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Charting new species: Baron Walsingham’s pioneering study of North American microlepidoptera

WALSINGHAM, Thomas de Grey, Baron. Pterophoridae of California and Oregon.
London, John van Voorst, 1880. 8vo (24.9 x 15.7 cm). With 3 hand-coloured plates depicting 46 specimens, drawn by E.W. Robinson and printed from steel engravings. Later half light blue cloth. XVI, 66, [12] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Extremely rare 1788 Russian edition of Zimmermann's account of Cook's third voyage

ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Posliednee puteshestvie okolo svieta Kapitana Kuka s obstoiatel'stvami o ego zhizni i smerti ...
St Petersburg, P.B. [= Peter Bogdanovich], 1788. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf. [4], 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 18,500
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A novel about the California Gold Rush

ZIMMERMAN, W.F.A. (pseudonym of Carl Gottfried Wilhelm VOLLMER). Californie en de goudkoorts. Togten in het westen van Noord-Amerika. Het leven en de zeden der goudgravers, Mormonen en Indianen.
Amsterdam, P.M. van der Made, 1864. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's original printed stiff paper wrappers. [8], 380; [4], 403, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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