Manuscripts and Letters
76 items found
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
Robert Mertens at work: a revealing manuscript
Signed by the author
Raspail, X.
Les procédés de Pasteur. Jugés en 1882 par l'éminent chemiste Duclaux, nommé en 1895, directeur de l'institut Pasteur, fonction qu'il a occupée jusqu'à sa mort, en 1904 [AND] Le centenaire de Pasteur, a servi, pendant 18 mois, à lui édifier une apothéose mondiale, par une accumulation journalière, dans la presse française, de faux scientifiques et de mensognes scandaleux.
Gouvieuz, [the author?], 1924. Small 8vo (17.3 x 11.0 cm). 20 pp. Original printed wrappers.
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€350.00
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
On whales and shells
Robert Mertens at work: a revealing Robert Mertens pondering on Oligodon
Mertens, R.
[Original manuscript on the variability of the striped kukri snake, Oligodon octolineatus (Schneider)].
[Frankfurt am Main, 1969]. Handwritten in ink on rectos of 23 uniform, loose, ruled leaves (20.8 x 14.8 cm), a photocopy of a single leaf of G. A. Boulenger's Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, volume II (1894) with a few annotations by Mertens; and another 14 leaves of several sizes, a few with printed text.
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€275.00
Robert Mertens at work: thoughts on snakes
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
One of North America's most colourful butterflies: a fine watercolour drawing
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
What species of cowry is this?
Dedication copy of the rare, updated, separate edition
A fine letter from Tunisia
Robert Mertens's handwritten draft on a mysterious snake
On books and a library
Between to parasitologists and malacologists: request for a book
America versus Europe: the battle of the oysters
With a little help of a friend
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs