Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1905. Photos by Beebe. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. 8vo (8 1/2" x 6"), orange pictorial cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, illustrated with 49 B&W glossy photographs on 33 sheets, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket..... More
London: The Botanical Society of the British Isles c/o The British Museum, 1961. 6 plates. First Edition. blue boards. 8vo, blue boards, edited by P. J. Wanstall, illustrated with 6 plates, 140 pages. Previous owner's stamp on ffe; slight mottling and rubbing to boards; internally clean and tight. Contains seven..... More
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1962. First Edition: Issued as The John Dewey Society Lectureship Number Five. Quarter cloth and boards. 8vo, brown buckram with black cloth backstrip, Foreword by Arthur G. Wirth, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), 60 + [3] pages. Very Fine copy of a...... More
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1981. photographs. First Edition. Quarter cloth and boards. 8vo, dark tan buckram spine and light tan boards, dust jacket (price clipped), reproduction of Meserve photograph of Muir as frontispiece & two 8-page sections of other B&W photos, 436-pages. "Perhaps the most legendary woodsman..... More
![Le Darwinism et L'Origine de L'Homme [Darwinism & the Origin of Man]. Alphonse Joseph Lecomte](/pictures/thumb/122_2.jpg?v=1465186436)
Paris: Victor Palme, 1873. Second Edition. Half leather and marbled boards. 8vo, rebound in beige leather spine with 5 bands, quarter leather & marbled covers, & gold floral decoration, text in French, marbled endpapers, 411 pages. VERY RARE early title--in French--discussing Darwin's Origin of Species and his thoughts on natural..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Small 4to (9 1/4" x ,6 1/4"), brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over blue-green boards, illustrated with B&W woodcuts and decorations, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped( with quarter-tone small woodcut bordering vignettes illustrated by Paul Landacre, xvi..... More
New York: Farrar * Straus * Giroux, 1983. First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, light brown cloth, Mylar-protected dust jacket with colored painting of the "Delaware Water Gap" by George Innes (1859), colored geological era charts for endpapers, [210] pages. The author"s sixteenth book and the second in his geological series of..... More
London: Nelson and Sons, 1872. Percival Skelton 54 engravings. First Edition in English. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo, decorated gilt-stamped red cloth, 54 B&W engravings (14 full page) by Percival Skelton, 323 gilt-edged pages. Lovely copy of a bright, decorative blind-stamped and gilt binding about Swiss mountains. Gilt retains much luster. Upper..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with silver spine lettering, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket painting buy Isabella Kirkland, xxiv + 220 pages + [2] Notes on Author & Type. Another farsighted environmental volume by the great entomologist. Exceptional Condition! More