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Wilhelm, G. T.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Der Insecten. Neue Ausgabe.
Augsburg, J. A. Schlosser, 1834. Three parts in five. Small 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm). Three title pages, 1044 pp. [I: xlviii, 376; II: 416; III: 204]; 150 [I: 46; II: 52; III: 52] engraved plates in fine, original hand-colouring; and a larger, double-folded, deliberately not coloured Table d'Instruction(unnumbered, present twice). Contemporary near-uniform marbled paper boards. Spines with gilt lines and gilt title on leather label, black on text volumes, blue on plate volumes.
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Warren, B. C. S.
Monograph of the Genus Erebia. [AND] Supplement to Monograph of the Genus Erebia.
London, The British Museum of Natural History, 1936; [AND] E. W. Classey, 1981. Two works in two. 4to (27.5 x 18.9 cm). vii, 407 pp.; 104 plates with explanatory text leaves. Publisher's aquamarine, blind-stamped cloth. Spine with gilt title. [AND] Large 8vo (25.5 x 16.0 cm). 17 pp.; one text figure (numbered 501b), and two plates (numbered 105-106).
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Ward, C.
African Lepidoptera, being descriptions of new species. With illustrations. [All published].
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., [1873-1874]. Folio (29.7 x 22.3 cm). 16 pp.; 18 lithographed plates of which 12 in fine, original hand-colouring. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Various authors
[Alert voyage] Report on the zoological collections, made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the HMS Alert 1881-1882. [AND] Account on the zoological collections made during the Survey of the HMS Alert in the straits of Magellan and the Coasts of Patagonia.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1884. 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm, and 23.0 x 15.8 cm). xxv, 684 pp.; 54 lithographed plates (some partially coloured) [AND] London, The Zoological Society, 1881. 141 pp.; ten lithographed plates. The first title in original embossed and gilt-lettered cloth; the second in recent boards with printed paper label on the front board.
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