Books containing photographs, prints, drawings, portraits, plates, diagrams, facsimiles, maps, tables, or other representations or systematic arrangement of data designed to elucidate or decorate its contents. (From The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983, p114)
    

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Botanical sketchbooks / Helen & William Bynum.

Note on the orientation of the plates [in Charles Darwin's "The expression of the emotions in man and animals, 3rd edition] / Phillip Prodger and Paul Ekman.

Fine bird books, 1700-1900 / by Sacheverell Sitwell, Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher.

English woodcuts, 1480-1535 / by Edward Hodnett.

Photography in colonial Australia : the mechanical eye and the illustrated book / Robert Holden.

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Botanical sketchbooks / Helen & William Bynum.

Note on the orientation of the plates [in Charles Darwin's "The expression of the emotions in man and animals, 3rd edition] / Phillip Prodger and Paul Ekman.

Fine bird books, 1700-1900 / by Sacheverell Sitwell, Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher.

English woodcuts, 1480-1535 / by Edward Hodnett.

Photography in colonial Australia : the mechanical eye and the illustrated book / Robert Holden.