Natural History

STERBEECK, Franciscus van. Theatrum fungorum, oft het tooneel der campernoelien waer inne vertoont wort de gedaante, ken-teeckens, natuere, crachten, voetsel, deught ende ondeught.
Antwerp, Joseph Jacobs, 1675. 4to. With folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee (the Antwerp city physician Joh. van Buyten) by Arn. van Westerhout after Car. E. Biset, and 36 mostly folding engraved plates by P. van Sickeleers. Contemporary vellum. [38], 396 pp. Full description

STÖRCK, Anton von. Libellus, quo demonstratur, stramonium, hyosciamum, aconitum non solum tuto posse exhiberi usu interno hominibus, verum & ea esse remedia in multis morbis maxime salutifera.
Naples, Benedicti Gessari, 1762. With 3 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) STÖRCK, Anton von. Supplementum necessarium de cicuta, ubi simul jungitur cicutae imago aere excusa.Naples, Benedicti Gessari, 1762. With a folding engraved plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [10], 7-99, [1]; 52 pp. Full description

STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden en wantzen, in alle vier waerelds deelen Europa, Asia, Africa en America huishoudende.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, [1780-]1788.
Comprising:
(1) STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1788.
(2) STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der wantzen.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1788. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 28.5 x 23 cm). With 70 hand-coloured plates of insects, and a hand-coloured floral frontispiece at the start of each part. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. 124; 172 pp. Full description

STRADANUS, Johannes (Jan van der STRAET). Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum: & mutuae bestiarum, ...
Antwerp, Johannes Galle, ca. 1665/75 [engraved 1578-ca. 1596/1612]. Oblong 1mo (26.5 x 36 cm). With an engraved title-print and 104 numbered engraved prints (plate size 21.5 x 29.5 cm; image size 20.5 x 29.5 cm), each with a verse caption in 2 columns in the foot of the plate (mostly 4 lines, occasionally 2 lines). Half parchment (ca. 1880?). [1], 104 engraved ll. Full description

STREINZ, Wenzel Matern. Nomenclator fungorum exhibens ordine alphabetico nomina tam generica quam specifica ac synonyma a scriptoribus de scientia botanica fungis imposita.
Vienna, Carolus Gorischek, 1862. Large 8vo (24.5 x 15 cm). Contemporary paste-paper board, rebacked with cloth. VIII, 735, [1] pp. Full description

STURM, Jacob [Ernst Hans Ludwig KRAUSE eds.]. Flora von Deutschland in Abbildungen nach der Natur. 1. Abteilung: Phanerogamen.
Stuttgart, Verlag von K.G. Lutz, 1900-1907. 15 volumes. Small 8vo. With 832 coloured plates, 56 uncoloured plates and 397 figures in the text. Original publishers decorated cloth. 192; 160; 175, [1]; 256; 320; 256; 224; 191, [1]; 287, [1]; 224; 223, [1 blank]; 288; 224; 191, [1]; 320 pp. Full description

SUNDEVALL, Carl Jacob and Carl Fredric FALLÉN. Specimen academicum genera araneidum Sveciæ exhibens.
Lund, Berling, 1823. 4to. Disbound. 22 pp. Full description

[SUNQUA?]. [Chinese fish and seashells].
[Guangzhen (Canton)?, Sunqua?, ca. 1845/55?]. Oblong folio album (26.5 x 34.5 cm). 14 drawings depicting 72 fish and seashells in coloured gouaches, the fish with gold and silver speckles to give a metallic effect to the scales, executed on pith paper (18 x 29 cm), framed with 4 strips of blue silk, and with a loose tissue leaf inserted before each drawing. Contemporary boards, covered with yellow-green silk. [14] ll. Full description

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. Ephemeri vita, of afbeeldingh van 's menschen leven, vertoont in de wonderbaarelijcke en nooyt gehoorde historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent haft of oever-aas. ...
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675. 8vo (15.6 x 9.5 cm). With detailed illustration of the mayfly or ephemeron on 8 engraved plates (including 2 folding). Further with woodcut decorated initials and a woodcut ornamental tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with title in ink on the spine. [32], 422, [8] pp. Full description

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. Historia insectorum generalis, in qua verissimae mutationum, seu lentae in membra epigeneseos rationes, duce Experientia, redduntur, recepta vulgo Insectorum Metamorphosis solide refutatur... Adjicitur dilucidatio ... Editio Nova.
Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1733. 4to. With 13 engraved plates, including 8 folding, and 1 folding table. Further with a small woodcut ornamental vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and several head- and tailpieces. Early 19th-century half blind-tooled brown sheepskin and marbled paper sides. [20], "212" [= 210], [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description