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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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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, Bull and Churton, 1835. 8vo (19.5 x 12.6 cm). Title page, vii, 263, [iv] pp.; 22 engraved plates (two acting as frontispieces). Contemporary full pebbled, blind-stamped calf. Spine with gilt palm tree, a camel, and a 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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Caunter, [J.] H.
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising twenty-five engravings from original drawings by William Daniell, R.A. and a descriptive account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D.
London, Edward Bull, 1834. 8vo (19.5 x 12.6 cm). Title page, [v], 254, [ii] pp.; 25 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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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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Baker, J. G.
Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar. Part I. Polypetalae. Part II. Monopetalae. Part III. Incompletae, Monocotyledones, and Filices.
London, Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer [for the Linnean Society of London], 1883. Three parts in three. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm). 218 pp. [numbered: 87-158; 159-236; 237-304]; six lithographed plates [numbered: 22-23; 24-27; none in the third part]. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Lydekker, R.
Indian Tertiary and post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. II. Part 1. Siwalik Rhinocerotidae. Part 2. Supplement to Siwalik and Narbada Proboscidia.
Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1881. Two parts in one. Folio (36.0 x 26.0 cm). 66 pp.; 11 fine, lithographed plates [I-X, IIA] by Schaumburg. Original printed wrappers.
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Masclef, A.
Atlas des plantes de France. Utiles, nuisibles et ornamentales. 400 planches coloriées représentant 450 plantes communes avec des nombreuses figures en détail et un texte explicatif des propriétés des plantes, de leurs usages et applications en médecine, agriculture, horticulture, dans l'industrie, l'économie domestique, etc. Complément de la Nouvelle Flore de MM. Gaston Bonnier et Geoges de Layens. [Original, coloured edition].
Librairie des Sciences Naturelles Paul Klincksieck Editeur, Paris, [1890]-1893. Three volumes in three. 8vo (23.8 x 16.4 cm). 368 pp.; 400 full-colour plates. Unform 20th-century half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers to the text volume bound in.
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Lacombe, J. (ed.)
Encyclopédie Méthodique, ou par ordre de matières: par une société de gens de lettres, de savans et d'artistes. Précédée d'un Vocabulaire universel, servant de table pour tout l'ouvrage; ornée des portraits MM. Diderot & d'Alembert, premiers éditeurs de l'Encyclopédie. Art Aratoire et du Jardinage; contenant la description & l'usage des machines, ustensiles, instrumens & outils employés dand l'exploration des terres & dans la culture des plantes.
Paris, H. Agasse, 1797-1802. Two volumes in two [text and atlas]. 4to (27.1 x 21.5 cm) and folio (29.3 x 22.1 cm). Title pages; (i) [ avertissement], 298 pp.; 54 engraved plates of which two double-sized. Uniform 20th-century half linen over plain boards. Spines with green morocco label with gilt title.
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Halley, E. [Newton, I.]
The true theory of the tides, extracted from that admired treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton, intituled, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; being a discourse presented with that book to the late King James.
London, The Royal Society, 1697. 4to (22.3 x 16.2 cm). [2], 13 pp. (numbered 445-457); two engraved text illustrations. Spine with marbled paper cover.
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Regnault, [N. F.]
Cochon d’Inde à deux corps. [ Les ecarts de la nature, ou recueil des principales monstruosités que la nature produit dans le genre animal planche 2].
[Paris], Regnault, [1775]. Single sheet (26.6 x 18.7 cm). Engraved and finely hand-coloured plate with printed caption.
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Brokatpapier [gilt-printed paper]
A large, gilt-embossed sheet.
[Augsburg, probably J. C. Munck, ca. 1780]. A large, oblong folio sheet of orange/terracotta painted wove paper, printed in gilt. (35.8 x 42.8 cm; printed area 30.7 x 36.1 cm, i.e., with ample margins) Loose, as issued.
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Anville, [J. B. B.] d'
Carte de l'Inde. Dressée pour la Compagnie des Indies par le Sr. d'Anville, Secretaire de S.A.S. Mgr. le Duc d'Orléans. Paris, Novembre 1752.
Paris, Compagnie des Indes, 1752. Oblong broadsheet (97.2 x 111.5 cm), printed engraving with additional, contemporary hand-colouring (printed surface 87.8 x 104.5 cm).
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Lamarck [J. B. P. A. de Monet de] and Candolle, [A. P.] de
Flore française, ou descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposées selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, et précédées par un Exposé des Principes élémentaires de la Botanique. Troisième édition, augmentée du Tome V, ou sixième volume, contenant 1300 expèces non décrites dans les cinq premiers volumes. Ouvrage accompagné d'une grande Carte Botanique coloriée, et orné de 11 planches contenant environ 200 figures. [AND] Synopsis plantarum in flora Gallica descriptarum.
Paris, Desray, 1815 [AND] Paris, H. Agasse, 1806. Six volumes in seven. 8vo (20.8 x 13.8 cm). 3717 pp.; 11 plates, one map, one table. Uniform 20th-century half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and two red morocco labels with gilt border, authors' names and title. Marbled endpapers.
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[Bertholet, D.]
Radiations. [Results of early experiment with radiated soil and vegetables]
Paris, unpublished, 1925. Two handwritten letters, dated "8 nov. 1925" and "24 12 1925", one letter typed (carbon copy) with two additional leaves, dated "le 22 novembre 1925", and a six pp. letter (carbon copy - versos blank), dated "II décembre 1925"". two cardboard sheets, with six and five photos respectively, showing "radiated" and "control" fields, or plants, mounted.
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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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