Phaidon, 2016. 4to. 352 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. ""The artworks in this book have been arranged in pairs to highlight interesting comparisons and contrasts based loosely on their subject, age, purpose, origin or appearance. This organizational system is not definitive and many other arrangements would have been possible... More
Boston / London: Little, Brown / Trubner, 1862. viii + 380 + 12 pp plus 17 plates [xx-xxxv]. 4to. More
Overland, 1979. First. [one of 400 copies]. 26 pp. sm4to. More
Actes Sud, 2005. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket; slipcase. More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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. More
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. More
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. More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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. More
Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1983. Folio. 216 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Includes the first color reproductions of the 'Primavera' since its restoration. More
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. More
Unesco, Natural Resources Research, IV, 1966. Allan, David. First. 148 pp. More
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... More
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. More
Boston: Wells and Lilly, and others, 1830. 8vo. 422 pp. Many woodcut illustrations. Disbound. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. More
Waterville, Maine: Sentinel Publishing Co, 1912. 8vo. 188pp. Frontispiece and plates. Original cloth. A fine copy with slightest shelfwear. FIRST EDITION. More
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. More
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... More
Crowell, 1981. 152 pp. top dusty else very good with d.j. More
GPO, 1911. 859 + 33 plates. s. More
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