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Verrier de la Conterie, J. Le
Venerie Normande, ou l'école de la chasse aux chiens courants, pour le lievre, le chevreuil, le cerf, le daim, le sanglier, le loup, le renard & la loutre; avec les tons de chasse, accompagnés de chacun une explication sur l'occasion & les circonstances où ils doivent être sonnés; et un traité des remedes, un traité sur le droit de suite, & un dictionnaire des termes de chasse, &c.
Rouen, Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). xvi, 526 pp.; 27 fine mostly folded wood-engraved plates on 19 leaves (seven printed on blue paper; 16 combined on recto and verso of eight leaves), mostly by Caron; 12 large text engravings of music scores being "Tons de Chasse et Fanfares". Early 19th century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges.
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Vouga, D.
Préhistoire du pays de Neuchâtel, des origines aux Francs. Préface de D. Viollier. Avec 70 figures dans le texte, 34 planches hors-texte et une carte archéologique du Canton de Neuchâtel au 1:100.000.
Neuchâtel, Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles, [1943]. 4to (28.2 x 22.1 cm), 253 pp., 34 plates (one in colour), one large, folded, tinted map in rear pocket. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt title and vignette on the front board. Original printed wrappers (of the soft cover edition) bound in.
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Wahlenberg, G.
De vegetatione et climate in Helvetia Septentrionali inter flumina Rhenum et Arolam observatis et cum summi septentrionis comparatis tentamen.
Turici Helvetorum (Zürich), Fuessli, 1813. 8vo (20.5 x 12.1 cm). xcviii, 200 pp.; one folding table, three folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments at head and food; red morocco label with gilt title. All edges red.
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Walker, F.
Insecta Britannica. Diptera. Vol. I - III. [Complete].
London, Lovell Reeve, 1851-1856. Three volumes in three. 8vo (22.0 x 14.1 cm). [I (1851): vi, 314, (16); II (1853): vi, 298, (16); III (1856): xxiv, 352, (24)]; 30 engraved plates [I: I-X; II: XI-XX; III: XXI-XXX]. Uniform original pebbled and blind-tooled cloth; gilt title on the spines. Yellow endpapers.
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[Wallpaper]
A collection of ten rolls of wallpaper, mainly borders, in late Jugendstil or early Art Deco "Amsterdamse School" style.
The Netherlands, unknown firm, ca. 1910. Various sizes. Height between 10 and 32 centimetres; five rolls, each with a length of more than 5 metres (547, 618, 621, 690 and 695 cm). Colour-printed and pochoir, some with additional hand-colouring.
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[Wallpaper] Paul Dumas
"P.D.". Échantillons de papier peint - Pochoir wallpaper samples [Chinoiserie].
[Paul Dumas, Paris, ca. 1930]. A fine set of three very large sheets (119 x 73 cm each) with pochoir designs with flowers and birds, for wallpaper or similar ornamental purposes.
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[Wallpaper] Paul Dumas
"P.D.". Échantillons de papier peint - Pochoir wallpaper samples [Flowers and birds].
[Paul Dumas, Paris, ca. 1930]. A fine set of three very large sheets (119 x 73 cm each) with pochoir designs with flowers and birds, for wallpaper or similar ornamental purposes.
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Weihe, [C. E.] A. and C. G. [D.] Nees von Esenbeck
Die Deutschen Brombeersträuche. Rubi Germanici, descripti et figuris illustrati.
Elberfeld, Schön, [1821]-1822-1827. Folio (39.1 x 24.9 cm). Two half-titles, two title pages (Latin and German), [vi] (dedication leaf; list of subscribers, preface), 116, [iv], 130, [iv] (index) pp.; 53 engraved and partially hand-coloured plates [numbered I-XLIX, III.B, XLV.B, XLVI.B, XLVI.C]. Original printed boards.
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Wilde, [W.] O.
Die Pflanzen und Raupen Deutschlands. Versuch einer lepidopterologischen Botanik. Erster Theil. Systematische Beschreibung der Pflanzen, unter Angabe der an denselben lebenden Raupen. Mit einem Vorworte von A. Speyer. Zweiter Theil. Systematische Beschreibung der Raupen unter Angabe ihrer Lebensweise und Entwicklungszeiten.
Berlin, E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1860-1861. Two volumes in one. 8vo (19.2 x 12.4 cm). xiii, 223; vii, 494 pp.; ten engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum over paper covered boards, spine with red morocco label with gilt title.
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Wolff, J. F.
Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].
Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (25.2 x 20.1 cm). First title page (verso blank), [ii (preface)], [iv], [ii], [iii-iv; vii-viii; v-[vi], 208 pp. (with second title [1801], third title [1802], fourth title [1804], and fifth (last) title [1811]); 20 finely engraved plates with beautiful original hand-colouring. Later 19th-century full embossed cloth. Spine with gilt ornaments and title; boards with blind-stamped ornamental borders. Marbled edges.
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Wollaston, T. V.
Coleoptera Atlantidum, being an enumeration of the coleopterous insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries.
London, John van Voorst, 1865. Thick 8vo (22.0 x 13.8 x 4.8 cm). xlvii, 526, 140 pp.; one engraved map. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine.
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[Women's Liberation] [André Citroën]
Application de la main-d'oeuvre féminine au travail des obus. [AND] Usines André Citroën. Vues photographiques des usines André Citroën de mars a ocobre 1915 [at] 143 quai de javel, Paris.
Paris, Citroën, [1915]-1916. In two volumes. Oblong folio (31.5 x 43.7 cm). 71 original photographs (22.0 x 28.5-35.5 cm) mounted on grey cardboard with printed captions [60; 11]. Uniform full mottled calf. Boards with double gilt-rolled ornamental borders and gilt title.
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Yarrell, W.
A History of British Fishes. [Large paper copy].
London, J. Van Voorst, 1836. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (25.0 x 15.7 cm). 918 pp. [xxxviii, 408; 472]. With several hundreds of fine text engravings. Contemporary uniform grained morocco. Boards with gilt ornamented rectangular borders; spines with five raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title. Yellow endpapers. Top edges gilt.
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Zannoni, R.
Atlas historique de la France ancienne et moderne contenant tous les lieux illustrés par les événements les plus mémorables de notre histoire; ... depuis Pharamond jusqu'a Louis XV....
Paris, S. Desnos, 1782. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.2 cm). Beautifully engraved double-sized title page; similar folding dedication page (by Desnos and Zannoni), 16 pp.; 59 hand-coloured engraved maps (56 double-sized with ornamental borders; two much larger, of which one dated 1774, and the other 1776). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral patterns and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges red.
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Zeyher, [J. M.] and J. G. Rieger
Schwezingen und seine Garten-Anlagen.
Mannheim, Schwan-Götzschen, [1820]. 8vo (18.2 x 11.9 cm). Title and half-title with woodcut vignette; viii, 182 pp.; one large, folded engraved map of this famous botanical garden in southern Germany; one attractive, engraved frontispiece showing the ancient mosque, and seven engravings of garden architecture. Original blue ruled boards with gilt floral borders, and spine with gilt title and vignettes.
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Zordanija, R. G. [Žordania, Zhordaniya]
Ornitofauna Malogo Kavkaza (v granicach Gruzinskoj SSR) [Ornithofauna of the Malogo-Caucasus (and the bounderies of the Gruzinian SSR)].
Tiblisi, Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoj SSR, 1962. 8vo (21.5 x 14.6 cm). 287 pp.; folded map. Publisher's quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with title in black.
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