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The British Miscellany
de James Sowerby
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- Usado - Very Good
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- None
- Edición
- 2nd
- Published
- [1875]
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- Half leather and cloth boards
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- 1
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EUR 2,330.00
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Very good copy of Sowerby's answer to George Shaw's The Naturalist's Miscellany
Complete with all 76 plates (two folding) finely handcoloured engravings by this prolific artist
Includes "new, rare, or little known animal subjects many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles and chiefly in the possession of the author." There are strange parasites that prey on sand bees… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Zoological Miscellany
de William Elford Leach, Richard Polydore Nodder (illus.)
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- Usado - Very Good
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- 1st
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- 1814-1815
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- Half leather and paper boards
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- 1
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Very good complete set of both volumes (all published) of this rare zoological masterpiece
Two volumes (bound in one) of the continuation of the 24-volume Naturalist's Miscellany by George Shaw
With all 120 engraved plates in superb hand-colour
Subjects include the critically endangered American burying beetle or giant carrion beetle, Nicrophorus americanus, and the black abalone, Haliotis cracherodii, as well as many birds,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 2,796.00
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The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia: Marsupialia
de George Robert Waterhouse, Sir William Jardine
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1839/40
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- Brown cloth with gilt spine
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- 1
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Very good copy of the volume on Marsupials from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 37 steel engravings (35 hand-coloured plates, handcoloured frontis, and engraved portrait of Scottish surgeon and anatomist John Barclay) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by George Robert Waterhouse.
Includes the extinct Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus, along with koala, kangaroo, wallaby,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 466.00
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The Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Vol. 8
de William Swainson, Sir William Jardine
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1837
- Encuadernación
- Original brown cloth
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 279.60
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Very good copy of one of two volumes on West African ornithology from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
Birds of Western Africa, William Swainson, Vol. II, 34 steel plates by William Lizars after illustrations by William Swainson, 32 hand-coloured, plus hand-coloured frontis and engraved portrait of French explorer Francois Levaillant
With list of volumes (up to Vol. XIX),… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds
de Sir William Jardine
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1833
- Encuadernación
- Half leather binding, boards off
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Complete set of the two Hummingbirds volumes from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 68 steel engravings engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Pretre
In the description to the very first plate, Jardine writes "This fine specimen has been figured in the beautiful work of Mr. Lesson, from which we have borrowed so… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 605.80
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The Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Sunbirds
de Sir William Jardine
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 2nd
- Published
- 1843
- Encuadernación
- Half leather binding, marble boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 466.00
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Very good copy of the Sunbirds volume from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library in a handsome Root and Son binding
Sun Birds, written by Sir William Jardine with 32 steel plates by William Lizars after illustrations by James Stewart including a portrait of ornithologist Francis Willughby
30 finely handcoloured plates bound at rear, frontispiece vignette of two "little… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 466.00
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The Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Vol. 10 Part II
de Sir William Jardine
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1839
- Encuadernación
- Half leather binding, marble boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 466.00
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Very good copy of one of four volumes on British ornithology from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2, Incessores, written by Sir William Jardine, 33 (of 32) steel plates by James Stewart including portrait of Scottish obstetrician William Smellie engraved by William Lizars
32 finely handcoloured plates bound at rear, including… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 466.00
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The Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology: British Fishes
de Robert Hamilton, Sir William Jardine
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1843
- Encuadernación
- Half leather with marble boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 745.60
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Complete set of all two volumes on British Fish from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 72 steel engravings (68 handcoloured plates, 2 b/w title vignettes and 2 b/w portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by James Stewart
Most fish are depicted lying on the seashore having been caught by fishermen, and include many… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia: Dogs
de Charles Hamilton Smith, Sir William Jardine
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1839/40
- Encuadernación
- Brown cloth with gilt spine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 652.40
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Complete set of all two volumes on Canines from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 71 steel engravings (62 handcoloured plates, 5 b/w plates, 2 b/w title vignettes and 2 b/w portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by Lt.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith and James Stewart
Includes the Falkland Island aguara-dog, Dusicyon australis, that was… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Naturalist's Library: Ornithology
de Sir William Jardine
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 2nd
- Published
- 1843
- Encuadernación
- Full leather binding, gilt title
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 2,796.00
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Complete set of all the 15 ornithology volumes from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 478 steel engravings (463 handcoloured plates including title vignettes, one uncoloured title vignette, 14 uncoloured portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by famous nonsense-verse poet and caricaturist Edward Lear, Rene-Primavere Lesson's illustrator Jean-Gabriel Pretre, ornithologists William Swainson and… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Histoire Naturelle des Colibris
de Lesson, René Primevère
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- [1830-31]
- Encuadernación
- 3/4 leather and marble boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 2,050.40
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Very good copy of Lesson's seminal work on hummingbirds
Complete with all 66 handcoloured stipple engraved plates based on the drawings of Jean-Gabriel Prêtre and Louis Bévalet, printed in color, and finely hand-finished by Rémond (Ronsil: Bibliographie Ornithologique Française)
X (dedication to Cuvier), 196 pages of explanatory text, 66 plates bound at rear on hinges: (Colibris: 1-25 with 2 bis plates; Supplement… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 2,050.40
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Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
de Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1816-30
- Encuadernación
- Half leather and marble boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 932.00
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Very good copy of the Shells volume from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 114 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of cephalopods and molluscs, including octopus, squid, shellfish, mussels, cones, cowries, volutes, sea snails, ammonites, nautilus, etc.
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Madame Rebel, Guyard, Bourey,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
de Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1816-30
- Encuadernación
- Library cloth binding, marble boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Very good copy of the Worms and Zoophytes part from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 116 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of Vermes and Cnidaria
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Plée, Joyeau and Madame Joyeau, Victor, Coignet and Mlle. Coignet, Louvier and Madame Louvier, Torquati,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
de André Marie Constant Duméril, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1816-30
- Encuadernación
- Library cloth binding
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 932.00
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Very good copy of the Insects and Crustaceans part from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 118 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of entomology and carcinology
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Victor, Prudhon, Madame Guyot, Forestier, Joyeau, etc.
Insectes et Crustacés: Title page, 16pp (tables of plates,… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 932.00
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Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
de Hippolyte Cloquet
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1816-30
- Encuadernación
- Library cloth binding
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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Very good copy of the Fish and Reptiles part from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 125 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of fish and reptiles
Includes critically endangered species such as the sawfish or carpenter shark, Ganges crocodile or gharial, great crested newt, Mexican axolotl, Martinique lancehead and European eel. Also includes the endangered geometric tortoise and green sea… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 932.00
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Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
de Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1816-30
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- Half leather and marble boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 1,118.40
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Very good copy of the Birds volume from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 119 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of birds
Birds include the extinct orange-wattled kokako, Alagoas curassow and Cuban red macaw.
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Madame Rebel, Guyard, Bourey, Giraud, Coutant, etc.
Ornithologie: Title… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
de Frédéric Georges Cuvier, Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1816-30
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- Half leather and cloth boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 559.20
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Very good set of the Mammals and Birds volumes from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences bound in one
Complete with all 100 engraved plates of mammals and 119 engraved plates of birds
Animals include the extinct quagga and white-fronted icterus. Birds include the extinct orange-wattled kokako, Alagoas curassow and Cuban red macaw.
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 559.20
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Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier
de F. E. Guérin
- Estado
- Usado - Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1829-44
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- Half leather and cloth
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 2,050.40
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Scarce four-volume set of the plate volumes to Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville's Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, (Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by G. Cuvier). Lacking the text volume as often.
Total of 440 (of 448) handcoloured copperplate engravings and two engraved portraits of Cuvier and Latreille (lacking the portrait of Guerin)
The plates were printed and hand-coloured by Remond, engraved by… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Animal Kingdom: Mammals
de Edward Griffith, Major Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1827
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- Half leather and cloth boards
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- 1
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Scarce set of all four volumes of The Class Mammalia, being Volumes 1-4 of the whole series
Complete with all 179 handcoloured and 21 uncoloured engravings of mammals and cetaceans mostly by Charles Hamilton Smith, many sketched from live or preserved specimens in European museums and zoological collections.
Ilustrations include over 20 endangered species including the chinchilla, river otter, Malayan tapir, agile… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Animal Kingdom: Birds
de Edward Griffith, Edward Pidgeon
- Estado
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Edición
- 1st
- Published
- 1829
- Encuadernación
- Half leather and marble boards
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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EUR 1,584.40
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Scarce set of three volumes of The Class Aves, being Volumes 6-8 of the whole series
Complete with all 148 handcoloured and 12 uncoloured engravings of birds mostly by Charles Hamilton Smith, many sketched from live or preserved specimens in European museums and zoological collections.
Plates include the extinct Labrador duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, endangered green peafowl, Pavo muticus, and yellow cardinal, Gubernatrix… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
EUR 1,584.40