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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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Dorman, R. M.
The Origin of Primitive Superstitions. And their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America.
Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). 398 pp.; 21 numbered text-engravings, five plates of which four originally hand-coloured, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece (= Plate I), Original dark brown buckram. Spine with red lines, gilt pictorial vignette and title; boards with red border; front board with pictorial gilt vignette. Dark green endpapers.
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Dognin, P.
Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud. I-XXV. [Complete].
Rennes, Oberthur, 1910-1924. 25 parts in one. 8vo (23.7 x 15.5 cm). 25 uniform title pages; 795 pp. [ I (1910): 48; II (1911): 56; III (1911): 66; IV (1911): 32; V (1912): 12; VI (1912): 51; VII (1914): 32; VIII (1914): 101; IX (1916): 36; X (1916): 25; XI (1916): 17; XII (1916): 34; XIII (1917): 19; XIV (1918): 27; XV (1919): 10; XVI (1919): 7; XVII (1919): 12; XVIII (1920): 13; XIX (1921): 19; XX (1922): 30; XXI (1923): 38; XXII (1923): 25; XXIII (1923): 34; XXIV 1923): 17; XXV (1924): 34]. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised ands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. All original uniform printed front wrappers bound in.
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[Darwin, Charles Robert]
Portrait of Darwin - Rare Russian carte de visite.
Saint Peterburg, Wesenberg [Down and London, Elliott & Fry], [1874]. Albumen print, mounted on cardboard with a red ink border (10.3 x 6.1 cm). With the printed name Darwin in Cyrillic and printed Cyrillic text on recto and verso. Name of Darwin stamped in cyrillic on verso. Preserved in transparent sleeve.
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Carpeau du Saussay (ed.)
Voyage de Madagascar, connu aussi sous le nom de l'isle de St Laurent. Par M. de De V.... Commissaire provincial de l'artillerie de France. Dedié à S. A. S. M. Le Prince de Contry.
Paris, Jean-Luc Nyon, 1722. 12mo (15.4 x 9.1 cm). Engraved title " Nouveau Voiage de Madagascard", letterpress title, [xviii], 304 pp.; six engraved plates; large, multi-folding map. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine rich gilt, with five gilt-rolled raised bands; compartments with gilt floral borders and crowned shield with a lion; boards with triple gilt borders and large gilt vignettes, showing a Celtic warrior waving a banner, "Brithan" and captioned "Foy de Brehan". Gilt-lined board edges and inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Edges red.
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