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Bergstraesser, J. A. B. [Bergsträsser]
Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der Insecten in der Graffschaft Hanau-Münzenberg wie auch der Wetterau und der angränzenden Nachbarschaft dies und jenseits des Mains. [Plate 5].
Hanau, privately published, 1778. Single leaf (22.3 x 14.9 cm). Finely engraved and in delicate original hand-colouring.
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Champignons observés dans le département de la Charente-Inférieure. Planches. [Atlas].
La Rochelle, Académie de La Rochelle, Société des Sciences Naturelles de la Charente-Inférieure, 1882. 8vo (25.2 x 16.0 cm). 4 pp.; 56 fine lithographed plates of which 12 hand-coloured. Original printed wrappers.
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Elemens d'oryctologie ou distribution méthodique des fossiles.
Neuchatel, Société Typographique, 1773. 8vo (18.8 x 11.5 cm). xxxix, 137, xxii pp.; 16 double, folded tables. Contemporary full calf. Spine with four raised bands. Rich gilt floral compartments, red morocco label with gilt title. Edges red.
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18th-century Italian 'Notebook' with blank pages.
Italy, ca. 1780. Small folio (22.7 x 15.9 cm). 24 blank leaves of laid paper. Full burgundy calf; boards rich gilt with floral ornaments in a late Louis XV style. Patterned pastedowns. All edges gilt with floral patterns. preserved pink buckram clamshell box (23.6 x 17.1 x 2.2 cm) with gilt title on the spine.
Read moreBoehm, G.
Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koenigliche Bayerische Staates. Zweiter Band, vierte Abtheilung. Die Bivalven der Stramberger Schichten.
Cassel [Kassel], Gustav Fischer, 1883. Folio (44.2 x 31.5 cm), Title page; 18 fine, lithographed plates. In original green portfolio with printed title page mounted.
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Spermatologiae vegetabilis. Pars I. De seminum existentia differentia et usu. Pars II. De seminum ortu foecundatione et incremento. Pars III. De seminum collectione duratione et conservatione. Pars IV. De seminum ad sementem praeparatione. Pars V. De seminum satione. Pars VI. De germinationis adminiculis. Pars VII et ultima. De germinatione. [Complete].
Vitembergae [Wittenberg], Carolus Christianus Dürrius, 1777-1784. Seven parts in one. 4to (20.0 x 17.0 cm). 218 pp.; several nice wood-engraved vignettes. Original boards. Spine with handwritten paper label.
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[Minibar - Five books, a bottle, and two glasses].
France, ca. 1900. A leather covered box (18 x 12 x 13 cm) consisting of five original 19th-century books, containing a bottle and two glasses. Internally decorated with leather-resembling paper. Spines with gilt bands, morocco labels and gilt titles, ‘top’ board with gilt armorial vignette.
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