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Item #GRM0107 Pars quarta Indiæ Orientalis: Primum varii generis Animalia, Fructus, Arbores:...

De Bry, Theodor

Pars quarta Indiæ Orientalis: Primum varii generis Animalia, Fructus, Arbores: Item, Aromata seu Species & Materialia: Similiter & margarita seu uniones, ac gemmarum species pleraq, sicut in India tum effodiantur, tum generentur; quo itidem in censu, pretio & appellatione sint, accuratè deseribuntur. Per Joannem Hugonem Lintschotanum & nonnullos alios. Descriptioni huic adiectæ nonnullibi sunt Annotationes Clariff. Dn. Bernhardi Paludani Doct. Apud Enckhufanos Medici, apprimè utiles & eruditæ. Secundo: Novissima Hollandorum in Indiam Orientalem navigatio, ad veris Anni 1598. Introitum suscepta, & quatuor exinde reducibus mense Julio An. 1599. Confecta, exponitur

Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry for Matthew Becker, 1601. Folio (11 15/16” x 7 7/8”): (:)4 A–O4 a4 b4(–b3) c–d4 e6 [$3 signed]. 81 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication, 3pp. preface, blank) 1–111 [2] (blank, section title) foll. I–V VII–XXI. With 20 half-paged engraved plates. Bound in half calf.....

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Item #JLR0893 Ichthyology of South Carolina. John Edwards Holbrook

Holbrook, John Edwards

Ichthyology of South Carolina

Vol. I (all published). Charleston, SC: Welch, Bigelow and Company at the University Press (Cambridge, MA) for Russell and Jones, 1860. Second edition. Quarto (11 ½” x 9 ½”, 292mm x 242mm): binder’s blank, π4 1-264 (264 blank), binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 108 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, imprint, preface) iv-vii.....

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Item #JLR0892 Pancha Tantra. Walton Ford, introd. Bill Buford, dir., prod. Benedikt Taschen, dir

Ford, Walton; introd. Bill Buford; dir. and prod. Benedikt Taschen

Pancha Tantra

Cologne: Taschen, 2009. First trade edition. Folio (14 5/8” x 11”, 372mm x 290mm): pp. 1-7 (epigram, illustration, title, 2pp. illustration, illustration, contents) 8-320. Illustrated throughout. Bound in the publisher’s blind-stamped brown cloth with the gilt-stamped pictorial dust-wrapper. Near fine, with a little shelf-wear. Signed by Ford on the title-page.....

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Item #JLR0891 A monograph of the Felidæ or family of the cats. Daniel Giraud Elliot

Elliot, Daniel Giraud

A monograph of the Felidæ or family of the cats

THE WASSENAAR ZOO COPY WITH ALL 11 PART-WRAPPERS BOUND IN [London:] Taylor and Francis for the Author (“for the subscribers”), [1878–]1883. First edition. Broadsheet folio (23 ½” x 18 ¾”, 596mm x 477mm): 2 binder’s blanks; 64 leaves, pp. i-v (title, imprint, 2pp. preface, introduction) vi-xvi [2] (list of plates.....

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Item #JLR0888 A Curious Herbal, Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the most useful Plants, which...

Blackwell, Elizabeth

A Curious Herbal, Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the most useful Plants, which are now used in the Practice of Physick. Engraved on folio Copper Plates, after Drawings, taken from the Life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short Description of ye Plants; and their common Uses in Physick. Vol: I [–II]

THE CUTHBERT–BOTFIELD–MARQUESS of BATH SET Two volumes. London: C. Nourse, 1782. First edition, fourth issue (Stafleu-Cowan). Folio (18 ¼” x 11 3/16”, 460mm x 283mm).Vol. I: 2 front binder’s blanks, 1 rear binder’s blank; with 322 engraved plates, each blank verso: title, dedication to Mead (dated “14th of July.....

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Item #JLR0887 Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. or A Garden of all sorts of pleasant,...

Parkinson, John

Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. or A Garden of all sorts of pleasant, flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with A Kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs, and An Orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together With the right orderinge planting & preseruing of them and their uses & uertues Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629

THE BIRTH OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN London: Humphrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. First edition. Folio in 6s (12 13/16” x 8 ¼”, 326mm x 210mm): **6 A-Fff6 Ggg2 [$3 signed; –**1]. 320 leaves, pp. [12] (title, blank, dedication to Queen Henrietta Maria, blank, 4pp. to the reader, Sir.....

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Item #JLR0884 Descriptions and sketches of some remarkable oaks in the park at Welbeck, in the...

Rooke, Hayman

Descriptions and sketches of some remarkable oaks in the park at Welbeck, in the county of Nottingham, a seat of His Grace the Duke of Portland. To which are added, observations on the age and durability of that tree. With remarks on the annual growth of the acorn. By Hayman Rooke, Esq. F. S. A.

THE DISCOVERY OF ROBIN HOOD’S OAK IN SHERWOOD FOREST London: J. Nichols for the author, B. White and Son, and J. Robson; 1790. First edition. Quarto (11 ¼” x 9”, 288mm x 228mm): A4 B-C4 [$2 signed]. 12 leaves, pp. 1-4 (title, blank, dedication, blank) 5-23 [1] (blank). With.....

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Item #JLR0883 A decade of curious and elegant trees and plants: drawn after specimens received...

Hill, John

A decade of curious and elegant trees and plants: drawn after specimens received from The East Indies, and America, In the year 1772; and accurately engraved: with Their history and characters, in English and Latin. By J. Hill, M. D. member of the Imperial Academy

THE MARQUIS de COURTANVAUX–RICHMOND COPY London: for the author, 1773. First edition. Folio (19” x 13 5/16”, 482mm x 339mm): A1 B-F2 χ1(=A2?) [$1 signed]. 12 leaves, pp. [2] (title, blank) 1 2-20 [2] (index, blank). With 10 hand-colored engraved plates by Hill. Bound in later (early XIXc?) half.....

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Item #JLR0882 L'histoire naturelle, éclaircie dans une des ses parties principales,...

Ray, John; trans. François Salerne

L'histoire naturelle, éclaircie dans une des ses parties principales, l'ornithologie, qui traite des oiseaux de terre, de mer et de riviere, tant de nos climats que des pays étrangers. Ouvrage traduit du Latin du Synopsis avium de Ray, augmenté d'un grand nombre de descriptions & de remarques historiques sur le caractere des Oiseaux, leur industrie & leurs ruses. Par M. Salerne, Docteur en Médecine à Orléans, Correspondant de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Enrichi de trente-une Figures dessinées d'après nature

RICHLY BOUND AND SUPERBLY COLORED Paris: Didot for Debure Pere, 1767. First edition in French. Quarto (11 5/8” x 8 ½”, 295mm x 215mm): binder’s blank, a4 b4 A-Mmm4, binder’s blank [$2 signed]. 240 leaves, pp. i-v (half-title, blank, title, blank, dedication) vj-xij [4] (2pp. privilege, errata, to the.....

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Item #JLR0881 Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of...

Stedman, John Gabriel; illust. William Blake et al.

Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the History of that Country, and describing its Productions, Viz. Quadrupedes, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, & Roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea. By Capt.n J. G. Stedman, illustrated with 80 elegant Engravings, from drawings made by the Author. Vol. I [-II] Second edition corrected.

Two volumes. London: Luke Hansard for J. Johnson & Th. Payne, 1806. Quarto (10” x 8 1/8”, 255mm x 205mm). Vol. I: modern binder’s blank, π1 b4 c4 (c4+χ1) B-3H4 3I2, modern binder’s blank [$2 signed]. 224 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, preface) iv-xviii [2] (dedication to the Prince of.....

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Item #JLR0874 Illustrations and Descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order...

Chandler, Alfred (illust.) and William Beattie Booth

Illustrations and Descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order Camellieæ, and varieties of Camellia japonica, Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain

London: C. Baynes for John and Arthur Arch, 1831. First edition, finely colored issue. Folio (14 3/8” x 10 3/8”, 365mm x 264mm): π2 a-b2 B-Z2 [$1 signed]. 50 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, preface) iv-xii [80] (2pp. text for each of 40 plates) 41-48. [=xii, 80, viii] With 40.....

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Item #GRM0094 Ulyssis Aldrovandi philosophi et medici bononiensis ornithologiae tomus alter...

Aldrovandi, Ulisse

Ulyssis Aldrovandi philosophi et medici bononiensis ornithologiae tomus alter ademinentissim principem Alexandrum Perettum S.R.E. Card. Montalu Vicecancell. Et Bononiæ legatum Cū indice copiosissimo variarum linguarum. Sumptibus M. Antonii Berniæ Bibliopol. Bonon

Bologna: Nicolas Tebald, 1637 [colophon 1640]. Folio in 6s (13 ½” x 9 ½”, 342mm x 241mm): §2 A–Bbbb6 Cccc6(–Cccc6) Dddd–Gggg6 Hhhh6(–Hhhh6) [$3 signed; O3 signed “O2”, Aa1 signed “A2”]. 474 leaves, pp. [4] (3pp. dedication, foreword) 1–862 [58] (56pp index, colophon, blank). With an engraved title page and numerous.....

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Item #GRM0092 The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their...

Audubon, John James

The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories. By John James Audubon, F.R.S., &c., &c. Vol. I [-Vol. II, Vol. III, Vol. IV, Vol. V, Vol. VI, Vol. VII, Vol. VIII].

8 volumes bound in 4. New York: Geo. R. Lockwood and Son, [ca. 1870–1871]. Final octavo edition. Royal octavo in 2s and 4s (10 7/8” x 7 5/8”, 265mm x 187mm): Vol. I: 3 binder’s blanks, π12 12(+11) 24 3–42 54 6–72 8–184 19–202 21–224 24–294 30–312 324 332 34–364.....

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Item #JLR0869 Mariæ Sibillæ Merian dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum...

Merian, Maria Sibylla

Mariæ Sibillæ Merian dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum surinamensium. . . Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. . . BOUND WITH Histoire des insectes de l’Europe, Dessinée d’après nature & expliquée par Marie Sibille Merian. . .

A SAMMELBAND OF THE INSECTS OF SURINAM & OF EUROPE Ex-coll. LANDESBIBLIOTHEK KASSEL & ALFRED MERIAN Mariæ Sibillæ Merian dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum surinamensium: In quâ, præter vermes & erucas surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, Plantæ, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & in quibus fuerunt inventæ exhibentur. His adjunguntur.....

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Item #GRM0091 Flora overo cultura di fiori Del P. Gio: Battista Ferrari Sanese della Comp. di...

Ferrari, Giovanni Battista; trans. Ludovico Aureli

Flora overo cultura di fiori Del P. Gio: Battista Ferrari Sanese della Comp. di Giesù Distinta in Quattro Libri E trasportata dalla lingua Latina nell’ Italiana da Lodovico Aureli Perugino

Rome: Pietro Antonio Facciotti, 1638. First edition in Italian, second issue. Quarto (8 11/16” x 6 7/16”, 220mm x 163mm): ✠–✠✠4 A-Xxx4 Yyy6, 2 binder’s blanks [$2 signed; –✠1, N2, Gg1, Ooo2; +Yyy3, Dd1 signed “D”, Dd2 signed “D2”]. 282 leaves, pp. [16] (engraved title, blank, 2pp. dedication to Anna.....

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Item #JLR0867 L'histoire des plantes, traduicte de Latin en François: avec leurs...

Linocier, Geoffroy and [Jean] Robin

L'histoire des plantes, traduicte de Latin en François: avec leurs pourtraicts, noms, qualitez & lieux où elles croissent, a laquelle sont adioustees celles des Simples Aromatiques, Animaux à quatre pieds, Oiseaux, Poissons, Serpens & autres bestes venimeuses, ensemble les Distillations. Par Geoffroy Linocier Medecin de Tournon en Vivarais. Reueu & Corrigé par les Doctes de nostre temps. Second Edition BOUND WITH Histoire des plantes, nouuellement trouuées en l'Isle Virgine, & autres lieux, lesquelles ont esté prises & cultiuées au Iardin de Monsieur Robin Arboriste du Roy. Non encore veuës n'y Imprimées par cy deuant. Dedié à Monsieur Morand

Linocier: Paris: Guillaume Macé, (1619-)1620.Robin: Paris: Guilllaume [sic] Macé, 1620. First edition. Sextodecimo in 8s (16mo; 4 5/16” x 2 ¾”, 110mm x 71mm): ã8 B-Y8 Z1 Z2 Z4 Z3 Z6 Z5 Z7 Z8 Aa-Xx8, 2ã8, Yy-Qqq8 Rrr4 [$4; -ã1, H4, O1, V4, Qq3, Yy1, Ppp4; ã3 signed “ã ij”, a4.....

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Item #JLR0866 Letter signed. King of France Francis I

Francis I, King of France

Letter signed

AN UNRECORDED LETTRE MISSIVE FROM FRANCIS I Saint-Prix (“Sainct Prys”): 20 October 1540. Pot folium (12”[1] x 8 ¼”, 305mm x 209mm). With a header, sixteen lines of text, a signature and a countersignature. Directed verso in five lines. Watermarked with a handled pot with two lines of text.....

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Item #JLR0863 P. Bellonii Cenomani de arboribus coniferis, resiniferis, aliis quoque nonnullis...

Belon du Mans, Pierre

P. Bellonii Cenomani de arboribus coniferis, resiniferis, aliis quoque nonnullis sempiterna fronde virentibus, cum earundem iconibus ad viuum expressis. Item de melle cedrino, Cedria, Agarico, Resinis, & iis quæ ex coniferis proficiscuntur. Ad illustrissimum dominum Franciscum Oliuarium, Franciæ Cancellarium, virum amplissimum

Paris: Gilles Corrozet, 1553. First edition. Quarto (7 ¾” x 5 7/8”, 198mm x 149mm): ã4 ẽ4 A-H4 [$3 signed; -ã1]. 40 leaves, foll. [8] (title, privilege, 3pp. dedication, 3pp. preface, contents, 6pp. index, blank) 1-32. With eight woodcut illustrations integral with the text. Bound in modern stiff marbled paper.....

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Item #JLR0862 Iconographie des pigeons non figurés par Mme Knip (Mme Pauline Decourcelles) dans...

Bonaparte, Charles-Lucien

Iconographie des pigeons non figurés par Mme Knip (Mme Pauline Decourcelles) dans les deux volumes de MM. Temminck et Florent Prévost

BONAPARTE’S PIGEONS IN ITS ORIGINAL PARTS Iconographie des pigeons non figurés par Mme Knip (Mme Pauline Decourcelles) dans les deux volumes de MM. Temminck et Florent Prévost. Paris: L. Martinet for P. Bertrand, 1857[–1858]. Folio (22” x 14 5/16”, 557mm x 363mm): π-3π2 4π1 [59]1 χ-2χ1. 68 leaves, pp.....

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Item #GRM0090 Nihon Sankai Meisan Zue [Illustrations of the Noted Products of Mountain and Sea]....

Kangetsu, Shitomi (illust.); Kimura Kenkadō (ed.)

Nihon Sankai Meisan Zue [Illustrations of the Noted Products of Mountain and Sea]

Kangetsu, Shitomi (illust.); Kimura Kenkadō (ed.). Nihon Sankai Meisan Zue [Illustrations of the Noted Products of Mountain and Sea]. Five volumes [Osaka]: [Shioya Chobei], 1799. First edition. Octavo (9 7/8” x 7”, 251mm x 177mm):Vol. I: 16 leaves, foll. 一– 三 (preface by Kimura Kokyo), foll. 2一–十三. With 13 woodblock.....

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Item #JLR0858 Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique septentrionale, contenant un...

Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique septentrionale, contenant un grand nombre d'espèces décrites ou figurées pour la première fois. Par M. L. P. Vieillot, Continuateur de l'Histoire des Colibris et des Oiseaux-Mouches; auteur de celle des Jacamars, des Grimpereaux, des Promerops, des Oiseaux de Paradis et de la plupart des articles d'Ornithologie du nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire naturelle, etc.

Two volumes. Paris: Crapelet for Desray, 1807. First edition. Folio (19 7/16” x 12 15/16”, 494mm x 328mm).Vol. I: binder’s blank, π2 a2 1-72 7bis.1 8-92 101 10bis.2 11-222 232(-232), binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 51 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, blank, title, blank) j ij-iv 1 2-28 28*-28** 29-38 38*-38** 39-90.....

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Item #JLR0855 Oiseaux dorés ou a reflets métalliques. Histoire naturelle et générale des...

Audebert, Jean-Baptiste and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot

Oiseaux dorés ou a reflets métalliques. Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops; [–des grimpereaux et des oiseaux de paradis.] Par J. B. Audebert et L. P. Vieillot

Two volumes. Paris: Crapelet for Desray, (1800–)1802 (An XI). First edition. Quarto (13 9/16” x 10 1/8”, 345mm x 257mm). Vol. I: binder’s blank, π2 a4 b2 1-114 122 13-154 162 17-204 212 214 31-34 342 354 362(–362 blank), binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 109 leaves (86, 4, 19), pp. [4].....

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Item #GRM0086 Anleitung zu der Pflanzenkenntniss und derselben nützlichen Anwendung. Mit hundert...

Schinz, Salomon

Anleitung zu der Pflanzenkenntniss und derselben nützlichen Anwendung. Mit hundert illuminirten Talfen

Zurich: [Orphans of Zurich], 1774. First edition. Folio (14 15/16” x 9 ¼”, 380mm x 236mm): A2 B–Gg2 Hh2(–Hh2) Ii–Kk2 [$2 signed; –G1, Kk2]. 65 leaves, pp. 1–4 5–129 [1] (blank). With an engraved vignette, 2 hand-colored engraved plates of Linnean botany, and 100 hand-colored botanical woodblock prints after Fuchs.....

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Item #JLR0849 Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches, ouvrage orné de planches dessinées et...

Lesson, René Primevère

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches, ouvrage orné de planches dessinées et gravées par les meilleurs artistes, et dedié A S. A. R. Mademoiselle. . . WITH Histoire naturelle des colibris, suivie d'un supplément a l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches; ouvrage orné de planches dessinés et gravées par les meilleurs artistes, et dédié A M. le Baron Cuvier. Par R. P. Lesson. . . AND Les trochilidées ou les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches, suivis d'un index général, dans lequel sont décrits et classés méthodiquement toutes les races et espèces du genre Trochilus. Ouvrage orné de planches dessinées et gravées par les meilleurs artistes, par R. P. Lesson. . .

THE BRAYBROOKE–BOURLON de ROUVRE SET Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches, ouvrage orné de planches dessinées et gravées par les meilleurs artistes, et dedié A S. A. R. Mademoiselle; par R. P. Lesson, officier de santé de première classe de la Marine Royale; professeur de botanique a l’école de médecine navale.....

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Item #GRM0082 Choix des plus belles fluers et des plus beaux fruits par P.J. Redouté chevalier...

Redoute, Pierre-Joseph

Choix des plus belles fluers et des plus beaux fruits par P.J. Redouté chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, peintre et professeur d’iconographie au Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, dessinateur en titre de la classe de physique et mathématiques de l’Institut, membre de la Société Philotechnique et des Enfans d’Apollon, de celle d’agriculture du département de seine-et-oise, membre correspondant de la Société Royale d’Agriculture et de botanique de la ville de Gand, associé honoraire de la Société de Genève, membre correspondant de celle dite Horticulturale de Londres, etc.

Paris: E. Panckoucke, [1833]. Quarto (12 2/8” x 9”, 311mm x 229mm): 2 binder’s blanks, π2 1–24 32(–23) [$1 signed; –11, –13]. 11 leaves, pp. [4] (title, imprint, 2pp. introduction) 1–3 4–17 [1] (blank). With 144 stipple-engraved plates color-printed à la poupée and finished by hand before numbers. Bound in.....

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