Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America: Second Monograph, vol. iv [this volume only]
Boston / London: Little, Brown / Trubner, 1862. viii + 380 + 12 pp plus 17 plates [xx-xxxv]. 4to.
Natural History
My Style of Drawing Birds
Overland, 1979. First. [one of 400 copies]. 26 pp. sm4to.
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...
Monographs of the Marine Mollusks of the Western Atlantic; In: Johnsonia, Vols. I, nos 1-18 and 2, nos. 19-32
Cambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1941-1945; 1946-1953. Two volumes, 4to. Black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Original blue buckram boards. Covers with a few minor stains. FIRST EDITION.
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The Birds of Papua New Guinea [Vols. I and II, complete set]
Alderley, Australia: Dove Press, 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.
Parrots & Pigeons of Australia
Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1992. Folio. 318 pages. Richly illustrated with color photographs. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Covers 54 species of parrots (including cockatoos and lorikeets) and 27 species of pigeons and doves.
Twenty-Four Nature Pictures: Produced in Facsimile
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1919. Folio (21 x 16 inches). 23 of 24 prints [Lacks Woodpecker]. Laid loose as issued in original portfilio, printed paper cover label. Portfolio somewhat worn and lacks bottom flap; some pale browning, tissue guards age-darkened. "Edition of First Proofs limited to 500 copies...
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...
Walking the Dead River
New York: Random House, 1973. First. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original printed dust jacket. In fine condition. Dust jacket blurb: "Nineteen essays about the New England wilderness (including walks in the Green and White Mountains, some history and prognostications, and a canoe trip in Maine); about assassinations, dogs, jury duty...
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 Sea Around Us
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1980. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by Eisenstaedt. Tall octavo. Photographically illustrated by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Original patterned cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Introduction by Maitland A. Adey.
Review of Research on Laterites.
Unesco, Natural Resources Research, IV, 1966. Allan, David. First. 148 pp.
Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork
New York: The Rock Foundation, 1986. First edition, limited issue, number 58 of 500 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the title. Oblong folio. Profusely illustrated with photographs by Danny Lyon, Gilles Peress, Lynn Johnson, Dan Budnick, etc. Original linen. With an original print signed by Lynn Johnson (adhesion...
A History of British Butterflies
London: Groombridge & Sons, 1864. 8vo. 168, 29pp. 71 hand-colored and 2 uncolored plates. Original blue embossed gilt-decorated cloth. Front joint with 4-in. split, text block cracked. Plates and text clean.
A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, used in the Arts and Domestic Economy. Timber Trees: Fruits
Boston: Wells and Lilly, and others, 1830. 8vo. 422 pp. Many woodcut illustrations. Disbound. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Wood-Using Industries of Maine
Waterville, Maine: Sentinel Publishing Co, 1912. 8vo. 188pp. Frontispiece and plates. Original cloth. A fine copy with slightest shelfwear. FIRST EDITION.
The Dapuri Drawings: Alexander Gibson & the Bombay Botanic Gardens
London: The Antique Collectors' Club / Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2002. Folio. 240 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this fine work on the remarkable collection of botanical drawings at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
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...
What Shall We Do with the Land: Choices for America.
Crowell, 1981. 152 pp. top dusty else very good with d.j.
The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher Groups, Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Birds Known of Occur in North America, from the Arctic Lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and Other Islands of the Caribbean Sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 50, Part V
GPO, 1911. 859 + 33 plates. s.
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...