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[Astronomy]
Astronomie populaire ou description des corps célestes. Avec atlas en tableaux transparents, a l'usage des gens du monde. Troisième édition entièrement refondue d'après les documents les plus récents.
Bruxelles [Brussels], Kiessling et Compagnie, 1862. Folio (29.5 x 24.2 cm). 24 pp. (including title); 12 mostly hand-coloured lithographed plates, of which nine with transparent coloured paper pasted over cut outs. Original green blind-stamped cloth portfolio with gilt title on the front board.
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Daudin, F. [M.]
Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds.
Paris, Levrault, An XI (1802). 4to (28.7 x 22.2 cm). 108 pp.; 38 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Early 19th-century polished, gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented vands; compartments with gilt vignettes, and with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Denys de Montfort, P.
Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles; offrant leurs figures, leurs arrangements génériques, leurs descriptions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs langues. Ouvrage destiné à faciliter l'étude des coquilles, ainsi que leur disposition dans les cabinets d'histoire naturelle. Coquilles univalves, cloisonées & non cloisonnées.
Paris, F. Schoell, 1808-1810. Two volumes in two. 8vo (20.4 x 12.8 cm). 1,189 pp. (lxxxvii, 410; 676, 16 [publisher's catalogue]); 261 [100; 161] woodcut plates. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines rich gilt with ornamental gilt bands and gilt title.
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Deyrolle, T.
Illustrations zoologiques.
Paris, E. Deyrolle, 1874. Oblong folio (26.8 x 36.8 cm). 50 chromolithographed ("chromographie") plates, finished by hand. Contemporary green morocco over green marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-lined bands and title. Marbled endpapers.
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Fayrer, J.
The Thanatophidia of India. Being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula with an account of the influence of their poison on life and a series of experiments. second edition, revised and enlarged.
London, J. and A. Churchill, 1874. Folio (43.7 x 31.8 cm). [Board size 44.5 x 33.0 cm]. xii, 178 pp.; 31 lithographed plates of which 28 in fine chromolithography, of which two double-sized. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with six raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt and with red and blue morocco labels with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
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Fontana, F.
Treatise on the venom of the viper; on the American poisons, and on the cherry laurel, and some other vegetable poisons, to which are annexed, observations on the primitive structure of the animal body; different experiments on the reproduction of the nerves; and a description of a new canal of the eye. With ten descriptive plates. Translated from the original French of Felix Fontana, naturalist to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Toscany, and director of his Cabinet of Natural History, by Joseph Skinner, navy surgeon, and member of the Corporation of Surgeons of London.
London, J. Murray, 1787. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.1 x 12.1 cm). Half-titles and title pages to both volumes; 861 pp. [Vol. I: xix, 408, xiv; Vol. II: ii-[iv], 395, xxii]; ten folded, engraved plates. Uniform later, period-style polished half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-bordered bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
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Gerlach, M. (ed.)
Das Gewerbe-Monogram. Zweite vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Le monogramme industriel. Deuxième édition, revue et augmentée. Industrial monograms. Second edition, improved and enlarged.
Wien, M. Gerlach (F. Schenk), 1881. Folio (37.6 x 29.8 cm). Engraved title, letterpress title, ten pp. (Roman numerals); 110 wood-engraved plates. Publisher's very rich gilt polychrome decorative cloth. Boards with bevelled edges. Floral endpapers. All edges red.
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