Great Apes
7 items found
Audebert, J. B.
Histoire naturelle des singes, peints d'après nature. [AND] Histoire naturelle [des singes et] des makis. [Complete].
Paris, l'Auteur, [AND] H. J. Jansen, 1797-[An 8 = 1799]. Two volumes in one. Folio (49.2 x 31.8 cm). Three half-titles, two title pages; 178 pp. [24, 4, 4, 10, 4, 8, 10, 24, 14, 8, 10, 8, 44, iv, 2]; 63 engraved plates of which 61 finely colour-printed, with additional original hand-colouring, and two plain, as intended. Contemporary, empire style, full calf. Boards with triple gilt borders and embossed floral vignettes, central vignette of a lyre. Spine with seven raised bands, gilt vignettes (vases) and morocco label with gilt title. Later marbled endpapers.
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Camper, P.
Account of the organs of speech of the orang outang. [Philosophical Transactions, 1779 Part I].
London, The Royal Society, 1779. 4to (25.5 x 19.7 cm). 21 pp.; one large, double-folded engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt-bordered raised bands. Black morocco label with gilt title. All edges speckled red.
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Sonnini C. S. (ed.) [Buffon]
Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, des animaux, de l'homme, des singes, des quadrupèdes, des cétacées. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes.
Paris, F. Dufart, An X-XIII (1802-1805). 21 parts in 21. 8vo (19.4 x 12.2 cm). Over 9,000 pp., 308 finely engraved plates on 307 leaves; one large, folding chart. Uniform contemporary polished tree-calf with empire style gilt borders and ornaments. Red and black morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
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Walkhoff, [F.] O.
Menschenaffen (Anthropomorphae) Studien über Entwickelung und Schädelbau herausgegeben von Dr. Emil Selenka Professor in München. Sechste Lieferung: Die diluvialen menschlichen Kiefer Belgiens und Ihre Pithekoiden Eigenschaften.
Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel 1903. 4to. [ii], 43 pp. (numbered [373]-415); 24 text figures (mostly [x-ray] photos). Original printed wrappers and original quarter linen portfolio over printed boards.
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