[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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