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Complete works of Buffon augmented by M. F. Cuvier, a member of the Institute (Academy of Sciences), with two additional volumes offering descriptions of the mammals and birds most remarkable discovered to date, and accompanied by a fine portrait of Buffon, and copper-engraved

Natural History, Ornithology, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Hand coloured illustrations - Book

Buffon - Oeuvres complètes:  Oiseaux - 54 handgekleurde afbeeldingen - 1830


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

Rarest illustrated edition with a folding plate and 202/202 in-fine figures of one of the most extensive medical treatises in the French language of the 17th century, bringing together in two volumes the entire medical, hygienic, anatomical, pharmaceutical, and therapeutic

Medicine, Science, History, Illustrated, Botany, Nature, Natural History, Geography - Quantity: 1 - Book

M. Lovys Gvyon Dolois - Le cours de medecine en françois, contenant le Miroir de Beauté et Santé corporelle - 1671

Superb illustrated edition in its pretty publisher's red, black and gold binder of this travel narrative belonging to the tradition of picturesque descriptions of the 19th century, in which the author offers a detailed exploration of Spain through its landscapes, its cities, its

Travels, History, Sociology, Europe, Geography, Illustrated, Reference, Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Eugène Poitou / V. Foulquier - Voyage en Espagne - 1884

General History of Travels, or, New Collection of all the accounts of travels by sea and by land, which have up to now been published in the different languages of all known nations: containing what is most remarkable, most useful, and best attested in the countries where travels

Travels, Illustrated, Botany, Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Antoine François Prévost - Histoire générale des voyages -  6 kaarten Antillen (Martinique, Saint-Domingue (Haïti), Grenade, - 1759

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

2 Books: Report on the Missions of the White Fathers, 1910 and 1911 - Haut-Congo, Uganda, Southern Nyanza, north and south, Ounyanyembé, Tanganyika, Nyassa, Sudan, etc... - Rarissime and in Good condition - Half-toile green binding, smooth spine, marbled boards, 381 and 380

Africa, Anthropology, Biographies and memoirs, Tribal art and culture, Geography, Colonial history, Natural History, Regional interest, Illustrated, Nature, Collected works, Religion, Reference, Sociology, Topography, Travels - Quantity: 2 - Book

Divers auteurs - Afrique: Rapports sur les Missions des Pères Blancs - 1910-1911

General History of Voyages, or, New Collection of all travel accounts by sea and by land, which have up to now been published in the various languages of all known nations: containing what is most remarkable, most useful, and best established in the countries where travels have

Antoine François Prévost - Histoire générale des voyages - Groenland - 1770

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

Natural History of the Count de Buffon with Daubenton's anatomical descriptions; theory of the earth; complete in 6 volumes.
-Volume 1, 324 pages.
-Volume 2, 491 pages.
-Volume 3, 500 pages.
-Volume 4, 452 pages.
-Volume 5, 517 pages.
-Volume 6, 524 pages.
Volumes in 8vo format,

Natural History, Illustrated - Quantity: 6 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Buffon-Daubenton - Oeuvres Complètes De Buffon: Avec Les Descriptions Anatomiques De Daubenton,théorie de la - 1824-1825

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

Encyclopédie d'histoire naturelle par le docteur Chenu.
Un volume sur les oiseaux et 2 volumes de planches.
1er volume: première partie de l'Histoire naturelle . Les rapaces diurnes et nocturnes et presque tous les grimpeurs.(d'après Buffon, Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier...
621

Natural History - Quantity: 3 - Book

Docteur Chenu - Encyclopédie d'Histoire Naturelle - 1860

1st Original French Edition of 1862, On the Origin of Species or the Laws of Progress Among Living Beings by Charles DARWIN.
An inscription by the owner Félix de Juigné in 1864.
First page annotation on Darwinism written by hand.
The tree/diagram is present see photo.
Translated

Anthropology, Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Charles Darwin - De l'Origine des Espèces - 1862

Beautiful volumes by Abbé Richard, Histoire Naturelle de l’Aire et des Météores.

Publisher is Saillant & Nyon 

This book is a first edition published in 1770 and 1771.
Volume 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8, so we have seven volumes here, only missing the 6th volume.

Hardcover, with

Natural History - Quantity: 7 - Book

Abbé Richard - Histoire Naturelle de l’Aire et des Météore - 1770

Rare enriched edition with 10 colored plates of this comprehensive treatise (in three volumes) on the initiation and training in botanical science, intended to provide students, naturalists, and discerning amateurs with the fundamental knowledge necessary for observing,

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

J.-C. Philibert - Introduction à l'étude de la botanique - 1802

8 original copper engravings of birds.

Engraved by Fessart, after Pierre Sonnerat (circa 1782).

30.6 x 21.5 cm.

With mounting marks along the edges, 3 sheets with a slight damp-stain at the bottom, somewhat browned and occasionally creased.

Ornithology, Natural History - Quantity: 8 - Book

Gestochen von Fessart, nach Pierre Sonnerat - Vögel - 8 Original-Kupferstiche - 1782

Herbolaire Estense or Grant Herbier - Est. 28 = alfa M. 5. 9.
Anastatic edition.
Preserved in the Estense University Library of Modena.
Copy number: 274.
The Estense Herbarium, also known as Grant Herbier, is an extraordinary botanical manuscript from the second half of the 15th

Botany, Literature, History, Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Slipcase - Book

Matthaeus Platearius - Herbolaire Estense - 2008

An excellent illustrated edition of 8 handsome plates representing 28 diverse subjects from this superb work, which offers a practical and scholarly encyclopedia on the art of tilling the earth, intended for both owners of vast estates and enthusiasts with modest green spaces -


Botany, Illustrated, Agriculture, Science, Nature, Reference, Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Book

M. Denis et Rouard - Traité complet de l'horticulture pour les grands et les petits jardins - 1846

1830s (Buffon): Collection of 5 plates with snakes.
Colored wood engravings, each about 25.5 x 16 cm.
Slightly browned.

Natural History - Quantity: 5 - Book

Buffon - Schlangen, Sammlung von 5 kolorierten Holzstichen - 1830

Beautiful illustrated edition of 40 scenes of primitive man composed by Emile Bayard and 256 figures (everyday life objects) -

This scientific popularization work is part of the positivist and anthropological current of the 19th century, aiming to trace the origins of humanity

Natural History, History, Nature, Reference, Sociology, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

Louis Figuier - L'Homme primitif - 1876

Superb illustrated edition in its pretty red cloth binding of this work of scientific popularization and educational literature that takes as its guiding thread the annual migrations of the swallow to introduce the reader to geography, natural history, ornithology, and the

Travels, Natural History, Animals, Illustrated, Nature, Literature, History - Quantity: 1 - Book

A. Dubois - Les voyages de l'hirondelle. Pérégrinations à travers l'espace - 1891

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

DESCRIPTION: I present at auction an absolute delight of the culture and knowledge of the Belle Époque. It is a magnificent copy of the monumental book "LA MER (The Sea)", published in Paris by the prestigious "Librairie Larousse" (c. 1913).

This volume is one of the most

Geography, Natural History, Ships and seafaring, Photography, History - Quantity: 1 - Book

[Larousse] - LA MER [Ships and navigation] [+800 Maps, engravings and photos] [Folio 32 cm] [3kg] - 1911

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