Paris: Chez Delaguette, 1752. Vol. 1 (Part I-III) only. 4to (255 x 202 mm). 64, [2], 65-195 pp. 8 (of 11) color mezzotints (some folding) and 3 folding diagrams (lacking the colored plates to pp. 18 and 64 in part I and to p.72 in part II), separate titles to..... More

Middelburgh: Jacobum Fierensium, 1662. [1662-1669]. Three parts in three volumes. 8vo (148 x 93 mm). [40], 152, [16]; [24], 288, [16]; [16], 208pp. A total of 154 engraved plates on 126 sheets. First and second vol. with additional engraved title in Latin (lacking those in 3rd volume), letterpress title of..... More

Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1571. 4to (235 x 159 mm). [20], 332, [10] pp. Woodcut device on title, large floral and historiated woodcut initials, several woodcut illustrations in text. Signatures: *⁸ **² A-X⁸ Y⁴. Including the final blank Y4. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, flat spine and lower edge lettered in..... More

München: Ignaz Joseph Lentner, 1812. 8vo (207 x 122 mm). xxiii [1], 446, [2] pp., 4 folding engraved plates and errata leaf at the end. Bound in contemporary half-calf, boards covered with brown marbled paper, spine with gilt decoration and gilt-lettered morocco label, red-dyed edges, original endpapers (rebacked preserving original..... More

London: typis Du-Gardianis; impensis Octaviani Pulleyn in Coemeterio Paulino, 1651. 4to (220 x 155 mm). [28] 301 [3] pp. Signatures: pi4 (pi1 blank) a4 B-2S4 (blank 2S4), 167 of 168 leaves (lacking first blank), errata on 2S3v. pi2, etched title; pi3, printed title with woodcut device; woodcut headpieces and initials..... More

Paris: Rigaud, 1722. 8vo. [34], 388, [12] pp. Contemp. calf (corners rubbed), gilt ornamental spine on 5 raised bands (joints splitting), gilt sides (slightly rubbed), sprenkled edges, text with dampstaining, spotting, wormhole in lower part of first quires. Good copy. ----

Blake 206. Wellcome III, 243. BL London (2). Library..... More

Leiden etc. Various, 1831. Important collection of 18 tracts bound in two volumes, mostly separate printings and monographs of zoological interest, including all his doctoral theses and the important treatise on the color-change of chameleons. Hand-written index leaf at end of each volume. Bound in uniform contemporary half calf over..... More

London: for P. Elmsly and H. Payne, 1779. 8vo (207 x 122 mm). lxviii, 302, [18] pp. Engraved folding plate (some offsetting of text onto). (Lightly browned, some spotting.) Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt-lettered label (heavy chipping toward spine ends and extremities, corners scuffed, boards rubbed..... More

Paris: Herissant und Barrois, 1789. 8vo (203x125 mm). [24], lxxii, 498, [2] pp. Errata on final leaf. Contemporary French mottled sheep, spine with 5 raised bands richly gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers (top of spine little chipped, light wear to extremities, boards bowed slightly outwards), marbled endpapers. Text little age-toned..... More

Paris: chez l'auteur, Maillard, 1802. No date [1802]. 8vo (200 x 127 mm), viii, 216 pp., including half title and one folding table. Bound in 20th century half black morocco and green cloth over boards, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers, green sprinkled edges. Internally crisp and clean with only minor occasional..... More

Leiden: 1695. [Works, in Latin]. I. Arcana naturae detecta. Leiden: Henrik van Kroonevelt, 1695. [8], 568, [14] pages, including engraved additional title, 27 engraved plates of which 15 are folding and several engraved illustrations in text. Paper only very little browned, very minor spotting, plate to p.548 shaved some mm..... More

Lyon: Widow of Gabriel Cotier, 1566. Folio (337 x 220 mm). [62] (of [64]), 538, [24] (of [26]) pp. Signatures: ?6 (-?1) *-***6 ****8 a-z6 A-Aa6 (-Aa6), lacking the title-leaf and final blank Aa6, but with blank Y6. With woodcut illustrations in text throughout, all with contemporary hand-coloration. 18th century..... More

Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1835. MOHL, Hugo von & BRACKENHEIM, August Wilhelm Winter von. Ueber die Vermehrung der Pflanzen-Zellen durch Theilung. Eine Inaugural-Dissertation. Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1835. 20 pp., 1 lithographed plate. [Bound after:] MOHL, Hugo von. Erläuterung und Vertheidigung meiner Ansicht von der Structur der Pflanzen-Substanz. Tübingen: Ludwig..... More