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Paris,: C. Reinwald et Cie, libraires-éditeurs,, 1879-1880.. 2 volumes; xiii, [iii], 494, [ii, blank]; [iv], 523, [i blank], 20 ["Catalogue des livres de fonds C. Reinwald, 1884"] pp. Royal 8vo ( 15 x 23,5 cm.). Original green publisher's buckram, spines gilt lettered and numbered, signed at the bottom "A. Lemère relieur", uncut and partly unopened. With 43 wood engraved… Read more

Paris,: Masson,, 1966.. vii, [i, blank], 258, [ii] pp. Roy. 8vo (16,3 X 24,2 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With 65 figures. ¶ Florkin, the 'Fouding father of comparative biochemistry' was a pupil of Léon Fredericq. He wrote over 800 scientific papers, and contributed greately to the history of life sciences. An interesting association copy (dated 1 dec.… Read more

Amsterdam,: Het Koloniaal Instituut,, 1915.. xi, 303 pp. 8vo (16,5 x 23 cm.). Original blue decorated cloth. With 23 plates. ¶ The scarce trade edition of Sirks' well-known thesis. -- (Outer edge partly very slightly waterstained, but an excellent copy).

Amsterdam,: Rodopi,, 1985.. [vi], 207, [iii] pp. 8vo (15 x 22 cm). Original printed limp wrappers. With 12 illustrations. ¶ pp. 178-199 is a chronological arranged bibliography of Camper's publication 1746-1804 (197 entries). --(Nieuwe Nederlandse bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en der natuurwetenschappen ; no. 12).

Amstelædami,: Ex Typographia Gerardi Tielenburg (1734-1776), & Soc.,, MDCCLXXIV (1774).. 61, [iii] pp. 8vo (12,6 x 20 cm.). Recently bound in half, dark brown, grained morocco. With a few woodcut vignettes in the text, and illustrated with a most charming engraved frontispiece and title-engraving. ¶ Very uncommon, only a few copies in the WorldCat. A curious, satirical,… Read more

(Antwerpen, Den Haag & Brussel, 1968).. viii, 163 pp. Small 4to (18,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original coloured printed wrappers. With 10 figures and 32 plates. ¶ Valuable exhibition catalogue with ample historical and bibliographical information about 146 famous bird books (Mss. & printed, from the 10th. to the 20th. century).

Brugge,: Heemkring Maurits Van Coppenolle,, 1985.. 206, [ii] pp. Small 4to (18 x 25 cm.). Original cloth with dust-jacket (jacket partly faded and worn a the top). With a coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. ¶ Printed in 1100 copies. Anice pictorial history of apiculture, concluded by a brief bibliography and ample indexes.

Nancy,: Berger-Lévrayault,, 1904.. 12 pp. 8vo (16,5 x 24,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With one photographic plate. Some modifications to the author's earlier publication "Application de la photographie au dessin des cloisons des ammonites" (Lille 1893). Copy with author;s autograph dedication to Coll. Joly.

Paris,: Au Siège de la Société,, 1932.. [iv], xii, 729, [v] pp. Small 4to (18 x 26 cm.). Original printed wrappers (very slightly dust soiled). With a coloured frontispiece, numerous text illustrations and 32 fine plates (finely coloured or helio engravings). A splendid and finely printed and illustrated volume to celebrate the first 100 years of the Société entomologique… Read more

Antwerpen,: J.-E. Buschmann,, 1916.. xi, [i], 190 pp. 8vo. (14,5 x 23 cm.). Original illustrated printed wrappers (soiled), uncut. With 35 photographic plates & illustrations. ** A charmingly illustrated, and uncommon work.

Bruxelles,: Office de Publicité,, (n.d., ca. 1915).. [iv], xii, 167, [i, blank] pp. Large 8vo (16,5 x 23,5 cm.). Orginal printed wrappers (slightly dust soiled). With 42 photographic illustrations. ** One of the few French monographs on the subject.-- (Some scattered light staining).

Bruxelles,: Office de Publicité,, 1947.. 333, [iii] pp. 8vo (13,5 x 20,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly dust soiled; spine slightly stained), uncut. With numerous illustrations.

Paris,: Babé & Cie,, 1892.. [viii], 282, ii, blank] pp. 12m0 (12 x 18,5 cm.). Original brown publisher's cloth with black lettering. Sabatier was professor of Zoologt at the University of Montpellier and founder of the zoological station "de Sette". In his various works he postulated some interesting views regarding "evolution", but he and his works seem to be… Read more

Paris,: J. Barbou,, 1780.. [iv, blank], [iv, half-title & title], xxxi, 319, [i, publisher's catalogue], [ii, blank] pp. Small 8vo (9,5 x 16 cm.). A charming contemporary binding: full marbled calf, remnants of gilt rullers on sides, spine in compartments gilt decorated, red morocco title-label, gilt dotted ruller at the outer and inner edges of the sides, gilt edges.… Read more

Paris,: Librarie Marpon & Flammarion,, (1880).. [viii], 1039, [i] pp. Large 8vo (20.5 x 27.5 cm.). Contemporary half dark blue morocco, spine, with raised bands, gilt lettered (partly slightly rubbed; a bit discoloured). Richly illustrated with 870 plates and figures in wood engraving, and 8 coloured plates (chromolithographs from the press of Lemercier at Paris). A nicelly illustrated general… Read more

A Neuchatel,: Chez Samuel Fauce,, 1779.. 2 volumes, (iv), 468; (ii), 550 pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards (partly slightly rubbed & dam.), entirely uncut. With 1 folded engraved plate. ¶ The last and best edition of this work, being vol. V & Vi of Oeuvres d'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosophie. Including a 6 page addiitional note not to be found… Read more

London,: British Museum (N.H.),, 1956.. xi, [i blank], 303, [i blank] pp. Small 4to (18,5 x 25 cm.). Original green buckram. With a coloured frontispiece, 178 text figures and 12 plates of which 2 coloured. ¶ A good copy of this classic work.

Paris,: Théodore Lefèvre,, (n.d.,ca. 1875).. [iv], 384 pp. Large 8vo (17 x 25 cm.). Bound in half green morocco, spine with 4 raised bands, gilt decorated with compartments & rullers , buckram boards, edges gilt (the original publisger's binding, partly slightly rubbed). Title printed in red and black. With about 350 text illustrations and 16 plates, all wood-engravings.… Read more

(Bruxelles,: L'Académie,, 1881).. 32, [ii] pp.Large 4to (23,5 x 29 cm.). Original blue boards (spine damaged). With 4 large fine lithographed plates by G. Severeyns of which one coloured (a young Orca, washed ashore in Oostende, drawn after nature by Van Cuyck). ** An early study on the subject. A clean inner copy with ample margins. Offprinted (or… Read more

Paris,: Bureau de Souscripton...,, 1838.. (iv), 171, (i) pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, uncut. With 5 very finely engraved folded plates by A. Dumesnil. Not in Wood, nor in the Cat. B.M. (N.H.). Copy with ample margins. The genuine reprint of author's famous article, originally written for E. Guérin-Méneville's Dictionaire pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (1833-1839). The plates were engraved after… Read more