Lyon: au Bureau de la Société Linnéenne, 1873-77. First edition, 4 volumes, plus supplement; large 4to, pp. [6], v, [1], 343; [6], 327; [6],iii, [1], 303; [6], 303; all with original printed wrappers bound in, the front wrapper of each with a hand-colored pictorial onlay; plus 5 fascicles, each in... More
New York: Macmillan [and] the American Museum of Natural History, [c1936]. 4to, 2 volumes; 16 color plates after paintings, 72 plates after photographs, and illus., charts, and maps throughout text; very good in original green buckram gilt, lightly rubbed; generally very good. A comprehensive work based upon the ground-breaking ornithological... More
Stuttgart: Hiersemann Verlag, [1976]. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1953 (also by Hiersemann), 4to, pp. 222, [1]; frontispiece and 7 illustrations in the text after Franz Murr, 16 plates at the end of the text; a fine copy in the original robin's-egg blue linen stamped and lettered in... More
Tokyo: Sanseido Co., Ltd. 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 56 plus 80 color plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 20 plates printed in green from pressings, and a 4-p. index; original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine; covers spotted, else very good and sound. More
Tokyo: Imperial Agricultural Experiment Station, 1931. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], 215; map, 97 figures, 88 tables, 29 plates (many in color); errata slip tipped to verso of the title page, xerox biography of the author bound in after the table of contents; original printed wrappers bound in later green... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [2], xxii, 233, [15]; 16 pages of full-color photographs, three double-page maps in back; inscribed by Olson on half-title; brown cloth, blindstamped on cover and title in gilt on spine; very good with edges sunned, in a slightly toned, price-clipped dust jacket. More
[Stockholm, WI]: Midnight Paper Sales and Fox Run Press, December, 2004. Edition limited to 200 copies, small oblong bifolium, signed by Gaylord Schanilec, Michael Ondaatje and Anik See; color wood engraving by Schanilec, with a single leaf insert. The wood engraving was inspired by a drawing by Anicka Schanilec. Given... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1967]. Edition limited to 750 copies of which this is no. 707, oblong 8vo, pp. [8], 189, [2]; text illustrations printed in blue, map endpapers; original grey cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in silver; a touch of shelf wear, else about fine. Bookplate on front... More
London: J. Johnson, 1789. First edition, large 4to, pp. vi, ix-xii, 171, [1], iii (index), [1] errata (lacking pp. vii-viii, as always -- see Mendelssohn, 2nd ed.); large engraved folding map showing the extent of Paterson's travels, 17 engraved copper-plates; original blue paper-covered boards neatly rebacked in cream paper with... More
Erfordiae: impensis authoris, typis Joh. Henrici Groschii, Acad. Typogr. 1715. First edition, 4to, pp. [36], 284; title page printed in red and black; text printed in double columns; engraved initials, decorative head- and tail-pieces; pictorial engraved title page, 27 engraved plates (1 folding), and 1 half-page engraving in the text... More
Washington, D.C. 29 August, 1840. 4to, integral leaf detached, traces of previous mounting, else near fine. An interesting and important association touching on three members of the American scientific community: "I beg leave to introduce to you Lt. J.M. Gillis of the United States Navy who is engaged here in... More
Hanoi: Imprimerie de l'Avenir du Tonkin, 1909. First edition, small 4to, pp. [6], iii, [1], 126; original pictorial front wrapper bound in; 32 plates from photographs; pages toning, else very good in later native full green calf, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Three in OCLC: Bibliotheque nationale, Yale and Cornell. More
London: Scholartis Press, 1934. First edition, 8vo, pp. 372; fine copy in original green cloth lettered in blue on spine, dust jacket with slight wear at extremities. Both the binding and the jacket bear a George Allen & Unwin imprint. The Scholartis Press, founded by Eric Partridge in 1927, suffered... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First edition; 1 volume in 2, folio; illustrated title pages, black and white drawings and color photographic illustrations throughout, map of the United States printed on endpapers; original green cloth, spine printed in gilt and dark green, some shelf wear, else a very good... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First edition, third printing; 1 volume in 2 parts, folio; illustrated title pages, black and white drawings and color photographic illustrations throughout, map of the United States printed on endpapers; original mustard cloth, gilt-lettered, glassine wrappers (v.2 spine torn), publisher's slipcase; a fine set... More
New Have: Yale University Press, 1961. First edition, tall 8vo, pp. [10], 338, photographic frontispiece portrait and a few b&w plates; original tan cloth lettered in green on spine; scattered light smudging to covers, the spine ends creased, hinges loosening, and scattered marginal pencil markings throughout; a good, sound copy... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1936]. Second edition, revised; 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [iii]-xxvi, [2], 718; [iii]-xvii, [3], 850; 92 color plates after paintings and watercolors by Allan Brooks, Francis Lee Jacques, Walter John Breckenridge, plus others, and including 1 by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; bindings a little scuffed, but generally... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1932. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xxii, [2], 691, [3]; xv, [3], 821, [3]; 92 color plates after paintings and watercolors by Allan Brooks, Francis Lee Jacques, Walter John Breckenridge, plus others, and including 1 by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; some rubbing and wear, else... More
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1895. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 194; chromolithographic frontispiece and 3 chromolithograph plates (all of ornithological subjects) after Keulemans, double-page tinted lithograph map, folding hand-colored map, many illustrations in the text, some full-page; a fine, bright copy in original pictorial green cloth stamped in silver and black... More
London: John Murray, 1929. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxviii, [4], 420; x, [2], 421-798; 51 maps (2 in color), 50 plates, largely from photographs; original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black on upper covers and in gilt on spines; generally a fine, sound copy. Czech, Africa, p. 139 (citing the... More
London, et al: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1953. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxx, 198; illustrations throughout text, mostly full-page facsimiles of title-pages; a very good copy in original linen cloth, black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine, and in the darkened and chipped dustjacket printed in blue and... More
In Venetia: Appresso F. Sansovino, et compagni, 1560. First edition, small 4to, ff. [4], 187, [1]; woodcut device on title and on recto of final leaf; profusely illustrated with over 400 woodcuts of garden plants, vegetables, tubers, fruits, gourds, mushrooms, grains, ferns, etc., as well as a few of pests... More
San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Co.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First edition, 4to, pp. 319, [1], v (index); lithographic frontispiece of a whaling scene in the California lagoon, 26 lithograph plates (6 double-p.) by Britton & Rey, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text (1 full-page, and... More
[Saint Paul]: Midnight Paper Sales, 2017. Edition limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Schanilec, 8vo, pp. [48]; uncut and unopened, as issued; 9 three- and four-color wood engravings by Schanilec, and a final one by Thomas Bewick, all printed from the original blocks; text sewn into original Degener... More
[Stockholm]: Midnight Paper Sales, n.d. [2008]. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies (this copy no. 7), small folio (30.2 cm), numbered and signed by Ben Verhoeven and Gaylord Schanilec on the colophon, 50 wood specimens printed by Schanilec, 24 of them folding, and 1 double-page and folding, showing 25 end... More
