Natural History from ARTEM

Introducing drugs from around the world João Curvo Semedo (1635-1719). Polyanthea medicinal. Noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados [...] Quarta vez impressa […]. Lisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1727. Folio in 6s. [60], 312, 317-879, [1 blank], 32, [4], 11, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. = complete with the advertisement leaf at the end and the 3 plates:… Read more about this item

• Extremely rare, important and early work on East Africa and the East Indies • João dos Santos (Évora, after 1560 - Goa, 1622). Ethiopia Oriental e varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente. [Including:] Varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente. E da christandade que os religiosos da Ordem dos pregadores nelle fizerāo Évora, (colophon vol. 2: Impresso no Convento de S. Domingos… Read more about this item

Rare study on monkeys and other mammals of Paraguay: important influence on Darwin Johann Rudolf Rengger (1795-1832). Naturgeschichte der Saeugethiere von Paraguay. Basel, Schweighauser, 1830. 8vo. XVI, 394 pp. 19,5 x 12 cm. Contemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine. First and only edition of Johann Rudolf Rengger's study on mammals of Paraguay, in which he first describes the giant otter and makes important behavioural observations on… Read more about this item