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Catalogue of the famous Portland Museum, with many objects collected during Cook's Pacific voyages,
with manuscript prices and purchasers

[PORTLAND MUSEUM]. [LIGHTFOOT, John]. A catalogue of the Portland Museum lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction ...
With: (2) A catalogue of a very valuable collection of cameos, intaglios, and precious stones, and other curiosities; being part of a late much celebrated cabinet, many out of the Arundel collection; which will be sold by auction ...
[London, Skinner and Co., 1786]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With full-page engraved frontispiece showing the interior of the Portland Museum with numerous objects from its collection. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. VIII, "194" [= 192]; 6 pp. Full description
€ 18,500
Anthropology & Ethnography Art & Art History Auction Catalogues & Bookselling Faunas & General Zoology Mineralogy & Gems Museums & Wunderkammer Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Pacific
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Curious treatise on bird migration

PRAETORIUS, Johann. Storchs u. Schwalben Winter-Quartier. Das ist, eine ungemeine Vergnügung der curiosen Gemüther, durch einen vollständigen physicalischen Discurs, von obgedachten Sommer-Boten, wie auch andern unstetlebenden Vögeln und Thieren: ...
Frankfurt and Leipzig, Christian Weidmann, 1676. 8vo. With the title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board-edges. [32], 445, [3 blank], [14], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Birds - Ornithology
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Ichthyology of western China

PRZEWALSKI, Nicolai Michailovich. Wissenschaftliche Resultate der von N.M. Przewalski nach Central-Asien unternommenen Reisen auf Kosten einer von seiner Kaiserlichen Hoheit dem Grossfürsten Thronfolger Nikolai Alexandrowitsch gespendeten Summe herausgegeben von der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Zoologischer Theil. Band III, Abth. 2. Fische. Bearbeitet von S. Herzenstein. Lieferung 1[-3].
St. Petersburg, for the Royal Academie of Science, 1888-1891. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 3 title-pages, recto printed in cyrillic, verso in German, and 25 lithographed plates by R. and I. (or J.) Koch, and several illustrations in text. Later cloth. [2], VI, 91, [1]; 91-180; 181-262 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Amphibians & Reptiles China Faunas & General Zoology Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia
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300x views of compound eyes & a butterfly proboscis

PUGET, Louis de. Observations sur la structure des yeux de divers insectes, et sur la trompe des papillons, contenuës en deux lettres au R.P. Lamy, ...
Lyon, Leonard Plaignard, 1706. 8vo. With 3 folding engraved plates with 16 figures (original-size and microscopic views), woodcut cipher-monogram (JC for Jean Caffin?) on title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces, decorated initial letters, and cast fleurons. Contemporary French calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [8], 157, [3] pp. Full description
€ 875
Butterflies / Lepidoptera Insects & Spiders Instruments & Microscopy Shells & other Invertebrates
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Extensive work on the pruning of fruit trees, with 11 engraved plates

QUINTINIE, Jean-Baptiste de la. Trattato del taglio de gl'alberi fruttiferi del fù monsu' della Quintinye'.
Bassano, Giovanni Antonio Remondini, 1697. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut mongram on title-page and 11 folding engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. [16], 228, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Agriculture Arboriculture, Forestry & Trees Fruit Culture
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Last authorized edition of the most famous French manual
on gardening and the cultivation of vegetables and fruits

QUINTINYE, Jean Baptise de la. Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers, et des réflexions sur lagriculture. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée, et augmentée dune instruction pour la culture des fleurs.
Paris, La Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1756. 2 volumes. Large 4to. With 13 engraved plates (2 folding), 13 woodcut illustrations in the text, woodcut and engraved headpieces, tailpieces and woodcut initials. Contemporary mottled calf, brown morocco spine label with title in gold, red edges. [8], 16, XVII-XLVIII, [12], 592; [8], 588, [28] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Agriculture Castles, Gardens & Mansions France Fruit Culture Horticulture
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Rare catalogue of the plants of Java and printed there

RADERMACHER, Jacobus Cornelis Matthieu de. Naamlyst der planten, die gevonden worden op het eiland Java. Met de beschryving van eenige nieuwe geslagten en soorten, ...
Batavia, Egbert Heemen (vols. 1-2) and Pieter van Geemen (vol. 3), 1780-1782. 7 parts in 3 volumes, bound as 1. 4to. Lacking pp. 85-102 in vol. 3. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. 60; 67, [1 blank], 88, 40; [4], 84 (lacking pp. 85-102), 42, [2], 70 pp. Full description
€ 12,500
Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia VOC
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