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(Bruxelles,: L'Académie,, 1881).. 32, [ii] pp.Large 4to (23,5 x 29 cm.). Original blue boards (spine damaged). With 4 large fine lithographed plates by G. Severeyns of which one coloured (a young Orca, washed ashore in Oostende, drawn after nature by Van Cuyck). ** An early study on the subject. A clean inner copy with ample margins. Offprinted (or separate) from the "Nouveaux mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique", vol. 43, Brussel: M. Hayez, 1881.

London,: Taylor & Francis,, 1868.. [ii]p. 179-277, [i] pp.4to. Modern blue wrappers. With numerous figures and 4 lithographed plates. ¶ A classic on animal locomotion. Casey Wood 1867; Hirsch IV, 549. From the Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xxvi. Copy with author's autograph dedication. -- (Partly waterstained).

Amstelædami,: Ex Typographia Gerardi Tielenburg (1734-1776), & Soc.,, MDCCLXXIV (1774).. 61, [iii] pp. 8vo (12,6 x 20 cm.). Recently bound in half, dark brown, grained morocco. With a few woodcut vignettes in the text, and illustrated with a most charming engraved frontispiece and title-engraving. ¶ Very uncommon, only a few copies in the WorldCat. A curious, satirical, and sometimes serious, piece of hexametric neo-latin poetry. In his "Prooemium" the author i.a. mentions Aldrovandus, Jonston, Linnaeus, Brisson, Buffon. A wonderful "darwinistic poem avant la lettre" seen throught the eyes of a Jesuit priest. This work is also of interest for the history of 18th century Catholic Amsterdam, more specific the priest of the Krijtberg. - C'est un assez curieux et rare poème (neo)-Latin sur les singes.

Nancy,: Berger-Lévrayault,, 1904.. 12 pp. 8vo (16,5 x 24,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With one photographic plate. Some modifications to the author's earlier publication "Application de la photographie au dessin des cloisons des ammonites" (Lille 1893). Copy with author;s autograph dedication to Coll. Joly.

(Antwerpen, Den Haag & Brussel, 1968).. viii, 163 pp. Small 4to (18,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original coloured printed wrappers. With 10 figures and 32 plates. ¶ Valuable exhibition catalogue with ample historical and bibliographical information about 146 famous bird books (Mss. & printed, from the 10th. to the 20th. century).

Amsterdam,: Rodopi,, 1985.. [vi], 207, [iii] pp. 8vo (15 x 22 cm). Original printed limp wrappers. With 12 illustrations. ¶ pp. 178-199 is a chronological arranged bibliography of Camper's publication 1746-1804 (197 entries). --(Nieuwe Nederlandse bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en der natuurwetenschappen ; no. 12).