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Laterrade, J. F.
Flore bordelaise et de la Gironde, description caractéristique des plantes qui croissent naturallement dans ce Département, avec l'indication de leurs propriétés et leurs usages, précédée de notions élémentaires de botanique. Quatrième édition, disposée d'après la méthode naturelle et avec l'indication de beaucoup d'espèces cultivées.
Bordeaux, Th. Lafargue, 1846. 16mo (17.5 x 10.7 cm). 690 pp. Contemporary pebbled, gilt-bordered half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt floral vignettes and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Sprinkled edges.
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Plinius Secundus, C. [P. C. B. Guéroult, ed.]
Morceaux extraits de l'Histoire Naturelle de Pline.
Paris, Michel Lambert, 1785. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 554 pp. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with gilt lines, floral vignettes and brown morocco label with gilt title. Gilt-lined board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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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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[Trade Catalogue - Hungarian Heaters]
Nadrági Vasipar Társaság. Nadráger Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft.
Nadrág, Nadrager Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft, 1913. Folio (28.5 x 22.4 cm). 27 colour-printed pp. Original marbled wrappers with gilt title on the front wrapper. One additional printed leaf loosely inserted.
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Bergeret, J.
Flore des Basses-Pyrénées. Par Jean Bergeret (1751-1813). Augmentée par Eugène Bergeret (1799-1868). Nouvelle édition, complète, publiée avec une préface et des notes par Gaston Bergeret.
Pau, Garet, [1803]-1909. Thick 8vo (24.3 x 16.1 cm). lxxxvi, 960 pp. Contemporary full cloth with green morocco label with gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Printed wrappers bound in.
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Guinier, P.
Le Roc de Chère. Étude phytographique. Essai d'application des principes de la géographie botanique à l'étude détaillée d'une région. Avec cartes botanique et géologique et vues photographiques d'associations végétales.
Annecy, J. Abry, 1906. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). 125 pp.; five plates (two with printed overlay), one large, double-folded, coloured map. Original quarter cloth over printed boards.
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Bel, J.
Nouvelle Flore du Tarn et de la Haute-Garonne sous Pyrénéenne. Deuxième édition. Ornée de 243 figures.
Toulouse, H. Almaric, 1888. 12 mo (16.6 x 11.2 cm). lix, 371 pp.; 13 plates with 243 figures. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with black lines, gilt vignettes and title.
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Hamilton, W.
Account of the effects of a thunder-storm, on the 15th of March 1773, upon the house of Lord Tylney at Naples. In a letter from the Honourable Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Bath, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples, and F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.
London, The Royal Society, 1773. 4to (22.7 x 17.3 cm). 9 pp.; one large, folded engraved plate. Spine with marbled paper cover.
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Caunter, [J.] H.
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising twenty-two engravings from original drawings by William Daniell, R.A. and a descriptive account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D.
London, Charles Tilt, 1838. 8vo (19.5 x 12.6 cm). Title page, [iii], 242, [ii,] 8 pp.; 22 engraved plates (two acting as frontispieces). Contemporary full pebbled, blind-stamped calf. Spine with gilt palm tree, camel, and banner with title; boards with gilt Indian elephant with riders and umbrella, and blind-tooled snakes. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Linnaeus, C. [Murray, J. A. (ed.)]
Caroli a Linné equitis systema vegetabilium secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus et differentiis. Editio decima quinta praecedente longe correctior curante Jo. Andrea Murray, equite ord. r. de Wasa.
Paris, J. F. P. Déterville, 1798. 8vo (20.3 x 13.3 cm). 16, 822 pp. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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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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