Rome: Simon Nicolai Cardella de Luca, 1478. Folio (327 x 225 mm). 390 (of 392) leaves. Without printed signatures and page numbers, collation: [a⁸; b¹² c-g¹⁰ h⁸ i-k¹⁰ l-q⁸ r-u¹⁰ x⁸ (-x1^8) y-z¹⁰ A¹⁰ B⁸ C-S¹⁰]. Lacking bifolium [x1^8], blank [b1] present. Title and imprints from colophon on leaf [S3]... More about De animalibus. Alberti Magni de rerum proprietatibus opus

Basel: Conrad Walderich, 1591. 8vo (153 x 100 mm). [1-6] 7-163 [1] pp. Printer's device on verso of final leaf. Contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened, old shelf mark labels to spine. Uneven browning troughout, occasional minor spotting. Provenances: Federico Cesi (ink stamps to title-page and p.156); St. Charles Borromeo Seminary... More about De plantis a divis sanctivse nomen habentibus

Amsterdam: Johannes van Someren, 1681. 4to (260x210 mm), [8] 1-494 [2] pp., engraved title by Jan Luyken, 5 engraved plates and 60 engraved full-page text illustrations, library stamps, contemporary ink notes to front endpapers, waterstaining to upper edge, title page ruled in red, browning and soiling, p.135 with tear to... More about Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, infectorum,...

St. Petersburg: Kayserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1789. 4to (295 x 220 mm). 63 [1]; 94 pp. Signatures: A-H4; A-L4 M-N2 (-N2, presumed blank), 79 of 80 leaves, lacking the engraved plate to Blumenbach's text. Text block untrimmed and partially unopened. Early 19th-century blue paper covered boards (old rebacking, head of... More about Zwo Abhandlungen über die Nutritionskraft welche von der Kayserlichen Academie der...

Rome: Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò, 1680. De motu animalium. Opus posthumum. 2 volumes. Romae, Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò, 1680-81. 4to (22.2x15.4cm). Vol. I, 1680: (xii), 376, (12) pp., 14 folding plates; Vol. II, 1681: (iv), 520 pp., 4 folding plates. Woodcut device on titles. The 4 plates in vol. 2... More about De motu animalium. Opus posthumum

Paris: H.J. Jansen, 1802. Imperial folio (530x350 mm), uncut, x, [2], 108 pp., half title, portrait frontispiece, 20 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, skillfully rebacked; foxing to first pages, unobstrusive library stamps. Superb copy. ---

First edition, exeedingly rare - Nissen 798, Schrader-H. 327-328, DSB III, 38: "He performed careful... More about Description anatomique d'un elephant male

Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1583. 4to (220 x 154 mm). [40], 621, [11] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end, woodcut initials, some historiated. Variant title page with "Duce" in 9th line. Contemporary vellum (old remboitage binding), spine hand-lettered, faded blue edges. A few leaves with faint stains or... More about De plantis libri XVI

Paris: Deterville, 1812. 4to. (252x200 mm). 4 volumes. Vol. I: [8], vi, 120 pp.; 20 pp. 3 pls.; viii, 278 [2] pp.; 23 [1] pp. 2 pls. 1 map. - Vol. II: [4], 10; 12 pp. 2 pls.; 21 [1] pp. 4 pls.; 33 [1] pp. 4 pls.; 30 pp... More about Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes, ou l'on rétablit les caractères de...

Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung und Druckerei, 1860. 8vo (220 x 138 mm). viii, [6], 520 pp., including half-title and lithographed plate. Contemporary cloth over marbled boards, spine with floral gilt decoration and gilt lettering (extremities little chipped and rubbed, minor chipping to hinges and spine ends, corners bumped). Internally little... More about Über die Entstehung der Arten im Thier- und Pflanzen-Reich durch natürliche Züchtung, oder...

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. Two volumes. 12mo (177 x 117 mm). vii [1], 351 [1]; v [2], 7-324, 8, 4 pp., including publisher's advertisement bound at end of second volume. Pages untrimmed. Bound in original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, front covers display pictorial... More about Journal of Researches into Natural History and Geology of the Countries during the Voyage of H....

London: John Murray, 1869. 8vo (190 x 128 mm). xxxiii [1], 596 pp., 1 folding lithographed diagram. Uncut in original green cloth [Freeman's variant 'c' binding], covers stamped in blind, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, black glazed endpapers (unobtrusive repair of spine ends, corners bumped, extremities rubbed especially at... More about On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Fifth Edition, Tenth thousand

London: John Murray, 1899. 8vo (192 x 126 mm). xvi, 300 pp., including half-title, b&w illustrations and diagrams in text, 4 pp. publisher's list at end. Original publisher's gren cloth with gilt-lettered spine (corners and spine ends very little rubbed). Light foxing to front endpaper and half-title, otherwise crisp and... More about The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects. 2nd edition, 6th impression

Berlin: 1849. 192 pp., 6 coloured engraved plates. Large folio (460x290 mm). Uncut, in contemporary wrappers, some foxing (some pages stronger), somewhat creased and torn, spine repaired, wrapper detached from book block. ----

Poggendorff I, 646 (dat. irrig 1847); Pritzel 2639; Roper 30. - First edition of Ehrenberg's scientific study... More about Passat-Staub und Blut-Regen, ein grosses organisches unsichtbares Wirken und Leben in der...