Natural History

MARCET, Edouard. Australie un voyage a travers le bush.
Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1868. 8. Illustrated with 20 original albumen prints of drawings (10 full-page, mounted on inserted leaves of heavy paper as plates, and 10 smaller, mounted on the text leaves in spaces left for that purpose). Contemporary gold-tooled polished green calf, richly gold-tooled spine, gilt edges. Rebacked in green cloth with the original backstrip laid down. 268 pp. Full description

MARKHAM, Gervase. Cavalarice, or the English horseman: ... Newly imprinted, corrected & augmented, with many worthy secrects not before knowne.
(title-page second part: London, Edward Allde for Adward White, 1616)-1617. 8 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title of each part printed within the same decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original spine label. [16], 88; [4], 264 (=244); [4], 84; [4], 57, [1 blank]; [4], 58; [4], 67, [1 blank]; [4], 86; [4], 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

MARSHALL, Captain George Frederick Leycester. Birds nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds.
Illustrated.
Calcutta, Calcutta Central Press Co., 1877. 8vo. With 13 full-page lithographed plates by Marshall. Original publisher's blind stamped brown buckram, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, a double border on both boards. [6], ii, 184 pp. Full description

MARSIGLI, Luigi Ferdinando. Natuurkundige beschryving der zeën.
The Hague, De Compagnie, 1786. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece by Matthijs Pool, 12 mostly folding maps, profiles of coast-lines and tables, and 40 full-page engraved plates with numerous illustrations of sea plants and corals, all beautifully coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. XXVI, 216 pp. Full description

MARTENS, Friedrich. Viaggio di Spizberga o' Gronlanda fatto da Federico Martens Amburghese l' anno 1671...
Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1680. 12mo. With 2 folding engraved plates and 3 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp parchment. 264 pp. Full description

MARUM, Martinus van. [Autograph letter, signed, to Johann Friedrich John].
Haarlem, 27 May 1816. 4to (22 x 18.5 cm). Letter in French, in brown ink on one side of a folded half sheet of wove paper, with the address on the back with a stamp ("Haarlem"). The letter was originally folded four times more, displaying only the address at the outside. Full description

MAS, Alphonse. Le verger ou histoire, culture et description avec planches coloriées des variétés de fruits le plus généralement connues.
Paris, G. Masson, [1873]. 8 parts in 8 volumes. Large 8vo (28 x 18.7 cm). With 384 chromo-lithographed plates with 792 figures depicting pears, apples, plums, peaches, cherries and apricots. Contemporary blind-stamped green buckram. Each plate with 4 pages text. Full description

MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea and Antoine DU PINET (transl.). Les commentaires de M.P. André Matthiolus, medicin Senois, sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbéen de la matiere medicinale.
Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, 1620. Folio. With the title-page printed in red and black, a woodcut author's portrait (repeated on the last page) and 1478 woodcuts in text. Early 20th-century(?) half sheepskin parchment. [116], 606, [33] pp. Full description

MCLACHLAN, Robert. A monographic revision and synopsis of the Trichoptera of the European fauna.
London, John van Voorst; Berlin, Friedländer (colophon: printed by Napier, London), 1874-1880. Royal 8vo (25 x 17.5 cm). With 59 lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf. [2], IV, 523, [1 blank], CIII, [1] pp. Full description

MENDEL, Gregor. "Ueber einige aus künstlicher Befruchtung gewonnenen Hieracium-Bastarde" in: Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins in Brünns. VIII Band, I. Heft. 1869.
Brno, im Verlage des Vereines (printed by W. Burkart), 1870.
With: [JOURNAL - NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY BRNO]. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins in Brünns. V Band, 1866.
Brno, im Verlage des Vereines, 1867. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a folding plate at the end, and mathematical figures and tables in the text. Original printed publisher's wrappers, housed in a sturdy blue cloth folder, which has been inserted in a blue cloth slipcase. Ad 2: contemporary half black sheepskin, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled edges. 26-31 [= 6] pp. Full description