Natural History

  • [THYLACINE] Австралийская фауна (=Australian fauna)

    # 23927

    F. A. BROCKHAUS

    [THYLACINE] Австралийская фауна (=Australian fauna)

    St. Petersburg : Litografiia Kadushin, [c.1900]. Chromolithographed print, 165 x 250 mm (sheet); reproduced from the Brockhaus Konversationslexikon, with the original German text translated into Russian; in good condition, unmounted.

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  • [SPELEOLOGY] Waitomo, Ruakuri and Aranui, New Zealand. "The most beautiful caves in the world."

    # 21645

    F.G. RADCLIFFE (publisher)

    [SPELEOLOGY] Waitomo, Ruakuri and Aranui, New Zealand. “The most beautiful caves in the world.”

    Whangarei, NZ : F.G. Radcliffe [c.1910]. Small oblong quarto, original silver-lettered grey wrappers and green ties, [24] pp, all monochrome photographic illustrations; a pristine copy.

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  • Henry and Emma’s Visit to the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent’s Park.

    # 20688

    BISHOP, J.

    Henry and Emma’s Visit to the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent’s Park.

    Interspersed with a familiar description of the manners and habits of the animals contained therein. Intended as a pleasing companion to juvenile visitors of this delightful place of recreation and fashionable resort. A new edition, with additions to the present season, by J. Bishop. With twelve illustrative coloured engravings. London : Dean and Munday, n.d. …

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  • Le tapir à tache blanche sur le dos de la Chine et de l'Indochine

    # 18679

    IMBERT, Henri

    Le tapir à tache blanche sur le dos de la Chine et de l’Indochine

    Hanoi-Haiphong : Imp. d’Extrême-Orient, 1921. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, pp 9, illustrated with 1 b/w photographic plate; text in French; a fine copy. A study of the Asiatic tapir.

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  • Soya beans

    # 18833

    LIARDET, Cavendish Evelyn

    Soya beans

    Liverpool : The Northern Publishing Co., 1910. Octavo, printed green wrappers, pp. 27, photographic plates. A study on the plant by Liardet ‘of China’.

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  • [MANUSCRIPT; ARCTIC] Extrait d'une Relation de Groenland addressée à M. de la Mothe le Vayer.

    # 18234

    Peyrère, Isaac de la (1596-1676)

    [MANUSCRIPT; ARCTIC] Extrait d’une Relation de Groenland addressée à M. de la Mothe le Vayer.

    [Drop title]. [No date, but circa 1800]. Unbound manuscript in ink on laid paper, 225 x 165 mm, 3 1/4 pages; initialled ‘D’ at the foot; in very good condition, clean and legible. This manuscript is an extract from a work entitled Une Relation du Groenland (1647), written by Isaac de La Peyrère (1596-1676) while he was …

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  • Australian Pelican.

    # 17895

    YORK, Frederick Arlington Viler (1823-1903)

    Australian Pelican.

    [London : Frederick York, between 1872 and 1875]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 78 x 77 mm each individual image (irregular), on original green card mount, imprinted recto: ‘Animals in Zoological Gardens / Photographed from Life. London’; verso with original printed paper label: ‘Australian Pelican’; a tiny surface scratch below the eye of the pelican in …

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  • A monograph of the coraciidæ, or the family of the rollers.

    # 15789

    DRESSER, H.E., 1838-1915; KEULEMANS, John Gerrard, 1842-1912

    A monograph of the coraciidæ, or the family of the rollers.

    Scarce privately printed ornithological work, illustrated by J.G. Keulemans. Farnborough, Kent : published by the author at Topclyffe Grange, 1893. Printed in an edition of 250 copies. Folio, full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine in compartments, lettered in gilt; bookplate for Nowell Peach to front pastedown, marbled endpapers, title page cut and remargined along the …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Shells of ocean /​ words by J.W. Lake ; music by J.W. Cherry.

    # 15626

    CHERRY, J. W. (John William), 1824-1869; LAKE, J.W.; DEGOTARDI, Johann Nepomuk, 1823-1882.

    [SHEET MUSIC] Shells of ocean /​ words by J.W. Lake ; music by J.W. Cherry.

    Sydney : Woolcott and Clarke, [1853 or 1854]. Folio, disbound, original illustrated wrappers lithographed by John Degotardi (old paper reinforcement to original stitching and small closed tear at fore-edge), 6 pp of engraved music notation for voice and piano; page 2 has a publisher’s advertisement at the head of the music; internally very clean, a good example. …

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  • [COOK]. British Museum (Natural History). Famous naturalists. Series No. 1

    # 13762

    BRITISH MUSEUM

    [COOK]. British Museum (Natural History). Famous naturalists. Series No. 1

    10 cards in monochrome. Set H 2. London : British Museum, 1925. Printed envelope containing 10 illustrated postcards with a printed booklet of 8 pp. detailing biographical information on each naturalist. The figures include Buffon, Cook, Cuvier, Jardine, Linnaeus, Lyell, Murchison, Owen, Pasteur and Pennant. Slight staple rust from booklet to first card else fine. …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] Söderhavets pärla : skildringar från Nya Zeeland.

    # 3530

    Sundström, Pehr W.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Söderhavets pärla : skildringar från Nya Zeeland.

    av Bill Shark (Pehr W. Sundström) ; med 56 illustrationer och 2 kartor. Stockholm : Eget Förlag 1925. Octavo, original textured green cloth with gilt lettering (a few ink marks to the edges of the front board), spine with gilt lettering (sunned), marbled endpapers, 190 pp (clean and sound), illustrated, map. Text in Swedish. Written by …

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