New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1992. Illustrated with 29 b/w line drawings on pale cream background. Slim 4to, white cloth, d.w. (toned at edges and with one 2" triangular chip missing from upper corner). New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1992. Limited first edition; quite scarce. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Limited edition -- one of 50 "HC" copies signed by Kelly & Ashbery (colophon states that there were 150 signed copies, with 100 being numbered). A...... More

Paris: L. Curmer, 1842. Description Complete, Historique et Pittoresque du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, de la Menagerie, des Serres, des Galleries de Mineralogie et d'Anatomie, et de la Vallee Suisse...Oiseaux, Reptiles, Poissons, Insectes et Crustaces. Profusely illustrated throughout with tissue-protected plates, portraits and plans, a few folding; 33 are hand-colored. 2 very thick imperial 8vo volumes. (6), xxiv, 416; (4), 664pp. Beautifully rebound by Montecot in 3/4 burgundy straight-grained morocco; delicately gilt- tooled spines with raised bands and tan leather labels;..... More

Paris: Audot, 1825. Oblong 8vo. (6 1/2 x 8 inches). Text in two columns. vi, 156, [2]pp. of text. 97 engraved black & white plates. Plate number 34 is hand colored. Brown mottled calf backed green boards (rubbed), red spine label, marbled end papers. Paris: Audot, 1825. Third Edition. Very good. Popular illustrated work on landscape design. The present third edition, revised and augmented, includes engravings of garden designs, pavilions, fountains, monuments, bridges, temples, pagodas, obelisks, hydraulic machines for water..... More

Nendeln: Kraus, 1967. 247pp. and 623pp. in single volume, thick 8vo, green cloth. Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1967. Fine but for a small scuff mark on rear cover. Contains Botanicon Sinicum: Notes on Chinese Botany from native and Western Sources by E. Bretschneider. More

Baltimore: F. Lucas. The text is interspersed with blank sheets of colored paper, possibly for owner's notations or where plates were to have been inserted (clearly nothing has been removed). Small 4to, contemporary 3/4 leather (edges well-rubbed but sound; some light foxing). Baltimore: F. Lucas, no date [1830]. Errata slip for second edition is laid-in and with a very neat owner's inscription dated 1830. A charming dictionary of flowers as mentioned in poetry and literature of the past... More

Paris: Panckoucke, 1814. 5 (of 8) Volumes. Illustrated with 291 exquisite color plates from drawings by P.J.F Turpin, interleaved with tissue guards. xvi, 209; iv, 236; 265; 266; & 280pp. Water stain effects lower right corner on the set. The tissue guards have protected most of the plates from the water stain and foxing. 8vo, red leather-backed marbled boards with ornate gilt-stamped spines (boards are well-worn at edges). Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1814-1818. First edition. Text in French. A very scarce..... More

Rio De Janeiro: Laemmert, 1856. 668 pages, thick 12mo, brown cloth; early ownership signatures, worming, mostly minor (most significant through around page 130), covers worn, spines and front joint repaired, but sound. Rio De Janeiro: Eduardo & Henrique Laemmert, 1856. A few issues but still a very good copy. More

Birmingham: Classics of Cardiology, 1988. Frontis portrait of William Withering, illustrated, XI + 303pp, 8vo, full gilt-decorated broiwn leather, a.e.g. Birmingham: Privately Printed for The Classics of Cardiology Library, 1988. A Fine Copy. GM 1912. Facsimile of the 1925 First English Edition. More

Boston: David R. Godine, 1972. Illustrated with color woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky. 60 pages, slim 4to, green and yellow cloth, d.w.; minor edgewear to dust wrapper. Boston: David R. Godine, (1972). A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Printed in an edition of 3500 at the press of David R. Godine. More

Venice: Andrea Poletti, 1713. Et in questa ultima Impressione corretto, & accresciuto con un Catalogo dell'Erbe native del Suolo Romano del Signor Gio. Giacomo Roggieri Romano. Title page vignette, and a few other decorative initials and head/tail pieces throughout. [24], 695, [75]pp., with text in double columns. Short thick 4to, later patterned paper wrappers over original flexible boards (spine quite chipped; some light worming on preliminary pages but with no loss of text). Venezia: Andrea Poletti, 1713. Brunet 7681... More

London: Edward Arnold, 1908. Frontis., illustrated in b/w, 288pp., 8vo, gilt-lettered cloth, t.e.g.; bookplate inside front cover, some marginalia on a few pages. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First Edition. Very Good. More

New York: Rizzoli, 1985. With 57 illustrations, including 24 on color. 82 pages. Slim 4to, gray boards, d.w. New York: Rizzoli, (1985). First American edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More