Natural History
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Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.
SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.Original price £195,000.00 - Original price £195,000.00Original price £0.00£195,000.00£195,000.00 - £195,000.00Current price £195,000.00| /Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...
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Album of watercolours of flowers, fruit and silkworms.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £150,000.00 - Original price £150,000.00Original price £0.00£150,000.00£150,000.00 - £150,000.00Current price £150,000.00| /From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...
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Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets.
LEVAILLANT, François; BARRABAND, Jacques (illustrator).Original price £125,000.00 - Original price £125,000.00Original price £0.00£125,000.00£125,000.00 - £125,000.00Current price £125,000.00| /Large paper copy. First edition in the preferred folio format of this celebrated work, which stands in the front rank of ornithological books.An ex...
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Rosa parvi-flora.
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £50,000.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00| /A gift from King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical art...
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Iconographie du genre camellia
BERLÈSE Abbé Lorenzo.Original price £47,500.00 - Original price £47,500.00Original price £0.00£47,500.00£47,500.00 - £47,500.00Current price £47,500.00| /An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...
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Plantae Selectae
TREW, Christoph Jakob.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /One of the greatest 18th-century botanical books. One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after ...
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Zoologia Britannica
PENNANT, Thomas.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...
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The Universal Conchologist,
MARTYN, Thomas.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00| /An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...
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Papillons Exotiques
CRAMER, Pieter; STOLL, Caspar.Original price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £0.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00| /Important history of entomology. This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exoti...
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Lord’s entire new system of ornithology.
LORD, Thomas.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /An exceedingly scarce book. Of the few copies in existence only a handful are known with the full complement of 114 engravings. ESTC lists only BL,...
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Group of Eight Amaryllis
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /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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A monograph of the pittidae, or, family of ant thrushes.
ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud.Original price £24,000.00 - Original price £24,000.00Original price £0.00£24,000.00£24,000.00 - £24,000.00Current price £24,000.00| /Beautiful plates of exotic ornithology. The preferred second edition of Elliot's work on the pittidae, with new text and twenty plates by Hart not ...
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