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A superbly bound large paper copy
LISTER, M. Historiae sive synopsis methodicae Conchyliorum et tabularum anatomicarum. Editio altera. Oxonii, typogr. Clarendoniano, 1770. 4 parts & appendix (bound in 1 volume). Folio (365 x 245mm). pp. iv, (4), 12, 77, 6, 7, with 43... EUR 28,000
it contains descriptions and plates of many of the best garden Rhododendron species which can be grown in this country
HOOKER, J. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country ... Edited by Sir W.J. Hooker. London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849 (-1851). 3 parts (bound in one). Folio (490 x 380mm). With ahandcoloured vignette, showing the Himalayan mou... EUR 15,500
The handcoloured bird portraits are extremely fine
BONAPARTE, C.L. Iconographie des Pigeons non figurés par Mme Knip dans les deux volumes de MM. Temminck et Florent Prévost. Paris, P. Bertrand, 1857-1858. Large-folio (560 x 370mm). With 55 beautifully handcoloured lithographed plates by Lemercier after drawings by P.L. ... EUR 8,000
