Natural History / Insects & Spiders

GERMAR, Ernst Friedrich (editor). Zeitschrift für die Entomologie. Erster [-Fünfter] Band.
Leipzig, Friedrick Fleischer, 1839-1844. 10 parts in 5 volumes, bound as 6. 8vo. With 15 numbered plates, including 5 hand-coloured engravings. Including 2 publisher's advertisements "Ankündigung die Forsetzung von Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturgeschichte betreffend" (2 pp.) and "Nachricht für Freunde der Enteimologie" (4 ll.). Modern green boards with original wrappers bound in. VII, [1], 196; [4], 193-400, [3], [1 blank]; [4], 240; [6], 241-450; [8], 408; [6], 434, [6]; VI, 482 pp. Full description

GRAVENHORST, Johann Ludwig Christian. Ichneumologia Europaea.
Wroclaw, 1829. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved plates and 2 folding tables. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XXXI, [1 blank], 827, [4]; 989; 1097. Full description

GROENVELT, Joannes (John GREENFIELD or GROENVELD). A treatise of the safe, internal use of cantharides in the practice of physick.
London, Jeffrey Wale, John Isted, 1706. 8vo. 19th-century tanned half sheepskin, tree-marbled paper sides. [40], 363, [3] pp. Full description

HEROLT, Johanna Helena. [Watercolour of a branch of a French roses, with several flowers and insects].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1700]. Watercolour drawing (38.5 x 29 cm) on extremely fine white parchment, said to be uterine lamb, showing a branch of French roses with three fully opened flowers, five buds or partly opened flowers, four ants (with and without wings) and probably a hover fly. Framed. Full description

HEYNE, Alexander and Otto TASCHENBERG. Die exotischen Käfer in Wort und Bild.
Esslingen & München, J.F. Schreiber (back of title-page: printed by G. Reusche, Leipzig), [1893-]1908. Large 4to (33.5 x 26.5 cm). With 40 chromolithographed plates (lithographed by Max Brüggemann, Leipzig, and printed by F.A. Brockhaus). Publishers original decorated cloth.
With: (2) HEYNE, Alexander. Systematisches und alphabetisches Verzeichnis der bis 1892 beschriebenen exotischen Cicindelidae.
Leipzig, Ernst Heyne, 1894. Large 8vo (27 x 17.5 cm). Contemporary half cloth. [8], VII, [1 blank], 262, L pp.; 36, [2] ll. Full description

HILL, John. A general natural history: or, new and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world; with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics: ...
London, Printed for Thomas Osborne, 1748-1752. 3 volumes. Folio. With 56 hand-coloured plates (16 on plants, 28 on animals and 12 on fossils, some signed by B. Cole) and in volume 3 also 1 folding table.Contemporary green morocco, richly gold-tooled spines with red morocco labels, gold-tooled frames on the boards, marbled endpapers. Volumes misnumbered on the spines (vols. 1-3 labeled 3, 1 and 2 respectively). [12], 1-228, 333-592, *457-*592, 593-654, [6]; XXVI, 642; [7], [1 blank]; [8], 584, [4]; pp. Full description

[HOFMANN, Ernst] and Arnold Spuler (editor). Die Schmetterlinge Europas. Dritte Auflage.
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1908-1910. 4 volumes. 4to. With 155 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half sheepskin (not matching: vols. 1-3 red and vol. 4 brown). [8], CXXVIII, 385, [1 blank], [6]; [6], 523, [1 blank], [4]; [6] pp. 95 ll. + 95 plates; XVII, [1 blank], 60 ll. + 60 plates. Full description

KLUG, Johann Christoph Friedrich. Entomologiae Brasilianae specimen.
[Bonn, Wolfgang Schwarzkopf, 1821]. With 3 hand-coloured engraved plates, by Franz after S. Weber.
With: (2) KLUG, Johann Christoph Friedrich. Entomologiae Brasilianae specimen alterum, sistens insectorum coleopterorum nondum descriptorum centuriam.
[Bonn, Wolfgang Schwarzkopf, 1825]. With 5 hand-coloured engraved plates by S. Weber. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Modern boards. 277-324; 419-476 pp. Full description

LACORDAIRE, Jean Théodore. Introduction à l'entomologie comprenant les principes généraux de l'anatomie et de la physiologie des insectes, ...
Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1834-1838. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 8vo. With 24 engraved plates of insects and their anatomy (3 hand-coloured) in the seperate atlas volume. Contemporary half calf. [4], IX, [1 blank], 463, [1 blank]; [4], [1 blank], 681, [3]; [4], 16 pp. Full description

MABILLE, Paul. Histoire naturelle des Lépidoptères de Madagascar.
Paris, l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1885-1887. 2 volumes (text & atlas). Large 4to (32 x 25 cm). With 63 aquatint plates printed in brown and black. Later brown half morocco. [4], V, [1 blank], 364 pp. Full description