Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1906. Folio, pp. [2], ii, 64; [2], ii, 60; [2], ii, 58; [2], ii, 54; 2 errata slips tipped in; 4 folding maps (2 rather large at 28" x 52"), tables in the text; library card binding with paper label and accession..... More
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1898. Reprint from The Religion of Science Library, Number 29, January, 1898; 8vo, pp. 56, [6]; black and white illustrations throughout; original printed wrappers (some soiling), loss to front upper right-hand corner not effecting text; interior fine. Publisher's advertisements at end. More
London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, 1867. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xxii, 266, [32] ads; original blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt; bookbinding ticket of W. Bone & Son on rear endpaper; chromolithograph title, 7 lithograph plates, additional illustrations in the text throughout; near fine. Contains descriptions..... More
Ravensburg: Otto Maier, [1901]. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 346; frontispiece, 9 color plates, text illustrations; original full green cloth stamped in red and black; red stained edges; signature and old rubberstamp on title page, else near fine. More
Rangoon: Supdt., Govt. Printing and Staty. 1961. Tall 8vo, pp. [8], iii, [3], 323, [1], x; 35 illustrations in the text, tables; very good in original black cloth-backed blue printed paper-covered boards. This is the third edition; the book was originally published in 1901, and 1910, both times with 16..... More
[Denver]: University of Denver Press, [1950]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 358; very good copy in a slightly worn jacket with a few small chips. Biographies of 9 leading naturalists of the region supplemented by a roster in dictionary form of natural history collectors, 1682-1932. More
London: Swarthmore Press, [1927]. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 326, [2] ads; frontispiece, 22 plates (many in color), plus a folding map; very good, sound copy in orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Plant-hunting in the French and Italian Alps. More
Chicago: A. W. Mumford, 1903. First edition, 4to, pp. xii, 229, [1]; original green cloth; gilt lettering on upper cover and spine; colored frontispiece depicting the 12 birth stones; 61 illustrations throughout, including half-tone photographs, chromolithographs, maps and tables; early owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper; all else generally..... More
Taipei: Yuan Yu Industry Co., Ltd., [2010]. First edition, oblong 4to, pp. 240; illustrated throughout, much in colot; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards. Nine copies in OCLC, only Skidmore, Texas and LC in the U.S. More
London: Duncan and Malcolm, 1842. 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 565, [3]; partially unopened; full brown publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine; spine stained and sunned, upper joint starting, good and sound. John Fleming (1785-1857) was a Scottish Free Church minister, naturalist, zoologist and geologist. He named and described a number..... 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: 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
Sharon, MA: The Kendall Whaling Museum, 1985. 8vo, pp. ix, [7], 157, [3]; frontispiece and map endpapers; full gray cloth; previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, else fine. More
Albany: printed and sold by D. & S. Whiting, 1803. 8vo, pp. xii, [13]-280; 13 engraved plates (11 folding); full contemporary mottled calf, gilt-paneled spine laid out in 6 compartments, black morocco label in 1; sprinkled edges; a bit of foxing but in all a very good, sound copy. This..... 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
Stuttgart: Kosmos Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde, 1937. 12mo, pp. 63, [1]; 4 color plates, text illustrations; full yellow cloth with black title on spine, upper wrapper bound in, likely as issued, very good. The year 1937 written in pencil at top of upper cover. 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
Cambridge, Mass. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1891. 8vo bifolium; cover title, 2 pages of text, the final page blank; a couple of short tears in the gutter margin; very good. Nothing to do with lobster as a food, but rather reproductive and anatomical questions. 2 copies in OCLC, both at..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, 260, [6] ads; frontispiece portrait; very good, sound copy in original pictorial gray cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Also with chapters on The Speech and Reason of Domestic Animals, The Human Voice, Vocal Growth, Sounds Accompanied by Gestures, etc...... More
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Paris: Anthus Bertrand, [1841-42]. Folio, 120 engraved botanical plates with later coloring, a number of them composite. Includes plate nos. 1-100, and 131-150. The entire work, published over a 26-year span, ran to some 26 text volumes and 3 atlases containing 357 plates. "These engravings "are noteworthy for the abundance..... 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
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1972-75. 8 volumes, large folio, original full faux leather binding, gilt-decorated spines in 8 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; fine set. A fine facsimile edition of the London 1848-69 edition in 8 volumes reproducing 681 of Gould's famous illustrations. See Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, p. 101 for..... More
Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1920. 8vo, pp. [5], 6-117, [3] ads; original cloth-backed paper-covered boards printed in black with pictorial onlay; 3 color photolithograph plates (2 double-page), 163 illustrations in the text; text toned throughout, otherwise near fine. More
