Bruxelles: Culture et Civilisation, 1966. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [10], 568, [14], [2], 192, [8]pp. Original leatherette with gold lettering to spines. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Additional engraved title depicting a lovely classic image with alchemical symbolism. Printer's device on each title. Striking facsimile edition reproducing the original..... More
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1919. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Large 4to. Green buckram binding. Profusely photographically illustrated throughout (many color). Stamp of former owner present. Corners bumped. Minor scuffing to cover. Some edgewear to cover and spine. Otherwise, in good/very good condition. More
New York, Amsterdam: Alan R. Liss, Inc. / Meridian Publishing Co., 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. xix (i), 201pp. Original brown cloth with white lettering on cover and spine in original illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Light brown endpapers. Based on the Eran Laor Collection at the Jewish..... More
Cairo: National Printing Department, 1908. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 78 pp. 2 plates; "Relation Between the Seasonal Variations of the Nile and its Bacterial Content" and "Map of the Nile Basin" (both fold-out plates). Half leather over green pebbled cloth. Corners bumped. Leather on spine rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Copy formerly belonging..... More
London: Litteris Berlingianis, 1811. Hardcover. Octavo. (1) 4, 5-12, 8, 8, 38pp. Marbled boards protected by modern mylar. Olof Svanader dissertation, presided over by Matthias Norberg, on stars of the Nazareans from the Holy Nation Codex. Variant pagination than all nine OCLC entries. Text in Syriac and Latin. Disbound, lacking..... More
Mainz: Gottfried Vollmer, n/d. Zweite, durchaus umgearbeitete Auflage. Hardcover. 2 parts bound in 1. 8vo. x,340pp. vi,414,[1],pp. Paper-covered marbled boards. Gilt lining and title-label on spine. Rubbing and abrasions on boards and spine. Wear to head and tail of spine and corners. Green page edges. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a...... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 210pp., 26 plates in chromolithography, with tissue guards. Original brown cloth with blind-stamped ruling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. Published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture. Report on the hawks and owls of the United States..... More
Mainz: Victor v. Zabern, 1852. Hardcover. 8vo. vi,485pp. Half leather over marbled boards with gold decorated spine. Age wearing throughout binding. Abrasions to boards and spine. Clear tape across upper part of spine. Split along spine on front board but firmly holding. Foxing, underlining and markings (in blue and red)..... More
Washington: Governments Printing Office, 1905. Hardcover. 4to. 272 pp. Brown cloth binding. Corners frayed and spine have a small amount of fraying, very slightly shaken, otherwise good to very good. Sixty-one full-page plates in color and b&w of drawings and photographs, with two or more images on each plate. Good..... More
Leipzig: Theodor Oswald Weigel, 1910, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 256, 257-480, xxiv, vii (i), 112 color chromolithographic plates after originals by Adalbert Ricken. Three quarter brown leather over marbled paper boards with gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Decorative floral endpapers. Portfolio is maroon cloth over maroon paper-covered boards..... More
Leiden: E.J.Brill, June1912. Softcover. 100 pp. Ten full-page photographic plates plus numerous other b&w photos and drawings throughout. Folio. Small dark smudge on cover. Pages 85/86 and 95/96 have tears from attempts at opening unopened pages otherwise fine. Light gray paper wrappers, some pages are unopened. Good condition. More
Boston; Providence: American Society of Naturalists, 1884-1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 343, 36, 47, 38, 36, 30, 32, 34, [1], 35, [1], 56, [1], 48pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spines. First 2 volumes of this scarce publication compiling the yearly records of the American Society of Naturalists from..... More
Wahington: A.O.P Nicholson, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. XLVIII, 757pp, 43 plates (XVII-XXVIII, XXX-LX). Original half leather over marbled paper covered boards. First part of a fascinating survey realised through the combined efforts of the topographical engineers and a sizable contingent of the country's foremost scientists. Not since Napoleon..... More
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxii, 212 (2), 113 plates in chromolithography. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Marbled edges. Dark gray endpapers. Educational treatise on poisonous plants to be used in schools and give parents a tool to instruct their..... More
Berlin: Aktien-Verein des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin, [1940], [1941]. First edition. Softcover. - Wegweiser durch den Zoologischen Garten Berlin 1940: Large octavo. 83, [5]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers featuring a young penguin on front cover, and a color map of the Berlin zoo on back cover. Edited by Ludwig Georg Heinrich..... More
London: Cassel & Company, Ltd., n.d. Hardcover. 3 volumes. First series-Third series (of five). 8vo. xvi,160(4)pp. xv,160(4)pp., xv,160(4) Gilt, black and red decorated green cloth and spine. Embossed on back cover. All gilt edges. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Corners bumped and worn. Minor discoloration and..... More
Berlin: Hansa Luftbild G.m.b.H, 1938. Softcover. 4to. 85pp. Original printed wrappers. Illustrated with three colored 3D, as well as many b/w reproductions of photographs showing aerial views of German & English landscapes. Includes 3D glasses, attached with string as issued. Original publisher's instructional leaf on use of glasses laid-in. Contents..... More
London: R. Taylor, 1830. First edition. Softcover. 4to. [IV], 151-454 pp. Original blue wrappers. Front wrap, 1st 4 pages, rear wrap and last 2 pages detached. "Account of a new plant of the gastromycous order of Fungi" by J E Bowman. "On the Origin and Nature of the Ligulate Rays..... More
Hamburg: Heinrich Ellermann, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 79pp. Original photo-illustrated over blind wrappers with white lettering on cover, black on spine. Illustrated with 64 distinctive b/w photographs of crystals by Alfred Ehrhardt and an introduction by Waldemar Schornstein. Includes list with descriptive captions for each photograph. Text in German..... More
San Francisco: Mining and Scientific Press, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 217pp. + 5 pgs of publisher's ads at the back. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. The spine includes a gilt-stamped illustration of a pick-axe. The work is comprehensive and informative guide..... More
Tel Aviv: Shoshani, 1923. 8vo. 125pp. Followed by 1 (unpaginated) errata page. Zoology textbook for schools (see above). Illustrated throughout with b/w sketches. Minor age wear, browning. In Hebrew. Very good condition. More
New York: D. Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xxiv,536pp. 7pl. Brown cloth with blind and gold embossed ornamentation on front and spine. Title page vignette reproduction of steel plate engraving. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of illustrations and tables describing the minerals of..... More
Wien: Carl Gerold & Sohn, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 332 (2)pp., 1 folding table. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Based on years of studying of life orchids, J. G. Beer present his results in three parts. Part one describes the shape of the plant..... More
Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1960. Softcover. 4to. 13 English pp. summary + 275 Hebrew pages of actual dissertations. Original wrappers. Rebacked with blue binder's tape. Amazing hard to find work on the study of fertility in Israel. Contents include but are not limited to: "Fertility of women in the diaspora and..... More
Albany: C. Van Benthuysen Printing House, 1867. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to. xi,428pp. 63pl. Black cloth with blind and gold embossed ornamentation on front and spine. Title page vignette reproduction of steel plate engraving. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of illustrations and tables describing the fossils of New York, all with..... More