Very rare first edition of this geographical and social encyclopedia of Russia, published the year of Catherine the Great's death: it is one of the earliest foreign-language reference works on the country we have seen. In a thousand pages Heym covers the cities, towns and administrative districts of Russia, its rivers and mountains, industries, trade routes and agricultural products, cultural institutions, schools, and places of worship—plus assorted facts such as population statistics, university tuition fees, institutional endowments, the cost of running urban poorhouses, agricultural methods, and the quality of local drinking water. Heym's pride in Moscow University (where he taught German and eventually became rector) is… Read More
The Birds of California. A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species & Subspecies by Dawson, William Leon - 1923
by Dawson, William Leon
The Birds of California. A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species & Subspecies
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San Diego: South Moulton Company, 1923. Four volumes in the 'Format De Luxe, Patron's Inlaid Edition'. Signed by Dawson in Volume One. Copy Number Twenty-one. Illustrated with 110 full-page color plates of birds and 44 drawings in the text by Allan BROOKS. Additional illustrations include 30 photogravures, 120 full-page duotone plates, and more than 1100 half-tone cuts of birds, nests, eggs and favorite haunts, from photographs. This edition comprises the first choice of selected sheets from the first impressions of the format de luxe of the Birds of California. In full leather with hand-carved and hand-colored hardwood bird portraits in half relief on covers, spine panels separated by inlaid bird figures. The Patron's Inlaid Edition is the most opulent and rare of the many editions of The Birds of California published under the sponsorship of Ellen Browning Scripps. Together with offprint from The Condor: Bibliographic Notes on Dawson's Birds of California by W. Lee Chambers (1939). ' By far the most sumptuous book prepared on the birds of any American State.' - Mengel -.
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THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIA
OF THE 18TH CENTURY
WITH A FOLDING PLATE OF THE COMPARATIVE CENSUS OF THE POPULATION
Versuch einer vollständigen geographisch-topographischen Encyklopädie des Russischen Reichs nach alphabetischer ordnung
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Very rare first edition of this geographical and social encyclopedia of Russia, published the year of Catherine the Great's death: it is one of the earliest foreign-language reference works on the country we have seen. In a thousand pages Heym covers the cities, towns and administrative districts of Russia, its rivers and mountains, industries, trade routes and agricultural products, cultural institutions, schools, and places of worship—plus assorted facts such as population statistics, university tuition fees, institutional endowments, the cost of running urban poorhouses, agricultural methods, and the quality of local drinking water. Heym's pride in Moscow University (where he taught German and eventually became rector) is… Read More
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DISCOVERY OF LAKES RUDOLF AND STEFANIE: A NARRATIVE OF COUNT SAMUEL TELEKI'S EXPLORING AND HUNTING EXPEDITION IN EAST EQUATORIAL AFRICA IN 1887 & 1888.
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Les Douze Césars
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A Method for the Calculation of the Zeta-Function. [Received 7 March, 1939. - Read 16 March, 1939]. [In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series. Volume 48]. - [TURING'S FIRST WORK ON THE ZETA-FUNCTION]
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The First two partes of the Actes, or unchast examples of the Englysh votaryes, gathered out of their owne legenades and chronycles / by Johan Bale, and dedycated to our most redoubted soveraigne kynge Edward the syxte.
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The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State. Volume 2 only (of 3).
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The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State. (3 volumes complete).
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