Madras: Government Press, 1927. 8vo, 2 vols., pp. 3, [3], 159, [1]; 172; 7 plates (including an onlay to upper wrapper); printed green paper wrappers; volumes somewhat crudely stapled together to become a single volume; ex-Oregon State College library, with blind emboss on wrapper and inner page and stamp on..... More
![Item #64037 Annual report of the Forest Department for the year 1934, [1936], [1937], [1938](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/64037_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686949537)
Jesselton, North Borneo: printed at the Government Printing Office, 1935-39. 4 vols., folio, pp. [2], 22; 34; 42; [2], ii, 50; 2 folding maps, 7 folding tables, tables in the text; original printed green paper-covered boards backed in cloth, ex-Oregon Agricultural College with bookplate, pressure stamp on title page, pocket..... More
N.p. publisher not identified, n.d., ca. 1870]. 16mo (approx. 6¼" x 4"), leporello-style binding with 12 double-page lithograph spreads showing 96 specimens of minerals, the illustrations often highlighted with gilt and silver; original blue printed wrappers; light wear at edges, very good. More
Boston: Printed for the Society, 1930. First edition, 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. xii, 117-[120]; ornamented title-p., 40 full-p. illus. (mostly portraits); original olive green cloth-backed rose paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine and front cover, t.e.g., printed presentation plate at inside front cover; extremities worn, revealing boards at lower..... More
London: printed by order of the trustees of the British Museum, 1913-15. 5 volumes, plus the 3-volume Supplement (1923-40), 4to, the first in contemporary blue cloth bound for the Smithsonian with gilt call numbers on the spines and a Smithsonian rubberstamp on the verso of the title pages; the second..... More
Paris: Mon Bouasse-Lebel & Ane Mon Basset, réunites 29 rue Saint-Sulpice, n.d., [ca. 1873]. 8vo, pp. [20]; illustrated throughout with over 140 cuts of minerals and crystals, with explanatory text; original gray wrappers printed in blue; apparently an offprint from the Encyclopedie. Nice copy. More
New York: Published at 128 Nassau-Street, 1853. 8vo, pp. [10], 7-72, 7-48, 121-138; original blind-stamped brown cloth; gilt ornament on upper cover; spine cloth missing; extremities rubbed and worn; spine perished; light foxing; otherwise good and sound. Apparently, a composite volume of three different texts from past publications. A large..... More
Riga: Izdevniecība zinatne, 1975. Second expanded edition, 8vo, pp. 670, [1]; text in Latvian, maps, graphs and photos throughout; full black buckram, errata slip laid in; near fine. More
London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1881-1884. Large 8vo (approx. 11' x 8"), consisting of volume 25, no. 1 (Thursday, Nov. 3, 1881) to volume 30, no. 17 (Thursday, Oct. 30, 1884): but for a single issue (volume 26, no. 11), a complete run in 156 issues; original printed..... More
Washington, D.C. G.P.O., 1896. Small folio, pp. 144; 2 color lithographs by Bien & Co., 14 other plates; spine ends chipped, else good and sound in contemporary black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-MHS. More
Blandinsville, Ill. Lucien S. Reid, printer, 1886. First edition, 8vo, pp. 26; 3 wood-engraved plates of Cyldesdales; original printed pink wrappers; slight cracking at the spine, front cover with a two-inch tear entereing from the fore-margin (no loss), small previous owner's rubberstamp at the top of the front wrapper; all..... More
Beijing: Science Press. New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., 1981. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], xxv, [5], 974; [2], xiv, 975-2138; numerous maps, illustrations, tables, graphs, etc. throughout; some edge wear but overall a fine set in original green cloth stamped in silver on spine, preserving..... More
Peshawar: Government Press, North-west Frontier Province, 1913. Folio, pp. [4], 2, [2], ii, 15, [1], xxvi; [4], ii, 2, 3, [1], 16, [1], xxvi; [6], 4, ii, 14, xxiv; [4], 3, [3], ii, 18, xxv, [1]; 3, [3], ii, 13, [1], 22; folding map hand-colored in outline, numerous tables throughout;..... More
Lahore: printed at the 'Civil and Military Gazette' Press, 1908. Folio, pp. [8], 15, [1], xli, [1], vii, [1]; original printed blue wrappers bound into library card binding, printed paper label and accession numbers; ex-Oregon Agricultural College with bookplate, pressure stamp on title page, pocket inside back cover; internally fine;..... More
Simla: printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1915. Folio, pp. [4], 12, [4], 31, [1]; 1 plate, 2 very large folding maps (approx. 24" x 49") colored in outline; original cloth-backed printed boards, ex-Oregon Agricultural College with bookplate, accession numbers at the top corner of the upper board, pressure stamp..... More
[Providence]: Department of Education, State of Rhode Island, 1909. 3 volumes, 8vo, each 32 pages; illustrations, poetry, printed music; some toning, else very good in original pictorial wrappers. Prepared for use in public schools. More
Bruxelles: A. Mertens et fils, 1864. 8vo, pp. [4], 149; pink paper wrappers; upper wrapper separated, lower wrapper torn, edges curled, textblock clean and sound. A catalogue of all of the exhibits and plants along with participants. 20,000 plants were exhibited in Brussels during the 1864 exposition. Not found in..... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1850. Revised edition, 8vo, pp. 183, [1]; 18 colored plates, 5 black and white, 2 folding; 5 maps, woodcut illustrations throughout; original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine; front joint starting; faded; spine cracked and chipped with sections missing; otherwise good and sound. 18 beautiful colored..... More
Philadelphia: W.W. Woodward, also by W. P. Farrand, 1806. First American edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, 43 engraved folding plates, largely of globes and scientific and mathematical instruments; contemporary full calf, red and black morocco labels on spine; some cracking of the joints on volume I, else generally a very good..... More
[Bologna]: [Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali], 1840. 8vo, pp. [16] unpaginated; self-wrappers, unbound; near fine. A short text classifying the families of aquatic fossils found in Italy. Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a Swiss biologist and geologist who rejected the theory of Darwinian evolution and was a proponent of scientific racism..... More
London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1797. First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. xvi, 231, [9]; uncut; folding plate; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, manuscript titling on spine; binding soiled, corners bumped and worn, spine chipped at head and tail..... More
Juneau: Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, 1982. Comb-bound report, 11" x 8.5", pp. [4], iii, [1], 317 (page 129 skipped); typescript text and tables, pictorial paper covers; ex-library, with stamp on cover, else fine. "The objective of Contract 81-2 .. was to 'enhance the capabilities of the Alaska Department of..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1989. Third edition, 1991 reprint, 8vo, pp. 423; text printed in double columns; original boards in green dust jacket, near fine. More
N. p. [1868]. 8vo, offprint from the American Journal of Science an Arts, Vol. XLV, March 1868; pp. [2], 181-190; drab wrappers, manuscript title on upper wrapper; wrapper chipped, else very good. Gift inscription to Minnesota Historical Society from the paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on upper wrapper. Andrews was a...... More
New Orleans: Harmanson, 1937. Edition limited to 375 numbered copies signed by the author (this no. 218), 8vo, pp. 517, [3]; text illustrations, plates, double-page map; black and tan cloth with red morocco spine label, unopened; fine. A biography of Audubon that focuses particularly on his activities in Louisiana. More
