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Best edition of an extensive manual on agricultural architecture

VOIT, Johann Michael. Handbuch der landwirtschaftlichen Baukunst.
Augsburg, Von Jenisch und Stagesche Verlagshandlung, 1840. 2 volumes. With numerous illustrations and figures of detailed construction-plans of all sorts of farm buildings on 20 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary half blue decorative cloth, marbled paper sides, gold-stamped spines. XVIII, 292; X, 294 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Agriculture Architecture
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On the characteristics of and trade in Cinchona bark

VRIJDAG ZIJNEN, Theodoor Daniel. De in den handel voorkomende kina-basten, pharmacologisch behandeld en toegepast op de soorten welke in de Pharmacopoea Belgica vermeld zijn.
Rotterdam, P.H. van den Heuvell (back of half-title: The Hague, A.D. Schinkel), 1835. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. XII, 120 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Arboriculture & Dendrology Economic History & Trade Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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Weddell's second voyage to South America

WEDDELL, Hugues Algernon. Voyage dans le nord de la Bolivie et dans les parties voisines du Pérou ou visite au district aurifère de Tipuani.
Paris, P. Bertrand & London, H. Baillière, 1853. 8vo. With two lithographed plates, three woodcut illustrations in text (one music) and a folding engraved map. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine. [4], XII, 571, [1] pp. Full description
€ 650
Earth Sciences South America Travel & Voyages South America
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Attractive watercolour of a whaling scene, showing four whales and the whalers in action with their harpoons

[WHALING - WATERCOLOUR]. [A Dutch whaling scene].
[ca. 1801?]. Illustration 29 x 39 cm; frame 44 x 53 cm. Pen, ink and watercolour whaling scene with a coloured border, on laid paper, mounted on paperboard. Framed. Full description
€ 6,500
Arctic & Antarctic Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Fishery & Whaling Mammals Prints & Print Series
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Volume on amphibians from the monumental Augsburg series Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte

WILHELM, Gottlieb Tobias. Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Die Amphibien.
Vienna, for the publishers ["auf Kosten des Herausgebers"], 1818. 8vo. With engraved title-page mounted on a separate leaf and 40 full-page folded-out plates with 70 figs. engraved by Jacob Schmuzer, alle colored by hand. Contemporary half calf. [18], 328 pp. Full description
€ 750
Amphibians & Reptiles
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