Berichte des Geognostisch-montanistischer Vereines für Steiermark. 1-12 and Schlussbericht.

Graz, Tanzer [for the society], 1852-1874. Thirteen volumes in four. 8vo (20.5 x 13.4 cm). Over 500 pp.; three engraved plates (two larger, folded), numerous folded tables. Contemporary boards for volumes 1-12 (1-4; 5-8 marbled, black morocco label with gilt title on the spine; 9-12 black marbled with handwritten green label on the spine), and original printed wrappers for the Schlussbericht. = Rare local geology and mining journal form Austria, and the successor of the Berichte des Geognostisch-montanistischer Vereines für Innerösterreich und das Land ob der Enns (Steiermark). Some wear to board extremities, wrapper soiled, with a small chip; old library stamps on title pages and table versos (with some offsetting), otherwise good.

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Book number: 65293

Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études: Section des Sciences Naturelles. Volumes 1-35 [All published].

Paris, G. Masson, 1869-1887. 35 volumes in xxx. 8vo (25.2 x 16.3 cm). Original printed wrappers. = A rare set of an important, and well-illustrated natural history journal.dealing mainly with biology and French paleontology, e.g., Oustalet's Insectes fossiles des terrain tertiares de la France with six plates; Marion's Nématoides non parasites with ten plates; Lartet's, Sur la Géologie de la Palestine in several parts, with a coloured geological map; Sauvage's Fossiles d'Oran & Licata with 18 mostly tinted lithographed plates, Filhol, Mammifères fossiles de Ronzon d'Allier with 56 plates, Viallanes, Histologie des insectes 18 lithographed plates, etc. etc. With erased library stamp. Wrappers with some shelf-wear, a few detached. In the last volumes a few pages wrinkled. Lacks one number. Otherwise a very good set

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Book number: 52641

[Cue Sports]

Het biljartspel. Eene volledige handleiding voor liefhebbers, biljarthouders, marquers enz. samengesteld na eene veeljarige beoefening in de voornaamste steden van Europa.

Deventer, A. ter Gunne, 1855. Small 8vo (16.6 x 10.0 cm). 48 pp.; ten engraved text illustrations. Original printed, pictorial blue wrappers. = Very rare, ephemeral and anonymous booklet on billiard sports, or cue sports. Twenty-one different games are described. This is followed by a glossary and an index. Some terms are still in use today, others have become obsolete or are entirely forgotten. Written in Dutch. We found no other copies anywhere on the internet. OCLC does not report any copy - not even in the Netherlands. Light spotting to the wrappers; partly torn at spine fold; otherwise a very good, clean and unmarked copy.

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Book number: 72560

[Book simulant]

Brass "Buch Atrappe", "Book simulant" or "Faux Livre".

Germany, ca. 1800. Book-like brass box with morocco-covered spine (8.5 x 3.8 x 1.9 cm). = A fine "bookalike", being a brass box with green armadillo-skin inlays and gilted brass ornaments. "Spine" with brown morocco compartments and brass raised bands; the middle one with a small knob. Gilt edges. A very nice and handsome item. Perfect for small jewelry, as it is a small jewel itself. Some light age-wear, otherwise in fine condition. A unique item.

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Book number: 69229

[Brooklyn Botanic Garden]

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Contributions. 1-151.

Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Botanical Garden [and other places and publishers], 1911-1957. 150 papers in five volumes. Near uniform green buckram with gilt title on the spines. = A rarely seen complete set of the first 150 contributions to botany published by staff members and associates of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In 1897, New York State legislation reserved 39 acres for a botanic garden, and in 1910 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) was founded with botanist Charles Stuart Gager as director. The Olmsted Brothers company of landscape architects laid out the original site plan (see the BBG website). Today, the Garden comprises 52 acres. The papers were published over a long period and in a wide range of periodicals, including some with a rather limited distribution. The first three volumes thick, octavo-sized, the fourth 4to sized, but otherwise identical; the fifth somewhat larger still, with a simpler gilt title (reflecting changing tastes over time) on the spine. All with a library label on the spine foot, and on the front pastedowns a pictorial bookplate or stamp of the Kansas State University Library. Individual papers often with an acquisition stamp on the front wrapper or first text leaf. Top edges soiled, otherwise a very good, clean set.

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Book number: 73710

Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel. Section D Botany. Volume 5 - 11.

Jerusalem, The Weizmann Science Press of Israel, 1957-1963. Seven volumes in three. uniform green half cloth over green linen boards. Gilt title on the spines.

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Book number: 73984

Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel. Section G Geo-Sciences. Volume 7 - 11.

Jerusalem, The Weizmann Science Press of Israel, 1957-1963. Five volumes in two. uniform green half cloth over green linen boards. Gilt title on the spines.

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Book number: 73985

Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society. Volumes 10-16.

Baltimore, MD, The Maryland Herpetological Society, 1974-1980. Seven volumes in 28 issues. 8vo (23.0 x 15.3 cm). Original uniform printed wrappers. = Uninterrupted run of this rare herpetological quarterly, published by the Society, which was housed at the Department of Herpetology, Natural History Society of Maryland, inc. Papers are of local, and international interest (mainly North America, including Mexico, but also Curaçao, Aldabra, Iran, etc., etc.). Cancelled stamp on front wrappers, otherwise a very good, clean set.

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Book number: 70687

Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society. Volumes 2(1-4), 3(1,4), 4(1,4), 5(1-3), 6(2-4), 7(1-2,4), 8(1-4), 9(1-4).

Baltimore, MD, The Maryland Herpetological Society, 1966-1973. Eight volumes (three complete) in 25 (of 32) issues. 4to (28.0 x 21.0 cm). Original pictorial wrappers. = Interrupted run of this rare herpetological periodical, published by the Society, which was housed at the Department of Herpetology, Natural History Society of Maryland, inc.. Papers are mostly of local (northeastern U.S.A.) interest. The volumes 2, 8, and 9 are complete. After volume 9, the format was changed. Stamp on front wrappers, otherwise a good, clean set.

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Book number: 70712

Bulletin de l'Association Française de Botanique. I-V. [1898-1902].

Le Mans, 1898-1902. Five volumes in two. 8vo. Text; a few plates including a collotype portrait of the great German-chilean naturalist R. A. Philippi. Uniform half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spines. Speckled edges. = Published in five volumes or 60 consecutively numbered issues (numbers 44-45, 50-51, 52-53, and 55-57 were combined). In this set, pp. 225-240 in volume IV are inadvertently bound after p. 306; the last two parts, 59-60 (pp. 241-256) are lacking, but the index to the last volume is present. As far as we know this is all that was published.

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Book number: 73721

[Société Dendrologique de France]

Bulletin de la Société Dendrologique de France. Volumes 1-6. [= parts 1-22].

Paris, Société Dendrologique de France, 1906-1911. 22 parts (six volumes) in two. 8vo (24.2 x 15.7 cm). Six title pages; 1351 pp. [112; 237; 255; 287; 180; 280]; numerous text figures, several plates; one folded coloured map. Uniform near contemporary red half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the pines. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges. = The rare start of a periodical on dendrology (xylology) published up to 1937 (part 101). Well-illustrated. It deals with trees and shrubs from all over the world, with some emphasize on European taxa. All parts are rare, especially the early volumes. A very good, clean and unmarked set. Not in Cat. BM(NH) [serial titles].

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Book number: 73722

Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de Genève. 1 - 13. [Complete].

Genève, Société Mycologique de Genève, 1914-1936 [REPRINT: Lochem, Antiquariaat Schierenberg, 1974]. 13 parts in one. ca. 400 pp.; several illustrations. Printed wrappers. = All published. The original series is very rare, but this very good, authorized reprint is seldom-seen too. Includes an additional general index. A very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 74111

Bulletin of the Boston Society of Natural History. Numbers 28-29, 35-78.

Boston, MA, The Boston Society of Natural History, 1922-1936. In 46 issues. Ca. 500 pp., many illustrations. = An uninterrupted run from 1926 - 1936, plus two earlier issues. Ornithology and Herpetology feature widely. A few with stamps on the front wrappers, but mostly clean.

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Book number: 74269

[Various authors]

Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. Septième volume. [Volume 7].

Paris, Société Zoologique de France, 1882. 8vo (24.6 x 16.2 cm). 602 pp. [xv, 529, lviii];17 lithographed plates. Original blind wrappers. = A seldom-seen early volume. Papers included deal with flagellates (by Künstler), fossil echinoderms (by Cotteau), recent snails (by Jousseaume), Bryozoa (all illustrated), etc., etc. Uncut. Plate part, being on heavier paper, detached; otherwise a very good copy with the text and plates generally very clean. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1521.

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Book number: 76549

[Société royale de Botanique de Belgique]

Bulletins de la Société royale de Botanique de Belgique. Volumes 1 - 25. [Bulletin].

Bruxelles, M. Hayez [later: the Société itself], 1862-1881. 25 volumes in 25. 8vo (21.2 x 13.6 cm). Over 10,000 pp.; numerous plates of which several tinted or coloured. Uniform late 19th-century pebbled cloth; spines with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = The seldom-seen start of this well-illustrated Belgian botanical series. From Volume 6 onwards, the name was changed from Bulletins to Bulletin. Slight shelf-wear to a few volumes, one affecting a shield, but generally in good condition, internally clean, with neither library markings, nor foxing or toning. The only indications of a previous owner are the small gilt initials F.D.J.N. (Bibliothèque Feuilles des Jeunes Naturalistes) at each spine foot, and a library stamp of Adrien Dollfus - most probably the French zoologist and carcinologist Adrien Frédéric Jules Dollfus (1858-1921), editor of the Feuilles - on the title of volume five. Slight wear to spine covers; some light, marginal damp-staining in a few places; Volumes 21-25, however, with a little more, mostly marginal, damp-staining and more wear to several spines. A good set. Cat. BM(NH) serial titles, p. 350.

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Book number: 74339