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The first Dutch work on tropical medicine

BONTIUS, Jacobus (Jacob de BONDT), Willem PISO and Georg MARKGRAF. Oost- en West-Indische warande. Vervattende aldaar de leef- en genees-konst. Met een verhaal van de speceryen, boom- en aard-gewassen, dieren &c. in Oost- en West Indien voorvallende.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694.
With: (2) Johannes VERBRUGGE. De nieuwe verbeterde chirurgyns scheeps-kist, sijnde een catalogus ofte lijste der medicamenten die yder chirurgijn naer Oost- of West Indiën gemeenlyk mede-voert.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1693.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (14.4 x 9.1 cm). Ad 1 with an engraved title page, erroneously mentioning the year 1693, a small fleur-de-lis woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut decorated initial and a woodcut tail-piece. Ad 2 with a large woodcut vignette on the title page, and three woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 304, [7], [1 blank], 96 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Brazil Caribbean Islands Faunas & General Zoology Floras & General Botany Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Medicine Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century) Middle America Southeast Asia VOC WIC
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The avifauna of Dauphiné, with 72 lithographed plates

BOUTEILLE, Hippolyte and M. de LABATIE. Ornithologie du Dauphiné ou description des oiseaux observés dans les départements de l'Isère, de la Drome, des Hautes-Alpes et les contrées voisines.
Grenoble, for the author and "les principaux libraires de la ville", by F. Allier, 1843[-1844]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 72 lithographed plates by C. Pégeron after Victor Desirée Cassien, and a large folding table. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. 416; 358, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 900
Birds - Ornithology Faunas & General Zoology France
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An expedition to the South African interior: "of great permanent worth",
together with a description of the Cape of Good Hope

[BRINK, Carel Frederik]. Nouvelle description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, avec un Journal historique d'un voyage de terre, . . . , dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. . . . Sous le commandement du Capitain Mr. Henri Hop, . . .
Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1778. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Title-page with an engraved vignette by Christian Friedrich Fritzsch and 16 folding engraved plates. Olive half calf (ca. 1840), gold-tooled spine. [6], 130, [2], 100 pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Anthropology & Ethnography Faunas & General Zoology Mineralogy & Gems Travel & Voyages Africa
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First edition of Brodtmann's zoological series containing 144 lithographed plates, seldom found complete

BRODTMANN, Karl Joseph. Naturhistorische Bilder-Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche.
[Zurich or Schaffhausen?], Brodtmann, [1816 and later] (title-page of the "ersten Heft": Lindau, 1816). Heft 1-33 including the supplements, bound in 1 volume. Large folio (46 x 38 cm). With a lithographed title-page and 144 lithographs drawn by Brodtmann himself showing humans, other mammals, reptiles and amphibians, birds, insects, etc. 19th-century brown marbled paper over boards. [8] (title and index) ll.; 36 (Heft 1-18); 16 (Heft 26-33); 6 (Heft 19-21); 10 (Heft 22-25); 4 (Supplement) pp. Full description
€ 18,500
Amphibians & Reptiles Birds - Ornithology Faunas & General Zoology Insects & Spiders Mammals
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The complete supplement volumes to Buffon's seminal work, including his new theory on the earth

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc. Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére . . . Supplément [Tome premier - septième].
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1774-1782 (vols. 1-6); Dordrecht, A. Blussé and son, 1799 (vol. 7). 7 volumes. 4to. With 2 folding engraved maps and 218 plates (full-page and folding and including 2 bis), all engraved. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges (vols. 1-6, uniform), 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine (vol. 7). Full description
€ 2,250
Earth Sciences Faunas & General Zoology Geology Mammals Mineralogy & Gems Science
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Complete fourth series (reptiles & amphibians) of Buffon's seminal work

[BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc and] Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville-sur-Illon, comte de LACÉPÈDE. Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens [= Histoire naturelle, vols. XXXVII-XXXVIII].
Dordrecht, A. Blussé and son, 1799. 2 volumes. 4to. With 63 engraved plates. 19th-century uniform half calf, gold-tooled spines. 10, 276, [2]; 14, "280" [= 284] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Amphibians & Reptiles Faunas & General Zoology
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Fossils from the Brussels region, with 32 coloured plates

BURTIN, François-Xavier. Oryctographie de Bruxelles ou description des fossiles tant naturels qu'accidentels découverts jusqu'à ce jour dans les environs de cette ville.
[Brussels], Le Maire, 1784. Folio (46 x 28 cm). With engraved title-page by Pris after M.J. Speeckaert, and 32 engraved plates printed in brown and coloured by a contemporary hand. 19th-century half sheepskin (roan). [2], 152 pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Amphibians & Reptiles Earth Sciences Faunas & General Zoology Fishes Fossils / Palaeontology Geology Mineralogy & Gems Shells & other Invertebrates
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Complete collection of Camerarius' famous and magnificent natural history emblems

CAMERARIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum & emblematum ex re herbaria desumtorum centuria una.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.
With:
(2) IDEM. Symbolorum & emblematum et animalibus quadrupedibus desumtorum centuria altera.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.
(3) IDEM. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volatilibus et insectis desumtorum centuria tertia.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1654.
(4) CAMERARIUS, Joachim and Ludwig CAMERARIUS. Symbolorum et emblematum ex aquatilibus et reptilibus desumtorum centuria quarta.
Heidelberg, Ludwig Bourgeat, 1664. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Each work with an engraved title page, 100 round engraved emblems (a total of 400), and numerous woodcut initials. (Near) contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with a beige leather title label lettered in gold on the spine. 102 (the first ll. after the title page paginated 1-6); 103, [1 blank]; 104, [1 blank]; 100, [1], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Emblem & Songbooks Faunas & General Zoology Floras & General Botany
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1000 species of Hungarian spiders with 700 detail figures

CHYZER, Cornelius and Wladyslaw KULCZYNSKI. Araneae Hungariae secundum collectiones a Leone Becker pro parte perscrutatas ... Tomus I. [, II-di pars prior., II-di parts posterior.].
Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1891-1897. 2 volumes (vol. II in 2 parts) bound as 1. Royal 4to (30 x 23.5 cm). With 16 lithographed containing about 700 detail figures, nearly all combining line images and shading, and many in vol. I in duotone (grey and blue). Near contemporary green half cloth. [4], 168, [4]; [4], 151, [1]; [4], 147-366 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Central Europe Faunas & General Zoology Insects & Spiders
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