Manuscripts and Letters
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Dedication copy of the rare, updated, separate edition
Correspondence between mid-19th-century hemipterologists: three papers and a letter
Fieber, F. X.
Genera Hydrocoridum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita. Cum tabulis quator. [AND] Species generis Corisa monographice dispositae cum tabulis duabus. [AND] Rhynchotographieen. Drei monograpische [sic] Abhandlungen. [AND] a handwritten letter to a colleague.
Prag [Prague], Gottlieb Haase Söhne, 1851. Three works in one. 4to (26.1 x 20.6 cm). 143 pp. [31; 48; 64], including three title pages; six engraved plates [4; 2; 0]. Contemporary marbled boards with green paper spine cover with script title. Speckled edges.
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€750.00
Alexander Agassiz in search of crustacean knowledge
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A wonderfully, sensuel, original drawing
An entomological manuscript by the malacologist, ecologist and entomologist Herbert Ant
[Ant, H.]
Manuscript based on Staudinger's printed list of Palaearctic Lepidoptera.
Not published, no date [but after 1936; probably ca. 1950]. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.1 cm). 161 ruled pages with mounted strips with printed text. Mid-20th century black blind cloth over marbled boards.
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€250.00
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine letter from Tunisia