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Feynman, R. [Balian, R. and C. H. L. Smith (Eds.)]
Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions at High Energy [Gauge Theories]. Les Houches Session XXIX. 5 Juillet - 14 Août 1976.
Amsterdam, North-Holland [Elsevier Science Publishers], 1977. Thick 8vo (22.4 x 15.2 cm). xxv, 668 pp.; several photos, numerous text figures. Original blue printed cloth.
Read moreCui, R. (ed.)
Tibetan Forest.
Beijing, Science Publishing (Chinese Academy of Sciences), 1985. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.6 cm). ix, 375 pp.; 38 plates showing trees, scenery, wood samples, and tree pests, including fungi and beetles. Large, full-colour map in rear pocket. Original green quarter buckram over pictorial boards. Spine with gilt title.
Read moreRickman, P.
A selection of bird paintings and sketches.
[London], Curpotten for Fine Sporting Interests, 1979. Folio (40.6 x 30.5 cm). Original watercolour by Rickman, mounted in passepartout, acting as frontispiece. Title in black and red, [vi] pp.; Portrait of Rickman; 31 full-colour plates, tipped in and each tissue-guarded and with an explanatory text leaf, two black-and-white plates (in the rear), and 34 black-and-white pencil sketches on titles and text leaves, one tailpiece. Original burgundy full morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt borders, bird vignettes, and title; boards with gilt-rolled borders consisting of bird figures and floral elements and larger gilt bird vignettes. Iridescent red silk endpapers; pastedowns with gilt-rolled floral borders. All edges gilt. In original burgundy half linen clamshell box with burgundy morocco spine matching the book's spine, gilt ornithological vignette and inside covered with protective dark red felt panels.
Read morePlesch, A.
Mille et un livres botaniques de la collection Arpad Plesch. [Limited series copy, with handwritten dedication by the author].
Bruxelles, Arcade, 1973. Large, square 4to (29.5 x 26.5 cm). 517, [i] pp.; mounted full-colour portrait of Plesch; mounted full-colour photograph of part of his library; several text illustrations, and 32 full-colour facsimiles of quintessential botanical illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt title on the spine and red leather gilt-lettered facsimile bookplate on the front board. Full-colour pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers.
Read moreWilkins, M. H. F., Seeds, W. E., Stokes, A. R. and R. H. Wilson
Helical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid.
London, Nature, 1953. 4to (25.4 x 17.9 cm). Nature, Vol. 172, No. 4382. 76 pp. [numbered: ccxciii-cccviii, 737-780, i-xvi]; numerous illustrations. October 24, 1953. [Wilkins et al. on pp. 759-762].
Read moreFranklin, R. E. and R. G. Gosling
Evidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of Sodium Deoxyribonucleate.
London, Nature, 1953. 4to (25.4 x 17.9 cm). Volume 172, No. 4369, July 25, 1953. 72 pp. [numbered l-lxviii, 131-172, 1-xii], numerous illustrations [Frankling and Gosling: pp. 156-157; four text illustrations].
Read moreWatson, J. D. and F. H. C. Crick
Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid. [ Nature, Vol. 171, No. 4361].
London, Nature, 1953. 4to (25.4 x 17.9 cm). Nature, Vol. 171, No. 4361. 76 pp. [numbered ccclv-ccclxx, 943-986, i-xvi]; several illustrations. [Watson & Crick: pp. 964-967; five text illustrations].
Read moreVuijk, J.
[Original orchid drawings and descriptions]
Amsterdam, [unpublished], ca. 1950-1975. A huge collection of more than a thousand sketches, drawings (b/w line drawings in pencil or ink, and in [full] colour) of wild orchids, with additional annotations - in Dutch, with Latin names. On 376 leaves, including 41 partially or (near) completely in original watercolours. Preserved in contemporary folders, titled by the author.
Read moreKeats, J.
Endymion. A Poetic Romance by John Keats, with engravings by John Buckland-Wright. [With a bookplate designed by Maurits Escher].
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. Tall 4to (32.5 x 20.1 cm). 152 pp.; many woodcut illustrations (several page-sized). Original vellum over boards. Front board with gilt vignette.
Read moreRicketts, E. F. and J. Calvin
Between Pacific Tides. An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico.
Stanford University Press, 1939. Large 8vo (22.8 x 15.6 cm). xxii, 320 pp.; 46 numbered plates, 112 illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Green endpapers.
Read moreBond, J.
Birds of the West Indies. An account with full descriptions of all the birds known to occur or have occurred on the West Indian Islands. [The rare true first edition].
Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936. 8vo (19.0 x 13.0 cm). xxv, 456 pp.; full colour frontispiece, numerous fine engravings. Original grey buckram with gilt title on the front board and spine. Map on front endpapers.
Read moreGuffroy, C. [É.]
L'Étude de la flore de Seine-et-Oise au XXè siècle.
Versailles, Société des Sciences Naturelles de Seine-et-Oise, 1932-1934. 8vo (22.3 x 14.0 cm). 73 pp. [numbered 49-82, 105-120; 1-15; 89-98]. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with black, printed title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
Read moreHumbert, [J.] H.
La destruction d'une flore insulaire par le feu. Principaux aspects de la végétation à Madagascar. Documents photographiques et notices.
Tananarive, Académie Malgache, 1927. 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). 80 pp.; 41 plates, of which 40 with fine photographs by the author. Original printed portfolio.
Read moreMéheut, M.
Étude de la forêt. Tome premier - Tome second. [Complete].
Paris, Albert Lévy, 1927. Two parts in two. Folio (34.5 x 26.7 cm). Two title pages, printed in black and green; 57 text pages (numbered [5]-[63], with several due-tone illustrations; 110 [50; 60] plates of which 40 [15; 25] in full colour, mounted on thicker sheets. Uniform dark grey buckram with gilt title on the front boards and spines. Green patterned endpapers.
Read moreAllorge, P.
Les associations végétales du Vexin français.
Nemours, Lestot, 1922. 8vo (23.6 x 15.6 cm). 342 pp.; 37 text figures, 16 collotype plates based on the author's photographs, double-page map. Later full cloth. Spine with morocco label with gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreHla, M. T.
[Burma - Myanmar] A collection of two 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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Nadrági Vasipar Társaság. Nadráger Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft.
Nadrág, Nadrager Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft, 1913. Folio (28.5 x 22.4 cm). 27 colour-printed pp. Original marbled wrappers with gilt title on the front wrapper. One additional printed leaf loosely inserted.
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