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.
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.
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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......
[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.....
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.....