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Belon, P. [Petri Bellonii Cenomani; Pierre Belon du Mans]
De Aquatilibus. Libro duo, cum eiconibus ad vivam ipsorum effigiem, quoad eius fieri potuit, expressis.
Paris, Carolum Stephanum, 1553. Oblong 8vo (11.1 x 17.0 cm). [xxxii (index)], 448 pp.; 187 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp vellum; ink title in an old hand, written on the spine.
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Rondelet, G.
Libri de piscibus marinis in quibus verae piscium effigies expressae sunt [including] Universae aquatilium historiae pars altera cum veris ipsorum imaginibus.
Lugduni [Lyon], Matthias Bonhomme, 1554-1555. Two volumes in one. Folio (32.0 x 20.4 cm). Title page with an engraved allegorical vignette, [xiv], 583, [xxii] pp.; second title, [x], 242, [ix] pp., for a total of 880 pp., including two with an engraved (frontispiece) portrait of the author; ca 470 woodcut illustrations, including one mounted (as usual). Contemporary embossed vellum. Spine with five raised bands and script title. Boards richly blind-tooled, with rolled, floral borders and central oval cartouche with coat of arms. Brass clasps. Edges speckled red.
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[La Chesnée-Monstereul, C. de]
Traité des tulipes. Avec la maniere de les bien cultiver, leurs noms, leurs couleurs, & leur beauté.
Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1678. 12mo (15.5 x 9.0 cm) [board size 16.1 x 9.3 m]. Title page, 3-117, [i] pp. Contemporary blind vellum. Ink script title in an old hand on the spine.
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Leibniz, [G. W.]
Explication de l'arithmètique binaire, qui se sert des seuls caractères 0 & I; avec des remarques sur son utilité, & sur ce qu'elle donne le sens des anciennes figures Chinoises de Fohy.
Paris, Charles-Estienne Hochereau, 1720. 4to (24.5 x 18.7 cm). pp. 58-63 [ Histoire]; pp. 85-89 [ Mémoires], in Histoire de l'Academie royale des Sciences. Années MDCCIII [1703]. Avec les Mémoires de Mathematique & de Physique, pour la même Année. Engraved frontispiece; title page with engraved vignette, [viii], 148 [ Histoire], 467, [i] [ Mémoires] pp.; several text engravings, 12 engraved, folded plates. Contemporary full polished calf; spine with five raised bands and two burgundy morocco labels. Boards with gilt floral border, gilt line on edge and gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
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Ruysch, F.
Alle de ontleed- genees- en heelkundige werken van Fredrik Ruysch. In zijn ed. leven vermaard geneesheer en hoog-leeraar in d'ontleed- en kruydkunde tot Amsterdam; als mede lid der Keyserlyke, Londensche en Parysse genootschappen. Met veele koperen plaaten. Eerste - Tweede - Derde deel. [Complete].
Amsterdam, Janssoons van Waesberge, 1739-1744. Three volumes in three. 4to (26.2 x 21.7 cm). Engraved frontispiece and engraved portrait of Ruysch. Three half-titles, and three titles in red and black, additional title in black; 1575 pp. (104; 1280, [183], 554[bis], 547-552[bis]); 133 engraved plates (Neerd 8-139, 93*), of which 18 large to very large, folding, and eight (groups of) numbered text illustrations, numbered I-IX, 3-4, but with III-V in one figure. Contemporary uniform full calf with blind-tooled borders. Spines with five gilt-bordered raised bands, and red morocco labels with gilt title. Speckled edges.
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Linnaeus, C.
Genera plantarum eorumque characteres naturales, secundùm numerum, figuram, situm & proportionem omnium fructificationis partium. Editio secunda, nominibus plantarum Gallicis locupletata.
Paris, Michael Anton David, 1743. 8vo (20.0 x 12.7 cm). xxxiv, 413, [56, 2] pp.; two folded engraved plates, one folded table. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with five raised bands. Rich gilt compartments with floral vignettes and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled flyleaves. All edges red.
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Klein, J. T.
Tentamen herpetologiae. Cum perpetuo commentario. Accessit J. A. Unzeri Observatio de taeniis. Latine reddita, cum dubiis circa eandem.
Leidae & Gottigae, Elias Luzac Jun., 1755. 4to (26.2 x 21.0 cm). Title in red and black; [ii], 72 pp.; two large, double-folded engraved plates. Contemporary blind half vellum over marbled boards. Speckled edges.
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[Linnaeus, C.] Manetti, X. (ed.)
Caroli Linnaei...Regnum vegetabile juxta systema naturae in classes ordines, et genera ab eodem contitutum. Curante Xaverio Manetti.
Florentiae [Florence], P. C. Viviani, 1756. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 123 pp.; two large, folded plates. Contemporary quarter calf over blind boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and brown morocco label with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
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Feuillée, L. [É.] (Huth, G. L., ed.)
Des Pater Ludwig Feuillee, Ordensmönchen des Heil. Francisci von Paula, Königlichen Mathematici und Botanisten, wie auch Correspondentens der Königl. Academie der Wissenschaften, Beschreibung zur Arzeney dienlicher Pflanzen, welche in den Reichen des mittägigen America, in Peru und Chily vorzüglich im Gebrauch sind, in dem Land selbst auf königl. Befehl, in den Jahren von 1709. 1710. und 1711. Aufgesezet, nebst verschiedenen andern aus eben desselben Tageregister physischer Beobachtungen gesammelten und zur natürlichen Historie gehörigen Anmerkungen. Aus dem französischen ins Deutsche übersezet.
Nürnberg, Johann Michael Seeligmann, 1756-1758. Two volumes in two. 4to (26.1 x 22.2 cm). Title pages, 368 pp. (I: [vi], 3-136, [vi]; II: [ii], 208, [xii]; 102 [ 50; 52 (two unnumbered, opposite pp. 126, 148] engraved and finely hand-coloured plates. Original hand-coloured woodcut head piece. Uniform full mottled calf. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and borders, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt dentelles.
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Linnaeus, C.
Fauna svecica. Sistens animalia Sveciae regni: quadrupedia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes. Distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species. Cum differentiis specierum, synonymis autorum, nominibus incolarum, locis habitationum, descriptionibus insectorum.
Lugdunum Batavorum [Leiden], C. and G. J. Wishoff, 1746. 8vo (19.5 x 12.0 cm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, [xxvi], 420 pp.; two folded engraved plates. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with blind-tooled vignettes.
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Linnaeus, C. - Houttuyn, M.
Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschryving der dieren, planten en mineraalen, volgens het samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus. Met naauwkeurige afbeeldingen.
Amsterdam, F. Houttuyn, 1761-1785. Three sections in 37 volumes. 8vo (21.4 x 13.1 cm). With 296 finely hand-coloured engraved plates (several very large, double-folded). Contemporary uniform polished half calf over speckled boards; spine with gilt bands and two burgundy morocco labels with gilt title.
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Ellis, J.
An account of an amphibious bipes. [AND] A supplement to the account of an amphibious bipes; by John Ellis, Esq; (art. XXII) being the anatomical description of said animal, by Mr. John Hunter, F.R.S.
London, The Royal Society, 1766 [1767]. Two papers in one. 4to (22.3 x 17.1 cm). Four pp., one large double-folded plate. Disbound.
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Pallas, P. S.
Dierkundig mengelwerk, in het welke de nieuwe of nog duistere zoorten van dieren door naauwkeurige afbeeldingen, beschryvingen en verhandelingen opgehelderd worden. In het Latyn beschreeven door den heer P. S. Pallas ... vertaald en met aanmerkingen voorzien door P. Boddaert M.D. VI. Stukken. Met plaaten.
Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg en J. Van Schoonhoven, 1767-1770. 4to (26.6 x 21.0 cm) [board size 27.5 x 22.0 cm]. General title in red and black, dated 1770; viii, 195, [ii] pp.; ten fine, contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary polished half calf over speckled boards. Spine with tripple gilt lines and grained tan morocco label with gilt title.
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[Retzius, A. J.]
Nomenclator botanicus enumerans plantas omnes in Systematis Naturae edit. XII. Specier. plantarum edit. II. et mantissis binis a illustr. D. Car. von Linné arch. reg. equit. aurat. etc. descriptas.
Lipsiae, I. F. Junium, 1772. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). 140 ["279"], [xv] pp. Original blind speckled wrappers.
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Müller, P. L. S.
Des Ritters Carl von Linne Königl. Schwedischen Leibarzes & c. vollständiges Natursystem der Insecten nach den zwölften lateinischen Ausgabe und nach Anleitung des holländischen houttuynischen Werks mit einer ausführligen Erklärung ausgefertiget. Erster Band. Nebst zwey und zwanzig Kupfertafeln.
Nürnberg, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1774. Thick 8vo (20.1 x 12.3 cm). Two title pages with woodcut vignettes (to the series part, and to the work as such), xxiv, 758 pp.; 22 large, folded, engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over plain boards. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and reddish-brown morocco label with gilt title. All edges red.
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Martyn, T.
Unknown illustrations for the "Universal Conchologist": Fine hand-coloured stipple engravings of lesser-known Indo-Pacific and South Pacific marine shells.
[London, the author], ca. 1780. Six oblong sheets (27.0 x 33.2 cm) with original stipple-engraved hand-coloured illustrations of shells.
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Goube, [I. J. C.] [AND] Mézièrs, N. la Camus de
Traité de la physique végétale des bois, et des principales opérations forestières, avec le modèle des actes à rédiger; terminé par le tableau des proportions qui doivent avoir les bois de construction pour la marine rapportées au calcul decimal. [WITH] Traité de la force des bois. Ouvrage essentiel, qui donne ley moyens de procurer plus de solidité aux edifices, de connoître la bonne & la mauvaise qualité des bois, de calculer leur force, & de ménager près de moitié sur ceux qu'on emploie ordinairement. Il enseigne aussi la maniere la plus avantageuse d'exploiter les forêts, d'en faire l'estimation sur pied, &c.
Paris, Goujon, 1801 [AND] Paris, Le Camus de Mézieres, Benoît Morin, 1782. Two works in one. 8vo (20.2 x 13.0 cm). xii, 326 pp.; two folded tables. [AND] 376, [ii] pp.; two engraved plates of which one larger, folded. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Linnaeus, C. [Murray, J. A. (ed.)]
Caroli a Linné equitis systema vegetabilium secundum classes ordines genera species cum characteribus et differentiis. Editio decima quarta praecedente longe auctior et correctior curante Io. Andrea Murray.
Gottingae (Göttingen), Johann Christian Dieterich, 1784. 8vo (21.5 x 13.3 cm). xx, 987, [xvii] pp. Late 19th-century pebbled half morocco over marbled boards. Spine in five compartments with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge speckled.
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Linnaeus, C.
Amoenitates academicae seu dissertationes variae physicae, medicae botanicae antehac seorsim editae nunc collectae et auctae ... editio tertia curante D. Jo. Christiano Daniele Schrebero.
Erlangen, J. Jacob Palm, 1787-1790. Ten volumes in ten. 8vo. Title pages, 4,691 pp. (1: [ii], 571; 2: [ii], 472; 3: [ii], 464; 4: [ii], 600, [ii]; 5: [ii], 583, [ix]; 6: [ii], 486, [vi]; 7: [ii], 506, [iv]; 8: [ii], 332, [i]; 9: [ii], 331; 10: [iii], 172, 131); 59 folded, engraved plates [17;4;4;4;11 [numbered I-III, I-VIII];6;7;6;0;0]. Uniform contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spines with gilt bands and two light brown, gilt-bordered morocco labels with gilt titles and volume numbers (small, oval labels).
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Linnaeus, C. [Gmelin, J. F. (ed.)]
Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin.
Lugduni (Lyon), Delamollière, 1789-1796. In ten volumes. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). 6,309 pp. [xii, 4120; 1661; xl, 476]; Three large, folded, engraved plates. Uniform contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title.
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Linnaeus, C.
Entomologia, faunae suecicae descriptionibus aucta; DD. Scopoli, Geoffroy, de Geer, Fabricii, Schrank, &c. specibus vel in systemate non enumeratis, vel nuperrime detectis, vel speciebus Galliae Australis locupletata, generum specierumque rariorum iconibus ornata; curante & auguente Carolo de Villers.
Lugduni (Lyon), Piestre et Delamollière, 1789. Four volumes in four. 8vo (21.8 x 13.4 cm). 2884 pp. [xvi, 766; xvi, 656; 657; 556, ccxiii, 4]. Uniform contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title.
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Thunberg, C. P.
Periculum entomologicum, quo characteres generum insectorum, consensu exper. fac. med. upsal. praeside Carol. Pet. Thunberg, publicae censurae proponit Samuel Törner, Norcopia-Gothus. In audit. Gust. maj. d. X Jun. MDCCLXXXIX.
Upsaliae [Uppsala], Joh. Edman, 1789. Quarto (21.5 x 17.5 cm). Title page, 16 pp. Early 20th-century light blue buckram; black morocco strip with gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers.
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[Linnaeus, C.] R. Pulteney
Revue générale des écrits de Linné: ouvrage dans lequel on trouve les annecdotes les plus intéressantes de sa vie privée, un abrégé de ses systèmes et de ses ouvrages, un extrait de ses aménités académiques, &c. &c. &c. Par Richard Pulteney; Traduit de l'Anglois par L. A. Millin de Grandmaison; avec des notes et des additions du Traducteur. Tomes I, II (complete).
London, Paris, Buisson, 1789. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.0 x 14.0 cm). 792 pp.; folding table. Uniform original speckled wrappers with printed paper label on the spines.
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Linnaeus, C.
Systema vegetabilium secundum classes ordines genera species cum characteribus et differentiis.
Lugduni [Lyon], Bernuset, Delamollière, Falque et Soc., 1796. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). 1701 pp. [xl, 884; 885-1661]. Uniform contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title.
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Russell, P.
An account of Indian serpents collected in the coast of Coromandel; containing descriptions and drawings of each species; together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons. [WITH] A continuation of an account of Indian serpents containing descriptions and figures from specimens and drawings transmitted from various parts of India. [Complete].
London, 1796-1801. Elephant folio (51.5 x 35.3 cm) (Board size 52.5 x 37.0 cm). Volume I (1796): 91 pp.; Volume II (1801): v, 45, [iv] pp.; Appendix I-III [1804-1809]: pp. 47-53, [iv]; and 91 [46; 42; 3] finely engraved and mostly hand-coloured plates on 87 sheets (first plate 31 and 46, and three Appendix plates intentionally uncoloured). Contemporary blind-tooled half calf over marbled boards. Spine with rich gilt bands and morocco label with gilt title.
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Kofod, B. P.
Om slanger i almindelighed og om de forgivtige Slanger, bibelen berører, tilligemed nogle antiqvariske tilloeg.
Kjøbenhavn, Boas & Brünnich, 1799. 8vo (17.3 x 10.5 cm). Title page, [vi], 294, [ii] pp.; one large, folded, engraved plate. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine with gilt bands and vignettes, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Daudin, F. [M.]
Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds.
Paris, Levrault, An XI (1802). 4to (28.7 x 22.2 cm). 108 pp.; 38 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Early 19th-century polished, gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented vands; compartments with gilt vignettes, and with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Draparnaud, J. P. R. and A. L. G. Michaud
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume de J. P. R. Draparnaud. Avec XIII planches. [AND] Complément de l'histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France, de J. P. R. Draparnaud. Avec planches.
Paris, Louis Colas, an 13 [1805]; Verdun, Lippmann, 1831. Two works in one. 4to (28.8 x 23.0 cm). Half-titles and titles; viii, 164; xvi, 116, 12 pp.; 16 [13, 3] engraved plates. Brown buckram with gilt titles on the spine.
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Denys de Montfort, P.
Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles; offrant leurs figures, leurs arrangements génériques, leurs descriptions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs langues. Ouvrage destiné à faciliter l'étude des coquilles, ainsi que leur disposition dans les cabinets d'histoire naturelle. Coquilles univalves, cloisonées & non cloisonnées.
Paris, F. Schoell, 1808-1810. Two volumes in two. 8vo (20.4 x 12.8 cm). 1,189 pp. (lxxxvii, 410; 676, 16 [publisher's catalogue]); 261 [100; 161] woodcut plates. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines rich gilt with ornamental gilt bands and gilt title.
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Gaertner, [P.] G. [Gärtner]
Versuch einer systematischen Beschreibung der in Wetterau bisher entdekkten Konchylien.
Hanau, Johann Gerhard Scharneck, 1813. Square 4to (22.4 x 19.8 cm). Title page, [iv], 40 pp. Interleaved. Contemporary marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and paper label. Red edges.
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Brocchi, G. [B.]
Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente.
Milano, Reale, 1814. Two volumes in two. 4to (30.1 x 23.4 cm). 712 pp. ([1]-240; 241-712); 16 finely engraved plates. Uniform 20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spines.
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Dillwyn, L. W.
A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells; arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. In two volumes. [Complete].
London, John and Arthur Arch, 1817. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.3 x 14.2 cm). Two title pages, half-title. 1135 pp. (xii, 1-580; 580-1092, [xxix], [ii]). Original paper-covered boards with printed label on the spines.
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Schmidt, F. C.
Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung, Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und Gegenstände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme, welchen ein Verzeichniß der am meisten bekannten Conchylien angehängt ist, wie solche nach dem Lamarkischen System geordnet werden können.
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1818. Small folio (27.2 x 18.0 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, [iv], 252 pp. 20th-century green buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Cuvier, G. [L. C. F. D.] and A. Brongniart
Description géologique des environs de Paris, par MM. G. Cuvier et Alex. Brongniart. Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on a inséré la descrition d'un grand nombre de lieux de l'Allemagne, de la Suisse, de l'Italie, etc., qui présentent des terrains analogues a ceux du Bassin de Paris. Avec 2 cartes et 16 planches représentant les coupes de ces terrains et beaucoup des coquilles fossiles qu'ils renferment, et une table alphabétique de tous les lieux décrits ou seulement cités.
Paris, G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne, 1822. 4to (29.3 x 22.2 cm). ix, 428 pp.; one brightly hand-coloured geological map of the surroundings of Paris, and 17 lithographed plates, including one hand-coloured geological map of the basins of London and Paris. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt, and with two morocco labels (red and blue) with gilt title.
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Bowdich, T. E.
Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves. With upwards of 500 figures. [AND]. Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part II. Bivalves. Multivalves. Tubicolae.
Paris, Treuttel and Würtz , 1822. Two parts in one. 8vo (20.5 x 12.8 cm). 130 pp. (xiii, 14-75, [76-83], [ii]; [1]-38, [39-45]); 27 [19; 8] engraved, tinted plates. 19th-century quarter burgundy linen over marbled boards. Spine with handwritten label.
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Beche, H. de la
A selection of the Geological Memoirs, contained in the Annales des Mines, together with a synoptical table of equivalent formations and Brongniart's table of the classification of mixed rocks. Translated with notes by H. T. de la Beche, Esq.
London, William Phillips, 1824. 8vo (21.1 x 13.3 cm). xxii, 335 pp.; one hand-coloured folded geological map of France and the Netherlands including a great part of Germany, the Alps and northern Italy, by J. d'Omalius d'Halloy (numbered plate 11 [not II]) and two further hand-coloured geological maps or profiles (numbered I-II), eight folded lithographed plates (numbered III-X), including a very fine view of the coalmine at Treuil near St. Etienne, one folding table. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Edges speckled red.
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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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Sowerby, G. B. I
A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville, arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system; together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species.
London, G. B. Sowerby I, 1825. 8vo (22.7 x 14.4 cm). 139 pp. [vii, 92, xxxiv, 2, 4]; nine hand-coloured engraved plates. Red buckram. Spine with gilt title.
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Thunberg, C. P.
Horti Upsaliensis plantae cultae ab initio saeculi. Quarum partem tertiam venia exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. praeside C. P. Thunberg. [AND] d.d. Examen classis polygamiae cujus partem priorem. Venia exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. praeside C. P. Thunberg.
Upsala, Palmblad, 1826. Two papers in two. 4to (20.8 x 16.8 cm; 24.6 x 19.8 cm). Title page, dedication page, pp. 17-24, [i]; Title page, dedication on verso, 8 pp.
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Risso, [J.] A.
Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. Aperçu sur l'histoire naturelle des mollusques qui vivent sur les bords de la Méditerranée boréale, et des coquilles terrestres, fluviatiles et marines, subfossiles, fossiles et pétrifiées qui gisent dans les diverses formations des Alpes Maritimes.
Paris, F. G. Levrault, 1826. 8vo (20.3 x 12.8 cm). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four gilt-ornamented, raised bands. Compartments with gilt ornamental bands, vgnettes and title. Pale bluish endpapers. Speckled 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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Burrow, E. I.
Elementi di conchiologia Linneana illustrati da xxviii tavole in rame. Opera volgarizzata sulla seconde edizione inglese dal nobile signor marchese Francesco Baldassini da Pesaro coll' aggiunta di copiose ed erudite note. Ediz. diligentamente accurata dal professore Claro Giuseppe Malacarne.
Milano, Carlo Branca, 1836. 8vo (19.8 x 12.9 cm). xxxi, 368 pp.; one folded chart, 28 engraved plates. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands, vignettes, and title. Green endpapers.
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Menke, C. T.
Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum aerum, quae in Museo Menkeano adservantur; cum synonymia critica et novarum specierum diagnostibus. Editio altera, auctior et emendatior.
Pyrmont, Georg Uslar, 1830. 8vo (19.9 x 11.8 cm. xvi, 169 pp. Contemporary grained, blind-stamped boards. Gilt title on spine. Marbled edges.
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Wahlenberg, G.
Flora Svecica enumerans plantas Sveciae indigenas, cum synopsi classicum ordinumque characteribus generum ... post Linnaeum edita. Pars prior. pars Pars posterior.
Upsaliae, Palmblad, 1831-1833. Two volumes in two. 8vo (20.0 x 13.0 cm). xcvii, 1134 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers. Green speckled edges.
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Jeffreys, J. G.
A synopsis of the testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain. In a letter addressed to L. W. Dillwyn. [AND] A supplement to the 'Synopsis of testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain'.
London, The Linnean Society, [1830-] 1833. 4to (25.8 x 20.2 cm). 89 pp. [numbered 323-392; 505-523]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt ornaments and title. Red edges.
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Deshayes, G. P.
Expédition scientifique de Morée. Section des sciences physiques. Tome III. Première partie. Zoologie. Première section. Mollusques.
Paris and Strasbourg, 1833-[1835]. 4to (35.0 x 26.2 cm). 123 pp. [numbered 81-203]; nine double-sized plates, of which two finely hand-coloured. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, borders with intricate patterned gilt lines. Spines with five gilt-lined bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Kiener, L. C.
Spécies générales et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant la collection du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, la collection Lamarck, celle du Prince Masséna (appartenant maintenant A. M. B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Famille des canalifères. I. Cérite ( Cerithium), pleurotome ( Pleurotoma), fuseau ( Fusinus).
Paris, Rousseau, and J. B. Baillière, 1839-1842. 4to (32.0 x 25.0 cm). Title page and half title, 250 pp., 90 finely hand-coloured engraved plates [104 pp., 32 plates (cérite); 84 pp., 27 plates (pleurotome); 62 pp., 31 plates [numbered 1-30, 17bis] (fuseau)]. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Labram, J. D. and L. Imhoff
Die Schweizerigen Käfergattungen in Abbildungen nach der Natur.
Basel, Bahnmaier (G. Detloff), 1836-1842. 34 parts in 34. 8vo (18.1 x 11.8 cm). Title page and index page (included in 20th part), folded blank; 136 hand-coloured lithographed plates with 136 explanatory text leaves. 34 original printed wrappers.
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Presl, C. B. [Presl, K. B.]
Tentamen pteridographiae seu genera filicacearum praesertim juxta venarum decursum et distributionem exposita.
Pragae, Theophil Haase, 1836. 8vo (21.2 x 13.8 cm). 290 pp.; 12 folded engraved and lithographed plates. 19th-century grained quarter cloth over black marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title.
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Grateloup, [J. P. S. de]
Conchyliologie fossile du Bassin de l'Adour, ou description des coquilles fossiles qui ont été trouvées dans les terrains marins tertiaires, aux environs de Dax (département des Landes).
Bordeaux, Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux (T. Lafargue), 1837-1840. Folio (30.7 x 24.0 cm). Half-title, title page, [72], 12 pp.; 48 large, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. Later quarter line over marbled boards. Spine with paper label with handwritten title in an old hand.
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Hartmann, J. D. W.
Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten dargestellt und beschrieben.
St. Gallen, Scheitlin und Zollikofer, [1840]-1844. 4to (25.2 x 16.7 cm). xx, 227 pp.; 84 engraved and finely hand-coloured plates [numbered I-XII, I-XII, I-XII, 37-60, X, VII, 63-84]. Contemporary grained half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines, ornamental bands and title. Speckled edges.
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Moxon, C.
Illustrations of the characteristic fossils of the British Strata, (comprising 340 figures;) to which are added, explanatory notes of the nature and origin of the Strata; numerical estimates of contents; references; and indices, alphabetically and according to the Strata.
London, H. Baillière, J. Tennant (successor of Mawe) and E. Ramsden, 1841. 4to (20.9 x 16.3 cm). Title page and sectional titles. [xi] pp.; 34 lithographed plates with explanatory text. Contemporary green, floral-patterned cloth. Gilt title on spine and front board. Yellow endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Orbigny, A. D. d'
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. 4.e Partie: Paléontologie.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1842. Folio (34.0 x 25.9 cm). Title page, half-title, 1892 pp. [numbered 7-188]; 22 finely lithographed plates. Spine with gilt lines and title. Later blind linen spine over contemporary boards. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Cretacés. I. Cephalopodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1840-1841. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.2 x 14.0 cm [texte]; 22.2 x 16.0 cm [atlas]). 662 pp.; 150 lithographed plates [numbered 1-148; 13bis, 115bis]. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised, stipple-gilted bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Cretacés. II. Gasteropodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1842-1843. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.2 x 14.0 cm [text]; 22.2 x 16.0 cm [atlas]). 456 pp.; 91 lithographed plates (numbered 149-236; '117bis' [= 177bis], 163bis, 186bis), one very large, partly hand-coloured table. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised, stipple-gilt bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Agassiz, L.
Iconographie des coquilles tertiaires, réputées identiques avec les espèces vivantes ou dans différens terrains de l'époque tertiaire, accompagnée de la description des espèces nouvelles.
Neuchatel, Henri Wolfrath (for the Société helvétique des Sciences naturelles), 1845. Large 4to (32.6 x 24.5 cm). 64 pp.; 15 lithographed plates (numbered 1-14, A). Original printed wrappers.
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Humboldt, [F. W. H.] A. and T. Bromme (ed.)
Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. [AND] Atlas zu Alex. v. Humboldt's Kosmos in zweiundvierzig Tafeln mit erläuterndem Texte.
Stuttgart and Tübingen, J. C. Gotta 1845-1862; Stuttgart, Krais & Hoffmann, 1851. Five text volumes and atlas in six. Text: 8vo (22.5 x 13.3 cm) 3644 pp. [I (1845): xvi, 493; II (1847): 544; III (1850): 644; IV (1858): 650; V (1862): 1297]; uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and title. Atlas: oblong folio (28.5 x 34.5 cm). Two title pages, [i], 136 pp.; 43 finely engraved and hand-coloured plates with maps, graphs, views, etc.). Blind half morocco over original iridescent boards with gilt title on the front board. All edges red.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Mollusques vivants et fossiles, ou description de toutes les espèces de coquilles et de mollusques classées suivant leur distribution géologique et géographique. Avec un atlas representant les types des animaux et des coquilles de tous les genres, ainsi que les espèces les plus charactéristiques des différents terrains. Tome premier. [All published].
Paris, Gide, 1845-[1847]. 8vo (21.8 x14.0 cm). 605 pp.; 35 lithographed plates of which 22 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers.
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Spach, E.
Histoire naturelle des végétaux. Phanérogames. Atlas.
Paris, Roret, 1846. 8vo (23.6 x 15.5 cm). 71 pp.; 160 engraved plates [numbered 1-8, 1-152], of which 135 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and two polished morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Middendorff, A. T. [F.] von
Beiträge zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. I - II - III. [Complete].
St. Petersburg, Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1847-1849. Large 4to (29.5 x 22.6 cm). Two title pages (to Parts I and II-III; 432 pp. [151; 187, 94]; 35 lithographed plates [14; 21]. Blue buckram with gilt lines and title on the spine. Speckled edges.
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Orbigny, A. D. d'
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. Palmetum Orbignianum. Descriptio palmarum in Paraguaria et Bolivia crescentium, secundum Alc. de Orbigny exempla, schedulas et icones digessit. [Palmiers].
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1847. Folio (33.8 x 25.0 cm). 140 pp.; 32 lithographed plates (numbered 1-32). Recent quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with printed label with title.
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Linnaeus, C.
Carl von Linnés anteckningar öfver Nemesis divina. Inbjudnings-skrift till morgondagens philosophiska promotion från Upsala universitets stiftelse den sjutiiondesjunde. Af tillförordnad promotor Elias Fries.
Upsala [Uppsala], Kongl. Academiska Boktryckeriet, 1848. Tall folio (44.0 x 27.5 cm). Title page; 26 pp. Loose-leaved, as issued.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Jurassiques. II. Gasteropodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1850-1860. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm [text]; 22.0 x 15.7 cm [atlas]). 623 pp.; 198 lithographed plates, numbered 235-431, 237bis. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers.
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