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The flora and geology of Marienbad, with contributions by Goethe and Friedrich August II

FRIEDRICH AUGUST II, Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE and Karl Joseph HEIDLER. Pflanzen und Gebirgsarten von Marienbad, ... ergänzt, und mit einem anhange über die andern naturhistorischen Verhältnisse der Curortes.
Prague, Kronberger and Weber ("Druck und Papier von Gottlieb Haase Söhne"), 1837. 8vo. With 5 lithographed plates numbered I-II, [III], IV-V, namely a frontispiece view by Sandtner, 3 further illustration plates (1 hand-coloured) and a hand-coloured folding petrographic map of Marienbad. Also with a folding letterpress table. Contemporary brown half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. X, 203, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,000

Central Europe Czech Republic & Slovakia Earth Sciences Floras & General Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century) Mineralogy & Gems

Very rare first edition of Scandinavian fish, with all 63 plates, 59 beautifully and subtly hand-coloured

FRIES, Bengt Fredrik, Carl Ulric EKSTRÖM [and Carl Jakob SUNDEVALL]. Skandinaviens Fiskar.
Including: Bihang, innefattande beskrifningar öfver de I Skandinavien bruklige Fiskeredskap.
Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & sons, "1838" [= 1836-1857]. 10 parts (paginated as 3) in 1 volume. Large 4to (28.5 x 25 cm). With 63 lithographic plates, 59 beautifully and extremely subtly coloured by hand as published, some showing 2 or more fish per plate. Modern half tan morocco (Johanna Röjgård). [2], IV, 222; 49-56 (+ 49b-54b) & 125-140 (of "140" [= 146]); 44, [2] pp. Full description

€ 9,750

Amphibians & Reptiles Faunas & General Zoology Scandinavia

Rare reissue of four taxonomic dissertations on Swedish flora

FRIES, Elias Magnus. Novitiarum florae Sueciae mantissa altera.
Uppsala, 1839. 4 parts. 8vo. Unbound. [2], 64 pp. Full description

€ 380

Scandinavia

On botanical nomenclature

FRIES, Elias Magnus and others. Öfver Vexternes Namn.
Uppsala, Leffler and Sebell, 1842. 4 parts. 8vo. Disbound. [2], 16; [2], 17-32; [2], 33-48; [2], 49-64 pp. Full description

€ 350

Charming print series of birds and butterflies

FRISIUS, Simon. [Print series of birds and butterflies].
[Amsterdam], Frederick de Wit, [ca. 1685?]. Small oblong folio (18.5 x 26 cm). With 12 numbered engraved plates (ca. 6.5 x 20.5 cm). Modern boards. [12] ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Birds - Ornithology Butterflies / Lepidoptera Insects & Spiders

The natural history, politics and medicine of India and Persia, with a section on Muscat

FRYER (FREYER), John. Negenjaarige reyse door Oostindien en Persien, ... Begonnen met den jaare 1672 en geeyndigt met den jaare 1681.
The Hague, Abraham de Hondt, Jacobus van Ellinkhuysen and Meyndert Uytwerf, 1700. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 3 folding engraved maps, 7 folding engraved views and other plates, and several woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. [8], 566, [26] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Anthropology & Ethnography Faunas & General Zoology Geology India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Law & Politics Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southern Asia West Asia

Indian painting of a falcon, showing Mughal influences

[FALCONRY]. [A domestic falcon].
[India, early 20th century]. Folio card (38.5 x 28 cm). Ink and gouache central painting of a falcon, with 24 smaller bird paintings in the elaborate border, painted on paper mounted on paperboard. Matted, framed and glazed. Full description

€ 3,500

Birds - Ornithology Drawings & Watercolours Falconry, Fishing & Hunting India & Sri Lanka

Frisian flora and plants of northwestern Europe: a detailed description

GABBEMA, Simon Abbes. Friesche lust-gaarde ofte Boom-heester-bloem- en kruyd-waarande, bestaande uyt der gewassen beschrijvinge, die in Hoog- en Neder-duyds-land en de aangrenzende land-schappen bekent zijn.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1686 (second title-page after preliminaries: 1687). 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, ascribed to Jan Luyken. Contemporary vellum, sprinkled edges, new endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [44], 660, [60] pp. Full description

€ 3,750

Floras & General Botany Germany Horticulture Netherlands

Limited edition, from the library of Carl Schwerdt

GAFFET, Antone, Sieur de la Brifardie`re (Pierre Clement de CHAPPEVILLE, ed.). Petit traité de fauconnerie ou se trouvent les termes de cette espèce de chasse, avec la manière de bien tenir, soiguer et traiter les oiseaux, la connaissance des viandes qui leur sont propres, les maladies et accidents qui leur surviennent, la manière de les panser ...
Paris, Librarie Pairault, 1885. 8vo. Later half morocco, gold-stamped spine, with the original publishers printed wrappers bound in. 26, [2] pp. Full description

€ 4,800

Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting

Extraordinary manuscript in French containing a manual on gardening and landscape architecture, ready to print

[MANUSCRIPT - GARDENING]. Introduction à la théorie de l'art des jardins.
Ca. 1775-1800. 2 volumes. 4to. Written in several, slightly different neat 18th-century hands. Later red decorated paper over stiff paperboards, spines covered with brown paper, black morocco spine labels with titles and volume numbers in gold. [2], 2, 46 pp., 47-76 ll., 60 pp.; 129, [3], 83, 96, 20 pp. plus 2 ll.with the table of contents. Full description

€ 18,500

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