Asher Rare Books

The second edition in English, by the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age

PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the Elder) The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie.
London, Adam Islip, 1634. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (23.5 x 32 cm). Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt. (58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp. Full description

€ 15,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Classical Antiquity Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Faunas & General Zoology Geology Iran / Persia

A scientific study of the natural history of Norway, including its sea monsters

PONTOPPIDAN, Erich. The natural history of Norway ...
London, printed for A. Linde, 1755. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a large folding engraved map of Norway by Johann Baptist Homann, and 28 engraved plates depicting minerals, shells, fishes, birds, mammals, plants, and the inhabitants of Norway. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf, with gold-tooled corner edges of the boards, gold-tooled turn-ins and marbled edges. XXIV, 206; VIII, 291, [12] pp. Full description

€ 5,850

Earth Sciences Faunas & General Zoology Fishery & Whaling Floras & General Botany Marine Biology & Oceanography Scandinavia

Curious treatise on bird migration

PRAETORIUS, Johann. Storchs u. Schwalben Winter-Quartier. Das ist, eine ungemeine Vergnügung der curiosen Gemüther, durch einen vollständigen physicalischen Discurs, von obgedachten Sommer-Boten, wie auch andern unstetlebenden Vögeln und Thieren: ...
Frankfurt and Leipzig, Christian Weidmann, 1676. 8vo. With the title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board-edges. [32], 445, [3 blank], [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Birds - Ornithology

"One of the most noted Italian books on hunting" (Schwerdt)

RAIMONDI, Eugenio. Delle caccie ... libri quattro ...
(Colophon: Naples, Lazaro Scoriggio, 1626). 4to. With an engraved title-page and 13 full-page engraved illustrations (plus 8 repeats) on integral leaves. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [56], 635, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Amphibians & Reptiles Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Faunas & General Zoology

German textbook on zoology, printed in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

REUBELT, John Adam. Kurzgefaßtes Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Enthaltend wissenschaftliche und populäre Beschreibungen von dem Menschen, den Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien, Fischen, Weich- und Gliederthieren.
Pottsville [Pennsylvania], C.W. Günther and the author, 1848. 8vo. With numerous woodcuts in text, depicting men and animals. Contemporary black half sheepskin. 392 pp. Full description

€ 375

Amphibians & Reptiles Birds - Ornithology Faunas & General Zoology Mammals North America School & Textbooks

Brodrick's own copy, with 3 additional original watercolours by him

SALVIN, Francis Henry (William BRODRICK, illustrator). Falconry in the British Isles.
London, John van Voorst, 1873. 4to. With 3 additional original watercolours by the illustrator, William Brodrick, highlighted with gum arabic. And with 28 hand-coloured lithographed plates after William Brodrick, some highlighted with gum arabic. Contemporary half green morocco, gold-tooled spine. [10], 171, [1] pp. Full description

€ 35,000

Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting UK - United Kingdom

The authority on British falconry

SALVIN, Francis Henry and William BRODRICK. Falconry in the British isles.
London, John van Voorst, 1855. 4to (29 x 19.5 cm). With 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates by William Brodrick. Original publishers blind- and gold-blocked cloth, front board with title and large illustration of a falcon. VII [1 blank], 147 [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,000

Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting

Descriptions of doves and pigeons, with 100 brightly coloured plates

SCHACHTZABEL, Emil. Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Tauben-Rassen. Hundert farbige Bildertafeln mit über 400 nach der Natur aufgenommenen Darstellungen nebst Musterbeschreibungen ...
Würzburg, H. Stürtz, [ca. 1910]. Oblong 8vo. With 100 chromolithographic plates. Original publisher's decorated blue cloth. [16] pp., 100 ll. Full description

€ 450

Birds - Ornithology Faunas & General Zoology

The finest and rarest work on falconry

SCHLEGEL, Hermann & VERSTER VAN WULVERHORST, Abraham Henrik. Traité de fauconnerie.
Leiden & Düsseldorf, Arnz & Co., 1844-1853. Elephant folio (55.5 × 73.5 cm). Tinted lithographed title-page with a pictorial border comprising 11 scenes of hawking by J. B. Sonderland, 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates of falconry equipment by Portman and Von Wouw, and 10 (of 12) hand-coloured lithographed plates of hawks by Wendel after Joseph Wolf (8 mounted on paperboard). Stored loosely in the original publishers cloth-backed printed boards. [4], 90, VI, [2] pp. Full description

€ 75,000

Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting

Canary with deformity on its beak

[SCHULTZ, Ernst Christoph]. Portrait d'un monstrueux serin de Canarie, il est sorti de la partie inférieure de son bec une longue corne tortillée. Traduit de l'Allemand.
Hamburg, J.P.C. Reuss, [ca. 1780]. 4to. With a finely hand-coloured engraved plate. Original printed boards. 17 pp. Full description