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DONOVAN'S Naturalist's Repository, or Miscellany of Exotic Natural History, exhibiting rare and beautiful Specimens of Foreign Birds, Insects, Shells, Quadrupeds, Fishes, and Marine Productions; especially such new subjects as have not been hitherto figured, 5 vols. royal 8vo. containing 180 plates, beautifully coloured, (pub. at £10. 10s) cloth bds. £3. 13s 6d 1834 DRESDE (Description du Cabinet Royale de) touchant l'Histoire Naturelle, 4to. calf, 5s Dresde, 1755 DRYANDER (Jonæ) Catalogus Bibliothecæ Historico-Naturalis Josephi Banks Baroneti, 5 vols. 8vo. calf, neat, rare, £3. 3s Lond. 1798-1800 DUMERIL (C.) Zoologie Analytique, ou Methode naturelle de Classification des Animaux, rendue plus facile à l'Aide de Tableaux Synoptiques, Paris, 1806 8vo. hf. bd. calf gilt, 6s 6d EDWARDS AND ALBIN. A Collection of 156 plates, including forty-two Original Drawings of Birds, Insects, &c. mostly coloured by these Artists, with their Autographs, in 1 vol. 4to. hf. bd. (from the Library of Dr. Latham) £1.10s ELEGANT Extracts of Natural History, collected and revised by Robert Heron, 2 vols. 8vo. Edinb. 1792 hf. bd. 6s ENCYCLOPEDIE METHODIQUE: Zoologie, viz. Quadrupèdes, 112 plates, containing 460 figures, with letter-press-Oiseaux, 230 plates, containing 982 figures, with letter-press-Poissons, 100 plates, containing 422 figures, with letter-press -together 3 vols. 4to. very neat in russia, £2. 2s Paris, 1782-90 ERMAN'S (Ad.) Verzeichniss von Thieren und Pflanzen, welche auf einer Reise um die Erde gesammelt wurden (Catalogue of Animals and Plants collected during a Voyage round the World,) folio, 17 fine plates of Birds, Beasts, Insects, and Trees, mostly coloured, sewed, 12s

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Mammifères, 80 pages and 4 plates-Poissons, 96 pp. 22 plates-Reptiles, 18 plates.-Oiseaux, 443 pp. 172 plates, complete.-Lépidoptères, 256 pp. 46 plates.Coléoptères, 240 pp. 22 plates-Hymenoptères, 96 pp. 8 plates.-Aranéides, 240 pp. 39 plates.-Mollusques, 320 pp. 42 plates.-Titles have not been printed to any of the volames.

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l'une des Espèces les plus remarquables, et
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d'Animaux; ouvrage pouvant servir d'Atlas
à tous les Traités de Zoologie, complete in 45
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plates, (pub. at £33. 15s) £12. 12s

Paris, 1830-38
This fine work, which is a very desirable series of
Illustrations to the English edition of Cuvier, is now
complete, and comprises 450 plates, with descrip.
tive text for each of the classes: it is thus divided:
I. Mammifères, avec le portrait de Cuvier, 53 plates.
II. Oiseaux

III. Reptiles

IV. Poissons

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VI. Annélides, Crustacés, et Arachnides
VII. Insectes, avec le portrait de Latreille 111

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VOLS.

This capital and highly popular work is now brought to a close. The following is a detailed list of the contents of the complete set of 40 volumes, which are for the present offered at the reduced price of 5s. per volume.

Each Volume contains a Portrait and Memoir of some celebrated Naturalist, and from 30 to 40 coloured plates.

1.-Humming Birds, Vol. I. 36 coloured plates. Portrait of Linnæus.

2.-Monkeys, 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Buffon. 3.-Humming Birds, Vol. II. 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Pennant.

4.-Lions, Tigers, &c., 38 coloured plates, with portrait of Cuvier.

5.-Peacocks, Pheasants, &c., 30 coloured plates, with portrait of Aristotle.

6.-Birds of the Game kind, 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Sir S. Raffles.

7.-Fishes, 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Sir J. Banks.

8.-Coleopterous Insects (Beetles), 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Ray.

9.-Columbidae (Pigeons), 32 coloured plates, with portrait | of Pliny.

10. British Diurnal Lepidoptera (Butterflies), 30 coloured plates, with portrait of Werner.

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11.-Ruminating Animals (Deer, Antelopes, &c.) 35 coloured

plates, with portrait of Camper.

2.-Ruminating Animals (Goats, Sheep, Cattle, &c.), 33 coloured plates, with portrait of J. Hunter.

VOLS.

13.-Pachidermata (Elephants, Rhinoceroses, &c.), 31 co-
loured plates, with portrait of Sir Hans Sloane
14.-British Nocturnal Lepidoptera (Moths, Sphinxes, &c.),
32 coloured plates, with portrait of Mdme. Merian.
15.-Parrots, 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Bewick.
16.-Whales, 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Lace-
pède.
17.-Birds of Western Africa, Vol. I. 34 coloured plates,
with portrait of Bruce.

18.-Foreign Butterflies, 33 coloured plates, with portrait of

Lamarck.

19.-Birds of Western Africa, Vol. II. 34 coloured plates, with portrait of Le Vaillant.

20.-British. Birds, Vol. I. 36 coloured plates, with portrait of Sir R. Sibbald.

21.-Fly Catchers, 33 coloured plates, with portrait of

Baron Haller.

22.-British Quadrupeds, 36 coloured plates, with portrait
of U. Aldrovandi.

2 Amphibious Carnivora (Walrus, Seals, &c.), 33 co-
loured plates, with portrait of F. Peron.
24.-British Birds, Vol. II. 32 coloured plates, with portrait

of Smellie.

Pallas.

25.-Dogs, Vol. I. 33 coloured plates, with portrait of Honey-Bees, 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Huber.

26

Salviani.

27.-Fishes, Vol. II. 33 coloured plates, with portrait of 28.-Dogs, Vol. II. 32 coloured plates, with portrait of

Azara.

29.-Introduction to Entomology, 38 coloured plates, with
portrait of De Geer.
30.-Marsupialia, or Pouched Animals, 36 coloured plates,

with portrait of Dr. Barclay.
31.-Horses, 35 coloured plates, with portrait of Gesner.
32.-Fishes of Guiana, Vol. I. 34 coloured plates, with
portrait of Schomburgk.
33.-Foreign Moths, 34 coloured plates, with portrait of

Latreille.

34.-British Birds, Vol. III. 34 coloured plates, with portrait 35.-Introduction to Mammalia, 31 coloured plates, with of Dr. Walker. portrait of Drury.

36.-Sun Birds, 30 coloured plates, with portrait of Willughby.

37.-British Fishes, Vol. I. 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Rondelet.

38.-Fishes of Guiana, Vol. II. 32 coloured plates, with portrait of Burckhardt.

39.-British Fishes, Vol. II. 36 coloured plates, with portrait of Humboldt. 40.-British Birds, Vol. IV. 33 coloured plates, with portrait of Wilson.

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NATURAL HISTORY-MISCELLANEOUS.

NEMNICH'S (P. A.) Allgemeines Polyglotten Lexicon der Natur-Geschichte, i. e. Universal Polyglot Dictionary of Natural History in the following Languages, viz. German, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, 8 parts in 6 vols. 4to. complete, hf. bd. russia, £2. 5s

Hamburg, 1793-98

The first half of this laborious and useful work consists of an alphabetical Latin Dictionary of Natural History, with the corresponding names in the languages above-mentioned, and occasionally in the Russian, Polish, Bohemian, Hungarian, Japanese, Cochinchinese, Hebrew, and many others, amounting in some instances to thirty languages. The other half contains Indexes in German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

NICOLSON (P.) Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle de
Saint-Domingue, 8vo. 10 folding plates, calf
Paris, 1776
gilt, 78 6d
PALLAS (P. S.) Specilegia Zoologica, quibus
novæ imprimis et obscuræ Animalium Species
illustrantur, 14 parts in 2 vols. 4to. 58 plates of
Mammalia, Birds, Fishes, Shells, etc.
£1. Is

1

cloth, Berol. 1767, &c. vol. 4to. 51 plates, ib. 1767, &c.

the same, 12 parts in very neat in calf, 12s PALLAS, Miscellanea Zoologica, 4to. 14 plates, sewed, 12s

Hage, 1766 the same, 4to. 14 plates, neat in calf, 14s Lugd. Bat. 1778 PALLAS Voyages dans plusieurs Provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie Septentrionale, Edition avec Notes par Lamarck, Langlès, et Billecocq, 8 vols. 8vo. and an imperial 4to. atlas, containing 11 maps, 76 botanical plates, and 11 of animals, &c. in calf, neat, £2. 8s Paris, 1794

Atlas de Planches, imperial 4to. bds. 9s PARTINGTON'S (C. F.) British Cyclopædia of Natural History, combining a Scientific Classification of Animals, Plants, and Minerals, with a popular view of their habits, economy, and structure, 3 thick closely printed vols. imperial 8vo. numerous plates and woodcuts, (pub. at 1836-37 £2.5s) cloth bds. £1. 11s 6d

PATERSON'S Four Journeys into the Country of

the Hottentots and Caffraria, 4to. with a map
and 19 plates relating to Natural History, bds. 5s

1790
1789

the same, 4to. plates, very neat, 8s PENNANT'S BRITISH ZOOLOGY, THE ORIGINAL MAGNIFICENT EDITION, PUBLISHED BY THE CYMMRODORION SOCIETY, IMPERIAL FOLIO, WITH 107 FINE COLOURED PLATES, CONTAINING NUMEROUS FIGURES OF BIRDS AS LARGE AS LIFE, fine copy in old russia, with full gilt back and borders, £7. 7s

1766

Col. Stanley's copy sold for £37. 16s.; and Willett's
for £28. 78.

the same, fourth edition, 4 vols. 4to. 284
plates, fine copy in bright old calf gilt, by Kal-
1776-7
thoeber, £6. 68
the same, 4 vols. 4to. plates, old calf, neat,
1776-7

£4.4s

the same, bound in 8 vols. 4to. interleaved, and very extensively illustrated by several hundred Prints, Drawings, Literary Notices, MS. Annotations, by Dr. Latham and George Allan of Darlington, the friend of Bewick, hf. bd. russia, £10. 10s

1776

new

with

PENNANT'S BRITISH ZOOLOGY,-the same,
edition, 4 vols. royal 8vo. LARGE PAPER,
all the plates contained in the 4to. edition, (pub.
1812
at £8. 8s) bds. £2. 12s 6d
PENNANT'S ARCTIC ZOOLOGY, with the Introduc-
tion and Supplement, 3 vols. small 4to. with
maps and plates, neat in calf, £3. 3s
the same,
3 vols. in 1, royal 4to. LARGE
PAPER, fine impressions, very neat in russia, marbled
edges, £4. 4s

IVER'S WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY, COM-
PLETE, 2 vols. folio, and 1 vol. 8vo. 292
plates, containing several thousand Figures of
Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Insects, Plants, Shells, &c.
with additional Tracts, calf, fine copy, £2. 18s
1767

This very complete set belonged to the late Mr. Lambert, and contains more than any other which has come to sale for many years.

the same, viz. Medicinal Peru Plants, 8 plates-Gazophylacii Naturæ decades X, 100 plates-Pteri-Graphia Americana, 20 platesPlantæ Italiæ Marinæ et Gramina, 5 platesCatalogue of Ray's English Herbal, 50 platesAquatilia Animalia Amboinæ, 20 plates-Description of the Guernsey Lilly, by Jas. Douglas, 3 plates-27 UNPUBLISHED PLATES, printed off from some coppers, found in the Royal Society House, no doubt intended for a volume of Natural History, but no description could be found, who was the Author-Sam. Wood's Portrait-together 233 plates, in 1 vol. 1715, &c. folio, calf, £1. 16s

This volume was completed by Sir Hans Sloane, and belonged to the celebrated Peter Collinson, the friend and correspondent of Linnæus. It is lettered: "Petiver's Works; the gift of Sir Hans Sloane to Mich. Collinson, anno 1744."

the same, containing only part of the Works, viz. Catalogue of Ray's English Herball, 50 plates-Gazophylacii Naturæ decades X, 100 plates-Aquatilia Animalia Amboinæ, 20 plates of Crustacea and Testacea-Pteri-Graphia Americana, 20 plates-Plantæ Italiæ Marinæ et Gramina, 5 plates-in all 195 plates, in 1 vol. 1715, &c. folio, calf, 15s

Petiver, some time before his death, was offered by Sir Hans Sloane, £4000. for his Museum, the contents of which are preserved in his Works. Very few copies occur quite complete, as the portions were published at distant intervals.

12s

PETIVERI Musei Centuriæ X, 2 plates, 1695-
Gazophylacii Naturæ decades V. 1702-in
1 vol. 8vo. hf. bd. rare, 10s 6d
PISONIS (G.) Historia Naturalis Brasiliæ et De
Medicina Brasiliani, libri IV. folio, numerous
fine cuts of Plants, Fishes, Birds, Quadrupeds,
Insects, &c. very neat in calf, fine copy, 10s 6d
Lugd. Bat. Elzevirii, 1648
the same, folio, fine copy in vellum, gilt,
ib. 1648
PLOT'S (Dr. R.) Natural History of Staffordshire,
folio, large map and 37 plates, very neat in old
Oxford, 1686
calf, £3. 13s 6d
PLOT'S Natural History of Oxfordshire, being an
Essay towards the Natural History of England:
second edition, with large Additions and Cor-
rections, with an Account of the Author, folio,
map and 16 plates, best edition, very neat in
russia, £1.11s 6d

"An admirable work."-Nicolson.

ib. 1705

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