Stuttgart: Emil Barth, 1901. Thick 8vo, pp. viii, 990; 54 plates, 52 of them composite chromolithographs, and nearly 300 illustrations in the text, primarily wood engravings; original decorative brown morocco-backed green cloth, the spine with a strapwork design, all edges marbled; very good and sound. More
London: printed by J. Davis, for B. & J. White, 1796. 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxxiii, [1], plus unpaginated lexicon; bound without the half-title in contemporary full calf, green morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; very good and sound. First published in 1793. Alston XVII, 1077. More
Stuttgart: Gustav Weise, [1895]. Folio, 3 parts in 1, pp. [2], 212; 177, [1]; over 500 color lithograph illustrations of monkeys, lions, bears, whales, mushrooms, fruits, flowers, minerals, etc., on 48 composite plates, 370 text engravings; original pictorial green cloth backed in tan leather, illustrated cover detailed in gilt, gilt-decorated..... More
Boston: Daniel L. Hale, 1841. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 706, [1], [1] errata; 2 anatomical plates, 24 chromolithograph plates, and 9 wood engravings in the text; full contemporary calf, red leather label on spine; one central gathering sprung, spine with hairline cracks, the whole..... More
Chicago: Lightner Publishing Company, 2810 South Michigan Ave. 1939. 8vo, pp. [3]-77, [1]; 7 color plates; bibliography and determination tables at the back; original black cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine slightly worn but generally very good and sound. More
Toronto: J. L. Nichols Co. Ltd., ca. 1906. 4to, pp. 603, [1]; frontispiece portrait, map, numerous black & white photographic plates, graphs & tables; full blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, upper cover decorated in black; hinges starting, light wear to extremities, else very good. More
Washington DC & London: Smithsonian Institution Press, [2002]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 200; illustrations throughout, much in color; fine copy in the dust jacket. This is Mead's personal copy but without signature or bookplate. He is the Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. More
Munich, Berlin, London & New York: Prestel, 2003. Folio, pp. 175, [1]; original red cloth with dust jacket and slipcase; 40 color plates, 146 color illustrations; fine. "This beautifully produced volume now makes these works available to a broader public for the first time. It includes all 196 plates, originally..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 225, [1]; 14 plates, two in color; rebound in green paper wrappers, original printed front wrapper trimmed and laid on, title label on spine, ex-Stephy Museum, London, with stamps on top edge of plates and occasionally in text, else very good..... More
Paris: Armand Colin & Cie, 1898. Folio, pp. [iii]-vi, xx, 191, [1]; 23 composite chromolithographs, 321 illustrations in the text (largely wood engravings); a very good, sound copy in original red cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine and embossed in blind. Meunier (1843-1925) was a French mineralogist, palaeontologist, stratigrapher..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. 8vo, pp. xx, 658, [2] ads; 761 illustrations in the text; near fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, original printed dust jacket lightly soiled and rubbed. More
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1851. First American edition, and first edition with Agassiz's Memoir; 8vo, pp. [5] ads, [1], xlii, [1], 26-337, [1], [22] ads; engraved frontispiece portrait by Sartain, from a Talbotype; nearly 60 figures in the text; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; slight cracking at the spine ends..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; London: Taylor and Francis, 1875. First edition, 4to, pp. vi, 186; a few illustrations in the text and 9 plates (6 printed in color); original blue cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, some wear to extremities with spine ends and fore corners..... More
Porrentruy: Imprimerie et lithographie de V. Michel, 1862. 8vo, pp. 30, [2]; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; paper toning, shallow chips on edges, old vertical fold, very good. Ownership signature of Professor A Guyot of Princeton on both covers. Guyot was a professor of geology at Princeton and founded its museum..... More
New York: James D. Torrey, 1856. 8vo, pp. 92, [2]; 16 wood-engraved plates within the pagination; very good in original pictorial tan wrappers. NY Public and NY Historical only in OCLC. 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
New York: Oakley, Mason and Co., 1870. 8vo, pp. 646, [2]; 19 composite plates with 262 illustrations, most in color; full green blindstamped cloth, gilt title on spine; edges rubbed, head and tail of spine worn, gutter and hinges split but sound, text clean, good. More
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translation, 1972. 8vo, 2 vols., "Part I, Fascicle I" and "Part I, Fascicle II"; pp. 917, [1] with pagination across both volumes; text illustrations throughout; original gray printed wrappers; fine. A final volume was published much later, in 2000. First translation into English of the..... More
Leipzig und Wien: Bibliographisches Institut, 1897-5. 8vo, 2 volumes, a mixed set in matching bindings; Volume I on Allgemeine Geologie (new edition of 1897), volume II on Beschreibende Geologie (1895); pp. xiv, 693, [1], [4]; x, 700, [4]; 22 color plates, 12 engravings, 4 maps, and 873 text illustrations; half..... 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..... More
Tokyo: NHK, 2015. 4to, 2 volumes, pp. 223, [1] (main text); liii, [3] (English translation volume); illustrated throughout with images of fossils; text in Japanese; pictorial stiff paper covers, fine. Published in conjunction with a special exhibition. More
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., [1908]. 16mo, pp. [14], 10-211, [1], 16 (ads); original brick-red cloth; gilt tilting on upper cover and spine; wood-engraved frontispiece, chromolithographic vignette title page showing a golden nugget from California; near fine. A popular book which went through many editions. Contains a 1901 note..... More
