Natural History

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, and René-Richard Louis CASTEL. Histoire naturelle de Buffon, classée par ordres, genres et espèces, d'après le systême du Linné; avec les caractères génériques et la nomenclature Linnéenne.
Paris, Crapelet, An VII (1799). 3 volumes. 12mo. With a hand-coloured engraved portrait of Buffon in the first part. Contemporary half calf. XXVII, 332; [4], 319; [4], 387 pp. Full description

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier, Duméril, Poiret, Lesson et Geoffroy-St-Hilaire.
Brussels, Th. Lejeune, 1828-1830. 14 volumes. Large 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, lithographed portrait of Daubenton, 2 lithographed emblematic frontispieces, 2 lithographed double-page maps, 6 numbered lithographed plates of teeth, 16 numbered lithographed plates of scientific instruments and apparatus, and 6 numbered lithographed plates of seeds in the first 4 introductory volumes, lithographed frontispieces of a naked man, woman and child, and 26 lithographed plates of human heads and species, of which 10 are nicely coloured by hand in volume 5 on the natural history of man, illustrations of mammals and mammalian anatomy on 469 lithographed plates, of which 226 coloured by hand in volumes 6 to 10, and illustrations of birds on 210 lithographed plates, all beautifully coloured by hand and several heightened with gold in volumes 11 to 14.
Contemporary gold-tooled half red half morocco, marbled paper sides, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Each volume ca. 500 pp. Full description

BURMEISTER, Hermann. Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Gattung Tarsius, ... Nebst einem helminthologischen Anhange von Dr. Creplin.
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1846. Large 4to (31 x 24.5 cm). With 7 lithographed plates (including 1 coloured by hand). Original publisher's printed green boards. X, 140 pp. Full description

BURTIN, François-Xavier. Oryctographie de Bruxelles ou description des fossiles tant naturels qu'accidentels découverts jusqu'à ce jour dans les environs de cette ville.
[Brussels], Le Maire, 1784. Folio (46 x 28 cm). With engraved title-page by Pris after M.J. Speeckaert, and 32 engraved plates printed in brown and coloured by a contemporary hand. 19th-century half sheepskin (roan). [2], 152 pp. Full description

BYE, Marcus de (after Marcus GHEERAERTS). [Bears].
[Amsterdam], Nicolaas I Visscher, 1664. Oblong 4to. 16 engravings (ca. 10.5 x 13.5 cm) depicting bears in various poses. Loose prints. [16] ll. Full description

BYLANDT, Henri Adrien Graaf van. Hondenrassen. Punten, beschrijving, eigenschappen, gebreken, enz.
Deventer, Ae.E. Kluwer [colophon: printed by G.J. Thieme, Nijmegen], [dedication dated: September 1904]. 2 volumes. Imperial 4to (33 x 26.5 cm). Richly illustrated with approximately 4100 photos and other illustrations showing more than 300 dog breeds. With a French title-page in both volumes including the same centre-piece illustration of dogs as on the front board. The work includes several extra pages of advertisements etc. Contemporary light blue and white cloth, title and author in gold on front board and spine, with a dark blue illustration of dogs as a centre-piece on the front board and dark blue decorative lines on the spine, head edge gilt, floral decorated endpapers. Each volume in a contemporary slipcase covered with green cloth, grey paste-paper sides. 796, [2 blank], [6]; [1], [1 blank], [3], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 795, [10], [1 blank], XXVIII, [16] pp. Full description

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

[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

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

CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de and Jean-Baptiste LAMARCK. Synopsis plantarum in flora Gallica descriptarum.
Paris, H. Aghasse, 1806. 8vo. 19-century half scheepskin parchment. XXIV, 432 pp. Full description