[Baltimore]: Published by the author, Reese Press, 1956. Revised edition, 8vo, pp. 882; original blue cloth gilt; upper cover fore-edge damp-stained, spine lightly browned, else a good, sound copy. OCLC locates 4 copies of this edition in the United States. More
London: Smith, Elder, 1845. First edition, tall 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 144; 27 hand-colored plates at the back; original green cloth, spine faded and a few small cracks starting, but generally a good, sound copy or better, old lending library label (Melton Literary Institution) affixed to the front cover. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press; London & Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, [1978]. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip and announcement laid in; 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 175; 11 facsimiles of the MS.; fine copy in a fine jacket. This science or natural philosophy manuscript, all in cipher, is thought..... More
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, [1987]. 8vo, pp. xx, 349, [5]; full blue cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. "A comprehensive analysis of the herbal medical tradition in rural Northern Thailand ... About 540 medicinal plants are identified in the appendix, and their claimed medical properties are..... More
Milano: G. Silvestri, 1827. 12mo, pp. lvi, 295, [1]; engraved frontispiece portrait and 2 folding diagrams; original printed orange wrappers; a few interesting old private library rubberstamps; very good copy. Issued as vol. 208 in the publisher's Biblioteca Selecta series. Brunacci was a professor of mathematics at the University of..... More
[London]: Reprinted from the Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1922. 8vo, pp. 1-47, [48]; original green printed wrappers; wrapper edges a bit chipped; otherwise very good. Reprinted from Journal of Experimental Zoology, Vol. 36, No. 1, July, 1922. More
Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute Press, 1930. 8vo, pp. 455-472 (9 leaves); original tan printed wrappers, untrimmed. Reprinted from the Journal of Experimental Zoology, Vol. 57, No. 3, November, 1930. More
Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute Press, 1930. 8vo, pp. 307-330 (12 leaves); original tan printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Journal of Experimental Zoology, Vol. 57, No. 2, October, 1930. More
[Lancaster, PA]: Reprinted from the Biological Bulletin, 1931. 8vo, pp. 309-326 (9 leaves); original printed wrappers. Reprinted from The Biological Bulletin, vol. 60, no. 3, June, 1931. More
New Haven, London, Oxford: Yale University Press, 1917. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 582; illustrated throughout on plates and in text; ex-library copy minimally marked in original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, light wear to spine ends, the front hinge a little tender with..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1875. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 407; frontispiece, plates, illustrations in the text; original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered; light general wear, slightly shaken; overall a very good copy. A collection of articles by naturalist Frank Buckland (1826-80), most of which were first published in his..... More
Paris: De L'imprimerie Royale, 1770-1783. First separate edition, 9 volumes complete with 262 engraved plates by De Seve; 4to, marbled endpapers, title-page engravings and illustrations in the text; extremities rubbed and worn, some hinges weak with joints starting, v. 1 missing spine labels, approx. half of v. 9 spine is..... More
Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, Chesnut Street; G. & C. Carvill, Broad Way, New-York; Hilliard, Gray, Little & Wilkins, Boston; London: John Miller, 40, Pall Mall; Paris: Arthur Bertrand, 23, rue Hautefeuille, 1828. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; original brown printed wrappers; small dampstain at the top of the front wrapper, blurring..... More
Paris et Liége: Librarie Polytechnique de Noblet et Baudry, 1864. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], ii, 476; 224 wood engravings in the text; original printed green wrappers; a little cracking and small chips along the rear joint; all else near fine. "Amédée Burat (1809-1883) very early expressed a true passion..... More
Fallbrook, CA: Pala International, Nov-Dec 1998. Large 8vo, pp. [1], 514-600; text illustrations throughout; illustrated paper wrappers; fine. This issue containing an article on the history and development of the crystallographic goniometer. More
New York: Committee on the Grading of Nursing Schools, 1928. 8vo, pp. xii, 618; illustrative graphs and charts throughout; original red gilt-stamped cloth, mostly fine; rubber stamps of the Public Health Nursing Ass'n on front and back pastedown endpapers. More
London: James Sangster, n.d., [after 1870]. 4to, pp. [4], 481, [7]; text in double column; with 19 (of 20) hand-colored botanical plates (lacking the frontispiece); publisher's half brown morocco a bit rubbed and scuffed, but sound. More
Minneapolis: Bruce Publishing Company, 1930. Large 8vo, two volumes; portrait frontis. of Dr. William Beaumont; ex-library book with usual markings; bound in blue hatched cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine; black and white photographic illustrations and facsimiles throughout. A very good set. More
Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1907-08. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, separate signature of preliminary leaves laid into the last volume, and with a corresponding "Note to the Binder " tipped to the verso of the front wrapper; frontispiece chart, 2 gravure plates, 50 other plates and charts (4 folding..... More
Providence: printed and sold by Bennett Wheeler, 1796. 8vo, pp. 18, [6]; uncut; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; some edge-wear and foxing; all else very good. The final four pages contain "Hymns, Performed at the Anniversary Election of the Officers of the Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers, on Monday, April..... More
Natick, Massachusetts: Lewis Carroll Society of North America, [2011]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 231, [3]; a few illustrations throughout; top corners bumped, else a fine copy in publisher's pictorial laminate boards. Inscribed by the editor on the title page: "For Jeremiah, Mark Burstein / G4G X." 'Jeremiah' is Jeremiah..... More
Washington, DC: 1895. 8vo; pp. x, [1], 373; good or better; upper hinge is cracked, edged scuffed, in original green cloth, gilt spine. More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1949. Large 8vo, pp. xii, 979, [1]; text illustrations; full green cloth, gilt title on spine; spine suned, light foxing to edges, textblock clean and sound, very good. Edwin Butler was the first director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology in Englandand has been called..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 414; 1 engraved plate and text illustrations throughout; spine a bit sunned, corners bumped, text clean and sound in original decorated gray cloth. Illustrated with wind charts, tables, maps, and scenes which detail weather worldwide; appendix at back..... More
New York: Asa K. Butts, 19 Dey St., n.d., [ca. 1877]. Broadside prospectus (approx. 12" x 9½"), likely a proof, advertising a yet-to-be-named weekly paper, "something like Mr. Shupe's Advocate, with its Quakerism and other irrelevant matter left out, and the clearest, most liberal Radicalism of the day put in..... More
