Paris: 1768. Fruit Botanical. Stipple engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 13 1/4" x 10" Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was an engineer, physician and a botanist based in Paris, France. He was commissioned by the French Academy of Sciences in 1728 to investigate a disease that was destroying the saffron plants in Gâtinais. His publication of the findings enabled him to become a member and later the president of the "Académie des Sciences". His constant desire for experimentation, to..... More

Boston: Little Brown, 1897. illustrated with some maps and battle charts. 2 volumes. 8vo, original blue cloth with gilt-stamped ship embel on covers (spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and worn with worn with neat repairs. Boston: Little Brown, 1897. Eighth edition. A very good copy Internally, a tight bright pair. More

Japan: Fujiya Hotel, 1935. Packed with 355 small illustrations, some in spot color. 200pp. Printed Oriental-style on folded rice paper with side-sewn silk wrappers; folding cloth slipcase (sightly rubbed) with bone clasps. Japan: Fujiya Hotel, (1935). Second printing. A near fine copy in a very good folding case. More

New York: Pantheon, 1997. xxii + 329 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper lightly worn. New York: Pantheon Books, (1997). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. Memoir of growing up in Alabama. More

John Stockdale, 1812. Volume II only of 2, 4to brown leather with gilt spine rebacked, corners bumped. Plates 30 to 60 only. 235-503p Beautiful engraved plates with lavish original hand coloring. Hard to find. Sydenham Teast Edwards was a natural history illustrator. This is a good example of his work. More

Basel: Thomas Guarinus, 1581. Folio, vellum over boards with repair to spine and back cover. pp. title page has pencil notations (8), 386 of 387pp, (12). Pantaleon's history of the Christian orders and their deeds against Turks, Arabs, in various wars. Many beautiful woodcuts but first page with Jerusalem view missing, Tyre, and Damascus, maps of the Holy Land, Cyprus, the Nile delta, Greece, and the Balkans, and plans of Constantinople and other cities. More

Paris: Georges Petit, 1912. Notices de Emile Dacier (dessins), Marcel Nicolle (pastels et tableaux). Volume 1 only: Dessins, Pastels. 91 full page sepia plates, original printed wrappers bound in, small folio, 3/4 brown morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt. Paris: George Petit, 1912. Near fine. More

San Francisco: Mercury House, 1987. Some illustrations. 235 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. (lightly edgeworn and scuffed). San Francisco: Mercury House, (1987). First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Signed "For Donna Schwartz, Joseph Cotten" on the title page. More

New York: Knopf, 1992. Thin 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Fine. More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. 8vo, two toned boards, d.w. Garden City: Doubleday, (1987). First Edition. Fine. More

New York: Random House, 2012. 8vo, black boards, d.w. New York: Random House, (2012). First Edition. Fine. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. More

New York: Macmillan, 1928. Illustrated. 482 pages, 8vo, cloth; ownership signature inside front cover, rubbed, corners worn, small chip to top front edge. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Internally clean, tight, overall a very good copy. More

New York: Knopf, 1978. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Knopf, (1978). First American Edition. More