New Arrivals
107 items found
Guinier, P.
Le Roc de Chère. Étude phytographique. Essai d'application des principes de la géographie botanique à l'étude détaillée d'une région. Avec cartes botanique et géologique et vues photographiques d'associations végétales.
Annecy, J. Abry, 1906. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). 125 pp.; five plates (two with printed overlay), one large, double-folded, coloured map. Original quarter cloth over printed boards.
Read more
Bel, J.
Nouvelle Flore du Tarn et de la Haute-Garonne sous Pyrénéenne. Deuxième édition. Ornée de 243 figures.
Toulouse, H. Almaric, 1888. 12 mo (16.6 x 11.2 cm). lix, 371 pp.; 13 plates with 243 figures. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with black lines, gilt vignettes and title.
Read more
Hamilton, W.
Account of the effects of a thunder-storm, on the 15th of March 1773, upon the house of Lord Tylney at Naples. In a letter from the Honourable Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Bath, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples, and F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.
London, The Royal Society, 1773. 4to (22.7 x 17.3 cm). 9 pp.; one large, folded engraved plate. Spine with marbled paper cover.
Read more
Caunter, [J.] H.
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising twenty-two engravings from original drawings by William Daniell, R.A. and a descriptive account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D.
London, Charles Tilt, 1838. 8vo (19.5 x 12.6 cm). Title page, [iii], 242, [ii,] 8 pp.; 22 engraved plates (two acting as frontispieces). Contemporary full pebbled, blind-stamped calf. Spine with gilt palm tree, camel, and banner with title; boards with gilt Indian elephant with riders and umbrella, and blind-tooled snakes. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read more
Linnaeus, C. [Murray, J. A. (ed.)]
Caroli a Linné equitis systema vegetabilium secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus et differentiis. Editio decima quinta praecedente longe correctior curante Jo. Andrea Murray, equite ord. r. de Wasa.
Paris, J. F. P. Déterville, 1798. 8vo (20.3 x 13.3 cm). 16, 822 pp. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read more
Herschel, [F.] W.
Astronomical observations on the rotations of the planets round their axes, made with a view to determine whether the Earth's diurnal motion is perfectly equable.
London, The Royal Society, 1781. 4to (24.5 x 19.5 cm). 24 pp. (numbered 115-138); two large, foldout plates. Spine with marbled paper cover.
Read more
