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Linnaeus, C. - Houttuyn, M.
Des Ritters Carl von Linné vollständiges Pflanzensystem nach der dreyzehnten lateinischen Ausgabe und nach Anleitung des holländischen houtteuynischen Werks übersetzt und mit einer ausführlichen erklärung ausgefertiget. Erster - Eilfter Theil. [Complete].
Nürnberg, G. N. Raspe, [1777]-1784-[1799]. 14 volumes in 15. 8vo (19.5 x 12.2 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Linnaeus. Title pages, 9943 pp.; 121 large, multi-folded, engraved plates [1-105, 5b, 12b, 16b, 16c, 19b, 24b, 41b, 42b, 44b, 50b, 51b, 53b, 55b, 57b, 57c, 66b]. Uniform contemporary half calf over olive paper covered boards. Spines with gilt ornaments and two pale olive morocco labels with gilt chains and title.
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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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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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Leibniz, G. W. and others
Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum. Ephemerides sive Observationum Medico-Physicarum a Celeberrimis viris. Centuria III & IV. Cum, Appendice.
Norimbergae [Nuremberg], Wolfgang Michahelles, 1715. Small, thick 4to (20.3 x 16.4 cm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, title, half title, 738 pp. ([xii], 484, [ii], 232, [viii]); 15 engraved plates (several larger, folded), three portraits. Contemporary full vellum. Title neatly written on the spine in an old (probably contemporary) hand. Edges speckled blue.
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Lamarck, J. B. [P. A. de Monet de]
Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leurs distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Hist. Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, l'an 8 de la republique.
Paris, l'Auteur, Deterville, 1801. 8vo (19.2 x 12.0 cm). viii, 432 pp.; seven tables (six larger, folded). Contemporary full tree calf. Spine rich gilt in Empire style with vases and intricate patterns including stars, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-rolled borders. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
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Lacépède, [B. G. É.] De
Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, serpents, poissons, et cétacées. Pour faire suite aux oeuvres de Buffon. Nouvelle édition, ornée de 115 planches et du portrait de l'auteur. Tome premier - cinqante. [Complete].
Paris, A. Eymery [AND Brussels, Avransart and Gust. Gastebois], 1825. Five volumes in five. 8vo (20.1 x 12.8 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Lacepède by Leroux after a drawing by Hersent; 2881 pp.; 115 finely engraved plates after Jean Gabriel Prêtre, in original hand-colouring, several augmented with silver. Uniform polished tree-calf. Spines rich gilt with geometrical patterns, and two red morocco labels with gilt title and volume number. Boards with gilt-ornamented borders; gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled bluish green.
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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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Keats, J.
Endymion. A Poetic Romance by John Keats, with engravings by John Buckland-Wright. [With a bookplate designed by Maurits Escher].
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. Tall 4to (32.5 x 20.1 cm). 152 pp.; many woodcut illustrations (several page-sized). Original vellum over boards. Front board with gilt vignette.
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