ANTIQUARIAAT JUNK ANTIQUARIAAT Antiquariaat Junk Catalogue 294 1 Recent Acquisitions CATALOGUE CATALOGUE 294 Catalogue 294 Old & Rare Books Recent Acquisitions 2016 121 Levaillant Catalogue 294 Recent Acquisitions Antiquariaat Junk B.V. Allard Schierenberg and Jeanne van Bruggen Van Eeghenstraat 129, NL-1071 GA Amsterdam The Netherlands Telephone: +31-20-6763185 Telefax: +31-20-6751466 [email protected] www.antiquariaatjunk.com Natural History Booksellers since 1899 Please visit our website: www.antiquariaatjunk.com with thousands of colour pictures of fine Natural History books. You will also find more pictures of the items displayed in this catalogue. Items 14 & 26 sold Frontcover illustration: 88 Gessner Backcover illustration: 121 Levaillant GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SALE as filed with the registry of the District Court of Amsterdam on No- vember 20th, 1981 under number 263 / 1981 are applicable in extenso to all our offers, sales, and deliveries. THE PRICES in this catalogue are net and quoted in Euro. As a result of the EU single Market legisla- tion we are required to charge our EU customers 6% V.A.T., unless they possess a V.A.T. registration number. Postage additional, please do not send payment before receipt of the invoice. All books are sold as complete and in good condition, unless otherwise described. EXCHANGE RATES Without obligation: 1 Euro= 1.15 USD; 0.8 GBP; 124 JPY VISITORS ARE WELCOME between office hours: Monday - Friday 9.00 - 17.30 OUR V.A.T. NUMBER NL 0093.49479B01 134 Meyer 5 [1] AEMILIANUS, J. Naturalis de Ruminantibus historia Ioannis Aemy- liani... Venetiis, apaud Franciscum Zilettum, 1584. 4to (226 x 175mm). pp. (20), 122, (2), title with printer’s woodcut device. Contemporary vellum. € 1.800 “In some respects an original, certainly a rare and quaint treatise on ruminants” (Wood p. 181). A fine copy of this early and rare work on ruminants. Title with 2 faint old library stamps. B.M. (Nat. Hist.) I, p. 13. 1 [2] AGASSIZ, J.L.R. Recherches sur les Poissons fossiles... Neuchâtel, Petitpierre for the author, 1833-1843. Oblong folio (465 x 333mm). Atlas only: 286 (of 396) lithographed plates, many double-page or folded, most- ly hand-coloured or tinted. € 2.200 All plates are loose, a small number of plates have some staining. The ‘Poissons fossiles, written directly in the tradition of his mentor Cuvier, contained precise descriptions of more than 1700 ancient species, together with illustrated reconstructions based on prin- ciples of comparative anatomy. This pioneer effort was a model of exactitude, providing future students with data relating zoology to geology and palaeontology’ (DSB). ‘Accompanied by capable draughtsmen, Agassiz visited all the larger museums and priva- te collections in Europe, examined the fossil fishes preserved in them, and published in five volumes a magnificently illustrated monograph as the fruits of his ten years’ labour. Starting from the standpoint of his anatomical studies, in which he was fortunate in ha- ving the assistance of C. Vogt, Agassiz was enabled to elucidate many obscure points in fossil fishes. Agassiz also introduced emendations in the classification of recent fishes, and added many new data regarding the evolution and range in time of the various families’ (Zittel). Many of the excellent plates utilise metallic colours (silver, bronze, gold) to convey the appearance of the metallic sheen of scales that has been preserved in the fossil remains. See Nissen for a list of the artists and lithographers involved. Library stamp on verso of plates. Dean I. 7; Junk Rara pp. 77-78; Nissen ZBI, 44. 1 [3] ALBIN, E. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, ornée de 306 Estampes, qui les représentent parfaitement au Natural... et augmentée de notes & de remarques curieuses, par W.Derham. La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1750. 3 volumes. 4to (293 x 235mm). With 306 fine engraved plates. Contem- porary calf, richly gilt decorated spines in 6 compartments with red gilt lettered label, gilt edges (very slightly rubbed). € 4.300 6 An attractive uniformly bound copy of the rare French edition, the first English one was published in 1731-1738. Eleazer Albin is one of the obscure 18th century natural history illustrators, and apart from being a teacher of drawing and watercolour hardly anything is known of him. Besides the above work he published a splendid work on the ‘Natural history of Insects’ and an attractive work on spiders. The plates of the above offered work were drawn by the author. “Albin... was one of the first artists to set each bird on a branch or other suitable perch, sometimes with the typical food of each species as well... The importance of his books ... lies in the fact that some of his illustrations and descriptions are the first of those par- ticular species to appear and thus serve as ‘type specimens’... Albin did not work alone. He shared the task of drawing, engraving and colouring the plates with his daughter, Elisabeth (c. 1708-41). She has the distinction of being the first woman known to have worked as an illustrator of bird books, signing forty-one of the plates as having been her work alone. Her style, too, was distinctive, softer and more delicate than her father’s, and she was evidently more painstaking, painting with lighter, shorter strokes of the brush” (J. Elphick, Birds, the art of ornithology pp. 32-33). There are2 issues of the work one with the plates coloured and one with plain plates as the present copy. Provenance: Signature of Palisot-Beauvois on title. Baron Marie François Joseph Palisot de Beauvois (1752-1820) was a French laywer and botanist. Anker 6; Nissen IVB, 16. 1 [4] ALDROVANDI, U. Dendrologiae Naturalis scilicet Arborum his- toriae libri duo. Sylva glandaria, acinosumq. pomarium ubi eruditiones omnium generum una cum botanicis doctrinis ... Ovidius Montalbanus ... col- legit, digessit ... Bononiae, J.B. Ferroni, 1667. Folio (390 x 255mm). pp. (12), 660, (52), with fine engraved allegorical title and many woodcuts in the text, of which about 50 full-page. Recent vellum, spine with brown gilt lettered label. € 4.500 First edition of this early dendrological work. The colophon is dated 1667 and the frontsipiece has a date of 1668, which is the case in all copies. The work was published by O. Montalbanus after the death of Aldrovandi, as the last part of his “Ope- ra Omnia”. ‘In the meantime, Ulysses Aldrovandi of Bologna, Italy, a virtuoso savant-naturalist, has 7 been filling his private museum with unusual plants and animals for about 50 years. Around 1580, while professor of medicine at the university and director of its botanical garden, he completed an inventory of his collection. It illustrated 59 cultivars of fruit for the first time in their natural size... Aldrovandi’s work is a triumph of painstaking Re- naissance documentation... Every imaginable aspect of a fruit is explored: culture, pests, anatomy, characteristics, cultivars, monstrosities, provenance, etymology, use as food, use in medicine and magic, occurrence in mythology, heraldry, biblical and classical writings, and so on’ (H.F. Janson, Pomonas’s harvest p. 79). A very clean copy. Nissen BBI, 14. 1 [5] ALDROVANDI, U. De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs volvmen in- tegrvm. I.C. Vterverivs ... collegit, & recensuit. H. Tambvrinvs in lucem edidit ... Cum indice copiosissimo. Bononiae, V. Benatius, 1616. Folio (350 x 238mm). pp. (8), 495, (33), with 1 elaborately engraved title, 13 (some full-page) woodcuts and 1 woodcut printer’s device. Contemporary vel- lum, spine in 7 compartments with gilt lettering. € 3.000 First edition of this work on quadrupeds, which was published posthumously as many of his other works. The volume is devoted to ‘solid-hooved’ quadrupeds, such as horses, zebras, elephants, centaurs, etc. and features several fine woodcuts, many from drawings by Jacopo Ligozzi. Included among the illustrations are cuts of a unicorn horn and a remarkable one of petrified elephant’s catarrh. “Although Aldrovandi is not identified with any revolutionary discoveries, his work as a teacher and as the author of volumes that constitute an irreplacable cultural patrimony earns him a place among the fathers of modern science. Perhaps most importantly he was among the first to attempt to free the natural sciences from the stifling influence of the authority of textbooks, for which he substituted, as far as possible, direct study and observation of the animal, vegetable, and mineral worlds” (D.S.B. I, pp. 108-110). A crisp and attractively bound copy, engraved title with small old paper repair at outer corners. Nissen ZBI, 72 1 [6] ALDROVANDI, U. De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs volvmen in- tegrvm. I.C. Vterverivs ... collegit, & recensuit. H. Tambvrinvs in lucem edidit ... Cum indice copiosissimo. Bononiae, N. Tebaldini, 1639. Folio (340 x 235mm). pp. (6), 495, (31), with 1 elaborately engraved title, 13 (some full-page) woodcuts and 1 woodcut printer’s device. Later half calf, spine in 5 compartments with red and blue gilt lettered label. € 2.500 8 Second Bologna edition of this work on quadrupeds, which was published posthumously as many of his other works. The volume is devoted to ‘solid-hooved’ quadrupeds, such as horses, zebras, elephants, centaurs, etc. and features several fine woodcuts, many from drawings by Jacopo Ligozzi. Included among the illustrations are cuts of a unicorn horn and a remarkable one of petrified elephant’s catarrh. “Although Aldrovandi is not identi- fied with any revolutionary discoveries, his work as a teacher and as the author of volumes that constitute an irreplacable cultural patrimony earns him a place among the fathers of modern science. Perhaps most importantly he was among the first to attempt to free the natural sciences from the stifling influence of the authority of textbooks, for which he substituted, as far as possible, direct study and observation of the animal, vegetable, and mineral worlds” (D.S.B.