Leipzig: Commision with Engelmann, [1841]- 1847. Contemporary half leather on marble boards. Folio. (32.0 x 26.0 cm). Modern calf spine with gilt labeling, contemporary marble and calf corners. Collation: cx, 149, [1]pp.+ 50 (3 double page; 4 folding) tinted lithographed plates. Some foxing and spotting to text and plates. This... More about Chloris protogaea : Beiträge zur Flora der Vorwelt
Nürnberg: Gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1826. Third edition. Original Blind-Stamped green cloth. 8vo. Original blind stamped dark green cloth with gilt decoration on spine that includes author, title and date of publication. Collation: viii, 207, [1]16pp. + 4 hand colored engraved plates by Sturm with original tissue guards. Sturm... More about Catalog meiner Insecten & Sammlung. Erster Theil. Käfer
Paris: M. Lambert, 1769. Modern linen and marble boards. 8vo. Modern full calf, raised bands with gilt borders and center flower, title in upper panel. The spine has green morocco label with author, title and date in gilt. Collation: [iv] 1-126 [2-ad for present book by Le Begue] pp. +... More about Mémoire et journal d'observations et d'expériences sur les moyens de garantir les olives de la...
Halae Saxonum: Curtiana Venalis, 1796. Modern black morocco spine and contemporary marble boards. Folio (53.4 x 41.6 cm). Modern half black morocco binding with original marble boards, some loss of marble paper at front lower corner, minor loss of leather on upper rear corner, repaire to board of lower rear... More about Exercitationum Anatomicarum Fasciculus Primus De Structura Nervorum, Tribus Tabulis Aeneis...
France: Late 17th-early 18th cen. Contemporary mottled calf. Rare original manuscript. 4to Contemporary mottled calf, raised bands, panels with floral gilt decorations, gilt title on leather label in upper panel. Loss to ends of spine; hinges cracked at ends, cords sound. Collation: 110 leaves with numerous hand drawn diagrams. This... More about Geostatica
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. Original Wraps. Original printed gray wrappers. 8vo. 1st Edition, 1st issue. Uncut copy in original printed gray wrappers. The book is present in clamshell box box with black morocco spine. Collation: viii, 387 pp. + 12 plates and intext illustrations. There is minor chipping on spine and... More about Études sur la bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre...
Norimbergae: Apud Felseckeri, 1794. Original Wraps. 4to. Modern quarter blue morocco on mottled paper boards. Original blue wrappers bound inside at back. Collation: 8pp. + 1 hand colored engraved plate. 18th century description of scarab beetles of America. Very scarce item. (Hagen II, p. 27; Nissen ZBI 3085). More about Faunae insectorum Americes Borealis prodromus. Cum tab. aeneis
London: John van Voorst, 1846. Original Cloth. 1st Edition. 4to Original blue cloth with gilt labeling on spine. Collation: xlvi, 560 pp. + numerous illustrations. There is a 2 page autographed from letter from Owne dated 1872 that has been tipped in front. This significant contribution to paleontology by Owen. More about A History of British Fossils Mammals and Birds
Italy: [1790]. Contemporary marble boards. 8vo (22.0 x 15.8 cm). Contemporary marble boards; paper loss along hinges, ends of spine and edges of boards. Collation: 364 pages of neatly hand written text on half of each page + numerous drawings in pencil and pen in clear half of page and... More about Rare original 18th century Italian manuscript on astronomy
Tiguri (Zurich): Typis et Sumptibus. Bodmerianis, 1719. Contemporary mottled calf. 4to (20.0 x 16.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf; Ends of spine with wear, minor loss at top; Raised bands with blank panels except upper second panel with red morocco leather label; Hinges and corners rubbed.Marble end papers. Collation: [40], 512... More about Agrostographia sive graminum, juncorum, cyperorum, cyperoidum, iisque affinium historia
Hague: 1937. 8vo. Genetica XIX 4/5, p. 417-422. More about Haemophilia As A Proof For Mutation In Man
London: S. Highley, 1855. Second edition. More about The Microscope, and its Application to Vegetable Anatomy. And Physiology
London: H.Bailleire, 1855. Third edition. Ex libris. 8vo(22.3 x 13.7 cm) Modernbrown goat. Raised bands, gilt decoration in center of panels, red morocco label in upper panel , date at tail,new marble end papers. Collation: xxiv, 464, 8 (Cat), (8- Cat.) pp. + 11 lithograph plates. Plate ll as frontispiece... More about Practical Treatise on the use of the Microscope
Augustae Vindelicorum: Impensis T. Goebelii, Typis J. Schönigkii, 1675. Half Calf with marble boards. 4to. Later half calf with marble paper boards. Collation: Part I- Engraved title page, [viii], [3]-130,[5], [1-blank]pp.+ 12 copper engraved plates; Part II-[3]-69,[26]pp. This is important two part 17th century German work by Welsch on material..... More about Hecatosteae II : observationum physico-medicarum ad illustrem societatem naturae curiosorum in...
Reutlingen: Fleischhauer & Spohn, circa 1850. More about Käfer-Büchlein oder Beschreibung der schönsten, nützlichsten und schädlichsten in- und...
Philadelphia: Solomon W. Conrad, 1818. First American edition. Original paper boards. 8vo (21.4 x 13.5 cm) Contemporary cloth spine on paper boards, wear to ends of spine, hinges and edges of boards. Red morocco label with autonr and title gilt. Collation: vi, viii, [9]-170 (viii), [2-Ads]pp. Text with usual age... More about A popular treatise on the remedies to be employed in cases of poisoning and apparent death:...
Amstelodami: Excudebat Joannes Janssonius, 1617. Vellum. Folio (36 cm) Contemporary vellum repaired. Collation: [4], [45] leaves +engraved portrait and 40 plates on 39 leaves (one folding) The binding has been repaired and plate A supplied in from another copy. Front end papers replaced. The title page has been cleaned and... More about Anatomia viri in hoc genere princip
Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1929. Significant treatise on atom structure and spectral analysis. More about Atombau und Spektrallinien
Tiguri(Zurich: Sumptibus authoris, typis Gessnerianis, 1708. First unequivocal demonstration that images contained in rock were from prehistoric animals, mainly fish. More about Piscium querelae et vindiciae
Madrid: 1933. XIV Concilium Ophthalmologicum 1933, Hispania. Printed wrappers bound in. Scarce copy of Cajal's ophthalmological research. Copy of noted French ophthalomologist Pierre Amalric with his notations. More about Travaux du Prof. Ramon y Cajal sur La Rétine. Les problèmes histo- physiologiques de la...
London: Tho. Doring, 1687. Full calf. 4th ed. Folio Contemporary calf rebacked with raised bands and author and title in gilt on new red label. Pp. [24], 326, [6]. Manuscript notes on ffep and verso of first two preliminaries. Damp staining and some roughing of preliminaries and index. Internal condition... More about Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery Of Husbandry Discovred.. Treating of the several new and most...
Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, 1785. First edition. Stamped Cloth. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine darkened with loss to top and less so at bottom; hinges beginning, some chipping to extremities.Collatioh: [xxii] 490 pp. .Index. Plus 7 engraved plates (1 folding). Bound With Relhan, Richard. FLORA CANTABRIGIENSI SUPPLEMENTUM. Cambridge :J. Archdeacon, 1786... More about Flora Cantabrigiensis, Exhibens Plantas Agro Cantabrigiensi Indigenas. Secundum Systema Sexuale...
London: Printed for A. Bell, T. Varnam and J. Osborn, and W. Taylor, 1718. First edition. Contemporary calf. 8vo (19.5 X 12 cm). 1st edition. Contemporary full calf with new back. Collation: xvi, 618, [53] [1-adv] p. Spine has raised bands and new red leather label. Covers have central tooled... More about Pharmacopoeia officinalis & extemporanea, or, A compleat English dispensatory in four parts :...
London: Printed for James Black and Son, 1816. Second edition. Original Cloth. 8vo. 2nd edition. 2 volumes. Original boards boxed. Large paper copy. Hinges weak on both volumes. Paper labels frayed as are the ends of spine. Moderate foxing to text and plates. Collation: xxxvi, 725 p. + 24 engraved... More about Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of...
