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

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

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: 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: Thomas R. Knox & Co., 1884. First edition, American issue, 8vo, pp. 29, [9]; original printed tan wrapper; rear wrapper reattached; front wrapper starting; spine paper missing; otherwise good and sound. A collection of articles originally sent to the London monthly Journal of Science. An introduction plus, The..... 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

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1851. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [2] ads, xiv, 15-423, [1], [8] ads; 11 lithographic plates depict phrenological illustrations of various races; original blind-stamped green cloth with gilt lettering; contemporary ownership signature on front endpaper; bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the..... 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

Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications, 1963. First edition, 8vo, pp. 256; illustrated throughout; very good and sound in pictorial boards. 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, Africa, p. 156: "A..... 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

London: Witherby & Co., 1913. 8vo, pp. xii, 266, [18]; full blue publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine; spine sunned, endpapers toned, text clean and sound, very good. More