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Fans
[Collection of five paper fans].
Indonesia, U.S.A, and France, various manufacturers, ca. 1900-1950. All made of wood. 1. Indonesia, Soerabaya, Wassimal Brothers, Toko Bombay Moerah. Pasar Toendjoengan 36 (21.3 x 2.8 x 1.1 cm, 28 ribs), floral pattern on outer ribs back side; 2. Idem, however, with a 26 instead of 28 ribs, a metal shackle, and a different floral design. 3. Washington, DC, Hotel Powhatan (21.3 x 2.4 x 1.1 cm; 23 ribs); outer ribs silver-printed, translucent rice paper, with floral pattern, heightened with silver and gold. 4. Clermont-Ferrand, Taillerie de Royat, 35 Rue Neuve près la Place Jaude. (21.1 x 1.9 x 2.0 (widest); 16 ribs. With a photoprint titled Taille des agates, showing factory workers processing agate gemstones. 5. (28.8 x 2.0 x 3.9 [widest point] cm); ten ribs. Floral patters over a silver background. Pochoir on both sides. With calligraphed Chinese texts referring to tea.
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Haecker, [F. C.] V.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. Vierzehnter Band. Tiefsee-Radiolarien.
Jena, Gustav Fisher, 1908. Four parts in four. Large 4to (34.3 x 25.5 cm). x, 706 pp. [x, 1-336, 337-706]; 87 mostly chromolithographed plates; two partly coloured maps; 225 text figures. Uniform original "Gustav Fischer orange" wrappers, or black quarter cloth over orange boards, as issued.
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[Wallpaper] Hincz, L. and Son
Mintakönyv 1909 [Sample Book 1909].
Budapest, Hincz, 1909. Folio (40.5 x 26.0 cm). Original blind half cloth over pebbled boards. 158 samples (each ca. 16.0 x 21.0 cm) on 79 leaves. Large title leaf mounted on the front board, and price list mounted on the front pastedown.
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[Trade Catalogue] National Blank Book Co.
Catalog of Blank Books. Manufactured by National Blank Book Co. Holyoke, Mass.
New York, NY, National Blank Books, 1911. 8vo (23.5 x 14.8 cm).liv, 192 pp.; numerous full-colour illustrations. Publisher's full cloth. Spine with gilt title; front board with gilt and black printed panel, gilt armorial company's devise and gilt number (22); rear board with gilt armorial company's device. Printed endpaper; book block with rounded corners and marbled edges.
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Bernack, F.
34 Naturstudien u. Entwürfe für Zigarettenpakkungen, Geschäftsdrucksachen, Etiketts, Buchumschläge, Schmuck u.s.w.
Germany, Franz Bernack, ca. 1911. 15 sheets with original artwork, mounted. In folio-sized portfolio (45.2 x 35.1 cm) with calligraphed title mounted on front board.
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Brazil, V.
La Défense contre l'Ophidisme.
São Paulo, Poica-Weiss, 1914. Large 8vo (23.3 x 16.0 cm). Title in red and black, 319 pp.; two pages with text illustrations (mainly detailed snake heads); 28 plates of which 13 in full colour offset printing. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers.
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Wall, F.
Chart to tell whether an Indian snake is poisonous or harmless.
Bombay [Mumbai], The Bombay Natural History Society, [1917]. Leporello binding (17.6 x 10.6 cm) with text and nine illustrations (in red and black) on a five-folded (concertina) linen-backed paper leaf (16.5 x 49.1 cm). Brown linen boards with black title.
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[Scissor Art - Scherenschnitt] Gützlaff, L.
Rosethorn with her prince, Little Rosethorn gathering flowers, and Rosethorn at her spinning wheel. [after Lotte Gützlaff].
[Berlin], ca. 1920. Three fine, detailed, black paper cutouts, each mounted on a blank cardboard (each 28.6 x 21.0 cm).
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[Kimono print designs] Shoun Ogawa
Pine Cloud Pattern. Furisode nobu.
Kyoto, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 34 [1901]. Folio leporello (27.0 x 36.7 cm). 24 pages, of which 20 with pochoir prints, several heightened with silver or gold, and four plain. Printed boards, illustrated with silver, flying cranes, and a large title label.
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Siebold, P. F., von et al.
Fauna Japonica Reptilia. Réface suivie d'un aperçu historique et physique sur les reptiles du Japon. [BOUND WITH] Fauna Japonica. Coup-d'oeil sur la faune des iles de la sonde et de l'empire du Japon. Discours préliminaire destiné à servir d'introduction à la Faune du Japon. [AND] Aperçu général et spécifique sur les mammifères qui habitent le Japon et les iles qui en dépendent.
Lugdunum Batavorum [Leiden], the author, [(1833). REPRINT Tokyo, 1934]. xxx pp. [ Coup d'oeil]; (1842) 59, 28 pp.; 35 [30, 5] lithographed plates [ Mammifères]; (1838) xxi; 80; double-sized map of the world in black, red and blue; 9 b/w plates (turtles) [Roman numerals]; 81-96; 10 b/w plates snakes [Arabic numerals, except VII]; 97-144 saurii et batrachii, 8 b/w plates [Roman numerals], (two plates double-sized). On the Mammals in Siebold's Fauna Japonica (N. Kuroda, 12 pp.); The Fundamental Study of the Herpetology of Japan Described in Siebold's Fauna Japonica (Y. Okada, 8 pp.) Purplish-brown polished half calf over original linen boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-rolled bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
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[Trade Catalogue - Aluminium foil]
Aluminium-Papiere. Glatt, beklebt und gepägt. [Aluminium papers. Smooth, laminated, and embossed].
Erkrath, Rheinische Buntpapier-Fabrik, 1936. One oblong folio catalogue (9.1 x 23.0 cm). Partly removable "title" page (i.e., price list and address; 41 aluminium foil leaves. Each 5 mm larger than the previous one, and backed with original blank paper, except the first 7, which the smallest size, and no backing; all either in silver, gold, or colour-printed, and either smooth or with a different embossing. Original red-printed, embossed wrappers.
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[Wallpaper] Rath & Doodeheefver
Primeurs 1938 ["1939"]
Amsterdam, Rath & Doodeheefver, 1938. Folio (30.8 x 24.0 cm). 116 wallpaper samples, numbered on versos, and additional interior illustrations. Original cloth binding with full-colour photoprint mounted on the front board and title in brown on the front board and spine. Typed 1939 price list mounted on front board verso.
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Torre y Huerta, C. de la [AND] Moreno, A. Bonilla
El género Polymita. [AND] Estudio anatómico del género Polymita Beck.
Habana, Museo Poey, 1950. 8vo (24.2 x 16.0 cm). 51 [16; 35] pp.; 11 full colour plates of shells, 11 b/w anatomical plates (numbered XII-XXII). Original printed wrappers.
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Pavlovsky, E. N.
Papers on Experimental Zoology and Toxic Animals.
Moskva, Akademii NAUK SSSR, 1963. Large 8vo (26.0 x 17.1 cm). 208 pp.; numerous text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth. Front board blind-stamped, and with gilt title; spine with gilt title. Printed errata slip bound in.
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Escher, M. C.
Vissen. [In: De Tekens van de Dierenriem - limited edition, with extra letter and invitations to exhibitions of the artwork].
Amsterdam, De Grafische, 1963. Square 4to (20.4 x 20.5 cm). Title page; 36 pp., all with blank versos. Original pictorial soft cover (Lumbeck binding). Printed invitations tipped in.
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Pritchard P. C. H. and Trebbau P.
The Turtles of Venezuela. Color paintings by Giorgio Voltolina.
[Lawrence, KN], Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1984. Large 4to (27.3 x 21.0 cm). Two volumes (text, and plates). viii, 401 pp.; 47 full colour plates, 16 distribution maps. Uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title. In original burgundy cloth slipcase (28.9 x 22.4 x 6.0 cm). Top edge of the text volume gilt.
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Eremchenko, V. k. and N. N. Scherbak
Ablefaridnieh Yascheretsky Fauny SSSR I Sopredelnih Stran. [Ablepharine Lizards of the USSR and Adjacent Countries].
Fruze, Ilim, 1986. 8vo (21.5 x 14.5 cm). 171 pp.; 43 (groups of) text figures. Publisher's mustard cloth with brown title and gilt vignette on the front board. Light blue endpapers. Printed errata slip loosely inserted.
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Muskhelishvili, T. [A.]
Atlas of Georgian Amphibians and Reptiles.
Tbilisi, "World Wide Fond for Nature" [World Wide Fund for Nature], 1994. Large 4to (30.0 x 21.5 cm). 48 pp.; 30 full colour plates. Publisher's green mock leather with gilt title on the front board. Patterned endpapers.
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Leonard, T.
Spotted Cat. [Original of a book front-cover illustration, signed by the artist].
Philadelphia, PA, The Artist, ca. 2005. A fine, original full-colour painting (16.5 x 20.3 cm, with a 3.8 cm white border). Acrylic on cardboard, by the American animal painter Tom Leonard.
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