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[Book simulant]
"Book simulant", "Buch Atrappe" or "Faux Livre". [Cookie Jar].
Reading, Huntley and Palmers, ca. 1910. A tin with lid, disguised as a uniform set of eight pocket-size books, bound in a "leather" strap (15.8 x 12.0 x 16.1 cm). Red painted tin. "Spines" with gilt and black bands, vignettes, and titles; front and rear "board" with black and gilt arabesques; all "edges" gilt; strap brown.
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Temminck, C. J.
Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons et des gallinacés; par C. J. Temminck, Chevalier de l'Ordre Impérial de la Réunion, Directeur de la Société des Sciences à Harlem, et membre de plusieurs Sociétés d'Histoire naturelle. Ouvrage en trois volumes. Accompagné de planches anatomiques. Tome premier - second - troisième. [Complete].
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp & Fils, Paris, G. Dufour, 1813-1815. Three volumes in three. 8vo (22.5 x 13.5 cm). 1736 pp. [499, (i); 477, (i); 757, (i)], 12 engraved plates ([I]; I-III; IV-XI). Uniform 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt-rolled, floral bands; tan morocco labels with gilt title, and red, gilt-bordered morocco label with gilt number.
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Chamisso, A. de and C. G. Eysenhardt
De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione terrae auspicante Comite N. Romanzoff, duce Ottone de Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta observatis. Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. Cum tabulis XI aeneis pictis.
Berlin, [F. Dümmler], 1821. 4to (26.1 x 20.5 cm). Title page, 30 pp. [numbered: (345)-374]; finely engraved and ten originally hand-coloured plates [numbered XXIV-XXXIII]. 20th century blue buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Rousseau, J. J. [A. Deville (ed.)]
Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a Lady by J. J. Rousseau. Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus by Thomas Martyn, B.D.F.R. & L.SS, Regius professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. The eighth edition, corrected. [AND] Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the letters on the Elements of Botany.
London, White, Cochrane, and Co., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; B. Crosby and Co.; and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1815. Two works in one. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). Half title, title, xx, 434 pp., folding table. [AND] London, J. White, 1799. vi, 72 pp.; 38 hand-coloured, tissue-guarded engraved plates by F. Nodder. Full contemporay polished calf, spine with four raised, flat-topped bands with gilt ornaments; compartments with rich gilt vignettes and title; boards with elaborate double gilt borders, blind-tooled, gilt, and black ornamental lines; gilt inner and outer dentelles; marbled edges.
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Brodtmann, C. J.
Naturhistorische Bilder-Galerie aus dem Thierreiche gezeichnet von Carl Joseph Brodtmann.
Lindau, Brodtmann, 1816. Folio (43.6 x 35.0 cm). Engraved title, [ii], 72 pp.; 144 lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five embossed bands and gilt title. Marbled edges.
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Temminck, C. J. and [G. M. J.] Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse
Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4o de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770.
Paris, F. G. Levrault, [1820]-1838-[1839]. In seven volumes. Folio (38.0 x 28.5 mm). Vol. 1 (including text volumes I and II): two half-titles and titles, [ii] (dedication leaf), 11 (prospectus), [257] pp.; Vol. 2 (including text volumes III and IV): two half-titles and titles; [347] pp.; Vol. 3 (contains text volume V): half-title, title page, [184], 109 (table) pp.; Vol. 4: Plates 1-150; Vol. 5: Plates 151-300; Vol. 6: Plates 301-450; Vol. 7: Plates 451-600, for a total of 600 plates. Five plates (157, 372, 485-487) are much larger, folded. Near contemporary uniform green half-chagrin, over blue marbled boards. Spines with four raised, gilt-decorated bands; compartments with blind-tooled borders and gilt title; marbled endpapers.
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Radermacher, J. C. M. (ed.)
Bataviaasch Genootschap der Kunsten en Wetenschappen: Verhandelingen. Volume 1.
Batavia, Ter Lands Drukkerij, 1820. 8vo (18.6 x 12.5 cm). 266, 59 pp. Voorbericht [foreword], 23 pp. Nabericht [afterword] and Bladwijzer [index]. Contemporary half calf with mottled paper over boards.
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Lacépède, [B. G. É.] De
Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, serpents, poissons, et cétacées. Pour faire suite aux oeuvres de Buffon. Nouvelle édition, ornée de 115 planches et du portrait de l'auteur. Tome premier - cinqante. [Complete].
Paris, A. Eymery [AND Brussels, Avransart and Gust. Gastebois], 1825. Five volumes in five. 8vo (20.1 x 12.8 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Lacepède by Leroux after a drawing by Hersent; 2881 pp.; 115 finely engraved plates after Jean Gabriel Prêtre, in original hand-colouring, several augmented with silver. Uniform polished tree-calf. Spines rich gilt with geometrical patterns, and two red morocco labels with gilt title and volume number. Boards with gilt-ornamented borders; gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled bluish green.
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