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.
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The Tetons. Interpretations of a Mountain Landscape
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. 12mo. 77 pages. Folding map at end, photographic plates. Flexible cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, second printing, a presentation copy, inscribed by Fryxell on the title to a classmate from Augustana College. Fryxell was the leading expert on the Tetons, an.....
Jellyfish: A Natural History
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 8vo. 224 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Jellyfish presents these aquarium favorites in all their extraordinary and captivating beauty. Fifty unique species, from stalked jellyfish to black sea nettles, are presented in stunning color photographs along with the most current.....
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.
Evangeline. A Tale of Acadie. Decorated with Leaves from the Acadian Forests
Boston and New York: The Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin, 1887. Oblong 8vo (6½ x 8½ inches). Chromolithographic frontispiece and marginal illustrations throughout. Original gilt-decorated cloth, gilt-decorated endpapers, edges gilt. A fine copy, gilt fresh and bright, internal colors unfaded. A FINELY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF LONGFELLOW'S 'EVANGELINE', using color-printed reproductions.....
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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