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Item #4047 [AMERICAN SONGBIRDS]. Two framed original chromolithographs from the Zoology /...
Two framed chromolithographs of American Songbirds

[AMERICAN SONGBIRDS]. Two framed original chromolithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean"

Washington DC: War Department, 1859. First Edition. Together two matted and framed chromolithographs (visible portion: ca. 245 x 190 mm; frame size: ca. 303 x 274). The are original prints, NOT reproductions! AN EXCELLENT PAIR OF ORNITHOLOGICAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS from the famed "Pacific Railroad Surveys" of 1853-1855. "The ornithological studies produced..... More

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Item #4046 [HAWKS]. Two original lithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the...
Two fine chromolithographs of American Hawks

[HAWKS]. Two original lithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean"

Washington DC: War Department, 1860. First Edition. Together two chromolithographs (287 x 212 mm), loose in mylar L-sleeve (plate XVI with short marginal tear at top, not affecting image). Our prints have VERY LITTLE offsetting which almost invarably spoils the illustrations of this publication and is SUITABLE FOR FRAMING. The..... More

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Item #3449 SIX original hand-colored flower prints from Curtis's Botanical Magazine 1840 - each...

SIX original hand-colored flower prints from Curtis's Botanical Magazine 1840 - each one matted and with accompanying letterpress texts

London: For the Proprietor Samuel Curtis, 1840. First Edition. A quantity of 6 hand-colored engravings, matted, stained at the tape hinges in the upper margins (SEE IMAGES), each print with accompanying descriptive text loosely laid in (some foxing as commonly), pl. 3769 matte with staining to left margin, not affecting..... More

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Item #3061 [GIRAFFES - FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY]. Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques...
Presentation copy from the author to the taxidermist

[GIRAFFES - FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY]. Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin)

Paris: Imprimerie veuve Berger-Levrault, 1845. First Edition. Large 4to (306 x 231 mm). 2 ff., 124 pp. With 17 plates lithographed by Delor after drawings by Joly. Bound in modern blue percaline cloth by Lobstein-Laurenchet, red morocco spine label gilt, original front cover wrapper preserved. Separate printing of the "Mémoires..... More

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Item #1641 [EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748]. Telliamed, ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un...
Extraordinarily Prescient Theories of Evolution

[EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748]. Telliamed, ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer, la formation de la Terre, l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.G[uers]

Amsterdam: Chez l'honore et fils, libraires, 1748. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. I: [10], cxix, [7], 208 pp. + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom. 1). II: [2], 231 pp. + 1 f. ("Addition") + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom 1 [sic]). First title page with unobtrusive paper..... More

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Item #1363 [PHOTOBOOK]. Cranium Architecture. Irving Penn
Beauty in animal skulls

[PHOTOBOOK]. Cranium Architecture

London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Altogether 69, [3] pp. including 27 superb photographic plates, each with captions on opposite page. The new catalogue raisonne of Penn's astonishing "Cranium" series of Animal skeletons, valuable for forensic research, to say nothing of the extraordinary photographic celebration of each..... More

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Item #425 De cellulis antherarum fibrosis nec non de granorum pollinarium formis commentatio...
Quest for Understanding Pollen - illustrated with 18 early lithographs

De cellulis antherarum fibrosis nec non de granorum pollinarium formis commentatio phytotomica

Vratislaviae (i.e. Wrocklaw, Poland): [Privately published by] J.D. Grueson, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 4to. 58 pp. COMPLETE with 18 lithographic plates. Original nineteenth-century boards (corners and tail of spine bumped), printed label on upper cover. Some minor foxing. An unsophisticated and partially unread copy, with many gatherings unopened. Important and..... More

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Item #3775 VICTORIAN SEAWEED ALBUM (SCOTLAND, 1852-1853) WITH 56 PRESSED SPECIMENS, ALL...
"Call us not weeds -- we are flowers of the sea"

VICTORIAN SEAWEED ALBUM (SCOTLAND, 1852-1853) WITH 56 PRESSED SPECIMENS, ALL IDENTIFIED

Scotland and Northumbria: 1852-1853. Oblong 8vo (126 x 223 mm). Contemporary tartan-patterned boards, modern leather spine very well executed, lower cover stained (presumably an ink blot), contents clean and unblemished, all specimens in excellent condition. Suitable for exhibition and study. Stretching our comprehension of the book as a physical object..... More

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