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Seder, A.
Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. I. Serie. Die Wasserthiere [AND] II. Serie. Vögel. [Complete].
Wien, Gerlach & Schenk, 1896. Two series in one [Complete]. Loose-leaved. One illustrated title page (mounted), one page of text, and 29 stunning chromolithographed plates (57.3 x 44.1 cm) showing animals in a fabulous Art Nouveau style. Preserved in contemporary large folio portfolio (57.8 x 44.7 cm) with full colour printed title - featuring an impressive dragon - mounted.
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Legge, W.
A History of the Birds of Ceylon.
London, the Author, [1878]-1880-[1881], 1892. In two volumes. Large 4to (30.5 x 24.2 cm). Title page; 1289 pp. [xlvi, 544; (545)-1237, 1225b-1226b, 4 (subscription list)]; one unnumbered engraved plate of the general external anatomy of birds, "outline of crow"; one colour-printed map of Ceylon (frontispiece), 34 [25; 9] chromolithographed plates, finished by hand; several steel-engravings in the text (one group occupying a whole page); printed erratum leaf, dated 1892, bound in (opposite p. xxviii); portrait of the author tipped in on first front pastedown. Uniform red half morocco over red linen boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title.
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Seba, A.
Giant snake [Plate 101 of Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio Volume II].
Amsterdam, Jansson-Waesberg, J. Wetsteen and William Smith, 1735. Very large oblong folio (51.2 x 63.2 cm). Double-sized engraved plate in fine, natural, contemporary hand-colouring
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Anville, [J. B. B.] d'
Carte de l'Inde. Dressée pour la Compagnie des Indies par le Sr. d'Anville, Secretaire de S.A.S. Mgr. le Duc d'Orléans. Paris, Novembre 1752.
Paris, Compagnie des Indes, 1752. Oblong broadsheet (97.2 x 111.5 cm), printed engraving with additional, contemporary hand-colouring (printed surface 87.8 x 104.5 cm).
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Lydekker, R.
Indian Tertiary and post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. II. Part 1. Siwalik Rhinocerotidae. Part 2. Supplement to Siwalik and Narbada Proboscidia.
Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1881. Two parts in one. Folio (36.0 x 26.0 cm). 66 pp.; 11 fine, lithographed plates [I-X, IIA] by Schaumburg. Original printed wrappers.
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Caunter, [J.] H.
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising twenty-two engravings from original drawings by William Daniell, R.A. and a descriptive account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D.
London, Bull and Churton, 1835. 8vo (19.5 x 12.6 cm). Title page, vii, 263, [iv] pp.; 22 engraved plates (two acting as frontispieces). Contemporary full pebbled, blind-stamped calf. Spine with gilt palm tree, a camel, and a banner with title; boards with gilt Indian elephant with riders and umbrella, and blind-tooled snakes. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Caunter, [J.] H.
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising twenty-five engravings from original drawings by William Daniell, R.A. and a descriptive account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D.
London, Edward Bull, 1834. 8vo (19.5 x 12.6 cm). Title page, [v], 254, [ii] pp.; 25 engraved plates (two acting as frontispieces). Contemporary full pebbled, blind-stamped calf. Spine with gilt palm tree, camel, and banner with title; boards with gilt Indian elephant with riders and umbrella, and blind-tooled snakes. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Caunter, [J.] H.
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising twenty-two engravings from original drawings by William Daniell, R.A. and a descriptive account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D.
London, Charles Tilt, 1838. 8vo (19.5 x 12.6 cm). Title page, [iii], 242, [ii,] 8 pp.; 22 engraved plates (two acting as frontispieces). Contemporary full pebbled, blind-stamped calf. Spine with gilt palm tree, camel, and banner with title; boards with gilt Indian elephant with riders and umbrella, and blind-tooled snakes. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Hutchinson, G. E.
The Clear Mirror. A pattern of life in Goa and in Indian Tibet.
Cambridge, at the University Press, 1936. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm). xi, 171 pp.; 13 b/w photographic plates, one map. Publisher's green cloth with green title on the front board and spine; top edge green. In original printed dust jacket and transparent sleeve.
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[Bertholet, D.]
Radiations. [Results of early experiment with radiated soil and vegetables]
Paris, unpublished, 1925. Two handwritten letters, dated "8 nov. 1925" and "24 12 1925", one letter typed (carbon copy) with two additional leaves, dated "le 22 novembre 1925", and a six pp. letter (carbon copy - versos blank), dated "II décembre 1925"". two cardboard sheets, with six and five photos respectively, showing "radiated" and "control" fields, or plants, mounted.
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