Natural History & Science
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White rose with other flowers. Floral watercolour on vellum.
REDOUTE, P[ierre] J[oseph].Original price $25,924.00 - Original price $25,924.00Original price $25,924.00$25,924.00$25,924.00 - $25,924.00Current price $25,924.00| /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 $25,276.00 - Original price $25,276.00Original price $0.00$25,276.00$25,276.00 - $25,276.00Current price $25,276.00| /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 $25,276.00 - Original price $25,276.00Original price $0.00$25,276.00$25,276.00 - $25,276.00Current price $25,276.00| /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 $23,980.00 - Original price $23,980.00Original price $0.00$23,980.00$23,980.00 - $23,980.00Current price $23,980.00| /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 $22,683.00 - Original price $22,683.00Original price $22,683.00$22,683.00$22,683.00 - $22,683.00Current price $22,683.00| /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 $22,683.00 - Original price $22,683.00Original price $0.00$22,683.00$22,683.00 - $22,683.00Current price $22,683.00| /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 $21,387.00 - Original price $21,387.00Original price $0.00$21,387.00$21,387.00 - $21,387.00Current price $21,387.00| /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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[A Group of Four Parrots].
GOULD, John.Original price $21,387.00 - Original price $21,387.00Original price $0.00$21,387.00$21,387.00 - $21,387.00Current price $21,387.00| /John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...
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Birds.
HAYES, William.Original price $21,387.00 - Original price $21,387.00Original price $0.00$21,387.00$21,387.00 - $21,387.00Current price $21,387.00| /This work contains 40 finely coloured plates, mostly hand signed by Hayes himself. His Natural history of British birds ([1770-]1775) contained 40...
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Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis.
AUDEBERT, Jean Baptiste.Original price $19,443.00 - Original price $19,443.00Original price $0.00$19,443.00$19,443.00 - $19,443.00Current price $19,443.00| /With monkey tools by Bozerian. A fine fresh large paper copy in a handsome contemporary binding by Bozerian, of the earliest illustrated monograph ...
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A Monograph of the Lories,
MIVART, St. George Jackson.Original price $18,147.00 - Original price $18,147.00Original price $0.00$18,147.00$18,147.00 - $18,147.00Current price $18,147.00| /Parrots by Keulemans. Mivart's Lories is perhaps the greatest and most desirable monograph on the nectar feeding parrots ever published. Mivart (18...
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The Tulips.
THORNTON, Robert John (publisher).Original price $17,499.00 - Original price $17,499.00Original price $17,499.00$17,499.00$17,499.00 - $17,499.00Current price $17,499.00| /Second state.Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentia...
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Iconographie des Perroquets
SOUANCÉ, Charles de.Original price $16,203.00 - Original price $16,203.00Original price $0.00$16,203.00$16,203.00 - $16,203.00Current price $16,203.00| /Souancé's Perroquets is a fine sequel to the works of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Together these three works constitute the definitive s...
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[A Group of 10 Watercolours of Flowers & Butterflies.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price $16,203.00 - Original price $16,203.00Original price $0.00$16,203.00$16,203.00 - $16,203.00Current price $16,203.00| /A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and butterflies.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for s...
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Zoological Illustrations,
SWAINSON, William.Original price $16,203.00 - Original price $16,203.00Original price $0.00$16,203.00$16,203.00 - $16,203.00Current price $16,203.00| /First bird book with lithograph plates. A handsome set of Swainson, the first bird book and one of earliest natural history works to be illustrated...
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Flore des Quatre Saisons.
ROBIN, Armand.Original price $16,203.00 - Original price $16,203.00Original price $16,203.00$16,203.00$16,203.00 - $16,203.00Current price $16,203.00| /Rare floral bouquets. Very scarce artistic botanical work showing highly finished decorative bouquets of flowers for the twelve months of the year....
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[A Group of Four Peonies].
BESLER, Basilius.Original price $15,554.00 - Original price $15,554.00Original price $0.00$15,554.00$15,554.00 - $15,554.00Current price $15,554.00| /Magnificent plates from Hortus Eystettensis, one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record...
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A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sunbirds.
SHELLEY, George Ernest.Original price $14,906.00 - Original price $14,906.00Original price $0.00$14,906.00$14,906.00 - $14,906.00Current price $14,906.00| /Attractive Keulemans plates. first edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the ...
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[A Group of Four Plates of Pheasants].
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price $12,962.00 - Original price $12,962.00Original price $0.00$12,962.00$12,962.00 - $12,962.00Current price $12,962.00| /A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...
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Set of Three Bromelia (Pineapples)
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price $12,962.00 - Original price $12,962.00Original price $12,962.00$12,962.00$12,962.00 - $12,962.00Current price $12,962.00| /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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