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Linnaeus, C.
Systema vegetabilium secundum classes ordines genera species cum characteribus et differentiis.
Lugduni [Lyon], Bernuset, Delamollière, Falque et Soc., 1796. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). 1701 pp. [xl, 884; 885-1661]. Uniform contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title.
Read more[Manetti, F. S]
Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate. [Two counterproofs in original water colouring, of Plate 37, Falco albanella torquata, and of Plate 48, Falco vulga barletto.]
[Florence, 1776]. Two single sheets (each 47.1 x 35.8 cm). Hand-coloured and captioned.
Read moreSharpe, R. B.
Scientific results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph.D. Aves.
London, Taylor and Francis [by order of the Government of India], [1878]-1891. Large 4to (31.4 x 25.7 cm). Titlepage, [iii]-xviii, 153 pp.; 24 finely hand-coloured, lithographed plates, mostly by J. G. Keulemans. 20th-century red half morocco over red linen. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments gilt-lined; gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreNikolski, A. M. [Nikolsky, Nikolskii]
Presmykaiushchisi i zemnovodnyia Kavkaza (Herpetologia caucasica).
Tiflis [Tbilisi], Tipografiia kantseliarii Namiestrika E.I.V. na Kavkazie, 1913. 8vo (23.1 x 16.0 cm). 272 pp.; four (groups of) text figures, three lithographed plates of which one in chromolithography. Near contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards.
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