Royal Flowers of the Netherlands
Tielt: Lannoo, 2009. 13.5 x 10 inches. 190 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Natural History
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Compendium of Landshells: A Full-Color Guide to More than 2,000 of the Worlds Terrestrial Shells
Burlington: American Malacologists, 1989. 4to. 240 pages. Color photographs. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A very in-depth and interesting guide to over 2000 of our world's shells.
Synopsis of the Ichthyological Fauna of the Pacific slope of North America, chiefly from the collections made by the U. S. Expl. Exped. under the command of Capt. C. Wilkes, with recent Additions and Comparisons with Eastern Types
[New Haven]: American Journal of Science and Arts, 1855. 8vo. Title, 46 pages. Modern blue buckram, black leather lettering-piece on spine. Scarce offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series, Vol. XIX. Agassiz revives the genera established by Rafinesque in his 'Ichthyologia Ohiensis' to analyze the natural.....
Les Animaux et les Créatures Monstrueuses d'Ulisse Aldrovandi
Actes Sud, 2005. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket; slipcase.
Urformen der Kunst. Photographische Pfanzenbilder
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, [1929]. Second edition, published the year after the first. Folio (12 ¼ x 9 ½ inches). 120 black-and-white photographic plates. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. Spine lightly faded, lacks jacket; plate 7 with pale vertical printing defect, otherwise a fresh, clean copy. A.....
A Description of above Three Hundred Animals, Viz, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, & Insects. With a particular Account of the Manner of Catching Whales in Greenland Extracted from the best Authors, and adapted to the use of all capacities. Illustrated with 100 Elegant Copper Plates
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute and W. Creech, 1797. 8vo (173 x 100 mm). 99 (of 100) engraved plates, including engraved title and the folding plate "View of the Greenland Whale Fishery" (lacks the frontispiece). Contemporary mottled calf. A charming and well-illustrated guide to animals designed for children. In his note.....
Herbarum vivae eicones ad naturae imitationem -Novi Herbarii tomus II -De vera herbarum cognitione appendix
Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1532-1531 [vol. II second colophon: 14 February 1532]. Two volumes bound in one (the appendix added to vol.II), folio (287 x 188 mm; 11¼ x 17½ in.). Vol. I: Title within woodcut allegorical border, 4- and 5-part borders to several pages, woodcut arms of Strasbourg, ornamental and.....
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The Birds of Papual New Guinea [Vols. I and II, complete set]
Alderley, Australia: Dove Press, 1985, 1990. Two volumes, folio. Lavishly illustrated with color photography. Cloth; dust jackets; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, signed by Coates on the titles of both volumes. The first definitive account of the bird life of the country.
And Some Brought Flowers: Plants in a New World
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. 10 x 7 inches. 164 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
New Kreüterbuch
Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1543. Folio (377 x 242 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, large Isengrin device on final recto, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 517 botanical woodcuts by Viet Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists at end, woodcut.....
Natural History of New York City; A Personal Report after Fifty Years of Study & Enjoyment of Wildlife within the Boundaries of Greater New York
New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1959. First. 8vo. Original cloth (spine lightly sunned); original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, soft crease to inner flap). First edition, first printing.
The Green Florilegium
Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2013. Folio. Text in German and English. 224 pages. Decorated cloth; slipcase. "This elegant book features exquisite reproductions of a rare 17th-century album of floral illustrations. Very little is known about The Green Florilegium. Neither signed nor dated, it is generally attributed to the German.....
Botanique ... ornée de soixante-cinq planches, imprimées en couleurs d'après les peintures de P. J. Redouté
Paris: L. E. Herhan for Delachaussie et Garnery, 1805. Folio (506 x 332 mm). Half-title. Title with stipple-engraved vignette, 65 stipple-engraved plates by Bouquet, Jacques Chailly, Mlle. Delelo and others, after Redouté, printed in colors by Langlois. Contemporary marbled calf gilt, spine with red and tan morocco lettering-pieces gilt. Some light.....
Special Report on the History and Present Condition of the Sheep Industry of the United States
Washington, D. C. Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. Thick 8vo. 1000 pp. 96 lithographic plates, some tinted, by Avil Company, Philadelphia. Original cloth. The text is divided by the Mississippi River, with Ezra A. Carman providing the descriptions of the industry to the East, and H. A. Heath and.....
A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005. 10.75 x 8.5 inches. 200 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition, published to accompany the exhibition from 2 May to 11 September 2005. "The magnificent old, the masterful new, this is the premise in this lush publication with 180 plant portraits that.....
The Birds of the British Isles
London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911. First edition. 5 volumes. Folio. 2 folding maps printed in colors, 2 anatomical diagrams of birds 318 photogravure plates after original drawings by Lilian M. Medland. Original cloth, gilt-lettered on front covers and spines, top edges gilt, others uncut. Each plate is preceded by a......
Plantae Selectae
[Nuremberg]: 1750-1773. 10 parts in one volume, folio (518 x 353 mm). 3 mezzotint portraits of Trew, G. D. Ehret and J. J. Haid, one engraved general title, heightened in red and gold, 100 hand-colored engraved plates by Johann Jacob Haid and Johann Elias Haid after Georg Dionysius Ehret, each.....
The Natural History of Selborne
New York: E. P. Dutton. Edited and with an introduction by E. M. Nicholson. Illustrated by Eric Fitch Daglish. 4to. 416 pp. Folding map at end, 16 wood engravings by Daglish. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket; acetate. A very good copy, with some intermittent pale foxing, the jacket lightly worn.....
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