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Rare Wild Animals Books Rare & Antiquarian Books
From the majestic bison grazing the plain to the glowing eyes of predators at the edges of the firelight at night - wild animals have been a frightening fascination since humanity lived in caves and at the whim of the hunt. Enjoy browsing these rare books, art, prints, and ephemera related to wild animals from biomes around the globe. Find classics like The Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audobon, bestiaries from every continent, and much more.
Plate XXVI Wolverine. Gulo Luscus, Lin (Linnaeus). by Audubon, John James & Bachman, Rev. John
Philadelphia:: Audubon, J.J.,, 1843.. Imperial Folio Edition. Near Fine Condition with rich original hand-coloring. . A Near Fine orginal hand-colored lithograph by JT Bowen after painting by John James Audubon. (1785-1851). Near Fine condition with a f…
$15,000.00
Tarot animalier. by SCHENCK, I
Nuremberg, XIXth century. Pack of 78 cards (complete) with a black marbled back, preserved in a carton box from the end of the XIXth century. Black shagreen lettering piece gilt-stamped on the box. Dimensions of the cards: 110 x 58 mm. Pretty pack very pl…
€9,500.00
Oriental field sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East; and exhibiting...the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals: as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents. The whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes...The scenery gives a faithful representation of that picturesque country, together with the manners and customs of both the native and European inhabitants. The narrative is divided into forty heads, forming collectively a complete work, but so arranged that each part is a detail of one of the forty coloured engravings with which the publication is embellished. The whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson by [Williamson, Thomas, Capt.]
London: Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition, large oblong folio (approx. 23½" x 18½"); pp. [2], 146; 40 spectacular hand-colored lithographs after drawings by Samuel Howett; full straight-grain blue morocco stamped in gilt and blind, neatly rebacked to…
From Rulon-Miller Books
$8,625.00
THE AMERICAN BISONS, LIVING AND EXTINCT. by ALLEN, J. A
Cambridge: University Press, 1876., 1876. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Contemporary three quarter red morocco and marbled boards with title in gilt on spine, ix [1], 246pp., 12 plates, each having a leaf of text, folding map: Map Of North Americ…
From BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
$6,500.00
The Quadrupeds of North America by Audubon, John James
NY: Audubon . Three full moroccan leather hardcover volumes with raised bands at spine and gilt lettering and decoration. Good condition with mild shelf wear rubbing--more pronounced at extremities; marbled text edges; end papers and pages have foxing. NO…
$6,500.00
Notes sur l’osteometrie et la craniologie des Orang-Outans. by Delisle, F
Extracted from Nouvelles Archives de Musée d'Histoire Naturelle. 1895, 3. série, tome. VII. pp. (83)-114 with four text woodcuts and two chromolithographed plates by A. Millot (Lit. Lemercier) showing Max and Maurice.Contemporary calf backed marbled boa…
From Antiquariat Banzhaf
€4,500.00
TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, In Which are Described the Character and the Condition of the Dutch Colonists of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Several Tribes of Natives Beyond its Limits: The Natural History of Such Subjects as Occurred in the Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable Kingdoms; and the Geography of the Southern Extremity of Africa, Comprehending Also a Topographical and Statistical Sketch of the Cape Colony: With an Inquiry into its Importance as a Naval and Military Station as a Commercial Emporium; and as a Territorial Possession by Barrow John
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1806. 2 volumes. First Edition with the handcoloured decorations. Second and Best Edition overall with additions not found in the one volume first edition and with the handcoloured plates, charts and plans…
From Buddenbrooks, Inc.
$4,950.00
Albino Bestiary. by Goodale, Rebecca
Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2012.. Edition of 5. 13.75 x 12.5 x 3.5"; 24 pages. Handcolored silkscreen prints with paste patterns. Letterpress printed text. Wedding cake binding. Housed in three quarter clamshell case. Rebecca Goodale: &quo…
$4,700.00
Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; or, figures and descriptions of the living classes of the Victorian indigenous animals by McCOY, Frederick
Melbourne: Robert S. Brain, 1885 -, 1890. Two volumes, thick octavo, with all 20 "decades", 199 lithographic plates (including one double folding plate), nearly all coloured and some finished by hand; attractively bound in contemporary navy half calf, sp…
AU$6,250.00
THE GENTLEMAN'S RECREATION, IN FOUR PARTS. viz. HUNTING, HAWKING, FOWLING and FISHINGi by COX, Nicholas.:
London, printed by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for N[icholas]. C[ox]. and are to be sold by Tho: Fabian at the Bible in Pauls Church-yard, the corner-shop next Cheap-side, 1677.. TITLE CONTINUED: Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the …
From Roger Middleton
£2,500.00
DOGS, JACKALS, WOLVES and FOXES. A MONOGRAPH of the CANIDAE. by MIVART, St. George.:
London, R.H. Porter, & Dulau & Co.,1890.. FIRST EDITION 1890. FROM THE LIBRARY OF DESMOND MORRIS WELL KNOW ZOOLOGIST, NATURALIST AND ARTIST, WITH HIS BOOKPLATE ON FIRST PASTEDOWN. 4to, approxmately 265 x 190 mm, 10½ x 7½ inches, 45 hand-coloured lithog…
From Roger Middleton
£2,400.00
Osservazioni pratiche intorno la pesca, by D'AMICO, Francesco Carlo
Tuna Fishing in Sicily [FISHERIES.] D'AMICO, Francesco Carlo. Osservazioni pratiche intorno la pesca, corso, e cammino de' tonni. In opposizione a quanto scrisse su tal soggetto l'avvocato dr Don Francesco Paola Avolio... con delle Istruzioni che riguarda…
$2,800.00
Butterflies From China, Japan and Corea (Six Parts in Two Volumes) by Leech, John Henry
London (18, Princes Street, Cavendish Square): R H Porter, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. 1892-4. All six text parts, bound in two volumes, with original paper wrappers bound in at rear of each volume. Please note that this set does not include the called…
From BookAddiction
£2,100.00
Great and Small Game of Africa by Bryden H. A. and Others
Signed Limited Edition. 1-500 copies numbered and signed by the publisher, Rowland Ward. This being number 163. Tall, heavy 4to. xx, 612 pp. With fifteen hand-colored plates by J. Smit (each with a printed tissue guard) and numerous photogravure illustrat…
From Dale Pederson
$2,500.00
Otkuda u nosoroga shkura? : Skazka [How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin] by Rudyard Kipling
Kipling R. Otkuda u nosoroga shkura? : Skazka [How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin] / Rudyard Kipling, Russian translation by K. Chukovsky, illustrations by E. Evenbakh. — Moscow; Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, printed by Pechatniy dvor, 1927. — …
From ParusBook
$2,500.00
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