Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; S. Highley and W. Curry, 1836. Illustrated with thirty hand-colored plates, a hand-colored title page and engraved frontispiece. First edition. Brown cloth 12 mo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2". 187 pp. text. 46 pp. publisher's ads. Deckled fore-edge. Includes 51 pp. memoir of Thomas Bewick and frontispiece portrait..... More
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; S. Highley; and W. Curry, Jun. & Co., 1836. Illustrated by Thirty-two plates, with Memoir and portrait of Sir Hans Sloane. An engraved title page and two accompanying title pages. Brown cloth covered boards. 12mo. 4-11/16" x 7-3/16." Green endpapers. 248 pp. This, the fifth volume..... More
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; S. Highley and W. Curry, 1837. Illustrated with thirty-two plates colored plates and numerous wood-cuts. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2." Brown cloth cover, spine stamped in gold. Lovely hand-colored engraved title page is one of three title pages. 264 pp. of text. Frontispiece portrait of M. Le Comte..... More
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; S. Highley and W. Curry, 1835. Illustrated with thirty hand-colored plates and hand colored- title page. Engraved frontispiece of John Ray. First edition. 12 mo. 7-1/8" x 4-5/8". Brown cloth, spine stamped in gold. 269 pp. of text. 16 pp. publisher's advertising. Memoir of naturalist John..... More
New York: G. Lane & C. B. Tippett, 1846. 16mo. Original brown cloth. Published for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 200 Mulberry Street, this little volume contains six individual books, bound together, each with its own title page and each paginated separately. The Fly, 41 pp...... More
New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1905. Illustrated with many portraits of practitioners, Four 4to. volumes, 7-1/4" x 10." 3/4 leather with marbled paper covered boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. From the Introduction: "Thirty years ago (ca. 1875) Dr. Carroll Dunham undertook the preparation of a history of homoeopathy..... More
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1912. Illustrated with Thirty Coloured Plates and Numerous Other Illustrations. 627 pp. 4to. 9-1/4" x 10-13/16." A beautiful embossed crimson cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Top edge gilt. Thorough and complete volume of all knowledge a fowl fancier would..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1894. Illustrated from Photographs taken by the Author of his own Dissections, Expressly Designed and Prepared for this Work and Colored by Him after Nature. Second Edition. Half Leather and blue-green cloth. Large 4to.Glossy blue-green endpapers. Vol I is 435 pp. including index. Vol II is 414 pp..... More
Helix Books, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, (1994). 020140754X. First edition. 8vo. green paper covered boards with cream colored cloth spine. 241 pp. For organisms, sex is not just a bother, it is downright dangerous. If not the harbinger of death, as it is for the century plant, the praying mantis, or..... More
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1858. First Edition. Gold stamped spine, blind stamped brown cloth, 8vo. 7-13/16" x 5 - 3/8." An Account of explorations by Miller, a Scottish geologist and lay theologian who was considered one of the finest geological writers of the 19th century and whose writings were widely..... More
New York: Golden Books, Western Publishing Company, (1995). Illustrated by Virge Kask and Beverly E. Benner. 0307176282. Artists & Writers Guild Books. More
London: S. Palmer, 1728. First Edition. 4to. (50), 407, (1) pp. 12 folding engraved plates. Headpieces, tailpieces, initials by Pine and Grison. Full Polished Calf - rebacked in the style of the period, marbled endpapers and marbled edges, hinges reinforced. Label affixed on front cover from Cookseys, Auctioneers, Lot 729..... More
London: John Murray, 1903. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth stamped in gold. 263 pp. including index. 19 illustrations and 10 fold-out astrological charts. More
Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia E Historia, 1966. Well Illustrated. First edition. Wrappers. More
New York: Macmillan Co., 1921. . 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-3/8." Blue cloth. 324 pp including index. Grace Tabor's first book on landscape architecture and gardening. Ms. Tabor was a pioneer American landscape architect who preferred to create garden designs for people of average income. She wrote a column for Woman's..... More
New York: Tea and Trade Journal, 1935. Second edition. Tan Cloth. x-library. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. First edition. 8vo. marbled paper covered boards 3/4 leather. 2 vol. viii, 486 pp. and viii, 475 pp. plus a 26 pp. appendix with its own title page dated 1858, bound in back of volume II. Errata slip in volume II. More