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Travel, Science and Natural History
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- United Kingdom
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Christie's South Kensington
Travel, Science and Natural History
341 Lots
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Lot 1
GIOVANNI ANTONIO BATTARRA (1714-1789) Fungorum agri ariminensis historia. Faenza: Typis...
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
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Lot 2
BAER, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876). Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere. Beobachtung und...
- Estimate: Est: £2,200 - £2,800
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Lot 3
JEAN-BAPTISTE CROIZET AND ANTOINE CLAUDE GABRIEL JOBERT Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du...
- Estimate: Est: £600 - £900
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Lot 4
WILLIAM CURTIS (1746-1799) Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such plants as grow...
- Estimate: Est: £4,000 - £6,000
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Lot 5
WILLIAM CURTIS (1746-1799) [A Collection of plates from:] Flora Londinensis. London: for the...
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
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Lot 6
JEAN ANDRÉ DELUC (1727-1817) Lettres physiques et morales, sur les montagnes et sur l'histoire de...
- Estimate: Est: £800 - £1,200
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Lot 7
HENRI LOUISE DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (1700-1782) De l'exploitation des bois, ou moyens de tirer un...
- Estimate: Est: £500 - £800
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Lot 8
HENRI LOUIS DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (1700-1782) La Physique des arbres; où il est traité de l'anatomie...
- Estimate: Est: £800 - £1,200
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Lot 9
THOMAS HALE (FL. C.1750) AND SIR JOHN HILL (1716/17-1775) Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening....
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
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Lot 10
ROBERT HOOKE (1635-1702) The Posthumous Works ... containing his Cutlerian Lectures, and other...
- Estimate: Est: £600 - £900
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Lot 11
WILLIAM HOUGHTON (1829?-1897) British Fresh-Water Fishes. London: William Mackenzie, [1879]. 2...
- Estimate: Est: £400 - £600
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Lot 12
BARON THOMAS L. POWYS LILFORD (1833-1896) Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands....
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
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Lot 13
WILLIAM TURNER (C. 1510-1568) [The first and seconde partes of the Herbal of William Turner doctor...
- Estimate: Est: £600 - £900
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Lot 14
THOMAS MARTYN (FL. 1760-1816, EDITOR) Aranei, or a Natural History of Spiders, including the...
- Estimate: Est: £3,000 - £5,000
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Lot 15
JOACHIM JOHANN NEPOMUK ANTON SPALOWSKY (1752-1797) Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel. Vienna:...
- Estimate: Est: £10,000 - £15,000
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Lot 16
Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837), Publisher The Superb Lily, by William Ward mezzotint,...
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
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Lot 17
Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837), Publisher Tulips mezzotint, printed in colour and finished...
- Estimate: Est: £1,500 - £2,500
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Lot 18
Johann Jakob Haid (1704-1767) Georg Dionysius Ehret mezzotint, early proof in unfinished state...
- Estimate: Est: £500 - £700
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Lot 19
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) Saccharum signed and titled 'G.D. Ehret. pinxit 1760', titled...
- Estimate: Est: £2,000 - £3,000
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Lot 20
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) Punica flore pleno majore signed and dated 'G.D. Ehret....
- Estimate: Est: £2,500 - £3,500
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Lot 21
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) Impatiens pedunculis multifloris solitariis signed and dated...
- Estimate: Est: £4,000 - £6,000
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Lot 22
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) Guajava alba dulcis signed and dated 'G.D. Ehret. pinxit. ...
- Estimate: Est: £4,000 - £6,000
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Lot 23
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) Jasminum vulgatius flore albo signed and dated 'G.D. Ehret....
- Estimate: Est: £4,000 - £6,000
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Lot 24
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770) Cynoglossum repens foliis radicalibus cordatis signed and...
- Estimate: Est: £3,500 - £4,500
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Lot 25
Thomas Davies (fl.1770s) Jasminum signed and dated 'Thos Davies. Pinxt 1771' (lower right)...
- Estimate: Est: £2,000 - £3,000
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Lot 26
Marian Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) White butterflies: sixty-two butterflies, in five columns,...
- Estimate: Est: £2,000 - £3,000
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Lot 27
Chinese School, circa 1810 Myristica Moschata - Nutmeg; and The Tea Plant inscribed as titled...
- Estimate: Est: £1,500 - £2,000
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Lot 28
Company School, early 19th century Rose Apple; and Guava both inscribed as titled (lower left)...
- Estimate: Est: £1,200 - £1,800
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Lot 29
Chinese School, circa 1810 A brown snake with a frog in its jaws, and A grey hooded snake...
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
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Lot 30
English School, 19th century A sulphur-crested cockatoo oil on board unframed 9 x 6¼in. (23 x...
- Estimate: Est: £600 - £800
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Lot 31
A CAMPO DEL CIELEO METEORITE GRANCHACO GUALAMBEM, ARGENTINA surface treated to prevent...
- Estimate: Est: £3,000 - £5,000
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Lot 32
A FOSSIL FISH From the Eocene (circa 50 Mya), Green River Formation (Fossil Lake, Kemmerer), a...
- Estimate: Est: £1,500 - £2,500
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Lot 33
AN ICHTHYOSAUR SKULL DORSET, UK From the Sinemurian (189-197 Mya) Temnodontosaurus platydon...
- Estimate: Est: £2,000 - £3,000
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Lot 34
A Scunny ammonite Dorset, UK From the Obtusum zone, Frodingham, Scunthorpe, Lower Lias (206-198...
- Estimate: Est: £800 - £1,200
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Lot 35
A COLLECTION OF NEOLITHIC FLINTS YORKSHIRE, circa 8000BCE many labelled with locations, one...
- Estimate: Est: £500 - £800
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Lot 36
AN AMMONITE ASSEMBLAGE DORSET, UK from the early Jurassic (199-175 Mya) Parkinsonia sp. of 6 and...
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
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Lot 37
A MEGALODON TOOTH North Carolina from the Tortonian (7-12 Mya) a 4-inch tooth of Carcharodon...
- Estimate: Est: £500 - £800
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Lot 38
RUDOLF DIESEL (1858-1913) Die Entstehung des Dieselmotors. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1913. 8° (270...
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
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