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4989 GAMES AND SPORTS. ARCUSSIA (Charles, Seigneur d'Esparron) la Fauconnerie, avec une instruction pour traitter les Autours, 12mo. wanting pp. 13132, 10 plates of Falcons, limp vellum, very rare, £2. Paris, 1599 4990 BERJEAU, Varieties of Dogs, as found in old Sculpture, Pictures, Engravings and Books, showing how long many of the breeds now existing have been known, sq. 8vo. 52 plates, containing upwards of 100 specimens, some very grotesque, new in cloth, 10s 6d 1863 4991 BLOME (R.) GENTLEMAN'S RECREATION, in two parts; the first being an Encyclopædia of Arts and Sciences; the second of HORSEMANSHIP, HAWKING, HUNTING, FOWLING, and FISHING, with a treatise of Cock Fighting, large folio, frontispiece and about 100 plates, calf, Lord Macaulay's copy, £4.4s 1686

A copy fetched, 1858, at Sotheby's, russia, £4. 10s.

4992 BOOK OF SAINT ALBANS. The Book containing the treatises of Hawking, Hunting, Coat-Armour, Fishing, and Blasing of Arms [by DAME JULIANA BERNERS], reprinted in black and red type, after Wynkyn de Worde's Edition of 1496, with Introduction, biographical and bibliographical notices, by Haslewood, folio, imp. 8vo. numerous curious woodcuts, including many coats of Arms, &c. hf. bd. uncut, £8. 88 1810

4993 CORSINI (Accursio) Apologetico della Caccia, ove dopò narrati i vitij da scrittori rimproverati scopronsi le sue virtu, etc. sm. 4to. limp vel. 25s Bergamo, 1626 4994 ESPINAR (M. de) Arte de BALLESTERIA, y Monteria, escrita con metodo, par escusar la fatiga que ocasiona la ignorancia, sq. 8vo. fine copy, plates of Hunting, etc. 24s Madrid, 1644 4995 STRADANI VENATIONES Ferarum, Avium, Piscium; Pugnæ Pestiariorum, et Mutua Bestiarum, obl. folio, frontispiece and 87 large engravings of all kinds of Hunting, engraved by Collaert, Galle, &c. early and very fin impressions of the plates, old calf, £2. 12s 6d (Antv. 1578) Venationis omne genus, Aucupii Piscatusque, ob'. sm. folio, another and varying edition of the above work, 44 plates (1-44) calf, 18s

FIRST EDITION, RARE, Priced, 1826, Salva, L. P., £3. 3s. "Volume peu commun."-Brunet.

4996

A copy with the entire series of 104 plates priced, 1856, Foss, 100 fr.

1578

4997 ATTI della RIUNIONE degli SCIENZIATI ITALIANI, tenuti in Pisa, Torino, Firenze, Padova, Lucca, Milano, e Napoli, dalla prima istituzione nel 1839 sino al 1845, coi Diarij delle III-VII Riunioni (none was published for the first and second years) 1841-45, together 12 vols. in 13, roy. 4to. plates, a vast repertory of Literary and Scientific articles, corresponding exactly to the British Association Reports, very neatly hf. bd. £5. Pisa, etc. Napoli, 1840-46 4998 ALDROVANDI (Ulyssis) Opera: Ornithologia, 3 vols. 1599-1645-de Insectis, 1638-Animalia exanguia, mollia, crustacea, etc. 1642-Pisces et Cetae, 1638— Quadrupedes solidipedes, 1639-Quadrupedes Bisulci, 1642-Quadrupedes digitati, 1645-Serpentes et Dracones, 1640-Monstrorum historia cum paralip. hist. omnium Animalium, 1642—together 11 vols. folio, several hundred woodcuts, fine copies in old blue MOROCCO, gilt edges, £10. 10s Bononiae, 1599-1645 4999 ARCHIMEDIS Opera quae extant, novis demonstrationibus illustrata per D. Rivaltium à Flurantia, folio, numerous woodcuts, old calf, 7s 6d; or a fine copy in the original stamped bdg. 12s Paris, 1615 4999*BELON (P.) Histoire de la Nature des Oyseaux, 7 Books in 1 vol. sm. folio, about 100 fine woodcuts, 4 pp. in MS., vellum, 10s Paris, 1555 5000 BEWICK'S (Thos.) History of QUADRUPEDS, FIRST EDITION, 8vo. upwards of 200 cuts, fine impressions, hf. green morocco, £2. 12s Newcastle, 1790 5000*BLONDEL (F.) Thermarum Aquisgranensium, et Porcetanarum elucidatio et Thaumaturgia, sq. 8vo. portrait and curious engravings representing Vapour, Shower, and other Baths, bd. rare, 7s Aquisgr. (Aix la Chapelle) 1688 5001 BUC'HOZ, Herbier ou Collection des Plantes Médicinales de la Chine, d'après un MS. peint et unique dans la Bibliotheque de l'Empereur de la Chine, roy. folio, consisting of 100 FINELY COLOURED plates, subscribed "peint à la Chine,' no text ever published, bds. 36s Paris, 1781 5001*BURMEISTER, Genera Insectorum, Vol. I: Rhynchota, in 10 parts, roy. 8vo. 40 finely coloured plates, (pub. at 10 Thalers) 10s Berol. 1840-46 5002 CAMUS, Cours de Mathématique, trois parties: Arithmétique, Géometrie, Méchanique Statique, 4 vols. 8vo. numerous diagrams, calf, 15s Paris, 1749-52

Mentioned in De Bure as very rare.

Priced, Thorpe, £6. 6s.

5003 CARDANI OPERA OMNIA, aucta, et emendata curâ Caroli Sponii, 10 vols. folio, fine clean copy, in old calf, gilt backs, scarce, £4. 4s Lugduni, 1663 5004 CHASLES, Recherches de Géométrie Pure sur les lignes et les surfaces du second degré, 1829- Propriétés générales des Cônes du 2e degré, 1830– Coniques Sphériques, 1831-3 vols. in 1, 4to. bds. 36s Bruxelles, 1829-31 Aperçu historique sur l' Origine et le développement des Méthodes en Géométrie, suivi d'un Mémoire de Géometrie, stout 4to. hf. bd. out of print, and EXTREMELY RARE, £6. 10s 5005*CASTELLUS de Hyaena Odorifera, 16mo. old blue morocco, gilt edges, 5s Fran. 1668 5006 CURIEUSE KUNST und WERCK-SCHUL, I: Feuer-Kunst, stout sq. 8vo. 1414 pp. frontispiece and woodcuts, vellum, 12s Nürnberg, 1705

5005

Bruxelles, 1837

1823-40

A curious work, in five books: Metallurgy; Pottery; Earthenware; etc. Glass Manufactures; Precious Stones; Chemical and Medicinal Secrets. 5006*CURTIS' BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY, roy. 8vo. a set of the illustrations, without text, not quite complete, but containing 706 plates, upwards of 400 being BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED, £6. 5007 DISCIPLINAE MATHEMATICAE in quibus se exercuit-directore Ciermans, sm. folio, engraved title, and numerous plates representing Machinery and Scientific operations, etc. vellum, rare, 21s Lovanii, 1639 5008 DONOVAN'S EXOTIC INSECTS. HARRIS' Exposition of English Insects, 15 plates, 1782-DONOVAN'S Insects of CHINA, 50 plates, 1798; of INDIA and the Indian Islands, 58 plates, 1800; of NEW HOLLAND, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other Islands in the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans, 42 plates, 1805--together 4 vols. roy. 4to. with 201 FINELY COLOURED plates, uniformly bound in green morocco extra, (pub. at £19. 16s) broad borders of gold, gilt edges, £10. 1782-1805 5009 ENTOMOLOGIST'S Weekly Intelligencer, complete from the beginning in April 1856 to its termination in Sept. 1861, Vols. I-X-The Substitute, (continuation of the Intelligencer) Nos. 1-11, 13-20 -- together 280 Nos. 8vo. and sm. 8vo. out of print and rare, £2. 10s 1656-62 5010 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S TRANSACTIONS and Proceedings, First Series, 5 vols. 1836-49-NEW SERIES, Vols. I; II; III, pts. 1-7; IV, pts, 1-7; V, pts. 1, 2, 1850-59-together 10 vols. 8vo. numerous beautifully coloured plates, seven vols. very neat in hf. calf gilt, and 16 parts, £10. 1833-59

5011 ENTOMOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, from the beginning in 1832 to 1838, 5 vols. 8vo. plates, some coloured, cloth, uncut, £3. 10s

1832-8 This periodical numbered among its contributors the most eminent Entomologists of the day, including Curtis, Westwood, Newman, Walker, Halliday, and others. 5012 EUCLIDIS Elementorum libri xv, Graece, 12mo. second edition, calf, very rare,

18s

Romae, 1545

Priced, Thorpe, £2. 12s 6d; the above copy is bound up with several rare carly works, Psellus, Ptolemy, etc. upon Geometry and Arithmetic. 5013 FINEI (Orontii) de Solaribus Horologiis et Quadrantibus libri quatuor, sm. 4to. numerous woodcuts and diagrams, fine copy in vellum neat, rare, 15s Paris. 1560 5014 GALILEI (GALILEO) OPERE, PRIMA EDIZIONE COMPLETA, condotta sugli autentici manoscritti palatini (per cura di Eugenio Alberi), col SUPPLEMENTO, 17 vols. large 8vo. including Galileo's correspondence, about 1600 letters, portrait and numerous plates, sd. uncut, £5. Firenze, 1842-56 5015 GEER (Charles de) Memoires pour servir à l' HISTOIRE DES INSECTES, 7 vols. in 8, stout 4to. portrait and 238 fine plates containing several thousand figures, a very fine copy in old French marbled calf extra, gilt edges, very rare, £12. 12s Stockholm, 1752-78

Priced, 1824, Wood, £18. 18s; 1830, £21.; Hibbert's copy fetched £15. 15s "Cet ouvrage, un des meilleurs que nous ayons sur cette partie de l'histoire naturelle, est fort recherché et difficile à trouver. Le premier volume surtout est fort rare parceque l'auteur, mécontent de son peu de succès, détruisit, dit-on, une partie de l'édition."-BRUNET.

5016 GOULD'S BIRDS OF ASIA, Parts 1-14, imp. folio, with 231 large and beautifully coloured plates, (pub. at £44. 2s) bds. £33. 1850-62 A magnificent work, containing the finest specimens of Mr. Gould's artistic power and scientific knowledge. 5916*HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE de tous les OYSEAUX de l' Univers, 3 vols. in 1, stout roy. folio, neat old MS. in a Flemish hand, 747 pp. bound in old blue morocco, gilt edges, £2. 2s ca. 1690 Containing a curious chapter "Du vray Dieu ayant des Ailes." 5017 HORSFIELD's Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the East India Company, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 15s

1854-58

5018 HUEBNER'S Sammlung EUROPÄISCHER SCHMETTERLINGE, nebst Fortsetzung von Geyer, 9 vols. in 4, 1805-41-GESCHICHTE Europäischer Schmetterlinge, nebst Fortsetzung, 9 vols. in 4 divisions, 1805-41-together 18 vols. 4to. containing 701 and 432 beautifully coloured plates, divided as below; with 1 vol. containing portion of the text to both works (pp. 1-194 and 1-32) £18. Augsb. 1806-41

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88 plates in the Sammlung, and 16 plates in the Geschichte, are wanting to make the set of plates complete. The two works were published at 350 and 200 Thalers. The former priced, 1856, £23. 10s; the latter, £13. 10s; the latter priced by Falks, in Leipzig, 90 Thalers.

5018*HUTTON'S Philosophical and Mathematical DICTIONARY, 2 vols. 4to. best edition, plates and diagrams, (pub. at £6. 6s) hf. calf, 258 Priced, 1847, £2. 12s 6d.

1815

1850

5019 KNOX, Game Birds and Wild Fowl, their friends and foes, sm. 8vo. frontispiece, cloth, 78 5019*LIBRI, Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques depuis la Renaissance, Vols. I-IV, 8vo. all published, diagrams, sd. 30s Paris, 1838-41 5020 LINNAEA ENTOMOLOGICA, Zeitschrift herausgegeben von dem Entomologischen Vereine in Stettin, Vols.I-XI, 8vo. 40 plates, (pub. at 22 Thalers, sd.) eight vols. hf. calf gilt, three sd. £3. 10s Berlin, 1846-57 5021 LINNEAN SOCIETY'S Proceedings from the commencement in November 1838 to May 1862: Proceedings, 1838-55, 2 vols.—Journal of the Proceedings, 6 Nos. 1-23, or Vols. I-VI, with the 6 Supplements-together 8 vols. 8vo. (pub. at about £5.) in Nos. £2. 16s 1838-62 5022 MACLEAY'S Hora Entomologicæ, or Essays on the Annulose Animals, Vol. I, parts 1, 2 (all pub.), in 1 vol. 8vo. 3 plates, half calf neat, rare, £2. 16s 1819-21 5023 MAGASIN DE ZOOLOGIE, publié par Guérin-Méneville, from the beginning in 1831 to 1849, the INSECTS only: First Series, 278 plates (wanting No. 22), 1831-38; Second Series, 152 plates (wanting Livraison 39, text and 3 plates), 1839-49-together 19 vols. sm. 8vo. with 330 finely coloured plates (pub. at about 270 fr.), unbd. £2. 10s Paris, 1831-49

5024 MARSHAM, Entomologia Britannica, Vol. I: Coleoptera, 8vo. all pub. half calf neat, 12s 1802 5024*MEYER'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH BIRDS and their Eggs, SECOND EDITION, 7 vols. large 8vo. with 322 FINELY COLOURED plates (pub. at £18. 10s), hf. green morocco, gilt edges, £7. 7s

A second issue of this second edition appeared in 1857, with inferior coloring in the plates.

1842-50

5025 MORRIS (Rev. F. O.) History of BRITISH BIRDS, with an illustration of each species, 6 vols. roy. 8vo. 358 finely cold. plates (pub. at £5. 2s), £3. 10s 1851-57 A copy fetched at Foster's, 1858, £6.

5026 MULSANT, Opuscules Entomologiques, 4 parts or vols. roy. 8vo. plates, sd. 20s Paris, 1852-53 5027 OLIVIER, ENTOMOLOGIE, OU HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES INSECTES, avec leurs caractères generiques et spécifiques, leur description, leur Synonymie, etc.: COLÉOPTERES, 6 vols. stout 4to. 363 plates, FINELY COLOURED, hf. bd. £15.; or a fine tall copy, 6 vols. roy. 4to. bds. uncut, with the plates bound separately in 4 vols. green MOROCCO extra, gilt edges, £15. Paris, 1789-1800 The best and most complete work upon Beetles which has yet appeared. 5028 PANZER's Kritische Revision der Insekten Faune Deutschlands, 2 vols. 12mo. 2 coloured plates, bds. 5s. Nürnb. 1805-6

5029 Index Entomologicus, Pars 1 (all pub.): Eleutherata, 12mo. 3s 6d 1813 5030 PISONIS Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, in quâ non tantùm Plantae et Animalia sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia, et mores describuntur, folio, upwards of 500 woodcuts, calf, 20s Amst. 1648 5031 QUEBEC LITERARY and HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S Transactions, Vol. I, 8vo. plates of Natural History, bds. rare, 15s Quebec, 1829

5032 RAII (Johannis) Historia Plantarum Generalis, species hactenus editas aliasque inventas complectens, cum Lexico Botanico, etc. 3 vols. folio, portrait, old calf gilt 258 28

1693

1848

5033 RALF'S British Desmidieae, roy. 8vo. 35 coloured plates, cloth, £2. 5034 RATZEBURG, die FORST-INSEKTEN, oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der in den Wäldern Preussens und der Nachbarstaaten als schädlich oder nützlich bekannt gewordenen Insecten, 3 vols. 53 plates, many coloured, and woodcuts, 1829-44-DIE ICHNEUMONEN der Forst-Insecten, ein Anhang zur Abbild. der Forst-Insecten, 3 vols. 7 plates, and several woodcuts, 1844-52-together 6 vols. 4to. three in russia extra, gilt edges, and three in bds. £7. 7s Berlin, 1729-52 5035 REGIOMONTANI (Joannis) Epytoma in Almagestum Ptolomei, sm. folio, numerous diagrams, fine large copy, hf. bd. RARE, 20s

(Venetia), Johannes Hemman de Landoia, dictus Hertzog, 1496

A work of uncommon scarcity, the sole edition printed in the XVth Century; I cannot trace the sale of one copy during the last forty years. Hain gives an exact collation, but Brunet and Panzer were ignorant of it.

5036 REISCH MARGARITA PHILOSOPHICA nova, sq. 8vo. a profusion of curious and large woodcuts, largely relating to Music, a tall copy in the original stamped binding, almost uncut, with numerous rough leaves, 15s Argent. 1512 "Ouvrage singulier et fort bien exécute, avec des figures en bois remarquables."-Brunet. "This work has exercised a great influence upon the spreading of mathematical and physical knowledge, and Chasles has proved the importance of Reisch's Encyclopædia for the History of Mathematical Sciences."-A. Von Humboldt. A work in twelve books, comprising a distinct treatise on all the seven liberal sciences."-Burney.

5037 ROESEL'S INSECTEN-BELUSTIGUNG, monatlich-herausgegeben, mit der BEYTRÄGE VON KLEEMAN, in 5 vols. stout sm. 4to. frontispieces and 376 plates of Butterflies, Caterpillars, etc. BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED, calf neat, £2. 16s

Priced, 1840, Wood, £15. 15s; in 1860, I sold a copy for £5. 58.

Nürnberg, 1746-61

COLLATION: Vol. I. Pages 64, 60, 64, 312, 48 and 48; Plates, coloured, 10, 10, 8, 63, 13 and 17.-Vol. II. Pages 24, 72, 38, 16, 32, 76, 200, 64 and 52; Plates 2, 9, 3, 6, 4, 17, 30, 13 and 10-Vol. III. Pages 624; Plates 101.—Vol. ÏV. Pages 48 (Life of Roesel, with portrait and 264; Plates 40; Supplement by Kleeman, 376 pp. and 44 plates. 5038 ROSCOE'S (W.) MONANDRIAN PLANTS of the Order of Scitamineæ, atlas folio, containing 112 very large and finely COLOURED PLATES, green morocco, super extra, gilt edges, £5. 5s Liverpool, 1828 5039 RUMPHII HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE, complectens Arbores, Frutices, Herbas, Plantas terrestres et aquaticas, quæ in Amboina et adjacentibus Insulis reperiuntur; item varia Insectorum Animaliumque genera, Belgice et Latine, ed. Burmann, 6 vols. roy. folio, LARGE PAPER, 666 fine engravings, fine copy in old calf gilt, £4. Amst. 1741 5040 SEPP'S (J. G.) DUTCH INSECTS: Beschouwing der Wonderen Gods in de minstgeachte Schepzelen, of NEDERLANDSCHE INSECTEN, Vols. I-VI, and VII pp. 1-84, 4to. 319 BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED PLATES (pub. at 200 Thalers) three vols. hf. bd. uncut, two vols. bds. the rest unbound, £7. 10s Amsterdam, 1762-1854 "Entomology, in the following year, was enriched with the most inimitable delineations of insects which this or any age has produced; and which form the plates to that beautiful work by Sepp, (in Dutch) on the insects of the Low Countries. This publication came out in numbers, and perfect sets are now exceedingly rare: those portions we possess, relate exclusively to the Lepidoptera, every species being delineated, in all its several transformations, from the egg to the perfect insect: the drawing of the subjects is chaste, elegant, and cannot be excelled for accuracy; while the style of engraving is admirably suited to express all the softness of the original drawings. These plates, in fact, have never been equalled, far less excelled, by any in modern times."-SWAINSON.

"Vendu, Gr. Pap. Patu de Mello, m. r. 200 fr."-BRUNET.

Vols. I-IV, priced, 1835, £22. 126; Vols. I-V, priced, 1843, £15. 15s; Vols. I-V, and part of VI, priced, 1847, £12. 12s; Vols. I-IV, priced, 1855, Artaria in Mannheim, 120 fl.; a set similar to the above, priced, 1855, Friedlaender in Berlin, 68 Thalers.

5041 SOLIER, Essai sur les Collaptérides de la tribu des Blapsites, roy. 8vo. 15 plates, 7s 6d Turin, 1848 5042 SOCIÉTÉ ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE LA FRANCE, Annales, a complete set from the beginning to 1862, PREMIÈRE SERIE, 11 vols. 1832-42-DEUXIÈME SÉRIE, 10 vols. 1843 52-TROISIÈME SÉRIE, 8 vols. 1853-60-QUATRIÈME SÉRIE, Vols. I and II, pt. 1, 1861-62-together 31 vols. 8vo. 463 plates, many of them finely coloured, (pub. at 730 fr.) twenty-one vols. in cloth bds. one vol. hf. calf, the remainder in one vol. and 29 parts, sď. VERY BARE, £24. Paris, 1832-62 5043 SPRY and SHUCKARD British Coleoptera delineated, figures of all the genera of British Beetles, 8vo. 8 plates (pub. at 42s) cloth, 18s

1861

5044 STAINTON, ZELLER, and DOUGLAS, Natural History of TINEINA, in English, French, German, and Latin, 7 vols. 8vo. numerous finely coloured plates (pub. at £4.78 6d) cloth, £3. 10s 1855-62 The first series is to be completed in 10 volumes. 5045 STURM (Jacob) Deutschland's Fauna in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, fortgesetzt von J. H. C. F. Sturm, Ve. Abtheilung, DIE INSEKTEN KÄFER, Vols. I-XXIII, 12mo. 424 finely coloured plates (pub. at 65 Thalers) nine vols. in bds. the rest unbd. £5. 10s Nürnberg, 1805-57 Vols. I-XXII, priced, 1856, Friedländer, in Berlin, 40 Thalers; a set similar to the above priced, 1860, Schmidt in Halle, 40 Thalers; Kohler in Leipzig, 40 Thalers.

5046 STURM'S Verzeichniss meiner Insecten-Sammlung, part 1 (all published) 8vo. 4 coloured plates, bds. 38 6d

5047

Nürnberg, 1800

Catalog der KAEFER-Sammlung, 8vo. 6 finely coloured plates, bds. 78 6d

Nürnberg, 1843

5048 VENEZIA E LE SUE LAGUNE, 3 vols. stout impl. 8vo. maps and many views.of the principal buildings, bds. £2. 16s

Venezia, 1847

This grand historical, statistical, and SCIENTIFIC work on Venice was privately printed by the Town Council of Venice, and given to the Members of the Scientific Society, on holding their ninth meeting in their town. The work contains the civil and political History of the Republic, the history of all the artists Venice produced, and an extensive description of their works, also the physical, and natural history of the Venetian territories.

5049 VITALIS (J. B.) Cours élémentaire de Teinture sur Laine, Soie, Lin, Chanvre et Coton, et sur l'Art d'imprimer les Toiles, 8vo. hf. bd. neat, 7s Rouen, 1827 5050 WALKER'S Insecta Saundersiana, or characters of undescribed Insects in the collection of W. W. Saunders: Diptera, 4 parts; Homoptera, 1; together 5 parts, 8vo. plates, 20s 1850-58 5051 WOOD'S Index Entomologicus. WESTWOOD'S New Supplement, an illustrated Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain, roy. 8vo. 5 coloured plates, (puh. at 12s 6d) bds. 10s

1854

5052 ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL, by Bell, Children, Sowerby, Horsfield, Kirby, Yarrell, Vigors, &c. in 5 vols. 8vo, (cost £11. 5s in parts) 97 coloured plates, calf neat, £5. 1825-35

5053 ENTOMOLOGICAL TRACTS, a collection of about 70 Opuscula and Minor Works upon Entomology, with numerous coloured plates, including many valuable MSS. memoranda of Mr. Curtis, the lot a bargain, £3. 1820, etc.

5054

Treatises on COLEOPTERA, etc. A volume, stout 4to. containing Dalman, Analecta Entomologica, 4 plates, Erlang. 1793; Kirby on Herbst, coloured plates; Kirby on Insects, 5 coloured plates; Leach on Meloe, 2 coloured plates; Francillon's Rare Scarabaeus, coloured plate, etc. bds. 36s 1793-1823

GEOGRAPHY, VOYAGES, TRAVELS.

1802

5055 ACERBI's Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, 1798-99, 2 vols. 4to port. and 70 plates, those of Natural History coloured, (pub. at £5. 5s in bds.) calf, 98 5056 ALDRETE (B.) Varias Antiguedades de España, Africa y otras Provincias, sm. 4to, frontispiece, fine tall copy, Dutch vellum, 25s Amberes, 1614 A very learned and curious work, full of important and profound researches. 5057 ALPINE CLUB, Passes, and Glaciers-a Series of Excursions, 8vo. coloured plates, etc. cloth, 108 5058 ALVAREZ, Historiale Description de l'Ethiopie, 16mo. first edition of the French translation, good copy in old calf, scarce, 27s Anvers, Plantin, 1558 The work by Alvarez, who was secretary to the embassy, deserves particular notice, as the first detailed narrative of travels in that country, and as he visited the southern provinces of Amhara, Shoa, and Angot, which have not been since reached until very recently.

1859

5059 AMBOYNA. True Relation of the cruel and barbarous proceedings against the English by the Netherlandish Governor, 1632-Remonstrance of the Directors-Acts of the Processe against the English-Catalogue of Damages, 1664-Stubbs' Justification of the present War, 1673—and other pieces in 2 vols. sm. 8vo. curious plates, 25s

1632-73 5060 AMICO ET STATELLA, Lexicon Topographicum Siculum, 2 vols. in 4, sm. 4to. plates, vellum, 15s Panormi (et Catan.) 1757-59

5061 ÁPIANO (Pedro) Cosmographia, añadida por Gemma Frisio, con l'Anillo Astronomico, y descripcion de las Indias, sm. 4to. woodcuts, including several curious diagrams, with moveable pieces, bd. 28s

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