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Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.
SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.Original price £195,000.00 - Original price £195,000.00Original price £0.00£195,000.00£195,000.00 - £195,000.00Current price £195,000.00Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...
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Album of watercolours of flowers, fruit and silkworms.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £150,000.00 - Original price £150,000.00Original price £0.00£150,000.00£150,000.00 - £150,000.00Current price £150,000.00From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...
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[L'aigle criard; L'aigle criard (jeune); L'élanoide blanc.
BARRABAND, Jacques.Original price £125,000.00 - Original price £125,000.00Original price £0.00£125,000.00£125,000.00 - £125,000.00Current price £125,000.00Original watercolours signed by Jacques Barraband for the Description de L'Egypte. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was the finest ornithological arti...
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A Monograph of the Ramphastidae; or Family of Toucans.
GOULD, John.Original price £60,000.00 - Original price £60,000.00Original price £0.00£60,000.00£60,000.00 - £60,000.00Current price £60,000.00Subscriber's copy of Gould's first monograph. The Ramphastidae (Family of Toucans) is without doubt the finest and most comprehensive work on this ...
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Rosa parvi-flora.
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £50,000.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00On original watercolour - given by King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most c...
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Iconographie du genre camellia
BERLÈSE Abbé Lorenzo.Original price £47,500.00 - Original price £47,500.00Original price £0.00£47,500.00£47,500.00 - £47,500.00Current price £47,500.00An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...
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The Birds of Australia, vol V, Parakeets, Cockatoos, Pigeons.
GOULD, John.Original price £42,500.00 - Original price £42,500.00Original price £0.00£42,500.00£42,500.00 - £42,500.00Current price £42,500.00The images of Australian parrots comprise some of John Gould's most iconic work. Here beautifully presented in fine condition.Folio, 92 fine hand-...
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[Original Artwork].
KNIGHT, Frank (illustrator).Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00A fine set of 37 original watercolours by Frank Knight for Joseph Forshaw's 2011 work, Vanished and Vanishing Parrots. The plates depict: Carolina...
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Plantae Selectae
TREW, Christoph Jakob.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00One of the greatest 18th-century botanical books. One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after ...
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Zoologia Britannica
PENNANT, Thomas.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...
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The Universal Conchologist,
MARTYN, Thomas.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...
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Papillons Exotiques
CRAMER, Pieter; STOLL, Caspar.Original price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £0.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00Important history of entomology. This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exoti...
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[Set of Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Mathematical Treatises]:
AVOGADRO, Amadeo; BELLANI, Angelo [et al]; CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis; LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie; MONGE, Gaspard; PRONY, Gaspard de.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00An attractive set of nineteenth-century scientific and mathematical treatises, bound to match.. I) First edition of Avogadro's magnum opus, contain...
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Group of Eight Amaryllis
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...
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