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Mattioli’s Great Renaissance Herbal in French: Dioscorides Reborn for Physicians, Botanists, and Apothecaries.

MOUSEION CURATOR NOTE.
“A Renaissance pharmacy in folio: roots, leaves, flowers, beasts, stills, remedies, authorities, and observations gathered into one vast

Natural History, Biology, Science, Botany, History - Quantity: 2 - Book

Pietro Andrea Mattioli - Commentaires De M. Pierre André Matthiole Médecin Sennois, Sur Les Six Livres De Ped. Dioscoride - 1579

Thuillier M. - “La flore des environs de Paris ou distribution des plantes…” 1790. 
First Edition 
-2 books in one - rare unique combination.
Buisson J.P. - “Classes et noms des plantes, Pour suppléer aux étiquettes pendant le cours de Botanique …”1779   

The unique rare

Botany, Medicine, Nature, Biology, Education, Agriculture - Quantity: 2 - Book

Thuillier M & Buisson J.P - La flore des environs de Paris /  Classes et noms des plantes - 1779-1790

7 volumes, small 8vo, 251+270+256+262+512+398 pp., half-calf bindings, spine ornamented with gilt fillets, black title label. The upper cap of Vol. 2 is shaved. A few rare scattered foxings depending on volumes but overall the interior is fresh.

Volume 1: Rhopalocera; 251 pp.;

Biology - Quantity: 7 - Book

Jeanne Étienne Berce - Lépidoptères. Descriptions de tous les papillons qui se trouvent en France (1867-78) - 1873

By a collective of amateur entomologists: Philippe Bachelard…

Guide to the moths of France. More than 1620 species described and illustrated.
Paris, Delachaux et Nestlé, 2007.
288 pp., with black-and-white illustrations and 55 pages in color.
ISBN 978-2-603-01429-5.
This work,

Biology, Animals, Reference, Nature, Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Philippe Bachelard etc. - Guide des papillons nocturnes de France - 2007

Rousseau J.J.  (Joseph Philippe de Clairville) Le Botaniste sans Maitre. First Scarce edition.  6 illustrated plates 

A very scarce first edition thus of Clairville's continuation of Rousseau's letters on botany, illustrated with six monochrome plates (engraving). 
The first

Botany, Herbarium, Agriculture, Biology, Philosophy, Nature, Illustrated, Science, Education, Incunabula & early printing - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Rousseau J.J, (Joseph Philippe de Clairville) - Botaniste sans Maitre. First edition. 6 illustrated plates - 1805

Rare set of three volumes from 1770 issued from the Cours d'histoire naturelle, ou Tableau de la nature, published by Desaint. These Volumes V, VI and VII are devoted to insects and fishes, offering a vivid panorama of the fauna as it was conceived in the 18th century.

Between

Natural History, Biology, Illustrated, Science, Nature - Quantity: 3 - Book

SN - Cours d'histoire naturelle, ou Tableau de la nature - Insectes et Poissons - 1770

An exceptional, highly rare, and beautifully curated continuous series of 5 original 19th-century double-page botanical chromolithographs, showcasing premium historical varieties of pears (Pomology).These magnificent, oversized fruit plates come from the famous Belgian

Biology - Quantity: 5 - Hand coloured illustrations - Book

Louis van Houtte (Flore des Serres) - Complete Continuous Set of 5 Large Botanical Double-Page - 1874-1874

Brisseau-Mirbel - ‎Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétales. Edition Originale. 
2 Volumes in one book 

Title: ‎Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétales suivi de la nomenclature méthodique ou raisonnée des parties extérieures des plantes et un exposé succinct des

Botany, Agriculture, Herbarium, Illustrated, Incunabula & early printing, Nature, Biology - Quantity: 10 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Brisseau-Mirbel C.F. - ‎Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétales - 1801

Fascinating illustrated edition of 11 insert plates, some in color, 210 wood engravings and 36 genealogical plates, business card of "Zelia Rosselloty", with the translation by Dr Ch. Letourneau -

The work sits within the post-Darwinian intellectual context and seeks to present

Biology, Natural History, Science, Nature, Illustrated, Genealogy, Reference - Quantity: 1 - Book

Ernest Haeckel & Dr Ch. Letourneau - Anthropogénie ou histoire de l'évolution humaine. Leçons familières sur les principes - 1877

A fascinating twelve-volume set enriched with numerous plates outside the text, including a frontispiece and two folding maps, directed by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, then superintendent of the King's Garden, this monumental work profoundly marks the development of

Natural History, Science, Biology, Nature, History, Geography, Cartography, Reference - Quantity: 12 - Book

M. Le Comte de Buffon - Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière - 1777-1786

Superb illustrated edition of 504 figures in text and hors-texte including a frontispiece by Mesnel, Blanchard and Delahaye and 25 large works by E. Bayard -

This 19th-century scientific popularization work devoted to the world of insects, in which the author seeks to make the

Natural History, Biology, Illustrated, Nature, Science, Reference, History, Animals - Quantity: 1 - Book

Louis Figuier / Mesnel, Blanchard, Delahaye & Bayard - Les Insectes - 1875

Tome premier: CCXII, 288, V-VIII pp.; 7 of 9 plates (numbered tom. I: 1-3, 6-9, the missing plates are bound in tom. 2!).
Tome second: 416 pp.; 16 + 2 plates (numbered tom. II: 1-2, tom. I: 4, tom. II: 3, tom I: 5, tom. II: 4-16).
Tome troisième: LXXXVIII, 369 pp.; 8 plates

Animals, Biology, Illustrated, Natural History - Quantity: 4 - Book

Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède - Histoire naturelle des poissons. - 1799-1799

18th-century book adorned with 24 engravings off text (see photos).

The volume contains the conversations: on animals, on the soul of beasts, on meteors on vapors, clouds, winds, on thunder, on falling stars, will-o'-the-wisps & the northern light, on the rainbow, on the planets

Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Biology - Quantity: 1 - Book

Regnault, Noël, [ ornés de 24 gravures ] - Les entretiens physiques d'Ariste et d'Eudoxe ou Physique nouvelle en dialogues - 1732

Alfred Fredol.

Le Monde de la Mer.  Deuxieme edition. 1866.
 
Large thick octavo, very well illustrated with colour plates and text engravings, pp x, 693, bevelled fore-edge, all edges gilt, a little foxing internally, but overall very good and firm.
Original publisher's red

Animals, Biology, Botany, Fine Bindings, Illustrated, Natural History, Nature, Science - Quantity: 1 - Book

Alfred Fredol - Le Monde de la Mer - 1866

An important first edition of the Traité Général de Botanique Descriptive et Analytique, published in Paris in 1868 by Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie.

Written by the renowned French botanists Emmanuel Le Maout and Joseph Decaisne, this work is considered one of the most

Natural History, Biology, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

Emm. Le Maout; J. Decaisne - Traité général de botanique - 1868

4 ancient books by Charles Darwin kept in excellent condition:

Insectivorous plants 1870.
Cross and direct fertilization 1877.
Fertilization of orchids by insects 1870.
Forms of flowers 1878.
Rare editions C.Reinwald in French.

Excellent condition; most pages are still uncut.

Biology, Natural History - Quantity: 4 - Book

Charles Darwin - Lot with 4 books - 1870-1878

Beautiful illustrated edition of 363 fine engravings in this technical and scientific work devoted to the complete study of the horse, considered both as a working, service, and sport animal -

Heir to a long tradition of veterinary and equestrian instruction, this treatise

Animals, Medicine, Biology, Science, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

J. Jacoulet & C. Chomel - Traité d'Hippologie - 1912

René-Antoine Ferchault de RÉAUMUR.
Memoirs to serve the history of insects.
Amsterdam, at Pierre Mortier, 1737-1741.

5 volumes in 10 octavo volumes (approximately 180×110 mm), missing the 6th volume, contemporary parchment bindings.
Complex of about 3,500 pages + over 200 copper

Biology, Natural History, Botany, Illustrated, Reference, Nature, Science - Quantity: 10 - Fold out maps or plates, Tipped in plates - Book

[219 Plates] M. de Réaumur - Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes - 1737-1741

Paris, Duménil, 1840.
In 8vo, half morocco, spine smooth, marbled edges, 46 steel-engraved plates.
Interior fresh

Natural History, Biology - Quantity: 1 - Book

M. Lucas - Histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des myriapodes. - 1840

Fascinating eight-volume set illustrated notably with beautiful color plates of this important contribution to natural history devoted to the scientific study of fishes, published as a continuation of the great work of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and enriched by the

Natural History, Biology, Illustrated, Science, Animals, Nature, History - Quantity: 8 - Book

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon & C.S. Sonnini - Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des poissons & Histoire des minéraux - 1802

Superb original edition of this important contribution to herpetology, part of the continuations to Buffon’s Natural History and enriched with superb out-of-text engravings finely enhanced with color for the period (notably the turtles such as the mud turtle, the dark turtle and

Natural History, Biology, Animals, Nature, Illustrated, Science, Reference - Quantity: 3 - Book

C. S. Sonnini & P. A. Latreille - Histoire naturelle des reptiles. Serpens - 1801

Jean-Henri Dierbach. (translated by Dr Louis Marchant).
Flore Mythologique, ou Traite de la Connaissance des Plantes dans leurs rapports avec le mythologie et la symbolique des Grecs et des Romains.
Published Dijon, 1867.

LIMITED EDITION of 100 numbered copies - this one being

Archaeology, Biology, Botany, Europe, History, Natural History, Nature, Science - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jean-Henri Dierbach - Flore Mythologique.........des Grecs et des Romains. (edition of only 100 copies) - 1867

Fascinating three-volume set organized as follows:

- Volume One: First and Second Parts Introduction, Life on Earth, Man and Human Races, Mammals, enriched with 32 plates hors-texte of which 4 in color and numerous illustrations in the text.
- Volume Two: First and Second Parts:

Biology, Natural History, Illustrated, Botany, Nature, Animals, Science - Quantity: 3 - Book

Henri Coutière - Le Monde Vivant. Histoire naturelle illustrée - 1949

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