Results for: Natural History


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2 Volumes. Folio (49.0 x 32.5 cm). Half calf with orange paper boards. Collation: Vol. 1- 2 + 176 pp.; Vol. 2-  63 engraved plates hand colored except for last two anatomical plates. This is a complete set of text and plates. The volumes have original orange paper on boards and half calf leather binding. The leather is recent but in style of period. The spines have raised bands with new black leather labels- author and title in gilt.  Central panel on each volume has volume number in gilt. Remaining panels blank. Double gilt border on leather at interface with paper boards. Both volumes have wear on the boards. All edges of text block painted in red ink. Internal condition is exceptionally good for both volumes. There is one page in the text volume with some age browning and very occasional marks on a few other pages. The plate volume is complete with 63 plates (61 hand colored). There are about two plates with fore edge damp staining (17 x 6 cm; 17 x 4 cm).  The damp staining is very much removed from the image area.
Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis.
AUDEBERT. JEAN-BAPTISTE.
Paris, AnVIII [1797-1799].
Price: $30,000.00
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2 Volumes. 4to (25.6 x 18.8 cm). Contemporar mottled calf. Collation: Vol. I- 17, 651 pp. + 2 folding charts and 41 copper engraved plates; Vol. II- [4]. [1] 2-527 pp. + 22 copper engraved plates. Bindings have raised bands and floral decorated panels in gilt.  Titles and subject of each volume identified in separate panels with red or maroon leather labels and gilt lettering, Ovipares, Serpens. The subject labels have some loss.  Hinges are solid but there is some break in Volume I. There is age wear to ends of spines and corners. Covers have triple gilt line borders. The text has minor foxing, but charts have browned paper and slightly more foxing. There are two plates with some paper adhering from facing page from previous drop of moisture on plate.
Histoire naturelle des quadrupédes ovipares et des serpens.
LA CÉPÈDE, B.G. E.
Paris: Hôtel de Thon, 1788- 89.
Price: $3,500.00
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Publications by H.K. Gloyd,
GLOYD, HOWARD.
Chicago: Chicago Academy of Sciences 1941-58.
Price: $450.00
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