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[Darwin, Charles Robert]
Portrait of Darwin - Rare Russian carte de visite.
Saint Peterburg, Wesenberg [Down and London, Elliott & Fry], [1874]. Albumen print, mounted on cardboard with a red ink border (10.3 x 6.1 cm). With the printed name Darwin in Cyrillic and printed Cyrillic text on recto and verso. Name of Darwin stamped in cyrillic on verso. Preserved in transparent sleeve.
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Dorman, R. M.
The Origin of Primitive Superstitions. And their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America.
Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). 398 pp.; 21 numbered text-engravings, five plates of which four originally hand-coloured, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece (= Plate I), Original dark brown buckram. Spine with red lines, gilt pictorial vignette and title; boards with red border; front board with pictorial gilt vignette. Dark 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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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.
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Forbes, F. B. and W. B. Hemsley
Enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Formosa, Hainan, the Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the island of Hongkong, together with their distribution and synonymy.
London, The Linnean Society, Longmans, Green and Co., Williams and Norgate, 1886-1905. Twenty issues in 20, forming three parts. 8vo (22.2 x 14.4 cm). 1812 pp. ([ii], 521; 592; 686, xi); 24 lithographed plates [14; 10; 0], the first being a large, folded, duotone map. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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