Zoology
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Wallace, A. R.
The Malay Archipelago: the land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of Man and Nature.
London, MacMillan, 1886. 8vo (18.7 x 12.6 cm). Half-title, title page, dedication to Charles Darwin, xvi, 653, [ii] pp.; engraved frontispiece, seven engraved plates, two folded, tinted maps, and numerous steel-engravings in the text. Original green cloth. Spine with black bands, gilt title, and gilt vignette of a bird of paradise; front board with black blind-stamped border and gilt central vignette with an orangutan. Green endpapers.
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€450.00
Charmingly illustrated and finely hand-coloured
Includes shells from a little-explored region
The most recent, comprehensive work on China's moths
Watson's own set
Excellent
A rare contribution to the herpetology of Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Fine illustrations of colourful Australian and South American butterflies
A rarely seen work on rarely seen colourful butterflies
Westwood, J. O.
Observations on the Uraniidae, a family of lepidopterous insects, with a synopsis of the family and a monograph of Coronidia, one of the genera of which it is composed.
London, The Zoological Society, 1879. Large 4to (31.8 x 25.0 cm). 36 pp.; four lithographed plates of which two beautifully hand-coloured. Disbound.
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€120.00
Of taxonomic and phylogenetical importance
Where is Baird? A letter to Hermann Schlegel