Boston: Ginn & Co., 1900. Hardcover. Printed at the Athenaeum Press. xiv, 129 p., frontispiece; 18 cm. Beige cloth with red spine and cover title; red and green decoration on spine and front cover. In Near Fine Condition: top page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight... More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1881. Hardcover. New Edition. xii, 387, [1] p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and front cover decoration. Black-stamped decoration on front board with same blind-stamped on back board. Dark brown endpapers. Title vignette of the anemone leaf drawn by the author..... More
New York: William Wood & Co., 1884. Hardcover. [2], xi, [1], 292 p., 9 leaves of chromolithographed plates with 9 leaves containing captions: 160 in-text drawings; 24 cm. Yellow cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: Medical Botany of North America. Black stamped spine and front cover decoration; black stamped series title..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. 23-119, [1] p., 19 leaves of handcolored lithographed plates drawn by J. Drayton; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Final 2 pages of text contain "Systematic Index of the Shells Described in Mr Lea's Memoirs: Volumes III., IV. and V."..... More
Edinburgh: Lizars, 1834. Hand-colored steel engraving 6.25 x 3.75 inches (16 x 9.5 cm.) in white mat 10 x 8 inches. Plate 4 from Sir William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library; engraved by William H. Lizars. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Back of mat very lightly scraped... More
Edinburgh: Lizars, 1834. Hand-colored steel engraving 6.25 x 3.75 inches (16 x 9.5 cm.) in white mat 10 x 8 inches. Plate 9 from Sir William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library; engraved by William H. Lizars. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Back of mat very lightly scraped... More
Edinburgh: Lizars, 1834. Hand-colored steel engraving 6.25 x 3.75 inches (16 x 9.5 cm.) in white mat 10 x 8 inches. Plate 19 from Sir William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library; engraved by William H. Lizars. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Back of mat has several small scrapes... More
Edinburgh: Lizars, 1834. Hand-colored steel engraving 6.25 x 3.75 inches (16 x 9.5 cm.) in white mat 10 x 8 inches. Plate 16 from Sir William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library; engraved by William H. Lizars. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Back of mat very lightly scraped... More
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
Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2008. Paperback. xii, 316 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. In Fine Condition: clean and tight. More
Guilford, Conn. FalconGuides / Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Paperback. xi, [1], 150, [5] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. A Falcon Guide. In Fine Condition: clean and tight. 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
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