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Plinius Secundus, C. [P. C. B. Guéroult, ed.]
Morceaux extraits de l'Histoire Naturelle de Pline.
Paris, Michel Lambert, 1785. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 554 pp. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with gilt lines, floral vignettes and brown morocco label with gilt title. Gilt-lined board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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Plesch, A.
Mille et un livres botaniques de la collection Arpad Plesch. [Limited series copy, with handwritten dedication by the author].
Bruxelles, Arcade, 1973. Large, square 4to (29.5 x 26.5 cm). 517, [i] pp.; mounted full-colour portrait of Plesch; mounted full-colour photograph of part of his library; several text illustrations, and 32 full-colour facsimiles of quintessential botanical illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt title on the spine and red leather gilt-lettered facsimile bookplate on the front board. Full-colour pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers.
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"Father and son". Two portraits in pressed gutta-percha box.
Locality unknown, ca. 1850-1860. A richly decorated box with two fine, glazed prints in, respectively, a rectangular frame with rounded corners, and an oval frame (both ca. 8.2 x 6.5 cm), each surrounded with an elaborate gilt border. The first is an ambrotype, the second a tintype photo. The exterior with raised, rococo borders and oval cartouche. Edges hollowed.
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Peringskiöld, J.
Historia Hialmari regis Biarmlandiae atque Thulemarkiae, ex fragmento runici MS.ti literis recentioribus descripta, cum gemina versione Johannis PeringskioldI.
[Stockholm, Johan Peringskiöld Sr., 1701] Folio (30.5 x 20.0 cm). [43] p., including woodcut facsimile on pp. [3-18], printed in red on pp. [3-4]. Full polished leather with marbled leather rectangular inlay. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with elaborate gilt-rolled or stippled borders, gilt corner-pieces, and central vignette. gilt-rolled edges and inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges, top edge gilt. 11 additional blanks bound in the rear. In later marbled slipcase (31.7 x 20.7 x 1.6 cm).
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