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[Trade Catalogue - Aluminium foil]
Aluminium-Folien.
Munich, Metallpapier- Bronzefarben- Blattmetallwerke Aktiengesellschaft München, 1938. Three oblong booklets (8.0 x 14.6 cm; 9.1 x 16.4 cm, and 9.9 x 14.0 cm). Each with a title leaf and in total 39 aluminium foil leaves, each either in silver or gold, one with a different embossing, with brand names and logos (10), the others plain or geometrical patterns (29), and with tissue guards/interleaves with a catalogue numbers. All three stapled, with gilt, embossed covers, two with similar leaf-patterns, the other with a peculiar "fossil" pattern.
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[Trade Catalogue - Aluminium foil]
Aluminium-Folien.
Munich, Metallpapier- Bronzefarben- Blattmetallwerke Aktiengesellschaft München, 1938. One large, square folio catalogue (24.3 x 24.2 cm). Deliberately smaller, removeable title page; translucent blank with stamp "Musterheft No. 114 / 1 November 1938"; 33 aluminium foil leaves (of which 3 folding). Each either in silver or gold, and each with a different embossing. Plain, silver, pitted wrappers.
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[Trade-Catalogue] Sanitas Actiengesellschaft
1901 Haupt-Katalog der Sanitas Actiengesellschaft in Hamburg. [Bathroom and toilet furniture catalogue].
Hamburg, Sanitas Actiengesellschaft, 1901. Folio (28.9 x 22.7 cm). 96 pp.; numerous steel-engravings, including several printed in colour. Original Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) style printed wrappers.
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Trenkner, [F.] W. [T.]
Paläontologische Novitäten vom Nordwestlichen Harze. I. Iberger Kalk und Kohlengebirge von Grund.
Halle, H. W. Schmidt, 1867. 4to (28.1 x 22.3 cm). 60 pp.; four lithographed plates showing molluscs and other invertebrates; one large, folded plate with profiles. Patterned quarter cloth over marbled boards. Green diamond-shaped label with gilt title mounted on the front board. Speckled edges.
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[Various herpetologists]
Salamandra. Zeitschrift für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde. Volumes 11-33.
Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, 1975-1997. In 63 issues. 8vo (24.0 x 17.0 cm). 613 [284; 329] pp. Numerous illustrations (many in full colour). Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Weihe, [C. E.] A. and C. G. [D.] Nees von Esenbeck
Die Deutschen Brombeersträuche. Rubi Germanici, descripti et figuris illustrati.
Elberfeld, Schön, [1821]-1822-1827. Folio (39.1 x 24.9 cm). Two half-titles, two title pages (Latin and German), [vi] (dedication leaf; list of subscribers, preface), 116, [iv], 130, [iv] (index) pp.; 53 engraved and partially hand-coloured plates [numbered I-XLIX, III.B, XLV.B, XLVI.B, XLVI.C]. Original printed boards.
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Wilde, [W.] O.
Die Pflanzen und Raupen Deutschlands. Versuch einer lepidopterologischen Botanik. Erster Theil. Systematische Beschreibung der Pflanzen, unter Angabe der an denselben lebenden Raupen. Mit einem Vorworte von A. Speyer. Zweiter Theil. Systematische Beschreibung der Raupen unter Angabe ihrer Lebensweise und Entwicklungszeiten.
Berlin, E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1860-1861. Two volumes in one. 8vo (19.2 x 12.4 cm). xiii, 223; vii, 494 pp.; ten engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum over paper covered boards, spine with red morocco label with gilt title.
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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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Zeyher, [J. M.] and J. G. Rieger
Schwezingen und seine Garten-Anlagen.
Mannheim, Schwan-Götzschen, [1820]. 8vo (18.2 x 11.9 cm). Title and half-title with woodcut vignette; viii, 182 pp.; one large, folded engraved map of this famous botanical garden in southern Germany; one attractive, engraved frontispiece showing the ancient mosque, and seven engravings of garden architecture. Original blue ruled boards with gilt floral borders, and spine with gilt title and vignettes.
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