Natural History

SPRENGEL, Kurt Polycarp Joachim. An introduction to the study of cryptogamous plants. In letters.
London, J. White, 1807. 8vo. With 10 hand-coloured folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf. VIII, 411, [1 blank] pp. Full description

STANLEY, Edward. A familiar history of birds.
London, Longmans, Green and Co. (at the end: printed by Spottiswoode and Co.), 1865. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, 2 engraved plates and 102 illustrations in the text.Contemporary gold-tooled calf, probably a school prize binding, with "King Edward's School Bruton" and its "Sealle of the Skolle of Brew" in a frame, the seal showing a Brewers tonne (Brew-ton), richly gold-tooled spine with a red morocco label, edges gilt over a fore-edge painting showing a falconry hunting scene. xiii, [1 blank], 446 pp. Full description

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and the description of its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guiana ...
London, printed by J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 29 x 22.5 cm). With an engraved frontispiece, 2 identical engraved title pages with a vignette, and 80 engraved plates (including 3 folding maps and a large folding view of Paramaribo), all beautifully coloured by hand, and occasionally heightened with gold. Uniform contemporary gold-tooled calf, re-backed with a later gold-tooled spine with two red title labels lettered in gold. XVIII, 407, [9]; IV, 404, [7] pp. Full description

STEINBART, Johann Christian Anweisung zum Seidenbau, wie solcher auf das leichteste und vortheilhafteste zu treiben sey. Aus den richtigsten und zuverlässigsten, theils fremden, theils eigenen vieljährigen Erfahrungen des Züllichauischen Waysenhauses mitgetheilet.
Züllichau, R.S. Frommann, 1761. 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). Contemporary wrappers, stapled. [12], 212 pp. Full description

STENO, Nicolaus (Niels STENSEN). Elementorum myologiae specimen: seu musculi descriptio geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariae dissectum caput, et dissectus piscis ex canum genere.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1669. With many woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in the text and 7 engraved folding plates with figures and tables.
With: (2) HOBOKEN, Nicolaas. Anatomia secundinae humanae, quindecim figuris ad vivum propriâ autoris manu delineatis, illustrata. ... Cum annexo S. Specilegio epistolarum, rem potissimum generatoriam referentium.Utrecht, Joannes Ribbius, 1669. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page portrait of Nicolaas Hoboken by C. Hagens facing the frontispiece and 15 figures on 8 engraved folding plates.
8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, blue edges. [1 blank], [1], 221, [11]; [1], [1 blank], 148, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

STERBEECK, Franciscus van. Theatrum fungorum, oft het tooneel der campernoelien waer inne vertoont wort de gedaante, ken-teeckens, natuere, crachten, voetsel, deught ende ondeught.
Antwerp, Joseph Jacobs, 1675. 4to. With folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee (the Antwerp city physician Joh. van Buyten) by Arn. van Westerhout after Car. E. Biset, and 36 mostly folding engraved plates by P. van Sickeleers. Contemporary vellum. [38], 396 pp. Full description

STÖRCK, Anton von. Libellus, quo demonstratur, stramonium, hyosciamum, aconitum non solum tuto posse exhiberi usu interno hominibus, verum & ea esse remedia in multis morbis maxime salutifera.
Naples, Benedicti Gessari, 1762. With 3 folding engraved plates.
With: (2) STÖRCK, Anton von. Supplementum necessarium de cicuta, ubi simul jungitur cicutae imago aere excusa.Naples, Benedicti Gessari, 1762. With a folding engraved plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [10], 7-99, [1]; 52 pp. Full description

STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden en wantzen, in alle vier waerelds deelen Europa, Asia, Africa en America huishoudende.
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, [1780-]1788.
Comprising:
(1) STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1788.
(2) STOLL, Caspar. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der wantzen.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1788. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (ca. 28.5 x 23 cm). With 70 hand-coloured plates of insects, and a hand-coloured floral frontispiece at the start of each part. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. 124; 172 pp. Full description

STRADANUS, Johannes (Jan van der STRAET). Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum: & mutuae bestiarum, ...
Antwerp, Johannes Galle, ca. 1665/75 [engraved 1578-ca. 1596/1612]. Oblong 1mo (26.5 x 36 cm). With an engraved title-print and 104 numbered engraved prints (plate size 21.5 x 29.5 cm; image size 20.5 x 29.5 cm), each with a verse caption in 2 columns in the foot of the plate (mostly 4 lines, occasionally 2 lines). Half parchment (ca. 1880?). [1], 104 engraved ll. Full description

STREINZ, Wenzel Matern. Nomenclator fungorum exhibens ordine alphabetico nomina tam generica quam specifica ac synonyma a scriptoribus de scientia botanica fungis imposita.
Vienna, Carolus Gorischek, 1862. Large 8vo (24.5 x 15 cm). Contemporary paste-paper board, rebacked with cloth. VIII, 735, [1] pp. Full description