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Natuurlyke historie van de koraal-gewassen en andere dergelyke zee-lighamen, die men gemeenelyk vind op de kusten van Groot-Brittanien en Ierland: benevens eene beschryving van een grooten zee-polyp, In den zomer van 't jaar 1753 by den Noord-Pool door de walvis-vangers gevonden. Uit het engels vertaald door Jan Tak.
€2,500.00
's Gravenhage [The Hague], Pieter de Hondt, 1756. 4to (27.6 x 21.5 cm). xvi, 118 pp., with a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of a beautiful marine scene, a black and red printed title page, and 39 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary calf binding, spine with raised bands and gilt floral motifs. Red speckled edges.
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A very rare hand-coloured copy
Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices du Ministre de l'Instruction publique sous la direction de A. Milne-Edwards. Brachiopodes.
€500.00
Paris, G. Masson, 1891. Large 4to (31.5 x 24.2 cm). 140 pp., 15 text figures, eight fine lithographed plates. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title. Patterned endpapers, speckled edges.
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A rare work on recent brachiopods
Kunstformen der Natur. Plate 23. Cristatella - Bryozoa - Moostiere [Bryozoa]
€95.00
Leipzig and Wien, Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1900. Folio-sized sheet, printed on one side (36.3 x 27.3 cm). Chromolithograph.
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Very fine lithograph by Ernst Haeckel, showing the unexpected beauty of moss animals
Die fossilen Bryozoen des österreichisch-ungarischen Miocäns. I. Abtheilung. Salicornaridea, Cellularidea, Membraniporidea. [AND] Briozoi fossili del Miocene d'Austria ed Ungheria. II. Parte. Celleporidea, Escharidea, Vincularidea, Selenaridea. [AND] Parte. III. Crisidea, Idmoneidea, Entalophoridea, Tubuliporidea, Diastoporidea, Cerioporidea.
€400.00
Wien, Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Karl Gerold's Sohn), 1873-1877. 4to (30.7 x 24.2 cm). 103 [50; 30; 24] pp., 46 [12; 16; 18] fine, lithographed plates. Later marbled wrappers. Original wrappers to each part bound in.
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A rare complete set
Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. Volumes 1-31 [AND] Indexes.
€1,800.00
Paris, Société Zoologique de France, 1876-1906. 31 volumes in 31. 8vo (23.7 x 15.6 cm). Over 10,000 pp., 158 plates and 25 portraits. Uniform dark green half calf over marbled boards. Spines with four raised, gilt-tooled bands, gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled endpapers.
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A finely bound, uniform set - from the first issue - of France's most important zoological magazine