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

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: 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: 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

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

Paris: Bourgogne et Martinet, 1845. 8vo, pp. 11, [1]; original yellow printed wrappers; untrimmed; edges a bit tattered; stain on rear wrapper; otherwise very good. Galvanism refers to the practice of stimulating organic tissue with electrical currents. Inscribed at the top of the front wrapper to Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius..... More

Washington, D.C. 1915. 4to, pp. [2], 206, [2]; color frontispiece with transparent overlay, and 22 plates at the back (within the pagination), each with a descriptive page of text; recent full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine; about fine. 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..... More

Amsterdam: Seyffardt's boekhandel, 1934. Large folding chromolithograph table of minerals approx. 25½" x 36½" folding down into original printed gray wrappers 9" x 6½". Small tear at one fold closed on verso, some toning along the folds, the bottom edge of the front wrapper worn; all else very good. Raschke..... 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

Paris: Librairie Hachette et C[ompagn]ie, 1881. 8vo, pp. [4], iii, [1], 291, [1], 16 ads; original blue printed wrappers; composite color lithograph frontispiece, 2 other composite lithographs (1 color); unopened; light foxing throughout; light staining on wrappers; otherwise very good. "Scarce. This apparently popular work in France intended to describe..... More