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Admiraal, K. [AND Hugo de Vries]
De kankerziekte der boomen. Met een voorwoord van Prof. Hugo de Vries. Verhandeling, bekroond door de Nederlandsche Maatschappij voor Tuinbouw en Plantkunde. Met 5 platen.
Amsterdam, M. M. Olivier, 1889. 8vo (23.7 x 25.3 cm). xii, 103 pp.; five lithographed plates (of which four in colour lithography, including one very large, folded) with explanatory text leaves. Slightly later blind pebbled half cloth over marbled boards.
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[Astronomy]
Astronomie populaire ou description des corps célestes. Avec atlas en tableaux transparents, a l'usage des gens du monde. Troisième édition entièrement refondue d'après les documents les plus récents.
Bruxelles [Brussels], Kiessling et Compagnie, 1862. Folio (29.5 x 24.2 cm). 24 pp. (including title); 12 mostly hand-coloured lithographed plates, of which nine with transparent coloured paper pasted over cut outs. Original green blind-stamped cloth portfolio with gilt title on the front board.
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Bauer, H. [Brade, L.]
L. Brade's illustriertes Buchbinderbuch. Ein Lehr- und Handbuch der gesamten Buchbinderei und aller in diesen Fach einschlagenden Kunsttechniken. Fünfte neu verbesserte Auflage.
Halle, H. Bauer, 1909. 8vo (23.9 x 17.1 cm). xvii, 465, 24 pp.; 224 text illustrations, 21 plates, 20 examples of marbled paper tipped in. Early 20th-century full morocco. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt geometric patterns and morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers with gilt-ornamented red morocco borders. Gilt, red, white and black ornamental edges.
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Bentham, G.
Catalogue des plantes indigènes des Pyrénées et du Bas Languedoc, avec des notes et observations sur les espèces nouvelles ou peu connues; précédé d'une Notice sur un voyage botanique fait dans les Pyrénées pendant l'été de 1825.
Paris, Madame Huzard, 1826. 8vo (20.7 x 12.5 cm [board size 21.3 x 13.3 cm]. 128 pp. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine rich gilt with ornamental bands and vignettes; and with red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled edges. original printed wrappers bound in.
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Boenninghausen, C. M. F. von [Bönninghausen]
Prodromus florae monasteriensis westphalorum. Phanerogamia. [with an additional folded, handmade map of Westphalia, and a handwritten booklet titled Ortsverzeichnis züm Prodromus, listing alphabetically the localities to which von Bönninghausen referred].
Monasterii [Munster], Frid. Regensberg, 1824. 8vo (18.3 x 10.7 cm). xiv, 332, [i] pp. Original printed boards.
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Bonaparte, C. N.
Vues pittoresques de l'Amerique dessinés par la Comtesse Charlotte de Survilliers 1824. [Picturesque American Scenes by Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte].
[Brussels, Stapleaux et Jobard, 1824]. Oblong folio (23.8 x 30.3 cm). Lithographed pictorial title page, printed by Jobard after a drawing by Michel Stapleaux; 12 original - early - lithographs with script captions and signed Charlotte. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title.
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Borowski, G. H.
Gemeinnüzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs, die merkwürdigsten und nüzlichsten Thiere in systematischer Ordnung beschieben und die Geschlechter in Abbildungen nach der Natur vorgestellt werden. Vierter Band, von den Amphibien. Mit 36 Kupfertafeln. [The complete herpetology].
Berlin and Stralsund, Gottlieb August Lange, 1783. 8vo (21.0 x 12.8 cm). Letterpress title, three half-titles (to each "Ordnung"), 165 pp. (x [preface, index], 152, [iii]); 36 engraved and finely hand-coloured plates. Woodcut head and tail pieces. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt vignettes and red and green morocco labels with gilt ornamental borders and title. Yellow edges.
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Bourguignat, J. R.
Nouveautés malacologiques. 1. Unionidae et Iridinidae du Lac Tanganika. [AND] Iconographie malacologique des animaux mollusques fluviatiles du Lac Tanganika. [AND] Histoire malacologique du Lac Tanganika (Afrique équatoriale).
Paris, Mme. Ve Tremblay; Corbeil, Crété; Paris, G. Masson, 1886-1888-1890. Three works in one. 8vo (21.3 x 13.3 cm). 442 pp. [93; 82; 267]; 52 [0; 35; 17] lithographed plates and one double-sized chromolithographed map (in the second paper). Later black buckram with gilt lines and title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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