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[Elch Moose]
One Latin text page with on recto a wood cut illustration of an Elch Moose (11,5 x 16 cm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
[River horse]
On verso a presentation of a river horse, a fantastic animal. From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Seb...
Place & Date: Basle 1575 - 1580
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2015
Rhino. On verso elephant.
An early representation of a Rhino.VERSO: an early depiction of an elephant carrying people in a basket.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compen...
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $125
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[Crocodile]
On recto a crocodile and on verso an early birds-eye Alexandria in Egypt.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
Nigra Sylva olim pars Herciniae Sylvae.
On recto an early scene showing the Foret Noire with different animals (a wolf, dear, bear, etc. (Print : 77x150 mm).From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that gr...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
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'Crab and lobster'.
A copper engraving. Print showing 2 lovely crustaceans.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
'Lions'.
A copper engraving. Print showing lions in different poses.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
'Peacocks'.
A copper engraving. Print showing peacocks in different poses.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Grijphus, Grijps, Hippopotanus. . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing a griffin and two sorts of hippopotamus, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
Draco hipes apteros in Agro Bononiensi. . . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing four dragons, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of Frankfurt of 1650-53 illust...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Utilis Piscis serram ad instar Picis habens. Delphinus prior, Delphin. . .
Decorative and early copper engraving showing a narwhale and four dolphins, from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of Frankfurt o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
(Three plates showing tigers, leopards, lion, etc, etc.)
Two pages from the first and only but very important Dutch edition of this curious and comprehensive zoological work, richly illustrated with excellent copper engravings,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $96
Sold in 2017
The Bass Island: Soland Goose; Heron; Sea Gull; Wild Duck; Curlew.
The Bass Island etching by Francis Barlow and engraved by Francis Place is from a work dedicated to Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale in 1686. On lined paper with ...
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2017
[Snakes and Birds.]
Print from Albertus Seba's 'Thesaurus', showing snakes and birds. Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was a Dutch apothecary, zoölogist, author, collector and owner of a 'Cabinet ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1735
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Histoire Naturelle, Phoques.
An interesting plate showing four types of seal. Probably from a work by Diderot named Encyclopedia oder Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers.
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1756
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2019
La Brebis
Decorative copper engraving from "Histoire naturelle" by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON, this great naturalist (1707-88) spent the greater part of his l...
Place & Date: Paris 1758
Selling price: $30
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[Four butterflies on one sheet]
Beautifully hand-colored copper engraving of 4 butterflies on one sheet, from "Beyträge zur Natur- oder Insecten-Geschichte." By the engraver and publisher Chr...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1761
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Two Pythons, Scarlet Ibis and Shama.
Plate LXII from Albertus Seba's 'Thesaurus', displaying a pair of snakes, a scarlet Ibis and a small bird on a branch. Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was a Dutch apothecary, z...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1734-1769
Selling price: $285
Sold in 2021
[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1774
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
[Insects]
Decorative plate from Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printed by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1774
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
[Insects] Plate XXI
Decorative plate from ''Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes.'' Engraved by Ludwig Schmidt after Jablonsky. Printe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1774
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2009
Anatra col collare dell'Isola di Terra Nuova.
A rare print of a Newfoundland duck, being plate DLXXV from the publication: 'Ornitologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illumitatis ornata, latine et i...
Place & Date: Florence, 1767-1776
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Histoire Naturelle.Vers Testaces a Coquille Multivalve...
Complicated engraving depicting Barnacles.
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2013
Spotted Brown Snake (No Title).
Striking large hand-colored, copper plate of a spotted snake. From Buchoz's book "Histoire Naturelle". Pierre-Joseph Buchoz (1731- 1807) was a French physician,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
Selling price: $6
Sold in 2016
Le Grand Barbet [Pl. 26]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
L'Âne.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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L'Axis Femelle [Pl. 151]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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Le Dogue de Forte Race.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Chien D'Islande.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $100
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Le Basset A Jambes Torses.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Braque de Bengale [Pl. 23]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Le Petit Barbet.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2022
Le Pyrame.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
Le Basset à jambes Torses.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
Le Mâtin.
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
Le Chien Courant [Pl. 21]
A charming plate from "Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière," Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Buffon's magnum opus and "the most celebrate...
Place & Date: Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1783
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2022
The Toco.
Hand colored copper engraving representing a Toco Toucan carrying a fruit with his beak from General Synopsis of Birds by John A. Latham (1740?1837) who was the pre?emine...
Place & Date: London 1781-1785
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
Perruche à front jaune, de Cayenne.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
Casoar, des Indes Orientales.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
1. Manakin à tête d'or. / 2. Manakin à tête blanche. / 3. Manakin rouge.
From Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.Drawn and engraved by Martinet from the bird section of Buffon's works.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770-1786
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
1. Le Râle Huppé, de Caienne éspéce nouvelle. / 2. La petite Marouette de la Guyanne.
Last production, and his most refined, of François Nicolas Martinet's famous birds. The plates are smaller than the ones he made for Buffon or Brisson.From Histoire des ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790-1796
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2011
Stromboli.
From the famous book of Spallanzani Reise in beyden Sizilien a spectacular view of the volcanic area of the Italian island of Stromboli.
Place & Date: Leipzig, ca. 1800
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2021
L\'Ara Militaire. Pl. 4.
Superb representation of a parrot belonging to the species of the Military Macaw (Ara militaris) which occupies a massive but fragmented range from Mexico to Argentina.Fr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1801
Selling price: $370
Sold in 2008
Le Calibée.
An attractive representation of a bird by François Levaillant in 1801. From Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Améerique et des Indes : ou...
Place & Date: Paris 1801
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Charles Bonnet, F.R.S., Author of the Contemplation of Nature
A portrait of Charles Bonnet, one of the best known naturalists of the 1700's.Bonnet is surrounded by "THE CHAIN OF NATURE" with 17 fine vignettes of animals an...
Place & Date: London, 1802
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2019
Le S. Rouge-Dorée.
A very rare print of a humming bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his deat...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
Le S. Brun et Blanc. Pl.81.
A very rare print of a humming bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops, by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his deat...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2011
Le S. Violet. Pl.12
A very rare print of a humming bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops , by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his dea...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Selling price: $360
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Le Promerops Rayé. Pl.7.
A very rare print of a humming bird from Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops , by Jean Baptiste Audebert. Before his dea...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800-1802
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2008
[Butterflies]
Plate CLIX from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablon...
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Ours blanc du nord. Dessine d'apres nature par Huet fils peintre de la menagerie de sa majeste. . .
A very rare and large print of a polar bear. From a series of images of the zoological garden "Jardin des Plantes" which also included a "Menagerie". ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1808
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2020
Le Sieriner. Planche 82.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Le Quadricolor.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris 1796-1808
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2008
Le Bacbakiri.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. After Reinold and engraved by Claude Fessard.Levaillant's interest in na...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
La Pie Rousse.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2016
Le Minule.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
Le Piacpiac.
Very decorative plate from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique , published by Delachaussée. Levaillant's interest in natural history led him to explore Africa as th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796-1808
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2020
Mollusques et Zoophytes [plate XXXI]
Plate illustrating molluscs and zoohytes by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Mollusques et Zoophytes [plate XXX]
Plate illustrating molluscs and zoohytes by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Mollusques et Zoophytes [plate XXIX]
Plate illustrating molluscs and zoohytes by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile Decres. Details du Casoar. [plate XLI]
Details of the Australian flightless bird, the Cassowary. Details include, head and beak, tail feathers, plumes, claw etc. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australe...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
Colombar Capelle, male
Original handcolored copperplate engraving from Temmnick's Nouveau Receuil des Planches coloriees d'oiseau. (New Collection of Colored Plates of Birds) this print is name...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1825
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2010
Autour radieux, jeune. Autour tyran. Autour a calotte noire.
3 original handcolored copperplate engravings from Temmnick's Nouveau Receuil des Planches coloriees d'oiseau. (New Collection of Colored Plates of Birds) these prints ar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1825
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2010
[ Douroucoulis monkey of Spanish Guinea ].
Aquatint depicting the Douroucoulis monkey of Spanish Guinea. The Night monkeys, also known as the Owl monkeys or Douroucoulis, are the members of the genus Aotus of New ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
[ Fauna in Colombia: a bird and a monkey ].
Aquatint depicting the Simia Leonida and Andean Condor in Colombia. Engraved by Gallina.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouverneme...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $64
Sold in 2009
Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie.. [Planche 21].
An attractive collection of shells. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) ,Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la Z...
Place & Date: Paris, 1833
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2011
Voyage de la Fregate la Venus.. [Planche 22].
An attractive collection of shells. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) ,Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la Z...
Place & Date: Paris, 1833
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
1. Turdoïde de Gourdin. 2. Stourne Fulvipenne.
An attractive print with two birds. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la ZÃ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1833
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie.. [Planche 14].
An attractive collection of shells. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la ZÃ...
Place & Date: Paris 1833
Selling price: $80
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Voyage de la Fregate la Venus.. [Planche 10].
An attractive collection of shells. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la ZÃ...
Place & Date: Paris 1833
Selling price: $140
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Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie.. [Planche 21].
An attractive collection of shells. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la ZÃ...
Place & Date: Paris 1833
Selling price: $80
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Le Perroquet gris / Le Perroquet vert.
Decorative lithography from a later edition of ,Histoire naturelle, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON, this great naturalist (1707-88) spent the greater part of h...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
[Shells] Planche 3.
An attractive collection of shells and two snails. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Ast...
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
[Shells] Planche 8.
An attractive collection of shells. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la ZÃ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Pione Hétéroclite. . .
An attractive plate of five parakeets, engraved by Jazerand after Oudart. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2017
[Shells] Planche 13.
An attractive collection of shells. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'Astrolabe et la ZÃ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2015
Panda, Paradoxures, etc [4 prints]
Decorative copper engravings for Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON, this great naturalist (1707-88) spent the greater part of his life at his chateau de Montbard and...
Place & Date: France 1838-1850
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2011
OISEAUX. 1. L'Ara bleu - 2. L'Ara rouge.
Noteworthy bird print engraved by Massard after a drawing by Vauthier.
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1850
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2011
OISEAUX. 1. Le Lori rouge - 2. La Perruche à collier rose. - 3. La grande Perruche à longs trins.
Noteworthy bird print engraved by Lecerf after a drawing by Vauthier.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1850
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
OISEAUX. 1. Le Lori noira - 2. Le Lori cramoisi. - 3. Le Lori tricolor.
Noteworthy bird print engraved by Aubert after a drawing by Vauthier.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1850
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2011