Natural History / Insects & Spiders

CLUTIUS, Theodorus (Dirk Outgaertsz CLUYT). Van de byen, haer wonderlijke oorspronk, natuur, eygenschap … Item hoe men de byen profijtelijck opvoeden en regeeren sal. Noch: Wat nuttigheyt dat men van honnich en was kan krijgen …
Including: (2) Meesterye voor de paarden, om te weten alle de secreten, alsoo men die gebruyckt by den maerschalk des keysers ende eertz-hertogen keyser Carolus de vijfde. ...
Amsterdam, widow of Gysbert de Groot, 1705. 2 works in 1. 8vo. Modern vellum over boards. [12], 218, [22]; [42] pp. Full description

DAHLBOM, Anders Gustaf and Carl Fredrik FALLÉN. Monographia pompilorum Sveciae.
Lund, Berling, 1829. 4to. Disbound. [4], 15, [1 blank]. Full description

DAHLBOM, Anders Gustav and others. Dispositio methodica specierum Scandinavicarum pertinentium ad familias insectorum hymenopterorum naturales ... Part. I [- IV].
Lund, Carl Gustav Berling, 1842. 4 parts. 8vo. A individual title-page to each part, a preface, and 8 folding letterpress pages with text. Disbound. 5 ll. + 8 ll. Full description

FELDER, Cajetan; Rudolf and Alois Friedrich ROGENHOFER. Lepidoptera.
Vienna, K-K hof & Staatsdruckerei, 1864-1875. 3 volumes. 4to (29 x 24 cm). With 139 (of 140) full-page lithographic plates showing 2487 butterflies and moths. Contemporary half dark blue cloth, marbled paper sides. [2], 20 pp. + 139 full-page plates Full description

FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. [Letter to an unnamed fellow freemason in Braunschweig, probably Ferdinand, Herzog von Braunschweig-Lünenburg or someone in his inner circle].
Halle (Saale), 9 August 1781. 4to. Autograph letter in German, signed, written in brown ink on laid paper in a clear German hand, with foreign words and names in a Latin hand. [4] pp. Full description

FOURCROY, Antoine François de and Étienne Louis GEOFFROY. Entomologia Parisiensis; sive catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secundum methodum Geoffraeanam in sectiones, genera & species distributus: cui addita sunt nomina trivalia & fere trecentae novae species.
Paris, Via et Aedibus Serpentineis, 1785. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo (14.5 x 8.5 cm). Later marbled boards. VII, [1], 231, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 233-544 pp. Full description

FRISIUS, Simon. [Print series of birds and butterflies].
[Amsterdam], Frederick de Wit, [ca. 1685?]. Small oblong folio (18.5 x 26 cm). With 12 numbered engraved plates (ca. 6.5 x 20.5 cm). Modern boards. [12] ll. Full description

GERMAR, Ernst Friedrich (editor). Zeitschrift für die Entomologie. Erster [-Fünfter] Band.
Leipzig, Friedrick Fleischer, 1839-1844. 10 parts in 5 volumes, bound as 6. 8vo. With 15 numbered plates, including 5 hand-coloured engravings. Including 2 publisher's advertisements "Ankündigung die Forsetzung von Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturgeschichte betreffend" (2 pp.) and "Nachricht für Freunde der Enteimologie" (4 ll.). Modern green boards with original wrappers bound in. VII, [1], 196; [4], 193-400, [3], [1 blank]; [4], 240; [6], 241-450; [8], 408; [6], 434, [6]; VI, 482 pp. Full description

GIBSON, William. A new treatise on the diseases of horses: wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse, the cure of his siseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed … with the cheapest and most efficacious remedies.
London, for A. Millar, 1751. Large 4to. With an engraved frontispiece of a perfect stallion and 31 numbered engraved plates of skulls, bones, legs, intestines, bloodstreams, ulcers, swellings and other diseases. 20th-century half calf. [12], 464, [12] pp. Full description

GRAVENHORST, Johann Ludwig Christian. Ichneumologia Europaea.
Wroclaw, 1829. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved plates and 2 folding tables. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XXXI, [1 blank], 827, [4]; 989; 1097. Full description