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.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1888. 8vo. xii, 204 pages. 40 illustrations in text. Original blue gilt- and black-decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION. An account of the most famous caves and cave-temples in the world.
Boston / London: Little, Brown / Trubner, 1862. viii + 380 + 12 pp plus 17 plates [xx-xxxv]. 4to.
Overland, 1979. First. [one of 400 copies]. 26 pp. sm4to.
Actes Sud, 2005. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket; slipcase.
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...
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...
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...
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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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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Unesco, Natural Resources Research, IV, 1966. Allan, David. First. 148 pp.
Belgium: Lannoo Publishers, 2016. Folio. 200 pages. Color illustrations. Wrappers; slipcase. FIRST EDITION. "The first full-size publication of the magnum opus of Maria Sibylla Merian, considered by none other than David Attenborough to be among the most significant contributors to the field of entomology. An intriguing work by one of...
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.
Boston: Wells and Lilly, and others, 1830. 8vo. 422 pp. Many woodcut illustrations. Disbound. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Waterville, Maine: Sentinel Publishing Co, 1912. 8vo. 188pp. Frontispiece and plates. Original cloth. A fine copy with slightest shelfwear. FIRST EDITION.
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...
Crowell, 1981. 152 pp. top dusty else very good with d.j.
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...
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...