Natural History / Mammals

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. De natuurlyke historie, van den hippopotamus of het rivierpaard. ... Verrykt met eene afbeelding van dit wonderlyk dier; nauwkeurig getekend ...
Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1775. With an engraved plate of a hippopotamus by Barent de Bakker after Andreas Andriesen.
With: (2) SCHÄFFER, Jacob Christian. Proeven op de slakken. ... Met zeven naar het leeven gekleurde plaaten. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaalt.
The Hague, Isaac du Mee, 1776. With 7 numbered, hand-coloured engraved plates by Gerard Sibelius after drawings by Adriaan Schregardus. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. 24; VI, 7-52 pp. Full description

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de. Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier, Duméril, Poiret, Lesson et Geoffroy-St-Hilaire.
Brussels, Th. Lejeune, 1828-1830. 14 volumes. Large 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, lithographed portrait of Daubenton, 2 lithographed emblematic frontispieces, 2 lithographed double-page maps, 6 numbered lithographed plates of teeth, 16 numbered lithographed plates of scientific instruments and apparatus, and 6 numbered lithographed plates of seeds in the first 4 introductory volumes, lithographed frontispieces of a naked man, woman and child, and 26 lithographed plates of human heads and species, of which 10 are nicely coloured by hand in volume 5 on the natural history of man, illustrations of mammals and mammalian anatomy on 469 lithographed plates, of which 226 coloured by hand in volumes 6 to 10, and illustrations of birds on 210 lithographed plates, all beautifully coloured by hand and several heightened with gold in volumes 11 to 14.
Contemporary gold-tooled half red half morocco, marbled paper sides, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Each volume ca. 500 pp. Full description

BURMEISTER, Hermann. Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Gattung Tarsius, ... Nebst einem helminthologischen Anhange von Dr. Creplin.
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1846. Large 4to (31 x 24.5 cm). With 7 lithographed plates (including 1 coloured by hand). Original publisher's printed green boards. X, 140 pp. Full description

BYE, Marcus de (after Marcus GHEERAERTS). [Bears].
[Amsterdam], Nicolaas I Visscher, 1664. Oblong 4to. 16 engravings (ca. 10.5 x 13.5 cm) depicting bears in various poses. Loose prints. [16] ll. Full description

BYLANDT, Henri Adrien Graaf van. Hondenrassen. Punten, beschrijving, eigenschappen, gebreken, enz.
Deventer, Ae.E. Kluwer [colophon: printed by G.J. Thieme, Nijmegen], [dedication dated: September 1904]. 2 volumes. Imperial 4to (33 x 26.5 cm). Richly illustrated with approximately 4100 photos and other illustrations showing more than 300 dog breeds. With a French title-page in both volumes including the same centre-piece illustration of dogs as on the front board. The work includes several extra pages of advertisements etc. Contemporary light blue and white cloth, title and author in gold on front board and spine, with a dark blue illustration of dogs as a centre-piece on the front board and dark blue decorative lines on the spine, head edge gilt, floral decorated endpapers. Each volume in a contemporary slipcase covered with green cloth, grey paste-paper sides. 796, [2 blank], [6]; [1], [1 blank], [3], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 795, [10], [1 blank], XXVIII, [16] pp. Full description

CHRISTOL, Jules de. Recherches sur les characteres des grandes espèces de Rhinocéros fossiles.
Montpellier, Jean Martel ainé, 1834. 4to. With a large folding lithographed plate with 28 figures. Contemporary marbled wrappers. 70, [2] pp. Full description

CUVIER, Georges. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, où l'on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs animaux dont les revolutions du globe ont détruit les espèces. Quatrième edition.
Paris, Edmond d'Ocagne, J.B. Bailière, F.G. Levrault, Crochard, Roret, 1834-1836. 10 text volumes (8vo) (volume 8 in 2 parts) and 2 atlas volumes (4to). With engraved author's portrait, 260 [=261] numbered (partly folded) engraved plates and 18 plates numbered A-F (no plate I), including 2 hand-coloured engraved maps (1 folded), 1 engraved cross-section of the terrain of Paris and 15 lithographed plates. Uniform contemporary green half morocco, gold-tooled spines. [4], XXIV, 587; [4], 500; [4], 432; [4], IV, 691; [4], 687, [1]; [4], 452; [4], 533, [1]; [4], 462, [1]; [4], 332; [4], 501, [1 blank], [1]; [4], 494, [1]; [4], 94; 106 pp. Full description

EERELMAN, Otto & Eugenius Antonius Ludovicus QUADEKKER. Paardenrassen. Kunstalbum van een en veertig afbeeldingen naar schilderijen van Otto Eerelman. Met beschrijvingen door E.A.L. Quadekker.
Zutphen, Schillemans & Van Belkum, [1898]. Large oblong folio (47 x 62 cm). With 41 chromo-lithographed plates of horses (45 x 59 cm) and several small lithographs at the end of each text. 12 parts in the original publisher's wrappers, preserved in the publisher's original richly gold-blocked brown decorated cloth portfolio. [168] pp. Full description

EISENBERG, Friedrich Wilhelm Baron d'. La perfezione e i difetti del cavallo.
Florence, Giuseppe Allegrini for the Stamperia Imperiale, 1753. Folio. With an engraved title-page (with a variant of the title in French), a woodcut vignette on the title-page, the typographical title-page is printed in red and black, 22 full-page engraved plates, showing horses in several positions in 119 figures, and 1 folding engraved plate depicting a horse in full. Contemporary vellum, with the title lettered in gold within a small gold-tooled frame on the spine, blue edges. [4], CXLIII, [1 blank] pp. Full description

ENKLAAR, Evert Cornelis. Engelsche rundveerassen. Naar het werk van Dr. Youat. Met 32 figuren.
Zwolle, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink, 1852. With 32 charming handcoloured illustrations of British cattle breeds on 9 folding lithographed plates by L.J. Tordoir in Zwolle. Contemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine. [8], 342, [2] pp. Full description