1. Beil, H.A.

De Practische Imker – Geïllustreerd Maandblad voor de Reform-Bijenteelt.

[Holland], Bureau af “De Practische Imker”, 1906-1907. Quarto. Four Issues (4 Hefte): 1. December 1906 – Proefnummer (December 1906) / 2. Januari 1904 – No.1 / 3. Februari 1907 – No.2 / 4. Maart 1907 – No.3 // Illustrated Softcover. Britte, poor condition of this extremely rare little periodical about beekeeping in the early 20th century.

2. Bouteille, Hippoloyte / M. de Labatie. / Victor Cassien.

Ornithologie du Dauphiné ou Description des Oiseaux observés dans les départements de l’Isère, de la Drôme, des Hautes-Alpes et des contrées voisines, par Hippolyte Bouteille, pharmacien. Avec la collaboration de M. de Labatie. Ouvrage contenant 300 sujets Dessinés d’après Nature, par M.V. Cassien.

Edition originale (First and only Edition). Two Volumes (complete set). Grenoble, Hippolyte Bouteille (Imprimerie Dr. F. Allier), 1843. Slim Quarto (18 cm x 26 cm). Volume I: 416 pages / Volume II: 358 pages. Including 72 lithographies by Pegeron et un grand tableau synoptique dépliant en fin d’ouvrage. Original Hardcover / Original red half leather / demi-maroquin with gilt lettering on spine. Besides some mild foxing in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The plates complete and in wonderful condition. Titlepage of Volume II with minor lesion. The plates show 300 different kind of birds in remarkable detail, after Victor Cassien, french lithographer, illustrator, painter and photographer.

3. [Boyle Bernard, Richard (Dean of Leighlin)] Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de.

Buffon’s Natural History, Abridged – Including the History of the Elements, The Earth, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Winds, Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Man, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Shellfish, Lizards, Serpents, Insects & Vegetables. Illustrated with Great Variety of Copper Plates. With 106 [of 107 Plates] in absolutely stunning condition, spread throughout the two Volumes. Including the two often missing and very rare fold-out-plates of Snakes.

Two Volumes (complete set). London, Published as the Act directs for C. & G. Kearlsey, Fleet Street, 1792. Octavo (15 cm x 21,5 cm). Volume I: Frontispice [″Nature lamenting over the Tomb of M. de Buffon & exhibiting a Portrait of that distinguished Naturalist”], Engraved Titlepage [with a scene of grieving onlookers to the outbreak of the Volcano / Mount Vesuvius], XXXVII, Errata-Leaf, 353 pages / Volume II: Engraved Titlepage [with a scene of fowling at the steep cliffs of St.Kilda)], 494 pages including a thorough Index. With 106 [of 107 Plates] spread throughout the two Volumes. Including the two often missing and very rare fold-out-plates of Snakes. Hardcover / One Volume rebound to style and one Volume in its original 18th century full leather. Original bookplate / Exlibris of Dean Richard Boyle Bernard, Dean of Leighlin and MP for Bandon Bridge to pastedown of Volume I. Both Volumes now housed in a bespoke built Solander Box. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4. Bronn, Heinrich Georg.

De Formis Plantarum Leguminosarum – Primitivis et Derivatis. [Originale, gedruckte Dissertation des spaeteren Darwin – uebersetzers].

Heidelberg, Carl Groos, 1822 Octavo. 140 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Pappband des 19.Jahrhunderts. Rueckenschildchen etwas beschaedigt. 1 Lage lose. Sonst sehr guter Zustand mit der oft fehlenden Falttafel. / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. 1 layer of pages cleanly detached. Otherwise excellent and including the often missing, multiple folding plate.

5. Cornelius, P.

Das Oldenburger Wesermarschrind. Herausgegeben vom Oldenburger Wesermarsch-Herdbuchverein. Mit 2 Karten, 1 farbigen und 6 schwarzen Tafeln und 68 Abbildungen im Text.

Hannover, M. & H. Schaper, 1908. 8°. VIII, 140 Seiten und Tafeln / Karten im Anhang. Hardcover / Dekorativer, illustrierter Jugendstilband / Art Noueau Binding. Traumhaft erhaltene Monographie in wunderschöner Jugendstilbindung. Nahezu keine Gebrauchsspuren. Äußerst selten in dieser Erhaltung. [Monographien landwirtschaftlicher Nutztiere – Band VI].

6. Coudenhove, Hans.

My African Neighbors – Man, Bird, and Beast in Nyasaland. Illustrated.

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. 15 cm x 22.7 cm. Frontispiece, XIV, 245 pages. 12 illustrations, including the frontispiece, on 8 plates. Hardcover/ Publisher’s original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cracks to valley between endpaper and half-title. Binding still good and firm. Original, armorial bookplate of Somerset Saunderson(depicting the coat-of-arms with the motto: “Je suis veillant”) on front paste-down. Annotation on pastedown, half-title, table of contents and table of illustrations. Several annotations on rear paste-down.

7. Finn, Frank.

Pets and how to keep them. With twelve coloured plates and many Illustrations after photographs from Life.

London, Hutchinson and Co., 1907. Small Octavo. Color-Frontispice, XVI, 219 pages. Original, decorative Hardcover. Very good, actually excellent and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. With a neat, private gift-inscription: “Violet from Aunt Maud – Xmas 1907”.

8. Goldsmith, Oliver/ [Washington Irving] / [Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886)].

A History of The Earth and Animated Nature – With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: “A Life of the Author”, by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work]).

First Edition with the Biography of Goldsmith by Washington Irving. Six Parts in Two Volumes (complete set). London, Edinburgh and Dublin, A. Fullerton and Co., 1846-1848. Large Octavo. Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith by S. Freeman from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved and hand-coloured Titlepage (with tissue-guard), LIV, Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Plate 40 with a minor defect to the outer margins only (no image effected). Bindings in wonderful and firm condition. From the library of one Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886), her full name, year and place of lodgings signed by her on the titlepage.

9. [Johnston, Harry Hamilton ] Casada, James A.

Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston. A Bio-Bibliographical Study.

Basel, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1977. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 120 pages. Softcover / publisher’s original wrappers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright and clean. [Mitteilungen Der Basler Afrika Bibliographien – Communications From the Basel Africa Bibliography – Volume 18].

10. Klug, Johann Christoph Friedrich.

Versuch einer systematischen Feststellung der Insecten-Familie: Panorpatae und Auseinandersetzung ihrer Gattungen und Arten.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 27 Seiten plus eine farbige, lithographische Tafel mit Abbildungen von Nemoptera dilatata, Nemoptera bacillariis, setacea, capillaris, aristata etc. (Seiten 81 – 108 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836) [Early work on Nemoptera / Nemoptera is a Palearctic genus of insects of the family Nemopteridae or spoonwings. All species are diurnal with an exclusively floral diet, preferring to fly in open spaces in full sunshine while visiting flowers. They can be recognized by their very long hind wing prolongations (Wikipedia)]. Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus dem Jahre 1836].