Paris: Paulin, 1841. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 287; bound with: Flourens, Examen de la phrénologie, Paris, Paulin, 1842, pp. [6], 10-115, [2]; contemporary quarter black morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; very good copy. More
Paris: Librairie médicale de Trinquart, Rue de L'École de Médecine, 9, 1836. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], 191, [1] errata; 10 lithograph plates at the back, 4 folding; 2 folding plates with short tears, another with a longer tear (but no loss in any instance); original printed gray paper-covered boards... More
Paris: Paulin, 1845. 12mo, pp. [8], 324; contemporary green mortocco-backed green cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; light foxing; very good. First published in 1841. "Protégé of Cuvier, talented, unusually skillful" (DSB) Flourens founded, with Arago, the Comptes rendu, still one of the greatest of all scientific periodicals, and tusseled with... More
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1891. First edition, thick 8vo, 970pp., 48 color lithograph plates (several species per plate), 2 double-p. sepia plates; nice copy in orig. dec. green cloth gilt, neatly rebacked with old spine laid down. More
Chicago: American Library Association, 1973. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xxii, 501; color frontispiece, plates, numerous facsimile illustrations, decorated endpapers, inscribed by the author on title page; dark green cloth over decorated cloth boards; spine bubbled and cracked, one plate has notations in ink, overall a good copy. More
Cleveland: Tho. Brown, Publisher, Ohio Farmer Office, 1857. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. 142 plus [2]-page publisher's ad; 4 plates and illustrations in text throughout; original brown cloth blindstamped with ornamental rules and a fish on each cover and lettered on gilt on spine; the spine faded with top end... More
Stockholm: Midnight Paper Sales, 2005. Edition limited to 400 copies (there were also 50 copies of the deluxe issue in 2 volumes which sold out in the year of publication), of which this is no. 57, signed by the artist; 8vo, pp. x, [11]-77, [2]; wood-engraved vignette title page, and... More
Stockholm, Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2005. First trade edition limited to 1000 copies printed on Monadnock Dulcet paper, in the summer of 2006; there was also an edition limited to 400 copies (and also 50 copies of the deluxe issue in 2 volumes which sold out in the year of... More
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, [1994]. First edition, 4to, pp. 458; photographic illustrations in color, drawings in the text, contains appendix, bibliography, and index; full brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. More
Lowell, Mass. Harvey B. Greene, [1898]. Second edition, 24mo (approx. 5½ x 4½"), pp. [32]; 12 pressed specimens (1 loose and brittle, each with a descriptive leaf of text); original green wrappers stamped in gilt on upper cover; nice copy. More
Paris: C. Reinwald, 1884. 8vo, pp. xii, 600, 20 (C. Reinwald & Cie. catalogue); lithograph frontispiece, 15 lithograph plates (several printed in blue, 3 double-page), folding stencil-colored world map, tables in the text; quite a delightful copy, uncut, unopened, in original burgundy cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Of the... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1905. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 404, 40 (pub ads); frontispiece, folding plan, numerous black & white photographic plates; t.e.g., original full blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; bookplate on front paste-down, light wear to extremities, spine and edges a bit sunned, overall very good and sound. More
Columbus: Ohio Library Co. [1908]. Author's Edition,"" this being copy no. 139 of an unspecified number, 4to, [10], vii-xii & 609pp., with a portrait of Hard, signed by him in the margin, and better than 500 illus. throughout; orig. green cloth, shaken, waterstain to lower margin of first dozen or... More
London: Sheppard Press, 1985. First edition, 8vo, pp.176; 16 pages of grayscale plates, text illustrations throughout; purple cloth, fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. Concerning the conservation of antiquarian books, warm and subtropical climates, and less than ideal storage situations. More
The White House, Washington, D.C., May 13-15: 1908. 8vo, 24pp., very good in original printed wrappers. Analysis of growing population weighed against existing resources. More
Bungay: printed and published by G. Brightly & Co., [and] T. Kinnersley, 1812. 8vo, pp. viii, xl, 376; 54 hand-colored plates of plants and flowers; contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked with old spine and red morocco label laid down; odd stain (not water, perhaps oil?) pervades bottom corners of first... More
Northampton: Catawba Press, 1980. Edition limited to 175 copies signed by the illustrator, Abigail Rorer, 8vo, pp. [2], 5, [1]; one full-page wood engraving; hand-sewn into a marbled paper wrapper by Don Guyot, printed paper label on upper cover. The first book of the Catawba Press. More
Paris: chez l'auteur, Pougens [et al.], an XII - 1803. First edition, folio, pp. [6], 122; 20 engraved plates by and after drawings by the author; modern brown goat-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettering direct on spine; lightly scuffed, 19th-century rubberstamps at top of the title and half-title page; very good and... More
Paris: Schleicher Freres, 1900. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 924; 782 figures in the text; very good copy in original terracotta cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine. Presentation copy "A Monsieur Berthelot, Secretaire perpetuale de l'Academie des Sciences, hommage tres respectueux, H. [?]" Houssay was Professor of Zoology at... More
London: Trustees of the British Museum; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964. First edition limited to 600 copies for the U.S.A. (this, no. 240); 2 volumes, folio, pp. xvii, [1], 178, [1]; ix, [1], plus 190 color and monochrome plates; fine in original red clloth and publisher's slipcase... More
San Diego [et al.]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1987]. First edition, oblong folio, pp. 173, [2]; profusely illustrated with color photography throughout; fine copy in the jacket. More
London: John Murray, 1831. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xvi, 380; xi, [1], 415, [1]; later full speckled calf by Riviere, red and green morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines, marbled edges and endpapers; 19th century bookplate; slightest rubbing, else near fine. William Jacob (1762?-1851) was appointed to the comptrollership... More
London: Hutchinson & Ci. 1906. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp.xxviii, 519, [1]; xvi, 521-1183, [1]; 4 folding maps, 18 maps in the text, 28 color plates, 426 black & white illustrations (many full-page); original maroon cloth, gilt crest on upper covers, gilt-stamped spines; armorial bookplate on front pastedowns... More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, [1949]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 279; map, charts; original cloth, dust-jacket; tape remnants to cloth and dust-jacket, red pencil notation to front panel of d.j., else very good with ink stamp, "compliments of Edgar W. Hiestand Member of Congress" on front free endpaper. More
Eton: Ingleton and Drake; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. First edition of the first ornithological book illustrated with photographs, and published when the author was a mere sixteen years old; small 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 232; four orig. hand-colored albumen prints of birds (stuffed specimens); orig. green cloth, gilt vignette on... More
