![Item #009832 The Lure of the Japanese Garden [by] Alison Main & Newell Platten; Foreword by Julie...](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/009832.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683317404)
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 206 p.: color illustrations, maps; 21 cm. Light grey cloth with black spine title. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. The authors cover 120 gardens in Japan, describing "not only the gardens' physical aspects but also the historical, symbolic, religious..... 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
Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt, Germany]: Nicolao Hoffman, in Verlegung Jacob Fischers, 1611. Hardcover. [10], 460, [27] leaves: many in-text emgraved illustrations; 39 cm. (folio). Contemporary pigskin? binding with seven spine compartments between raised bands. Elaborate blind-rolled and -tooled decoration around central medallion on both boards. Front board includes initials "CBC"..... 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
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
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, 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
![Item #004873 Le Marcassin [and] Le Cochon de Lait [1 handcolored copperplate engraving of a wild...](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/004873.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472082390)
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
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
![Item #004846 Autruche [handcolored copperplate engraving from a painting of an ostrich]. Edouard...](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/004846.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472082389)
Paris: A. Le Vasseur, Editeur, 1880. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (16 x 27 cm.) from a painting by Edouard Travies (1809-1868?); engraved by Nicolas Amable Fournier. Printed by R. Taneur. Undated; the publisher was active from 1878 to 1887 or later. In Fine Condition: clean and bright... More
![Item #004848 Faisan Dore Male [and] sa Femelle [handcolored copperplate engraving from a painting...](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/004848.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472082389)
Paris: A. Le Vasseur, Editeur, 1880. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (16 x 27 cm.) from a painting by Edouard Travies (1809-1868?); engraved by Fournier et Lalaisse. Printed by R. Taneur. Undated; the publisher was active from 1878 to 1887 or later. In Fine Condition: clean and bright... More
Paris: A. Le Vasseur, Editeur, 1880. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (16 x 27 cm.) from a painting by Edouard Travies (1809-1868?); engraved by Fournier et Lalaisse. Printed by R. Taneur. Undated; the publisher was active from 1878 to 1887 or later. In Fine Condition: clean and bright... More
Pest [Hungary]: C.A. Hartleben, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. xix, [1], 461, [3] p.: many in-text drawings and tables; 22 cm. Contemporary black sand-grain cloth with dark blue library mending cloth over spine. All page edges marbled. Reddish-brown endpapers. Bibliography, "Zur Geschichte der Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen": p. [11]-48. Small..... More