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ALKEN, HENRY.
Illustrations to Popular Songs.
43 hand-colored engraved
plates. Oblong 4to, modern
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4
morocco, original cover label retained; most plates with
tissue guards, some mounts stained, final plate with defective mount but image untouched.
London:Thomas M’Lean, 1825
[400/600]
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(ANIMALS.) Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de.
Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans
Vertèbres.
Issued without plates. 11 volumes. 8vo,
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2
calf gilt, covers not uniform but backstrips
uniform; scattered foxing throughout, sometimes heavy. Paris, 1835-45
[500/750]
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(ANIMALS.)
Salesman’s dummy for Johnson’s Household Book of
Nature, containing 18 chromolithographed plates of mammals, sample text, and
subscribers’ forms.
Small 4to, publisher’s flexible gilt-pictorial red leather, spine faded,
ends rubbed; contents clean. NewYork: Henry J. Johnson, 1880
[150/250]
197
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(ANIMALS.) Shaw, George.
General Zoology . . . Mammalia.
Volume 1, Part
1-Volume 2, Part 2. Together, 4 volumes, containing approximately 230 engraved plates
of various animals. 8vo,
1
/
2
diced calf, some wear at extremities; most plates with some
moderate foxing generally at sheet edges, about half of the plates (especially in both parts
of Volume 2) with some dampstaining problems. London, 1800-01
[150/250]
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(ARCHITECTURE.) Ferrerio, Pietro.
Palazzi di Roma de piu Celebri
Architetti . . . Libro Primo.
44 engraved plates, including title. Oblong folio, 483x365
mm, contemporary vellum with remnants of thong ties, worn overall, turn-ins sprung;
marginal foxing and dampstaining throughout, title soiled, free endpapers lacking.
Rome: Gio. Jacomo Rossi, circa 1691 or later
[500/1,000]
“This is the first publication to provide systematic, measured, and uniformly scaled illustrations
of Roman palaces built in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries”—Millard IV,
37. Berlin 2665; Fowler 120.
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