Parker, R. D.
Birds of Ireland.
Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1984. Oblong folio (40.5 x 47.5 cm). 113 pp.; 40 coloured and mounted plates all beautifully reproduced. Original polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Matching original marbled slipcase (49.6 x 42.5 x 3.2 cm) with printed label.
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Knorr, G.
Delices de la nature ou choix de tout ce que les trois regnes de la nature renferment de plus digne des recherches d'un curieux, pour en former un cabinet ouvrage communiqué ci-devant au public par Georg Wolfgang Knorr célébre graveur de Nuremberg continué par ses héritiers avec les descriptions et remarques de Philippe louis Statius Müller ... revû, corrigé et augmenté d'une préface par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch ...traduit de l'allemand par Jaques Frederic Isenflamm. [Falcon]
[Nuremberg, les héritiers de feu G. W. Knorr, 1767]. Folio (54.5 x 38.0 cm). One very beautiful hand-coloured engraved plate.
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Knorr, G.
Delices de la nature ou choix de tout ce que les trois regnes de la nature renferment de plus digne des recherches d'un curieux, pour en former un cabinet ouvrage communiqué ci-devant au public par Georg Wolfgang Knorr célébre graveur de Nuremberg continué par ses héritiers avec les descriptions et remarques de Philippe louis Statius Müller ... revû, corrigé et augmenté d'une préface par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch ...traduit de l'allemand par Jaques Frederic Isenflamm. [Bird-of-paradise].
[Nuremberg, les héritiers de feu G. W. Knorr, 1764 [1767]. Large folio (54.0 x 37.4 cm). One very beautiful hand-coloured engraved plate.
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Nozeman, C., M. Houttuyn and J. C. Sepp
Nederlandsche vogelen; volgens hunne huishouding, aert, en eigenschappen beschreeven. Falco leucocephalus hornotinus.
Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1770. Single sheet, large folio (52.5 x 34.9 cm). Printed surface 42.0 x 27.0 cm. Hand-coloured copper-engraved plate of the head, claw and one feather of Falco leucocephalus hornotinus.
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Keulemans, J. G.
Book of cage birds. [A natural history of cage birds]
[London, for the author, 1871]. Folio (28.1 x 18.8 cm). 113 pp.; 24 hand-coloured auto-lithographed plates. Contemporary grained burgundy half morocco over pebbled green boards, with gilt ornamental borders. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands, gilt vignettes and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
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Temminck, C. J. (ed.)
Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, door de Leden der Natuurkundige commissie in Indië en andere schrijvers. Uitgegeven op last van de Koning.
Leiden, S. Luchtmans and J. Luchtmans, 1839-1844. Three volumes in five, including a matching drop box. Folio (42.6 x 29.1 cm). 1379 pp.; 258 plates on 257 sheets (and one double, not counted), of which all but 81 finely hand-coloured, and four maps, of which one double-sized, and all but one partly hand-coloured. Uniform contemporary dark green half morocco over grained boards. Spines with five raised bands; gilt ornaments at head and foot, and gilt title. Speckled edges.
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[Higley, W. K. (ed.)]
Birds. Illustrated by Color Photography. A monthly serial designed to promote knowledge of bird-life [FOLLOWED BY] Birds and all Nature. A monthly illustrated by color photography. Volumes 1-4 (1897-1898).
Chicago, IL, Nature Study Publishing Company, 1896-1907. Four volumes in two. 4to. Text and over 870 coloured photographic plates. Uniform contemporary half morocco over grained cloth covered boards. Spines with gilt lines and title. Edges speckled red.
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Redelykheid, C.
Rivierkundige aanmerkingen op de rivierkundige waarneemingen enz. van den Wel Edelen en Gestrengen Heer Martinus van Barnevelt.
's-Gravenhage, Hendrick Backhuysen, 1773. 8vo (22.1 x 13.9 cm). 143 pp. Original speckled paper cover.
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Wagner, R. [F. J. H.]
Icones physiologicae. Tabulae physiologiam et geneseos historiam illustrantes. Erläuterungstafeln zür Physiologie und Entwickelungsgeschichte mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf seine Lehrbücher über Physiologie und vergleichende Anatomie, herausgegeben von Rudolph Wagner.
Leipzig, Leopold Voss, 1839. Two parts in two (text and atlas). Folio (34.7 x 27.4 cm). Three title pages, 91 pp. [81; x]; 30 engraved plates, of which two double-sized. Original uniform quarter-cloth portfolios with printed title mounted on the front boards.
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Knorr, G.
Delices de la nature ou choix de tout ce que les trois regnes de la nature renferment de plus digne des recherches d'un curieux, pour en former un cabinet ouvrage communiqué ci-devant au public par Georg Wolfgang Knorr célébre graveur de Nuremberg continué par ses héritiers avec les descriptions et remarques de Philippe louis Statius Müller ... revû, corrigé et augmenté d'une préface par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch ... traduit de l'allemand par Jaques Frederic Isenflamm. [bird bills].
[Nuremberg, les héritiers de feu G. W. Knorr, 1767]. Large folio (54.6 x 37.5 cm). One very beautiful hand-coloured engraved plate.
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Hargitt, E.
Catalogue of the birds in the collection of the British Museum. Volume XVIII [18]. Catalogue of the Picariae in the Collection of the British Museum. Scansores, containing the family Picidae.
London, the Trustees of the British Museum, 1890. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). xv, 598, 8 pp.; 15 chromolithographed plates by Peter Smit. Original blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine.
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Keulemans, J. G.
Red-headed bunting. Emberiza luteola. [Henry Dresser's A history of the birds of Europe, plate 618].
London, for H. E. Dresser, 1895. Folio. A fine, large, lithographed plate drawn, engraved in stone, and hand-coloured by John Gerrard Keulemans. In an attractive wooden frame (44.2 x 39.2 cm).
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Bianchi, V. L.
Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes. Oiseaux (Aves). Volume I. Colymbiformes and Procellariiformes. Demi-volume deuxième.
St. Petersbourg, Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 1913. Thick 8vo. xxxviii, 979 pp.; 10 plates (some double-sized). Later quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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Cassin, J. [and others]
Notes of an examination of the birds of the subfamily Coerebinae. [AND] Notes on some species of birds from South America. IN: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1864.
Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1864. In five parts. 8vo. 318 pp. With four hand-coloured plates depicting birds. Uniform printed wrapppers.
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[Anonymous]
Een oud schipper, van Monickendam.... [Pamphlet].
No place, no date [1608]. Small 4to (18.0 x 14.6 cm). Engraved title page; five pp. 19th-century marbled wrappers.
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Gould, J.
Eugenes spectabilis Lawr. [From: A monograph of the Trochilidae or family of humming-birds].
London, Henry Sotheran, 1885. Folio. Single lithographed and finely hand-coloured plate. In wooden frame. Visible print size: 35.0 x 50.0 cm; frame size: 55.2 x 71.0 cm.
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Ouwens, P. A.
De voornaamste giftslangen van Nederlandsch Oost-Indië. Met een verhandeling over de verschijnselen en over de behandeling van giftigen slangenbeet door Dr. G. W. Kiewiet de Jonge.
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1916. Large 4to (30.6 x 24.7 cm). Half title, title-page, pp. 3-22, [i]; 19 lithographed plates of which 17 in full colour. Later orange half cloth over brown pebbled cloth. Printed title on the spine. Grey endpapers.
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Ray, J. and F. Salerne
l'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, l'ornithologie, qui traite des oiseaux de terre, de mer et de riviere, tant de nos climats que des pays étrangers. ouvrage traduit du Latin du Synopsis avium de Ray, augmenté d'un grand nombre de descriptions & de remarques historiques sur le caractere des oiseaux, leur industrie & leurs ruses. Enrichi de trente-une figures dessinées d'après nature. [Contemporary hand-coloured copy].
Paris, Debure Pere, 1767. Large 4to (29.9 x 22.0 cm) [Binding: 30.9 x 23.1 cm]. Half-title, title in red and black; xii, [iv], 464 pp.; 31 finely engraved and delicately hand-coloured plates (the first acting as frontispiece). Grained full red morocco. Spine with gilt Louis XVI-style ornaments and gilt title; boards with gilt-pattered borders and inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Sharpe, R. B. et al.
Catalogue of the birds in the collection of the British Museum. Volume I - XXVII. [Complete].
London, the Trustees of the British Museum, 1874-1898. In 27 volumes. 8vo. 387 lithographed or hand-coloured plates. Six volumes in contemporary half leather; spines with four raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title; all others in original uniform blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Marot, D.
Amsterdamse kermis vertonende de Burgery in de Wapenen sig presenteerende aan de Groot Agtb. Heer en Burgemeesteren - Foire d'Amsterdam represantens les Burgois sous les Armes saluans nos Seigneur les Burgermeesters.
Amsterdam. J. Gole, 1686. Very large broadsheet (69.0 x 100.0 cm) consisting of two, vertically combined, sheets. Large, very detailed engraving. Printed surface 65.0 x 93.0 cm.
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Hoeye, R. van den [C. de Jonghe (publisher)]
Amsterdam. [Harbor view, seen from the north].
Amsterdam, Clement de Jonghe, ca. 1647-1650. Oblong broadsheet (42.5 x 53.3 cm). Printed on two, combined leaves; partially coloured in red. Printed surface 50.5 x 40.0 cm.
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Frisch, J. L.
Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes. Der grosse gepfeilte Falck. Falco sagittatus. Faucon. [plate 82]
[Berlin, Nicolai, 1733-1763]. Folio (37.0 x 23.7 cm). Single printed leaf with original hand-colouring, the eye and claws augmented with gum arabic.
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Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I.
Semnopithèque dussumier. Semnopithecus dussumieri. [PRINT]
Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, 1843. Folio (30.5 x 23.4 cm). Early colour-printed engraving.
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Naudin, C. [V.]
Nouvelles recherches sur l'hybridité dans les végétaux.
Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, 1861. Large 4to (30.8 x 23.7 cm). 152 pp. [numbered: 25-176]; nine fine, lithographed plates of which eight in chromolithography including one finely finished by hand and augmented with gum arabic. Contemporary blind vellum over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers.
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[Book binding]
Extracten uit de Resolutien van de edele mogende Heeren Raaden van Staate der Vereenigde Nederlanden.
Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé [for the Raadt van Staate der Vereenigde Nederlanden], 1778. Folio (32.5 x 22.0 cm) [33.0 x 22.6 cm]. [vi], [66], [i] pp. Contemporary (original) red morocco. Boards with intricate gilt floral borders, gilt dentelles and gilt vignette. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Girardin, J. [P. L.] [Moorsel, F. H. van, translator]
Toegepaste scheikunde naar J. Girardin. Voor Nederland bewerkt door F. H. van Moorsel. (Met 30 afbeeldingen). [AND] Algemeene scheikunde door J. Girardin. Voor Nederland bewerkt door F. H. van Moorsel.
Amsterdam, Weytingh & Van der Haart, 1855. 8vo (19.2 x 11.8 cm). 78 pp.; 30 text engravings [AND] 86 pp.; 25 text engravings. Slightly later pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Paper label with handwritten title on the spine.
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Darwin, C.
[Letter to the editor] Fritz Müller on flowers and insects.
London, Nature, 1877-1878. Folio (28.2 x 19.6 cm). Five [Two; three] pp. In: issues 17(422) [pp. xxxiii-xl, 77-96] and 17(440) [pp. clxxxi-clxxxviii, 441-460].
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Marey, É. J.
Physiologie des mouvement. Le vol des oiseaux. Avec 1 planche et 164 figures dans le texte.
Paris, G. Masson, 1890. Large 8vo (25.3 x 16.2 cm). xvi, 395 pp.; one plate, 164 text engravings. Original printed wrappers.
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Mottram, C.
Boston [Harbour view].
London, Paul & Dominic Colnaghi, 1857 or later. A very large chromolithographed oblong broadsheet (89 x 111 cm). Printed surface 69 x 98 cm.
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Description de l'Egypte
Eagle. Original engraved and hand-coloured first plate from the birds-section of Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1827. Elephant folio. Single sheet, printed on recto (verso blank), and finely coloured by a contemporary hand.
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Cotton, J.
The song birds of Great Britain; containing delineations of thirty-three birds, of the natural size, (incl. the genus Sylvia of Latham,) coloured principally from living specimens, with some account of their habits, and occasional direction for their treatment in confinement.
London, privately published, [1835-]1836. Title-page, [xi] pp. [prefaces]; 33 beautiful, originally hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary dark green grained full morocco. Boards with double rich gilt borders with floral corner pieces; gilt lines on the edges, and inner gilt lines. Spine with ornamental gilt rectangles and title. All edges gilt.
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Traviès, E.
La vénerie. Souvenir de chasses. La sarcelle d'hiver. [Plate 15].
Paris, Berrieux, [1854]. Large Folio (64.1 x 50.0 cm). Single sheet with finely engraved and originally hand-coloured illustration.
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Mader, J. and C. F. C. Kleemann
Tyd-wyzer der rupsen, vervattende, van maand tot maand, den tyd der verschyning van de door Rösel en Kleemann, beschreeven en afgebeelde rupsen, benevens haar voedzel. Ten nutte en dienst der liefhebbers opgesteld. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Vermeerderd met eene naamlyst der planten, volgens het samenstel van Linnaeus.
Haarlem, C. H. Bohn, 1779. 8vo (22.0 x 14.4 cm). Title page, [vi], 161 pp. Contemporary mottled boards, no spine cover.
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Traviès, E.
La vénerie. Souvenir de chasses. La perdrix rouge. [Plate 13].
Paris, Berrieux, [1854]. Large Folio (64.1 x 50.0 cm). Single sheet with finely engraved and originally hand-coloured illustration.
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Wolf, J.
Naturgeschichte der Vögel deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen. Falco peregrinus Linn. [A pair of plates].
Nürnberg, J. F. Frauenholz, [1821]. Folio (53.3 x 41.3 cm). Two finely engraved and originally hand-coloured plates.
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Fürbringer, M. [C. A.]
Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Stütz- und Bewegungs-Organe. I. Specieller Theil – II. Allgemeiner Theil. [Complete].
Amsterdam, T. van Holkema, 1888. In two volumes. Folio (37.1 x 27.9 cm). Title pages and half-titles to both volumes; 1800 pp. [numbered xlix, 1-834; 837-1751]; 31 mostly tinted lithographed plates, numerous tables. Uniform original quarter cloth over printed boards. printed label on the spines.
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Gould, J.
Birds of Great Britain. Falco candicans [plate 14].
London, Taylor and Francis (for the author), 1872. Large folio (53.0 x 38.0 cm). Printed and originally hand-coloured sheet.
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[50 years Amsterdam Zoo] Stokvis, B. J. et al.
Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra te Amsterdam. Feestnummer uitgegeven bij gelegenheid van het 50-jarig bestaan van het Genootschap.
Amsterdam, Tj. van Holkema, 1888. Large 4to (37.5 x 27.7 cm). Title pages, 353 pp. [12; 30; 98; 104; 80; 16; 13]. Four lithographed plates (of which two in chromolithography, one large and folded, and one tinted); one very large, full colour map with overlay. Original wrappers printed in red and black.
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Rathke, [M.] H.
Beiträge zur Fauna Norwegens.
Breslau, Acta Nova, 1843. 4to (29.9 x 23.0 cm). Title page (verso blank), 264 pp. [3-264, 264b, 264c]; 12 engraved plates. Late 20th-century blind blue boards.
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Broeck, [J.] E. van de [vanden Broeck]
Esquisse géologique et paléontologique des dépôts pliocènes des environs d'Anvers. [Author's copy - interleaved, with handwritten additions and emendations].
Bruxelles, G. Mayolez, 1876-[1878]. 8vo (25.0 x16.3 cm). 296 pp. (printed), 296 pp. (ruled, partly annotated); folded and coloured topografical map of Antwerp and surroundings and one folding table. Original printed boards.
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Moquin-Tandon, A.
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés. Atlas.
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1855. 4to (25.9 x 17.2 cm). 92 pp.; 54 lithographed plates, all but one in fine colour-printing. Contemporary red quarter calf over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, gilt linings and text. Marbled flyleaves.
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Zavattari, E (ed.)
Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana. [Complete in four volumes].
Roma, Centro Studi Africa Orientale, 1939-1940. In four volumes. Large 8vo (24.9 x 17.6 cm). 2,154 pp. [537, 719, 463, 435]; over 500 text illustrations; 23 [0; 16; 7; 0] plates, mostly coloured, one coloured map and one large, folded map. Uniform original quarter cloth over printed boards. Spines with large, printed labels.
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Say, T.
American conchology or descriptions of the shells of North America illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature.
New Harmony, Indiana. Privately published (printed at The School Press, and The M Press), 1830-1837. 8vo (23.2 x 15.0 cm). Seven parts in one. 68 engraved and delicately hand-coloured plates (several augmented with gum arabic). 20th-century full morocco. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title; boards with blind-tooled border with clam-like corner pieces. Original printed wrappers to all seven parts bound in.
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Canavari, M. (ed.)
Palaeontologia della Somalia. Fossili raccolti dalle Missioni Stefanini-Paoli (1913) e Stefanini-Puccioni (1924) e da altri.
Pisa, Museo Geologico della R. Università di Pisa, 1931-1939 [REPRINT Bologna, Forni, 1969]. In five volumes. 4to (31.2 x 21.4 cm). 1,115 pp. [216; 192; 301; 89; 270, 47]; 111 plates [17; 24; 26; 12; 27, 5]; numerous text illustrations. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Mousson, J. R. A.
Révision de la faune malacologique des Canaries.
Bern, Allgemeine schweizerische Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 1873. Large 4to (29.0 x 23.2 cm). iv, 176 pp., six lithographed plates, each with explanatory text leaf. 20th-century quarter cloth over marbled boards; spine with red morocco label with gilt title.
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Wyatt, T.
A manual of conchology, according to the system laid down by Lamarck, with the late improvements by de Blainville. Exemplified and arranged for the use of students. Illustrated by thirty-six plates containing more than two hundred types, drawn from the natural shell.
New York, NY, Harper & Brothers, 1838. 8vo (23.2 x 14.4 cm). 191 pp.; 36 lithographed plates. Contemporary grapevine-patterned full cloth. Spine with gilt title.
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Sowerby, G. B. I
The genera of Recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology. With original plates.
London, George Brettingham Sowerby, [1821-1834]. 8vo format (21.3 x 13.4 cm). [iv] pp.; 262 (of 267) lithographed and finely hand-coloured (all but three) plates. Contemporary uniform polished half calf over grained cloth boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and title. Brown endpapers. Edges finely sprinkled red. Preserved in custom-made pictorial shell-themed double slipcase.
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Bory de Saint-Vincent, [J. B. G. G. M.] et al. (eds).
Annales générales des sciences physiques. Volumes I-VIII. [All published].
Bruxelles, Weissenbuch, Père, 1819-1821. Eight volumes in eight. 8vo (23.0 x 14.3 cm). Numerous pages and plates, of which several with additional hand-colouring. Original uniform blue wrappers. Handwritten paper labels on the spines.
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Lister, M.
Historiae sive synopsis methodicae conchyliorum et tabularum anatomicarum editio altera.
Oxoni [Oxford], Clarendoniano, 1770. Folio (37.3x 24.2 cm). Letterpress title, two pp. preface; seven pp. with engraved titles, introduction, systematical table, abbreviations and section review, index title, dedication leaf, 12, 77 pp.; 1056 figures (numbered 1-194, 197-922, 924-1058; 168.a) on over 400 plates (several double-sized, folded); a further 22, partly unnumbered engraved plates. 20th-century full calf. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title. Speckled edges.
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Nicklès, M. [C. D.]
Letter to R. P. Dollfus.
Martel de Janville [Passy], 1948. Single printed leaf (26.7 x 20.7 cm), folded. Hand-written, signed and dated.
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Odhner, N. [H.]
Two letters to R. P. Dollfus.
Stockholm, 1948-1950. Two printed leaves (29.2 x 22.8 cm [1948] and 29.7 x 21 cm [1950]). The first letter typed, with hand-written signature and additional handwriting; the second entirely handwritten, signed and dated.
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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. VI. Classe des mollusques, ordre des acéphales. Texte et 361 planches. [Bivalvia].
Prague, Musée Bohême, 1881. Four parts in four. Large 4to. xxiv, 342 pp.; 361 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original uniform blind-tooled black cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. II. Classe des mollusques, ordre des céphalopodes. Texte et 544 planches.
Prague, Musée Bohême, 1867-1877. 11 parts in 11. Large 4to and folio (32.5 x 25.5). 3,583 pp.; 545 lithographed plates (including 240bis) with explanatory text leaves. Original blind-tooled cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Perillat, M. del Carmen (a. o.)
Palaeontologia Mexicana. 1 - 50.
Mexico, D. F., Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1954-1984. 48 issues in 48. 8vo (23.0 x 17.0 cm). Over 3,000 pp.; numerous plates. Original uniform stiff, printed wrappers.
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Lamouche, [L.] and C. Barrois
Fossiles caractéristiques. Préface de M. Ch. Barrois. Premier fascicule. Terrains de l'ère primaire; Deuxième fascicule. Terrains de l'ère secondaire (Trias - végétaux secondaires - lias); Troisième fascicule. Terrains de l'ère secondaire (Jurassique moyen et supérieur); Quatrième fascicule Terrains de l'ère secondaire (Crétacé); Cinquième fascicule. Terrains de l'ère tertiaire (Nummulitique); Sixième fascicule. Terrains de l'`ere tertiare (Types de végétaux tertiaires - Néogène) [AND] Terrains de l'ère quaternaire. [Complete].
Arcueil, Tortellier, 1925; Paris, Librairie Scientifique J. Hermann, 1926-1928. Six parts in six. 4to (28.5 x 20.0 cm). Title pages, 170 pp. [30; 26; 25; 31; 26; 32]; 225 [36; 33; 41; 37; 34; 44] fine (mostly lithographed) plates. In original printed wrappers.
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Bianchi, G. P. S. [J. Plancus]
De conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.
Venetiis (Venice), J. Baptista Pasqual, 1739. 4to (29.2 x 20.0 cm). 88 pp.; wood-engraved title vignette and five folded, engraved plates. Contemporary limp boards with script title in an old hand on the spine.
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Buonanni, F.
Ricreatione dell' occhio e della mente nell' osseruation delle Chiocciole, proposta a' curiosi delle opere della natura. Con quattrocento, e cinquanta figure di testacei diuersi, sopra cui si spiegano molti curiosi problemi.
Roma, Varese, 1681. In two volumes (text and plates). 4to (23.7 x 17.2 cm). I (text). Engraved allegorical title; letterpress title, [xiv], 384, [xv] pp.; four engraved plates (opposite p. 50, 51, 59, 316), several text engravings; II (atlas). Engraved allegorical title; engraved section title to part IV; engraved title to Classe prima, six plates with figs 1-20); engraved title to Classe seconda, 23 plates with figs 1-100); and engraved title to Classe terza, followed by 77 plates with figs 1-266, 268-311, 315-314 [ recte 312-313], 314-319), for a total of 110 plates, and six engraved titles. Contemporary uniform full vellum. Spines with four raised bands and contemporary script title in ink. All edges blue.
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Dezallier d'Argenville, A. J. D.
l'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la conchyliologie, qui traite des coquillages de mer, de rivière et de terre; ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode Latine & Françoise de les diviser: augmenté de la zoomorphose, ou representation des animaux a coquilles, avec leurs explications. Nouvelle édition. Enrichie de figures dessinées d'après nature.
Paris, De Bure, 1757. 4to (28.5 x 22.8 cm). Title in red and black, with woodcut vignette, xxii, 394 pp.; half-title, second title in red and black, 84, cvii pp.; engraved frontispiece (plate 1) and another 40 [2-29, 1-3, 1-9] engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt-lined edges. Spine with five raised bands, compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and brown morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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Ducrotay de Blainville, H. M.
Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchyliologie. Texte, planches. [Complete].
Paris, Strasbourg, Levrault, 1825-1827. Two parts in two [text and atlas]. 8vo (23.1 x 14.5 cm). Texte (1825): title page, viii, 664 pp.; two large, folded tables; Planches (1827) title page, 16 pp. (numbered consecutively, 649-664; i.e. double), 109 engraved, colour-printed plates, finished by hand, by Prêtre under the direction of Turpin. Original, near-uniform original printed boards.
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Poe, E. A.
The conchologist's first book: or, a system of testaceous malacology, arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, a great number of new species added, and the whole brought up, as accurately as possible, to the present condition of the science. With illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells, presenting a correct type of each genus.
Philadelphia, PA, Haswell, Barrington and Haswell (for the author), 1839. 8vo (16.8 x 11.5 cm). 156 pp.; 12 lithographed plates. Original ruled, gilt-lined quarter sheep over pictorial boards. Preserved in late 20th-century pictorial, shell-themed, slipcase.
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Boury, [M.] E. [A.] de
Letter to - most probably - Louis Joubin.
El Cristo, 1913. Original hand-written, signed and dated letter on two leaves of 28.0 x 21.6 cm each.
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Mawe, J.
Wodarch's introduction to the study of conchology: describing the orders, genera, and species of shells: with observations on the nature and properties of the animals; and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells. Fourth edition, with considerable additions and alterations.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and J. Mawe, 1832. 12mo (18.2 x 10.6 cm). xii, 149 pp.; full-colour frontispiece and six hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary dark green diced morocco; spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, and green morocco label with gilt titleboards with gilt-lined and blind-tooled borders. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled.
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