rostochiensis, Horticultura libris II. comprehensa;...
Frankfurt am Main, Matthaeus Merian, [1631].
2 works bound in one volume. 4to. Illustrated title pages (18,0 x 13,5 cm), headpieces, initials, 63 copperplate illustrations, endpieces. Vellum with a manuscript title on the spine. 168, [44]; 196 pp. Full description

LÖBE, William. Die Getreidearten und Hülsenfrüchte. Aus Deutschlands Landwirthschaftlicher Flora.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. With 28 hand-coloured engraved plates and 2 engraved plates.
With:
(2) LÖBE, William. Die Gräser der Wiese und des Waldes. Aus der Landwirthschaftlichen Flora.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. With 19 (of 21) hand-coloured engraved plates.
(3) EBBINGHAUS, Julius. Die Pilze und Schwämme Deutschlands. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Anwendbarkeit als Nahrungs- und Heilmittel, so wie auf die Nachtheile derselben.Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. With 32 hand-coloured engraved plates.
(4) REDSLOB, Julius. Die Moose und Flechten Deutschlands. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung auf Nutzen und Nachtheile dieser Gewächse.Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. With 32 hand-coloured engraved plates. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half calf. [8], 54; VI, 72; [6], VIII, 64; [4], 96 pp. Full description

LÖHNEISEN (LÖHNEYSS), Georg Engelhard. Neu-eröffnete Hof- Kriegs- und Reit-Schul, das ist: gründlicher Bericht della Cavalleria, oder von allen, was zur Reuterey gehörig und einem Cavalier davon zu wissen gebühret, ...
Nürnberg, Paul Lochner, 1729. 6 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, engraved plate with the elaborately quartered coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and 61 engraved illustration plates (9 double-page, and many with 2 half-page illustrations per plate). 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled diced light brown calf, gold-tooled spine. [30], 66; 96; 114; 136; 144; 104, [8 (of 10)] pp. Full description

LOISEL, François-Ernest. Traité complet de la culture naturelle et artificielle de l'asperge, ou exposé pratique et raisonné de tout ce qu'il est utile de savoir dans ce genre de culture.
Paris, H. Cousin, 1846. 12mo. Contemporary half calf. [2], 120, [1] pp. Full description