Rivers, Man and Myths: From Fish Spears to Water Mills.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. Illustrated. 288pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Garden City: Double Day, 1958. First Edition. A very good copy in a very good (-) dust wrapper. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. Illustrated. 288pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Garden City: Double Day, 1958. First Edition. A very good copy in a very good (-) dust wrapper. More
San Francisco: Friends of the Earth, 1973. Profusely illustrated, including 59 color plates. Folio, green cloth, d.w. San Francisco: Friends of the Earth, circa 1973. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Photographs by Peter Martin, Wilbur Mills, John P. Milton, Gilbert Staender, and others, of the Brooks Range and North Slope provinces in the Arctic. More
New York: Abrams, 1987. Fully illustrated with color photos throughout, 484pp. Thick 4to, yellow cloth, d.w. New York: Abrams and the National Geographic Society, (1987). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1932. Illustrated. x + 244pp., 8vo, decorative cloth; minor wear to spine ends New York: Simon & Schuster, (1932). First edition. A very good copy. More
Paris: Bureau de la Societe des Publications Illustrees, 1839. 6 volumes. Frontispiece portrait in first volume and small vignettes on all title pages. Profusely illustrated with 121 fine hand-colored plates and maps, tissue guards (Scattered foxing and some age-browning). Short 4to, attractively bound in contemporary brown leather-backed boards with gilt-decorated spines (evenly faded to tan); marbled endpapers. Paris: Bureau de la Societe des Publications Illustrees, 1839. Text in French. A very good(+) set. More
New York: Macmillan, 1917. Frontis. in color, many b/w illus. xix, 577pp. 8vo, blue cloth, corners bumped, cloth lightly soiled. New York: Macmillan, 1917. First Edition. More
Ed. by Antonio Pace. With Natural History Commentary and Luigi Castiglioni's Botanical Observations. illus. 487pp. 8vo, cloth; (previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf, otherwise vg). Syracuse UP, 1983. More
New York: Norton, 1988. Illustrated in color and in black and white. xviii, 508 pages. Large 8vo, tan cloth with gold spine lettering, d.w. New York: Norton, (1988). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. A volumes of The Commonwealth Fund Book Program under the editorship of Lewis Thomas, M.D. More
U.S. Geological Survey, 1915. 154 fine lithographic plates, some folding and with captions. Monograph series 2. 4to, plain library wrappers; (spine unglued, spine label torn, corners a bit bumped, previous owner's name stamp). N.p.: U.S. Geological Survey/American Museum of Natural History, 1915. Internally near fine. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1847. xii, 343pp. Thick 8vo, original blind- stamped brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine (cloth is just a bit edgeworn); uncut edges. London: John Van Voorst, 1847. First Edition. A very good(+) copy. More
Boston: 1930. illustrated. Short 4to, 1/2 cloth; edges of boards a bit worn. Boston: Printed for the Society, 1930. Very good. Milestones. More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Illus. 506pp. 8vo, pr. wrs., back wrapper lightly soiled. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1989). More
London: Whittaker, 1827. 5 volumes. 196 plates (out of 210) with 76 colored by hand. Handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 green morocco, lightly worn, some scattered foxing. London: George Whittaker, 1827. First English edition. Very good (+). A near fine set, with light scattered foxing, of this classic zoological book- a standard for the first half of the nineteenth century. More
Paris: Imperiale, 1810. xvi, 394, [1]pp., 8vo, 1/2 brown calf (rubbed). Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1810. Very good. Report on zoology, chemistry, meteorology, and medicine by the noted zoologist and scientist. More
Paris: Imperiale, 1810. xvi, 299pp., 4to, wrappers. Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1810. Large Paper edition. Very good. Report on zoology, chemistry, meteorology, and medicine by the noted zoologist and scientist. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937. 8 black-and-white plates, 10 text illustrations and four maps, 2 folding. 215 pages, 8vo, turquoise cloth; some toning to endpapers and title page. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937. A very good(+) copy. More
Boston: Thames and Andrews, 1803. PARTS 1 & 3 ONLY, bound together. xxix, [3], 466 +96 pages. Includes an index to these volumes one page partially torn. 8vo, old tan cloth, very worn but sound with inner hinges re-enforced. Text is unmarked but heavily browned and with occasional staining. Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1803. Second American from the third London edition. Scarce. A good copy, but lacking the 2nd part. Austin 617 and 618. GM 105, Osler 2413 (both cite..... More
New York: Norton, 1986. Illustrated in black and white. xiii, 332 pages. 8vo, blue cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: W.W. Norton, (1986). Near fine in a near fine dust wrapper. More
Cologne: Arnold Mylius, 1596. Woodcut title vignette (with IHS initials); typeset marginalia throughout. [16], 581, [3 blank] pages. Short thick 8vo, contemporary calf; attractive inlaid covers with blind and gilt-stamped decorations (recent labels on spine). Coloniae Agrippinae: In officina Birkcmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij, 1596. A near fine copy of this uncommon book "The first two books of this work are nearly the same books of 'Historia natural y moral de las Indias' [originally published in Salamanca, 1588]; the other six..... More
Paris: Octave Doin, 1882. 523 text illustrations. 782 pages, thick 12mo, half leather over marbled boards; a few pages with faint dampstaining, covers edgeworn. Paris: Octave Doin, 1882. A clean, tight very good copy. More
New York: Octagon Books, 1979. 386 pages + index. 8vo., stamped green cloth, a bit worn at extremities and lightly foxed at top edges. New York: Octagon Books, 1979. A very good copy, lacking the dust wrapper. More
London: The British Library, 1986. Illustrated (color and black & white). 248 pages. 4to, olive green cloth, dust wrapper. London: The British Library, (1986). A near fine copy. More
Venice: Bertano, 1631. Diviso in Due Libri. Illustrated with 32 full-page exquisite copperplate engravings of marine flora. Numerous decorative initials & head/tailpieces throughout. [8], 120 pages. Thin square 8vo, bound in contemporary vellum (binding worn but very sound; some pages have a very pale damp-stain in the upper gutter). Venetia: Appresso Pietro Maria Bertano, 1631. Scarce. Text in Italian. Very scarce pre-Linnean natural history. OCLC lists 18 copies including those at Yale, Harvard, & Cambridge. No copies sold at auction..... More
New York: Random House, 1967. 259 illus., 101 in color. small folio, green cloth, d.w. with several small tears and lightly soiled. New York: Random House, (1967). More
Paris: Chez Cl. J. B. Bauche, 1753. Composes sur les Memoires de M. Dumont, par M. L. L. M. Folding map of Louisiana. 6 folding plates, 3 of which have two illustrations. 2 volumes. 16mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spines with leather labels, very light foxing to some pages, mostly to margins, not affecting plates or map, one plate of trees lightly soiled, ex libris with old library rubberstamp on margins of title pages and one other margin in..... More
The Easton Press Rubens and Dali have just arrived in England - posted on 15th January and arrived here on 17th January. The books are splendid, but how you get out the shipping so quickly I am at a loss to understand! But many thanks
What a great help your staff was. Book arrived Thursday in condition as described and I say multumesc, that's thank you in Romania.