Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Limited edition, 500 copies. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 399, (i), colophon; illustrated; cream cloth lettered in gilt in a slipcase; Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated. Foreward by Brooke Hindle. Pieces by Assimov, Arthur Clarke and others. Pieces by Assimov, Arthur Clarke and others. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 255; blue cloth lettered in red, and silver in a pictorial dust jacket;. Tale of a Roebuck in the Scottish Highlands. More
Boston: Smithsonian Institution & Little Brown and Co., (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo; pp; 256, index; profusely illustrated with color & black and white photographs; blue cloth and yellow paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Drawn from the popular exhibit at the Smithsonian's National..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, (1981). First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Folio; pp; xii, 159, index; beautifully illustrated with fifty, (50) color plates from watercolors; brown buckram lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers in a pictorial dust jacket;. This book is divided into two main parts; Part 1 contains a review..... More
Albany: State of New York, 1897. Denton et al. First Edition. cloth. Quarto (8.5" x 11"), blue-grey clcth with pictorial cover in black ink. 521pp. 9 full page chromolithographs of fish by Denton, and one of shells and starfish. Numerous photographs in black and white of camps and activities, some..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo, pp; 50, (i), ad; frontispiece; brown blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers; A perforated stamp from the Hartford Medical Society Library, small paper spine label else very good, a tight clean copy. A curious edition; after each leaf..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1993). Quarto (8.75" x 11.25")` black cloth and tan boards, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 174, (3)pp. with index and credits. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth decorated with fern motif. Top edge gilt. 362pp. with index and glossary. Illustratedwith "over two hundred illustrations from original drawings and photographs". Good or better. Some edgewear; title ink rubbed from spine. The author includes a section..... More
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9.25"), brown cloth. 260pp. plus colophon. Index and bibliography. Illustrated and maps. The fore-edge is untrimmed and many leaves are unopened. A few pages were carelessly opened and the resulting tear was repaired with tape. A little defect..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1907. Second edition, this originally appeared in 1895 in a two volume set. Hardcover. Two volumes in one; Octavo; pp; I; xxiii, (i), 208, (ii), ads; II; vi, 231, (iv), ads; illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and another seventy eight black and..... More
London: Cassell & Company, 1903. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 294, index; illustrated with one hundred twenty-three black and white photographs by Cherry & Richard Kearton; decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, lettered in gilt; previous owner's bookplate; A solid copy. Frontispiece toned else very good. A classic natural..... More
Danbury Ct. Danbury Medical Printing Company, Publishers, December, 1899. Original edition. Wraps. Tall quarto; pp; xvi, 467-496, xvii-xx, 497-506, xxi-xxii, 167-180, xxiii-xliv; great illustrated ads; original printed paper wrappers;. A serious medical journal with contributed articles; Scarce, all copies listed are not original, Nabu, etc PODs as of catalogue date..... More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp. xviii, 550 with bibliography and index; Illustrated, three hundred eighty black and white figures; green cloth, gilt; near fine; An Important Contribution! More
Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1990. A new edition. Paperback. (1990). First printing of the American illustrated edition. Octavo (7.5" x 9.25"), pictorial wraps. 207, (1)pp. Beautifully illustrated with full and half-page color plates and black and white drawings. Very slight wear. Originally published in 1935, this Godine edition Is..... More
New York: Humboldt Publishing Company, 1892. Humboldt Library Of Science Edition. Wraps. octavo; pp; 96, (8) catalogue; Illustrated; Original printed wrappers;. Oysters, Lobsters, Spiders and more. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 316, index; illustrated with a map and photographs; blue cloth lettered in black in a dust jacket;. Hunting very small game in Africa! A very nice copy. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Second edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (5.25 x 7.75), brown leather and marbled boards. Top edge gilt. 385pp. with index. Illustrated. 3 folding maps and many other maps in the text. Many photographs and drawings. Covers scuffed. Some scratches and spots on the spine. Internally..... More
Tucson: University Of Arizona Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xxvi, (2), 3-255 with index; Frontipiece, maps, plans, drawings; black cloth and cream boards in a dust jacket;. Xantus was a charlatan who lied about his exploits, joined the U. S. Army under an assumed name, yet became one..... More