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Camouflage Simplified

Eric Sloane, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

60 p. ill. 1st edition. "Typography by Lewis F. White"--title-page verso. Includes bibliography. From the collection of Bernard Quint, gift of Elmar Seibel, Ars Libri, Ltd.
Hana Shishū (花詩集) | Flower Poetry Collection

Kawarazaki Kōdō, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

Classical patterns for dyeing. Volumes : color illustrations ; 31 cm. Folding books, Acordion style binding.

CONTENTS: 1-3. Mon'yō no maki -- 4. Hamon no maki -- 5. Mizu no maki -- 6. Unka no maki -- 7. Shikishi no maki

Library has no. 5 only. Gift of the Estate of Sol P. Kaufman. Volume is an accordion style fold, illustrated endpapers on the front board. Each page spread contains 6 or more stenciled blocks of patterns designs. Volume number from applied strip on front cover, hand calligraphed in Japanese.
Art Forms in Nature, second series: examples from the plant world photographed direct from nature

Karl Blossfeldt, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xiii pages, 120 leaves of plates : chiefly illustration. Englehart C. Ostby Fund.
First Forms of Art : Pt.2. Crystal Forms

Hans Carl Perleberg and T. H. Schenk

2 v. : 80 leaves of plates ; 36 cm. Cover title. In portfolio. "This collection of 156 different forms of crystals was produced by microphotography. Professor T.H. Schenk, of Austria, experimented several years in order to bring about interesting designs through the action of acids on various metals..."--Pt. 2., cover page verso. Pt. 1. Nature -- Pt. 2. Crystal forms. Library has Pt. 2 only ; Plates: 1-20.
Etude de la mer : faune et flore de la manche et de l'océan V. 1

Mathurin Méheut and Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Volume 1 of 2 : illus. (some color) ; 37 cm. Edition: Nouv. éd. Includes index. Gift of Edwin C. Parker.
Etude de la mer : faune et flore de la manche et de l'océan V. 2

Mathurin Méheut and Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Volume 2 of 2 : illus. (some color) ; 37 cm. Edition: Nouv. éd. Includes index. Gift of Edwin C. Parker.
Flora

Henry Newmark, Rosa Newmark, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 volume, 7 pages, 6 plates of mounted plants. Title from cover. "To our beloved mother on the 33d anniversary of her birthday, as a token of our love, and a remembrance of our pleasant sojourn at Engelberg. Engelberg, Switzerland. August 24th, 1887."-- written in ink on first page. Signed, Henry M. Newmark, Rosa Newmark. Opposite each of the mounted plant specimens are numbered lists of the flowers and plants Latin names used in each construction. Green cloth binding with blind decorations, bevelled edges, frame, border with ivy leaf. Title and smaller printer's ornaments below embossed in gold. The Newmarks family lived in California. Henry and Rosa were the children of French migrant Sophie Cahen Newmark and Myer Newmark, who was the youngest city attorney in the history of Los Angeles. He was appointed to the United States Consul in Nice, France in 1888 under President Grover Cleveland and later involved in Los Angeles government.
Seaweed Scrapbook

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

8 leaves : mounted samples ; 28 cm. Specimen book of mounted seaweed plants. Specimens have plant names in Latin and English. Four leaves of paper handsewn into paper cover. Two pages have the mounted specimens clipped-out of the scrapbook.

From the Gorham Design Library. Gift of Lenox Inc.
Naturgeschichte der Amphibien, Fische, Weich- und Schaalenthiere, Insekten, Würmer und Strahlenthiere (Natural History of Amphibians, Fish, Mollusks and Crustaceans, Insects, Worms and Radial Animals) : Vol. 3

Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 of 3 volumes : all color plates (double). Third of a three volume series: Vol. 1.: Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere (Natural History of Mammals) -- Vol. 2.: Naturgeschichte der Vögel (Natural History of Birds) -- Vol. 3.: Naturgeschichte der Amphibien, Fische, Weich- und Schaalenthiere, Insekten, Würmer und Strahlenthiere (Natural History of Amphibians, Fish, Mollusks and Crustaceans, Insects, Worms and Radial Animals). Hand colored plates, mounted on linen. Volumes rebound in green cloth, with mounted leather spine labels. Volumes have the bookplate of Raymond E. Bernard. Gift of Edna Lawrence.
Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere (Natural History of Mammals): Vol. 1

Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 of 3 volumes : all color plates (double). First of a three volume series: Vol. 1.: Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere (Natural History of Mammals) -- Vol. 2.: Naturgeschichte der Vögel (Natural History of Birds) -- Vol. 3.: Naturgeschichte der Amphibien, Fische, Weich- und Schaalenthiere, Insekten, Würmer und Strahlenthiere (Natural History of Amphibians, Fish, Mollusks and Crustaceans, Insects, Worms and Radial Animals). Hand colored plates, mounted on linen. Volumes rebound in green cloth, with mounted leather spine labels. Volumes have the bookplate of Raymond E. Bernard. Gift of Edna Lawrence.
Naturgeschichte der Vögel (Natural History of Birds) : Vol. 2

Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 of 3 volumes : all color plates (double). Second of a three volume series: Vol. 1.: Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere (Natural History of Mammals) -- Vol. 2.: Naturgeschichte der Vögel (Natural History of Birds) -- Vol. 3.: Naturgeschichte der Amphibien, Fische, Weich- und Schaalenthiere, Insekten, Würmer und Strahlenthiere (Natural History of Amphibians, Fish, Mollusks and Crustaceans, Insects, Worms and Radial Animals). Hand colored plates, mounted on linen. Volumes rebound in green cloth, with mounted leather spine labels. Volumes have the bookplate of Raymond E. Bernard. Gift of Edna Lawrence.