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Complete collection of Camerarius' famous and magnificent natural history emblems

CAMERARIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum & emblematum ex re herbaria desumtorum centuria una.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.
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(2) IDEM. Symbolorum & emblematum et animalibus quadrupedibus desumtorum centuria altera.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.
(3) IDEM. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volatilibus et insectis desumtorum centuria tertia.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1654.
(4) CAMERARIUS, Joachim and Ludwig CAMERARIUS. Symbolorum et emblematum ex aquatilibus et reptilibus desumtorum centuria quarta.
Heidelberg, Ludwig Bourgeat, 1664. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Each work with an engraved title page, 100 round engraved emblems (a total of 400), and numerous woodcut initials. (Near) contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with a beige leather title label lettered in gold on the spine. 102 (the first ll. after the title page paginated 1-6); 103, [1 blank]; 104, [1 blank]; 100, [1], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
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Manual on the art of falconry by the falconer to the Earl of Eglington

CAMPBELL, James. A treatise of modern faulconry: to which is prefixed, from authors not generally known, an introduction, shewing the practice of faulconry in certain remote times and countries.
Edinburgh, Balfour & Smellie for the author, 1773. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece depicting a falconer. Contemporary half calf. IV, 264 pp. Full description
€ 1,800
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Famous Dutch anatomist on the conflicting demands of family life, academic career and scientific pursuits

[AUTOGRAPH]. CAMPER, Petrus. [Autograph letter, signed, to Reinier Arrenberg].
Groningen, 2 February 1773. 4to. Brown ink on laid paper, addressed on the outside and with an armorial red wax seal.
With: (2) [PORTRAIT]. [PUJOS, André]. P. Camper, ...
[Paris, André Pujos, 1786]. 4to. Mezzotint portrait on laid paper. [1], [1 blank, except for the address]; [1] ll. Full description
€ 4,750
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Well-illustrated and comprehensive study of the orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean,
one of the few copies with the second part of the atlas coloured

CAMUS, Edmond Gustave and Aimée Antoinette CAMUS. Iconographie des orchidées d'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen.
Paris, Paul Lechevalier (colophon: printed by Jouve et Cie (part 1), Winter, Heidelberg (part 2)), 1821-1929. 2 text parts (4to, bound in one volume) and an atlas (folio). With a photographical frontispiece portrait in the text volume and 133 lithographed plates, including 120 coloured by hand. Contemporary brown half morocco. 559, [1]; 72 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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2 unpublished botanical manuscripts, with illustrations and descriptions
of 30 flowering plants and 90 trees and shrubs

CARRIÉRE, Jan Ph. Herbarium van bloemen en planten. 1ste deel.
[Watergraafsmeer, ca. 1884]. 1 volume. Small folio (22.5×20.5 cm). With 30 drawings of flowers in watercolour and ink, each with a description in Dutch on a separate leaf. The whole preceded by a title-page, a table of contents (1 page), and an introduction (2 pages). Contemporary black cloth, rebacked, modern endpapers.
With: (2) CARRIÉRE, Jan Ph. Herbarium van naar de natuurgeteekende bladeren, "afdeeling boomgewassen". [Title volume 2:] Herbarium van boombladeren.
Watergraafsmeer, 1884. 3 volumes. Small folio (22.5×20.5 cm). With 90 drawings of tree leaves in watercolour and ink, with a description in Dutch on a separate leaf. The first two volumes each with a title-page, a table of contents (1 page) and an introduction (1 page), and the third volume without preliminaries. Contemporary blue (vols. 1-2) and black (vol. 3) half cloth. The third volume rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Full description
€ 5,500
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Magnificent scientific plates of the morphology, anatomy and histology of Invertebrates

CARUS, Julius Victor. Icones Zootomicae. Mit Originalbeiträgen der Heerren G.J. Allman, C. Gegenbaur, Th. H. Huxley, Alb. Kölliker, H. Müller, M.S. Schultze, C.Th.E. von Siebold und F. Stein. Herausgegeben von Julius Victor Carus. Erste Hälfte oder Tafel I-XXIII: Die Wirbellosen Thiere.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1857. Large folio (45.5 x 34.5 cm). With 23 engraved plates with many figures (many contemporary hand-coloured) by C. Haas, J.C. Loedel and Wagenschieber with 23 leaves of explanatory text. Half green morocco, brown paper sides. [4], IV pp. and 23 leaves of explanatory text to 23 plates. Full description
€ 450
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Two of the finest 17th-century Dutch gardening books

CAUSÉ, Hendrik. De koninglycke hovenier aanwyzende de middelen om boomen, bloemen en kruyden te zaayen, planten, aen queeken en voort teelen.
Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick, [1676]. With engraved title-page and 31 engraved plates, including 2 bird's-eye views of a French and a Dutch royal garden, 5 plates with two pomological illustrations each, 8 plates with two illustrations of flowers each and 16 plates with a total of 32 garden designs.
With: (2) COMMELIN, Jan. Nederlantze Hesperides, dat is, oeffening en gebruik van de limoen- en oranje-boomen, gestelt na den aardt, en climaat der Nederlanden.
Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick, 1676. With engraved title-page and 26 engraved plates showing flowers, fruits and orangeries. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio (35 x 23 cm). Contemporary vellum, recased. Full description
€ 15,000
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