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Léon Parvillée's copy
[19th-Century Chinese Artist]
[Fish Album].
China, ca. 1850. Oblong accordion (leporello) album (15.0 x 20.0 cm) with original watercolour illustrations on rice paper, augmented with gold or silver, of freshwater fish, including a goldfish; all in blue paper frames. Marbled boards.
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€2,500.00
Alexander Agassiz in search of crustacean knowledge
Two zoologists, grabbed by crabs
The SI unit of electric current is named after him
Rare first edition of a work dealing with the greatest French hydraulic achievement
Andreossy, [A.] F.
Histoire du Canal du Midi, connu précédemment sous le nom de Canal de Languedoc.
Paris, F. Dufart, An VIII [1799 or 1800]. 8vo (19.6 x 12.4 cm). Half-title, title page, 415 pp. (numbered [i]-xl, 41-414,[i]); one very large, multi-folded map and five folded charts including one very large, multi-folded). 19th-century polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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€1,250.00
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 example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style dragon spitting flowers
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
