Cats
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Devèze de Chabrol, J. S. and J. B. Bouillet
Essai géologique et minéralogique sur les environs d'Issoire, département du Puy-de-Dôme, et principalement sur la Montagne de Boulade.
Clermont-Ferrand, Thibaud-Landriot, 1827. Folio (41.0 x 26.2 cm). xii, 104 pp.;hand-coloured lithographed geological map and hand-coloured profile, and 30 lithographed plates depicting vertebrates and several tables, including one very large, folded in the text. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges.
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Leonard, T.
Spotted Cat. [Original of a book front-cover illustration, signed by the artist].
Philadelphia, PA, The Artist, ca. 2005. A fine, original full-colour painting (16.5 x 20.3 cm, with a 3.8 cm white border). Acrylic on cardboard, by the American animal painter Tom Leonard.
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Rhind, W.
The miscellany of natural history edited by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. F.R.S.E. Volume II. The feline species. [OR] The natural history of the feline species by William Rhind, Esq., M.R.C.S. with a biographical sketch of Baron Cuvier by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart.
Edinburgh, Fraser and Co., 1834. 8vo (16.5 x 11.0 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Cuvier; engraved title with vignette of a lion and tiger, two letterpress titles, engraved medallion of Cuvier, [iv], 44, 45-184 pp.; 36 engraved plates of which 35 hand-coloured and one plain, as intended. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title.
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Spagnesi, M., S. Toso and A. M. de Marinis (eds.).
Italian mammals.
[Roma], Ministero dell'Ambiente, Servizio Conservazione della Natura, and Instituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica A. Ghigi, 2000. Two parts in two. Elephant folio (Atlas), 4to (text). 204 pp.; 83 fine coloured loose plates, all by Umberto Catalano. In original cloth portfolio with gilt title and vignette (49.2 x 34.6 x 5.1 cm).
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