Natural History / Exploration & General Works

SONNERAT, Pierre. Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, fait par ordre de Louis XVI, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781; dans lequel on traite des moers, de la religion, des sciences et des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins et des Madégasses; suivi d'observations sur le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les îles de France et de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines et les Moluques, et de rechereches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, etc, etc. ... Nouvelle édition.
Paris, Dentu, 1806. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas (4to). With 140 numbered engraved plates: a double-page plan of the city of Pondichéry, India, 19 double- and 120 single-page views and plates. Contemporary red half sheepskin (text) and modern red half cloth (atlas). Text volumes: XXVIII, 372; [4], 445; [4], 412, [2]; [4], 488, [1] pp. Full description

TAYLOR, Ellen M. Madeira: Its scenery and how to see it. With letters of a year's residence, and lists of the trees, flowers, ferns, and seaweeds.
London, Edward Stanford, 1882. 8vo. With a wood-engraved frontispiece, a lithographed folding map of the island of Madeira and a lithographed folding plan of the city of Funchal. Also with a publisher's advertisement at the end with "books useful for visitors to Madeira" from the publisher Trübner and Co., London. Original publisher's black- and gold-blocked green cloth. XVI, 261, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

WOODWARD, John. Geographie physique ou essay sur l'histoire naturelle de la terre.Including: Réponse aux observations du docteur Camerarius, concernant l'essay sur l'histoire naturelle de la terre.Des fossiles de toute espece.
Amsterdam, aux dépens de la compagnie, 1735. 3 texts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a folding engraved plate. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. XI, [5], 496 pp. Full description