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4642 REES, Theorie der Magnetische Krachtlijnen van Faraday, 4to. 1s

1853

4643 SCHROEDER Van der Kolk, Over et fijnere Zamenstel en de Werking van het Ruggemerg, 4to. 3 plates, sd. 5s

1854

4644 van het verlengde Ruggemerg, etc. 4to. 3 plates, sd. 7s 1858 4645 STAMKART, Waterhoogte en der Watergetijden, 4to. sd. 2s 4646 Afwijkingen van het Kompas, 4to. sd. 2s 6d 4647 VROLIK (G.) Horenpitten bij Antilopen, 4to. plates, sd. 28

1854

1856

1853

4648 4649

(W.) Ontleedkundige Nasporingen omtrent Dendrolagus Inustus, 4to. 6 plates, sd. 58

1857

Hersen en Schedel-Vorm, 4to. 4 plates, 3s

1854

4650 VERHANDELINGEN der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Vols. I.—VI. 4to. plates, sd. £5.

1854-58

4651 VERSLAGEN en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen: Afdeeling, NATUURKUNDE, Vols. I.-VII. 1853-58-Afdeeling LEtterkunde, Vols. I. III. 1856-58-together 10 vols. 8vo. plates, £3.

1854-58 1841

4652 ANNESLEY'S Diseases of India, 8vo. (pub. at 12s) cloth, 38 6d 4653 ANSTED'S (D. T.) Geology, introductory, descriptive, and practical, 2 vols. 8vo. woodcuts, cloth, rare, 36s

1844

4654 ARAGONIAE Oryctographia et Zoologia, accedit Enumeratio stirpium in eadem Regione noviter detectarum, 8vo. 7 plates, hf. bd. rare, 3s 6d (? Liège), 1784 4655 ARBOGAST, Calcul des Derivations, stout 4to. bds. 15s Strasbourg, 1800 4656 ARCHIMÈDE, Oeuvres de, traduites littéralement avec un Commentaire par Peyrard, suivies d'un mémoire par le traducteur et d'un essai par Delambre, 2 vols. 8vo. portrait and diagrams, hf. calf, 12s

Paris, 1808

"It is a remarkable circumstance in the history of the science of mechanics, that it did not make any advance from the time of Archimedes to that of Stevinus and Galileo." Whewell's Ind. Sc. 4657 ARGELANDER, Observationes Astronomicæ in specula Universit. Litter. Fen

nicæ Aboae, 1824-28, factæ, 3 vols. in 1, fol. hf. bd. uncut, 20s Helsingfors, 1830 4658 ATTI della Terza Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani, 4to. bds. 7s 6d Firenze, 1841 4659 AUDUBON'S (J. J.) BIRDS of AMERICA, from drawings made in the United States, 100 parts forming 7 vols. impl. 8vo. portraits and 500 coloured plates, £26. New York, 1840 Very few copies of Audubon's Birds of America were either subscribed for, or sold in this country. Yarrell's copy fetched, £36. 4660 Synopsis of the Birds of North America, 8vo. cloth, 9s Edin. 1830 4661 AULDJO'S Vesuvius and its Eruptions, roy. 8vo. plates, hf. morocco, 4s Naples, 1832 4662 AUSTRIAN IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: Publications of, published as follows:

DENKSCHRIFTEN der kaiserlichen akademie der Wissenschaften:
Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe :
Band I. to XIII. large 4to. many beautiful plates, mostly coloured,
Philosophisch-historische Classe:
Band I. to VI. large 4to. many plates,

SITZUNGSBERICHTE :

Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe,

1850-57

1850-55

Jahrgang 1849 to 1857, being Vol. I. to XXIV. Heft 4 (1850, no Aug. Sept.) 8vo.

1849-57 Philosophisch-historische Classe: 1848-49 and 1849 to 1855, being Vols. I. to XVII. Juli (1849, no Aug. Sept.; 1850, no Aug. Sept.) 8vo.

1848-55

These 2 Series of the Denkschriften und Sitzungsberichte, folio, 4to. and 8vo. are sold together, price £25. ARNETH, Archaeologische Analecten, oblong folio, 20 plates 1851 SIMONG, die Altherthümer von Hallstätter Salzberg, oblong folio, 20 plates 1850 These two volumes belong to the proceedings of the Philosophical-historical Class. 4663 ARCHIV für Kunde österreichischer Geschichts Quellen, Jahrgänge 1849-1855, being Vols. I.-XV. part 1, 8vo. numerous plates, £3. 10s 1848-55 4664 FONTES RERUM AUSTRIACARUM; Abtheilung I.; Scriptores, Band I.; Abtheilung II.; Diplomataria et Acta, Band II.-IX. 8vo. £2. 10s 1850-55 4665 MONUMENTA Habsburgica, Abtheilung I.: Maximilian I. 2 vols. ; Abtheilung II.: Karl V. Vol. I. 3 vols. 8vo. 15s 1853-55

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4666 KARAJAN, das Verbrüderungs Buch des Stiftes S. Peter zu Salzburg, aus dem VIII. bis XIII. royal folio, plates, 15s

4667 ALMANACH der Academie, 1852-57, 5 vols. 8vo. 7s
4668 POKORNY, Vegetations-Verhältnisse von Inglau, 8vo. 5s

4670

the same, 4to. calf gilt, 20s

1852

1852

Paris, 1810 1810

The entire Series of the Austrian Academy publications, as described, if sold together, £31. 4669 BAILLY, Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne, jusqu'à l'établissement de l'école d'Alexandrie, 1 vol.-Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne, 3 vols.--Histoire de l'Astronomie Indienne, 1 vol.-together 5 vols. 4to. plates, bds. 25s Par. 1781-87 the same, 5 vols. 4to. calf gilt, 35s 1781-87 4671 VOIRON, Histoire de l'Astronomie, depuis 1781 jusqu'à 1811, pour servir de suite à l'Astronomie de Bailly, 4to. hf. calf neat, 15s 4671*. "Ouvrage estimé, l'Astronomie Indienne est rare, et vaut seule 15 à 18 fr.”—Brunet. 4672 BAILY'S (Francis) Account of the Rev. John FLAMSTEAD, the first Astronomer Royal, compiled from his own Manuscripts, and other authentic Documents, never before published. To which is added, his British Catalogue of Stars, corrected and enlarged, and Supplement, 4to. PRIVATELY PRINTED by Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, hf. bd. russia, scarce, £3. 1835-37 4673 BARLOW'S (P.) Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, stout roy. 8vo. 13 plates and many woodcuts, (pub. at £2. 5s) bds. 20s 4674 BARRELIER, Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam observatae, curante Jussieu, folio, with 1323 engravings, calf, 108 Paris, 1714 4675 BATAVIAN ACADEMY TRANSACTIONS: Verhandlingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Konsten en Wetenschappen, Vols. I, ÎII.—IX., XII.—XV., 12 vols. 8vo. plates, not uniform, Dr. Horsfield's copy, very rare, £7. 10s 1779-1833 4676 VERHANDELINGEN van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Weten schapen, Deelen 23-26, 1850-57; 4 stout 4to. vols. containing many valuable plates, 24 of Oriental Mythology and Antiquities, 4 of Javanese and Sumatran Inscriptions, 26 of Fishes, bds. £4. 4s Batavia, 1850-57 Containing papers of great value on the Antiquities, Languages and Natural History of the Indian Archipelago. Deel 23 contains comparative Vocabularies.

1814

4677 BAYERI (Joannis) Uranometria, large folio, plates of the stars, red morocco, Augusta Vind. 1603

20s

German binding of the XVIIth century. This copy has the arms of Cardinal Truchses stamped in silver and gold on the red morocco cover, which is richly ornamented on the sides, having on the obverse a painted fleur-de-lys within a gold ornament, and on the reverse a golden vase with flowers. 4678 BEAGLE VOYAGE. DARWIN, the Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. Ship Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, 1832-6-FOSSIL MAMMALIA, by Richard Owen, 4 parts, 35 plates; MAMMALIA, by G. R. Waterhouse, 4 parts, 32 plates; BIRDS, by Jno. Gould, 5 parts, 50 plates; Fish, by Rev. L. Jenyns, 4 parts, 29 plates; REPTILES, by Thos. Bell, 2 parts, 20 plates: complete in 19 parts, royal 4to. containing 166 plates, mostly coloured (pub. at £8. 15s), sewed, scarce, £7. 7s 1838-43

Comprising highly-finished representations of the most novel and interesting objects in Natural History, collected during the voyage of the Beagle, with descriptive Letterpress and a general Sketch of the Zoology of the Southern Part of South America.

Figures are given of many species of animals hitherto unknown or but imperfectly described, together with an account of their habits, ranges, and places of habitation.

The collections were chiefly made in the provinces bordering on the Rio Plata, in Patagonia, the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Chili, and the Galapagos Archipelago in the Pacific. 4679 BECKMANNI Lexicon Botanicum, 8vo. cloth, 2s 6d Gott. 1801 4680 Bedemar, Reise nach dem Hohen Norden durch Schweden, Norwegen, und

Lappland, 2 vols. 12mo. Scientific Travels, hf. cf. gilt, 3s Frankfurt, 1819 4681 BEDFORD (Duke of) SALICTUM WOBURNENSE: or a Catalogue of Willows, indigenous and foreign, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, systematically arranged, impl. 8vo. folding view, and 140 coloured plates, russia, uncut, £16. 16s

1829

Very rare, only 50 copies were printed for the Duke's friends, &c. it is a beautiful volume, an ornament to any Library; on account of its excessive rarity, wanting even to large Public Libraries of reputation.

4682 HOOKER (Sir W. J.) Letter on the late Duke of Bedford's Services rendered to Botany and Horticulture, impl. 8vo. with a coloured plate of the Willowleaved Bedfordia, bds. 10s Glasgow, 1840 4683 BENTLEY'S Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy, with tables of equations, remarks on Chinese Astronomy, and translations of hieroglyphics, 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. plates and diagrams, bds. 12s 6d

Berlin, 1834

Calcutta, 1823 4684 another edition, 8vo. plates and cuts, bds. 9s 1825 4685 BERLIN ACADEMY, Abhandlungen der K. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1832, Theil 1, stout 4to. plates, bds. 12s 4686 BESSEL, Fundamenta Astronomia pro anno 1755, fol. (pub. at £2. 5s) half bound calf, 15s Regiomonti, 1818 4687 BEUDANT (F. S.) Voyage Minéralogique et Géologique en HONGRIE, pendant l'année 1818, 3 vols. 4to. and Atlas of coloured plates, (pub. at £4.) hf. bd. morocco, uncut, fine copy, from Dr. Buckland's library, 32s Paris, 1822 4688 BEWICK'S (T.) General History of QUADRUPEDS, third edition, 8vo. upwards of 200 beautiful woodcuts, calf, 24s Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1792 the same, royal 8vo. LARGE PAPER, hf, calf neat, 35s ib. 1792 the same, fourth edition, royal 8vo. LARGE PAPER, good impressions of all the cuts, hf. bound green morocco, gilt edges, £2. 12s 6d

4689

4690

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History of BRITISH BIRDS, and a Supplement with additional Figures, in 2 vols. 8vo. about 300 beautiful cuts, half bound calf, uncut, £3. 10s 1821 I have seen how his volumes are loved, and treasured, and reverted to time after time, in many a country house; the more familiar the more prized; the oftener seen, the oftener desired." W. HOWITT's Rural Life in England. "Open the work where ye will, only look at the bird, his attitude, his eye-is he not alive? I actually and ardently aver, that I have gazed till I have readily imagined motion, aye colour! Each bird, too, has his character most physiognomically marked . The moral habits of each are as distinctly marked as had he painted portraits of individuals for Lavater."-From a very interesting account of Bewick, and his methods of Working by J. F. M. DOVASTON, in LOUDON'S Mag. of Nat. Hist., Vols. 2 and 3.

4692 BIGELOW'S American Medical Botany, 3 vols. impl. 8vo. with 60 coloured plates, half calf, £3. 38 Boston, U. S., 1817-20 Florula Bostoniensis: the Plants of Boston and its environs, 8vo. bds. Boston, U. S., 1814

7s 6d

1813

4693 4694 BIJA GANITA, or Algebra of the Hindus, English by Strachey, 4to. (pub. at 15s) bds. 6s 4695 BIJDRAGEN tot de natuurkundige Wetenschappen, verzammeld door Van Hall, Vrolik en Mulder, from the beginning, Vol. I.-V. stout 8vo. plates of Natural History, bds. 20s Amst. 1826-30 4696 BION, Traité de la construction et des usages des Instrumens de Mathematique, 4to. frontispiece and 28 plates of diagrams, calf, 58 La Haye, 1723 4697 another edition, 4to. portrait and 38 plates, french cf. gt. 7s 6d 4698 BIOT (J. B.) Traité élémentaire d'Astronomie Physique, 4 vols. 8vo. and 4to. ATLAS, half calf, £2.

1752

Paris, 1841-47

"M. Biot, one of the most profound, and at the same time, the most perspicuous and lucid of writers on Physical subjects."-Athenæum, No. 1525. 4699 BLANCO (R. F. M.) Flora de Filipinas, segun el Sistima sexual de Linneo, sm. 4to. lxxviii. and 887 pp. vellum, 14s

36s

Manila, 1837

4700 Flora de Filipinas, 8vo. segunda impression, lix. and 619 pp. hf. bd. ib. 1845 4701 BLOCH'S Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands, 3 vols.-Ausländische Fische, 2 vols.-together 5 vols. 8vo. 216 coloured plates, hf.cf. 25s Berlin, 1783-87 Still an excellent and esteemed work for Freshwater Fish. 4702 BLUME (C. L.) RUMPHIA, sive commentationes botanicæ imprimis de plantis INDIA ORIENTALIS, tum penitus incognitis tum quæ in libris Rheedii, Rumphii, Roxburghii, Wallichii et aliorum recensentur, 4 vols. in 2, royal folio, complete, with 213 COLOURED plates, (pub. at £25.) half bound calf, uncut, £20. Leyda et Bruxellis, 1835-48 the same, fasc. 1 to 9, 3 cases, folio, with 52 coloured plates, £2. 2s Lugd. Bat. 1835-6 A most important publication, copies seldom occur for sale in England. Catalogus van Gewassen, 8vo. plate, bds. 7s Batavia, s. a. (P 1840)

4703

4704

4705 BOMBAY Observatory, Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, 1845-49, 1850-52, printed by order of the East India Company, under the superintendence of Orlebar and Montriou, 8 vols. impl. 4to. plates, £2. 2s Bombay, 1845-55 4706 BONAPARTE (Carlo L. Principe di Canino) ICONOGRAFIA DELLA FAUNA ITALICA, complete in 3 vols. folio, containing 180 beautifully coloured plates, (pub. at £31. 10s) hf. green morocco, the Earl of Shrewsbury's copy, £20. Roma, 1832-41 'I here is at present a leaf of sheet 52 wanting, it will be supplied as soon as obtained from Italy. 4707 Observations on the nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology, 8vo. bds. 168 Philadelphia, 1826 4708 List of the Birds of Europe and North America, 8vo. cloth. 78 6d 1838 4709 BONN AND BRESLAU TRANSACTIONS: Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher (Nova Acta PhysicoMedica Academiæ Cæsarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturæ Curiosorum), Vols. X. part 2; XI. 1. 2; XIII. 1. 2; XIV. 1. 2. and Suppl.; XV. 1. 2; XVI. and suppl. to Vol. XXIV. part 1; with Supplements, 39 vols. 4to. numerous plates, many of them coloured, twenty-three half bound and sixteen sewed, £15. 1821-57 Separate volumes from 1821-57 in stock, sold separately for the completion of sets. 4710 BORGNIS (J. A.) Traité complet de Mécanique, appliqué aux arts, contenant l'exposition méthodique des théories, et des expériences les plus utiles, pour diriger le choix, l'invention, la construction, et l'emploi de toutes les espéces de machines, 9 vols. 4to. 249 plates drawn by Girard and engraved by Adam, half bd. calf, £5. 5s Paris, 1818-21

Priced, 1845, by Bossange, Paris, 220 fr.

"The importance of the subject here treated, and the order with which the whole is arranged, are sufficient recommendations of this work of M. Borgnis. All the articles are written with great perspicuity; and are sufficiently intelligible for the reading of all."-Revue Ency. vol. 3, p. 233.

[The Revue Ency. adds in a note, that the Minister of the Interior, having received a very favourable report of this great work of M. Borgnis, made by the Bureau Consultatif des Arts et Manufactures, had ordered a number of copies to be purchased at the expense of government.] 4711 BOTTIS (G. de) Ragionamento istorico intorno all' Eruzione del VESUVIO, 29 Luglio al 15. Agosto 1779, 4to. 4 folding views, bds. 3s 6d Napoli, 1779 4712 BOUTELOU (Don C.) Discurso acerca del Origen y Progresos de la Agricultura, etc. 1816-Tratado del Injerto, Madrid, 1817-Tratado de las Flores, ib. 1827 -Tratado de la Huerta, ib. 1813-together 4 vols. smallest 4to. half calf, 78 6d Alicante, 1813-27 4713 BOWDICH's (T. E.) Analysis of the Natural Classifications of Mammalia, Paris, 1821, 15 plates-idem, Introduction to the Ornithology of Cuvier, ib. 1821, with 253 engravings-in 1 vol. 8vo. half calf, scarce, 10s

4714

1821

Elements of Conchology, including the Fossil genera and the Animals, Part I. Univalves, 19 plates containing upwards of 500 figures, Paris, 1822Boon Mesch, de Incendiis montium igni ardentium Insulae Javae, plates, Lugd. Bat. 1826-in 1 vol. 8vo. cloth, 7s 6d

1822-26

4715 BRANDT, RATZEBURG und PHOEBUS, Deutschlands Giftgewächse, Phanerogamen und Kryptogamen, 2 vols. 4to. 56 finely coloured plates of poisonous Herbs and Fungi, 30s Berlin,1829-38 4716 BREHM, Beiträge zur Vögelkunde in vollständigen Beschreibungen mehrerer neu entdeckter und vieler seltener, oder nicht gehörig beobachteter deutscher Vögel, 3 vols. stout 8vo. 10 plates, hf. morocco, gilt tops, 21s Neustadt, 1820-22 4717 BRIDGEWATER TREATISES: BELL on the Hand, BUCKLAND on Geology and Mineralogy, CHALMERS on the Intellectual Constitution of Man, KIDD on the Physical Constitution of Man, KIRBY on the History, Habits and Instinct of Animals, PROUT on Chemistry, Meteorology and on the Functions of Digestion, ROGET on Animal and Vegetable Physiology, and WHEWELL on Astronomy and General Physics, 12 vols. 8vo. plates, cloth, £7. 10s 1833-37

4718 BRITISH ASSOCIATION: Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, from 1831 to 1855 inclusive, 24 vols. 8vo. plates, £10. 10s

1833-56 4719 BRODIE'S (P. B.) History of Fossil Insects in the secondary Rocks of England, 8vo. cloth, 5s

1845

1856

4720 BROMFIELD'S (W. A.) Flora Vectensis, the Phaenogamous or Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Isle of Wight, 8vo. with Botanical map, cloth, 16s 4721 BRONGNIART, Mémoire sur les Terrains de Sediment supérieurs CalcaréoTrappéens du Vicentin et sur quelques Terrains d'Italie, de France, d'Allemagne, etc. de la même époque, 6 plates, Paris, 1823; BLAINVILLE, Mémoire sur les Bélemnites considérées zoologiquement et géologiquement, 5 plates, Paris, 1827 -together 2 vols. in 1, 4to. calf, 25s 1823-7

10s

4722 BRONN (H.G.) Naturhistorisch-öconomische Reisen (Schweitz, Italien und Südfrankreich), 1824-27, 2 vols. 8vo. 1340 pp. 12 plates of Geology, etc. hf. calf gilt, Heidelberg, 1826-31 Lethaea geognostica, oder Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der für die Gebirgs-Formationen bezeichnendsten Versteinerungen, 2 vols. 8vo. and impl. 4to. atlas of plates, half green morocco, 36s Stuttgart, 1837-38

4723

4724

Index Paleontologicus, oder Uebersicht der Fossilen Organismen, 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, 16s

Stuttgart, 1848-9 4725 BROTERI (F. A.) Flora Lusitanica, 2 vols. sq. 8vo. calf, 18s Olissipone, 1804 4726 Phytographia Lusitaniae Selectior, seu novarum, rariorum, et aliarum minus cognitarum stirpium, quæ in Lusitania sponte veniunt ejusdemque floram spectant, descriptiones iconibus illustratae, Vol. I. folio, 82 plates, half calf, Olissipone, 1816

188

4727 BROWN (R.) Prodromus Florae NOVAE HOLLANDIAE et Insulae Van-Diemen, Vol. I. (all published), half calf, rare, £2. 2s

4728

4729

Lond. 1810
Presented to "Dr. Thomas Horsfield from his friend R. Brown."
Prodromus Flora Novae Hollandia et Insulae Van-Diemen, reprint of
London edition, 4to. 10s
Redactio Isidis, 1810

BAUER Illustrationes Florae NOVAE HOLLANDIAE, roy. fol. 15 plates,
uncoloured, very rare, £2.
Lond. Auctor. 1813

The most beautiful and most satisfactory work that was ever published. Its rarity is extreme. Suppressed by the late Mr. Brown.

1835-50

4730 BRUNFELSII Herbarum vivae eicones, 3 vols. in 2, sm. folio, many woodcuts, fine copy in calf, gilt edges, 15s Argent, 1532-36 4731 BRUSSELS ACADEMY. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale de Bruxelles [de Belgique], 1835, 1842 pts. 1, 2, 4, 5, 1848, Tome XV., XVI., XVII. part 1, 8vo. plates of Antiquities, Natural History, Physics, sd. 7s 6d 4732 BUCH (Leopold von) Reise durch Norwegen und Lapland, 2 vols. 12mo. plates, hf. calf neat, rare, 6s Berlin, 1810 Physikalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln, 4to. vellum paper; and impl. folio Atlas of 12 engravings and maps on 8 plates, bds. £2. 10s ib. 1825 The large Atlas is very rare. A map of Teneriffe and one of Great Canary, mentioned in the Index as not then ready, seem never to have been published.

4733

4734 BUCKLAND'S (Dr. Wm.) Reliquiæ Diluviana: or, Observations on the Organic Remains contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, and on other Geological Phenomena, attesting the Action of an Universal Deluge, 4to. second and best edition, 27 plates, 4 of which are coloured, bds. very scarce, 24s

1824

First edition, 1823, 3 coloured plates according to Wood, priced, in 1824, by Wood, £1. 118 6d; 1844, J. R. Smith, hf. cf. £1. 12s; 1854, B. Quaritch, hf. cf. 18s. Second edition, 1824, 4 coloured plates, priced, 1841-7, H. G. Bohn, 3 copies, £2. 10s, £2. 5s, and £2.; 1843, J. Bohn, £2. 12s 6d.

4735 BUFFON (G. L. Comte de) DAUBENTON et LACÉPÈDE, Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, 38 vols. 4to. many plates, French cf. nt. £6. 10s Paris, 1750-89 Contents: I. Hist. naturelle et générale, 15 vols.- II. Supplément, 7 vols.-III. Oiseaux, 9 vols.-IV. Minéraux, 5 vols.-V. Ovipares et Serpens, par De Lacépède, 2 vols.

Sold, 1856, mor. £9. 58. Priced, 1841, Wood, coloured plates, £38.

4736 BUFFON ET MONTBEILLARD, PLANCHES ENLUMINÉES D'OISEAUX, 5 vols. roy. folio, LARGEST PAPER, 864 beautifully coloured plates of birds, without text, half bound, uncut, £6. 10s Paris, 1770-80

The above interesting ORNITHOLOGICAL series is of the best issue, on Large Paper, the plates MORE CAREFULLY COLOURED. The complete series consists of 1003 plates. The Text, under the title "Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux," appeared separately in 10 vols. folio, 1783-86.

Priced, SMALL PAPER, 4to. 1845, Bossange, 500 fr.; 1847, H. Bohn, £10. 108; LARGE PAPER, 1845 Bossange, 750 fr Sold by auction, 1855, Lord Stuart de Rothesay's copy, £13.

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