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A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons.
GOULD, John.Original price $44,720.00 - Original price $44,720.00Original price $0.00$44,720.00$44,720.00 - $44,720.00Current price $44,720.00| /Although titled the second edition Gould considered the present volume a new work. The text was re-written, all the plates were redrawn, and twelv...
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The Natural History of British Fishes,
DONOVAN, Edward.Original price $3,195.00 - Original price $3,195.00Original price $0.00$3,195.00$3,195.00 - $3,195.00Current price $3,195.00| /Beautiful hand-coloured plates. First edition of this vibrant, hand-coloured guide to fish.Author Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an avid natural hi...
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A Monograph of the Ramphastidae; or Family of Toucans.
GOULD, John.Original price $76,663.00 - Original price $76,663.00Original price $0.00$76,663.00$76,663.00 - $76,663.00Current price $76,663.00| /Subscriber'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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Great Footed Hawk.
AUDUBON, John James.Original price $31,943.00 - Original price $31,943.00Original price $0.00$31,943.00$31,943.00 - $31,943.00Current price $31,943.00| /Plate 16 from John James Audubon's Birds of America which was printed between 1827 and 1838 with 435 life-size images of North American birds.Hand...
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Views in the Himala Mountains.
FRASER, James Baillie.Original price $47,915.00 - Original price $47,915.00Original price $0.00$47,915.00$47,915.00 - $47,915.00Current price $47,915.00| /First edition of Fraser's Himala Mountains, the finest illustrated work on the Himalayas.James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was the eldest son of a ...
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Twenty four views taken in St. Helena,
SALT, Henry.Original price $57,498.00 - Original price $57,498.00Original price $0.00$57,498.00$57,498.00 - $57,498.00Current price $57,498.00| /Fresh, clean copy of Salt's very fine large format views. A fresh, clean copy of the set of Salt's very fine large format views of India, Abyssinia...
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Eighteen views taken at & near Rangoon [with]
MOORE, Lieut. Joseph.Original price $22,360.00 - Original price $22,360.00Original price $0.00$22,360.00$22,360.00 - $22,360.00Current price $22,360.00| /From the library of a protagonist in the war. Moore's views of Rangoon constitute the finest depiction of events during the first Burmese War. This...
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Nederlandsch-Indië Teekeningen.
RAPPARD, Josias Cornelis (illustrator); PERELAUER, M.T.H; VAN REES, Willem Adriaan.Original price $19,166.00 - Original price $19,166.00Original price $0.00$19,166.00$19,166.00 - $19,166.00Current price $19,166.00| /Rare complete set consisting of Batavia, Java, Buitenzorg, and De Buitenbezittingen (outer possessions). The work presents a romanticised account ...
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Character & costumes of Afghaunistan.
HART, Capt. Lockyer Willis.Original price $15,972.00 - Original price $15,972.00Original price $0.00$15,972.00$15,972.00 - $15,972.00Current price $15,972.00| /Scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan. The scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan, Character & Costumes of Afg...
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A History of the Fishes of the British Islands.
COUCH, Jonathan.Original price $4,792.00 - Original price $4,792.00Original price $0.00$4,792.00$4,792.00 - $4,792.00Current price $4,792.00| /The first british fish book in colour. A handsomely bound reissued set of this 'major contribution to ichthyology... the earliest work on British f...
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The Peaks and Valleys of the Alps.
BONNEY, THOMAS GEORGE; Elijah Walton, illustrator.Original price $9,583.00 - Original price $9,583.00Original price $0.00$9,583.00$9,583.00 - $9,583.00Current price $9,583.00| /Elijah Walton's fine colour plate views of the Western Alps, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Monte Viso, Aosta Valley, Dent Du Midi, and The...
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The rulers of India and the chiefs of Rajputana.
HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein.Original price $6,389.00 - Original price $6,389.00Original price $0.00$6,389.00$6,389.00 - $6,389.00Current price $6,389.00| /Hendley depicts the rulers of India from the end of the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, starting with the portrait of emperor Akbar, the foun...
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Monandrian Plants of the order Scitamineae,
ROSCOE, William.Original price $22,360.00 - Original price $22,360.00Original price $0.00$22,360.00$22,360.00 - $22,360.00Current price $22,360.00| /Luxury lithography from Liverpool - one of 150 copies. One of the most impressive lithographed botanical books, containing numerous exotic species ...
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A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities.
LYSONS, Samuel.Original price $5,750.00 - Original price $5,750.00Original price $0.00$5,750.00$5,750.00 - $5,750.00Current price $5,750.00| /One of 12 deluxe copies. A handsome large paper copy of Lysons' work of the antiquities of Gloucestershire; one of only twelve deluxe copies with n...
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Switzerland
YOSY, A.Original price $3,195.00 - Original price $3,195.00Original price $0.00$3,195.00$3,195.00 - $3,195.00Current price $3,195.00| /The Bradley Martin copy. The scarce first edition of Yosy's classic work on the costume of Switzerland. With the distinguished provenance of the re...
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A collection of Swiss costumes,
REINHARDT, Joseph.Original price $4,792.00 - Original price $4,792.00Original price $0.00$4,792.00$4,792.00 - $4,792.00Current price $4,792.00| /Reinhardt's fine series of Swiss regional costume subjects set against fully coloured landscape backgrounds. Colas preferred this undated issue to...
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