France
163 items found
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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[Viollet-Le-Duc, E. E.]
Compositions et dessins de Viollet-Le-Duc publiés sous la patronage de Comité de l'Oeuvre du Maitre.
Paris, Librairie Centrale d'Architecture Des Fossez et Cie, 1884. Folio (48.8 x 34.5 cm). Frontispiece portrait (heliogravure); iii pp.; 100 plates on 91 leaves. Original burgundy half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five stipple-gilted raised bands, gilt ornamental lines at head and foot, and gilt title. Floral patterned endpapers; red speckled edges.
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Vincent, H. A.
Collection de 24 bouquets de fleurs.
Paris, Lambert, 1835. Small folio (27.0 x 20.7 cm). Hand-coloured engraved title; 24 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colour and finished by hand. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers.
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Victor, P. É. and R. Pommier et al.
Terre Adélie 1949-1951. [Original photographs and signed brochure of a French Antarctic expedition].
France and Terre Adélie (Antarctica), 1949-1951. A suite of 12 original photos [size between 17 x 13 cm (two) and 24 x 18 cm (all others)]; and one printed brochure (27.0 x 20.8 cm) with four pp. of text and illustrations, and original printed wrappers.
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Vaysse de Villiers, J.
Recueil complet des monumens et perspectives de Versailles, publié par Vaysse de Villiers. Recueil des planches faisant suite au tableau descriptif de Versailles. 1e. livraison. Perspectives, groupes, statues et bustes des deux trianons.
Paris, Giraldon-Bovinet et Versailles, Le Poitevin, 1830. Small oblong folio (13.5 x 20.8 cm). Two title pages, [ii] pp.; 123 engraved plates, of which many double-sized or (much) larger, folded, or multi-folded. Contemporary-style half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands and two red morocco labels with gilt title. Edges red.
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[Various geologists and palaeontologists]
Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Volumes I-V. [IINCLUDING Société Linnéenne de Calvados].
Caen, Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 1824-1835. Five volumes in six. 8vo (volumes I-IV, 21.0 x 13.2 cm), 4to (volume V, 27.6 x 22.0 cm), and oblong folio (atlas to volumes II-IV, 22.5 x 31.0 cm). Title pages; 15 lithographed (partly folded) plates in volume I, one hand-coloured geological map, 39 lithographed plates in the atlas volume, mainly depicting lichens by Delise, and geological maps (11 hand-coloured). Uniform later half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title.
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[Various authors]
Annales des Mines. Series III-VI. Atlases.
Paris, Ecole de Mines, 1832-1866. Two series in four. Oblong folio (40.5 x 22.0 cm) with 758 (of 759? see below) engraved and lithographed plates and maps, of which 29 are hand-coloured geological maps or profiles. Contemporary uniform red cloth. Gilt titles on the spines and front boards. Marbled endpapers.
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[Trade Catalogue]
Les couleurs Diamine de Leopold Cassella & Cie. Francfort sur le Mein. Leurs qualités et leur emploi en teinture et en impression.
Frankfurt am Main, Leopold Cassella & Cie., 1896. Small, thick quarto/folio (25.0 x 16.5 x 5.5 cm). Double frontispiece; title page, ix, 275, xv pp.; 38 numbered and one unnumbered sheets (three large, double-folded) with mounted coloured examples of fabric (usually 8 samples, sometimes fewer, or many more). Another 160 samples mounted in the text. Original blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. Patterned endpapers.
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[Tobacco]
Premier Congrès Scientifique Internationale du Tabac / First International Scientific Tobacco Congress. Paris - Bergerac Septembre 1955.
Paris, CORESTA,1956. Two volumes in three. Large 8vo (25.5 x 17.8 cm). Two full colour frontispieces (mounted), lxxx, 803; 10 pp. numerous text figures, 15 plates. Original uniform printed cloth (both main volumes), and blind blue wrappers (CORESTA list of founders, members, programs and statutes). Marbled endpapers.
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Tempère, J. (ed.)
Le Diatomiste. Journal spécial s'occupant exclusivement des Diatomées et de tout ce qui s'y rattache. Volumes 1 - 2. [All Published].
Paris, J. Tempère, 1890-1896. [Reprint Lochum, Antiquariaat Junk, 1974]. Two volumes in two. Large 4to. 481pp. [180, vi, 35; 260]; numerous plates and text illustrations. Republisher's uniform printed wrappers.
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Tazewell, G. [Tazewell, W.]
Vade-Mecum in duas partes divisum, quarum prior, nosologiam cullinaeam, posterior, compendium materiae medicae et pharmacopoeiae, exhibet; quibus subjungitur systema formularum recentissimarum, ad normam chymiae recentis ordinatum.
Paris, A. J. Dugour et Durand, 1798. 12mo (16.7 x 10.3 cm). iv, 210 pp. Original speckled boards.
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Séguy, E. A.
Prismes. 40 planches de dessins et coloris nouveaux.
Paris, Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1931]. Folio portfolio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). [iv] pp. (half-title and title page); 40 very fine full colour pochoir plates. The original publisher's full-colour pictorial portfolio.
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Swagers, E.
Collection complète des oiseaux d'Europe, dessinés et coloriés d'après nature.
Amiens, [the author, 1833]. Folio (30.7 x 23.0 cm). 11 unnumbered printed text sheets; 87 (of 88) lithographed plates in fine, original hand-colouring. Original printed wrappers. Preserved in brown cloth clambox (32.5 x 25.3 x 3.6 cm). "Spine" with red morocco label with gilt title.
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Sonnini, C. S.
Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des poissons. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et mis dans un nouvel ordre par C. S. Sonnini, avec des notes et des additions. Tomes 1-13. [Complete fish section].
Paris, Dufart, An X-XII [1800-1802]. 13 parts in 13. 8vo (19.4 x 12.2 cm). Text; 77 engraved plates. Uniform full tree calf, rich gilt spines, gilt titles on two red morocco labels, marbled flyleaves, all sides marbled.
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Saint Phalle, N. de
Réalisations, & projets d'architectures de Niki de Saint Phalle. [AND] Niki de Saint Phalle Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 22 juli - 5 september 1976. [Exhibition catalogue].
Paris, Alexandre Iolas, [1974]. Oblong, elongate leporello with 23 folds (16.1 x 590.4 cm), with stiff printed boards(16.1 x 24.6 cm).
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Rondelet, G.
Libri de piscibus marinis in quibus verae piscium effigies expressae sunt [including] Universae aquatilium historiae pars altera cum veris ipsorum imaginibus.
Lugduni [Lyon], Matthias Bonhomme, 1554-1555. Two volumes in one. Folio (32.0 x 20.4 cm). Title page with an engraved allegorical vignette, [xiv], 583, [xxii] pp.; second title, [x], 242, [ix] pp., for a total of 880 pp., including two with an engraved (frontispiece) portrait of the author; ca 470 woodcut illustrations, including one mounted (as usual). Embossed vellum. Spine with five raised bands and script title. Boards richly blind-tooled, with rolled, floral borders and central oval cartouche with coat of arms dated 1676. Brass clasps. Edges speckled red.
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Risso, [J.] A. and [P.] A. Poiteau
Histoire des orangers. Ouvrage orné de figures peintes d'après nature; dédié à son Altesse Royale Madame la Duchesse de Berri. Planches.
Paris, Mme hérisant Le Doux, 1818-1819. Folio. A suite of ten colour-printed plates, finished by hand. Framed in style, visible area 29.5 x 22.5 cm; frame size 44.2 x 37.2 cm.
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Risso, [J.] A.
Histoire naturelle des crustacés des environs de Nice. Ornées de gravures.
Paris, Librairie Greque-Latine-Allemande, 1816. 8vo (21.1 x 12.6 cm). 176 pp., three folded engraved plates. Later green morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four gilt-ornamented bands, gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers.
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