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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).
Read moreSharpe, R. B.
Scientific results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph.D. Aves.
London, Taylor and Francis [by order of the Government of India], [1878]-1891. Large 4to (31.4 x 25.7 cm). Titlepage, [iii]-xviii, 153 pp.; 24 finely hand-coloured, lithographed plates, mostly by J. G. Keulemans. 20th-century red half morocco over red linen. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments gilt-lined; gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreSaint Phalle, N. de
Réalisations, & projets d'architectures de Niki de Saint Phalle. [AND] Niki de Saint Phalle Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 22 juli - 5 september 1976. [Exhibition catalogue].
Paris, Alexandre Iolas, [1974]. Oblong, elongate leporello with 23 folds (16.1 x 590.4 cm), with stiff printed boards(16.1 x 24.6 cm).
Read moreBarruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Roitelet à triple bandeau, Regulus ignicapilla. [Original watercolour].
[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single, oblong sheet (17.5 x 24.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of greyish-brown paper (25.0 x 32.5 cm).
Read moreSepp, J. C. [S. C. Snellen Van Vollenhoven]
Proof prints from: Nederlandsche insecten, naar hunne aanmerkelijke huishouding, verwonderlijke gedaantewisseling en andere wetenswaardige bijzonderheden, beschreven en afgebeeld door Jan Christiaan Sepp. Tweede Serie. Eerste - Tweede deel.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp & Zoon, 1860-1870. 79 folio sheets (26.5 x 21.3 cm), numbered V-L (first part), and I-XXXIII (second part).
Read moreSéguy, E. A.
Prismes. 40 planches de dessins et coloris nouveaux.
Paris, Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1931]. Folio portfolio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). [iv] pp. (half-title and title page); 40 very fine full colour pochoir plates. The original publisher's full-colour pictorial portfolio.
Read moreNikolski, A. M. [Nikolsky, Nikolskii]
Presmykaiushchisi i zemnovodnyia Kavkaza (Herpetologia caucasica).
Tiflis [Tbilisi], Tipografiia kantseliarii Namiestrika E.I.V. na Kavkazie, 1913. 8vo (23.1 x 16.0 cm). 272 pp.; four (groups of) text figures, three lithographed plates of which one in chromolithography. Near contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards.
Read more[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.
Read moreLinnaeus, C.
Plantarum rariorum Horti Upsaliensis. Fasciculus primus sistens descriptiones et figuras plantarum minus cognitarum.
Lipsiae, Siegfried Lebrecht [Leberecht] Crusius, 1767. Folio (38.5 x 24.2 cm). Title page with engraved pictorial vignette, [i], 20 pp; ten engraved plates. Marbled boards with facsimile of title mounted.
Read moreDescourtilz, J. T.
Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A pair of magnificent toucan plates. Plates 12 and 14. Ramphastos ariel and Ramphastos dicolorus, and Pteroglossus aracari and Pteroglossus ulocomus. [Ariel toucan and green-billed toucan; and black-necked aracari and curl-crested aracari].
Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Two chromolithographed plates with additional fine, original hand-colouring.
Read moreBrinkley, F.
Oriental Series. Japan [and] China. [the rare "Lotus"-edition].
Boston and Tokyo, J. B. Millet, 1901-1902. Twelve volumes in twelve. 8vo (23.1 x 15.7 cm). 3752 pp.; 255 plates, of which 115 monochrome and 114 in full colour - all with printed tissue guards, and 26 lithographed, captioned on the plates; three maps, of which two very large, multi-folded and in full colour. Uniform original full dark green morocco. Spines with three raised bands, gilt, pink-and-red inlay morocco lotus vignette and gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined borders and pink-and-red inlay morocco lotuses.
Read moreParé, A.
Opera Ambrosii Parei Regis Primarii et Parisiensis chirurgi. A docto viro plerisque locis recognita: et Latinitate donata, Iacobi Guillemeau, Regij & Parisiensis chirurgi labore & diligentia. Ad clarissimum virum Marcum Mironem Regis Archiatrum dignissimum.
Paris, Iacobus Du-puys [Du-Puys; Dupuys], 1582. Folio (33.1 x 21.1 cm). Title page, [xi], 884, [xli] pp.; large woodcut portrait of the author, numerous woodcuts in the text, including many that are quite large and detailed, wood-engraved capitals and headpieces. 17th-century speckled calf. Spine with six raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt-lined borders and floral vignettes; gilt-rolled ornamental band at head and foot, and gilt title. All edges speckled red.
Read moreOwen, R.
On the Aye-aye ( Chiromys, Cuvier; Chiromys madagascariensis, Desm.; Sciurus madagascariensis, Gmel. Sonnerat; Lemur psilodactylus, Schreber, Shaw).
London, Taylor and Francis, 1863. Large 4to (32.5 x 25.1 cm). 72 pp.; 14 lithographed plates including two very large, double folded. Original printed wrappers.
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Nadrági Vasipar Társaság. Nadráger Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft.
Nadrág, Nadrager Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft, 1913. Folio (28.5 x 22.4 cm). 27 colour-printed pp. Original marbled wrappers with gilt title on the front wrapper. One additional printed leaf loosely inserted.
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