84 items found

With spectacular illustrations

Andree, R.

Abessinien, das Alpenland unter den Tropen und seine Grenzländer. Schilderungen von Land und Volk vornehmlich unter Koenig Theodoros (1855-1868) nach den Berichten älterer und neuerer Reisenden bearbeitet.

Leipzig, Otto Spamer, 1869. 8vo (19.1 x 13.7 cm). x, 300 pp.; wood-engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece of King Theodoros with four lions; six engraved plates, 80 text illustrations (several page-sized). Original pictorial cloth. Spine with gilt title and pictorial vignettes; boards blind-stamped with floral borders, front board with large, gilt vignette. Endpapers with printed publisher's catalogue. Marbled edges.

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An unknown plate containing a possibly valid name and illustration of an undescribed frog

[Anonymous]

Xenopus rothschildi [lithographed plate of an undescribed frog]

€250.00

Primatology at its most beautiful - by an artist turned scientist

Audebert, J. B.

Histoire naturelle des singes, peints d'après nature. [AND] Histoire naturelle [des singes et] des makis. [Complete].

Paris, l'Auteur, [AND] H. J. Jansen, 1797-[An 8 = 1799]. Two volumes in one. Folio (49.2 x 31.8 cm). Three half-titles, two title pages; 178 pp. [24, 4, 4, 10, 4, 8, 10, 24, 14, 8, 10, 8, 44, iv, 2]; 63 engraved plates of which 61 finely colour-printed, with additional original hand-colouring, and two plain, as intended. Contemporary, empire style, full calf. Boards with triple gilt borders and embossed floral vignettes, central vignette of a lyre. Spine with seven raised bands, gilt vignettes (vases) and morocco label with gilt title. Later marbled endpapers.

€14,500.00

a much overlooked work on Malagasyan botany

Baker, J. G.

Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar. Part I. Polypetalae. Part II. Monopetalae. Part III. Incompletae, Monocotyledones, and Filices.

€450.00

'His most elaborate herpetological work' (Adler)

Barboza du Bocage, J. V.

Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices du Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies.

Lisbonne, Imprimerie Nationale, 1895. Very large 8vo (27.0 x 17.6 cm). xx, 203 pp.; 20 finely lithographed plates (numbered I-XIX, X.A). Contemporary rich gilt Iberian-style quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments rich gilt-patterned or with gilt fleur de lis vignette, and with gilt title. Patterned endpapers.

€950.00

Tiny cuties by an absolute master of bird-painting of the 20th century

Barruel, P. [L. E. A.]

Roitelet à triple bandeau, Regulus ignicapilla. [Original watercolour].

€1,500.00

Written by an ammonite expert

Basse, E. [de Ménorval]

Contribution a l'étude du Jurassique Supérieur (faciès Corallien) en Éthiopie et en Arabie méridionale.

€50.00

From the Red Sea to the Atlantic

Bavay [A. R. J. B.]

Letter to Édouard Lamy.

€450.00

One of the rarest and most important works on the zoology of Madagascar

Bleeker, P. and F. P. L. Pollen

Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses Dépendances, d'apres les découvertes de Fr. P. C. Pollen et D. van Dam. 4me Partie. Poissons de Madagascar et de l'Ile de la Réunion des collections de MM. Pollen et Van Dam. [AND] Les pêches a Madagascar et es dépendances. [With six additional plates on fishery usually not present].

Leyde (Leiden), E. J. Brill, 1875. 4to (29.2 x 21.2 cm). Half-title and title to Bleeker and Pollen, title to Pollen; 195 pp. (104, [ii], 89); 27 fine, hand-coloured lithographed plates, including one map (of Mayotte), one portrait (of Antoine Rétout "Le grand Amateur-Pêcheur Créole à l'île de la Réunion"), and four plates showing fisheries and fishing techniques (from the Relation de voyage). Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands with gilt chains; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

€1,800.00

Describes a poorly surveyed region

Bons, J.

Les lacertiliens du sud-ouest Marocain. Systematique - Repartition geographique - Ethologie - Ecologie.

€120.00

Rare travel story, signed by the author, with a "Nile crocodile" cover

Borthwick, A. B.

Egypt in a nutshell or a short guide to its natural history.

€250.00

Rarely seen and rarely seen together

Böttger, O. [Boettger, O.]

Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagascar. I. Studien über Reptilien aus Madagascar. [AND] Erster Nachtrag.

€150.00

The rare first, 1852 edition

Brücke, E. [W. von]

Untersuchungen über den Farbenwechsel des afrikanischen Chamäleons.

€180.00

Researches in a poorly known, now inaccessible region

Canavari, M. (ed.)

Palaeontologia della Somalia. Fossili raccolti dalle Missioni Stefanini-Paoli (1913) e Stefanini-Puccioni (1924) e da altri.

€350.00

The complete vertebrate part

Chabot, J. (ed.)

Angola et Rhodesia (1912-1914). Mission Rohan-Chabot sous les auspices du ministère de l'instruction publique et de la Société de Géographie. Tome IV. Histoire naturelle. Fascicule I. [1] Mammifères (anatomie comparée - embryologie), [2] Oiseaux, [3] Reptiles, [4] Poissons.

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1923. Large 4to (27.5 x 22.8 cm). Half-title, title page; 4 [numbered v-viii], 176 pp. [106; 50; 14; 6]; 18 plates [13; 4; 1], of which those on birds, and the combined herpetological-ichthyological plate in full colour. One large, folded map of the region explored, from the South Atlantic coast to the Victoria falls. Later brown half cloth over marbled boards. Green morocco label with gilt title on the spine. Original printed front wrapper bound in.

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A rare tropical-agricultural work with an interesting provenance

Chevalier, A. and É. Perrot

Les végétaux utiles de l'Afrique tropicale Française. VI. Les kolatiers & les noix de Kola.

Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1911. 8vo (23.7 x 15.7 cm). xxiv, 484 pp.; two large, folded, coloured maps, 16 phototype plates and 52 text figures (mostly page-sized plates) and maps. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and title. Marbled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.

€250.00

The author's magnum opus

Connolly, M. [W. K.]

A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca.

€150.00

Wonderful and seldom-seen malacological print

Crosse, J. C. H. and P. H. Fischer

Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, published by Grandidier: Mollusques. Plate 1, Helix Goudotiana.

€45.00

Wonderful Malacology Print

Crosse, J. C. H. and P. H. Fischer

Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, published by Grandidier: Mollusques. Plate 13, Helix ( Eurycratera) ibaraoensis.

€50.00

Wonderful and seldom-seen malacological print

Crosse, J. C. H. and P. H. Fischer

Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, published by Grandidier: Mollusques. Plate 21, Achatina fulica, var.

€50.00

Wonderful Early Naturalist Zoology Print

Crosse, J. C. H. and P. H. Fischer

Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, published by Grandidier: Mollusques. Plate 24, Opeas gracilis.

€50.00

Wonderful and seldom-seen malacological print

Crosse, J. C. H. and P. H. Fischer

Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, published by Grandidier: Mollusques. Plate 24a, Acroptychia metableta.

€45.00

Wonderful Early Naturalist Zoology Print

Crosse, J. C. H. and P. H. Fischer

Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, published by Grandidier: Mollusques. Plate 8, Helix clotho.

€50.00

A finely illustrated plate from William Curtis's famous "Botanical Magazine"

Curtis, W.

Monodora myristica. [Calabash nutmeg].

€65.00

The complete 'Nummulitique'

Cuvillier, J.

Revision du nummulitique Égyptien. [AND] Nouvelle contribution à la paléontologie du nummulitique Égyptien. [AND] Étude complémentaire sur la paléontologie du nummulitique Égyptien. [Complete].

€250.00

A voyage to the highest mountains of the Sahara

Dalloni, M. and A. Lacroix (eds.)

Mission au Tibesti (1930-1931) dirigée par M. Dalloni. I-II. [Complete].

Paris, Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, 1934-1935. Two parts in one. 4to (27.2 x 22.5 cm). 828 pp. [1-370, 1-458; one folded map, one coloured geological map and 32 plates (two coloured) [numbered 1-20, 1-12]. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title and gilt vignettes on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.

€450.00

Mummificationology starts here

Dawson, W. R.

A bibliography of works relating to mummification in Egypt with excerpts, epitomes, critical and biographical notes.

€100.00

Results of a little-known expedition to an even less-known region

Doria, G. and R. Gestro (eds.)

Esplorazione del Giuba e dei suoi affluenti compiuta dal cap. V. Bottego durante gli anni 1892-93 sotto gli auspicii del Società Geografica Italiana. - Resultati zoologici.

€450.00

A superb copy with handwritten dedication by the author

Dresser, H. E.

A monograph of the Coraciidae or family of the rollers.

Farnborough, the author, 1893. Folio (37.6 x 28.3 cm). Title page with woodcut vignette (owl) and quote in Greek; xx, 111; 27 lithographed plates, all in a most careful and beautiful original hand-colouring. Contemporary full red pebbled morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with central gilt vignettes and title. Boards with intricate gilt floral borders and woodcut vignette (an owl - as on the title page), bevelled edges, gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.

€12,500.00

First major work on West African Mollusca since Adanson

Dunker, G.

Index molluscorum, quae in itinere ad Guineam inferiorum collegit Georgius Tams Med. Dr. Accedunt novarum specierum diagnoses, Cirripedia nonnulla et X. tabulae iconum.

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With a proof copy of the supplement with the author's corrections and additions

Exell, A. W.

Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Supplement Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Corrected proof of the Supplement.

London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1944-1956. Two papers in three. 8vo (24.6 x 18.8 cm) 551 pp. [xi, 428; 58; 54]; three maps; 32 [26; 3; 3] large text illustrations. Original green buckram with gilt title on the spine (main work); green printed wrappers (Supplement), and plain brown wrappers (proof copy).

€300.00

Rare works on Kalahari Desert fishes, amphibians and reptiles

Fowler, H. W. [AND] V. [F. M.] Fitzsimons

Scientific Results of the Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition, March to September 1930. The Freshwater fishes. [AND] Reptilia and Amphibia.

€180.00

Historical perspective of current troubles

Frobenius, H.

Die Heiden-Neger des ägyptischen Sudan. Der östliche Sudan in geographischer, historischer und etnographischer Beziehung.

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The Earth: a big puzzle (or eight)

[Games]

Eight Topographical Puzzles.

Paris, Librairie Hachette, no date (ca. 1890). A set of eight coloured topographical puzzles, showing the different continents. The puzzles are maps, mounted on wood, each divided into 42 pieces. The edges are covered with gilt paper. In the original paper & cloth box (35.5 x 26.9 x 5.0 cm), with a map of the world mounted on the lid. Inside of the box covered with light blue paper.

€900.00

Gould, J.

The black-throated groove-bill Toucan, Aulacoramphus atrogularis. By John Gould.

€75.00

Gould, J.

The yellow-billed turaco, Musophaga macrorhyncha. By John Gould.

€75.00

A rare work on Guillaume Grandidier, one of Madagascar's greatest naturalists

Grandidier, G.

Titres et travaux scientifiques de M. Guillaume Grandidier.

€350.00

Travels on Madagascar

Grandidier, G.

Voyage dans le sud-ouest de Madagascar. Conférence faite à la Société de Géographie le 5 janvier 1900. [AND] Pérégrinations à Madagascar.

Paris, Générale Lahure, 1900. 8vo (24.1 x 16.0 cm). 27 pp.; one large folding map, four fine, unnumbered, phototype plates (one as frontispiece); [AND] Besançon, Jaquin, 1903. 54 pp. Later red cloth. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. Patterned endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.

€800.00

At the fronteer of chimpology

Gratiolet, L. P. and P. H. E. Alix

Recherches sur l'anatomie du Troglodytes aubryi. Chimpanzé d'une espèce nouvelle.

€300.00

The very FIRST mineralogical/geological map of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East

Guettard, J. E.

Mémoire sur les Granits de France, Comparés a Ceux d'Égypte. [AND] Mémoire sur Quelques Corps Fossiles Peu Connus. In: Histoire de l'Academie Royale des sciences, Année MDCCLI [1751], avec les mémoires de mathématique & de physique, pour la même année. Tirés des registres de cette académie.

€1,000.00

A fine copy of a very rare herpetological-ichthyological work

Guichenot, A. [A. T.]

Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Sciences physiques. Zoologie. V. Histoire naturelle des reptiles et des poissons.

Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1850. Folio (37.0 x 28.1 cm). Half-title, title page Sciences physiques Zoologie V, with engraved vignette, half-title (to the reptiles and fish); iv, 144, [iv] pp., half-title (to the atlas); 12 plates (four of reptiles and amphibians, eight of fish). The plates are colour-printed engravings à la poupée and then finished by hand. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

€4,400.00

Hamond's famous first attempt to promote Madagascar as a Paradise on Earth

Hamond, W.

A paradox: prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the World. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true description of that island: the nature of the climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other nations. With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East-Indies.

London, Nathaniell Butter, 1640. 4to (18.7 x 14.4 cm). Original second blank; title page, half title, half-title (placed after 12th text page) [xii, xxi] pp., Mid-19th century brown crushed morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and gilt title; boards with triple gilt borders and rosettes; gilt-lined edges and elaborate gilt inner dentelles.

€10,000.00

An exceptionally nicely bound copy of a rare work on lemurs

Hoeven, J. van der

Bijdragen tot de kennis van de Lemuridae of Prosimii. [Titled Bydragen tot de kennis van de Lemuridae on front board].

Leiden, S. Luchtmans and J. Luchtmans. Tall folio (45.2 x 29.4 cm). Title page, [i], 18 pp.; three lithographed plates of which two finely hand-coloured. Contemporary full bright red grained calf. Boards with intricate blind-tooled and gilt-ornamental borders, floral corner pieces and title. Pink floral endpapers. All edges gilt.

€2,200.00

Floristic views of Madagascar