Natural History

CLERCK, Carl Alexander. Nomenclator extemporaneus rerum naturalium: plantarum, insectorum, conchyliorum, secundum Systema naturae Linnaeanum.
Stockholm, Lorentz Ludewig Grefing, 1759. 8vo. Disbound. [4], 67, [13] pp. Full description

CLUTIUS, Theodorus (Dirk Outgaertsz CLUYT). Van de byen, haer wonderlijke oorspronk, natuur, eygenschap ... Item hoe men de byen profijtelijck opvoeden en regeeren sal. Noch: Wat nuttigheyt dat men van honnich en was kan krijgen ...Including: (2) Meesterye voor de paarden, om te weten alle de secreten, alsoo men die gebruyckt by den maerschalk des keysers ende eertz-hertogen keyser Carolus de vijfde. ...
Amsterdam, widow of Gysbert de Groot, 1705. 2 works in 1. 8vo. Modern vellum over boards. [12], 218, [22]; [42] pp. Full description

COHEN STUART, Martinus. Zes maanden in Amerika ... met platen en vignetten. Eerste(-tweede) deel.
Haarlem, Kruseman & Tjeenk Willink, 1875. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 8vo. With 10 tinted lithographic plates, and 27 wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary cloth. [3], [1 blank], 7, [1], 366; 6, [2], 332 pp. Full description

COLETTI, Ferdinando. Sull' avvelenamento pe' funghi.
Padova, Prem. Stab. di P. Prosperini, 1863. 8vo. Green paper wrappers. 62 pp. Full description

COLLIGNON D'ANCY, Théodore. Nouveau mode de culture et d'echalassement de la vigne, applicable à tous les vignobles où l'on cultive les vignes basses.
Metz, printed by Dembour and Gangel for Warion, [1847]. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on the title-page, and 3 large folding plates, lithographed by Dembours and Gangel. Modern half morocco, preserving the original illustrated wrappers. VI, [2], 191, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[COMBLES, Jean de]. Traité de la culture des pêchers.
Paris, Delaguette and le Prieur, 1750. 12mo. With a woodcut illustration on the title-page and a headpiece, tailpiece and initial letter. Contemporary French calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. XVI, 198, [2] pp. Full description

COMMERELL, Abbé de, John Coakley LETTSOM (transl.) and Jan Christiaan SEPP (transl.) Bericht wegens de aankweeking en het gebruik van den schaarsheid- of mangel-wortel.
Amsterdam, C.N. Guerin, 1789. 8vo. With 1 folding hand-coloured plate and a woodcut tailpiece of a fruit basket. 19th-century half cloth, Stormont marbled sides. [4], XII, 80 pp. Full description

CORNALIA, Emilio. Monografia del Bombice del Gelso.
Milan, Giuseppe Bernardoni di Gio, 1856. Large 4to (ca. 25 x 33 cm). With 15 numbered lithographed folding plates, including 1 chromolithographed, by Vassalli. Original printed boards. IX, [1 blank], 388 pp. Full description

COSTANTIN, Julien Noël. Atlas en couleurs des orchidées cultivées.
Paris, E. Orlhac, [1911-1926]. Folio. With ca. 1000 coloured figures on 30 chromo-lithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth, publisher's front wrapper laid down on front board. 106, [2] pp. Full description

COTTA, Heinrich. Naturbeobachtungen über die Bewegung und Funktion des Saftes in den Gewächsen, mit vorzüglicher Hinsicht auf Holzpflanzen.
Weimar, Hoffmann, 1806. 4to. With a small engraved vignette on the title-page and 7 hand-coloured engraved plates (including frontispiece). Contemporary half calf. [1], [1 blank], XIV, [2], 96, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description