Natural History

SAINT-HILAIRE, Auguste de, Adrien de JUSSIEU and Jacques CAMBESSEDES. Plantes usuelles des Brasiliens.
Paris, Grimbert (printed by Casimir), 1824-1828. In 14 instalments. Large 4to (29.5 x 22.5 cm). With 70 lithographed botanical plates, all by Langlumé. Original publisher´s blue printed wrappers, the back wrapper with llists of Gimbert´s publications (4 versions, on parts 1, 2-7, 8-13 and 14) in the same border; the first instalment with a printed part number, but further numbered by hand. With the bolts opened at the head, but wholly untrimmed, preserving all deckles and point-holes. Preserved in a modern green morocco box, with transparent acrylic windows for sides. [298] pp. Full description

SAINT-HILAIRE, Auguste de. Mémoire sur le système d'agriculture adopté par les Brésiliens, et les résultats qu'il a eus dans la province de Minas Geraes.
(Colophon: Paris, A. Pihan de La Rorest, imprimeur de la Cour de Cassation), [1837 or soon after]. 8vo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. 12 pp. Full description

[SAINT-SIMON, Maximilien Henri, Marquis de]. Des jacintes, de leur anatomie, reproduction et culture.
Amsterdam, (colophon fol. X4v: printed by Klaas Eel, 28 March), 1768. 4to. With engraved illustration by J. van Hiltrop on title-page and 10 numbered engraved plates by Jacob vander Schley, with details of several specimens and the last plate showing the layout of flower beds by Voorhelm, Kreps and Cock. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. 164, [4], 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SALLERON, Louis. [MANUSCRIPT]. Catalogue général des plantes cultivées a l'école de botanique du jardin du roi. Selon la classification adoptée par M. Ad. Brongniart, et indiquant en synonymes les noms des plantes de l'ancienne école de desfontaines.
Paris, 1848. 4to. In a dark green custom case with thte title on the spine in gold lettering, interior of red calfskin lined with suede. Dark green morocco. [10], 17, [1], 425, [31] pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Catalogue Raisonné des Espèces et variétés d'Aloès décrites par Ms. Willdenow, Haworth, De Candolle et Jacquin, et de celles, non décrites, existantes dans les Jardins de l'Allemagne, de la France et du Royaume des Pays-Bas.
[Schloss Dyck, Düsseldorf, 1817]. 8vo. Paper wrappers. 7, (1), "72" [= 70], (2 blank) pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Verzeichniss der verschiedenen Arten und Abarten des Geschlechts Aloe, welche von den Herren von Willdenow, Haworth, de Candolle und Freiherrn von Jacquin beschrieben worden sind, oder noch unbeschrieben in den Gärten Deutschlands, Frankreichs und der Niederlanden sich befinden.
[Schloss Dyck, near Dusseldorf, 1817]. 8vo. Original blue coated paper wrappers. 8, 73, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Observationes botanicae in Horto Dyckensi notatae.
Cologne, Th. Fr. Thiriart, 1820-1822. 3 volumes. Small 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary green paper wrappers. 35, [1 blank]; [2], 37-73, [1 blank]; 47, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Index plantarum succulentarum in horto Dyckensi cultae.
Aachen, Beaufort filii, 1822. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. [2], 60, [2 blank] pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Index plantarum succulentarum in Horto Dyckensi cultarum.
Aachen, J.J. Beaufort, 1834. 8vo. Contemporary brown/yellow wrappers. 81, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SALVIANI, Ippolito (Hippolito). Aquatilium animalium historiae, liber primus [all published], cum eorumdem formis, aere excusis.
Rome, Hippolito Salviani, 1554 (colophon: January 1558). Folio. With an engraved title-page and 98 figures on 81 full-page engravings (plate size 33 x 22.5 cm) printed on integral leaves, a Salviani's woodcut device on the last page, and about 100 decorated pictorial woodcut initials (2 series) including repeats. Recased in 18th-century(?) sheepskin parchment. [8], 256 ll. Full description