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Lacépède, [B. G. É.] De
Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, serpents, poissons, et cétacées. Pour faire suite aux oeuvres de Buffon. Nouvelle édition, ornée de 115 planches et du portrait de l'auteur. Tome premier - cinqante. [Complete].
Paris, A. Eymery [AND Brussels, Avransart and Gust. Gastebois], 1825. Five volumes in five. 8vo (20.1 x 12.8 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Lacepède by Leroux after a drawing by Hersent; 2881 pp.; 115 finely engraved plates after Jean Gabriel Prêtre, in original hand-colouring, several augmented with silver. Uniform polished tree-calf. Spines rich gilt with geometrical patterns, and two red morocco labels with gilt title and volume number. Boards with gilt-ornamented borders; gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled bluish green.
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Lacepède, [B. G. É.]
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi. Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens. Tome premier - second. [Complete].
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788-1789. Two parts in two. 4to (25.3 x 19.3 cm). Title pages with allegorical engraved vignettes, numerous engraved head and tail pieces. 1216 pp. [5-18, 651; 5-8, 20 (including eulogy of Buffon), 527]; 63 engraved plates [41; 22] large, multi-folded table. Uniform contemporary full tree calf. Spines with five raised bands, rich gilt compartments with floral vignettes, two morocco labels with gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges.
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Krefft, [J. L.] G.
Snakes of Australia. Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species.
Sydney, T. Richards, 1869. 4to (26.3 x 20.3 cm). xxv, 100 pp.; 12 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, and several text illustrations. Early 20th century, beautiful, full brown morocco binding. Spine with five raised, gilded bands; compartments rich gilt with floral corner pieces and arabesque vignettes. Boards with gilt-lined panels, gilt-ornamented edges, and gilt-rolled floral inner dentelles. Marbled pastedowns.
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[Kimono print designs] Shoun Ogawa
Pine Cloud Pattern. Furisode nobu.
Kyoto, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 34 [1901]. Folio leporello (27.0 x 36.7 cm). 24 pages, of which 20 with pochoir prints, several heightened with silver or gold, and four plain. Printed boards, illustrated with silver, flying cranes, and a large title label.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 3.1.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 1.8.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 3.3.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 4.3.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Haecker, [F. C.] V.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. Vierzehnter Band. Tiefsee-Radiolarien.
Jena, Gustav Fisher, 1908. Four parts in four. Large 4to (34.3 x 25.5 cm). x, 706 pp. [x, 1-336, 337-706]; 87 mostly chromolithographed plates; two partly coloured maps; 225 text figures. Uniform original "Gustav Fischer orange" wrappers, or black quarter cloth over orange boards, as issued.
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Guichenot, A. [A. T.]
Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Sciences physiques. Zoologie. V. Histoire naturelle des reptiles et des poissons.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1850. Folio (37.0 x 28.1 cm). Half-title, title page Sciences physiques Zoologie V, with engraved vignette, half-title (to the reptiles and fish); iv, 144, [iv] pp., half-title (to the atlas); 12 plates (four of reptiles and amphibians, eight of fish). The plates are colour-printed engravings à la poupée and then finished by hand. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Godart, J. B. and P. A. J. Duponchel
Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères ou papillons de France. [Volumes] I-XI [AND] suppléments. [Volumes] I-IV [AND] Iconographie des chenilles. [Volumes] I-II. [AND] Catalogue méthodique des lépidoptères d'Europe [Complete].
Paris, Crevot (for the first seven volumes only), Méquignon-Marvis, and Mequignon-Marvis fils, 1821-1831-[1842] (main work); 1832-1844-[1846] (chenilles). 17 volumes in 19. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). 8,333 pp.; 639 finely engraved plates (546 in the main work, 93 in the caterpillar addition), all but one in original, exquisite hand-colouring, and one plain, as intended. Additionally, six hand-coloured plates in a very different state, doubling (i.e., being replaced) by six others. Contemporary near uniform half calf over marbled boards (one in identical, later binding). Spines with four raised bands, gilt linings (more elaborate at spine ends), black or brown morocco labels with gilt titles. Marbled flyleaves.
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Férussac, [A. É. J. P. J. F. d'Audebert de] (Baron) and G. P. Deshayes
Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles. Tant des espèces qui l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels qui présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. [Large paper copy. Text and atlases, complete].
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1820-1851. In four volumes. Folio (42.5 x 30.0 cm). Four half-titles, four title pages, 950 pp.; (I: [v-viii, 402; II: xvi, [1]-184, 96a-z [i.e., 25; letter w omitted], 96α-96λ [i.e., 11], 96.1-96.24 (i.e., 24), 260, 22, [ii]); 248 engraved plates on paper stubs [Atlas I: 1-69K; Atlas II: 70-166, 1-5; 127A, 127B, 127A-127B], mostly printed in colour, some finished by hand. One plate plain, as intended. Uniform 19th-century half brown morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands, and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt.
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Fans
[Collection of five paper fans].
Indonesia, U.S.A, and France, various manufacturers, ca. 1900-1950. All made of wood. 1. Indonesia, Soerabaya, Wassimal Brothers, Toko Bombay Moerah. Pasar Toendjoengan 36 (21.3 x 2.8 x 1.1 cm, 28 ribs), floral pattern on outer ribs back side; 2. Idem, however, with a 26 instead of 28 ribs, a metal shackle, and a different floral design. 3. Washington, DC, Hotel Powhatan (21.3 x 2.4 x 1.1 cm; 23 ribs); outer ribs silver-printed, translucent rice paper, with floral pattern, heightened with silver and gold. 4. Clermont-Ferrand, Taillerie de Royat, 35 Rue Neuve près la Place Jaude. (21.1 x 1.9 x 2.0 (widest); 16 ribs. With a photoprint titled Taille des agates, showing factory workers processing agate gemstones. 5. (28.8 x 2.0 x 3.9 [widest point] cm); ten ribs. Floral patters over a silver background. Pochoir on both sides. With calligraphed Chinese texts referring to tea.
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Escher, M. C.
Vissen. [In: De Tekens van de Dierenriem - limited edition, with extra letter and invitations to exhibitions of the artwork].
Amsterdam, De Grafische, 1963. Square 4to (20.4 x 20.5 cm). Title page; 36 pp., all with blank versos. Original pictorial soft cover (Lumbeck binding). Printed invitations tipped in.
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Eremchenko, V. k. and N. N. Scherbak
Ablefaridnieh Yascheretsky Fauny SSSR I Sopredelnih Stran. [Ablepharine Lizards of the USSR and Adjacent Countries].
Fruze, Ilim, 1986. 8vo (21.5 x 14.5 cm). 171 pp.; 43 (groups of) text figures. Publisher's mustard cloth with brown title and gilt vignette on the front board. Light blue endpapers. Printed errata slip loosely inserted.
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Engelbrecht, M.
An album of 14 folio-sized sheets (a few are combinations of smaller, mounted sheets), designed and printed by Martin Engelbrecht.
[Augsburg, the artist and publisher, ca. 1740]. 4to (size ca. 40.0 x 25.0 cm). 16 printed and finely hand-coloured sheets. In modern, black map.
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Ehrenberg, C. G.
Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen. Ein Blick in das tiefere organische Leben der Natur.
Leipzig, Leopold Voss, 1838. Two volumes in two. Folio (46.3 x 33.3 cm).Two title pages; , xviii, [iv], 548 pp; 64 engraved plates in fine, original hand-colouring. Uniform contemporary half morocco over pebbled boards. Spines with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral vignettes, titles, and logos. Marbled endpapers.
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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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[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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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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Burmeister, [K.] H. [K.]
Erläuterungen zur Fauna Brasiliens, enthalted Abbildungen und ausführliche Beschreibungen neur oder ungenügend bekannter Thier-Arten. Mit XXXII Tafeln.
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1856. Folio (45.4 x 32.0 cm). Title page, viii (recte vi), 115 pp., 32 lithographed plates of which 22 - of living animals - finely hand-coloured, and ten - showing skulls - plain. Early 20th-century dark blue half morocco over blue marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers.
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Bruguière, J. G. and Lamarck [J. B. P. A. de Monet de] and Candolle, [A. P.] de
Encylopédie Méthodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.
Paris, Panckoucke, An VI [1797]. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 104 finely engraved plates (numbered 287-390), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label.
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Bruguière, J. G. [AND] Deshayes, G. P.
Encyclopedie Methodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier. Tome troisième. [Texts].
Paris, Pancoucke, 1789-1792 [AND] Mme veuve Agasse, 1832. 4to (27.8 x 21.3 cm [AND] 25.1 x 20.8 cm). 1321 (of 1915) pp. [i-vi, 1-757; 595-1152]. Original boards, and contemporary half calf over marbled boards.
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Bruguière, J. G.
Encylopédie Méthodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.
Paris, Panckoucke, 1797. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 97 finely engraved plates (numbered 190-286), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label.
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Brazil, V.
La Défense contre l'Ophidisme.
São Paulo, Poica-Weiss, 1914. Large 8vo (23.3 x 16.0 cm). Title in red and black, 319 pp.; two pages with text illustrations (mainly detailed snake heads); 28 plates of which 13 in full colour offset printing. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers.
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Boys, W. and G. Walker
Testacea Minuta Rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris sandvicensis; Multa addidit, et omnium figuras ope microscopii ampliatas accurate delineavit. A collection of the minute and rare shells, lately discovered in the sand of the sea shore near Sandwich; Considerably augmented, and their figures accurately drawn, as magnified with the microscope.
London, B. White, Scatcherd & Whitaker, and Humphrey, [1784]. 4to (27.5 x 21.1 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, v, 25 pp.; three engraved plates. Iberian purple half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine and front board. Marbled endpapers.
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Besler, M. R.
Gazophylacium rerum naturalium e regno vegetabili, animali et minerali depromptarum, nunquam hactenus in lucem editarum, fidelis cum figuris aeneis ad vivum incisis repraesentatio operâ Michaelis Ruperti Besleri medici et reipublicae Norib. physici ordinarii et officinarum pharmaceuticarum p.t. visitatoris senioris.
[Nueremberg], 1642. Folio (34.3 x 22.5 cm). Engraved title page; large, folded index leaf; 34 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine with four raised bands.
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Bernack, F.
34 Naturstudien u. Entwürfe für Zigarettenpakkungen, Geschäftsdrucksachen, Etiketts, Buchumschläge, Schmuck u.s.w.
Germany, Franz Bernack, ca. 1911. 15 sheets with original artwork, mounted. In folio-sized portfolio (45.2 x 35.1 cm) with calligraphed title mounted on front board.
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Barraband, J. [in F. Levaillant]
The toco toucan ( Ramphastos toco). From: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus [Plate 2. Le Toco].
Paris, Denné le jeune, Perlet, [1801-] 1806. Single sheet. Very large folio (50.8 x 37.9 cm). Colour-printed by Langlois and Rousset, finished by hand.
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Barraband, J. [in F. Levaillant]
The white throated toucan ( Ramphastos tucanus). From: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus [Plate 4. Le Cocan à collier jaune].
Paris, Denné le jeune, Perlet, [1801-] 1806. Single sheet. Very large folio (50.8 x 37.9 cm). Colour-printed by Langlois and Rousset, finished by hand.
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