France
192 items found
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.
Read moreRisso, [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.
Read moreVerneuil, M. P., G. Auriol, and [A. M.] Mucha
Combinaisons ornementales.
Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, [1901]. Oblong folio (21.7 x 25.0 cm). Title page, 2 pp.; 58 illustrations in three different colours [numbered 3-60]. In original portfolio with quarter blind grey cloth over pictorial boards.
Read moreBarruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Roitelet à triple bandeau, Regulus ignicapilla. [Original watercolour].
[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single, oblong sheet (17.5 x 24.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of greyish-brown paper (25.0 x 32.5 cm).
Read moreDelaunay, S.
Simultané. [by Sonia Delaunay].
Bielefeld, Bielefelder Spielkarten GmbH, 1964. 16 pp. booklet, partly printed in colour (12.6 x 9.0 cm) and 110 playing cards (9.2 x 6.0 cm) [two French decks with differently coloured backs in blue, black and white, combined with, respectively, red or green, each consisting of 52 standard cards and three jokers] in original transparent plastic box (13.2 x 9.8 cm).
Read more[Brunet, J. C.]
Catalogue des livres rares et précieux composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Jacques-Charles Brunet. Première Partie. Livres rares et précieux. Belles reliures anciennes et modernes. [AND] Deuxième partie. Ouvrages de divers genres. Histoire littéraire. Bibliografie. [Complete].
Paris, Potier, Labitte; London, T. and W. Boone, 1868. Two volumes in two, 8vo (24.4 x 15.6 cm). Volume I: Engraved frontispiece portrait by G. Staal, xlvi, [(5)-16], 139; [(119-130; (199-208, (141)-143], 16 pp.; five tissue-guarded plates, showing bindings. Volume II: xiii, 232 pp. Uniform burgundy half morocco over marbled boards, spines with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.
Read moreZannoni, 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.
Read moreLeymerie, A. [F. G. A.]
Description géologique et paléontologique des Pyrenées de la Haute-Garonne accompagnée d'une carte topographique et géologique à l'echelle 1:200.000 et d'un Atlas...
Toulouse, Privat, 1878, 1881. In two volumes. Text (1881) 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). Atlas (1878) oblong 4to (23.5 x 31.5 cm). 1,027 pp.; 51 lithographed plates of which 11 tinted or coloured (and of which 30 are on fossils), including a large folded transection of the Pyrenees, Haute Garonne, and the large coloured geological map (with 20 colours) mounted on linen. Original printed wrappers (text) and boards (atlas).
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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.
Read moreMoquin-Tandon, [C. H. B.] A.
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés.
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1855. Three parts in three. 4to (25.2 x 16.1 cm). I: viii, 416 pp.; II: 646 pp.; Atlas: half-title, title page, 92 pp.; 54 finely chromolithographic plates. Contemporary uniform polished half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands and two black calf labels with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
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