Berlin: Imprimé chez George Jacques Decker, 1788. 4to (260 x 210 mm). xvi, 313 (i.e., 315) [1] pp, 1 folding letterpress table, errata on final page. Contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spine with gilt decoration and gilt-lettered label, red-dyed edges, original endpapers, remnant of shelf-mark label at foot of spine (leather..... More

Vienna: J.B. Wallishausser, 1843. 8vo (225 x 145 mm). viii, 72 pp. Latin and German parallel text, printed in two columns. All pages uncut. Original printed wrappers (dust soiled, creased, upper wrapper and spine repaired, corners chipped, front wrapper working loose). Protected in custom-made half-morocco over cloth slip case. Text..... More

London: Printed for W. Innys, 1712. Three parts in one volume. 12mo (152 x 89 mm). [24], 168; [22], 61 [1], [12] pp., engraved portrait frontispiece of Boyle, titles within double-ruled border, separate title and pagination to third part. Text somewhat browned throughout (title and portrait stronger), scattered minor spotting..... More

Manchester: Printed by S. Russell, 125, Deangate, for R. Bickerstaff, Strand, 1808. A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. ... [Part II.]. Manchester: S. Russell for R. Bickerstaff, 1808 [vol. 1, part I]; Russell and Allen for R. Bickerstaff, 1810 [vol. 1, part II]. 8vo (204 x 125 mm)..... 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, binding variant c (spine ends slightly frayed, corners bumped, extremities little rubbed), original brown endpapers, Edmonds..... More

London: John Murray, 1873. 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-lettered spine, blind-stamped boards, original brown endpapers, inner hinges sound (spine ends a trifle bumped, minor wear to corners). Occasional minor foxing to outer..... More

London: John Murray, 1868. Two volumes. 8vo (221 x 142 mm). viii, 411 [1]; viii, 486 pp. With 32 pp. of publisher's catalogue dated April 1867 in vol. I and [2] pp. ads dated February 1868 in vol. II; 1 erratum on 2 lines in vol. I as called for..... More

London: Printed for the Royal Society, 1928. February 1928. Entire volume, 8vo 243 x 170 (mm), vi, 720, [2], xxxvi pp., 24 plates, text illustrations and diagrams. Bound in three-quarter dark-red morocco over cloth (extremities rubbed, joints and spine ends slightly chipped, corners bumped and scuffed). Text with some even..... More

Lausanne: M.-M. Bousquet, 1748. Two parts in one volume. 4to (243 x 197 mm). [4], xvi, 320; [2], 398, [2] pp. Title to each part printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece by Soubeyran after De la Monce, engraved folding portrait of dedicatee Jean Jacques Dortous..... More

Bologna: Heirs of Evangelista Dozza, 1655. 1655-1656. 4to (220 x 160 mm). [24], 29-32, 1-48; [2] 3-48; [8], 1-160; [4], 1-68; [2] 3-127 [1]; [4], 1-264; [2] 3-43 [1] pp.; [4], [2] 3-60; [3] 4-7 [1], 1-105, [3], 105-156; [1] 2-48, [2], 53-106, [2], 103-126; [8], 179 [1]; [8], 238..... More

Augsburg: Heinrich Stayner, 1542. Folio (285 x 190 mm). 88 leaves, ff. [4], LXXXIIII. Double column text in Fraktur type. 24 large woodcut illustrations, mostly full page, attributed to Hans Wechtlin, the first on the title-page, one inserted woodcut plate printed as broadside on full sheet and bound in as..... More

Berlin: A. Förstner'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (P. Jeanrenaud), 1851. 8vo (203 x 130 mm). 43 [1], [2] pp. and one engraved plate by Afinger after drawings by Helmholtz. Bound in contemporary German marbled paper over card board, spine with hand-lettered paper label, red sprinkled edges, original endpapers (minor rubbing of extremities, corners..... 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