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Wahlenberg, G.
Flora Svecica enumerans plantas Sveciae indigenas, cum synopsi classicum ordinumque characteribus generum ... post Linnaeum edita. Pars prior. pars Pars posterior.
Upsaliae, Palmblad, 1831-1833. Two volumes in two. 8vo (20.0 x 13.0 cm). xcvii, 1134 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers. Green speckled edges.
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Verbeek, R. D. M.
Krakatau. Album bevattende 25 teekeningen in kleuren van de verwoeste gedeelten van Straat Soenda, genomen twee maanden na de uitbarsting van Krakatau. Uitgegeven op last van Zijne Excellentie den Goeverneur-Generaal van Nederlandsch-Indie. [AND] Krakatau. Eerste gedeelte -Tweede gedeelte. [Complete text].
Brussel, Nationaal Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, [N.D. but 1885] [AND] Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1884-1885. Two parts in two. Atlas: Very large oblong portfolio (40.0 x 59.0 cm), title page, index (contents), and 25 fine chromolithographs, finished by hand, on nine plates. Original red cloth with gilt short-title on the front board. Patterned endpapers. Text volume: 8vo (25.7 x 17.4 cm). 693 pp. [viii, 100; xxxix, 546]. Slightly later green half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Brown endpapers.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca inhabiting the United States. With illustratons of all the species.
Philadelphia, PA, the author, 1866. 8vo (21.1 x 13.7 cm). 159, xliii pp.; 18 lithographed plates in double suite: hand coloured, and uncoloured, sepia-tinted (for a total of 36 plates). Later olive buckram. Gilt bands and title on the spine.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the fresh-water univalve Mollusca of the United States. (In continuation of Prof. S. S. Haldeman's work, published under the above title). Turbidae. Physadae.
Philadelphia, PA, The Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences1870. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). 238 pp; 17 lithographed plates in double suite: hand coloured, and tinted (for a total of 34 plates) [ Paludina 12-17; Limnea 16-18; Physa 6-9; Planorbis 5-7; Ancylus 2.] Later blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges. Original wrappers bound in.
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Thunberg, C. P.
Periculum entomologicum, quo characteres generum insectorum, consensu exper. fac. med. upsal. praeside Carol. Pet. Thunberg, publicae censurae proponit Samuel Törner, Norcopia-Gothus. In audit. Gust. maj. d. X Jun. MDCCLXXXIX.
Upsaliae [Uppsala], Joh. Edman, 1789. Quarto (21.5 x 17.5 cm). Title page, 16 pp. Early 20th-century light blue buckram; black morocco strip with gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers.
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Thunberg, C. P.
Horti Upsaliensis plantae cultae ab initio saeculi. Quarum partem tertiam venia exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. praeside C. P. Thunberg. [AND] d.d. Examen classis polygamiae cujus partem priorem. Venia exp. Facult. Med. Upsal. praeside C. P. Thunberg.
Upsala, Palmblad, 1826. Two papers in two. 4to (20.8 x 16.8 cm; 24.6 x 19.8 cm). Title page, dedication page, pp. 17-24, [i]; Title page, dedication on verso, 8 pp.
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Svenson, J. V. and C. Linnaeus
Kinne-Kulle aftagen i profil och beskrifven af Volontairen vid Kongl. Fortification. Herr Johan Svenson Lidholm, ingifven af Carl Linnæus.
Stockholm, Kongliga Vetenskapsacademien, 1747. 8vo (19.5 x 12.0 cm). 4 pp.; one very large, multi-folded oblong-elongate engraved plate (19.0 x 52.5 cm). Disbound.
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Spach, E.
Histoire naturelle des végétaux. Phanérogames. Atlas.
Paris, Roret, 1846. 8vo (23.6 x 15.5 cm). 71 pp.; 160 engraved plates [numbered 1-8, 1-152], of which 135 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and two polished morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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