Eight Hand-Colored Natural History Volumes

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1) (19595)  Bechstein, Johann Matthaus.  Herrn de la Cepede's Naturgeschichte der Amphibien, oder der enerlegenden vierfussigen Thiere und der Schlangen: Eine Fortsetzung von Buffon's Naturgeschichte, in five volumes with hand-colored plates.  Weimar: Verlage des Industrie: Comptoir's, 1800-1802. First edition.  $6,000  More…
2) (19464)  Blanford, W.T.   Eastern Persia; an account of the journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission, 1870 – 1871 – 1872, Volume II: The Zoology and Geology only.  London: Macmillan, 1876. First edition.  $650  More…
3) (19593)  Elliot, Daniel Giraud.  A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant Thrushes (first edition).  New York: D. Appleton, 1863. First edition.  $22,000  More…
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(19580)  Gould, John.  Asiatic Birds: Fifty-Four Specimens Selected from 'The Birds of Asia'.  London: Henry Sotheran and Company, 1890. First edition.  $14,500  More…     

5) (19533)  Gould, John and Sharpe, R. Bowdler.  A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds (Supplement).  London: Henry Sotheran and Company, 1887. First edition.  $15,000  More…
6) (19473)  Morris, F. O.  A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds (with 225 color plates) in three volumes, complete.  London: Groombridge and Sons, 1853-1856. First edition.  $800  More…
7) (19594)  Pfeiffer, Louis and Otto, Fr.  Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen. Figures des Cactées en fleur peintes et lithographiées d'après nature (two volumes complete bound in one volume).  Cassel: Theodor Fischer, 1843-1850. First edition.  $4,000  More… 
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(19527)  Roesel von Rosenhof, August Johann.  Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes.  Nuremberg: Johann Joseph Fleischmann, 1758. First edition.  $19,500  More…