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  • Oriental Album.

    PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant Théodore Emile; ST. JOHN, James Augustus.
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    A deluxe copy of the first edition with the plates fully coloured and mounted on card. Probably no more than 100 copies printed with few surviving...

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  • Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople,

    DUPRE, Louis.
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    The finest colour plate book on Greece & Turkey. First edition of the finest colour plate book ever produced on Greece and Turkey.Born in Versa...

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  • The History of Java.

    RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford.
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    'In terms of the pictorial depiction of Javanese costume and topography, the importance of The History of Java can hardly be exaggerated. By a hap...

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  • Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique

    ENGELMANN, Godefroy (1788-1839); G. Berger.
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    Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...

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  • A monograph of the cranes.

    BLAAUW, Frans Ernst.
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    A fine example of the first edition, limited to 170 copies only.This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of t...

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  • Tetrao Urogallus [Western Capercaillie]

    WOLF J; & H. C. Richter.
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    From "The Birds of Great Britain" John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both ...

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  • Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.

    SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.
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    Luxurious 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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  • Administration des Haras. Atlas statistique de la production des chevaux en France.

    GAYOT, Eugène; Hippolyte Lalaisse (artist).
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    Horse breeding in France in the mid-19th century . Impressive and uncommon work on French horse breeding at the beginning of Napoleon III's reign -...

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  • Ciconia Alba. [Stork]

    GOULD J; & H. C. Richter.
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    From "The Birds of Great Britain"John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both a...

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  • Picus Major [Spotted Woodpecker]

    GOULD J; & H. C. Richter.
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    JOHN GOULD 1804 - 1881John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic ski...

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  • The night-flyers. A series of moth pictures.

    [HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel].
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    'A scarce treasure for the collector' (Dunbar).Published in Paul Gerard's series Cream and Gold Presents appropriate for marriage, birthday and fe...

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  • A voyage round Great Britain,

    DANIELL, William.
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    Complete set of the preferred rarer deluxe issue with map . A magnificent complete set of the deluxe issue of 'the most important colour plate boo...

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  • The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine.

    HARRISON, Joseph.
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    A uniformly bound set of the first nineteen volumes of this popular compendium of plants by the horticulturist Joseph Harrison (1798-1856), illust...

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  • Alca Torda [Razorbill]

    GOULD.J; & H. C. Richter.
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    From " The Birds of Great Britain"John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both ...

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  • Clangula Glaucion [Golden-Eye Duck]

    GOULD J; & H. C. Richter.
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    From " The Birds of Great Britain" John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both...

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  • Dafila Acuta [Northern Pintail]

    GOULD J; & H. C. Richter.
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    JOHN GOULD 1804 - 1881John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic ski...

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  • Mergus Cucullatus [Hooded Merganser]

    GOULD J; & H. C. Richter.
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    JOHN GOULD 1804 - 1881John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic ski...

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  • Fuligula Cristata [Tufted Duck]

    GOULD J; & H. C. Richter.
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    From "The Birds of Great Britain"John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both a...

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  • Ciconia Nigra [Black Stork]

    GOULD J; & H. C. Richter.
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    From "The Birds of Great Britain"John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both a...

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  • Dryocopus Martus [Black Woodpecker]

    GOULD J; & H. C. Richter.
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    From "The Birds of Great Britain"John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both a...

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  • Tetrao Tetrix [Black Grouse]

    WOLF J; & H. C. Richter.
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    JOHN GOULD 1804 - 1881John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic ski...

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  • Numenius Arquata [Eurasian Curlew]

    GOULD J; H. C. Richter.
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    JOHN GOULD 1804 - 1881John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic ski...

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