Eßlingen bei Stuttgart: J. F. Schreiber, [ca. 1889]. 4to, 2 parts in 1; pp. [12], 74; [2], 40, [8]; 23 composite chromolithograph plates of various minerals, 18 double-page chromolithograph plates on geology and paleontology, plus one other plate in black & white; title page printed in black and red; text..... More
Eßlingen und München: J. F. Schreiber, [ca. 1889]. 4to, 2 parts in 1; pp. [12], 74; [2], 40, [8]; 24 composite plates, 22 of them chromolithographs of various minerals, plus 18 double-page chromolithograph plates on geology and paleontology; text in double column, pictorial paper covered boards, backed in brown cloth..... More
Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1980. First edition, thin 4to, pp. 106; title-page vignette, b&w illustrations throughout text, 16-page section of color illustrations; near fine in original yellow cloth, front cover with oval pictorial paper onlay in color, spine lettered in gilt. More
New York & Washington: Praeger Publishers, [1972]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 262; 4 color plates, 96 other illustrations in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Bookplate of Jacob Chernofsky. More
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 88 Princes Street, 1859. Folio, pp. [8], 70; text in double column; 24 composite plates, each with captioned tissue guards, all but 1 hand-colored and finished with gum arabic; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked in brown morocco, gilt-decorated spine in..... More
Leningrad: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 1990. 8vo, pp. 152, [4]; 22 plates; gray printed paper wrappers; small scuff to upper wrapper, bookseller's label on lower wrapper; one page dog eared, else very good. More
Neuchâtel: Victor Attinger, 1937. First edition, 8vo, pp. 110, [2], [8] ads; original red cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover; 48 photolithographic plates; very good. Photolithographic illustrations of apples, pears, cherries, and apricots alongside their horticultural characteristics, commercial value, defects, and other important information. More
Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1827. First edition thus, 8vo, pp. [4], lxxii, [73]-321; engraved portrait of the author and 1 folding facsimile; some foxing but generally a very good copy in orig. printed paper-covered boards. This copy with an inscription on the front pastedown "A monsieur le Docteur Moreau …..... More
Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1835-45. 11 volumes, 8vo, original pink printed wrappers; generally fine. First published in seven volumes 1815-22. Volume I: Introduction et Infusoires; II: Histoire des polypes; III: Radiaires, vers, insectes; IV: Histoire des insects; V: Arachnides, crustacés, annelides, cirrhipèdes; VI-X: Histoire des mollusques; XI: Histoire des mollusques et..... More
Paris: Desray, 1815. Best edition, 6 volumes, 8vo, 11 engraved folding plates, folding table and a large hand-colored engraved map; contemporary quarter tan calf, red and brown morocco labels on spines; a very good, handsome set. This edition includes two supplemental volumes describing an additional 1300 species. In this work..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1907. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 191; 56 illus. in text; good and sound, or better in orig. maroon cloth gilt; ex-MHS. More
London: Chatto and Windus, [ca. 1872]. 8vo, pp. x, [3], 536, [16] (ads dated 1873); 19 plates, a few pencil notations, some very light foxing, label scuffed, else a very good copy in contemporary half black calf over marbled boards and red morocco label with gilt lettering on decorative spine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 158; green and yellow paper boards; fore-edge of textblock with some foxing, dent to upper board, corners and bottom edge bumped; dust jacket with some chips along edges and spine; price clipped. Translation is attributed to J. H. Ross, a known..... More
Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1855. First separate edition, "from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, May, 1855." 8vo, pp. 4; color lithograph plate; removed from binding; very good. The lithograph is by T. Sinclair after J. Magee. "Read before the Academy of Natural Sciences, May 22d, 1855." More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 351, [1]; portrait frontispiece and folding facsimile plate; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, red morocco label; joints reinforced japanese tissue, endpapers foxed, text clean and sound, 1958 ownership signature by paleontologist Kenneth..... More
[Winchester, England]: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1985. Second edition, limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 160; frontispiece portrait after engraving by W. Read and 9 full-page illustrations in the text; a fine copy in original green cloth and somewhat scuffed dustjacket with a few creases along bottom edges. A...... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1940. 8vo, pp. x, 102; 9 plates, folding map; text in German; printed paper wrappers, wrappers toned with a crease to corner, pages starting to tone but clean and sound, very good. First volume in a 10-part series of the history of Jena. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., a Walden Press book, [1967]. Folio, (approx. 17¾" x 15¼"); pp. [36]; 24 color plates inlayed in mounts, 10 other mounted color plates, plus illustrations in the text; one loose offset color plate laid in (as issued?); corners of the mount for the frontispiece have..... More
La Plata: Taller de Publicaciones de Museo, 1893-94. 2 volumes, folio; pp. [8], 91; vi, [2], 118, 4; plus folio atlas containing 106 lithograph plates (5 folding); recent half green cloth, gilt titling on upper covers and spine; near fine and sound. The plates are in a matching half green..... More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. 8vo, pp. xx, 409, [6]; frontispiece, 81 plates, two color folding maps; original navy cloth gilt with pictorial onlay on upper cover, t.e.g.; owner's signatures on free endpaper of Henry G. Fernald and James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at..... More
Yeovil: Western Gazette &c. Co., Ltd., 1922. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 297; orig. blue cloth, gilt title on spine, very good. More
Providence: [H. L. Madison, 1915]. Oblong 16mo (approx. 3½" x 5½"), pp. [2], 40; 1 page of composite illustrations; original green cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover; cover with 2 or 3 small spots, else very good. More
Breslau: Ferdinand Hirt, 1896. 8vo, 2 volumes in 1, pp. 128; 94, [2] ads; vignette title pages; folding color frontispiece geological map; over 300 illustrations in the texts, some full-page; contemporary and likely original black cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine; near fine throughout. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1971]. First edition, folio, pp. xi, [1], 220; 61 color plates, drawings in the text; approx. 1/3 front free endpaper clipped, else very good in original cream cloth, clipped jacket with a bit of staining to back panel. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1955]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [6], vii-xii, [2], 3-269, [1]; map endpapers; original green cloth; silver lettering on spine; dust jacket, clipped, scuffed around the edges; otherwise very good. Spence 762. More
