Gould, J.
Birds of Great Britain. Falco candicans [plate 14].
London, Taylor and Francis (for the author), 1872. Large folio (53.0 x 38.0 cm). Printed and originally hand-coloured sheet.
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[50 years Amsterdam Zoo] Stokvis, B. J. et al.
Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra te Amsterdam. Feestnummer uitgegeven bij gelegenheid van het 50-jarig bestaan van het Genootschap.
Amsterdam, Tj. van Holkema, 1888. Large 4to (37.5 x 27.7 cm). Title pages, 353 pp. [12; 30; 98; 104; 80; 16; 13]. Four lithographed plates (of which two in chromolithography, one large and folded, and one tinted); one very large, full colour map with overlay. Original wrappers printed in red and black.
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Rathke, [M.] H.
Beiträge zur Fauna Norwegens.
Breslau, Acta Nova, 1843. 4to (29.9 x 23.0 cm). Title page (verso blank), 264 pp. [3-264, 264b, 264c]; 12 engraved plates. Late 20th-century blind blue boards.
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Broeck, [J.] E. van de [vanden Broeck]
Esquisse géologique et paléontologique des dépôts pliocènes des environs d'Anvers. [Author's copy - interleaved, with handwritten additions and emendations].
Bruxelles, G. Mayolez, 1876-[1878]. 8vo (25.0 x16.3 cm). 296 pp. (printed), 296 pp. (ruled, partly annotated); folded and coloured topografical map of Antwerp and surroundings and one folding table. Original printed boards.
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Moquin-Tandon, A.
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés. Atlas.
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1855. 4to (25.9 x 17.2 cm). 92 pp.; 54 lithographed plates, all but one in fine colour-printing. Contemporary red quarter calf over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, gilt linings and text. Marbled flyleaves.
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Zavattari, E (ed.)
Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana. [Complete in four volumes].
Roma, Centro Studi Africa Orientale, 1939-1940. In four volumes. Large 8vo (24.9 x 17.6 cm). 2,154 pp. [537, 719, 463, 435]; over 500 text illustrations; 23 [0; 16; 7; 0] plates, mostly coloured, one coloured map and one large, folded map. Uniform original quarter cloth over printed boards. Spines with large, printed labels.
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Say, T.
American conchology or descriptions of the shells of North America illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature.
New Harmony, Indiana. Privately published (printed at The School Press, and The M Press), 1830-1837. 8vo (23.2 x 15.0 cm). Seven parts in one. 68 engraved and delicately hand-coloured plates (several augmented with gum arabic). 20th-century full morocco. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title; boards with blind-tooled border with clam-like corner pieces. Original printed wrappers to all seven parts bound in.
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Canavari, M. (ed.)
Palaeontologia della Somalia. Fossili raccolti dalle Missioni Stefanini-Paoli (1913) e Stefanini-Puccioni (1924) e da altri.
Pisa, Museo Geologico della R. Università di Pisa, 1931-1939 [REPRINT Bologna, Forni, 1969]. In five volumes. 4to (31.2 x 21.4 cm). 1,115 pp. [216; 192; 301; 89; 270, 47]; 111 plates [17; 24; 26; 12; 27, 5]; numerous text illustrations. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Mousson, J. R. A.
Révision de la faune malacologique des Canaries.
Bern, Allgemeine schweizerische Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 1873. Large 4to (29.0 x 23.2 cm). iv, 176 pp., six lithographed plates, each with explanatory text leaf. 20th-century quarter cloth over marbled boards; spine with red morocco label with gilt title.
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Wyatt, T.
A manual of conchology, according to the system laid down by Lamarck, with the late improvements by de Blainville. Exemplified and arranged for the use of students. Illustrated by thirty-six plates containing more than two hundred types, drawn from the natural shell.
New York, NY, Harper & Brothers, 1838. 8vo (23.2 x 14.4 cm). 191 pp.; 36 lithographed plates. Contemporary grapevine-patterned full cloth. Spine with gilt title.
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Sowerby, G. B. I
The genera of Recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology. With original plates.
London, George Brettingham Sowerby, [1821-1834]. 8vo format (21.3 x 13.4 cm). [iv] pp.; 262 (of 267) lithographed and finely hand-coloured (all but three) plates. Contemporary uniform polished half calf over grained cloth boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and title. Brown endpapers. Edges finely sprinkled red. Preserved in custom-made pictorial shell-themed double slipcase.
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Bory de Saint-Vincent, [J. B. G. G. M.] et al. (eds).
Annales générales des sciences physiques. Volumes I-VIII. [All published].
Bruxelles, Weissenbuch, Père, 1819-1821. Eight volumes in eight. 8vo (23.0 x 14.3 cm). Numerous pages and plates, of which several with additional hand-colouring. Original uniform blue wrappers. Handwritten paper labels on the spines.
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