Les extravagantes
Paris: Éditions Xavier Barrel, 2014. 8vo. 173 pages. Color photographs. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. A collection of Blok's photographs of plants and flowers.
Nature
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Happy Hunting-Grounds. A Tribute to the Woods and Fields
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888. 4to. 202 pages. Frontispiece and illustrations in text by the author. Original decorated cloth, all edges gilt. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Gibson was a popular American writer and lecturer on natural history, and illustrated much of his own work, as here.
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 Natural History of Selborne
Ipswich: W.S. Cowell for The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Folio. Illustrated by John Nash. Original morocco-backed decorated boards; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Introduction by the Earl of Cranbrook.
Overleaf
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2013. 8vo. 176 pages. Color illustations. Pictorial cloth. FIRST EDITION. "An extraordinary celebration of that most obvious and overlooked part of a tree. It features over seventy brilliantly rendered studies of the leaves of thirty-seven tree species found across North America and Europe" (the publisher).....
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......
La Piel de la Selva: Ecosistemas de Campeche / The Skin of the Rainforest: Ecosystems in Campeche
Madrid: Turner, 2012. Folio. Text in Spanish and English. 271 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
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