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Orbigny, A. D. d'
Galerie ornithologique ou collection d'oiseaux d'Europe. Décrits par Alcide d'Orbigny, dessinés d'après nature par Thiolat & Delarue. [et E. Traviès].
Paris, Lamy, [1836-1839]. Oblong folio (22.4 x 31.4 cm). 92 [of 124] finely lithographed and hand-coloured plates. Contemporary full diced russia. Spine with gilt ornamental cartouche and title; boards with gilt borders and gilt floral cornerpieces. Patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreNikolski, A. M. [Nikolsky, Nikolskii]
Presmykaiushchisi i zemnovodnyia Kavkaza (Herpetologia caucasica).
Tiflis [Tbilisi], Tipografiia kantseliarii Namiestrika E.I.V. na Kavkazie, 1913. 8vo (23.1 x 16.0 cm). 272 pp.; four (groups of) text figures, three lithographed plates of which one in chromolithography. Near contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreMilne-Edwards, H. and [P.] H. Lucas [A. C. V. M. D. d'Orbigny (ed.)]
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 1.re Partie: Crustacés.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1843-[1844]. Text and plates. Large 4to/folio mix (33.7 x 25.8 cm). Half-title (to the Voyage), title and half-title (to the Crustacés); 39 pp.; 18 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-12, 14-17, 7bis, 8bis]. Later marbled wrappers.
Read more[Mairan, J. J. d'Ortous de]
Meridienne de Sain-Port ou Saint Assise. [Manuscript].
Unpublished, 1734-1761. Folio (36.0 x 23.2 cm). Half-title, contents leaf, title page, 31 pp. [numbered 1-31], 20 blank leaves. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with six raised bands; compartments rich gilt with lion vignettes and floral corner pieces, and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Boards with double gilt-lined borders. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreLinnaeus, C. [Nauclér, S.]
Hortus Upsaliensis, quem cum consensu ampliss. facult. medicae in regio ad salam lyceo, sub praesidio viri celeberrimi, d:ni doct. Caroli Linnaei, med. et botan. profess. reg. et ord. acad. imper. Regg. Monspel. Stoch. et Upsal. socio hujusque secretario. Speciminis academicvi loco, publicae disquisitioni subjicit Samuel Naucler.
Upsaliae [Uppsala], [the author], 1745. Small 4to (17.7 x 14.1 cm). [iii], 48 pp.; folded view, folded map, and two engraved plates. Early 19th-century half vellum over marbled boards. Edges speckled red.
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Plantarum rariorum Horti Upsaliensis. Fasciculus primus sistens descriptiones et figuras plantarum minus cognitarum.
Lipsiae, Siegfried Lebrecht [Leberecht] Crusius, 1767. Folio (38.5 x 24.2 cm). Title page with engraved pictorial vignette, [i], 20 pp; ten engraved plates. Marbled boards with facsimile of title mounted.
Read moreLamarck, J. B. [P. A. de Monet de]
Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leurs distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Hist. Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, l'an 8 de la republique.
Paris, l'Auteur, Deterville, 1801. 8vo (19.2 x 12.0 cm). viii, 432 pp.; seven tables (six larger, folded). Contemporary full tree calf. Spine rich gilt in Empire style with vases and intricate patterns including stars, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-rolled borders. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
Read moreBarruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Verdin, Auriparus flaviceps. [Original watercolour].
Paris, Larousse, [ca. 1970, but published 2013]. Single sheet (24.4 x 17.5 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of grey paper (32.4 x 25.0 cm).
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Musterbuch für Stahldruck.
Unpublished [n.d., but ca. 1890]. Folio (32.5 x 21.0 cm). Ca. 150 leaves with over 2,500 finely hand-coloured decorative transfers in Art Nouveau and romantic styles. Black blind half calf over black boards. Front board with original, neatly handwritten label.
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