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Guillemin, [V.] A.
Le Ciel. Notions élémentaires d'astronomie physique. Cinquième edition. Entièrement refondue, considérablement augmentée.
Paris, Hachette, 1877. Thick 4to (26.6 x 18.5 x 7.2 cm). Half-title, title page, iv, 970 pp.; 361 text illustrations, 62 plates of which 22 coloured. Publisher's [?] rich gilt burgundy morocco. Spine and boards with various large, astronomical vignettes in gilt and black. All edges gilt.
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Seemann, A.
Japanische Färbeschablonen. Hundert Muster kleineren formates. In Originalgrösse herausgegeben und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Artur Seemann.
Leipzig, Berlin, E. A. Seemann, 1899. Folio (42.0 x 27.5 cm). Title page, 2 pp. introduction; two loose sheets with Japanese text; 100 coloured prints with Japanese stencil designs. In original portfolio (43.0 x 28.4 x 2.2 cm) with red linen spine cover and orange, grained boards. Front board printed in black, with diapositive titles and spiderweb illustration.
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Dorman, R. M.
The Origin of Primitive Superstitions. And their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America.
Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). 398 pp.; 21 numbered text-engravings, five plates of which four originally hand-coloured, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece (= Plate I), Original dark brown buckram. Spine with red lines, gilt pictorial vignette and title; boards with red border; front board with pictorial gilt vignette. Dark green endpapers.
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Linnaeus, C.
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.
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Costa, E. Mendes da
Elements of conchology: or, an introduction to the knowledge of shells. With seven plates containing figures of every genus of shells.
London, Benjamin White, 1776. 8vo (21.4 x 13.0 cm). viii, iii-vi, 319, [i] pp.; seven large, folded, engraved plates in fine, contemporary hand-colouring; two large, folded charts. Contemporary full speckled calf. Boards with gilt vignette and monogram; spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt stars, vignettes; Greek key bands at head and foot, and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Verneuil, M. P., G. Auriol, and [A. M.] Mucha
Combinaisons ornementales.
Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, [1901]. Oblong folio (21.7 x 25.0 cm). Title page, 2 pp.; 58 illustrations in three different colours [numbered 3-60]. In original portfolio with quarter blind grey cloth over pictorial boards.
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Seba, A.
Giant snake [Plate 101 of Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio Volume II].
Amsterdam, Jansson-Waesberg, J. Wetsteen and William Smith, 1735. Very large oblong folio (51.2 x 63.2 cm). Double-sized engraved plate in fine, natural, contemporary hand-colouring
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Rumphius, E. G. [AND] Portius L. A., and others
Miscellanea Curiosa sive Ephemeridum Medico-Physicarum Hermanicrum Academiae Imperialis Leopoldinae Naturae Curiosorum. Decuriae II. Annus quintus. [AND] Annus sextus.
Norimbergae [Nuremberg], Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1687-1688. Small, thick 4to (19.7 x 15.6 x 10.0 cm). Half-titles, frontispieces, titles; [xxii], 478 206, [xxiv], [blank]; [xxx]; 572, 245, [xxix] pp.; numerous engraved plates (several larger, folded). Contemporary full vellum. Spine with gilt title. All edges red.
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Kerckring, T.
Opera omnia anatomica; continentia spicilegium anatomicum, osteogeniam foetuum: nec non anthropogeniae ichnographiam. Accuratissimus figuris aeri incisis illustrata. Editio tertia.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Theodorus Haak and Samuel Luchtmans, 1729. Three works in one. 4to (23.2 x 18.3 cm). Frontispiece engraving by A. Blotelingh; title page with woodcut vignette "Tuta sub Aegide Pallas", xx, 303 pp., including titles to the Osteogenia foetuum, in qua quis cuique ossiculo singulis accedat mesibus, quidve decedat, & in eo per varia immutetur tempora, accuratissimè oculis subjicitur (with copper engraved vignette "Structa super lapidem qui ruet ista domus" and blank verso) and Anthropogeniae ichnographia sive conformatio foetus ab ovo usque sad ossificationis principia, in supplementum osteogeniae foetuum (with wood-engraved vignette); 40 engraved plates (several large, folding); Marbled limp paper boards, green label with script title on the spine.
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Ricketts, E. F. and J. Calvin
Between Pacific Tides. An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico.
Stanford University Press, 1939. Large 8vo (22.8 x 15.6 cm). xxii, 320 pp.; 46 numbered plates, 112 illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Green endpapers.
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