Chile
5 items found
Dusén, P. et al. [W. B. Scott (ed.)]
Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia 1896-1899. Volume VIII, 1-2. Botany. I-IX. [Complete].
Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, [AND] Stuttgart, Schweizerbart (E. Nägele), 1903-1906. Nine parts (two volumes) in three. Large 4to (32.1 x 25.1 cm). 982 pp.; 106 text figures, 31 lithographed plates, of which several in chromolithography. Uniform early 20th-century pebbled black half cloth over green linen boards. Gilt title on the spines.
Read more
Milne-Edwards, H. and [P.] H. Lucas [A. C. V. M. D. d'Orbigny (ed.)]
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 cinquième. 1.re Partie: Crustacés.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1843-[1844]. Text and plates. Large 4to/folio mix (33.7 x 25.8 cm). Half-title (to the Voyage), title and half-title (to the Crustacés); 39 pp.; 18 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-12, 14-17, 7bis, 8bis]. Later marbled wrappers.
Read more
Philippi, R. A.
Los fósiles terciarios i cuartarios de Chile.
Santiago de Chile, Gobierno de Chile, 1887. Large 4to (31.3 x 26.4 cm). 256 pp.; 58 fine lithographic plates. Publisher's embossed black cloth; boards with rich gilt-ornamented borders and title. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Inner dentelles. Endpapers with floral pattern. All edges marbled.
Read more
Reinburg, [M. J. G.] P.
Mission officielle commanditée par le Ministère de l'Instruction Publique pour un voyage d'étude en Amérique latine (1909-1913).
Paris, unpublished, 1909-1913. 266 framed glass positives (including colour positives), 9.9 x 8.5 cm with handwritten descriptive labels (positive size 7.0 x 7.0 cm); preserved in one wooden box (28.5 x 11.0 x 11.1 cm) and 25 contemporary cardboard boxes, mostly with pictorial printed labels.
Read more
Turner, W.
Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Zoology. Report on the human crania and other bones of the skeletons collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-76. Part I. The Crania. Part II. The Bones of the Skeleton. [Complete in two parts].
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1884-1886. Two parts in two. 4to (31.7 x 25.4 cm). 266 pp. [130; 136]; ten lithographed plates [7; 3] with explanatory text leaves. Disbound.
Read more
