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Milne-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.
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Seitz, [F. J.] A.
The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Division II: Fauna Exotica. Volume X. The Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges.
Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1933-1934. In two volumes (text and atlas). 4to. (31.8 x 27.0 cm). ix, 909 pp.; (vii) pp., 104 chromolithographed plates (Numbered 1-54, 55 A-C, 56 A-C, 57-100). Publisher's half calf. Spine rich gilt with vignettes and gilt morocco labels. Edges blue.
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Feynman, R. [Balian, R. and C. H. L. Smith (Eds.)]
Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions at High Energy [Gauge Theories]. Les Houches Session XXIX. 5 Juillet - 14 Août 1976.
Amsterdam, North-Holland [Elsevier Science Publishers], 1977. Thick 8vo (22.4 x 15.2 cm). xxv, 668 pp.; several photos, numerous text figures. Original blue printed cloth.
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Leibniz, G. W. and others
Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum. Ephemerides sive Observationum Medico-Physicarum a Celeberrimis viris. Centuria III & IV. Cum, Appendice.
Norimbergae [Nuremberg], Wolfgang Michahelles, 1715. Small, thick 4to (20.3 x 16.4 cm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, title, half title, 738 pp. ([xii], 484, [ii], 232, [viii]); 15 engraved plates (several larger, folded), three portraits. Contemporary full vellum. Title neatly written on the spine in an old (probably contemporary) hand. Edges speckled blue.
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Hla, M. T.
[Burma - Myanmar] A pair of late nineteenth to early twentieth century Burmese costume studies.
Burma [Myanmar], ca. 1920. Two watercolour and gouache paintings on Whatman paper. 8vo-sized (images ca. 24.0 x 19.9 cm). Heightened with white body colour; each signed "M. T. Hla" in lower right corner, uniformly mounted. Mounts 30.5 x 24.6 cm.
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Nerval, G. de and Malfredier
Contes et Facéties.
Paris, Éditions Art et Pensée, 1925. Folio (26.7 x 21.4 cm). 103 pp.; Full-colour frontispiece; title page in gilt and black, numerous full-colour pochoir illustrations. (Near) contemporary full green morocco. Spine with gilt title. Boards with a gilt-bordered, raised lattice with inlaid green and red rhombi. Green silk-covered endpapers. Pastedowns with double gilt linings. Original printed wrappers, including the spine cover, bound in. Contained in matching green, pebbled morocco-covered cardboard sleeve (28.0 x 21.5 x 3.4 cm).
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