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Keats, 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.
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Ricketts, 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.
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Hutchinson, G. E.
The Clear Mirror. A pattern of life in Goa and in Indian Tibet.
Cambridge, at the University Press, 1936. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm). xi, 171 pp.; 13 b/w photographic plates, one map. Publisher's green cloth with green title on the front board and spine; top edge green. In original printed dust jacket and transparent sleeve.
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Schrödinger, E. [R. J. A.]
Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik. IN: Die Naturwissenschaften. Wochenschrift für die fortschritte der reinen und der angewandten Naturwissenschaften. Dreienzwanzigster Jahrgang 1935. [Volume 23].
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1935. Large 8vo (26.1 x 18.8 cm). pp. 807-812 (in Part 48); 823-828 (in Part 49); 844-849 (in Part 50) [whole volume: xix, 870 pp.]; many illustrations. Slightly later green half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands title.
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Zwanziger, M.
Original illustrations and designs for carpets or wallpaper
Berlin, unpublished, 1934-1941. 23 separate designs including 17 for carpets and wallpaper (mainly in Art Deco style), four botanical drawings, and two detailed designs on graph paper; and one printed and partly handwritten certificate. Various sizes (30.5 x 22.0 cm up to 64.0 x 43.5 cm [two on graph paper very large, 70.2 x 59.0 cm, folded]).
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Riel, P. M. van (ed.)
Scientific results of the Snellius Expedition in the eastern part of the Netherlands East-Indies 1929-1930. Under leadership of P. M. van Riel. Director of the Amsterdam Branch Office of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1933-1959. Six volumes in 16. 4to (32.0 x 23.2 cm). Text and numerous plates, many coloured folded maps and charts. Original printed wrappers and contemporary printed cloth.
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Seitz, [F. J.] A.
The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Division II: Fauna Exotica. Volume X. The Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges.
Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1933-1934. In two volumes (text and atlas). 4to. (31.8 x 27.0 cm). ix, 909 pp.; (vii) pp., 104 chromolithographed plates (Numbered 1-54, 55 A-C, 56 A-C, 57-100). Publisher's half calf. Spine rich gilt with vignettes and gilt morocco labels. Edges blue.
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