London: Edward Arnold, 1917. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 311; viii, 328; 64 plates and a folding map; very good, bright copy in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines and upper covers. A famous expedition in the name of botany "to explore thoroughly, in the interests... More

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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