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Miquel, F. A. W.
Illustrationes piperacearum. Cum tabulis XCII.
Breslau and Bonn, Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher, 1846. 4to (29.7 x 22.4 cm). Two titles (German and Latin), 87 pp.; 92 lithographed plates (several larger, folded). Near contemporary dark blue pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Lovassy, A.
Resultate der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees. Mit Unterstützung der hohen Kön. Ung. Ministerien für Ackerbau und für Cultus und Unterricht. Zweiter Band. Die Biologie des Balatonsees und seiner Umgebung. Zweiter Theil. Die Flora. II. Sektion. Die Pflanzengeographischen Verhältnisse der Balatonsee-Gegend. Anhang. Die trophischen Nymphaeen des Hévizsees bei Keszthely.
Wien, Ed. Hölzel, 1909. Large 4to (29.3 x 21.2 cm). 91 pp.; four plates of which three in chromolithography. Original printed wrappers.
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Parnell, R.
The grasses of Scotland. [AND] The grasses of Great Britain. [Complete].
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1842-1845. Two volumes in two. 8vo (24.8 x15.7 cm). Half-titles and titles, 356 pp. [xxi, 1-152; xxvii, 153-311]; 142 [I-LXVI; LXVII-CXLII] fine, lithographed plates. Original uniform, green, blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spines and gilt floral vignette on the front boards. Yellow endpapers. Top edges gilt.
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Boenninghausen, C. M. F. von [Bönninghausen]
Prodromus florae monasteriensis westphalorum. Phanerogamia. [with an additional folded, handmade map of Westphalia, and a handwritten booklet titled Ortsverzeichnis züm Prodromus, listing alphabetically the localities to which von Bönninghausen referred].
Monasterii [Munster], Frid. Regensberg, 1824. 8vo (18.3 x 10.7 cm). xiv, 332, [i] pp. Original printed boards.
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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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Bauer, H. [Brade, L.]
L. Brade's illustriertes Buchbinderbuch. Ein Lehr- und Handbuch der gesamten Buchbinderei und aller in diesen Fach einschlagenden Kunsttechniken. Fünfte neu verbesserte Auflage.
Halle, H. Bauer, 1909. 8vo (23.9 x 17.1 cm). xvii, 465, 24 pp.; 224 text illustrations, 21 plates, 20 examples of marbled paper tipped in. Early 20th-century full morocco. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt geometric patterns and morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers with gilt-ornamented red morocco borders. Gilt, red, white and black ornamental edges.
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Bourguignat, J. R.
Nouveautés malacologiques. 1. Unionidae et Iridinidae du Lac Tanganika. [AND] Iconographie malacologique des animaux mollusques fluviatiles du Lac Tanganika. [AND] Histoire malacologique du Lac Tanganika (Afrique équatoriale).
Paris, Mme. Ve Tremblay; Corbeil, Crété; Paris, G. Masson, 1886-1888-1890. Three works in one. 8vo (21.3 x 13.3 cm). 442 pp. [93; 82; 267]; 52 [0; 35; 17] lithographed plates and one double-sized chromolithographed map (in the second paper). Later black buckram with gilt lines and title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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