Natural History from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

New Haven, Connecticut: William Reese Company 8vo (23 cm), upaginated, 336 entries. Printed wrappers.

Oxford University Press, 1975 3 volumes 4to (27.5 cm), front., XXVI, 290 pp; XVI, 748 pp, 30 plates; front., XVII, 142 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (minor shelf-wear). A renowned reference work that provides a comprehensive overview of botanical and horticultural literature produced in Britain prior to the year 1800. Henrey meticulously catalogs and describes a vast array of botanical… Read more about this item

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1972 4to (25.5 cm), front., X, 262 pp, 3 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket, top edge painted blue (minor shelf-wear). A comprehensive account of significant books on science appearing in English over three centuries, with extensive bibliographies and over 100 illustrations.

Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2008 4to (28.5 cm), 279 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear, bookplate). "Making knowledge visible" is how one 16th-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. Presenting images found throughout Europe in works on natural history, medicine, botany, horticulture, and garden design, and studies of insects, birds, and animals, the… Read more about this item

London: J. S. Seaton & Co., 1973 16mo (16.5 cm), 22 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers foxed). Limited to 66 copies. Together with: Supplementa Sowerbiana or, a Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Written or Illustrated by Members of the Sowerby Family. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1969. 8vo (23.5 cm), 20 pp. Without wrappers as issued, head slightly foxed. Entries 1500-1720, a supplement… Read more about this item

London: The British Museum (Natural History), 1971 8vo (24.5 cm), [4] pp, PP. 79-204. Printed wrappers (spine sunned). Offprint from the "Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History Historical", Vol. 4, No. 2.

Strasbourg: Oberlin, 1945 Portfolio 21.5 x 15 cm, two pamphlets in German 12+4 pp, and French 12+4 pp, 36 plates, loosely inserted letter (small tears at the head and the tail of the spine, title in manuscript on the title, ownership signature on the upper flap, paper slightly browned). This portfolio was published in German in 1944 by Braun &… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 1998 8vo (24 cm), X, 422 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The book is the eighth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in 'Natural History' magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion,… Read more about this item

Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), xxxvi, 277 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "An Oak Spring Pomona" is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts… Read more about this item

Lannoo Publishers, 2016 Folio (55 cm), 200 pp. Laminated boards, in the publisher's slipcase (minor shelf-wear). "This facsimile of one of the most beautiful books of natural history ever created contains sixty magnificent illustrations showing exotic insects, with the original descriptions. The reissue is the same size as the original and is enriched with an illustrated introduction about the life,… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's, 1967 8vo (24.5 cm), 73 pp. Printed wrappers. Priced in pencil. Price list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of a sale at Sotheby's in London on 13 March 1967. 318 lots.

London: Sotheby's, 1987 4to (27.5 cm), 428 pp. Publisher's cloth. Price-list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of a sale of magnificent collection of botanical books formed by Belgian collector Robert de Belder (1921-1995). Highlights included Besler's Hortus Eystettensis in contemporary coloring (GBP 605,000), Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1730-1747, GBP 165,000), large paper copy of… Read more about this item

St Paul's Bibliographies, 1990 8vo (23 cm), XVII, 182 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. A bibliography of Nehemiah Grew, (1641-1712), a pioneer in exploring the physiology of plants and the comparative anatomy of animals, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy".

St Pauls Bibliographies, 1981 8vo (22.5 cm), XIV, 52 pp. Publisher's cloth. Signed by the author. The edition limited to 350 copies, the first book edition. A bibliography of the works of English naturalist and physician Martin Lister (1639 -1712), whose main work, "Historiae Conchyliorum" was published in 1685 - 1692. His daughters Anne and Susanna were his illustrators.

Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 1927 2 volumes 8vo (24 cm), XXIII, 470 pp; [4], 384 pp. Uncut in printed wrappers (wrappers slightly toned and frayed at extremities). In Polish. A comprehensive bibliography of Polish fauna up to the year 1880, meticulously compiled by zoologist and explorer Antoni Władysław Jakubski (1885-1962) in collaboration with Maria Dyrdowska. 12 309 entries.

Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989 4to (29.5 cm), xxvii, 149 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "An Oak Spring Sylva" is the first of a series of discursive catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. Each volume in the Oak Spring series will… Read more about this item

Namur: Bibliothèque Universitaire Moretus Plantin, 1992 4to (26 cm), [4], 268 pp. Printed wrappers. Вescribed and illustrated 75 books on fruits from the collection of Bibliothèque Universitaire Moretus Plantin.

Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), xxxvi, 277 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "An Oak Spring Pomona" is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit,… Read more about this item

London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1990 4to (30.5 cm), XI, 189 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The most comprehensive illustrated guide to collectible colorplate flower books ever published. Originally published in 1956 in a limited edition the book is a celebration of the world's greatest natural history monographs, of the artists and craftsmen, entrepreneurs and patrons who… Read more about this item

London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1990 4to (30.5 cm), XI, 180 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The lavishly illustrated, impeccably researched volume is a tribute to the world's greatest natural history monographs. It is one of the most comprehensive illustrated guide in collectible colorplate books ever published. The ultimate tool for the collector, its comprehensive, scholarly bibliography… Read more about this item