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75 2381 Ornithology Purroy F J ed 75 2381 Ornithology Purroy F J ed
75/2381 [Ornithology]. Purroy, F.J. (ed.). Atlas de las Aves de España (1975-1995). Barcelona, Lynx Edicions, 1997, 583p., num. ills., orig. boards, 4to. Hagemeijer, W.J.M. and Blair, M.J. (ed.). The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds. Their distribution and abundance. London, T. and A.D. Poyser, 1997, 1st ed., 903p., num. ills. and tables, orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to. Stattersfield, A.J. Threatened Birds of the World. The Official Source for Birds on the IUCN Red List. Cambridge, Birdlife International, 2000, 852p., col. plates, maps, ills., orig. boards, 4to. - AND 2 others.
€ (60-80)
75 2382 Ornithology Rey E 75 2382 Ornithology Rey E
75/2382 [Ornithology]. Rey, E. Die Eier der Vögel Mitteleuropas. Reuss-Lobenstein, F. Krüger, 1912, 2nd ed., 2 vols., text vol.: (2),681p.; plate vol.: 128 col. lithogr. plates, contemp. unif. giltlettered hmor.

= Nissen, IVB 772.

€ (100-150) 120
75 2383 Ornithology Ripley S D 75 2383 Ornithology Ripley S D
75/2383 [Ornithology]. Ripley, S.D. Rails of the world. A monograph of the family Rallidae. Boston, D.R. Godine, 1977, 1st ed., XX,406,(3)p., 17 maps, 41 col. plates by J.F. LANSDOWNE, num. ills., orig. gilt cl. w. (sl. frayed) dustwr., folio (fine). Short, L.L. Woodpeckers of the World. Greenville, Delaware Museum of Natural History, 1982, (2),XVIII,676p., num. (full-p.) (col.) ills. by G. SANDSTÖRM, orig. boards, 4to. Goodwin, D. Estrildid finches of the world. London/ Oxford, British Mus./ O.U.P., 1982, 328p., col. plates by M. WOODCOCK, num. maps/ ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 4 others on Nuthatches, Ruffed Grouse, Owls and Red Knots.
€ (50-70) 50
75 2384 Ornithology Seebohm H 75 2384 Ornithology Seebohm H
75 2384 Ornithology Seebohm H 75 2384 Ornithology Seebohm H
75 2384 Ornithology Seebohm H 75 2384 Ornithology Seebohm H
75/2384 [Ornithology]. Seebohm, H. Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds. Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford, 1896, XXIV,304p., photogr. portrait frontisp., 60 col. lithogr. plates, orig. gilt buckram, large 8vo.

- Bookblock shaken. Binding sl. rubbed. = Nissen, IVB 849; Zimmer II, p.570.

€ (80-100) 150
75 2385 Ornithology Short L and Horne J 75 2385 Ornithology Short L and Horne J
75/2385 [Ornithology]. Short, L. and Horne, J. Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides. Ramphastidae, Capitonidae and Indicatoridae. Oxf., O.U.P., 2001, XXIII,(1),526p., 36 col. plates, 17 col. ills. and num. monochr. ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to.
€ (50-70) 50
75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W 75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W
75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W 75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W
75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W 75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W
75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W 75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W
75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W 75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W
75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W 75 2386 Ornithology Swainson W
75/2386 [Ornithology]. Swainson, W. A Selection of the Birds of Brazil and Mexico. London, H.G. Bohn, 1841, (2),4p., 78 contemp. handcol. lithogr. plates after drawings by W. SWAINSON, printed in 175 copies, contemp. hmor., a.e.g.

- Plates 67 and 68 misnumbered 72 and 73. Plates 69-78 unnumbered. All plates w. blank protection leaf. A few leaves w. a sm. brown stain; first free endpaper and first blank loosening; blank leaf before Spotted Puff-bird lacks portion, taped w. scotch tape. Leather over spine sl. chipped along both joints.

= Originally published in 6 undated parts. Wood, p 589; Zimmer, p 615; Fine Bird Books, p 110; Nissen, IVB 912; Anker 494; Borba de Moraes, p 844: "A rare book, much appreciated for the beauty of its plates." One of the scarcest books on South American ornithology. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.

€ (3.000-5.000) 3250
75 2387 Ornithology Swaysland W 75 2387 Ornithology Swaysland W
75 2387 Ornithology Swaysland W 75 2387 Ornithology Swaysland W
75 2387 Ornithology Swaysland W 75 2387 Ornithology Swaysland W
75/2387 [Ornithology]. Swaysland, W. Familiar Wild Birds. London/ Paris & New York, Cassel & Comp., 1883, 4 parts in 2 vols., 160 col. lithogr. plates, num. woodengr. ills., contemp. unif. gilt hcalf w. 2 contrasting letterpieces.

- Binding sl. rubbed. = Nissen, IVB 918; Zimmer II, 620.

€ (100-150) 210
75 2388 Ornithology Tarboton W 75 2388 Ornithology Tarboton W
75/2388 [Ornithology]. Tarboton, W. Birds of Southern Africa. The Sasol plates collection. Capetown, Struik Winchester, 1994, 432p., richly illustrated, orig. cl. w. dustwr., slipcase, 4to (fine). - AND 7 others on birds in art, i.a. C.E. JACKSON, Great Bird Paintings of the World. I. The Old Masters./ Bird Painting. The Eighteenth Century (Woodbridge, 1993/ 1994, 2 vols., richly illustrated, orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr., sm. 4to); FROHAWK'S BIRDS OF HAWAII. Ed. S. Wilson and S. Buff (Secaucus, 1989, richly illustrated, orig. boards w. dustwr., folio. Upper margin of backwr. frayed) and CATESBY'S BIRDS OF COLONIAL AMERICA. Ed. A. Feduccia (Chapel Hill/ London, 1985, col. plates and num. b/w ills., orig. cl. w. (trifle frayed) dustwr., sm. folio).
€ (50-70) 50
75 2389 Ornithology Wright M W and F von 75 2389 Ornithology Wright M W and F von
75 2389 Ornithology Wright M W and F von 75 2389 Ornithology Wright M W and F von
75/2389 [Ornithology]. Wright, M., W. and F. von. Svenska Fåglar. Efter naturen och på sten ritade. Text E. Lönnberg. Stockholm, I. Baarsen, Svenska Fåglar, 1927-1929, 3 vols., 9,(3),295; 9,(2),296-545; 16,547-902p., 146/ 109/ 109 polychrome collotype plates after M., W. and F. VON WRIGHT and B. HALLBERG, ills., contemp. unif. marbled calf w. gilt eagle on frontcovers, gilt and blindst. spine w. 2 leather letterpieces, marbled edges, folio.

- Splendid copy.

= Nissen, IVB 1026; Bradley Martin 240; Anker 544: "(...) the work contains figures of the majority of the birds found in Sweden, such forms as rarely appear, or have only appeared a few times in that country, not being represented." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.

€ (800-1.000) 800
75 2390 Paleontology and geology Brauns R 75 2390 Paleontology and geology Brauns R
75/2390 [Paleontology and geology]. Brauns, R. Das Mineralreich. Esslingen/ Munich, J.F. Schreiber, 1912, 2nd ed., 2 vols., text vol.: (4),440,(6 advert)p., ills., orig. gilt hcalf; plate vol.; 90 (col.) lithogr. plates w. letterpress overlay, loose as issued in matching hcalf portfolio w. inner flaps, 4to.
€ (100-150) 100
75 2391 Paleontology and geology Buckland W 75 2391 Paleontology and geology Buckland W
75/2391 [Paleontology and geology]. Buckland, W. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. Phil., Lea & Blanchard, 1841, 2nd augm. ed., 2 vols., XV,(2),14-468; VII,(1),131p., fold. handcol. geological diagram, 86 (fold.) lithogr. and engr. plates, contemp. unif. cl. w. letterpiece.

- Foxed; diagram reattached; owner's entry on title-p. Spine 2nd vol. repaired.

= Treatise VI of The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation.

The naturalist Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, commissioned eight treatises to explore the natural world to examine William Paley's ideas of a divine designer. Buckland concluded from his reseach that the biblical flood did not correspond with his findings. "Buckland's lectures on geology and mineralogy, given in the old Ashmolean Museum, were for many years the most popular in the university. They were attended mainly by senior members of the university (...) notably, Charles Lyell, later the leading geologist of the mid-nineteenth century and Darwin's geological mentor.(...) Buckland published some forty papers and books, and the major work of his later years, his lavishly illustrated Bridgewater Treatise, Geology and Mineralogy (1836), in which he abandoned his former belief in the universal effects of the Noachian deluge, was highly influential" (Oxford Dictionary National Biography).

€ (80-100) 80
75 2392 Paleontology and geology Cuvier G 75 2392 Paleontology and geology Cuvier G
75/2392 [Paleontology and geology]. Cuvier, G. Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe et sur les changemens qu'elles ont produits dans le règne animal. Paris, G. Dufour/ E. d'Ocagne, 1825, 3rd ed., (4),II,400p., 5 fold. engr. plates, 2 fold. tables, contemp. giltlettered hmor.

- Trifle foxed. = DSB III, p.521-528.

AND 2 others by the same: Éloges historiques (Paris, n.d. (±1860), lithogr. frontisp. portrait, contemp. gilt and blindst. mor.) and a later edition of the 1st work (1864, orig. wr.).

€ (70-90)
75 2393 Paleontology and geology Heim A 75 2393 Paleontology and geology Heim A
75/2393 [Paleontology and geology]. Heim, A. Geologie der Schweiz. Leipsic, C.H. Tauchnitz, 1919-1922, 2 parts in 3 vols., XX,704; XI,(1),476; XXVI,477-1018p., num. (fold.) (col.) maps and plates, ills., contemp. unif. gilt hvellum, 4to.

- Vols. 2 and 3 partly sl. foxed and (water)wrinkled. = Swiss geologist Albert Heim's main work.

€ (100-150) 100
75 2394 Paleontology and geology Heim A 75 2394 Paleontology and geology Heim A
75 2394 Paleontology and geology Heim A 75 2394 Paleontology and geology Heim A
75/2394 [Paleontology and geology]. Heim, A. Handbuch der Gletscherkunde. Stuttg., J. Engelhorn, 1885, XVI,560p., 1 col. lithogr. fold. map of the Aletsch glacier, 2 (full-p.) ills., contemp. gilt hcl.

- Endpapers foxed. = Bibliothek geographischer Handbücher, ed. F. Ratzel.

€ (70-90)
75 2395 Paleontology and geology Koninck L G de 75 2395 Paleontology and geology Koninck L G de
75/2395 [Paleontology and geology]. Koninck, L.G. de. Faune du calcaire carbonifère. Vol. 2. Gyroceras, Cyrtoceras, Gomphoceras, Orthoceras, Subclymenia et Goniatites. Brussels, F. Hayez, (1880), text vol.: 133p., plate vol.: 50 lithogr. plates, orig. unif. limp boards, folio.

- Sl. foxed. Boards sl. soiled.

AND 6 others, i.a. H. BRÄM-EMBRACH, Die Schildkröten aus dem oberen Jura (Malm) der gegend von Solothurn (Basle, 1965, plates, orig. wr., folio) and E. HOLZAPFEL, Atlas von neunzehn lithographirten Tafel zu der Abhandlung: Das Obere Mitteldevon im Rheinischen Gebirge (Berlin, 1895, lithogr. plates, orig. hcl., folio).

€ (60-80) 60
75 2396 Paleontology and geology Lehmann J G 75 2396 Paleontology and geology Lehmann J G
75 2396 Paleontology and geology Lehmann J G 75 2396 Paleontology and geology Lehmann J G
75/2396 [Paleontology and geology]. Lehmann, J.G. Traités de Physique, d'histoire naturelle, de mineralogie et de métallurgie. Paris, J.-T. Hérissant, 1759, 1st French ed., 3 vols., (2),XVI,419; XVI,402,(1); XXVII,(1),498,(4)p., 6 (fold.) engr. plates, contemp. unif. calf w. richly gilt spine w. mor. letterpiece and an unidentified gilt heraldic letterpiece, gilt boardedges, marbled edges.

- All vols. w. sm. stamp on title.

= 1. L'art des Mines ou Introduction aux connoissances nécessaires pour l'exploitation des mines métalliques. 2. Traité de la formation des Metaux, et de leurs matrices ou minieres 3. Essai d'une histoire naturelle de couches de la terre. DSB VIII, p. 146-148: "Lehmann thus entered into a period of extraordinary scientific activity, publishing his researches in chemistry, geology, and mineralogy. Of these, the most important and lasting were his geological studies. In geology Lehmann emphasized the importance of geological strata in determining the history of the earth (...) He thus may be considered the founder of stratigraphy; his attempt to establish the laws underlying the formation of the earth provided the basis for modern geology." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.

€ (1.000-1.500) 1000
75 2397 Paleontology and geology Wegener A 75 2397 Paleontology and geology Wegener A
75 2397 Paleontology and geology Wegener A 75 2397 Paleontology and geology Wegener A
75/2397 [Paleontology and geology]. Wegener, A. Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane. Braunschweig, F. Vieweg and Son, 1922, 3rd rev. ed., VIII,144p., ills., orig. clothbacked boards.
€ (150-250) 150
75 2398 Paleontology and geology Zeiller C R 75 2398 Paleontology and geology Zeiller C R
75/2398 [Paleontology and geology]. Zeiller, C.R. Études des gites minéraux de la France. Bassin houiller de Valenciennes. Description de la flore fossile. Paris, Quantin, 1886-1888, text vol.: (2),731p., fold. col. lithogr. map, ills., plate vol.: (2),VIp., 94 lithogr. plates by C. CUISIN, w. accomp. text lvs., sl. later unif. giltlettered hcalf, orig. wr. pres., large 4to.

- Contents fine. Upper joint atlas vol. repaired, frontcover reattached.

= Rare work by the mining engineer and paleobotanist Charles René Zeiler.

€ (100-150) 100
75 2399 Paleontology and geology Zittel K A 75 2399 Paleontology and geology Zittel K A
75/2399 [Paleontology and geology]. Zittel, K.A. Traité de paléontologie. Part 1 Paléozoologie. Paris/ Munich and Leipsic, O. Doin/ R. Oldenbourg, 1883-1894, 4 vols., num. ills., contemp. unif. hcalf w. 2 mor. letterpieces.

= 1. Protozoa, Coelenterata, echinodermata et molluscoidea; 2. Mollusca et arthropoda (part 1); 3. Vertebrata. 4. Mammifères.

€ (100-150) 100
75 2400 Paleontology and geology Conchology Davidson T 75 2400 Paleontology and geology Conchology Davidson T
75/2400 [Paleontology and geology. Conchology]. Davidson, T. (British Brachiopoda). Vol. I. Part I. A Monograph of British Tertiary Brachiopoda. II. British Cretaceous Brachiopoda. III. British Oolitic and Liasic Brachiopoda. Appendix. London, Palaeontographical Society, 1851-1852, 4 parts in 1 vol., 33 lithogr. plates, modern giltlettered cl.

- Without the first part with i.a. the description of the brachiopod anatomy by Richard Owen (136p. and 9 plates); a few plates w. stain in upper and outer margin; ex library copy ("Lindsay institute Lanark") w. scattered stamps.

= Nissen, ZBI 1047. First part of the large monograph on the British Brachiopoda by Davidson.

Woods, H. A Monograph of Fossil Macrurous Crustacea of England. Ibid., idem, 1925-1931, 2 vols., text vol: 122p.; plate vol.: 27 plates, contemp. unif. cl., 4to.

= Nissen, ZBI 4463.

AND 1 other published by the same: Illustrations of Type Specimens of Inferior Oolite Ammonites in the Sowerby Collection (London, 1908, 7 lithogr. plates, contemp. hmor., 4to. Frontcover detached, spine dam.).

€ (80-100) 80
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