Norwalk CT: Easton Press, 1985. Hardcover. Collector's Edition, all 49 volumes, each apparently unused, unread, uniformly bound, all with ribbon markers, most with unused bookplate laid-in (NOT affixed). 5 dark brown leather: Stars and Planets, Geology, Atmosphere, Venomous Animals, and Rocks and Minerals. 8 tan leather: Freshwater Fishes, Pacific Coast... More about ROGER TORY PETERSON FIELD GUIDES 49 volumes complete set
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. and F. Rivington, et al, 1769. 15th Edition. Hardcover. Fifteenth edition 8vo, lxvi + 382 + index + 1p adv. likely early 19thc calf with single rule in gilt, raised bands, red leather label spine. Covers heavily worn, with some loss... More about THE GARDENER'S KALENDAR; Directing what Works are necessary to be performed Every Month
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by C. Rivington, London, 1732. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon first edition. 8vo, xvi + 252 + 4p publishers' listings, frontispiece engraved by Pine, contemporary speckled panelled calf with rules and ornaments in blind, gilt dentelles and cover edges. Front cover hinge partially revealed... More about THE GARDENER'S KALENDAR
London: Printed for T. and T. Longman, 1753. 3rd Edition, Corrected. Hardcover. Vol 1: xvi + 591p. Vol 2: 410p + index + Plates I - XVI on 8 foldout sheets, plate XVII single sheet, appedix of 8 plates on single sheets. Bound in old calf, some foxing. Good copies with all plates present. More about A new method of chemistry : including the history, theory, and practice of the art : translated...
Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung, 1800. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarter vellum over decorated paper-backed boards. 338p. 19thC ownership name,Heidleberg, in black ink on title page. 338pp. Covers soiled, internals better than very good, solidly bound. More about Die Bestimmung des Menschen. (The Determination of Man
Chicago: Sanders Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, 1914, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original publisher's binding- blue cloth, gilt titles, pictorial pastedown. Stains to edges her and there not affecting text block. Solid copy. Scarce. More about THE STORY OF THE HEREFORDS
NY: Steuben Glass (Corning Glass Works), 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine, unused exhibition catalog, of Steuben's crystal pieces featuring Inuit or Eskimo themes, the primary interest of Steuben's then president, James Houston. More about JAMES HOUSTON: A RETROSPECTIVE
Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter, 1865. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Three volumes of the 1865 edition, each in uniform publishers binding, in elaborately stamped (fornt and back) full leather binding, five raised bands to spine, gilt titles. aeg. Vol III is third volume of Micahux's) 180pp, plates 103 -156. Volume IV and... More about The North American Sylva; or a Description of Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova...