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Recueil général de coeffures de différents gouts, ou l'on voit la manière dont se coëffoient les femmes, sous différens règnes, A commencer en 1589 jusq'en 1778. Avec des vers analogues à chaque costume. Suivi d'une collection des modes Françoises. Contenant les différens habillemens & coëffures des hommes & des femmes. La plus complette qui ait paru en ce genre. Ouvrage fort desiré de l'un & de l'autre sexe.
€5,000.00
Paris, Desnos, [1778]. Letterpress title page with engraved border; 24 engraved plates containing 48 numbered images, all in fine, contemporary hand-colouring. 19th century full morocco by Noulhac. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title; marbled endpapers; boards with gilt-lined edges and floral inner dentelles. All edges gilt.
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A never recorded contemporary coloured copy of a very rare work
Farbige Räume und Bauten. [German Art Deco interior designs].
€800.00
Stuttgart, G. Siegle, ca. 1929. Oblong folio (25.0 x 35.0 cm). 30 plates, numbered 1-30, each with one to three interior designs printed in colour, including silver and gilt.
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Wandschmuck und Raumkunst, or: rare German interior design
Über Quantenmechanik.
€950.00
Braunschweig, Friedrich Vierweg & Sohn; Berlin, J. Springer, 1924. 8vo (22.8 x 15.4 cm). 17 pp. Original printed wrappers.
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The introduction of quantum mechanics, a fundamental theory in physics
[Sculpture] Amazon parrots.
€9,900.00
ca. 1965. Bronze sculpture. Ca. 175 x 100 x 75 cm.
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Heavy Metal parrots
Wärmegleichgewicht im Strahlungsfeld bei Anwesenheit von Materie.
€500.00
Braunschweig, Friedrich Vierweg & Sohn; Berlin, J. Springer, 1924. 8vo (22.8 x 15.4 cm). 10 pp. Original printed wrappers.
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Bose's second paper: recommended and challenged by Albert Einstein
Das wunderbare Bilderbuch. Ein Festgeschenk voll komischer Sachen, zum Staunen und Lachen für heitere Kinder. Dritte Auflage.
€900.00
Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann (R. Thienemann), ca. 1870. Folio (27.6 x 21.8 cm). Title page; twelve hand-coloured lithographed plates with ditto (partial) overlays. Red pebbled half cloth over full colour pictorial front board and marbled rear board.
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Yes, German humor does exist!
Groups of flowers, drawn and accurately coloured after nature with full directions for the young artist; designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting. Second Edition. [AND] Groups of Fruit... [AND} Six Birds... [Complete].
€2,800.00
London, Thomas McLean, 1819. Folio (35.5 x 26.3 cm). Three half-titles and three title pages; three pp. "Advertisement"; Double-suite (finely hand-coloured and plain) of 18 colour-printed plates (six flowers, six fruits, six birds), with explanatory text to each plate. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco. Spine with five broad, raised bands with elaborate gilt ornaments; compartments with gilt floral frames and gilt title; boards with intrice gilt floral border, and blind-tooled border; gilt inner dentelles; brown marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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How to paint flowers, fruit and birds: a great challenge
Sexual selection in relation to monkeys.
€1,500.00
London, Nature, 1876. Folio (28.2 x 19.6 cm). pp. 17-18 in: issue 15(366) [pp. i-viii, 1-20]. Original printed wrappers.
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Sex in the monkey
Remarks upon the habits of the genera Geospiza, Camarhynchus, Cactornis and Certhidea of Gould.
€4,200.00
London, The Zoological Society of London, 1837. 8vo (22.7 x 13.9 cm). p. 49. Original blind blue wrappers, preserved in a green clamshell box with gilt title.
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The fundaments of evolution: Darwin on "his" finches
The contractile filaments of the teasel.
€500.00
London, Macmillan, 1877. Large 4to (28.0 x 19.6 cm). p. 339. Not bound - as published.
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Charles Darwin commenting upon his son's scientific researches
Histoire naturelle Planche X. Le couguar, le linx. [Contemporary hand-coloured plate].
€250.00
Paris, Briasson, 1768. Single sheet. Folio (39.8 x 25.4 cm). Engraved plate with printed caption; finely hand-coloured; frame gilted.
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A very rare contemporarily coloured plate from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie
Herpetology [from the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire des sciences, plates 25-29 (all)].
€1,500.00
[Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, 1768]. Folio (39.2 x 25.1 cm, or wider). Five plates with large engravings, each with fine, contemporary hand-colouring, gilt border and printed caption.
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Brunet does not record coloured copies