Natural History
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Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.
SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.Original price $248,431.00 - Original price $248,431.00Original price $0.00$248,431.00$248,431.00 - $248,431.00Current price $248,431.00| /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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Album of watercolours of flowers, fruit and silkworms.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price $191,101.00 - Original price $191,101.00Original price $0.00$191,101.00$191,101.00 - $191,101.00Current price $191,101.00| /From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...
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Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets.
LEVAILLANT, François; BARRABAND, Jacques (illustrator).Original price $159,251.00 - Original price $159,251.00Original price $0.00$159,251.00$159,251.00 - $159,251.00Current price $159,251.00| /Large paper copy. First edition in the preferred folio format of this celebrated work, which stands in the front rank of ornithological books.An ex...
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Rosa parvi-flora.
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price $63,701.00 - Original price $63,701.00Original price $63,701.00$63,701.00$63,701.00 - $63,701.00Current price $63,701.00| /A gift from King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical art...
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Iconographie du genre camellia
BERLÈSE Abbé Lorenzo.Original price $60,516.00 - Original price $60,516.00Original price $0.00$60,516.00$60,516.00 - $60,516.00Current price $60,516.00| /An 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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Plantae Selectae
TREW, Christoph Jakob.Original price $47,776.00 - Original price $47,776.00Original price $0.00$47,776.00$47,776.00 - $47,776.00Current price $47,776.00| /One 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 $47,776.00 - Original price $47,776.00Original price $0.00$47,776.00$47,776.00 - $47,776.00Current price $47,776.00| /The 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 $44,591.00 - Original price $44,591.00Original price $0.00$44,591.00$44,591.00 - $44,591.00Current price $44,591.00| /An 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 $41,406.00 - Original price $41,406.00Original price $0.00$41,406.00$41,406.00 - $41,406.00Current price $41,406.00| /Important history of entomology. This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exoti...
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Lord’s entire new system of ornithology.
LORD, Thomas.Original price $38,221.00 - Original price $38,221.00Original price $0.00$38,221.00$38,221.00 - $38,221.00Current price $38,221.00| /An exceedingly scarce book. Of the few copies in existence only a handful are known with the full complement of 114 engravings. ESTC lists only BL,...
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Group of Eight Amaryllis
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price $31,851.00 - Original price $31,851.00Original price $0.00$31,851.00$31,851.00 - $31,851.00Current price $31,851.00| /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 monograph of the pittidae, or, family of ant thrushes.
ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud.Original price $30,577.00 - Original price $30,577.00Original price $0.00$30,577.00$30,577.00 - $30,577.00Current price $30,577.00| /Beautiful plates of exotic ornithology. The preferred second edition of Elliot's work on the pittidae, with new text and twenty plates by Hart not ...
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[A Group of Twelve Mezzotints of Aloes in decorative pots].
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.Original price $25,481.00 - Original price $25,481.00Original price $0.00$25,481.00$25,481.00 - $25,481.00Current price $25,481.00| /An attractive collection of fine botanical mezzotints by Weinmann, one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Rege...
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White rose with other flowers. Floral watercolour on vellum.
REDOUTE, P[ierre] J[oseph].Original price $25,481.00 - Original price $25,481.00Original price $25,481.00$25,481.00$25,481.00 - $25,481.00Current price $25,481.00| /A beautiful watercolour on vellum by the greatest flower painter of all time.Belgian born Redouté (1759-1840) achieved success as a painter workin...
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A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.
GOULD, John.Original price $24,844.00 - Original price $24,844.00Original price $0.00$24,844.00$24,844.00 - $24,844.00Current price $24,844.00| /In original parts. Rare example in original parts of John Gould's Partridges of America.Gould was inspired to undertake this study by the sight of ...
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Brazilian Flowers,
NORTON, E[dith] H[olland].Original price $24,844.00 - Original price $24,844.00Original price $0.00$24,844.00$24,844.00 - $24,844.00Current price $24,844.00| /Rare Brazilian flora with two original watercolours. Edith Norton's magnificent, large format flora of Rio de Janeiro, this copy with the addition ...
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[A Group of Three Watercolours of Hyacinths].
LOO, Pieter van.Original price $23,570.00 - Original price $23,570.00Original price $0.00$23,570.00$23,570.00 - $23,570.00Current price $23,570.00| /Pieter Van Loo (or Loon), Haarlem 1731-1784, was a noted flower painter who spent the whole of his life in Haarlem. His paintings are sought after...
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A history of the birds of Europe.
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price $22,296.00 - Original price $22,296.00Original price $22,296.00$22,296.00$22,296.00 - $22,296.00Current price $22,296.00| /The first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since Gould. Dresser's Birds of Europe is the first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since...
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Illustrations and descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order camellieae,
CHANDLER, Alfred; BOOTH, William Beattie.Original price $22,296.00 - Original price $22,296.00Original price $0.00$22,296.00$22,296.00 - $22,296.00Current price $22,296.00| /Important work on the Camellia Japonica. One of finest works on camellias, here in its most desirable state.Described by Wilfred Blunt as 'handsome...
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[A Group of Four Parrots].
GOULD, John.Original price $21,022.00 - Original price $21,022.00Original price $0.00$21,022.00$21,022.00 - $21,022.00Current price $21,022.00| /John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious od all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...
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