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Radermacher, J. C. M. (ed.)
Bataviaasch Genootschap der Kunsten en Wetenschappen: Verhandelingen. Volume 1.
Batavia, Ter Lands Drukkerij, 1820. 8vo (18.6 x 12.5 cm). 266, 59 pp. Voorbericht [foreword], 23 pp. Nabericht [afterword] and Bladwijzer [index]. Contemporary half calf with mottled paper over boards.
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Behrens, T. H.
Beitrage zur Petrographie des Indischen Archipels. [Erstes] - Zweites Stück. Die Gesteine der Vulkane von Java.
Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1880-1882. 4to (27.8 x 22.6 cm). 97 [24; 73] pp.; two lithographed plates (one coloured), map. Later brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed front board (to the first part) and front wrapper (to the second) bound in.
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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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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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"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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"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". [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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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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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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