Salamanders
6 items found
Riedel, G. F. and F. Kirschner
Tabulae regni animalis, omnes VI classes animalium comprehendentes. Tabula Regni animalis. Tabula V classis IV Amphibia Reptilia.
Augsburg, Kaiserlich Franzische Akademische Handlung [1786]. Oblong folio (38.5 x 55 cm). Eight, uncut, copper engravings. All finely, and accurately hand-coloured. Loose, as issued, housed in a modern portfolio for protection.
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Rusconi, M.
Amours des salamandres aquatiques et developpement du tetard de ces salamandres depuis l'oeuf jusq'a l'animal parfait.
Milan, Paolo Emilio Giusti, 1821. Large 4to (33.5 x 23.3 cm). 73 pp. (including half title, title page); five engraved plates of which four finely hand-coloured. Five blanks in the rear. Contemporary blind boards.
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Rusconi, M.
Descrizione anatomica degli organi della circolazione delle larve delle salamandre acquitiche.
Pavia, Galeazzi, 1817. Large 4to (21.0 x 26.5 cm). 49 pp. (including title page), one hand-coloured engraved plate. Period-style blue half morocco over blue-marbled boards. Gilt title and ornaments on the spine. Endpapers renewed.
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Rusconi, M. and P. Configliachi
Del Proteo anguino di Laurenti. Monografia.
Pavia, Galeazzi, 1819. Large 4to (30.0 x 22.4 cm). Title page, [iv], 119 pp., four lithographed plates, of which two in double-suite: line drawings and lithographs, (partly) hand-coloured by the second author. Late 19th-century pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spine with polished morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers, speckled edges.
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Siebold, [P.] F. Von and C. J. Temminck and H. Schlegel
Fauna Japonica sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1825 - 1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Conjunctis studiis C. J. Temminck et H. Schlegel pro vertebratis atque W. de Haan pro invertebratis elaborata. Reptilia.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], J. G. La Lau, 1838. Folio (36.8 x 28.0 cm). Engraved title (to the Fauna Japonica), dedication leaf, letterpress title (to the Reptilia part). xxi, 144 pp.; one unnumbered engraved plate, 28 lithographed plates, of which two double-sized or larger [numbered chelonii I-IX, ophidii 1-6, VII, 8-10, saurii et batrachii I-VIII, and one unnumbered plate of a turtoise carrying a grotesque appendage on its shield], one double-sized, partly coloured map of the world. Contemporary polished half calf with blind-tooled floral edges over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, compartments with blind-tooled vignettes and three black morocco labels with gilt title, gilt vignette and gilt-rolled arabesques; greyish-blue endpapers; edges mottled brown.
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