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Journal of a voyage to New South Wales, with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions
by White, John
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- Used
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- First
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- 1790
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- Half calf with marbled boards and five rasied bands
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 9,478.53
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White, John. 1790. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales, with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. Printed for J. Debrett, London, xiv, 300 p., 36 p, [6 p.], 65 hand-colored plates. Half calf with marble boards and five raised bands. Some marginal paper repairs to some plates. Titlepage… Read more about this item Item Price
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Oeuvers Du Compte De Lacepede, Comprenant L'histoire Naturelle Des Quadrupedes Ovipares, Des Serpens, Des Poissons Et Des Cetaces (3 Volumes)
by Lacepede, C. d.
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- 1836
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- Hardcover
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 309.08
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Paris: P. Dumeril, 1836. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter leather bindings with marbled boards, three volumes. Colored plates. The title pages call for 100 plates, but this copy has 105 plates. Nissen ZBI and the other copy I have had, collate with 164 plates; 6 additional ophidien plates and 53 additional plates of Poissons. Item Price
SGD 309.08
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Third Edition
by Darwin, Charles
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- Used
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- Third
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- 1889
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- Original Cloth, marks from removed pastedowns inside both covers
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 618.16
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Folding map, xx, 344 pages, (4), folding map.
Original Green Cloth, Freeman 277Proceeds from the sale of this items go to the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Item Price
SGD 618.16
Insectivorous Plants
by Darwin, Charles
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- Used - Very Good-
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- First
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- 1875
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- Original Cloth, mark from a label on spine
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 686.85
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x, 462 pages. Ex-Lib with Hill Library Saint Paul on the title page. Binding shows some wear and between some signatures is loose, so the book lays flat. One signature is loose.
No indication of thousand (print number) or errata slip, agrees with Freeman 1217, first edition. Item Price
SGD 686.85
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
by Darwin, Charles
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- Used - Very Good-
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- First American
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- 1868
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- Original Cloth, with labels on spine
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 618.16
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Vol. 1: iv, 494 pages, (6); Vol. 2: 568 pages (8).Freeman 879 - First American Edition with a preface by Asa Gray. Previous owner's signature on flyleaf, dated 1874, as well as another previous owner's stamp and a bookstore (Acres of Books) stamp in volume 2. No other library marks except label on spine.Proceeds from the sale of this book… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 618.16
Traité sur la Vénin de la Vipere sur les poisons Americains sur le Laurier-Cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végetaux. On y a joint des observations sur la structure primitive du corps animal. Différentes expériences sur la reproduction des nerfs et la description d'un nouveau canal de l'Oeil
by Fontana, Felix
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 1781
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- Bound in two volumes. Contemporary bindings with leather spines, five raised bands and gilt titling and tooling in compartments,
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 2,060.55
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Title, xxviii, 329 p.; xii, 373, 10 folding plates.
First French edition, greatly expanded from the 1767 edition. Fontana's extensive research on snake venom is considered the beginning of modern toxicology."A contribution to comparative zoology by one of the foremost anatomists of the eighteenth century" - Wood. p. 344 Item Price
SGD 2,060.55
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Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes
by Roesel von Rosenhof, August Johann
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- First
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- 1758
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- Leather spine and corners with marbled boards. Seven raised bands and gilt tooling on spine.
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 25,413.45
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(10), viii, 116, 48 engraved plates (24 handcolored each with an uncolored key plate), 1 colored, engraved frontis.
A very clean copy of the most well known and most desirable book on amphibians. Some plates trimed close effecting plate numbers on colored plates xiv, xix & xx, and uncolored plates xix, xx, xxi, xxii and a small portion of image… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Erpétologie
by Bonnaterre, Pierre Joseph
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- First
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- 1789
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- New faux leather binding
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 961.59
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xxviii, 70 p., (2), 26 plates (plus 36 plates from the Ophiologie volume). Plates are: Amphibians 7 plates; Turtles 6 plates; Lizards & Crocodilians 13 plates; Snakes 36 plates. "The Encyclopédie Methodique is a modified version of Diderot and d'Alembert's great encyclopedia. It comprises 196 volumes, issued between 1782 and 1832. Herpetological matters are dealt with by Dauberton and by… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tractatio de theoria descensus et ascensus gravium obliqui ejusque multiplici applicationes
by Benno Ignatius von Hoffstetten, Joseph Zweieiig, and Nicolaus Tolent Feichtmayr
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- Used - Very Good-
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- First
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- 1765
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- Marbled paper cover
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, USA
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SGD 274.74
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Engraved foldout frontis, x, 74 p. 3 plates, (xxii).
Marbled paper cover hinge cracked at lower portion of book, about 2 inches. First edition of a thesis on the motion of falling bodies and pendula. The large folding engraved frontis by Joseph Anton Zimmerman (1715-1797) is an allegorical portrait of Maximilian III Joseph, Duke of Bavaria
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SGD 274.74