(The Alps): private, 1910. Hardcover. An astonishingly well-preserved pressed Alpine floral album assembled from plants collected on a motor journey in the summer of 1910 that starts in Gibraltar, then Naples, and spends most time in and around St Moritz and Mt Muraigl. The collector is anonymous, but we might..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Early British account of China tea, in original publisher's binding, blind-stamped green linen, gilt spine titles, 8vo, xix (errata) + 382p, notes to binder and 24p publsher's catalog in rear, illustrated. Printed rust-colored endpapers with publishers Books on Science on..... More
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1974. Limited Edition. Soft cover. No. 12/26 copies signed by the author. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, three volumes (1896-1898), green cloth, a complete near fine set. More
Washington: GPO, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, 352 pages, illustrated, original owner name 1903 date on the flyleaf. A fine copy. More
NY and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977. Facsimile Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Double elephant folio, quarter navy morocco over burgundy loth with pressed title in gilt to cover and spine. Facsimile reprint of the 1873 edition, this #68 of the 250 numbered handbound copies. 36 color..... More
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
Seattle: Winn Books, 1986. Russell Chatham. First. Hardcover. Signed by Harrison on the half-title page. Emerald and tan cloth binding with matching slipcase with gilt signature of author. As new. More
Albany: State of New York, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
Albany: State of New York, 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1923. Leather Spine/Cloth Boards. One of 750 copies for sale in England. Red leather spine with gently rubbed edges, red leather corners very slightly worn. Binding bright. Text clean. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. More
Madison WI: Deprtment of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconson- Madison, 1987. First Edition. Soft cover. Wide 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 126 pages. Testimonial statements of twenty of Leopold's graduate students at the University of Wisconsin. Uncommon. More
Paris: Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, viii + 302 + (2) + 2 foldouts. Uncommon treatise on insects, and more uncommon in orignal paper-backed pasteboard covers, worn abourt edges, and with some loss to spine ends and to paper over spine. Spine label chipped and lacking..... More
Providence: Printed for the author, 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First editon, plain covers, cloth backed. Wood engravings on thin blue paper precede title page. Small stain at gutter of blue leaves and a larger stain in the rear signatures, else internals lightly foxed here and there, edges spotted. Solid binding..... More
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
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
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
London: Faber & Faber, 1947. Scott, Peter. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Scott on the half -title with an finely-rendered illustration of the head of a duck in blue ink, and scarce thus . Dustjacket has small tears on bottom edge and top spine, about very good. Book near fine..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. Lansdowne, J. Fenwick. Limited First Edition. Half Red Leather, Beige Cloth. #108 of 400 copies. Signed, numbered print laid-in. Handsome, red, half-leather over cloth. In publisher's cloth slipcase. Fine. More
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
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good, price clipped dustjacket. Inscribed by Scott to an American collector "Inscribed to Hugh McMillan by Peter Scott October 1965" on the title page with a finely articulated open-winged goose in flight drawn in blue ink, plus a...... More
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..... More
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fifth printing. Plainly signed by Sloane on the half title. No other names, inscriptions, bookplates, etc. Near fine in better than very good unclipped (price inked out) dustjacket. More
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fourteenth printing. Plainly signed by Sloane on the half title. No other names, inscriptions, bookplates, etc. Near fine in better than very good unclipped (price inked over) dustjacket. More
NY: Wilfred Funk, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fourth printing. With an original Sloane drawing in blue ink of a covered bridge with the word "Peace", in Sloane's lettering style. proclaimed above it and below inscribed "to Dave Garroway Eric Sloane New Milford Conn". Garroway (1913 - 1982) was..... More