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
Bologna: [Girolamo Bernia]: typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij, 1668. Folio (352x235 mm). [12], 660, [52] pp. Signature: +6, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Mmm6, Nnn8. With 219 woodcut illustrations in text, many full page or near so, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Lorenzo Tinti, printed woodcut device on final leaf, half-title bound at end of... More
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
Yverdon-les-Bains: [publisher unknown], 1650. 1650-1651. Folio (380 x 232 mm). Vol. I: [12], 1-239, 241-406, [2], 409-601 [1], 1-130, [2], 133-440, 1-9 [3] pp. including 3 blanks. Vol. II: [12], 1-398 [i.e. 396], 398a-398o, [2], 399-1074, [12] pp. including 1 blank. Vol. III: [12], 1-212, 1-882 (i.e. 886), [2], 12... More
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
Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1781. 8vo (203 x 125 mm), [6], 128 pp., including 2 engraved folding plates bound at the end. Modern papercard boards. Edges untrimmed. Internally browned, with some spotting and soiling mainly to margins. Provenance: Royal College of Surgeans in Ireland (ink stamp to title-page). Good copy... More
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
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London: Johannem Noon, 1741. 4to. (254 x 202 mm). xi, [1], 164 pp. Title with engraved vignette, 54 folding engraved plates, light water stains and spotting,occasional annotations, library stamps, library cloth, lower cover with small dampstain. ---
Garrison-Morton 581; Norman 255 (both citing the original edition); Lindeboom 64 (this edition).Rare... More
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
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
Paris: 1803. Atlas volume only. Large folio (495x318 mm), portrait frontispiece by B. Roger, 34 engraved plates, contemporary soft cover, paper label to front cover, worn and soiled, top cover loose, title and plates foxed and browned throughout, library stamps to portrait and some plates. Provenance: Royal College of Surgeons... More
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
Breslau: J.U. Kern, 1872. Untersuchungen ueber Bacterien. In: Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen, Part I, 1872, 2. Heft, pp. [127]-224, 1 tinted lithograph plate, and part II, 1875, 3. Heft, pp. [141]-207, 2 plates (one tinted and one colored lithograph). Breslau: J.U. Kern, 1870-75. Three parts in two volumes. 8vo... More
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
Lyon: Rouillé Guillaume, 1586. 1586-1587. Two parts in two volumes. Folio (375 x 250 mm). [12], 1095 [1]; [2], 1097-1922, [72], 36, [4] pp. Text in Latin and Greek, title to each part in printed in red and black and with large printer's woodcut device, about 2700 woodcut botanical illustrations... More
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
London: John Murray, 1871. 8vo (189 x 129 mm). viii, 423 [1], 16; viii, [2], 475 [1], 16 pp., including half-titles, publisher's catalogue dated January 1871 at end of each volume, and several woodcut illustrations in text. Untrimmed and partially unopened. Original publishers green cloth (cloth little rubbed, spotted and... More
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
London: John Murray, 1860. 8vo (196 x 125 mm). ix [1], 502, 32 pp., including half-title, publisher's advertisements at end dated 'January 1860', and folding lithographed table facing p.117. Original publisher's green blind-stamped cloth (spine ends slightly frayed, corners bumped, extremities little rubbed), original brown endpapers, Edmonds & Remnants ticket... More
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
London: John Murray, 1872. 8vo (182 x 117 mm). xxi [1], 458 pp. Includes half-title and one folding lithographed plate facing p.91. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt spine, lettering, embossed border at covers (inner hinges partly cracked, slight fraying of spine ends, very light rubbing of extremities). Owner's signature to... More
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
Venice: Gregoriis Brothers for Aloisius and Franciscus Barbari, and Johannes Bartholomeus Astensis, 1516. 1 Feb. 1516. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (305 x 215 mm). [36], CXXXIII (i.e. CXXXIV); 106 leaves. Signatures: AA6 [cross]8 [cross]a-[cross]b8 [cross]c6 A-X6 Y8; A-C8 D6 E-M8 N-O6. 16th century limb vellum, spine titled in... More
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
Padua: Lorenzo Pasquati, 1603. Folio (415 x 277 mm). [6], 27 [1] pp., index bound at beginning. Signatures: pi2 A-D2. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, ornamental woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Title-leave torn at gutter not affecting text. Recent half vellum, new endpapers. A fine, wide-margined copy. Exceedingly rare as here... More
