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Sturm, J.
Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung, Erster Theil. Käfer. [All published].
Nürnberg, The author [Gedruckt auf kosten des Verfassers], 1826. 8vo (22.1 x 12.8 cm). viii, 208, 16, [ii] pp.; four originally hand-coloured engraved plates. Later polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers; sprinkled edges.
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Leonard, T.
Spotted Cat. [Original of a book front-cover illustration, signed by the artist].
Philadelphia, PA, The Artist, ca. 2005. A fine, original full-colour painting (16.5 x 20.3 cm, with a 3.8 cm white border). Acrylic on cardboard, by the American animal painter Tom Leonard.
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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.
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Dognin, P.
Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud. I-XXV. [Complete].
Rennes, Oberthur, 1910-1924. 25 parts in one. 8vo (23.7 x 15.5 cm). 25 uniform title pages; 795 pp. [ I (1910): 48; II (1911): 56; III (1911): 66; IV (1911): 32; V (1912): 12; VI (1912): 51; VII (1914): 32; VIII (1914): 101; IX (1916): 36; X (1916): 25; XI (1916): 17; XII (1916): 34; XIII (1917): 19; XIV (1918): 27; XV (1919): 10; XVI (1919): 7; XVII (1919): 12; XVIII (1920): 13; XIX (1921): 19; XX (1922): 30; XXI (1923): 38; XXII (1923): 25; XXIII (1923): 34; XXIV 1923): 17; XXV (1924): 34]. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised ands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. All original uniform printed front wrappers bound in.
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Fullagar, H. F.
The Camellaird - Fullagar balanced marine internal combustion oil engine.
Birmingham, White & Pike, ca. 1920. Elongate folio (26.2 x 11.7 cm). Text on front and rear pastedown; thick cardboard and brass 'machine'. Mustard cloth boards with black title on the front board.
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Plesch, 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.
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Various authors
[Alert voyage] Report on the zoological collections, made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the HMS Alert 1881-1882. [AND] Account on the zoological collections made during the Survey of the HMS Alert in the straits of Magellan and the Coasts of Patagonia.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1884. 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm, and 23.0 x 15.8 cm). xxv, 684 pp.; 54 lithographed plates (some partially coloured) [AND] London, The Zoological Society, 1881. 141 pp.; ten lithographed plates. The first title in original embossed and gilt-lettered cloth; the second in recent boards with printed paper label on the front board.
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