London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. First Edition. Octavo. 224, [2] pp. advertisements. Black and white illustrations, complete; errata slips. White boards stamped in gilt; top edge gilt. Boards show light general wear and soiling. Binding sound. Mild to moderate spotting throughout interior but still a presentable, Very Good copy..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891. Later Printing. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, in cream pictorial dust jacket repeating the same illustration as the binding in black and coral pink (probably once red), brown glazed endpapers; viii,244pp. A few small chips and closed..... More
[Cham, Switzerland]: Springer, [2014]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards; xi,[1],207pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Issued as Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Bookplate signed by Arhtur C. Clarke loosely laid in at front. Tall octavo. 205 pp. Color and black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price present. Blue and orange boards with spine stamped in black; illustrated endpapers... More
![Item #47370 Letters of Asa Gray [Two Volume Set]. Asa Gray, Jane Loring Gray, ed](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47370.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774030489)
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; small octavos (20cm); publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt, dark teal coated endpapers; [4],368; [4],[369]-838pp.; photographic portrait frontispieces. Light wear at corners and spine ends, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. Ownership ex libris of the..... More
![Item #32655 A Field List of Birds of the District of Columbia Region [Cover title]. Audubon...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32655.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745247218)
Washington, DC: Audubon Society of the District of Columbia, 1947. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's blue printed staple bound card wrappers; 39pp.; double-paged map at center fold, tables throughout, text printed from typescript. Light toning, else Very Good or better. First appearance of this guide for the already..... More
![Item #46520 Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands [Signed by Author and Photographer]. Barbara...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46520.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1766507816)
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2002. First Edition. Oblong octavo (26cm); 190pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $40.00 price intact; boards quarter-bound in sage and charcoal cloth; charcoal endsheets. Color photographs throughout. Dust jacket bumped at spine ends; some smudging throughout. Boards clean with sharp corners. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets..... More
Paris: L. Maison, Rue Christine, [ca. 1840]. Sixieme edition. 12mo.; full navy pebbled morocco; four raised bands; gilt stamping; all edges gilt; green silk ribbon; ivory moire endpapers; 192pp. Hand-colored floral plates with tissue guards. Wear to edges with brief exposure; general rubbing; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. Quarto (28.2cm); xviii,[99]pp. Color frontis; illus. throughout. Limited First Edition of 450 unnumbered copies. Publisher's plain paper dust jacket; decorated boards with cloth spine and printed spine label. Title page misdated MCMXLIV. Jacket faintly shelfworn with fading down spine and along edges..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1886. Later Printing. Octavo (20 cm); [1],vi,374pp+2ads; illus. with seven (7) plates, collated complete. Boards in publisher's maroon cloth with black decoration and gilt stamping to spine. Dark top stain. Board margins and corners rubbed and bumped with shelfwear and minor scratching to spine..... More
London: John Murray, 1878. Sixth Edition (Twentieth Thousand), with additions and corrections. Octavo. 458 pp., with half title and folding plate facing page 91. Bound in contemporary quarter calf; five raised bands, gilt decorating and black title label to spine; marbled edges and endpapers. Boards worn along edges..... More
![Item #47094 Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe [Signed by Clinton]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47094.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771267240)
[New York]: Philomel Books, 2019. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Slim square quarto (28.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [36]pp.; full color illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins including a few small closed tears, brief soil spot to upper panel, else Very Good and..... More
Washington, DC: United States Department of the Interior / National Park Service, 1954. First Edition. Staple-bound octavo pamphlet (20.5x). 47 pp. Pictorial paper wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers have minor toning to edges, small spot on back. No tears. No chips. Binding sound. Overall, Very Good. This volume..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1918. First Edition. 362 black and white illustrations. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's cloth binding. 250 pp. Cloth binding has light fingerprint smudging; some rubbing to crown and foot of spine. Top corners bumped. Contemporary holiday inscription in pencil on back free endpaper. A Very Good copy..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1964. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 192pp.; color photographic frontispiece and four leaves of plates, half-tone text illus. throughout. Dust jacket quite cockled from exposure to old plastic jacket covering (now removed), tiny chip at spine foot, ownership ex..... More
Philadelphia: [s.i.], 1902. First Thus. Quarto. 121pp. + six chromolithographed plates with explanatory leaves to rear. Bound in brown cloth with gilt tooling and "E.M.O." to spine; new endpapers. Scuffing and light wear to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; about Very Good. More
New Haven, CT: Joel Walter, 1803. First Edition. Octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 16pp. Stock dampstained and browned, margins of leaves a bit creased and wrinkled; Good to Very Good overall. Rather scarce little oration by the twenty-four-year-old botanist and medical doctor Eli Ives (1779-1861). The oration addresses in particular..... More
San Diego: Tofua Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (22.4cm); illustrated dust jacket with $17.95 price intact; boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; x,502pp; b&w photos throughout. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges. with some toning down spine and folds; small abrasion to rear..... More
Jamaica Plain, MA: The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 1949. First Edition. Quarto; black cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; 296pp. Mild rubbing to edges and spine; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good or better. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto; publisher's boards in glossy pictorial dust jacket; xix,[3],281pp. Light shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge of dust jacket, else Very Good and sound. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in tan dust jacket with color pictorial paste-on to front panel, original price still present ($7.50); xxxi,[1],464pp.; tinted halftone frontispiece, full-page halftone illus. throughout, a few also tinted. Light scuffing to cloth margins, corners nudged, faint paper scar..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); [6], 238pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($3.75). Boards full bound in mint green cloth with dark green stamping. Dust jacket generally scuffed and rubbed at margins with sunning to spine. Board margins lightly soiled with corners..... More
London: J. and A. Arch et al, n.d., ca. 1837. "New Edition, with Notes, by Edward Turner Bennett." Octavo; full contemporary green diced calf, elaborately gilt-tooled spine with red gilt spine label; xxiii,[1],640pp.; text illus. throughout. Boards lightly rubbed at margins and spine ends, spine a shade toned and gilt..... More
![Item #30916 Lezioni Toscane [Three Volume Set]. Giuseppe Averani](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30916.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729184941)
Firenze [Florence]: Nella Stamperia di Gaetano Albizzini, 1744-1761. First Editions. Three volumes; quartos (25cm.); contemporary paste-paper card wrappers backed in decorative paper printed in bright orange and red, manuscript spine titling; Vol. II lacks final blank, else collated complete; frontispieces in earliest two volumes including folding portrait to the first..... More
Copenhagen: Carlsberg Foundation / C.A. Reitzels Forlag, 1946 & 1949. First Editions. Two slim quarto volumes (31.5cm); publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 40;132pp.; halftone illus. and graphs throughout. Wrappers a bit spotted and dust-soiled, Vol. II spine chipped with small loss at spine crown; contents clean and sound. Very Good..... More