Paris: Anthese, 1991. Introduction to Antoine Schnapper. 100 beautiful full-page color plates, illustrating more than 200 plants and 32 insects. 239 pages, folio, green cloth, d.w., thin board slipcase. Paris: Editions Anthese, (1991). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper of this beautiful book. More
London: Witherby, 1962. Colored frontispiece and many pother black & white illustrations. 8vo, tan cloth. London: Witherby, (1962). First Edition. Very good (+). More
Topsfield: Salem House, 1986. Illustrated in color and b/w throughout. 104 pages. Slim 4to, orange cloth with color illustration mounted on front cover. Topsfield: Salem House, (1986). Reprint of the 1766 edition. A very good(+) copy with a touch of spotting to front cloth. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. More than 80 illustrations. xi + 311 pages, pages toned. Small 12mo, decorative red cloth, spine and edges darkened and covers dust soiled. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, n.d. A very good copy. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. 12 volumes. 3/4 red leather over marbled boards, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. Profusely illustrated by more than 2200 woodcuts in the text, 168 full page engravings, and 12 color plates, along with articles by many contributors on Lower Invertebrates; Crustacea and Insects; Fishes and Reptiles; Birds; Mammals; Man. Volume 1 has a small chip on the top of the spine; otherwise a fine set. More
Paris: Editions Pierre Horay, 1955. Illustrated with both b/w and color images of butterflies. 346 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Paris: Editions Pierre Horay, 1955. A very good copy--with mostly un-opened pages, in a very good(+) wrapper. More
Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. They returned to Amsterdam and Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in 1705..... More
Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. They returned to Amsterdam and Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in..... More
Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. They returned to Amsterdam and Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in 1705..... More
Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. They returned to Amsterdam and Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in 1705..... More
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, 2000. Beautifully illustrated with one color etching printed at Harlan & Weaver, 3 relief prints done at the Grenfell Press, and 6 offset lithographs, 1 double-page, by Stamperia Valdonega Verona. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, (2000). Limited first edition. Very small area of damage on rear endpapers, otherwise a fine copy, but lacking the original wooden box. The 18th publication of Whitney's Artists and Writers series. Number 54 of..... More
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997. Illustrated with color photographs. 159 pages, square 4to, yellow cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, (1996). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. A companion volume to the award-winning full-length feature film Microcosms. More
San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, Inc., 1996. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 72 pages, slim square 8vo, pictorial boards, dust wrapper. San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, Inc., (1996). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1940. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 208 pages. 4to, brown cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1940. First edition. Wrapper chipped and loose with some tears at folds; a near fine copy in a good-only wrapper. More
Forest Hills: Las Americas, 1943. Translated into English by Gilda Massa. Illustrated with b/w cartoons by Chilean artist Federico Ribas. 49 pages with text in Spanish and English on facing pages. Slim 8vo, brown pictorial wrappers. Forest Hills NY: Las Americas Publishing, (1943). First edition thus. Some light foxing on 1st and last several pages, still a very good copy of this scarce book -- the Ulysses of the insect world. More
Acuin Society, 1969. Broadside poem, 13 x 20 inches, in red & black calligraphic print. Alcuin Society, 1969. Issued as a keepsake, reprinting a poem which originally appeared in the New Yorker. More
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