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Naturhistorische Abhandlungen und Erläuterungen besonders die Petrefactenkunde betressend.
TILESIUS, Wilhelm Gottfried.Original price $3,515.00 - Original price $3,515.00Original price $3,515.00$3,515.00$3,515.00 - $3,515.00Current price $3,515.00Fine hand-coloured plates of fossils. The plates from the first and only edition of an early work on fossilised invertebrates by the German natural...
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Les Fleurs Animées.
GRANDVILLE, J.-J.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00First edition, first issue of one of the great modern illustrated books of the 19th century. Grandville was a remarkable caricaturist and he anima...
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Cistineae.
SWEET, RobertOriginal price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Originally published in 28 parts between July 1825 and January 1830, each plate shows a single variety of Cistus, or Rock-rose, and is accompanied...
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Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania.
NORTH, Alfred J.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00In the original wrappers. The preferred, much enlarged second edition of Australian ornithologist Alfred North's comprehensive report, containing d...
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L'Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico
VOLTA, Alessandro.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Large paper copy in the original wrappers. Large paper copy of the first edition of Volta's last memoir on galvanism, 'a lengthy review of his reas...
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Rosa Indica dichotoma
REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph; CHAPUY (engraver).Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00For "Les Roses".Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759 - 1840) was perhaps one of the greatest of all flower artists and was employed by the Empress Josephin...
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Fusokoku daiissan-Yosan Hiroku [On Silk-Production]
KAMIGAKI, Morikuni; Chuwa Nishimura.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Rare Japanese Treatise on Silk Manufacturing. Illustrated treatise on the rearing of silkworms and the manufacturing of silk. The work traces the h...
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Dialling, Plain, Concave, Convex [&c.]
LEYBOURN, William.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $3,196.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00The making and decoration of dials. William Leybourn (1627-1716) was a well-respected mathematician, surveyor, and private tutor. First published i...
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Ornithologie Bresilienne
Jean Theodore DescourtilzOriginal price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Descourtilz 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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Ornithologie Bresilienne
DESCOURTILZ, Jean TheodoreOriginal price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $3,196.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Descourtilz 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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Fritillaria Imperialis
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00The 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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Lilium Superbum
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00The 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 Set of Four Watercolours of Frogs.
OUDART, Paul Louis.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00An unusual subject finely treated and very well preserved.Original watercolours, pencil and bodycolour, signed. Framed and glazed. Dimensions: 85 ...
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Pineapple with foliage.
[MERIAN, Maria Sibylla].Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...
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Scrubfowl.
PRÊTRE, Jean Gabriel.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $3,196.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Jean Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a Swiss-born painter of natural history subjects. He first worked as an illustrator recording specimens in the...
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South American Turtle Dove.
PRÊTRE, Jean Gabriel.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $3,196.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Jean Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a Swiss-born painter of natural history subjects. He first worked as an illustrator recording specimens in the...
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Sinai Rosefinch.
HÜET Nicolas, the Younger.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $3,196.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Nicolas Hüet (1770-1830) was one of a family of artists, though arguably the most famous because of his exquisitely detailed natural history studi...
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Iris Florentina
REDOUTÉ Pierre-Joseph.Original price $2,876.00 - Original price $2,876.00Original price $0.00$2,876.00$2,876.00 - $2,876.00Current price $2,876.00The 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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Crinium Giganteum
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price $2,876.00 - Original price $2,876.00Original price $0.00$2,876.00$2,876.00 - $2,876.00Current price $2,876.00The 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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Gladiolus Cardinalis
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price $2,876.00 - Original price $2,876.00Original price $0.00$2,876.00$2,876.00 - $2,876.00Current price $2,876.00The 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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