Natural History
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# 45808
NISSEN, Claus (1901 - 1975)
Bestiaries of Five Centuries.
Description and Introduction by the late Claus Nissen. Edited and Revised by Sandra Raphael. With an Introductory by S. Peter Dance. Amsterdam : Antiquariaat Junk B. V. and Antiquariaat Schierenberg, 2024. Folio (29.8 x 21.3 cm). With sixty-one original prints, many hand-coloured, from famous zoological books published between 1491 and 1878; each mounted, matted, and …
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# 44321
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.
(From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. London, New York, and Melbourne : Ward, Lock and Co.; 1889. Fifth edition. The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. Octavo, lettered cloth, patterned endpapers (contemporary owner’s name to endpaper), pp. xx; 381; [blank], [2 – advertisements], …
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# 44311
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
A Naturalist’s Voyage. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.
London : John Murray; 1889. Twentieth thousand. Octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (scuffed and flecked, edges worn, hinges cracked and reglued), patterned endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [ii], xii, [13] – 615; [blank]; text vignettes, a small defect to preliminary blank before frontispiece; name of original owner in ink on back of frontispiece), internally clean, some …
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# 45457
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1890)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1890. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirty-ninth thousand). Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (light wear at head and foot of spine), pp xxi, [blank], 458, folding lithographed plate, light foxing to edges and …
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# 41947
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1896)
London : John Murray, 1896. Second edition, revised and augmented. Thirty-third thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (corners and edges rubbed), light foxing to patterned endpapers, pp. xvi; 693; blank, 78 text illustrations, a very good copy. The second edition, reprinted, of Darwin’s important work on natural selection. As Freeman notes: the word ‘evolution’ occurs, for …
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# 45767
HOGG, Robert & BULL, Henry Graves (editors)
The Herefordshire Pomona
London : The Folio Society, 2014 (facsimile edition). Two volumes, folio, gilt-illustrated buckram, the plate volume in quarter morocco with gilt top edge, pp. xvi; 157, 77 colour plates, with four plate in duplicate in paper sleeve as issued, in a gilt-lettered folding clamshell box, morocco title label lettered in gilt. Limited to 980 numbered …
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# 45758
BARKER, Nicolas
Hortus Eystettensis. The Bishop’s Garden and Besler’s magnificent book.
London : The British Library, 1995 (reprint). Folio, boards in dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. viii; 80; 80 plates, a fine copy. Documents Besler’s magnificent illustrated plate book documenting the plants found in the gardens of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstaff.
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# 45113
McCOY, Frederick (1817 - 1899)
Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or, figures and descriptions of the living classes of the Victorian indigenous animals
Melbourne : Robert S. Brain, 1885 – 1890. Two volumes octavo, in two non-matching fine bindings, complete with all 20 Decades, 199 lithographic plates (including one double folding plate), mostly chromolithographed, some with additional hand colouring; Volume 1 (the first ten Decades) in elaborately gilt-decorated full crushed red morocco, gauffered gilt edges, gilt dentelles, silk …
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# 45339
SMITH, Thomas
Le Cabinet du jeune naturaliste, ou Tableaux intéressants de l’histoire des animaux … …
Paris : chez Maradan, libraire, rue des Grands Augustins, no. 9, 1810. Six volumes, octavo, uniform contemporary bindings of green straight-grain morocco, boards with double-gilt rule, spines with titles, volume numbers and animal vignettes in gilt; pastedowns all with the beautiful illustrated ex libris of Jean-Marie-Philippe Sauzey, avocat, pastedown of first volume also with ticket …
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# 45527
WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)
Whaling scene at Twofold Bay, Eden, New South Wales, 1870.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (square format), signed and numbered by the photographer at lower right of the right-hand image ‘C. Walter 166’; on original black card mount, 87 x 177 mm, verso blank; slight loss of contrast in the upper part of each image, otherwise the prints are …
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# 37099
RAY, John (1627-1705)
[NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,
in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of …
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# 44864
SONNERAT, Pierre (1748 – 1814)
Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l’Histoire Naturelle dans le Règne Animal & le Règne Végétal
Paris : Chez Ruault, 1776. Quarto, full speckled calf, corners subbed and bumped, rebacked with new head and tail caps, preserving original spine, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate for Henry White to front pastedown with bookseller’s label of A. H. Spencer, half-title, engraved frontispiece, …
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# 45101
BOSCHI, Giovanni
[NATURAL HISTORY] Atlante zoologico popolare. Opera compilata sui più recenti lavori di zoologia italiani e stranieri
Napoli : Raimondo Petraroja, 1863-1879. First edition. Eight parts in four volumes, folio (390 x 280 mm), uniform contemporary half red calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; a total of 553 lithographic plates, all but 20 coloured by hand, with publisher’s blind stamp at foot of plates; each part with …
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# 45076
DU RIETZ, Rolf
[ULIMAROA] Daniel Djurbergs namn på Australien.
/ av Rolf Du Rietz. Stockholm : Bortzells, 1961. “Särtryck ur Ymer 1961, h. 2.” [=Reprinted from: Ymer, vol.2 (1961)]. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), printed wrappers (a little sunned), the upper wrapper with a presentation inscription by Du Rietz for Swedish academic and collector Teddy Brunius; pp. 81-100; text in Swedish, with a summary …
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# 44313
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.
(From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. London, New York, and Melbourne : Ward, Lock and Co.; 1890. Seventh edition. The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. Octavo, lettered cloth, patterned endpapers (contemporary owner’s name to endpaper), pp. xx; 381; [blank], [2 – advertisements], …
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# 44312
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
Cole’s Library of Notable Books. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.
(From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. Melbourne; E. W. Cole, Book Arcade; [c. 1890?]. First Australian edition (?). Octavo original black cloth (silverfished), edges stained red, yellow endpapers, pp. pp. xx, 381; [blank]; 16 plates, text vignettes, maps, internally clean, a very good copy. An account of the five …