[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
Jena: Friedrich Mauke, 1839. 4to, pp. [4], 44; 47 (of 48) hand-colored botanical plates; removed from binding; edges a little worn, stitching loosening; all else very good. Apparently one of several separately published atlases to compliment Jonathan Carl Zenker's Naturgeschichte der vorzüglichsten Handelspflanzen, 1832. More
London: Elliot Stock, 1896. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 358, [1]; a few reproductions of old woodcuts in the text; some rubbing at spine ends but generally a very good, sound copy in orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and upper cover. Reference on the quaint theories accepted... More
London: John Murray, 1882. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 304, 32 (ads); folding map, many illus. in text throughout; orig. salmon-colored cloth stamped in gilt and silver; presentation copy inscribed "Chas. Wickliffe Berkam, Esq. with the author's compts." The binding is a bit soiled and worn, but overall this is... More
New York: Century Co., 1902. Fifth impression, sq. 8vo, 12 plates after drawings by the author's wife, many other illustrations in the margins after sketches by the author; contemporary 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g., gilt spine with floral motif; one plate and one page of text loose, minor... More
New York: Century Co., 1901. Fourth impression, sq. 8vo, color frontis and 7 plates and many other illustrations in the margins after sketches or watercolors by the author; contemporary 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g., gilt spine with floral motif; minor rubbing, else very good. More
London & New York: Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953. First edition limited to 2000 copies, this one of 295 numbered and signed by the three authors and printed on Pannekoek mould made paper; large folio, pp. [8], 120; 16 plates in color; 22 full-page illustrations in black & white; generally... More
London: Collins, 1956. First edition limited to 1750 copies, this being one of 295 copies on Amstel special mould-made paper, signed by Sitwell and Blunt; large folio, pp. x, 94; 20 plates in color, 16 in black & white; original half green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; fine copy... More
Londres & a Paris: Lacombe, 1769. First French edition, 2 parts in 1; 8vo, pp. [2], ii, liv, [2], 298; [4], xvi, 293, [1] errata; 9 engraved plates (6 folding); contemporary full calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; top of spine chipped level with text block, cracks starting at... More
London: John W. Parker, 1838. 2 vols., 12mo, pp. vii, [1], 259, [1], [4] ads; v, [3], 292, [4] ads; 2 frontispieces and 14 wood-engraved plates, a number of woodcut illus. in the text; slight cracking at the spine ends, most of the plates spotted, else very good in orig. blue diapered cloth, gilt lettering and decoration stamped on spine. More
Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, [2000]. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 337; fine copy in a fine jacket. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 379, [1], [6] ads; folding table giving particulars of 25 felled elephants, 27 photographic illustrations on 16 plates; some rubbing at the extremities, otherwise a very good copy in original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Czech, p. 156: "A pre-eminent... More
New York: Natural Science Assn. of America, 1888. Large 4to, pp. [10], 182; title-p. printed in red and black; engraved portrait frontispiece, 119 chromolithograph plates "representing upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds, including a popular account of their habits and characteristics." Original maroon cloth... More
Columbus: Jacob H. Studer & Co., 1878. First book edition, very large 4to, pp. [10], 182; 119 chromolithograph plates "representing upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds, including a popular account of their habits and characteristics." Together, and uniformly bound with: Ornithology; or, the science... More
London: Chatto & Windus, ca. 1845. 12mo, pp. 256, illustrations and 31 hand-colored engraved plates; modern tan buckram spine over red cloth boards, blue and gilt-stamped spine; some shelf wear, otherwise a fine copy. More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, [1962]. Later printing, folio; illustrated throughout from photographs by Eliot Porter; very good in original cloth, dust-jacket with short tear to rear panel. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. Selections from Thoreau by the photographer. Beautiful nature photographs by Porter in the spirit of Thoreau. More
Tokio: Observatoire météorologique central du Japon, 1899. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], ii, [2], 69, [1]; 1 plates, 1 color plate of signal flags, 2 folding maps printed in color in rear cover pocket (pocket with splits at edges), plus a third folding "Weather Chart" printed on 2 sides, the... More
London: printed by Alabaster, Passmore and Sons, 1886. 8vo, pp. xiv, 105; 12 color plates, 17 woodcut illustrations; original green cloth, spine & covers lettered in gilt; a bit of spotting to the covers, corners showing, shaken, light offsetting from plates, still a nice, sound copy. Illustrating the theory that... More
Paris: Béchet et Labé, 1839. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], xlii, 496, 7; joints a little rubbed but generally a very good copy in contemporary black calf-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering direct on gilt-decorated spine. More
Columbo: H. R. Cottle, 1921. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 581, [1]; frontispiece portrait, folding map, folding table (within the pagination), publisher's "Notice" tipped in at title page, 2 errata slips tipped in at p. [1]; 98 figures in the text; map with old tape repair at fold, extremities rubbed... More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1902. 8vo, pp. xl, 552; portrait frontispiece of Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington, maps, illustrations, many full-page, throughout; contemporary three-quarter red morocco over brick cloth, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, marble endpapers, spine edges a bit rubbed, else fine; contemporary inscription from "Mother... More
London: The Bookman's Journal, 1922. First edition, 8vo, pp. 79, [1]; 8 full-page facsimiles; very good in the fragile printed dustjacket, chipped and torn at ends of spine panel and with back panel detached from spine panel. More
Saint Paul: Pioneer Press Company, 1877. 500 Copies Ordered Printed, 8vo, 73pp., 1 plate, 1 full-page map, 2 folding maps, both hand-colored and in fine condition, and several charts in the text; very good but for the fragile, original printed paper wrappers which show soiling, creasing, and overall wear, and... More
San Diego: 1947. Third edition, small 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 171; folding color lithograph map of the zoo grounds, numerous illustrations of the inhabitants throughout; very good copy in original color pictorial wrappers. More
