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 about A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America
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 about Observations on the Naiades; and Descriptions of New Species of that, and other Families by Isaac...
Holmiae [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laur. Salvii [Lars Salvius], 1767. Hardcover. "Editio duodecima, reformata." [2], 533-1327, [35] p.; 21 cm. Modern leather with gilt-tooled title on red leather spine label. All page edges speckled red. Modern endpapers tinted to contemporary appearance. Text is entirely in Latin. Includes several indices. Former owner's... More about Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae [per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera,...
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 about Bourcieria Torquata [matted hand-colored steel engraving of a hummingbird from Sir William...
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 about Trochilus Amethystina (Amethystine Humming-Bird) Native of Guiana [matted hand-colored steel...
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 about Trochilus Magnificus, Young Male (Magnificent Humming Bird) Native of Brazil [matted hand-colored...
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 about Trochilus Ornatus, Female (The Tufted-neck Humming-Bird) Native of Cayenne [matted hand-colored...
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 about 1. Gladiolus Recurvus. -- 2. Gladiolus Versicolor. -- 3. Gladiolus Carneus. -- 4. Gladiolus...
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 about The Pheasant: Natural History by the Rev. H. A. MacPherson; Shooting by A. J. Stuart-Wortley;...
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 about Garden Tales: Classic Stories from Favorite Writers; photographs by Jane Gottlieb; introduction...
Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2008. Paperback. xii, 316 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. In Fine Condition: clean and tight. More about Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find...
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 about Medicinal Plants of North America: A Field Guide
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 about The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands
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 about The River Reader
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 about The Gardener's Kalendar; or, Monthly Directory of Operations in Every Branch of Horticulture...
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 about Collections towards a Flora of the Territory of Arkansas by Thomas Nuttall [Transactions of the...
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 about Guide to Gems
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 about Folk of the Wood by Lucius Crocker Pardee; illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull
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 about Washington Almanack, for 1832, being Bissextile, or Leap Year; containing 366 days, and the...
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 about The Complete Urban Gardener by Joan Puma; Drawings by Jeryl English
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 about The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalog ... Part IX ... by Robert Ridgway;...
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; clean and tight. More about Die Orchideenflora von Rio Grande do Sul
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 about Orchidaceae Perrierianae: Ein Beitrag zur Orchideenkunde der Insel Madagaskar von R. Schlechter;...
Boulder, Colorado: Blue Mountain Arts, 1974. Schutz, Stephen. Paperback. 6th printing. 63, [1] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover; dark brown spine and cover titles. In Very Good+ Condition: spine slightly darkened; edges rubbed; slight discoloration at lower edge of back cover; otherwise, clean and bright. More about Come Into the Mountains, Dear Friend: A Collection of Poems by Susan Polis Schutz; designed and...
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 about L'Antilope Femelle [1 handcolored copperplate engraving of an antelope from Buffon's Histoire...