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Treub, M.
's Lands Plantentuin te Buitenzorg: 18 mei 1817 - 18 mei 1892.
Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1892. Large 8vo (25.9 x 17.8 cm). 518 pp.; one map of the botanical gardens at Bogor (Indonesia), five tissue-guarded portraits, two maps. Original half cloth over printed boards. Printed label on the spine.
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Sarasin, P. and F. Sarasin
Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes. I. Die Süsswasser-Mollusken von Celebes.
Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel, 1898. Large 4to (29.7 x 24.3 cm). viii, 104 pp.; map, 13 photographic, lithographic, or engraved plates. Contemporary black half cloth over marbled boards, typed label on spine.
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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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Müller, R.
Projectionslehre. [Album with original drawings of geometric constructions].
Germany, unpublished, ca. 1895. Oblong folio (33.0 x 50.2 cm). 36 leaves with numerous original drawings of geometric constructions in black, red, and blue ink. Contemporary blind half linen over marbled boards. Gilt title and author's name on the front board. Pictorial, early Jugendstil endpapers.
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Brinkley, F.
Oriental Series. Japan [and] China. [the rare "Lotus"-edition].
Boston and Tokyo, J. B. Millet, 1901-1902. Twelve volumes in twelve. 8vo (23.1 x 15.7 cm). 3752 pp.; 255 plates, of which 115 monochrome and 114 in full colour - all with printed tissue guards, and 26 lithographed, captioned on the plates; three maps, of which two very large, multi-folded and in full colour. Uniform original full dark green morocco. Spines with three raised bands, gilt, pink-and-red inlay morocco lotus vignette and gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined borders and pink-and-red inlay morocco lotuses.
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[Trade-Catalogue] Sanitas Actiengesellschaft
1901 Haupt-Katalog der Sanitas Actiengesellschaft in Hamburg. [Bathroom and toilet furniture catalogue].
Hamburg, Sanitas Actiengesellschaft, 1901. Folio (28.9 x 22.7 cm). 96 pp.; numerous steel-engravings, including several printed in colour. Original Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) style printed wrappers.
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Siboga Expedition (M. W. C. Weber, ed.)
Résultats des explorations zoologiques, botaniques, océanographiques et géologiques entreprises aux Indes Néerlandaises Orientale en 1899-1900, à bord du Siboga sous le commande de G. F. Tydeman, publiés par Max Weber. Livraison 1-148. [All published].
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1901-1986. Large 4to (ca. 33.0 x 27.0 cm); more than 1,200 plates (188 in colour) including lithographed and chromolithographed plates, some etchings and photographic plates. Partly original printed wrappers, partly blind wrappers.
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Sarasin, P. and F. Sarasin
Entwurf einer geographisch-geologischen Beschreibung der Insel Celebes. [WITH] Anhang. Untersuchung einiger Gesteinssuiten gesammelt in Celebes von P. und F. Sarasin, von C. Schmidt.
Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel, 1901. Large 4to (30.1 x 24.2 cm). 383 pp.; one page-sized unnumbered lithographed plate, ten fine photogravures; four topographical and geological tinted lithographed maps (one folded in rear pocket). Original duotone cloth with gilt title on the front board.
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Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, C. R. W. K. van
Malayan Ferns. Handbook to the determination of the ferns of the Malayan Islands (incl. those of the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and New Guinea). [AND] (Correcting sheet).
Batavia, The Department of Agriculture Netherlands India, 1909. Two parts in two. 8vo (26.2 x 17.5 cm). 948 pp. [xl, 899; 9]. Uniform printed wrappers.
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Rumphius, G. E.
De Ambonse historie. Behelsende een kort verhaal der gedenkwaardigste geschiedenissen zo in vreede als oorlog voorgevallen sedert dat de Nederlandsche Oost Indische Comp: het besit in Amboina gehadt heeft [AND] De Ambonse historie. Behelsende een kort verhaal der Gedenkwaardigste Geschiedenissen zoo in vrede als oorlogh, voorgevallen zedert de regeering van den Superintendent Commissaris en Adml den wel Ed: Heer Arnold de Vlaming. En Eijndigende onder de Regeering van den Edele Agtb: Heer Jacob Hustard.
's-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1910. Two parts in one. 8vo (25.0 x 16.2 cm). 489 [327; 162] pp. Original printed wrappers.
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Menzies, J. H.
Maori Patterns. Painted and Carved.
Christchurch, Smith and Antony, [1910]. Oblong folio (36.6 x 50.1 cm). Engraved title page in red and black; explanatory leaf; 28 plates. Original white linen boards with colour-printed title mounted. Preserved in protective clamshell box of blue half morocco over blue linen boards; "spine" with wavy giltlines and gilt title. Marbled inside.
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Mayer, A. G.
The Medusae of the World. The Hydromedusae. The Scyphomedusae. [Complete in three volumes].
Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1910. Three volumes in three Large 4to (29.6 x 23.4 cm). 769 pp. [1-230, xv; 231-498, xv; iv, 499-735]; 77 chromolithographed plates [numbered 1-76, 64A], except Plates 70-72, which are black-and-white photographic plates; 428 text illustrations; one folding table. Uniform publisher's embossed cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Driessen, A. [Jan Sluyters]
Bonbondoos. [Candy Box].
[Rotterdam], A. Driessen, ca. 1910. Cardboard box with lid (27.8 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm). Gilt edges, marbled sides; original chromolithograph after a gouache and colour crayon drawing mounted on front (top) board. Round, gilt vignette pasted on rear (bottom) board.
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