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Regnault, [N. F.]
Cochon d’Inde à deux corps. [ Les ecarts de la nature, ou recueil des principales monstruosités que la nature produit dans le genre animal planche 2].
[Paris], Regnault, [1775]. Single sheet (26.6 x 18.7 cm). Engraved and finely hand-coloured plate with printed caption.
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Teijsmann, J. E. and S. Binnendijk
Catalogus plantarum quae in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi coluntur. Catalogus van 's Lands Plantentuin te Buitenzorg.
Batavia, Ter Lands-Drukkerij, 1866. 8vo (21.7 x 13.0 cm). vii, 398 pp. Slightly later half calf with marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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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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Hla, M. T.
[Burma - Myanmar] A pair of late nineteenth to early twentieth century Burmese costume studies.
Burma [Myanmar], ca. 1920. Two watercolour and gouache paintings on Whatman paper. 8vo-sized (images ca. 24.0 x 19.9 cm). Heightened with white body colour; each signed "M. T. Hla" in lower right corner, uniformly mounted. Mounts 30.5 x 24.6 cm.
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Molengraaff, G. A. F.
Borneo-Expedition. Geological explorations in central Borneo (1893-94). English revised edition with an appendix on fossil Radiolaria of Central-Borneo by Dr. G. J. Hinde.
Leiden, The Society for the Promotion of the Scientific Exploration of the Dutch Colonies [Leyden, E. J. Brill; Amsterdam, H. Gerlings], 1900-1902. Two parts in two, 4to. (28.0 x 19.0 cm, text) xix, 585 pp.; 89 text illustrations, three maps (two folded) and 56 plates; Folio (48.7 x 33.6 cm, atlas), frontispiece, [ii] pp.; 22 mostly folded and tinted or coloured maps and views (often with additional, smaller maps).
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Molengraaff, G. A. F.
Borneo-Expeditie. Geologische verkennings-tochten in centraal Borneo (1893-94).
Leiden, The Society for the Promotion of the Scientific Exploration of the Dutch Colonies [Leyden, E. J. Brill; Amsterdam, H. Gerlings], 1902. 4to (27.6 x 19.0 cm). 604 [xix, 529, 56] pp., 89 text figures, 56 plates, three maps (one coloured in outline). Original gilt and black printed decorated cloth.
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"Book simulant", "Buch Atrappe" or "Faux Livre". [Cookie Jar].
Reading, Huntley and Palmers, ca. 1910. A tin with lid, disguised as a uniform set of eight pocket-size books, bound in a "leather" strap (15.8 x 12.0 x 16.1 cm). Red painted tin. "Spines" with gilt and black bands, vignettes, and titles; front and rear "board" with black and gilt arabesques; all "edges" gilt; strap brown.
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"Book simulant", "Buch Atrappe" or "Faux Livre". [Backgammon].
Great Britain, ca. 1870. Folio-sized (46.1 x 28.0 x 9.3 cm). Full calf. Spine with gilt compartments with elaborate floral patterns and vignettes. Boards with gilt floral borders and blind-tooled floral panel. "Edges" marbled. Inside with rich gilt-decorated brown morocco panels with red and black inlays, together forming a backgammon board.
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"Book simulant", "Buch Atrappe" or "Faux Livre". 17th-century vellum binding.
Geneva, Henri Estienne (the elder), 1592. Folio (33.8 x 21.6 cm). Full vellum. Half title, dedication leaf, 2 pp. Spine with six raised bands; boards blind-stamped with triple-lined border, double-lined panel with floral corner-pieces and with a central large, floral vignette. Edges speckled red.
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Driessen, A. [Jan Sluyters]
Bonbondoos. [Candy Box].
[Rotterdam], A. Driessen, ca. 1910. Cardboard box with lid (27.8 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm). Gilt edges, marbled sides; original chromolithograph after a gouache and colour crayon drawing mounted on front (top) board. Round, gilt vignette pasted on rear (bottom) board.
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