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Histoire des Felidae fossiles constatés en France dans les dépots de la période quaternaire.
€380.00
Paris, Jules Tremblay, 1879. Very large 4to (36.3 x 27.8 cm). 54 pp.; one large, folded, lithographed plate. Original printed front wrapper, mounted.
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Published in 100 copies only
Histoire générale des animaux, des végetaux et des mineraux, qui se trouvent dans le Royaume, representés en gravure et dessinés d'après nature, avec l'explication aussi gravée au bas de chaque planche de ces differentes substances, pour servir d'intelligence à l'histoire générale et economique des trois regnes. Partie Ire. représentant les quadrupèdes de la France.
€3,700.00
Paris, chez l'auteur et chez Debure l'ainé Libraire, [1776]. Folio (45.5 x 28.9 cm) with 38 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates with engraved text and engraved title. Original printed wrappers. In 20th-century protective cloth box (48.2 x 30.6 x 2.8 cm) with a printed label mounted on the front (top) board.
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Buchoz betters Buffon: A very rare and fine work on wild and domestic animals
Essai géologique et minéralogique sur les environs d'Issoire, département du Puy-de-Dôme, et principalement sur la Montagne de Boulade.
€750.00
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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Rare early treatise on European fossil mammals
Histoire naturelle Planche X. Le couguar, le linx. [Contemporary hand-coloured plate].
€250.00
Paris, Briasson, 1768. Single sheet. Folio (39.8 x 25.4 cm). Engraved plate with printed caption; finely hand-coloured; frame gilted.
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A very rare contemporarily coloured plate from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie
Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Sciences physiques. Zoologie. V. Histoire naturelle des mammifères.
€1,200.00
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1867. Folio (37.3 x 28.1 cm). Half-title, title page, 123 pp.; seven colour-printed engraved plates à la poupée, finished by hand. Somewhat later half morocco over floral boards. Spine with gilt title. Brown endpapers.
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Desert animals, including a new cat, plates done à la poupée
Paul. Potter delineavit ad vivum. [Jaguars]
€2,700.00
[Amsterdam], Nicolaes Visscher, ca. 1650. Oblong folio (18.6 x 24.2 cm). Engraved title page and seven other engravings (each measuring ca. 14 x 17 cm), numbered 1-8 in the lower right corner outside the printed frame. Later blind quarter vellum over marbled boards.
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The first accurate illustration of a jaguar, by a famous Dutch artist
P. Potter inventor Marc. de Bye fecit. [Lions]
€2,000.00
[Amsterdam], Nicolaes Visscher, 1664. Oblong folio (18.6 x 24.8 cm). Engraved title page, and seven other engravings (each measuring ca. 16 x 21.5 cm), numbered 1-8 in the lower right corner outside the printed frame. Later blind quarter vellum over marbled boards.
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Fine, lively engravings, by a famous Dutch artist
Italian mammals.
€250.00
[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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A collection of beautifully produced large plates and much more