Natural History
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White rose with other flowers. Floral watercolour on vellum.
REDOUTE, P[ierre] J[oseph].Original price $25,557.00 - Original price $25,557.00Original price $25,557.00$25,557.00$25,557.00 - $25,557.00Current price $25,557.00| /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 $24,918.00 - Original price $24,918.00Original price $0.00$24,918.00$24,918.00 - $24,918.00Current price $24,918.00| /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 $24,918.00 - Original price $24,918.00Original price $0.00$24,918.00$24,918.00 - $24,918.00Current price $24,918.00| /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 $23,640.00 - Original price $23,640.00Original price $0.00$23,640.00$23,640.00 - $23,640.00Current price $23,640.00| /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 $22,363.00 - Original price $22,363.00Original price $22,363.00$22,363.00$22,363.00 - $22,363.00Current price $22,363.00| /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 $22,363.00 - Original price $22,363.00Original price $0.00$22,363.00$22,363.00 - $22,363.00Current price $22,363.00| /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 $21,085.00 - Original price $21,085.00Original price $0.00$21,085.00$21,085.00 - $21,085.00Current price $21,085.00| /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 $21,085.00 - Original price $21,085.00Original price $0.00$21,085.00$21,085.00 - $21,085.00Current price $21,085.00| /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 $21,085.00 - Original price $21,085.00Original price $0.00$21,085.00$21,085.00 - $21,085.00Current price $21,085.00| /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 $19,168.00 - Original price $19,168.00Original price $0.00$19,168.00$19,168.00 - $19,168.00Current price $19,168.00| /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 $17,890.00 - Original price $17,890.00Original price $0.00$17,890.00$17,890.00 - $17,890.00Current price $17,890.00| /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 $17,251.00 - Original price $17,251.00Original price $17,251.00$17,251.00$17,251.00 - $17,251.00Current price $17,251.00| /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 $15,973.00 - Original price $15,973.00Original price $0.00$15,973.00$15,973.00 - $15,973.00Current price $15,973.00| /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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Zoological Illustrations,
SWAINSON, William.Original price $15,973.00 - Original price $15,973.00Original price $0.00$15,973.00$15,973.00 - $15,973.00Current price $15,973.00| /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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[A Group of 10 Watercolours of Flowers & Butterflies.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price $15,973.00 - Original price $15,973.00Original price $0.00$15,973.00$15,973.00 - $15,973.00Current price $15,973.00| /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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Flore des Quatre Saisons.
ROBIN, Armand.Original price $15,973.00 - Original price $15,973.00Original price $15,973.00$15,973.00$15,973.00 - $15,973.00Current price $15,973.00| /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 $15,335.00 - Original price $15,335.00Original price $0.00$15,335.00$15,335.00 - $15,335.00Current price $15,335.00| /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 $14,696.00 - Original price $14,696.00Original price $0.00$14,696.00$14,696.00 - $14,696.00Current price $14,696.00| /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 $12,779.00 - Original price $12,779.00Original price $0.00$12,779.00$12,779.00 - $12,779.00Current price $12,779.00| /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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[A Group of Six Engravings of Flowers, Insects and Fruits].
[MERIAN, Maria Sibylla].Original price $12,779.00 - Original price $12,779.00Original price $0.00$12,779.00$12,779.00 - $12,779.00Current price $12,779.00| /Superb 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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