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Kotzebue, O. von
Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt. Unternommen in den Jahren 1815-1818 auf Kosten Sr. Erlaucht des Herrn Reichs-Kanzlers Grafen Rumanzoff auf dem Schiffe Rurick.
Weimar, Hoffmann, 1821. Three Volumes in one. 4to (26.3 x 20.6 cm). [vi], 168, 176, 24, [i], xviii pp.; three nicely hand-coloured engraved frontispieces, six mostly folded engraved maps, four fine, double-sized aquatinted plates, one plain engraved plate, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates of which 11 depicting butterflies (by Eschholtz and engraved by Erme); in total 26 plates and maps. Three folding tables. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title and rich gilt ornamental bands. Edges speckled red.
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Liron d'Airoles, J. de
Album de la Civélière, contenant les figures et descriptions des principales introductions agrico-horticoles qui y on été faites depuis l’année 1851. [Royal dedication copy].
Bruxelles, F. Parent, 1855. Large 4to (36.5 x 28.0 cm). Half-title, letterpress title with woodcut floral vignette; additional pictorial lithographed title with woodcut vignette on verso; dedication leaf by the author to the Comte de Chambord; ix, 64 pp.; 28 hand-coloured lithographed plates with explanatory text. Original printed wrappers, loosely inserted into a contemporary - custom made - dark blue pebbled morocco portfolio. "Spine" with five raised bands and gilt title; front (upper) board with gilt title. Iridescent silky paper on pastedowns.
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Malte-Brun, [C.]
Précis de la géographie universelle, ou description de toutes les partes du monde, sur un plan nouveau d'après les grandes divisions naturelles du globe. Précédée de l'histoire de la géographie chez les peuples anciens et modernes, et d'une théorie générale de la géographie mathématique, physique et politique. Collection de cartes géographiques. [AND] Atlas supplémentaire du Précis de la géographie universelle de M. Malte-Brun; dressé conformément au texte de cet ouvrage et sous les yeax de l'auteur, par M. Lapie, capitaine ingénieur géographie. [Atlases].
Paris, François Buisson, 1810-1812. Two parts in one. Folio (34.0 x 25.8 cm). Title pages, 14 pp. [ii; 12]; 75 [24; 51] engraved and hand-coloured maps. 19th-century black quarter calf over black pebbled boards. Spine with four slightly raised, gilt-lined bands; compartments with triple-gilt borders and title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Mucha, A. M.
Documents décoratifs. Planches 21 et 22. [Female beauty in blue - posters for Art et Décoration Revue mensuelle d'Art moderne].
Paris, Librairie Central des Beaux Arts, 1901. Two plates. Folio (46.0 x 33.0 cm). Original prints in blue, on blue paper, mounted on white paper with printed number.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V. M. D.] d' [Brullé, G. A. and C. É. Blanchard]
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome sixième. 2.e Partie: Insectes.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1837-1846. Text and atlas. Large 4to and folio (33.3 x 24.9 cm). 220 pp.; 32 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-32] with captions providing the species names. Recent quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with printed label with title.
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Schubert, G. H. von
Naturgeschichte des Mineralreichs für Schule und Haus. Erster Teil: Mineralogie. Vierte verbesserte Auflage. Zweiter Teil: Geologie und Paläeontologie.
Esslingen, J. F. Schreiber, [1886]. Large 4to (32.1 x 22.1 cm). Half-title, two title pages, 121 pp. (74; 40, [7]); 41 chromolithographed plates (24; 18 [of which several double-sized]), finished by hand and heightened with gum arabic, and one plain plate (showing crystal structures). Contemporary brown grained and embossed cloth; spine with black and gilt ornaments and title; front board with chromolithographed pictorial title mounted. Bluish endpapers, blue edges.
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Wolff, J. F.
Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].
Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (25.2 x 20.1 cm). First title page (verso blank), [ii (preface)], [iv], [ii], [iii-iv; vii-viii; v-[vi], 208 pp. (with second title [1801], third title [1802], fourth title [1804], and fifth (last) title [1811]); 20 finely engraved plates with beautiful original hand-colouring. Later 19th-century full embossed cloth. Spine with gilt ornaments and title; boards with blind-stamped ornamental borders. Marbled edges.
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