[Oslo]: J. W. Cappelens Forlag, [1942]. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 155, [1]; text in Norwegian; 10 leaves of composite plates, text illustrations; contemporary half black calf over paste paper boards; touch of rubbing to extremities, else fine. Anatol Heintz was a Norwegian paleontologist, who was imprisoned by Nazi collaborators in..... More

New York: Stringer & Townsend (late Burgess, Stringer & Co.), 1849. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. x, [1], 12-360; vi, [1], 8-367, [1]; 12 wood-engraved plates, wood-engraved initials; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spines; text moderately foxed, not so much the plates; tissue guard on..... More

Philadelphia: Bernard Duke, 117 Chestnut Street, 1843. 8vo, pp. 282, [2]; original green cloth; gilt lettering on spine; bookseller ticket of Daniels & Smith's on front pastedown; very light foxing; otherwise very good. Henry Hirst (1813-1874) was an American poet. The Book of Cage Birds was his only work of..... 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

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

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Large 8vo, pp. [2], 261, [1]; 54 plates; original tan cloth with gilt title on spine; covers lightly dampstained, text clean and sound, very good. A report "on all matters pertaining to the regulation of the levels of the Lake of the Woods and the..... 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

Edinburgh, London [et al.]: W. H. Lizars, 3, St. James' Square, et al., n.d., [1845-6]. Second edition, small 8vo, 40 volumes, contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-paneled spines in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; some scuffing and wear to the extremities, otherwise a very good, sound set..... More

Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, [2019]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vi, 337, [7]; text in Japanese; charts, graphs and a few illustrations in the text; original blue publisher's cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian..... 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

Esslingen und Munchen: J. F. Schreiber, [c 1890]. 4to, pp. [8], 74, [4]; text in double column; 23 of 24 composite chromolithograph plates (plate 22 lacking); recent marbled paper boards backed in library buckram; very good.. In 1858, Johann Gottlob Kurr published Das Mineralreich in Bildern, a very popular book..... More