Natural History and Science
The Naturalist's Library Conducted by Sir William Jardine, Bart. Mammalia Vol. IX DOGS. Canidae or Genus Canis of Authors. Including also the Genera Hyaena and Proteles.
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; S. Highley and W. Curry, 1839. Illustrated by Thirty-three coloured plates, with portrait and memoir of Pallas. Purplish cloth covered boards. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8." 267 pp. of text. One leaf of publisher's ads inserted between text and plates. Volume IX in the Naturalist's Library Collection..... More
The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Vol. VI, Parrots
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
The Natural History of The Pachydermes, or Thick-Skinned Quadrupeds; Consisting of the Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Tapir, Hog, &c.
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
The Naturalist's Library. Mamalia. Vol. VI on the Ordinary Cetacea or Whales.
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
The Naturalist's Library, Entomology. Vol. II. Beetles
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
The Fly: The Honey Bee; The Ant; The Spider; The Animalcule; The Gall Insect
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
History of Homoeopathy and Its Institutions in America - Their Founders, Benefactors, Faculties, Officers, Hospitals, Alumni, Etc., with a Record of Achievement of Its Representatives in the World of Medicine
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
Wright's Book of Poultry, Revised and Edited in Accordance with the Latest Poultry Club Standards
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
Regional Anatomy and its relation Medicine and Surgery in Two Volumes.
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
Eros and Evolution, A Natural Philosophy of Sex
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
The Cruise of the Betsey or A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; or Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland.
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
The Ultimate Ocean Book
New York: Golden Books, Western Publishing Company, (1995). Illustrated by Virge Kask and Beverly E. Benner. 0307176282. Artists & Writers Guild Books. More
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy
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
Ancient Calendars and Constellations
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
Summa Anthropologica
Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia E Historia, 1966. Well Illustrated. First edition. Wrappers. More
We Are Not Alone, The Search for Intelligent Life on Other Worlds
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1964). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Third Printing. Sky blue paper covered boards. Midnight blue spine stamped in silver and sky blue. 8vo. 325 pp. including index. "An enthralling story, told with clarity and authority." More
Come Into the Garden
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
All About Coffee
New York: Tea and Trade Journal, 1935. Second edition. Tan Cloth. x-library. More
The Lost Solar System of the Ancients Discovered, 2 volumes
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