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Item #45456 The Natural History of British Insects; explaining them in their several states, with...

The Natural History of British Insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope [WITH 251 (of 252) HAND-COLORED PLATES]

Donovan, E. (Edward)

London: Printed for the Author and for F. and C. Rivington, 1792-1798. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 5 3/4"). 80, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1); 96, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 2); [2], 98, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 3); 96, [6]pp (Text), 36..... More

Price: $2,250.00

Item #22698 The Geographical Magazine, or New System of Geography. WIth Beautiful and Correct...

The Geographical Magazine, or New System of Geography. WIth Beautiful and Correct Views, Maps and Globes (complete in 2 vols.)

Martyn, William Frederick [aka Mavor, William Fordyce]

London: Harrison & Co., 1793-1794. Hardcover. 4to. Marbled leather with gold decorated black and maroon title-labels. Raised bands. Vol. 1: Asia and Africa. (8), lxiv, 772, (1) pp. Vol. 2: Europe and America. (1), vi, 608, (2) pp. Frontispiece engraving in both volumes. Title-pages printed in red and black. Illustrated..... More

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The History of Cartography [3 VOLUMES (COMPLETE BOUND IN 6 BOOKS) -- see note below]

Harley, J. B. and David Woodward

1987-2007. Hardcover. Large quarto (11-1/4" x 8-3/4"). Double column text. Each separate volume is compete in itself and has its own index. Color printed pictorial dust jackets with black spines lettered in blue within a white frame, over gray cloth lettered in gilt. Profusely illustrated, including many plates in color..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #47764 Pour Faire des Recherches sur L'histoire et les Antiquités, les Arts, les Sciences...

Pour Faire des Recherches sur L'histoire et les Antiquités, les Arts, les Sciences et la Littérature de L'Asie (Asian Research, or Memoirs of the Society Established in Bengal, to Research the History and Antiquities, Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia) [2 vols. complete]

Labaume, A. (trans.); Louis-Mathieu Langlès (ed.); M.M. (Georges) Cuvier; Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre; Jean-Baptiste Lamarck; Guillaume-Antoine Olivier; et all

Paris: De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1805. First complete French edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: (xcvii) 528pp, 31pp. Vol.2: 460pp, 84pp. Black leather over dark blue marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. The first full French translation of compiled research from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, originally published in..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Luftbild und Luftbildmessung [18 Issues]

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Berlin: Hansa Luftbild G.m.b.H, 1931-1943. Softcover. Original printed wrappers. Nr. 6: 1931. 32pp. Nr. 8: Luftbild-Lesebuch. 1934. 66pp. Nr. 10: 1936. 24pp. Nr. 11: 1936. 25pp. & 4 color folding charts. Nr. 11(?): Luftbild-Topographie. 1936. 79pp. Nr. 12: 1937.23,[2]pp. Nr. 15: 1937. 37pp. Nr. 16: 1938. 84pp. Nr. 17: 1939..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #47511 Cartes du delta du Danube et plans comparatifs de l'embouchure et des quelques...

Cartes du delta du Danube et plans comparatifs de l'embouchure et des quelques sections fluviales du bras de Soulina indiquant les derniers travaux qui y ont ete executes par la Commission Européenne (Maps of the Danube delta and comparative plans of the mouth and some river sections of the Soulina arm showing the latest work carried out there by the European Commission)

Commission Européenne du Danube

Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 6 leaves, 60 (Nos. I–LIX plus XXXIb) plates, two of them folding, the others doubled-paged. Original three-quarter red morocco over green pebbled cloth, tightened with twelve original metal pegs, with gilt lettering and decor embossed medallion of cover, gilt lettering..... More

Price: $1,450.00

Item #23337 History of the American Fauna and a General Natural History of the World. [3...

History of the American Fauna and a General Natural History of the World. [3 VOLUME-SET]

Holder, Joseph Bassett and John Richardson, William S. Dallas, and T. Spencer Cobbold, assisted by William Baird and Adam White

New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 3 vols. (complete). VI + 446 + 405 + CCXCpp. Original red buckram with title vignettes laid on spines. Colored frontispiece in each volume. Numerous steel engraved plates, some being colored. Hundreds of b/w illustrations in text. Popular account of..... More

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The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, Till the Consummation of all Things. The Two First Books Concerning The Deluge, and Concerning Paradise [WITH] The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, Till the Consummation of all Things. The Two Last Books Concerning The Burning of the World, and Concerning the New Heavens and New Earth [BOUND WITH] A Review of the Theory of the Earth, And of its Proofs: Especially In Reference To Scripture

Burnet, Thomas

London: Printed by R. Norton, for Walker Kettilby, 1684, 1690. First English language edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 3/4 x 8"). [20], 327, [1]pp., 2 double plates. Contemporary full spotted calf with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Raised bands. Additional engraved title page. Title page printed in black with double..... More

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Item #42931 Estudios sobre la Flora de las Islas de Juan Fernandez. Federico Johow

Estudios sobre la Flora de las Islas de Juan Fernandez

Johow, Federico

Santiago de Chile: Cervantes, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 3/4"). xi, [1], 287, [3]pp (Text), 20 leaves (Plates and maps). Original half black morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Marbled endpapers.This first edition of Federico Johow's botanical history of..... More

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The Writings of John Muir : Sierra edition [10 VOLUMES, COMPLETE]

Muir, John; William Frederic Bade (editor)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917-1924. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 10 volumes. Each volume with its own index. Uniformly bound in original green cloth with gilt lettered spines and a gilt floral device on front covers. Top edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with a photographic frontispiece with a printed tissue guard. A...... More

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Item #18785 Experimenta circa generationem Insectorum Ad Nobilissimum Virum Carolum Dati....

Experimenta circa generationem Insectorum Ad Nobilissimum Virum Carolum Dati.

Redi, Francisco (1629-1697)

Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Andreae Frisii, 1671. First Latin edition. Softcover. 12mo. [10], 330, [19]pp. Marbled paper wrappers, with handwritten title on title-label. Engraved half-title page and engraved vignette to title-page. Originally published in Florence in 1668, this work records Redi's experiments, which "gave the first real blow to the doctrine of..... More

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Item #48551 History of British Birds (Land & Water Birds) (2 vols.). Thomas Bewick

History of British Birds (Land & Water Birds) (2 vols.)

Bewick, Thomas

Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick/ Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1797-1804. First edition. Hardcover. Vol.1: 10 1/4x 6 1/2". Quarto. (xxx) [1] 335pp. [1]. Vol.2: 9x6 1/4". Small quarto. (xx) 400pp. Bound in period green pebbled leather, sunned along extremities and spine to a...... More

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Handbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie (Handbook of Comparative Anatomy)

Blumenbach, F.F.

Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterich, 1815. Second revised. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. xvi. 555pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Almost all of backstrip missing. Corners bumped and worn. Scuffing and discoloration to boards. Red page edges. Sporadic foxing throughout not affecting text or plates. Blumenbach's important work on..... More

Price: $650.00

Item #30743 The Birds of North America. Jacob H. Studer, Theodore Jasper, illust

The Birds of North America

Studer, Jacob H.; Theodore Jasper (illust.)

New York: The Natural Science Association of America, 1903. Later printing. Hardcover. Folio. Original three-quarter maroon leather over gold-stamped cloth and blind-embossed spine. Finely gold-tooled initials on lettering on front board, gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore-edge. Silk moire endpapers. Title-page printed in red and black: "The..... More

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Item #22671 Gazophylacium Medico-Physicum oder Schatz-Kammer Medizinisch - und Natürlicher...

Gazophylacium Medico-Physicum oder Schatz-Kammer Medizinisch - und Natürlicher Dinge, in welcher alle medizinsiche Kunst-Wörter, inn- und äusserliche Kranckheiten nebst derselben Genes-Mitteln, alle Mineralien, Metalle, Ertzte, ..... vorgestellt werden

Woyt, Johann Jacob

Leipzig: Bey Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1740. Tenth ed. Hardcover. 4to. (6) 1035, (68). Decorative paperboards over half vellum. Frontispiece. Illustrated title-page with text in red and black. Head and tailpiece. Two inscriptions, dated 1741, on front endpaper. Early medical and pharmaceutical dictionary by German doctor and professor Johann Jacob Woyt..... More

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Item #38198 Histoire Naturelle des Poissons d'Eau Douce de l'Europe Centrale: Embryologie des...

Histoire Naturelle des Poissons d'Eau Douce de l'Europe Centrale: Embryologie des Salmones

Agassiz, Louis; Carl Vogt; Antoine Sonrel

Neuchatel, Suisse: Institut Lithographique de H. Nicolet, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [10] leaves (Half-Title, Title, Notes and Captions), [14] leaves (lithographic plates). Original illustrated paper covered portfolio. Second part (Livraison II) of the "Embryologie des Salmones", by Louis Agassiz* and Carl Vogt, containing 14 plates (in which 3 are..... More

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Item #16716 Die Welt der Pflanze: Band II, Crassula. Ernst Fuhrmann, Renger-Patzsch, photogr

Die Welt der Pflanze: Band II, Crassula

Fuhrmann, Ernst (editor); Renger-Patzsch (photogr.)

Berlin: Auriga-Verlag, 1928. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 56pp. Original paper-covered boards with photo-illustrated paste-down. Profusely illustrated with 41 reproductions of b/w photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch (including paste-down on front cover), this work is the photographer's first published book. Renger-Patzsch will later become famous for "Die Welt ist Schön." This volume..... More

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Item #24590 Journal of Spelean History. Vols. 1-12 (1968-1978). 3 vols. (complete). William R. Dr...

Journal of Spelean History. Vols. 1-12 (1968-1978). 3 vols. (complete)

Halliday, William R. Dr. (Editor)

Seattle: American Spelean History Association, 1968-1978. First edition. Hardcover. Large quartos. 121, 91, 85, 79, 101, 113, 62, 33, 21, 35, 59, 65, [2]pp. Black library cloth with gold and silver lettering on spines. Original wrappers bound in. Rare and fascinating work being a compilation of the first 10 years..... More

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Item #7715 O Terremoto Do 1 De Novembro De 1755 em Portugal e Um Estudo Demografico; 3 volumes....

O Terremoto Do 1 De Novembro De 1755 em Portugal e Um Estudo Demografico; 3 volumes.

Perieira de Sousa, Francisco Luiz

Lisboa: Tipografia Do Commercio, 1919. Softcover. Original paper wrappers. 949 pp. Twenty fold-out maps, most in color. Quarto. The front wrapper and first 1/3 of text in vol. 2 is nearly disbound, connected only by middle stitching, wrappers are brittle, edges are browning, but overall in good condition, with the..... More

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Item #30668 The Natural History of the Human Species, Its Typical Forms, Primaeval Distribution,...

The Natural History of the Human Species, Its Typical Forms, Primaeval Distribution, Filiation's, and Migrations

Smith, Charles Hamilton

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Lrg. 12mo. xvi, [1], 18-464, 34pp. Original gold- and blind-stamped red cloth with richly gold decorated spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Frontispiece engraving of author, half-title page with engraving of a Blackfoot Indian. Illustrated with 27 chromolithographic plates..... More

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Vegetationsbilder

Karsten, G.; H. Schenck (eds.)

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903–19. First edition. Softcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Original yellow wraps with publisher's device and black lettering on cover. A series of fine collotype photographic plates with accompanying text. Each part is complete in itself. While some are thematic by type of vegetation, such as nut-trees, lychen, or meadows..... More

Price: $375.00

Item #28249 Arcana Naturae Detecta & Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae Detectorum [Complete in 2...

Arcana Naturae Detecta & Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae Detectorum [Complete in 2 volumes]

Leeuwenhoek, Antonio van

Bruxelles: Culture et Civilisation, (1966). Facsimile reprint of the 1697 edition. Octavo. Faux-leather with brown title label and gold lettering. Arcana Naturae Detecta: [10],568,[14]pp. Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae Detectorum: 192,[8]pp. Both volumes illustrated with b/w reproductions of engravings, many in fold-out. With original publisher's protective paper-wrapping and cardboard shipping box (title..... More

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Theophrasti Eresii. Libri de Historia et de Cvsis Plantarivm. Cum Libellis Plerisqve Physicis. Ex Interpretatione Theod. Gazaem Adriani Tvrnebi, Simonis Portii et Dan. Fvralani, Emendata et Graecis Verbis, vti nvnc Edita Legvntvr, Accomodata.

Schneider, Gottlob

Lipssiae (Leipzig): F.C.G. Vogel (Svmtibvs Frid. Christ. Gvil. Vogelii), 1821. Softcover. 8vo. 476pp. Blue wrappers. Front wrapper and spine missing. Binding still intact. Page edges untrimmed. Minor browning and sporadic foxing to pages, not affecting text. Contains Theophrasto's classic "de causis plantarum" [the reasons of the plants] and "de historia..... More

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The Birds of North America

Studer, Jacob H.

New York: Published under the Auspices of The Natural Science Association of America, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 182, [8], & cxix plates. Original three-quarter leather over gold-stamped black cloth with gold decorated spine. All gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece photogravure of Studer with his signature in facsimile protected by..... More

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Early Man in China. With Illustrations and Maps

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

Pekin: Institut de Géo-Biologie, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xi, (1), 99, (1)pp. Including a 9-page bibliography. Red buckram, spine lettered in white, original wrappers bound in. Illustrated with numerous text drawings of fossils, archaic stone tools and stratigraphic columns. 5 folding maps, highlighted in red, are bound in at..... More

Price: $350.00

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