Bombay: The Bombay Natural History Society [1948]. Octavo (9.75" x 6.5"); ix, 306pp. Four color plates, with black and white plates and illustrations throughout. Green cloth-covered limp boards with white lettering and illustration. Boards rubbed and scuffed along edges and joints, with bumping to corners and spine ends, patches of..... More

Paris: H.J. Jansen et Ce., troisième année de la République Françoise [ca. 1794 or 1795]. First Edition. Four volumes; octavos; 384; [6],456; viii,447,[1]; xi,[1],511,[1]pp.; three folding plates; contemporary manuscript parchment sponge-painted red and green, green gilt-lettered spine labels. Minor scuffing to extremities, boards a bit bowed as is..... More

Rochester, MI / Toronto: Meadow Brook Art Gallery, College of Arts and Sciences, Oakland University / CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, [2005]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (23x30.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; 72pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear from handling, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound... More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 269 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in white and tan. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with several closed tears and tape mending to verso. Boards show light shelfwear, corners..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in three shades of brown; [12],211pp.; frontispiece (tissue guard), seven leaves of plates. Light wear to cloth extremities, spine titling significantly dulled, old ink bookseller price to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound..... More

Menston: The Scolar Press Limited, 1973. Second Printing. Octavo; v + 468pp + Index, List of Plates, and Errata [all unpaginated, 13pp]. Fold-out frontispiece engraving of Selborne + second title engraved allegory + reproductions of six natural history images, for all of which the original 18th-century engravings were very fine..... More

Boston: Limited Editions Club / Printed at the Merrymount Press, 1936. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Steichen at rear, this being #604. Large octavo. 290 pages. Black and white photographs of Walden Pond. Black cloth with illustrated paper covered boards. Green topstain. Slipcase with title label. Lacks glassine..... More

Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 17pp, augmented with two additional inserts of B&W photographs, both of 8pp, for a total of 16 photographic plates. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine, with light edgewear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. First American Edition, after the Fifth English Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green and gilt; xv,[1],423pp.; photographic frontispiece, sixteen leaves of plates including folding map, additional illus. in text. Light shelf wear, corners rather bumped and spine cloth a shade..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Travelers Rest Farm / The Arabian Stud / T R Ranch, 1947. Octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white photographs. Illustrated wraps. Spine repaired with crude yet functional tape repair by previous owner. Staining and creasing to covers with curling to corners and page edges throughout. Binding..... More

Dublin: J. Jones, 1790. Second Edition. 12mo; recent full brown morocco retaining original tree calf boards, red gilt spine label, renewed endpapers; vi,[3],429pp.; [A]6 B-T12. Ex-Maryland Historical Society with their occasional rubberstamps throughout, dampstaining to textblock, rather crude but serviceable new binding, else a Very Good, sturdy copy. First published..... More

London: Samuel Bagster, 1820. Second Edition, "With Corrections and considerable Additions, including the Linnean order of ferns, together with essential characters and types of the genera of all the other orders or cryptogamia." 12mo (16.5cm.); contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt; mixed paginations ([A]4 2A2 B-2R4 2S-2X2). Boards..... More

Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1993. First Thus with full numberline. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's glossy teal pictorial paper-covered boards; xlviii, 288pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs, pictorial endpapers. Minor wear to extremities with brief exposure, corners very gently bumped, distributor's sticker to upper cover, else Very Good or better, internally..... More