Tropics
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Bleeker, P.
Over eenige nieuwe soorten van Notopterus van den Indischen Archipel.
Breslau and Bonn, Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher, "1852" [1854]. 4to (30.6 x 24.0 cm). Title page and 12 text pages [numbered (51)-62]; five chromolithographed plates (one much larger, folded) [numbered 6-10]. Contemporary blind blue wrappers.
Read moreVosmaer, A.
Description d'une espèce rare de singe d'Amerique à longue queuë, nommé quatto, par les naturels de païs, et, par les Hollandais, bosch-duivel, (diable des bois,) ou slinger-aap, (singe voltigeur;) reçu de la colonie Hollandoise de Surinam; et conservé dans le cabinet de son altesse sérénissime, monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, Stadhouder héreditaire, gouverneur, capitaine géneral et amirail des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.
Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1773. 4to (27.3 x 21.0 cm). 12 pp. (including title page); one engraved plate with contemporary colouring. Disbound.
Read moreWildeman, É. [A. J.] De
Etudes sur la flore du Katanga. [Complete in four parts].
Bruxelles, Musée du Congo, 1902-1913. Four parts in four. Folio (35.1 x 26.6 cm). 437 pp. [xii, 241; 180, (iv)]; 65 [46; 19] fine lithographed or phototype plates, of which several double-sized, folded. Original, near uniform printed portfolios.
Read moreCollet, O. [J. A.]
l'Or aux Indes orientales Néerlandaises. Étude sur l'etat actuel de l'industrie aurifere.
Batavia, G. Kolff, 1889. Small 4to (24.4 x 16.3 cm). 51 pp. Original crimson pebbled and embossed cloth with gilt ornamental bands and gilt title on the front board. Floral-pattered endpapers.
Read moreMorlet, L. [J.] et al.
Mission Pavie Indo-Chine 1879-1895. III. Recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de l'Indo-Chine orientale. Mollusques.
Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1904. 4to (26.6 x 21.6 cm). 118 pp. [numbered 332-449]; four finely lithographed and hand-coloured plates. Brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges.
Read moreExell, A. W.
Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Supplement Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Corrected proof of the Supplement.
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1944-1956. Two papers in three. 8vo (24.6 x 18.8 cm) 551 pp. [xi, 428; 58; 54]; three maps; 32 [26; 3; 3] large text illustrations. Original green buckram with gilt title on the spine (main work); green printed wrappers (Supplement), and plain brown wrappers (proof copy).
Read moreVosmaer, A.
Description de deux petits alcyons des Indes Orientales, très-beaux, a queuë courte, ayant deux doigts devant, & un derrière; admirable, n'ayant presque point de queuë, pourû de deux doigts de devant, & de deux derrière; lesquels se conservent dans le cabinet de son altesse sérénissime monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, Stadhouder héréditaire, gouverneur, capitaine général et admiral des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.
Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1768. 4to (27.1 x 21.0 cm). Title page, seven pp.; text vignette, one finely engraved plate in contemporary hand-colouring.
Read moreKükenthal, W. and R. Hartmeyer
Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Westindien.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1908-1916. Four parts (of six) in one. 8vo (23.3 x 15.9 cm). 586 pp.; one map, 28 plates and 207 text figures. Near contemporary black pebbled cloth. Gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in rear.
Read moreAnnandale, [T.] N.
Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-12.
Calcutta, The Director of the Zoological Survey of India, 1912-1918. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). pp. 1-77, 191-410, 493-621 [of 629] pp., errata leaf; plates I-V, XVI-XXVII, XXXVIII-LIV [of 57] (mostly lithographs and photogravures), several text illustrations. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreSaussure, H. [L. F.] De
Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle de Mexique, des Antilles et des États-Unis. Ire livraison. Mémoire sur divers crustacés nouveaux du Mexique et des Antilles.
Geneve, J. Kessmann, 1858-1861. 4to (29.0 x 22.2 cm). 82 pp., six lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers (protected by transparent paper).
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