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Gregorio, A. de
Mammiferi quaternari di Sicilia. Parte I-IV [AND] Mammiferi quaternari di Sicilia. Deposito ossifero di Castellana (Bellolampo) e della quarta grotta della Favorita. Deposito ossifero della vetta di Monte Pellegrina.
Palermo, [the author], 1924-1925. Five parts in five. Large 4to (35.2 x 25.2 cm). 73 pp. [13; 11; 17; 13; 19]; 91 plates [15; 26; 22; 18; 10] (several double-sized). Original uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreTenore, M. AND Savi, G., AND Bivona-Bernardi, A.
Thirteen rare and important early 19th-century papers on Italian botany.
Napoli, Pisa, etc., various publishers, 1809-1828. 13 papers in one. 8vo (20.3 x 13.1 cm). 544 pp.; ten engraved plates (several larger, folded), two large engraved, multi-folded hand-coloured maps. Contemporary polished quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, blind-tooled floral vignettes, and gilt title. Endpapers and edges marbled blue.
Read more[Linnaeus, C.] Manetti, X. (ed.)
Caroli Linnaei...Regnum vegetabile juxta systema naturae in classes ordines, et genera ab eodem contitutum. Curante Xaverio Manetti.
Florentiae [Florence], P. C. Viviani, 1756. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 123 pp.; two large, folded plates. Contemporary quarter calf over blind boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and brown morocco label with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
Read moreSerao, F.
Histoire du Mont Vésuve, avec l'explication des phenomenes qui ont coûtume d'accompagner les embrasements de cette montagne. Le tout traduit de l'Italien de l'Académie des Sciences de Naples. Par M. Duperron de Castera. Dédiée a monseigneur le Dauphin.
Paris, Huart, 1741. Small 8vo (16.6 x 9.5 cm). xxiii, 361, [iii] pp.; three large folded plates, one very large folded table. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with rich gilt floral patterns and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Edges red.
Read moreBresadola, G.
I funghi mangerecci e velenosi dell'Europa media con speciale riguardo a quelli che crescono nel Trentino nell'aila Italia. II edizione.
Trento, Giovanni Zippel, 1907. 8vo. 142 pp.; 121 plates [120 chromolithographed plates (I-CXII, XXIa, XXVIIIa, LIII[a], LIIIb, LVa, XCIXa, CIVa, CIXa), one photographed plate (XCVIIbis)]. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt lines and title.
Read moreTapparone-Canefri, C. [M.]
Zoologia del viaggio intorno al globo della R. fregata Magenta durante gli anni 1865-1868. Malacologia (gasteropodi, acefali e brachiopodi).
Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1876. Large 4to (28.5 x 21.1 cm). 155 pp.; four chromolithographed and partly hand-coloured plates, heightened with gum arabic. Later brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. Edges sprinkled red.
Read moreMoris, J. and J. de Notaris
Florula Caprariae sive enumertio plantarum in insula Capraria vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatum latius excultarum.
Torino, Reale Accademia delle Scienza di Torino, 1840. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.0 cm). 246 pp.; six elegantly lithographed plates. Marbled wrappers.
Read moreNowack, H.
Das moderne Monogramm. 676 Entwürfe von Hans Nowack k.k. Professor an der Kunstgewerbl. Fachschule in Bozen.
Wien, Ferdinand Schenk, [1903]. Folio (37.0 x 29.5 cm). Pictorial title page and 26 woodcut plates printed in green. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreFalkenberg, P.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Naepel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel XXVI. Die Rhodomelaceen des Golfes von Neapel.
Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1901. Large 4to (33.2 x 27.4 cm). xvi, 754 pp.; 24 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreLippi, C.
Fu il fuoco, o l'acqua che sotterro Pompei ed Ercolano? Scoperta geologico-istorica, fatta dall'autore il di 14 e 26 Ottobre 1810, e da lui scritta nelle lingue latina, inglese, francese, italiana, tedesca, e spagnuola in due lettere. Seguite dalle scritture pro et contra, presentate all' Accademia di scienze di Napoli, per di lei ordine; e dalle decisioni di questa Società, relative al' argomento. Prima edizione Italiana.
Napoli, Domenico Sangiacomo, 1816. 8vo (18.9 x 11.4 cm). [iv], 384 pp.; one folded plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Rich gilt spine. Edges yellow.
Read moreTorre, G. M. Della
Histoire et phénomènes du Vésuve. Exposés par le Pere Dom Jean-Marie Della-Torre, clerc régulier sommasque, garde bde la bibliothéque & du cabinet du roi des Deux-Siciles, & correspondant de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris. Traduction de l'Italien par M. l'abbé Péton.
Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1760. 12mo (16.3 x 9.2 cm). xxiv, 399 pp., one large folded map of Mount Vesuvius, the Bay of Naples and surroundings, and five folded plates with panoramas and other views of the volcano, caldera, etc. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with gilt floral vignettes and small red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
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