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[Linnaeus, C.] Manetti, X. (ed.)
Caroli Linnaei...Regnum vegetabile juxta systema naturae in classes ordines, et genera ab eodem contitutum. Curante Xaverio Manetti.
Florentiae [Florence], P. C. Viviani, 1756. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 123 pp.; two large, folded plates. Contemporary quarter calf over blind boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and brown morocco label with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
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Linnaeus, C.
Genera plantarum eorumque characteres naturales, secundùm numerum, figuram, situm & proportionem omnium fructificationis partium. Editio secunda, nominibus plantarum Gallicis locupletata.
Paris, Michael Anton David, 1743. 8vo (20.0 x 12.7 cm). xxxiv, 413, [56, 2] pp.; two folded engraved plates, one folded table. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with five raised bands. Rich gilt compartments with floral vignettes and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled flyleaves. All edges red.
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[Photo album of dog breed champions]
Album preisgekrönter Hunde der ersten Internationalen Ausstellung des Vereins zur Veredelung der Hunderacen zu Hannover. [Extremely rare complete copy].
Frankfurt am Main, Heinrich Keller, 1879. Oblong folio (26.9 x 37.0 cm). 93 mounted collotypes (each oblong, ca. 8.5 x 12.5 cm) on larger, printed sheets. Original portfolio of quarter pebbled cloth over plain boards. Printed label mounted on front board.
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Dillwyn, L. W.
A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells; arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. In two volumes. [Complete].
London, John and Arthur Arch, 1817. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.3 x 14.2 cm). Two title pages, half-title. 1135 pp. (xii, 1-580; 580-1092, [xxix], [ii]). Original paper-covered boards with printed label on the spines.
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Hanley, S. [C. T.]
Ipsa Linnaei conchylia. The shells of Linnaeus, determined from his manuscripts and collection. Also, an exact reprint of the Vermes Testacea of the 'Systema Naturae' and 'Mantissa'.
London, Williams and Norgate, 1855. 8vo (22.1 x 14.3 cm). Title page, [i], 556 pp.; five lithographed and finely hand-coloured plates, tissue-guarded. Original blind-stamped pebbled cloth. Spine with gilt title.
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Hartmann, J. D. W.
Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten dargestellt und beschrieben.
St. Gallen, Scheitlin und Zollikofer, [1840]-1844. 4to (25.2 x 16.7 cm). xx, 227 pp.; 84 engraved and finely hand-coloured plates [numbered I-XII, I-XII, I-XII, 37-60, X, VII, 63-84]. Contemporary grained half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines, ornamental bands and title. Speckled edges.
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Gregorio, A. de
Mammiferi quaternari di Sicilia. Parte I-IV [AND] Mammiferi quaternari di Sicilia. Deposito ossifero di Castellana (Bellolampo) e della quarta grotta della Favorita. Deposito ossifero della vetta di Monte Pellegrina.
Palermo, [the author], 1924-1925. Five parts in five. Large 4to (35.2 x 25.2 cm). 73 pp. [13; 11; 17; 13; 19]; 91 plates [15; 26; 22; 18; 10] (several double-sized). Original uniform printed wrappers.
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[Darwin, Charles Robert]
Portrait of Darwin - Rare carte de visite.
Down and London, Elliott and Fry, [1874]. Albumen print, mounted on cardboard with rounded edges and a red ink border (10.0 x 6.2 cm). With the name Darwin printed in black below the photo, and red, crowned logo on verso. Preserved in transparent sleeve.
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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 (10.4 x 6.3 cm). With the printed name Darwin in Cyrillic and printed Cyrillic text on recto and verso. Preserved in transparent sleeve.
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Bonaparte, C. N.
Vues pittoresques de l'Amerique dessinés par la Comtesse Charlotte de Survilliers 1824. [Picturesque American Scenes by Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte].
[Brussels, Stapleaux et Jobard, 1824]. Oblong folio (23.8 x 30.3 cm). Lithographed pictorial title page, printed by Jobard after a drawing by Michel Stapleaux; 12 original - early - lithographs with script captions and signed Charlotte. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title.
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Delaunay, S.
Simultané. [by Sonia Delaunay].
Bielefeld, Bielefelder Spielkarten GmbH, 1964. 16 pp. booklet, partly printed in colour (12.6 x 9.0 cm) and 110 playing cards (9.2 x 6.0 cm) [two French decks with differently coloured backs in blue, black and white, combined with, respectively, red or green, each consisting of 52 standard cards and three jokers] in original transparent plastic box (13.2 x 9.8 cm).
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Labram, J. D. and L. Imhoff
Die Schweizerigen Käfergattungen in Abbildungen nach der Natur.
Basel, Bahnmaier (G. Detloff), 1836-1842. 34 parts in 34. 8vo (18.1 x 11.8 cm). Title page and index page (included in 20th part), folded blank; 136 hand-coloured lithographed plates with 136 explanatory text leaves. 34 original printed wrappers.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Mollusques vivants et fossiles, ou description de toutes les espèces de coquilles et de mollusques classées suivant leur distribution géologique et géographique. Avec un atlas representant les types des animaux et des coquilles de tous les genres, ainsi que les espèces les plus charactéristiques des différents terrains. Tome premier. [All published].
Paris, Gide, 1845-[1847]. 8vo (21.8 x14.0 cm). 605 pp.; 35 lithographed plates of which 22 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers.
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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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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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Say, T. [ Binney, W. G. (ed.)]
The complete writings of Thomas Say, on the conchology of the United States.
New York, NY, H. Baillière, 1858. 8vo (21.5 x 13.8 cm). 252 pp.; 73 fine lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red and black morocco labels with gilt title on spine. Four pp. Baillière's "works on conchology and geology" (late 1858) bound in the rear.
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Leibniz, [G. W.]
Explication de l'arithmètique binaire, qui se sert des seuls caractères 0 & I; avec des remarques sur son utilité, & sur ce qu'elle donne le sens des anciennes figures Chinoises de Fohy.
Paris, Charles-Estienne Hochereau, 1720. 4to (24.5 x 18.7 cm). pp. 58-63 [ Histoire]; pp. 85-89 [ Mémoires], in Histoire de l'Academie royale des Sciences. Années MDCCIII [1703]. Avec les Mémoires de Mathematique & de Physique, pour la même Année. Engraved frontispiece; title page with engraved vignette, [viii], 148 [ Histoire], 467, [i] [ Mémoires] pp.; several text engravings, 12 engraved, folded plates. Contemporary full polished calf; spine with five raised bands and two burgundy morocco labels. Boards with gilt floral border, gilt line on edge and gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
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Feuillée, L. [É.] (Huth, G. L., ed.)
Des Pater Ludwig Feuillee, Ordensmönchen des Heil. Francisci von Paula, Königlichen Mathematici und Botanisten, wie auch Correspondentens der Königl. Academie der Wissenschaften, Beschreibung zur Arzeney dienlicher Pflanzen, welche in den Reichen des mittägigen America, in Peru und Chily vorzüglich im Gebrauch sind, in dem Land selbst auf königl. Befehl, in den Jahren von 1709. 1710. und 1711. Aufgesezet, nebst verschiedenen andern aus eben desselben Tageregister physischer Beobachtungen gesammelten und zur natürlichen Historie gehörigen Anmerkungen. Aus dem französischen ins Deutsche übersezet.
Nürnberg, Johann Michael Seeligmann, 1756-1758. Two volumes in two. 4to (26.1 x 22.2 cm). Title pages, 368 pp. (I: [vi], 3-136, [vi]; II: [ii], 208, [xii]; 102 [ 50; 52 (two unnumbered, opposite pp. 126, 148] engraved and finely hand-coloured plates. Original hand-coloured woodcut head piece. Uniform full mottled calf. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and borders, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt dentelles.
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Orbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Palmetum Orbignianum. Descriptio palmarum in Paraguaria et Bolivia crescentium, secundum Alc. de Orbigny exempla, schedulas et icones digessit. [Palmiers].
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1847. Folio (33.8 x 25.0 cm). 140 pp.; 32 lithographed plates (numbered 1-32). Recent quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with printed label with title.
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Mathieu, [A.] A.
Description des bois des essences forestières les plus importantes.
Nancy, Grimblot et Veuve Raybois, 1855. Text volume 8vo (20.2 x 13.4 cm). 39 pp. Original printed wrappers; "Atlas volume" consisting of a folded sheet with half-title, title, preface, and alphabetical index, and 60 thin wood-slices mounted on folded paper sheets (13.4 x 10.0 cm), each with a printed oval label with a species name. Preserved in original book-resembling clamshell box; with quarter red calf over grained green boards, gilt-ornamented, rounded spine and marbled edges.
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