Illustriert with 267 hand colored engravings of flowrs, herbs and medical plants.

2 leaves, 84 pp.; engraved title- and end-vignette in text, 184 engravings on 47 leaves. First folio edition. Primary leaf (De Europische Insecten), title printed in red and black with hand colored vignette. Illustrated with 184 carefully finely hand colored engravings printed on 47 leaves. Each of the engravings show mostly scenes of decorative flowers and various caterpillars with their appropriate butterflies. The plates originate after Maria Sybilla Merian's own observations and were published for the first time in her 'Raupenbuch', a quart-edition between 1679 und 1717. Maria Sybilla Merian belonged to the first scientists, who watched the insects in a systematic order and she also took a significant part in the investigation of the metamorphosis of the butterflies. With the publication of her books the new knowledge was spread out to a larger circle of the population lived in those days. Theis example is very well preserved, the engravings are probably later colored and are printed on Dutch paper with wide margins in excellent quality. This is the first folio edition and the first appearance of the full suite of Maria Sybilla Merian's plates of the European insects, the companion and complement to her great Surinam work. It is as remarkable for its botanical as for its entomological content: the insects are presented in different stages of metamorphosis on and around flowers. In addition, some Surinamese insects are figured as well, these deriving from Johanna's drawings. Finely hand colored throughout, occasionally minor spotting in text or margins. Rebound in a wine red calf binding, the spine in seven compartments and richly gilt, the covers with decorative blind stamping with gilt fillets to board and spine.

First (- fourth) part. (Part 4 described and edited by C. F. C. Kleemann). 4 vols. Nbg., Fleischmann for d. Author or Rösel Erben (Tl. 4), 1746-61. 4°. With 1 portrait of Rösels v. Kleemann after von der Smissen, d. G. Windter, 3 color. copper tit. after Gabler u. 285 (st. 286) partly found. colour. copperplate of the author Ldr. i.e. Zt. with Rverg. u. Rsch., cover with blind embossing. (3) and Hldr. i.e. Zt. (part 4). First edition of one of the best known and most beautiful entomolog. Works from the 18th century, continued by his son-in-law Kleemann after Rösel's death (1759). – Vol. 1: 121 illustrations on 78 plates. Vol. 2: 75 (st. 76) plates. Vol. 3: 101 illustrations on 92 plates. Plates 90 and 91 printed in colour. Vol. 4: 40 plates – Text collation: Vol. 1: 24 ll., 64 pp., 4 ll., 60 pp., 4 ll., 64 pp., 4 ll., 312 pp., 4 ll., 48, 48 p.., 12 ll. Reg. Vol. 2: 4 ll., 72, 28, 16 pp., 2 ll., 32 pp., 4 ll., 76, 200, 64, 52 pp., 10 ll. Reg. Vol. 3: 4 ll., 624 pp., 4 ll. Reg. Vol. 4: 6 ll., 48, 264 pp., 2 ll. – In vol. 2 at the beginning of the chapter "Erd-Kefer 1st Class" the plate V is missing. First edition of the,Der monatlich-hrsg. Insecten-Belustigung...' (Insect Entertainment), which is one of the most oustanding published entomological works of the eighteenth century. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (1705-1759) was a talented engraver and miniature painter in Nürnberg. Rösel von Rosenhof has engraved and drawn the plates himself. Overall a very well preserved set of these four volumes bound in contemporary full leather bindings of the period. All engraved plates throughout in fine hand coloring of the period, occasionally the paper or plates minor browned or toned. Illustrated with 3 fine engraved allegoric title pages, the engraved portait of Rosenhof in volume four and a total 285 (286) hand colored, partly folded engraved plates. Lacking plate V (Erd-kefer erster KLasse) depicting insects among them beautiful engraved butterflies, caterpillars, beetles, haystacks, dragonflies and many other species. Volume four was published 1761 two years after Rösel's death by his son in law C. Kleemann. He also was working as a miniature painter in Nürnberg. The bindings minor rubbed at the corners & edges, overall very good.

3rd volume of David Dietrich's Flora of Germany. David Nathaniel Friedrich Dietrich (3 October 1800 – 23 December 1888) was German botanist and gardener. Dietrich's birth year is listed as 1799 and 1800. He was born in Ziegenhain. In 1828 Dietrich worked as a botanical gardener in Jena. In 1836 he received his doctorate at the University of Jena, and later served as a curator at the botanical garden in Jena. He was the nephew of the botanist Friedrich Gottlieb Dietrich (1765-1850). Dietrich wrote pamphlets on poisonous plants, mosses, and forest flora and fauna of Germany as well as several botanical encyclopedias. His five-volume, 1839-1852 Synopsis Plantarum included about 80,000 species and 524 genera. The five-volume Flora of Germany published from 1833 to 1864 contains 1150 colored panels. The two-volume Forst Flora and the 476 booklets of the comprehensive Flora Universalis are his most famous work. (Wikipedia) Illustrated with 240 hand colored engravings (numbered 1-240); p. 207-242 index.

With engraved frontispiz and a folded map of the surrounding of Altdorf. Moritz Hoffmann (born September 20, 1621 in Fürstenwalde; died April 20, 1698 in Altdorf near Nuremberg) was a German physician. Moritz Hofmann was the son of the mayor David Hofmann and his wife Anna Nößler, daughter of the Berlin court chaplain Martin Nößler (1554-1608). After the death of his parents, he was brought up by his uncle Georg Nößler in Altdorf and studied medicine here and in Padua. According to his own statement, as a student in Padua in 1641 he discovered the excretory duct of the pancreas (Ductus pancreaticus) while dissecting a turkey and shared this with his teacher Johann Georg Wirsung, who found it on a human corpse in Padua a year later. Since Hofmann never published his discovery, most medical historians believe that Wirsung was the first to describe the pancreatic duct. In 1648 Hofmann became a professor of medicine in Altdorf and in 1653 also of botany. In 1655 he held the first public anatomy in Altdorf. In addition to building the anatomical theater, Moritz Hofmann founded a chemical laboratory in Altdorf. In 1649 he married Anna Margaretha Saturday (1627–1663). The son Johann Moritz (1653-1727) also became a professor of anatomy, chemistry and botany in Altdorf.

No title, 84 pp., Illustrated with 20 hand colored engraved plates. 4to. Publication on poisonous plants by Johann Friedrich Brand and by Phoebus & Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg. The book describes flowers, medical and poisonous plants. Original half leather binding, spine in four compartments. Covers with original linen as published. Illustrated woth twenty decorative fine hand colored engravings of flowers, medical and poisonous plants.

Botanical book with 92 full page hand colored copper engravings, title vignette 2 unnum. leaves (incl. title), 163 pp. Rare Pharmaceutical Handbook; the only edition of this work, which was published in 17 parts. "The author not only made sure to describe the plants correctly; he also tried to teach them how to use them excellently" (preface).- The beautiful plates by J. F. Volkart mostly each with several depictions of plants on each plate. "...This work is particularly intended for young pharmacists and farmers, and should serve as a guide for them to acquire knowledge of the most common plants" (from the preface). The panels with depictions of European medicinal plants, coffee, cacoa, citrus fruits, vanilla, indigo, etc. The triple register lists the plants occurring alphabetically according to their German-Latin and Latin-German names as well as the diseases that can be treated with medicinal plants. - Carl Christian Wilhelm Juch (1772-1821) pharmacist, chemist, author of numerous scientific works. 1801 Professor of medicine and chemistry at the University of Altdorf near Nuremberg. From 1805 he taught in Munich, from 1808 in Augsburg. His translation and commentary of the «Pharmacopoea Borussica», 1805, made an important contribution to the development of pharmacy.

With lithograph portrait of the author, lithograph title and illustrated with 50 fine chromolithograph plates. Thomas George Gentry (February 28, 1843 – 1905) was an American educator, ornithologist, naturalist and animal rights writer. Gentry authored an early work applying the term intelligence to plants. Gentry was born in Holmesburg, Philadelphia. In 1861, he entered the profession of teaching in Philadelphia. He was elected principal of Southwest Boys' Grammar School in 1884. He married Mary Shoemaker on December 27, 1864. He received the Sc.D. from Chicago College of Science in 1888. He resided in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Gentry was an elected member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Canadian Entomological Society and the Nuttall Ornithological Club. He authored scientific articles in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences and The Auk. (Wikipedia) All plates are throughout very clean, the chromolithographs printed in decorative colors.

Sm.-Fol. Contemp. calf. Engraved vignette, illustrated with 665 engravings on 334 plates, at all with 1327 numbered illustrations (not counting the engraved title). 6 unnumm. leaves, 8, 140, XXVI pp.; The Dominican monch Jacques Barrelier had to compile, supported by Gaston, a 'Hortus mundi'. It was never finished and finally 1714 by Abtoine de Jussieu under the above title published. The book comprises illustrations of botanical subjects, collected during his travels through the Provence, Languedoc, Spain and Italy. The last three plates are showing shells and snaill shells.

5 volumes, large folio (531 x 354 mm). Dedication leaf, list of subscribers, list of plates, 448 hand-colored lithographed plates, the majority drawn and lithographed by Elizabeth Gould from sketches and designs by the author, the remainder drawn and lithographed by Edward Lear, some heightened with white or gum Arabic. Gould's second major work, The Birds of Europe, was published in twenty-two parts over five years between 1832 and 1837. This work is notable for the contribution of Edward Lear, who produced 67 of the plates. As Isabella Tree notes, "in volume Lear's contribution may not have been prolific, but its impact was revelatory. Lear's participation transformed the work of Mrs. Gould, which in the Himalayan Birds was little more than a continuation of eighteenth-century productions, into dynamic and expressive works of art. Like an ornithological Michelangelo he propelled her limited sense of perspective into the third dimension" (Isabella Tree, The Ruling Passion of John Gould, p. 43). Exlibris: Library Carnegie Museum of Natural History

13 volumes illustrated with 310 (312) hand colored engravings. In total 1240 hand colored flowering plants. Each plate with four fine hand coloured flowers by S. Watts engraved after E. Maund, Mills and Ed. Smith. Illustrated with beautiful hand colored engravings of flower pictures. Each plate is illustrated with four engravings of flowering plants, followed by a detailed description of each plant on a separate text page. The last two plates of volume 13 were not bound into this volume, the text is ending with the description of plate no. 1240. It seems, that the last two plates of volume 13 were not bound into that volume, after the description of plate no. 1240 the following text pp. 97-140,Simplification of protective structures in out-door gardening' by R. Errington is bound to the end of the volume. All plates throughout finely hand coloured and clean. Benjamin Maund (1790–1863) was a British pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller, fellow of the Linnean Society (1827) and publisher of the Botanic Garden and The Botanist. He served on the committee of the Worcestershire Natural History Society where he started a monthly botanical publication. Starting in 1825, Maund produced The Botanic Garden from his press at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. The 13 volumes of this periodical depicted with great delicacy ornamental flowering plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens and was dedicated to the young Queen Victoria. Eminent botanical artists such as Augusta Innes Withers, Edwin D. Smith, Mrs. Edward Bury and Maund's own daughter contributed to the work. The work was published by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy of London. (Wikipedia)

6 vol. Large-8vo. First edition. Series I & II, each series is bound in 3 volumes. Contemporary half green morrocco bindings with marbled boards. Corners also covered with leather. The spines with glit letter-pressed titles in five compartments. A fine set. Illustrated with 318 fine hand colored lithograph plates, which are throughout extremely clean and in vivid hand color. The 318 fine hand colored lithograph plates depicting shells, humming birds and butterflies. A lovely set with one of the most beautiful illustrated works on shells. Further his illustations of humming birds and butterflies are outstanding, too.Bound with the indexes for the various sections, also each of the plates with an accompanying page of text, describing the individual bird, insect or shells.