Science from Florilegius

Superb set of the first six volumes (of 12) of Friedrich Bertuch's famous Picture-book for Children, an illustrated encyclopedia for children. Volumes 1 and 2 in half leather, volumes 3 to 6 in original paper wraps. With all 600 hand-coloured copperplates in near fine condition with superb hand colour. Text in German and French. The Picture-Book was published in 12 volumes from 1790 to… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Scipion Breislak's rare atlas of famous dramatic landscapes of volcanic lava and columnar basalt Atlas géologique ou vues d'Amas colonnes basaltiques faisant suite aux Institutions Géologiques de Scipion Breislak, Milan, Imprimerie impériale et royale, 1818. Published as part of Traite sur la Structure Exterieure du Globe, (Milan, 1822) following Institutions Geologiques (Milan,1818). Complete with 53 fine copperplate engravings of… Read more about this item

Complete set of the 53 copperplate engravings only from this seminal work of microscopy by Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680), the pioneering Dutch biologist. Swammerdam was one of the outstanding comparative anatomists of the seventeenth century. His most remarkable work was in the field of insect anatomy, which he undertook in order to disprove Aristotle's claims that insects lack internal anatomy, develop… Read more about this item

Very good copy of William Wood's influential guidebook to conchology first published in 1815. With [2], iv, 8, lxii, 246 pages of text and 60 delicately hand-coloured engraved plates with tissue guards Plates numbered 1-59 with one bis plate 4* illustrating 260 species of shells William Wood (1774–1857) was an English surgeon, zoologist, conchologist and entomologist. Among his works are Zoography, 1807, Index… Read more about this item

Bright copy of this attractive overview of British conchology. Second edition with 26 finely engraved hand-coloured plates by George Brettingham Sowerby II. Includes attractive plates of mussels, scallops, razor shells, cockles, chitons, limpets, whelks, freshwater snails, ear-shells, etc., arranged as if in a case in a cabinet of wonders. Total of 711 species of British shells on 26 plates: 642 figures on the… Read more about this item

Volume 5 only of Friedrich Bertuch's famous Picture-Book for Children, an illustrated encyclopedia for children. With 100 hand-coloured copperplates. Explanatory text in German and French. The Picture-Book was published in 12 volumes from 1790 to 1843 and eventually included 1,185 handcoloured copperplates. Bertuch wished to reproduce the magic of discovery, and mixed engravings of plants, animals, shells, minerals, volcanoes and technical… Read more about this item

Volume 4 only of Friedrich Bertuch's famous Picture-Book for Children, an illustrated encyclopedia for children. With 100 hand-coloured copperplates. Explanatory text in German and French. The Picture-Book was published in 12 volumes from 1790 to 1843 and eventually included 1,185 handcoloured copperplates. Bertuch wished to reproduce the magic of discovery, and mixed engravings of plants, animals, shells, minerals, volcanoes and technical… Read more about this item

Volume 10 only of Friedrich Bertuch's famous Picture-book for Children, an illustrated encyclopedia for children. With 97 (of 100) hand-coloured copperplates (missing plates 4, 36, 58). Explanatory text in German and French. The Picture-Book was published in 12 volumes from 1790 to 1843 and eventually included 1,185 handcoloured copperplates. Bertuch wished to reproduce the magic of discovery, and mixed engravings of… Read more about this item

A beautiful guide to the identification of woods by their grains and colours, a "Cabinet of Wood." With 66 fine hand-coloured engraved plates depicting over 550 types of European and exotic woods from India, China and America in cross section, each with a page of wood names in Dutch, German, French, English and Latin. The title page states that the book… Read more about this item

First edition of this rare illustrated introduction to meteorological, geological, terrestrial and marine phenomena aimed at students. The 36 (of 37) dramatic lithographs were drawn and printed by the Strasbourg engraver Emile Lemaitre, handfinished in color and gum arabic. The phenomena include meteorological (sunrise, lightning, the Aurora Borealis, tides and rainbows), geological (mines, gold fields and volcanoes), as well as terrestrial wonders… Read more about this item