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.
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Les Animaux et les Créatures Monstrueuses d'Ulisse Aldrovandi
Actes Sud, 2005. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket; slipcase.
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.....
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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.
Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod
Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. 8vo. 142 pages. Original cream linen, green decorated cloth cover; printed slipcase/. Limited edition, number 18 of 150 copies so designated in calligraphy and signed by the author.
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.
Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork [Two volumes).
New York: The Rock Foundation, 1986. Two volumes, oblong folio. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Danny Lyon, Gilles Peress, Lynn Johnson, Dan Budnick, etc. Original linen, images mounted on covers; matching slipcase. First edition. It was issued simultaneously both as this single-volume text (with a separate ISBN number) and.....
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.....
Rails of the World. A Monograph of the Family Rallidae
Toronto: M. F. Feheley Publishers Limited, 1977. Folio (14 x 10 inches). Illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's plain card slipcase. First edition. With a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson. An exquisitely designed and printed book, produced in Verona under the direction.....
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......
Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast. From original water color sketches drawn from nature
New York: Cassell & Company, 1887. Folio (31.2 x 23.7 cm). 64 pages. With half-title. 24 chromolithographs, including frontispiece. Original olive decorated cloth, all edges gilt. Provenance: 1894 pencilled gift inscription on flyleaf to Isabella C. Stewart. First edition.
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.....
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