Item 1966Ornithology Books in the Library of Trinity College Hartford Including the Library of Ostrom Enders
1983. First Edition No. 504. Hard Cover. fine / fine. Item #1966
Natural History and Science
Item 490Penny Magazine a Bound Volume
New York: 1833. First Edition. Original leather spine and boards - hinges solid. Very good condition. A few torn pages - one or two with a piece missing. Over 500 pages in all. Item #490
Item 2753On the Origin of Species
Easton Press, 1976. Wood Engravings by Paul Landacre. Full Leather. fine. Item #2753
Item 1772Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Traveller and Plant Collector
Antique Collector's Club. Many illustrations both in color and black and white. 2006 reprint of the 1999 first edition. A beautiful production as all Antique Collector's Club books are. 4to. Dark green paper covered boards textured to look like cloth. Stamped in gold. Color pictorial endpapers. 286 pp. including index. Fine book / In fine dust jacket. Item #1772
Item 420The Romance of THe Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea
London and Sydney: Chapman and Dodd, Limited, 1924. Second Edition. Small 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-5/16. Purple cloth stamped in gold. 136 pp. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper has left phantom toning on opposite free endpaper. A little toning on back endpapers and four small check marks on back pastedown. Spine somewhat faded. Top corner bumped. otherwise a clean, tight, very good plus copy.
The second edition - revised and enlarged - contains a letter kindly sent to the Author by the Revd. W. E. Layton. It was written by a friend of Linnaeus to Mr. Layton's ancestor, Philip Miller, the well-known curator of the Garden. The letter shews that it was, without doubt, the Apothecaries' Garden which brought Linnaeus to England. Many additions have also been made to the chapter describing the trees. But it must not be thought that there are trees now in the Garden which cannot be found elsewhere, for Kew Gardens have supplied London Parks with trees of many kinds - Battersea Park, in 1856, receiving no less than five thousand, with the present happy result. This new edition also contains further notes on Linnaeus, and on his two pupils, Kalm and Fabricius. Item #420
Item 453Lunar Science: Ancient and Modern
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1886. Inscribed and signed by author and dated 1896. 8vo. 5-3/4" x 8-5/8." 89 pp. including notes and Index of names. 5 pp. publisher's ads. Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Previous owner's initials on free front endpaper, also another owner's name at top of title page. Very faint trace of smell of an old book. Overall a tight, clean very good copy.
From the Introduction: "As an instinctively religious being, man is constitutionally concerned in the sublime science which, more perhaps than any other department of physics, has enabled him to look "through nature up to nature's God." If "an undevout astronomer is mad," the converse is at least measurably true: unastronomic piety is mad. For if science without devotion be defective, because the spiritual is the necessary inspiration of the material, devotion without science is also defective, because the material is the necessary embodiment of the spiritual. Science without religion is a corpse; religion without science is a ghost." Item #453
Item 935The Sun in the Church, Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, (1999). Second Printing. 4to. 10" x 7". Cream paper covered boards. Red cloth spine. 366 pp. including index. Fine. / Fine dust jacket.
THrough much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches' observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system. Within sight of the altar, they subverted Church doctrine about mankind's place in the universe. Measurements made in the oldest cathedral observatory, San Petronio in Bologna, in the heart of the Papal States, supported Kepler's revolutionary discovery that neither the sun's orbit, nor the earth's can be a circle, and thus indirectly favored ideas condemned at the trial of Galileo. A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, The Sun in the Church explains the unlikely accomplishments of the Church sponsored observers. Item #935
Item 478Memoirs
London: 1855. First Edition. Hardback. Very good condition. Item #478
Item 435The 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. Such a beautiful book! No foxing. It is tight and clean and the lively hand-colored plates are sharp and bright.
This, the fifth volume in the original set, is bound with explanatory text accompanying each plate. Some other volumes of this early edition have all plates bound in the back. Later sets changed the numbering of the volumes. The first 92 pp. are devoted to the naturalist, Sir Hans Sloane. Item #435
Item 412The 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. Tight but slightly cocked binding. Interior is clean and plates are in lovely condition. No foxing. Damp stain along external joint of back cover. It does not affect the interior at all.
Lovely hand-colored engraved title page is one of three title pages. 264 pp. of text. Frontispiece portrait of M. Le Comte de Lacepede and a 16 pp. Memoir of him. Item #412
Item 1071Nature's Deadly Creatures, A Pop-Up Exploration
Electric Paper, (1993). First Edition published by Electric Paper. 4to. 11-1/2" x 8-1/2". Glossy pictorial paper covered boards. Six pop-up illustrations. Fine condition.
With photo and watercolor illustrations and fascination facts text. ISBN: 1897584059 Item #1071
Item 2409Born Free
NY: Pantheon, 2000. Profusely Illustrated with Photos. Firs thus - 40th Anniversary Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / in fine dust jacket. Item #2409
Item 2101Birds of the Toledo Area
Toledo: The Blade, 1968. Patricia Eckhart. First Edition. hard back. fine. Item #2101
Item 1177Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs
London: Paul Hamlyn, (1967). Profusely illustrated with many color and black and white gravure photos. 1967 reprint of the 1962 edition. 4to. 11-3/16" x 8-5/16". Beige cloth covered boards stamped in brown. Clean, tight. Very good condition.
32 articles and excerpts written by Clifford Hubbard, James Thurber, J. Wentworth-Day, Homer, Juliana Berners, Paul Tabori, Joseph Hyam, Barbara Woodhouse, Henry mayhew, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Malcolm Stuart Fellows, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Hyam, David Robinson, William Shakespeare, L. Hugh Newman, William Cowper, Jane Carlyle, Stanley Dangerfield, Ronald Searle and Coty A. Burland.
A charming book for all dog lovers. Item #1177
Item 542Regional 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. including index plus General Index for both volumes. A few tiny pinpoint speckles on spine of vol I. faint longitudinal stain, 1/2" deep, along cloth fore-edge of back board. Ovearall both volumes are in Fine Condition. Item #542
Item 706Eros and Evolution, A Natural Philosophy of Sex
Helix Books, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, (1994). First edition. 8vo. green paper covered boards with cream colored cloth spine. 241 pp. Book is fine. / Jacket is fine.
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 the mouse Antechinus, sex hastens the journey to the grave for all of us. If the direct costs of energy and time don't get you, the parasites and infections elements that, like the AIDS virus, have seized this chance to transfer themselves will. In spite of the immense pleasure and satisfaction we derive from it, sex is not good for us. Nor is it meant to be, sex is for genes. Of course, all organisms must die. Being born, dying, and having offspring in between: this is the biological imperative. Reproducing is, after all, what organisms are about, genes invented organisms as a means for their own perpetuation. We will discover that, as far as the perpetuation of genes is concerned, sex is a good thing; cleansing the genome of life-stopping damages, purging deleterious mutations, perhaps even providing hopeful variations for new environments. Although organisms come and go, genes are forever. - from Eros and Evolution. ISBN: 020140754X Item #706
Item 582The 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." Spine ends chipped. Barely visible dampstain splash on front cover. Otherwise, a tight, clean, very nice copy.
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 successful in arousing public interest in geologic history. Item #582
Item 1971The Fishes of Ohio - Fish
Ohio State University Press, 1957. Milton B. Trautman. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine - neat former owner's inscription to the front end-paper / very good. Item #1971
Item 1746Milk Sickness Caused by White Snakeroot
Bowling Green, Ohio: Ohio Academy of Science, (1941). Signed by the author on the half-title page. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 6". Perfect bound soft cover. Green card stock textured to look like cloth. 171 pp. Fine condition. Item #1746
Item 824The Ultimate Ocean Book
New York: Golden Books, Western Publishing Company, (1995). Illustrated by Virge Kask and Beverly E. Benner. Artists & Writers Guild Books. Tiny rent in the paper of the spine close to midway down the spine (see picture). 1/8" tip of squid arm sticks out beyond the fore-edge of the front cover so it is just a tiny bit frayed. Otherwise book and pop-ups are in fine condition. ISBN: 0307176282 Item #824
Item 724A 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, Wakehurst Place Sale, July 1890. A very good copy with no foxing or internal blemishes. Abraded area, 1" in diameter, at bottom of back cover. Corners rubbed.
Henry Pemberton (1694-1771) brought Newton's philosophy to the layman. He was invited by Newton to edit the third (1726) edition of the Principia. The preface includes recollections of Newton in his old age.
On front pastedown is the coat of arms bookplate of Edgar March Crookshank (10/2/1858 - 7/1/1928) prominent English physician and microbiologist. Item #724
Item 494Summa Anthropologica
Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia E Historia, 1966. Well Illustrated. First edition. Wrappers. Very good condition. Item #494
Item 1919SU-Lin The Real Story of a Baby Giant Panda
Rand Mcnally, 1937. Photographic Illustrations. First Edition. hard cover. fine / very good. Item #1919
Item 1010We 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. Fine condition. / Jacket near fine.
"An enthralling story, told with clarity and authority." Item #1010
Item 427Come Into the Garden
New York: Macmillan Co., 1921. . 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-3/8." Blue cloth. 324 pp including index. A few spots of foxing, most obvious on the title page and the frontispiece page, (shown in photo). and on the top edge of text block. Overall a tight, clean very good copy.
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 Home Companion that ran until 1941. She encouraged gardeners to be more imaginative with their landscapes and not to rely so much on shrubs and evergreens. Item #427