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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