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Gray, A. and I. Sprague
Genera florae Americae Boreali-Orientalis illustrata. The genera of the plants of the United States, illustrated by figures and analyses from nature, by Isaac Sprague. Superintended, and with descriptions, &c. by Asa Gray. Vol. I. Plates 1-100, Vol. II. Plates 101-186. (Complete).
Boston, MA, James Munroe, New York, NY, George P. Putnam, 1848-1849. Two volumes in two. 8vo (23.5 x 15.1 cm). 460 (230; 230) pp.; 186 (100; 86) engraved plates. Original uniform black blind-stamped cloth. Gilt title on the spines. Yellow endpapers.
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Monographie de la faune Éocénique de l'Alabama et surtout de celle de Claiborne de l'étage Parisien (horizon à Venericardia planicosta Lamk.). Avec 46 pl. (contenant 1480 figures de 751 espèces et mutations).
Palermo, Librairie International L. Pedone Lauriel (Charles Clausen), 1890. Folio (33.2 x 24.0 cm). 316 pp.; 46 fine lithographed plates. Original printed boards.
Read moreHarris, W. H.
Louisiana products, resources and attractions, with a sketch of the parishes. A hand book of reliable information concerning the State.
New Orleans, LA, W. M. Harris [for the State], 1881. 8vo (23.4 x 14.9 cm). 248 pp., one large, folded coloured map, one lithographed frontispiece portrait. Original pictorial wrappers. In protective transparent cover.
Read moreOwen, D. D.
Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota; and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska territory. Made under instructions from the United States Treasury Department [AND] Illustrations to the geology report of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Two parts in two. 4to (31.1 x 23.0 cm). Engraved frontispiece and title page, 639 pp. (first xxxviii in Roman numbers), numerous fine steel-engravings (text volume); title page, 27 (I-XV, IA-D, IIA-B, IIIA, VA-B, VIIIA, XIIA-B) fine lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, and 21 mostly folding (all but two) and (partly) hand-coloured (all but two) geological maps, views, and profiles (atlas volume). Original near uniform blind-tooled cloth. Text volume spine with gilt title, plate volume with gilt title on the front board.
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