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Natural History

Attractive watercolour of a cockscomb, with interesting provenance

[VINNE, Jan Jansz. van der]. [Celosia cristata].
[Lekzigt near Dordrecht?, 1780?]. Watercolour on a half sheet of laid paper (42.5 x 27.5 cm), mounted on wove paper. In a passepartout. Full description

€ 15,000

Drawings & Watercolours Flowering Plants

Beautiful watercolour drawing of a passion flower

VINNE, Jan Jansz. van der. [Passiflora caerula or blue passion flower].
[Lekzigt, near Dordrecht?, ca. 1780?]. Folio. (43 x 27.5 cm). Watercolour drawing on laid paper, signed on the back by the artist, "J. van der Vinne Jzn.". Attached by the top corners to a (19th-century?) wove millboard mount kept in a modern passe-partout. Full description

€ 16,500

Drawings & Watercolours Flowering Plants

Attractive watercolour of a species of tiger lily

[VINNE, Jan Jansz. van der]. [Tiger lily].
[Netherlands, ca. 1780?]. Watercolour on a half sheet of laid paper (42.5 x 27.5 cm), mounted on wove paper. In a passepartout. Full description

€ 12,500

Drawings & Watercolours Flowering Plants

Best edition of an extensive manual on agricultural architecture

VOIT, Johann Michael. Handbuch der landwirtschaftlichen Baukunst.
Augsburg, Von Jenisch und Stagesche Verlagshandlung, 1840. 2 volumes. With numerous illustrations and figures of detailed construction-plans of all sorts of farm buildings on 20 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary half blue decorative cloth, marbled paper sides, gold-stamped spines. XVIII, 292; X, 294 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Agriculture Architecture

On the characteristics of and trade in Cinchona bark

VRIJDAG ZIJNEN, Theodoor Daniel. De in den handel voorkomende kina-basten, pharmacologisch behandeld en toegepast op de soorten welke in de Pharmacopoea Belgica vermeld zijn.
Rotterdam, P.H. van den Heuvell (back of half-title: The Hague, A.D. Schinkel), 1835. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. XII, 120 pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Arboriculture & Dendrology Economic History & Trade Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Artefacts, fossils and minerals in the Egyptian collection of Cardinal Borgia

WAD, Gregers. Fossilia Aegyptiaca Musei Borgiani Velitris.
Velletri, 1794. 4to. Contemporary boards. VIII, 32 pp. Full description

€ 3,250

Archaeology Egypt Fossils / Palaeontology Mineralogy & Gems Museums & Wunderkammer North Africa

One of the most influential works on agricultural chemistry

WALLERIUS, Johan Gottschalk (praeses) and Gustaf Adolf GYLLENBORG. Agriculturae fundamenta chemica, Åkerbrukets chemiska grunder, ...
Uppsala, 1761. 4to. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. [4], 321, [1] pp. Full description

€ 495

Agriculture Physics & Chemistry

The first American conchological manual

WARREN, John. The conchologist.
Boston, Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. Small 4to. With a lithographed frontispiece showing 2 shells and XVI numbered lithographed plates of shells and related items showing 71 figures. Modern (21st-century?) green calf. [4], 204 pp. Full description

€ 850

North America Shells & other Invertebrates

Extensive conchylogical work on Mediterranean shells

WEINKAUFF, Heinrich Conrad. Die Conchylien des Mittelmeeres, ihre geographische und geologische Verbreitung.
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1867-1868. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, title in gold on spine, red painted edges, red endpapers. XIX, [1], 301, [1 blank]; VI, 512 pp. Full description

€ 575

Shells & other Invertebrates

Attractive watercolour of a whaling scene, showing four whales and the whalers in action with their harpoons

[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

€ 6,500

Arctic & Antarctic Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Fishery & Whaling Mammals Prints & Print Series

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