Natural History / Botany (General)

CAMERARIUS, Joachim. Symbolorum & emblematum ex re herbaria desumtorum centuria una.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.
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(2) IDEM. Symbolorum & emblematum et animalibus quadrupedibus desumtorum centuria altera.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1661.
(3) IDEM. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volatilibus et insectis desumtorum centuria tertia.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wilhelm Ammon, 1654.
(4) CAMERARIUS, Joachim and Ludwig CAMERARIUS. Symbolorum et emblematum ex aquatilibus et reptilibus desumtorum centuria quarta.
Heidelberg, Ludwig Bourgeat, 1664. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Each work with an engraved title page, 100 round engraved emblems (a total of 400), and numerous woodcut initials. (Near) contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with a beige leather title label lettered in gold on the spine. 102 (the first ll. after the title page paginated 1-6); 103, [1 blank]; 104, [1 blank]; 100, [1], [1 blank] ll. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. CHAPSAL, Jean-Antoine. [Autograph letter concerning the guard of his woods].
Riom, 9 July 1803. 4to (21 x 33.5 cm). 2 pp. text, 1 blank and the final page with the recipient's address. Formerly folded three times for posting and with traces of a seal. Full description

[CHINA - WATERCOLOUR]. [17 Chinese watercolours made for the export market].
[China, first half of the 19th century]. Collection of 17 Chinese watercolours on Asian paper with chain lines, including 3 of birds seated on a branch, 3 of ensembles of fruit and flowers and 5 of fishes (all ca. 30 x 37 .5 cm); 2 further watercolours, each showing 2 branches of flowers and trees in a drawn oval border (ca. 39 x 30 cm); and 4 watercolours of Chinese people posing with objects (ca. 25 x 21 cm). In a modern gold-tooled dark green morocco clam shell box, in contemporary style. Full description

CHOMEL, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste. Abregé de l'histoire des plantes usuelles, dans lequel on donne leurs noms différens, tant François que Latins.Including: Catalogus plantarum officinalium, secumdum earum facultates dispositus.
Paris, sons of Nyon, 1738. 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spines. XLVIII, [36], 350; [6], 349-830, [10]; [18], 214, [4], 116 pp. Full description

CLERCK, Carl Alexander. Nomenclator extemporaneus rerum naturalium: plantarum, insectorum, conchyliorum, secundum Systema naturae Linnaeanum.
Stockholm, Lorentz Ludewig Grefing, 1759. 8vo. Disbound. [4], 67, [13] pp. Full description

COMMERELL, Abbé de, John Coakley LETTSOM (transl.) and Jan Christiaan SEPP (transl.) Bericht wegens de aankweeking en het gebruik van den schaarsheid- of mangel-wortel.
Amsterdam, C.N. Guerin, 1789. 8vo. With 1 folding hand-coloured plate and a woodcut tailpiece of a fruit basket. 19th-century half cloth, Stormont marbled sides. [4], XII, 80 pp. Full description

DEFRANCE, Jacques Louis Marin. Tableau des corps organisés fossiles, précédé de remarques sur leur pétrification.
Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine. [4], XVI, 136 pp. Full description

DESFONTAINES, René Louiche. Flora Atlantica, sive Historia plantarum, quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt.
Paris, L. G. Desgranges, Imprimerie Panckoucke, 1798-1799 (anno sexto). 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With "261" [=263] numbered, full-page, engraved plates. Late 19th-century black morocco. [6], XX, 444; 458 pp. Full description

DILLENIUS (DILLEN), Johann Jakob. Horti Elthamensis plantarum rariorum icones et nomina.
Leiden, Cornelis Haak, 1774. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With 325 engraved plates, numbered 1-147, [1], 148-324. 4 plates misbound: 6/7 and 273/274. Contemporary boards. Preserved in a professionaly handmade box, made for this book. [12] pp. Full description

DODONAEUS (DODOENS), Rembertus. Cruydt-Boeck ...
Antwerp, Balthasar II Moretus in the Plantin printing office, 1644. Large folio (ca. 25 x 41 cm). With an integral, richly engraved title-page, with 1470 botanical woodcuts in the text, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut tailpiece with the Plantin compasses device at the end of the index and larger woodcut publishers device with the compasses and motto on the last, otherwise blank leaf. Set in textura types with extensive roman, italic and civilité. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf over boards, with brass catch- and anchor-plates and one brass clasp. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [32], 1492, [59], [1 blank] pp. Full description