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Thunberg, C. P.
Horti Upsaliensis plantae cultae ab initio saeculi. Quarum partem tertiam venia exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. praeside C. P. Thunberg. [AND] d.d. Examen classis polygamiae cujus partem priorem. Venia exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. praeside C. P. Thunberg.
Upsala, Palmblad, 1826. Two papers in two. 4to (20.8 x 16.8 cm; 24.6 x 19.8 cm). Title page, dedication page, pp. 17-24, [i]; Title page, dedication on verso, 8 pp.
Read moreLinnaeus, C.
Carl von Linnés anteckningar öfver Nemesis divina. Inbjudnings-skrift till morgondagens philosophiska promotion från Upsala universitets stiftelse den sjutiiondesjunde. Af tillförordnad promotor Elias Fries.
Upsala [Uppsala], Kongl. Academiska Boktryckeriet, 1848. Tall folio (44.0 x 27.5 cm). Title page; 26 pp. Loose-leaved, as issued.
Read moreHeeres, J. E.
Het aandeel der Nederlanders in de ontdekking van Australië 1606-1765. The part borne by the Dutch in the discovery of Australia 1606-1765.
Leiden, E. J. Brill [AND] London, Luzac and Co., 1899. Large 4to (35.0 x 25.2 cm) 240 [xvii, 100 double; 101-106 single] pp., two large, folding full colour maps, 17 maps in the text. Contemporary grey buckram with gilt title on the spine. Floral-patterned endpapers.
Read moreGembloux, P. De
Idiomologie des animaux. Recherches historiques, anatomiques, physiologues, philogiques, et glossologiques sur le langage des bêtes.
Paris, A la Tour de Babel, 1844. 4to (28.1 x 22.5 cm), 156 pp. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands bordered by gilt lines. Red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreDiebener, W. (ed.)
Monograms and decorations intended for the use of engravers in precious metals watches and kindred trades. Invented and designed by: Ewald Menzel, Berlin - Gustav Gessner, Glashütte - Richard Langner, München - Georg Wastian, Dresden. First and second editions.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Diebener, 1902. Large 4to (30.8 x 23.6 cm). Title in red and black; 12 pp.; 101 chromolithographed plates [numbered 1-78, Anhang 1-22, 14A]. Original olive buckram with gilt title on the spine and gilt title and monogram on the front board. Bevelled edges. Jugendstil-patterned endpapers.
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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.
Read moreDeyrolle, É. (ed.)
Le Naturaliste. Journal des échanges et des nouvelles. Volume I-III [no's 1-66].
Paris, Émile Deyrolle, 1879-1881. Three volumes in one. Folio (31.5 x 23.8 cm). 532 pp. Numerous illustrations. Contemporary quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title.
Read moreFieber, F. X.
Entomologische Monographien von Franz Xav. Fieber. Sieben Abhandlungen mit zehn Tafeln in Steinstich.
Prag [Prague], Gottlieb Haase Söhne, 1843 [1844]. Seven works in one. 4to (26.1 x 20.6 cm). Title page, 138 pp. (numbered [279]-416); ten engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards with green paper spine cover with script title. Speckled edges.
Read moreGoube, [I. J. C.] [AND] Mézièrs, N. la Camus de
Traité de la physique végétale des bois, et des principales opérations forestières, avec le modèle des actes à rédiger; terminé par le tableau des proportions qui doivent avoir les bois de construction pour la marine rapportées au calcul decimal. [WITH] Traité de la force des bois. Ouvrage essentiel, qui donne ley moyens de procurer plus de solidité aux edifices, de connoître la bonne & la mauvaise qualité des bois, de calculer leur force, & de ménager près de moitié sur ceux qu'on emploie ordinairement. Il enseigne aussi la maniere la plus avantageuse d'exploiter les forêts, d'en faire l'estimation sur pied, &c.
Paris, Goujon, 1801 [AND] Paris, Le Camus de Mézieres, Benoît Morin, 1782. Two works in one. 8vo (20.2 x 13.0 cm). xii, 326 pp.; two folded tables. [AND] 376, [ii] pp.; two engraved plates of which one larger, folded. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read more[Letourneux, E.] Couffon, O and T. Surrault (eds.)
Collection malacologique T. Letourneux offerte au Musée d'Histoire naturelle de la ville d'Angers. Catalogue par MM. O. Couffon (Coquilles marines) Th. Surrault (coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles). Ouvrage honoré d'une subvention de M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.
Angers, Germain et G. Grassin, 1909. 8vo (21.4 x 13.6 cm). Half-title, title page, xiii, 202 pp.; two portraits. Mid-20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreMertens, R.
[Original manuscript on the variability of the striped kukri snake, Oligodon octolineatus (Schneider)].
[Frankfurt am Main, 1969]. Handwritten in ink on rectos of 23 uniform, loose, ruled leaves (20.8 x 14.8 cm), a photocopy of a single leaf of G. A. Boulenger's Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, volume II (1894) with a few annotations by Mertens; and another 14 leaves of several sizes, a few with printed text.
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