Natural History / Mammals

ROBERTS, James. The sportsman's companion: or portraitures, pedigrees and performances, of the most eminent race horses & stallions, represented in variety of attitudes.
London, J. Barker, [1798?]. 8vo (22.5×15 cm). With a letterpress title-page, 40 numbered plates of famous race horses drawn by James Roberts and engraved by Henry Roberts, each with a portrait of the horse and rider (ca. 8.5×12 cm), detailed information about the horse and owner and most with an engraved vignette at the foot, engraved index leaf, and publisher's 4-page letterpress catalogue (with woodcut of 2 cocks fighting). Contemporary tan laid paper wrappers. [6] pp. plus 40 plates and index plate. Full description

RUEFF, Gottlob Adolf von. Race, Haar und Gang des Pferdes. Eine hippologische Monographie.
Ravensburg, Eugen Ulmer, 1874. Oblong 8vo (17 x 25.5 cm). With 32 chromolithographed plates (in black with 3 or 4 colour tints) with showing horses in full profile, drawn and lithographed by C.H. Votteler and printed by J.C. Henzler (Stuttgart). Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked maroon cloth. VII, [1], 68, [2] pp. Full description

SOLLEYSEL, Jacques de. Le parfait mareschal, qui enseigne à connoitre la beauté, la bonté, & les défauts des cheveaux. le signes & les causes des maladies: les moyens de les prévenir, leur guerison, & le bon ou mauvais usage de la purgation & de la saignée.
The Hague, Henry van Bulderen, 1691. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author, an engraved frontispiece, the title page printed in red and black, one folding engraved plate in the first part, one engraved plate, and 29 woodcut illustrations in text in the second part. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. [8], 359, [7]; 250, [8] pp. Full description

THUNBERG, Carl Peter (praeses) and Petruus Magnus ACKSELL. Fauna Chinensis. Quam venis. exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. Praeside C.P. Thunberg … P.P. Petrus Magnus Acksell a Sacris Med. Theolog. Gestricio Helsingus. In Audit. Botanico die XII Junii MDCCCXXIII.
Uppsala, Palmblad et C, [1823]. 4to. Unbound. [4], 8 pp. Full description

VINSON, Auguste. Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II.
Saint-Cloud & Paris, widow Belin for Roret, 1865 (changed with a printed slip to Eugène Belin/Belin frères, without date), [ca. 1865]. Large 8vo (28 x 18.5 cm). With 7 engraved plates of lemurs, spiders and butterflies by Annedonce and Debray after J. Huet and A. Vinson, all beautifully coloured by hand by Mme. Migneaux. Original yellow printed wrappers. [8], 575, 7, 4, 6, 48 pp. Full description

VOSMAER, Arnout. [Natuurkundige beschryving eener uitmuntende verzameling van zeldsaame gedierten, bestaande in Oost- en Westindische viervoetige dieren, vogelen en slangen, weleer leevend voorhanden geweest zynde, buiten Den Haag, op het Kleine Loo van Z.D.H. den prins van Oranje-Nassau].
Amsterdam, P. Meijer (parts 1- 14 and 29-31) and heirs of P. Meijer and G. Warnars (parts 15-20), 1766-1787. 31 parts in 1 volume. 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). With 33 hand-coloured engraved plates and 1 uncoloured folding engraved plate. 19th-century black half morocco, gold-tooled spine. 15; 8; 8; 12; 22; 8; 9; 6; 7; 7; 7; 10; 8; 20; 12; 6; 6; 6; 10; 10; 6; 6; 8; 8; 23; 15; 12; 14; 14; 44; 12 pp. Full description

[WHALING - WATERCOLOUR]. [A Dutch whaling scene].
[ca. 1801?]. Illustration 29 x 39 cm; frame 44 x 53 cm. Pen, ink and watercolour whaling scene with a coloured border, on laid paper, mounted on paperboard. Framed. Full description