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Paris, Roret, 1854-1876. 8vo (203 x 130mm). 14 volumes (12 text volumes bound in 13 plus atlas). pp. xx, 486; 548; 594; 579; 750; 637; 620; 552; 1-409; 410-930; iv, 455; 420; 424; 47, (3), with 134 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gilt ornamented spines with gilt lettering (vol. 9, second part in contemporary wrappers, atlas volume in later half calf). The rare issue with hand-coloured plates. The present work is Jean Théodore Lacordaire's (1801-1870) major work. 'De ses voyages, Lacordaire rapporte en France, des milliers d'insectes qu'il étudie lui-même' (Lhoste p. 60). Lacordaire travelled in South American from 1825-1832 using every opportunity to collect insects.In 1835 he became professor of zoology at the University of Liège. The last 3 volumes of the present work were posthumously published by F. Chapuis. The fine plates engraved by Corbié are after drawings by Migneaux, Nicolet, and Hüet. All plates are meticulously hand-coloured."Besides his great work, the 'Genera des Coléoptères,' which occupied the last twenty-two years of his life, and with which his name will be associated as long as Entomology is studied, he published a Monograph of the Erotylidæ. The unanimous verdict of entomologists has already stamped the 'Genera des Coléoptères' as a work of transcendent merit and usefulness; and when we consider that almost every line of its nine closely-printed volumes embodies the result of numerous observations, careful comparisons. I have thought it well to obtain some estimate of these from my friend and predecessor Mr. Bates, who has, I know, had occasion to examine critically a large portion of Lacordaire's work. He informs me that the distinguishing merits of the 'Genera' are, its completeness (scarcely a single described genus having been overlooked); the justness and accuracy of the characters given, and the clearness of its style and arrangement. In the aptitude and neatness with which the synoptical tables of tribes and genera are constructed, Mr. Bates thinks he has excelled all other entomological writers." (A.R. Wallace. The president's Address 1871 to the Entomological Society of London).Horn-Schenkling 12618 & Index Litt. Ent. II, 565.

Seller Inventory # 10190

Paris, Treuttel and Wurz, 1830-1832. Folio (370 x 285mm). pp. xi, 316, (6), with 72 handcoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf, spine with gilt lines, ornaments and lettering, marbled sides. The very rare Large Paper issue with coloured plates of this early work on the flora of Senegal and Gambia. The regular issue was published in small 4to with plain plates. The fine plates are by J. Decaisne. It was G.S. Perrottet who collected the plants. In 1824 he was appointed to direct a government outpost and trading company in Senegambia. After publishing the present work together with Guillemin and Richard he was assigned by the Parisian Museum of Natural History to the botanic garden in Pondicherry, India as an agricultural botanist. The earliest botanical collections reported in the area of the Senegambia under French influence were carried out in the mid-18th century by Michel Adanson (1727 1806), who would become a distinguished French naturalist.The fine plates are by Joseph Decaisne (1807-1882) a distinguished botanist, who rose from the position of a simple gardener to be leading botanist in France.The colouring of the plates is refined and beautiful. The printed wrappers to the 8 parts are bound in.Provenance: Bibliotheque de V. Perdonnet on backcover, label of G. Perdonnet and armorial coat of arms of Henry Rogers Broughton on inside frontcover.Stafleu & Cowan 2211; Nissen BBI, 766.

Seller Inventory # 10172

Genève, Barthelemi Chirol, 1782. 3 volumes. 8vo (215 x 145mm). pp. xvi, 408; viii, 411; viii, 412, with 2 folded engraved plates. Contemporary marbled wrappers, rebacked, uncut. First Edition. The first and most important of four works by Senebier specifically on photosynthesis, discovered by Ingenhousz in 1779. His greatest advance was to show, in this book, that the emission of oxygen by green plants in sunlight is absolutely dependent on a supply of carbon dioxide, one of the key points which was not suffiently examined by Ingenhousz. "In these three volumes Senebier presents his extensive and detailed experiments, both qualitative and quantitative, on the effects of sunlight on plants. Most of the experiments made by Ingenhousz were repeated; however different conclusions were drawn in some cases. One of the important facts discovered was the role carbon dioxide played in the release of oxygen by plants. Volume III contains short memoirs on the influence of light on animal and mineral substances and on the nature of light. Senebier expanded and varied the experiments of Scheele on the darkening of lunar cornea, using different colored lights. Senebier also tested the effects of sunlight on dyes, paints and colored fabrics" (Cole).Stafleu & Cowan 11.662.

Seller Inventory # 10117

(Together with:) DARWIN, C. On the existence of two forms, and on their reciprocal sexual relation, in several species of the genus Linum. (Read February 5, 1863). pp. 69-83, with 1 illustration. (Together with:) SCOTT, J. communicated by Charles DARWIN. Observations of the Functions and Structure of the Reproductive Organs in the Primulaceae. (read Febr. 4, 1864). pp. 78-126, with 1 illustration. (Together with:) DARWIN, C. On the Sexual Relations of the three Forms of Lythrum salicaria. Read June 16, 1864. pp. 169-196, with 1 illustration. (Together with:) DARWIN, C. On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (Read February 2, 1865). pp. 1-118, with 13 illustrations. (Together with:) DARWIN, F. On the Power possessed by Leaves of placing themselves at Right Angels to the Direction of Incident Light. (Read December 16, 1880). pp. 420-455, with 17 figures. (Together with:) DARWIN, F. On the Connection between Geotropism and Growth. (Read April 6, 1882). pp. 218-230, with 1 plate. (Together with:) DARWIN, C. The Action of Carbonate of Ammonia on the Roots of certain Plants. (Read March 16, 1882). pp. 239-261, with 2 illustrations. (Together with:) DARWIN, C. The action of Carbonate of Ammonia on Chlorophyll-bodies. (Read March 6, 1862). pp. 262-284, with 3 figures (Together with:) DARWIN. F. On the Relation between the "bloom" on Leaves and the Distribution of the Stomata. (Read 4th February, 1886). pp. 99-116. Contemporary green half calf, marbled sides, spine with gilt lines (label 'Papers by C. & F. Darwin' gone, but lettering legible). A very interesting collection of articles by Charles Darwin and his son Francis Darwin. 6 articles are by Charles Darwin, and one communicated by him, 3 articles are by Francis Darwin and 3 articles by other scientists, most articles were published in the Journal or Proceedings of the Linnaean Society. A rarity is Darwin's publication 'On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (Read February 2, 1865)'. It is the first edition of Darwin's work on climbing plants. It was published 10 years later as a book in 1875 with the indication 'Second edition'. Francis Darwin (1848-1925) was the third son of Charles Darwin and his assistant. Some browning to the inner margin of one leaf.

Seller Inventory # 10084

Nouvelles recherches sur les Animaux Vertébres dont on trouve les ossements enfouis dans le sol de la France et sur leur comparaison avec les espèces propres aux autres régions du Globe. Deuxième Edition. Paris, Bertrand, 1859. 4to (275 x 360mm). 84 lithographed plates. Publisher's printed wrappers. Atlas only. In 1848-1852 appeared his important work 'Zoologie et paléontologie françaises', supplementary to the palaeontological publications of Georges Cuvier and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville; of this a second and greatly improved edition was issued in 1859. In 1865 he accepted the professorship of zoology at the Sorbonne.Nissen ZBI, 1545.

Seller Inventory # 10075

Nouvelles recherches sur les Animaux Vertébres dont on trouve les ossements enfouis dans le sol de la France et sur leur comparaison avec les espèces propres aux autres régions du Globe. Deuxième Edition. Paris, Bertrand, 1859. 4to (275 x 360mm). 84 lithographed plates. Publisher's printed wrappers. Atlas only. In 1848-1852 appeared his important work 'Zoologie et paléontologie françaises', supplementary to the palaeontological publications of Georges Cuvier and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville; of this a second and greatly improved edition was issued in 1859. In 1865 he accepted the professorship of zoology at the Sorbonne.Nissen ZBI, 1545.

Seller Inventory # 10076

Paris, Dufart, An X-XI (1801-1803). 8 volumes. Royal-8vo (210 x 135 mm). pp. 384; 432; 452; 397; 365; 447; 436; 439, with 100 engraved plates, apart from a few anatomical plates all finely coloured and 2 folded tables. Publisher's marbled wrappers (slightly worn). The very rare coloured issue of Daudin's work. The plates are beautifully colour-printed with extensive handfinishing. "Daudin's most extensive herpetological work, and the one on which his reputation rests, was the 'Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles' (1801-1803), in eight volumes with 100 plates . This book, part of the so-called Sonnini edition of Buffon's encyclopedia, was the standard herpetological reference of its day . Daudin stated that he had examined over 1100 specimens belonging to 517 species, triple the number catalogued by Count Lacepède only 25 years before, his genera are well defined ." (Adler, Contributions to the History of Herpetolgy p. 20). "Of all the herpetological treatises to emerge in France immediately following the French Revolution, the most comprehensive was Daudin's. The great voyages of discovery of the 15th to 18th centuries had brought to Europe enormous masses of new plant and animal species. and into most of the 19th century, Paris was the center for herpetological studies" (S. Haines, Slithy Toves. Illustrated classic Herpetological books at the University of Kansas p. 72). François Marie Daudin (1774-1804) died at a very early age. An uncut copy.Nissen ZBI, 1045.

Seller Inventory # 10060

Paris, F. Dufart, An X-XIII (1802-1805). 14 volumes. 8vo (217 x 135mm). With 112 engraved plates, almost all coloured apart from a few anatomical plates and 8 folding charts. Publisher's marbled wrappers, spines with paper label titles. The rare coloured issue of Latreille's largest work. 'Latreille's major scientific contribution lay in applying the 'natural method' to the classification of insects, arachnids, and crustaceans' (DSB). Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833) was a famous French entomologist and professor at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. 'Surtout l'édition aux belles planches coloriées est rare', Junk 'Rara' p. 30. The first 2 volumes in the second issue. An uncut uniform set.Horn-Schenkling 12825.

Seller Inventory # 10059

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (1870)-1902. 3 volumes (2 text vols & atlas). Folio (345 x 255mm). pp. (4), 702; pp. (6), 731; pp. (6), with 72 lithographed plates of which 46 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt lettered spines in 6 compartments. The present rare work is the 7th volume of famous French zoological expedition to Central America 'Recherches Zoologiques pour server à l'Histoire de la Faune de l'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique sous la direction de M. Milne Edwards'. According to the 'Dates de publication' in the second volume the first part was published in 1870. The first part was printed in Paris at the Imprimerie Impérale. Since Napoleon III fell from power that year subsequent parts were printed at the renamed Imprimerie Nationale. Paul Henri Fischer (1835-1893) published numerous contributions on malacology and was editor of the 'Journal de Conchyliologie'. "Crosse may be regarded as the doyen of systematic conchologists in France during the second half of the nineteenth century" (Dance, P. A history of shell collecting page 163)."La faune malacologique du Mexique et du Guatemala est une des plus intéressantes de l'Amérique, particulièrement au point de vue Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. En effet, ces deux pays constituent une sorte de région centrale, dans laquelle viennent se rencontrer les formes du nord et celles du sud de l'Amérique, augmentées de quelques-unes de celles des Antilles ; de plus, ils renferment un nombre relativement considérable d'espèces et même de genres spéciaux, qui impriment à l'ensemble de la faune un caractère d'originalité très prononcé" (From the introduction). An attractively bound copy with some occasional foxing.Nissen ZBI, 1371.

Seller Inventory # 10033

London, R.H. Porter, 1892-1894. 3 volumes. 4to (285 x 220mm). pp. lv, (7), 1-298; (2), 297-681; (4), with 48 (43 chromo-) lithographed plates and 1 folded chromolithographed map (map to illustrate the butterflies from Japan, North China, and the Korea by J.H. Leech). Contemporary brown half morocco, richly gilt decorated spines in 6 compartments with gilt lettering. A beautifully produced work on the butterflies of the Far East. "Great care and planning went into his ambitious scheme to explore Japan, Korea, and the little known parts of the northwestern Himalaya and central and western China. He set up collecting stations and trained local people to collect for him. In addition he employed well-known western collectors, such as Albert Stewart Meek (1871-?), who had done so much successful collecting for Lord Rothschild. He was largely successful and his work still stands out as a standard reference work" (Gilbert, Butterfly collectors and painters p. 106). Leech described many species new to science in the present work. John Henry Leech (1862-1900) was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge and developed an early interest in entomology, in particular, the Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. Original printed wrappers bound in at end of each volume. A very fine copy.Provenance: Bookplate of J. Fenwick Lansdowne.Nissen ZBI, 2414.

Seller Inventory # 9983

Nürnberg, in der Felseckerschen Buchhandlung, 1805. Small-8vo (175 x 105mm). pp. (16), 144. Contempoarary green boards. And: PANZER, G.W.F. Deutschlands Insectenfaune oder Entomologisches Taschenbuch für das Iahr 1795. Nürnberg, in der Felseckerschen Buchhandlung, (1795). Small-8vo (140 x 90mm). pp. (34) 370, (2), with engraved frontispiece and 12 hand-coloured engraved plates. Original decorated boards. The first volume has corrections to parts 1-96 of Panzer's "Fauna Insectorum Germanicae initia". Of the second work the subtitle reads as follows: Entomologia Germanica . I: Eleutherata. The excellent plates are drawn and engraved by I. Sturm.Horn-Schenkling 16732; Horn-Schenkling 16729.

Seller Inventory # 9977

Rennes, Imp. Oberthür et fils, 1876. 8vo (300 x 205mm). pp. 34, with 4 lithographed plates. Publisher's printed wrappers. The subtitle is: Espèces nouvelles de Lépidoptères Recueillis en Chine par M. l'abbé A. David. The present work is a rare contribution to the entomology of China. "The first and most famous of the missionaries to investigate the botany of China in the nineteenth century was Père Armand David, one of the most accomplished naturalists ever to visit the Far East. As well as collecting a multitude of new plant species during his extensive journeys into unexplored areas of China, he also discovered new birds, mammals, reptiles and insects" (Kilpatrick. 'Fathers of botany. The discovery of Chinese plants by European missionaries' p. 9).Nissen ZBI,111 2997.

Seller Inventory # 9966

Royal-8vo (228 x 145mm). With 1198 chromolithographed plates. Uniformly bound in green half calf, spines with gilt lettering. A fine copy of this rare and most comprehensive atlas on British fungi. Cooke (1825-1914), an eminent mycologist, was the founder of the journal 'Grevillea' and was one of the great promotors of mycology in England. 'Cookes's most ambitious work, the "Illustrations of British Fungi", is a monumental work of labor and patient application. I am told that not only did he make the original drawings of the plants, but that the figures were actually transferred by Cooke to the stones from which they were printed' (C.G. Lloyd, Letter no. 57).The number published of the 'Illustrations of British Fungi' must have been very small as there were only 70 subscribers in Britain when volume 2 was issued.Stafleu & Cowan 1207.

Seller Inventory # 9960

Nouvelles recherches sur les Animaux Vertébres dont on trouve les ossements enfouis dans le sol de la France et sur leur comparaison avec les espèces propres aux autres régions du Globe. Deuxième Edition. Paris, Bertrand, 1859. 4to (275 x 360mm). 84 lithographed plates. Publisher's printed wrappers. Atlas only. In 1848-1852 appeared his important work 'Zoologie et paléontologie françaises', supplementary to the palaeontological publications of Georges Cuvier and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville; of this a second and greatly improved edition was issued in 1859. In 1865 he accepted the professorship of zoology at the Sorbonne.Nissen ZBI, 1545.

Seller Inventory # 8766

Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1919. 8vo (252 x 165mm). pp. (4), 319. Publisher's printed wrappers. Stafleu & Cowan 10.781. Important contribution to orchids of China and Japan by a famous orchidologist. Published as 'Beihefte 4, Repert. Sp. nov. Regn. veg.' Some damage to frontwrapper.

Seller Inventory # 9882

London, by the Author, (1878-) 1883. Large folio (597 x 477mm). With 43 splendid handcoloured lithographed plates from drawings by Joseph Wolf and lithographed by J. Smith. Slightly later green half morocco, gilt lettered spine in 6 compartments. First and only edition. A superb copy of the most splendid monograph ever made on this group of animals (Cats, Lions, Pumas, Tigers, Panthers). In the Preface Elliot remarks of Wolf's illustrations: "It is quite unnecessary for me to call attention to the Plates which ornament this volume. They are worthy of the great artist who produced them, and they bear an enhanced value." Josef Wolf, from German origin, was the first of a select group of continental bird and animal artists to be attracted to England, to be followed by artists as Keulemans, Smit and Grönvold. He became one of the most celebrated artists of his time, illustrating other works of Elliot, Schlegel & Wulverhorst's 'Traité de Fauconnerie', and contributing a.o. plates to Gould's 'Birds of Asia" and 'The birds of Great Britain'. ". was fortunate enough to secure the services of Mr. Joseph Wolf, who may be fairly said to stand alone in intimate knowledge of the habits and forms of Mammals and Birds" (Skipwith p. 105). Daniel Giraud Elliot was a wealthy American naturalist and author of a number of sumptuously illustrated ornithological books, as well as the present work on the family of cats. He was Curator of Zoology at the Field Museum of Chicago. The work was issued in 11 parts. The upper printed 11 wrappers to these parts are bound in at the end of the book.Nissen ZBI, 1279; Wood p. 332.

Seller Inventory # 9843

London, Gurney & Jackson, 1887-1902. 3 volumes. Large-4to (284 x 220mm). With 180 hand-coloured lithographed plates and descriptive text. Contemporary red half morocco, spines in 6 compartments with gilt lines and lettering, topedges gilt. A beautifully illustrated and rare work on exotic butterflies. As the work was issued in 60 parts over a period of 15 years complete copies are scarce. "The present work is designed to illustrate some of the rarer and more beautiful new species of butterflies which are continually being sent to Europe from all parts of the world by travellers and missionaries, as well as professional collectors, and it may be regarded as supplementary to late Mr. Hewitson's 'Exotic Butterflies', and 'Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera' . The insects figured and described in this volume are chiefly selected from the Collection of Mr. Grose Smith, and with a very few exceptions have not been previously figured" (From the Preface). Butterflies were also selected from the collections of W. Rothschild, Staudinger and a.o. Hewitson. All original printed wrappers are bound in. A very fine copy.Provenance: Armorial bookplate of William Bree, Archdeacon of Coventry.Nissen ZBI, 1728.

Seller Inventory # 9859

London, W. Nicol, 1835-1848. 10 volumes. 4to (282 x 220mm). With 7 engraved titles and 176 engraved plates of which 93 (some double-page) superbly hand-coloured. Contemporay uniform green morocco, spines with gilt lines and lettering. A rare and fine complete set of the most important and beautiful British pomological journal, founded by Sir Joseph Banks, John Wedgwood and others in 1804. It is illustrated with many superb fruit plates by the best artists of the period such as Franz Bauer, Will. Hooker, Miss Drake, C. Lindley, Lady Boughton, showing peaches, strawberries, apricots, cherries, gooseberries etc. ''When the Horticultural Society of London looked for an artist to embellish their prestiguous 'Transactions.', q.v., Hooker impressed its Drawing Committee with a previous work, 'Paradisus Londinensis.', and received the appointment. For 20 years, he loyally contributed many flower. and superb fruit plates.' (Janson, Pomona's Harvest p. 299). Many of the fine plates are handcoloured aquatint engravings.Provenance: Armorial bookplate of William Scurfield Grey.Nissen BBI, 2387; Pritzel 10860; Dunthorne 142.

Seller Inventory # 9725

Paris, Roret, 1842-1857. 5 volumes. Large-4to (350 x 260mm). With 500 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, spines with 2 black gilt lettered labels and gilt lines, marbled sides (slightly rubbed). A fine copy of this very scarce flora of the Near East (from Greece eastward to Afghanistan and southward to Abyssinia). "This fine work owes its origin to an expedition made in 1839 by the French politician and botanist Count François Hippolyte Jaubert (1798-1874), and his friend Charles F.M. Texier (1802-1871), the archeologist, to Asia Minor. On his return Jaubert decided to publish illustrations of the new and little known species of plants he had collected, with some collected by earlier travellers . The best botanical artists of Paris - J. and F. Gontier, E. Lesèble, de Ligniville, Maubert, Riocreux, Willy, Mlle. Champeaux, Mesdames Gouffé, Hublier and Spach - were employed for the plates . All beautifully and accurately drawn and engraved. Historically the most interesting are a number by Claude Aubriet . Nicolas Robert and Pierre Redouté. Jaubert planned and directed the work and even wrote part of the text, but most of this was done by Edouard Spach" (Journal Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. I, 9). Edmond Boissier the famous author of 'Flora Orientalis' considered the 'Illustrationes' "par le soin apporté à la partie descriptive et par la beauté des figures, un des livres les plus precieux pour la Flore d'Orient". Our copy does not have the large folded map, but instead has 10 maps inserted from another work such as 'Carte de la monarchie des Hebreux sous Salomon ou le Royaume d'Israel', 'Carte de l'empire des Perses', 'Carte du Nord de la Judée ou Terre Sainte', 'Carte du Paradis Terrestre' and 'Carte de la Syrie'. First title with 2 repaired cut out pieces, and another page with 1 repaired cut out piece, all without loss of text. The work is always prone to foxing however the present copy is better than other copies we have sold in the past.Provenance: Library stamp on free endpaper of H. Demirez Bibliyotegi 1952.Nissen BBI, 958; Stafleu & Cowan 3303.

Seller Inventory # 9696

51 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS by P. Duménil to illustrate the above work and 3 proof plates and an engraved portrait of the author. François Fulgis Chevallier intended to publish 20 parts, however only 4 parts with 21 plates were published between 1824 and 1827. Chevallier (1796-1840) was a French botanist of some renown, the author of 2 mycological books and a popular flora of the Paris area.The superb original watercolours, of which 43 are signed 'P. Duménil' are of a high artistic quality. The drawings, all but two within a frame, measure approx. 11,5 x 16cm. and are painted on quarto sheets, only 2 watercolours on small paper. All plates with two small perforation holes in the margin, not affecting the illustrations.Paul Chrétien Romain Constant Duménil (1779-1859), was a well-known natural history painter. He published in 1859 the 'Nouveau manuel complet de peinture d'histoire naturelle'. He further supervised the illustrations for Tussac's famous 'Flore des Antilles', and made illustrations for Persoon's 'Mycologia Europaea' and also Chevalier's other work 'Flore générale des environs de Paris'. He also illustrated numerous zoological and entomological works such as Poey's 'Centurie de lépidoptères de Cuba'; Godart & Duponchel's 'Histoire naturelle des Lépidoptères ou Papillons de France'; Laplace's 'Voyage autour du monde'. Nissen lists 32 works with illustrations by Duménil.

Seller Inventory # 9722

Torino, ex Typographia Regia, (1839). 4to (310 x 235mm). pp. 242, with 6 engraved plates. Later wrappers. The monograph was published in 'Memorie della Reale Acad. delle Scienze di Torino' Serie II, tom. 2.Pritzel 6460; Stafleu & Cowan 6330.

Seller Inventory # 9601

Veronae, Typis et expensis Soc. Typogr., 1822-1824. 3 volumes. 8vo (225 x 145mm). (I) pp. xxxv, 535, with 2 engraved folded plates; (II) pp. 754, with 6 engraved folded plates; (III) pp. 898, with 4 engraved folded plates. Original printed wrappers. Ciro Pollini (1782-1833) was an Italian botanist and physician and curator of the Verona botanical garden.Stafleu & Cowan 8145.

Seller Inventory # 9604

Muenchen 1968. 4to. pp. 108, (1), with frontispiece. Publisher's printed wrappers (together with:) Sixty original plates (many handcoloured) from German, French, Dutch, English, Italian, and Swiss Zoological works from 1491-1966. Folio. All plates in passe-partout. In a cloth-box. Only 100 copies published of this important book dealing with the history of zoological illustration through the centuries. It is the only work on early zoological publications which shows the original leaves together with an excellent bibliography. The superb leaves are for example taken from works such as: Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz 1491; Gart der Gesundheit, Strassburg, 1497-99; Gessner, Fischbuch, Frankfurt 1589; Schreber, Die Säugthiere, Halle 1775-1555; Bloch, Fische Deutschlands; Engramelle, Papillons d'Europe; Susemihl, Die Vögel Europas; etc.

Seller Inventory # 9622

London , John van Voorst, 1839. Oblong-folio (310 x 435mm). pp. (2), 3, (1), with 3 fine hand-coloured engraved plates showing 6 salmon. Publisher's printed wrappers, leather spine. William Yarrell (1784-1856) is best known for his 'The History of British Fishes' and 'A History of British Birds'. The present work on the salmon was issued in a small limited edition and is quite rare. The fine plates are drawn by C. Curtis and are beautifully hand-coloured.Nissen ZBI, 4489.

Seller Inventory # 9633

Erlangae, typis Kunstmannianis, 1796. 8vo (215 x125mm). pp. (6), 142 with 1 fine hand-coloured engraved plate. Contemporary brown wrappers. The thesis issue, a trade issue was published in the same year. Josef Aloys Frölich (1766-1841) was a German botanist and entomologist. The genus Froelichia (family Amaranthaceae) is named in his honour. The fine engraved plate is by J. Sturm.Provenance: Dedication by the author to Von Moll on free end-paper.Stafleu & Cowan 1906.

Seller Inventory # 9600

Napoli, Tramater, (1829) 1832-1859. 11 volumes. 4to (270 x 220mm). With 377 mostly hand-coloured engraved plates. Later half vellum, gilt ornamented spines with 2 red gilt lettered labels. Copies of the above survey of the animal kingdom of Southern Italy are extremely rare. In the last decades only 2 copies have been offered for sale. We offered a copy in 1979 which had 380 plates and a copy was offered in the Bradley Martin sale (Sotheby's New York, December 12, 1989) with 384 plates. The Bradley Martin copy fetched $ 31.000 (without premium). As far as we can trace no complete copy of this work has been offered for sale. The work was published from 1832 to 1875 in 114 parts and Nissen gives a plate total of 408 plates. It was edited by Oronzio Gabriele Costa (1787-1867) professor at the University of Naples and continued by his son Achille Costa. Our set is almost complete up to the year 1859. Davies Sherborn in the 'Journal of the Soc. For Bibliography of Natural History' Vol. I, part 2 pp. 35-47 gives a detailed collation of the work. This is bibliographically a very complex work and the collations given vary. In several cases we have more plates or text than called for. Two volumes have the original half calf binding and in order to have a nicely uniform-bound set, slipcases have been made by a former owner, identical to the other volumes. A detailed collation of the work can be sent on request.Nissen ZBi, 971; Wood 301, calling for 382 plates.

Seller Inventory # 9467

Paris, chez J.B. Baillière, 1855. Folio (355 x 273mm). 54 fine hand-coloured engraved plates of 247. Loose in old wrappers. A reissue of 54 (of 247) plates of Jean Jacques Paulet's 'Traité des Champignons', 1793-1835. Both Paulet and Léveillé were famous French mycologists.Stafleu & Cowan II, 4470; Nissen BBI, 1496.

Seller Inventory # 9540

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846-1852. 2 volumes. Folio (375 x 270mm). pp. xi, (1), 1-250; (2), 251- 534, with 86 lithographed plates of which 85 splendidly handcoloured. Contemporary green half morocco, richly gilt decorated spines in 6 compartments, marbled sides (minor skilful repair to bindings). A scarce Large Paper copy of one of the rarest and most beautiful iconographies on butterflies. The magnificently handcoloured plates were drawn and lithographed by William C. Hewitson. Hewitson was a very wealthy naturalist and formed the most complete collection of diurnal lepidoptera of the world (now in the British Museum). "Hewitson was a most accomplished artist and scrupulously accurate draughtsman, and his figures, whether of birds' eggs or butterflies, are drawn and coloured with conscientious care . In his own line, as a pictorial describer of butterflies, Hewitson stands unrivalled" (DNB. IX pp. 758-59). The work was published in 54 parts. The first 31 parts by Doubleday and due to his early death the work was continued by Westwood. The work is fully discussed by F. Hemming in the "Journal of the Soc. for Bibl. of Nat. Hist. Vol. I,11. pp. 335-464". 'The number of new species figured by Doubleday is very considerable, and is even larger than appears at first sight' (Hemming)."Westwood remarked that the butterfly collection of the British Museum was 'one of the finest ever formed', and Doubleday based his work on that collection, gaining other information. Particularly on butterfly habits, from manuscripts and drawings also in the British Museum. The famous collection of drawings by John Abbot painted in America and sent to England, plus those of General Hardwicke's collection of Indian drawings gave much of this information"(Gilbert. Butterfly Collectors and Painters p. 82). The first plate, an anatomical plate, was never coloured. A fine copy without any foxing.Horn & Schenkling 5034: "Sehr selten"; Nissen ZBI, 1150.

Seller Inventory # 9251

London, Longmans, Green & Co. (1873-1875 ?). 3 parts. 4to (295 x 230mm). pp. 16, with 18 (12 hand-coloured) plates. Unbound in original printed wrappers. Junk describes the work in his JUNK RARA II pp. 136 as follows: "Part 1 (February 1873). Coloured plates 1-6 (37 figures) with letterpress, pages 1-8. Contents: Papilio constantinus, evombar. Pieris manahari, antsianaka, cebron, capricornus, rhodanus. Eronia vohemara, verulanus. Amauris nossima. Salamis anteva. Junoniakowara. Acraea satis, pentapolis, peneleos, polydestes, pharsalus. Part 2 (Sept. 1874). Coloured plates 7-12 (41 figures) with letterpress, page 9-16. Contents: Acraea manadaza, masamba, masonala, hova. Godartia crossleyi, trajanus, Neptis biafra. Euryphene camarensis, ribensis, comus, nivaria, porphirion. Harma capella, cyclades, ciceronis. Mycalesis vola, ankova, iboina, antahala. Part 3 (1875 ?). Black plates 13-18 (35 figures) without letterpress. Contents: Papilio colonna, philonoë, andronicus, Acraea cydonis, sambavae, rabbaiea, satis. Godartia wakefieldii. Diadema usambara. Charaxes hadnanus, andara, andriba, analeva, andranadorus. Mycalesis avelona, Erebia rakoto, ankaratra, passandava, n.sp.? Part 1 and 2 contain figures and descriptions of new species chiefly from Madagascar, then from the Camaroons, Old Calabar and Ribé (East Africa). The descriptions are copied (literally) from Ward's 2 papers (published in 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' volumes 6-9 and 8-9): 'Descriptions of new species of Diurnal Lepidopt. From Madagascar'. and 'Descriptions of new species of African Diurnal Lepidoptera'. The second paper is continued also through volume 10 of the 'E.E.M.' and I have no doubt that the species described in the continuation are those figured there in the 3rd part, which has no letterpress. This very beautiful work is highly important for the knowledge of the East African Fauna, as it contains 55 new species. Ward has not written any other work and also the "A.L." were - perhaps owing to the death of the author - soon interrupted. The book may be considered as the rarest of all modern works on Butterflies. My copy is the first I have ever seen, though I have searched for the book for more than 20 years. But, what is the chief thing: my copy is an unicum as it includes a third part quite unknown till today, which, as it seems, had never been in the trade; for neither are the plates coloured nor has it a letterpress, and the numbers of the plates as well as the name of the butterflies are not printed but only neatly written by pencil". We presume that Junk was wrong when he thought his copy to be an unicum, as we have sold a few copies in recent years.

Seller Inventory # 9344

Paris, Compère Jeune, 1828. 8vo (215 x 128mm). pp. (6), lxxviii, 228, with 2 folding tables and 1 folded plate. Recent half cloth, spine with red gilt lettered label (original printed wrappers preserved). Horn-Schenkling 18184.

Seller Inventory # 8981