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Gaterau, [L.]
Description des plantes qui crossent aux environs de Montauban, ou qu'on cultive dans les jardins, rangées d'apr`ws la methode sexuelle, avec l'indication du lieu où elles viennent, et les vertus principales des usuelles.
Montauban, l'Auteur [AND] Charles Crosiles, 1789. 8vo (19.1 x 12.4 cm). 216, [iv] pp., interleaved with blanks, and an additional 24 blanks bound in front (12), and in the rear (12). 19th-century quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Edges speckled red.
Read moreHappe, A. F.
Botanica Pharmaceutica exhibens plantas officinalis quarum nomina indispensatoris recentur, cum Iconibus… Plate 245 Cannabis sativa. [Hemp].
Berlin, the author, 1788. Folio-sized leaf (36.0 x 22.2 cm), with original printed and finely hand-coloured engraving of a famous pharmaceutical plant (printed area 24.3 x 15.8 cm).
Read moreHappe, A. F.
Botanica Pharmaceutica exhibens plantas officinalis quarum nomina indispensatoris recentur, cum Iconibus… Plate 62. Nymphea lutea. [Yellow water-lily].
Berlin, the author, 1788. Folio-sized leaf (36.2 x 22.2 cm), with original printed and finely hand-coloured engraving of a pharmaceutical plant (printed area 23.6 x 18.6 cm).
Read morePlinius Secundus, C. [P. C. B. Guéroult, ed.]
Morceaux extraits de l'Histoire Naturelle de Pline.
Paris, Michel Lambert, 1785. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 554 pp. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with gilt lines, floral vignettes and brown morocco label with gilt title. Gilt-lined board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
Read moreHerschel, [F.] W.
Astronomical observations on the rotations of the planets round their axes, made with a view to determine whether the Earth's diurnal motion is perfectly equable.
London, The Royal Society, 1781. 4to (24.5 x 19.5 cm). 24 pp. (numbered 115-138); two large, foldout plates. Spine with marbled paper cover.
Read moreBrokatpapier [gilt-printed paper]
A large, gilt-embossed sheet.
[Augsburg, probably J. C. Munck, ca. 1780]. A large, oblong folio sheet of orange/terracotta painted wove paper, printed in gilt. (35.8 x 42.8 cm; printed area 30.7 x 36.1 cm, i.e., with ample margins) Loose, as issued.
Read moreBrokatpapier [gilt-printed paper]
Two identical, large, gilt-embossed sheets.
[Augsburg, probably J. C. Munck, ca. 1780]. Two large, oblong folio sheets of orange/terracotta painted wove paper, printed in gilt. (each 35.1 x 43.1 cm; printed areas 29.7 x 34.8 cm, i.e., with ample margins). Loose, as issued.
Read moreBourguet, [L.]
Traité des pétrifications. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée.
Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1778. 8vo (19.7 x 12.3 cm). Half-title, title page, 349 pp. (xvii, 326, [vii], and 4; 16 with advertisements); 441 engravings on 60 plates. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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