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title: "List of natural history dealers"
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Natural history specimen dealers had an important role in the development of science in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. They supplied the rapidly growing, both in size and number, museums and educational establishments and private collectors whose collections, either in entirety or parts finally entered museums.
Most sold not just zoological, botanical and geological specimens but also 
equipment and books. Many also sold archaeological and ethnographic items. They purchased 
specimens from professional and amateur collectors, sometimes collected themselves as well as acting as agents for the sale of 
collections. Many were based in mercantile centres notably Amsterdam, Hamburg, and London or 
in major cities. Some were specialists and some were taxonomic authorities who wrote scientific works and manuals, some functioned as trading museums or institutes.
This is a list of natural history dealers from the 16th to the 19th century: here are names that are frequently encountered in museum collections.

Johan Hans Abegg (fl. 1882–1885) Mineral collector and dealer in Zurich.
Augustus Theodore Abel (?1802-1882); German Mineral dealer resident in Ballarat.
Anton Franz Abraham Preparator and dealer in educational materials at " "Naturhistorisches Institut" on Beatrixgasse, Vienna, 1896, on Ungargasse, Vienna in 1903–1906.Supplied specimens to Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Ludwig Anker (1822, Budapest -1887) Insektenhändler
Mary Anning
Bernardino Astfäller (1879–1964) Insektenhändler in Meran
Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux Paris
Andreas Bang-Haas
Otto Bang-Haas
Max Bartel (1879–1914) Berlin
Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
Julius Böhm (c. 1850?-1925) Vienna mineral dealers as "Österr.-ungar. Mineralien-Comptoir" or Austro-Hungarian Mineral Dealership.
Auguste Boissonneau (1802-1883, Paris) Bird skin dealer.
Edward Percy Bottley Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd geology and mineral dealership
Ernst August Böttcher, born 14 June 1870 Naturalien und Lehrmittel-Anstalt Berlin C. 2, Brüderstrasse 15.
August Friedrich Böttcher
Brazenor Bros Dealers in zoological specimens in Brighton from 1858 to 1937.
Nérée Boubée Paris
Adolphe Boucard
Braun; Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1800–1864) Fossil and mineral dealer in Regensburg de:Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun
Brendel and Sohn Botanical modelmakers in Breslau and Berlin.
Antonie Augustus Bruijn Dutch East Indies
Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet (Paris)
Gustav Calliess (1871-1956) Insektenhändler in Guben
Emile Clement Australia
William Deans Cowan Madagascar
Giuseppe De Cristoforis (Milan)
Eduard Dämel Insect dealer in Hamburg.
Robert Damon Natural history dealer in Weymouth
Walter Dannatt Natural history dealer in Lee, London, mainly Lepidoptera.
Jules Desbrochers des Loges French insect dealer.
Émile Deyrolle (1838–1917) French naturalist and natural history dealer in Paris. The business was originally owned by his naturalist grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle who opened his shop in 1831 at 23, Rue de la Monnaie. Émile's father Achille Deyrolle ran the business for many years. It is now at 46, rue du Bac, Paris
Maarten Dirk van Renesse van Duivenbode trader of bird skins in the Dutch East Indies.
Henri Donckier de Donceel Paris insect dealer
Richard Henry Puech Dupont (1798 –1873) Paris trader (Quai Saint-Michel) in specimens of beetles and birds.
Alfred William Ecutt (1879-) Newport, Wales.
William Eling (also known as William Ealing, c.1790-1853), shell and marine specimen dealer based at Deptford.
Entomologisch Institut Hamburg (E. M. Schulz) Hamburg 22, Hamburgerstrasse 45.
Josef Erber(c. 1830 – c. 1918) Mineral and natural history dealer in Vienna St. Ullrich, Siebensterngasse No. 29.
Anton Hermann Fassl Naturhistorisches-Institut, 948 Zeidlerstrasse, Teplitz, Bohemia, Germany (now the Czech Republic)
Adolarius Jacob Forster (1739–1806).Leading mineral dealer of the 18th century with premises in London, Paris and St. Petersburg.
R. Fuess Berlin - Steglitz mineral and petrographic specimens an instruments Heinrich Ludwig Rudolf Fuess (1838–1917)de:Rudolf Fuess.
Gustav Adolph Frank (1809–1880) Natural history dealer in Amsterdam who had worldwide trade connections.
Václav Frič (1839–1916) Prague
Hans Fruhstorfer
 
Alfred George Gabriel (1884–1968) English butterfly dealer who also worked for the British Museum.
Otto Garlepp and Gustav Garlepp  Otto (1864-1959) Gustav (1862 – 1907) South America
Bruno Geisler (1857-1945) New Guinea bird skins
Karl Ludwig Giesecke Mineral dealer in Copenhagen.
Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy The Godeffroy Museum and dealership.
Richard Haensch Berlin
Johann Wilhelm Adolf Hansemann (1784–1862) German insect dealer
Thomas Hawkins

Henry Heuland (1778–1856) London Mineral collector and dealer
Alexander Heyne Berlin
George Humphrey London dealer in shells and ‘curiosities’ in the 18th century.
Charles Jamrach
Charles Georges Javet
Edward Wesley Janson London
Jan Kalinowski Peru
Heinrich Kühn (naturalist) (1860-1906) Birds and butterflies East Indies, New Guinea
Emil Riemel, Mühen, Augustenstrasse 41 Insect dealer
Kny-Scheerer Company, 404 West Twenty- seventh street, New York. Agency for German dealers - specimens, equipment. Active 1900- 1930s?
Friedrich Kohl (1839–1907) Fossil and mineral dealer

Adam August Krantz (1809–1872); Natural history dealer in Berlin after 1850 in Bonn.
Frank H. Lattin & Co. Albion, New York
Benjamin Leadbeater (1760–1837) Dealer in ornithological specimens.
Hermann von Maltzan (1843 – 1891) Conchology
Charles Johnson Maynard (1845–1929) Natural history dealer in Boston and Newton, Massachusetts.
Friedrich Christian Meuschen
Heinrich Benno Möschler
Eugène Le Moult
August Müller
Ida Laura Pfeiffer
Maison Azoux
Maison Tramond Established by the mid-19th century at 9 Rue de l' Ecole de Medicine in Paris. Later "Maison Tramond - N. Rouppert successeur".Models of human and comparative anatomy and osteological preparations.
Albert Stewart Meek
Wilhelm Neuburger Berlin (between 1900 and 1910) Insect dealer
Heinrich Michael Neustetter Insect dealer, Vienna
Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt
Gustav Paganetti-Hummler as Zoologische Institut für Balkanforschung des Gust. Paganetti-Hummler
Ludwig Parreys (1796–1879) Parreys lived in Vienna, where he was dealer in natural history objects. Trading as Ludwig and Joseph Mann, he supplied zoological specimens to many leading taxonomists whose collections are now conserved by natural history museums.
Émile Parzudaki (1829-1899) and Charles Parzudaki 2 rue Bouloi, Paris, mainly bird mounts and skins.
Andrew Pritchard London
Max Quedenfeldt Berlin insect dealer.
Orazio Querci (and family). Butterfly dealer in Florence, Italy - collected extensively in Spain and Portugal also Cuba. Supplied butterflies to Roger Verity and European butterflies to R.C. Williams, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Lovell Augustus Reeve