Natural History
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Phodilus Badius [Bay Owl].
GOULD J. & RICHTER, H.C.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /From the 'Birds of Asia'.John Gould (1804-1881) is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining bo...
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Narcissus
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| /The 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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Iris Pratensis
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| /The 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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Hæmanthus Multiflorus
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| /The 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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Pancratium Calathiforme
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| /The 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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A compleat body of husbandry.
HALE, Thomas.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| /An attractive example with the rare additional leaf between pages 112 & 113. This voluminous work was compiled by the prolific horticultural w...
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Amaryllis Equestris.
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph; DE GOUY (engraver).Original price £1,875.00 - Original price £1,875.00Original price £1,875.00£1,875.00£1,875.00 - £1,875.00Current price £1,875.00| /'Raphael of the Flowers'. For 'Les Liliacees'. Les Liliacées is one of two Redouté masterworks, the other being 'Les Roses'. These works demonstrat...
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L'Aracari verd male.
BARRABAND, Jacques.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /A fine example, from the first edition of the 'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbu...
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L'Aracari vert, femelle. No17.
BARRABAND, Jacques.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /A fine example, from the first edition of the 'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbu...
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The night-flyers. A series of moth pictures.
[HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel].Original price £1,800.00 - Original price £1,800.00Original price £1,800.00£1,800.00£1,800.00 - £1,800.00Current price £1,800.00| /A scarce treasure for the collector' (Dunbar).Published in Paul Gerard's series Cream and Gold Presents appropriate for marriage, birthday and fes...
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Le grand jaune de Tokay [and] La blanc doux bigarré.
[KIENER]Original price £1,800.00 - Original price £1,800.00Original price £1,800.00£1,800.00£1,800.00 - £1,800.00Current price £1,800.00| /Original watercolours. This highly unusual and impressive pair of watercolours depict some yellow grapes from Tokay ( a region in Hungary) and so...
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Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.
BORLASE, William.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /An attractive copy of the standard county history of Cornwall, by the rector of Ludvagan, a man from an old Cornish family. Includes The Scilly Is...
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A history of British birds [With] A history of British fishes.
YARRELL, William.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Finely bound. A finely bound set of Yarrell's classic works on the birds and fish of Great Britain. Yarrell (1784 – 1856) was a noted English zoolo...
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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
MORRIS, Beverley.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /A finely bound copy of this beautifully illustrated work on British game birds. Beverley Morris was a younger brother of Francis Morris, the famou...
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Milvi Aeruginosus,
NOZEMAN, Cornelius & SEPP, Jan Christian.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Dutch bird of prey. Nozeman's work, which he couldn't finish, became the first comprehensive account of the avifauna of Holland and was the most ex...
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Ornithologie Bresilienne
DESCOURTILZ, Jean TheodoreOriginal price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourt...
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Chalcophasis Sclateri.
GOULD, John; W. Hart.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /From "Birds of Asia".Original hand-coloured lithograph. Tear on edges but otherwise good condition. Dimensions: 385 x 560mm. (15.25 x 22 inches).
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Rosier Gallica Gueriniana.
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph; LANGLOIS (engraver).Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Stipple engraving, part printed in colours and finished by hand, first edition, trimmed to just outside of platemark, but good colour. Dimensions:...
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Genera Avium.
WYTSMAN, Philogène Auguste Galilée.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Wytsman's Genera Avium was originally intended to describe all avian groups but his death and the onset of the First World War brought an end to t...
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A General History of Quadrupeds.
BEWICK, Thomas.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Imperial paper copy. This edition includes thirteen new figures, one of which, the Spotted Hyena replaced an earlier figure; a rearrangement of the...
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