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Dujardin, F. [AND d’Archiac, AND others]
Mémoire sur les couches du sol en Touraine et descriptions des coquilles de la craie des faluns.
Paris, Strasbourg, F.-G. Levrault, 1837. 4to (29.0 x 23.6 cm cm). 100 pp.; 6 engraved plates [numbered XVI-XX] and a very large, folded, and originally hand-coloured map, titled "Carte géologique de la Touraine", additionally containing a coloured profile. Original printed wrappers.
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Peters, W. C. H.
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in den Jahren 1842-1848 ausgeführt. Zoologie III. Amphibien. [Atlas with the highest number of coloured plates].
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1882. Large 4to (34.0 x 25.0 cm). Title page, [v]-xv, 191 pp.; 33 lithographed plates [numbered I-XXVI, III.A, III.B, IV.A, IX.A, XIII.A, XIV.A, XIX.A] of which 28 originally hand-coloured. Contemporary quarter cloth over plain boards. original printed label on the spine.
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Vosmaer, G. C. J.
Natuurkundige Beschryving eener uitmuntende verzameling van zeldsaame gedierten, bestaande in Oost- en Westindische viervoetige dieren, vogelen en slangen, weleer leevend voorhanden geweest zijnde, buiten Den Haag op het Kleine Loo van Z. D. den Prins van Oranje-Nassau. Met naar 't leven getekende en gecouleurde afbeeldingen. [All herpetological plates].
Amsterdam, P. Meijer,1768-1774. Three engraved plates. 4to (25.5 x 21.3 cm). Each printed and additionally coloured in a contemporary hand.
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Linnaeus, C. - Houttuyn, M.
Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschrijving der dieren, planten en mineraalen, volgens het samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus. Met naauwkeurige afbeeldingen.
Amsterdam, F. Houttuyn, 1761-1785. Three sections in 37 volumes. 8vo (21.2 x 13.3 cm) [22.1 x 13.6 cm]. Nearly twenty thousand pages; 296 finely engraved plates. Contemporary uniform mottled quarter calf over speckled boards. Spines with five raised bands and black morocco labels with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
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Clerck, C. [A.]
Nomenclator extemporaneus rerum naturalium: plantarum, insectorum, conchyliorum, secundum systema naturæ linnæanum. Editus a Carol Clerck.
Stockholm, Laurentius Ludovicus Grefing, 1759. 8vo (20.1 x 12.1 cm). Title page, [ii], 67, [xii] pp. Later grey wrappers with printed title.
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Heude, P. M.,
Notes sur les mollusques terrestres de la vallee du Fleuve Bleu. Part I.
Chang-Hai, Pères de la Compagnie Jésus (Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique), 1882. Very large 4to (34.9 x 25.6 cm). [ii], 87 pp.; ten lithographed plates (numbered XII-XXI) with explanatory text leaves. Later half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt-stippled, raised bands, gilt ornamental bands and title. Marbled endpapers.
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