Natural history.

Paris, l' Imprimerie Royale, Plassan, 1749 - 1789. 4to (262 x 205 mm). Uniformly bound in 32 contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Leather tome- and title-labels to all volumes. Edges of boards gilt. Light wear to extremities primarily affecting head and foot of spines, corners bumped. Internally with light occassional, marginal brownspotting, but generally fine. With ""J. Collin"" (Danish zoologist Jonas Collin) to top margin of most front free end-papers. An overall nice set comprising the following:Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière (15 vols) - 578 plates and 2 maps.Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle (6 vols) - 141 plates and 2 maps.Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux (9 vols) - 257 plates.Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens (2 vols) - 66 plates. A total of 1042 plates and 4 maps. Wanting the portrait. The complex collation of this work has not been accurately described by bibliographers. Nissen and Heilbrun differ in the listing of number of plates and misname the descriptions of the plates.

Herman H. J. Lynge & Son

William Schneider

Copenhagen, Denmark

, Brepols 2017, 2017 2 vols, 944 pages., 28 b/w ills, 428 col. ills, 220 x 285 mm, English, Hardcovers+dusjackets, Fine Condition! ISBN 9781909400603.

ERIK TONEN BOOKS

ERIK TONEN

Antwerpen, Belgium

London, 1855. 8vo. Entire volume 16, second series of ""The Annals..."" present, bound in a very nice red half morocco with richly gilt spine. A nice, clean, fresh, and sturdy copy. A vague stamp to title-page (London Institution) and a blindstamped marking to top of first leaf of contents (Cranbrook Institute of Science). Pp. 184-196. [Entire volume: VII, 472 pp. + 11 plates].

Herman H. J. Lynge & Son

William Schneider

Copenhagen, Denmark

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2016 Hardcover with dusjacket, VI+208 pages., 50 b/w ill. + 52 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: English, FINE! ISBN 9781909400238.

ERIK TONEN BOOKS

ERIK TONEN

Antwerpen, Belgium

1895-1980 This collection includes the following: Felix L. Dames, 1895 (No. 30. Bibliotheken Oberbergraths v. Dücker und des Bezirksgeologen Halfar / Felix L. Dames, 1899 (No. 30. Bibliotheca Mariano de la Paz Graells III. Arachnida, Myriapoda, Crustacea) / Max Weg, 1925 (No. 183. Sonderangebot von Zeitschriften, Büchern und Sonderdrucken über Ornithologie) / Max Weg, 1932 (No 211. Hydrobiologie, hierin bibliothek Prof. Dr. C. Brandt. Teil I) / W. Junk, 1930 (No. 77. Periodica et Opera selecta) / W. Junk, 1932 (No. 80. Scientia naturalis) / W. Junk, 1932 (No. 81. Rarissima) / W. Junk, 1934 (No. 85. Periodica, Iconographiae, Rara et Curiosa) / W. Junk, n.d. (No. 95. Evertebrata) / Sotheby, 1967 (Catalogue of valuable printed books, science, autograph letters and historical documents) / Christies, 1969 (Printed Books. Natural History, Travel and Atlases and a few Manuscripts - with results list) / Christies, 1969 (Printed Books and Manuscripts - with results list) / Francis Edwards Limited, 1980 (No. 1032. Natural History).These come from the Wheldon & Wesley natural history booksellers firm. All have been used, thus with wear, some have annotations made by Wheldon & Wesley. Catalogues like these are extremely ephemeral, and have a low survival rate as most copies were thrown away after use.