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Coquebert, Antoine Jean. Illustratio iconographica insectorum quae in musaeis parisinis observavit ... Paris: Petrus Didot Major, Anno VII [1799]- XII (1804). Three parts bound in one volume. 4to (33.8 x 25.0 cm). Contemporary boards with marble paper spine and boards. Collation: 1-44; [2], 45-90; [4], 91-142pp. + 30 fine hand colored engraved plates.
The insects were drawn by Antoine Jean Coquebert who was a noted French naturalist and councilor to the royal court at Amiens and Rheims. The plates illustrate 384 insects with pertinent detail of the whole organism and various body parts essential for taxonomic identification and classification. Complete copies of this important entomological study of insects in the Museum of Natural History in Paris are of greatest rarity as the publisher‘s stock was destroyed by fire. This is an exceptionally fine complete and scarce hand- colored copy of a very scarce work. (Nissen ZBI 957).
Preis: 6500,- EUR
Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Johannes Bohn. Opera omnia anatomica & Physiologica, hactenus variis locis ac formis edita; nunc vero certo ordine digesta, & in unum volumen redacta... Lipsiae, Sumptibus Johannis Friderici Gleditschii, excudebat Christianus Goezius, 1687. Folio (34.8 x 20.3 cm). Contemporary half leather with marble boards. New black morocco spine. Collation: [12], 452, [24] pp. + 61 engraved plates, many folding. Edge toning and dusting on several plates. Book plates of Ralph Hermon Major and Gordon W. James, M.D. on front paste down along with two printed descriptions from dealers‘ catalogs.
The opera includes all of Fabricius‘ treatises on anatomy and physiology. (Cole, 379; Heirs, 368[1738 ed.]; Osler2557; Waller 2891; Wellcome III, p. 4).
Preis: 2500,- EUR
Fuessly, J.G. Archives de l‘Histoire des Insectes, publiées en allemand traduites en françois. Winterthour: J. Ziegler, 1794. 4to (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Recent half calf, with richly gilt and ornamented spine; red leather label with gilt labeling; marble covered boards. Collation: xii, 184, [2] pp. + 50 engraved plated, 47 hand colored. The plates were engraved by J. R. Schellenberg.
This is an uncut copy of the rare French translation of a finely illustrated treatise on insects from the original German edition published in 1781-1786. The hand-colored figures in each plate were engraved by J. R. Schellenberg. The images contain great detail and are exquisitely painted, illustrating the inherent natural beauty of each insect.. (Nissen ZBI, 1455).
Preis: 3250,- EUR
de Vries, Hugo. Intracellulare Pangenesis. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1889. 8vo (22.8 x 14.5 cm.) Original printed organge wrappers and text bound in black buckram with new end papers. Author, title and date in gilt on spine. Collation: vi,[1] 2-212p. Binding and text very clean and bright.
Provenance: Pencil note verso of front free end paper of publication points out that this copy was originally given by de Vries to his maternal grandmother and was returned to him after her death. de Vries has inscribed in ink this copy to his assistant Mrs. Palmer with date of November 1917 on front cover of publication.
Preis: 5000,- EUR
Haller, Albrecht von. Dissertationes de partibus sensibilibus, et irritabilibus. De sanguinis motu, et cordis motu a stimulo nato. Lovanii: apud Laur. Jos. Van Rossum,1759. 8vo (16.7 x 9.7 cm). Contemporary mottled calf. Collation:[ii], 148 pp.
This publication by Haller consists of three dissertations that are separated into separate sections and chapters that are noted in the "Tabula sectionum et capitum". The present collection of a number of his researches into irritability, blood and the heart is a scarce and significant contribution to medical literature. The first two sections on irritability (pp.1-47were first published 1753 (G&M 587). The remaining portions of the book appear for the first time. Haller was concerned with the relation between structure and function.
Preis: 600,- EUR
Jonston, John. Dendrographias sive historiae naturalis de arboribus et fruticibus tam nostri quam peregrini orbis libri decem. Frankfurt: Merian Erben, 1662.1st Edition. 2 volumes Folio (34.3 x 20.1 cm), Contemporary tree calf binding. Collation: Vol. I- [xviii], 477, [31-Index] pp. + Copper engraved frontispiece; Vol. II- 137 Copper engraved plates by Mattheus Merian (unsigned).
Jonston was a physician and scholar of Scottish nobility born in Poland and closely connected to the Polish Leszczyski magnates. His initial training in botany and medicine came from studies at University of Cambridge. Provenance: Book plate of "The Right Hon(able) Thomas Earle of Kinnoull Viscount Dupplin Lord Hay of Kinfauns" on front paste down of both volumes. Thomas Hay was from Scottish peerage. (Johnston Cleveland 233; Nissen, BBI 1007; Pritzel 4475; Rehder I, p. 292; S&C. 3408)
Preis: 5000,- EUR
Marine Algae Album - Algues Côtes de Bretagne. (circa. Mid 1800‘s). Small 4to (24.5 x 17.2 cm). Contemporary monogrammed, green morocco binding. Collation: 1ff, 114 ff each leaf mounted on stub contains single specimen. Each specimen is identified with earlier Latin name in black ink and later additions in red ink. All specimens are well preserved and beautifully displayed on the page.
This private collection is the most elaborate that we have had and represents a personal collection of "SB" who has made the presentation of the algae growing along the coast of Brittany most appealing and scientifically important.
Preis: 4000,- EUR
Ramon y Caja, Santiago. Travaux du Prof. Ramon y Cajal sur La Rétine. Les problèmes histo- physiologiques de la rétine-la rétine des vertébrés. XIV Concilium Ophthalmologicum 1933, Hispania. Madrid, Noviembre de 1933. Bound in quarter pebbled red morocco and marbled boards. Author, title and date in gilt on spine. Collation: [vi], [1]-144 pp. + 8 folding plates. Some wear to spine present. Text and plates are in very good condition.
Provenance: Book plate of Pierre Amalric noted French ophthalmologist on front paste down. Dr. Amalric has made pencil highlighting to the Spanish introduction by Cajal and notations and corrections throughout the French translation text and lithograph plates.
Preis: 1700,- EUR
Ryff, Walter H., Niklaus Ager. Newe aussgerüste deütsche Apoteck: darinnen aller fürnem[m]sten, vnd gebraüchlichsten einfachen Artzneyen, als Kräütter, Gewürtz, Mineralien, [et]c... Strassburg: In Verlegung Lazari Zetzners, 1602. Folio (33.8 x 21.5 cm). Contemporary German, blind-stamped pig skin binding. There are three parts bound together in this volume. Collation: Part I- [12], 1-446; Part II- 447-721, [25] pp.; Part III- 1-302, [8] pp. There are approximately 166 woodcuts of plants in text for Parts Iand II.
The fine detailed woodcuts by David Kandel, a superb natural history illustrator of the Rennaissance Period, were used earlier to illustrate the herbal by Hieronymous Bock. (Krivatsy 10087; Nissen BBI 1707; Wellcome I, 5681)
Preis: 5000,- EUR
Scheuchzer, Johann Jacob. Piscium querelae et vindiciae. Tiguri (Zurich): Sumptibus authoris, typis Gessnerianis, 1708. 4to (22.4 x 16.4 cm). Contemporary tree calf with raised bands, gilt decorated panels, lacking leather title piece. Collation: [iv], [2] 3-36 + 5 folding copper engraved plates. Text and plates in very good condition.
This is the Latin edition which was published in German later in same year titled: Bildnisse vorschiedener Fische und deren Theilen, welche in der Sündflyth zu Grunde gegangen -- Zedler Hoeherl‘s Johann Jacob Scheuchzer. Provenance: Book plate of Macclesfield Library. This is an exceptionally scarce copy of a major work by Scheuchzer, a well known scientist and father of paleontology in Europe. In this work he establishes convincingly the true nature of fossils as remains of prehistoric organisms. (Agassiz IV p. 262 no.22;BMNH 4, P.1830;Nissen ZBI 3663)
Preis: 8000,- EUR
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