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3:00 AM PT - Sep 23rd, 2010

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Bloomsbury House
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Natural History, Manuscripts & Watercolours

614 items

Lot Description Estimates
(GBP)
601
Lot 601
Chapman (J.) The Lion

,after Marshall, hand-coloured engraving, 190 x 240mm., minor...

100
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150
602
Lot 602
Couch (Jonathan) A History of the Fishes of the Br

itish Islands,4 vol., 252 wood-engraved plates printed in colours...

350
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450
603
Lot 603
D'Eisenberg

(Baron) La Perfezione e i difetti dell Cavallo, Opera del Barone...

1,000
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1,500
604
Lot 604
Elliott & Fry Charles Darwin, born Feb. 12 die

d April 19 1882cabinet card, albumen print, on printed mount...

200
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300
605
Lot 605
Fairman (Sheila, 20th century) Weasel

,composition for a postage stamp, watercolour heightened with body...

150
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200
606
Lot 606
Lesson (R.P.) Illustrations de Zoologie

,large paper, 60 hand-coloured plates, some spotting, contemporary...

800
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1,200
607
Lot 607
Merian (Maria Sibylla) Papay

,from Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium...

100
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150
608
Lot 608
Paton (Frank) Two Horses

pencil, heightened with white, on grey wove paper, 320 x 490mm (11

400
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600
609
Lot 609
Purchas (Samuel) A Theatre of Politicall Flying-In

sects...Especially the Nature, the Worth, the Work...of the Bee...

450
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550
610
Lot 610
Rural Recreations: or the Gardener's Instructor

,vol. 1 only (of 2), 14 engaved plates (4 folding) of 20, browned...

80
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120
611
Lot 611
Tuffnell (F.) The GentlemanÕs Pocket Farrie

r,first edition, engraved frontispiece, pp. iv, 5-34, modern cloth...

100
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200
612
Lot 612
Walpole (Horace) [Essay on Modern Gardening] Essai

sur L'Art des Jardins Modernes,parallel English and French text...

400
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600
613
Lot 613
Watson (John Selby, of Guernsey) Geology, A Poem

,first edition, upper margin of title renewed, just affecting top...

50
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100
614
Lot 614
Woodward (John) An Essay Toward a Natural History

of the Earth: and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Mineralsfirst...

400
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600
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