London: Day & Haghe, 1839. 16 x 21 cm. 1 hand-colored lithograph by Jane Wells Loudon (1807-1858), an English botanical artist. "Pl. 10" faintly in upper right-hand corner. From The Ladies' Flower-Garden. No date of publication. The Ladies' Flower-Garden was issued in 16 parts in 1839 and 1840; plate 10..... More
London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. Hardcover. Second Edition. viii, [2], 265, [3], 32 p., frontispiece and 9 leaves of illustrations; title vignette and in-text diagrams; 20 cm. Off-white cloth with gilt spine title and red cover title; red spine and cover series titles; cover illustration..... More
New York: Viking Studio Books, 1990. Paperback. ix, [1], 102 p.: color photographs; 18 x 20 cm. Paperback with color illustrated cover. Contents: The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield -- A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty -- The Chrysanthemums by John Steinback -- Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne --..... More
London, Eng. Whittaker & Co., 1835. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes: xxiv, 379, [5] p.; 389, [5] p.: hand-colored frontispiece and hand-colored title vignette in each volume, 18 hand-colored plates, several in-text drawings in each volume; 21 cm. Original dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles and decoration; all boards..... More
New York: Lyons Press, 1998. Paperback. xvi, 304 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. The Nature Conservancy issued this collection of writings about the important role of rivers in maintaining quality of life in order to honor its development of the Freshwater Initiative to help preserve American rivers and freshwater watersheds. Selections..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. Hardcover. Imprint includes: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Fourth edition. [3], vi-xx, 646 p.; 21 cm. Dark green library buckram with gilt-stamped spine title. Inscriptions on the front fixed endpaper indicate that William Macrae, gardener at Restalrig..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 140-203, [1] p.; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on April 4, 1834. Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) was an English botanist who trained as a printer, but was encouraged to follow his interest in botany after..... More
Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2004. Paperback. 224 p.: color illustrations, maps; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Describes more than 130 varieties of gemstones, with: over 850 photographs of gems, crystals, and jewelry; more than 50 drawings and diagrams; and maps of important gem locations throughout the world. In Very..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913. Hardcover. [10], 129, [1] p., color frontispiece and 9 leaves of color plates: 10 in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; color pastedown on front board with gilt-stamped title, within gilt-stamped decorative border. Top page edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers..... More
Philadelphia: Joseph McDowell, 1831. Paperback. 34, [2] p.: woodcut illustrations; 20 cm. Front wrapper included in pagination. Greek key border on front and back wrapper. Publisher's advertisement on back wrapper verso. Front wrapper verso contains list of "Remarkable Events" pertaining to American history, primarily the American Revolution. Events of the..... More
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for A. Bradley, 1730. Hardcover. 144 p., engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; 17 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment: "Philips' Poems." Woodcut head-pieces, tailpieces, and initials. Contents: An Ode to Henry Saint John, Esq..... More
New York: Harper & Row / Harper Colophon, 1985. Paperback. xii, 302 p., [8] p. of color illustrations: tables, in-text black-and-white illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. Cover design by William Graef. Stated First Edition. Red star (remainder mark?) on lower page edges. In Very Good Condition..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1941. Paperback. Title continued: "of the Higher Groups, Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Birds Known to Occur in North America, from the Artic Lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other Islands of the Caribbean Sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago." ix, [1]..... More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 142 p.: color illustrations, maps; 21 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue endpapers. The authors examine the threats to the barrier island and associated wetlands along the coast of North Carolina and..... More
Dahlem bei Berlin: Verlag des Repertoriums, 1925. Paperback. [2], 108 p.: tables; 26 cm. Grey wrappers printed in black. Pages are unopened. Series: Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis; Beihefte, Bd. 35. In Very Good+ Condition: lacking 1 cm. of wrapper from head of spine; spine and wrapper edges are browned;..... More
Dahlem bei Berlin: Verlag des Repertoriums, 1924. Paperback. 240 p.; 24 cm. Plain wrapper printed in black. Wrapper title. Series: Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis; Beihefte, Bd. 33. Series list inside front and back wrappers. Publisher's advertisement for Ankündigung für eine Iconographie und Monographie der Orchideen Europas und des Mittelmeergebietes..... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by C. Baron. Plate 19 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from..... More
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Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1800. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 19 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Schmits. Plate 13 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 1. The plate is undated. Although the 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from..... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Madeleine-Therese Rousselet. Plate 11 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from..... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Le Villain. Plate 24 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. Although the plate is undated, the 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were published from..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. Hard Cover. "Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture, with a view of explaining how far those systems are applicable to the less cultivated parts in England, and Scotland." "Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh;..... More
Batavia [Jakarta, Indonesia]: Landsdrukkerij, 1905. Paperback. 125 p.; 27 cm. Plain wrappers printed in black on front wrapper. Small label (of importer?) inside front wrapper: G.C.T. van Dorp & Co. N.V. Djakarta. Small stamp and check mark on front wrapper. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper is slightly soiled; wrapper..... More
Columbus, Ohio: A.R. Harding, 1913. Hardcover. 212, [8] p.: 39 photographs, 6 double-page maps; 17 cm. Blue-grey cloth with black-printed spine and cover titles, and cover illustration. A fascinating account of one man's exploration of the Great Lakes in a small boat in the summer of 1912, illustrated with photographs..... More
Berlin: Paul Parey, 1892. Hardcover. iv, [2], 602, [6] p.: in-text drawings; 24 cm. Dark brown coth with gilt-stamped spine title; color orchid illustration on front board. All page edges marbled. Elaborately decorated endpapers with ownership space on front fixed endpaper filled in by W. Nahlop. This was most likely..... More
New York: Southworth Press, 1929. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 128 p; 21 cm. Blue cloth spine with blue stamped spine title. Gilt and blue decorated paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. This is one of a limited edition of 250 copies printed at the Southworth Press in March 1929; typography..... More