Category: Natural History

Fifth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York Report for 1899

Price: $245.00

Publisher: New York, James B. Lyon : 1900

Seller ID: 2251

Condition: Very Good

Wear and tears to binding at spine. Contains numerous colored plates. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 466 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York Report for 1895

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., Printers : 1896

Seller ID: 2252

Condition: Very Good

New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., Printers. Very Good. 1896. Gilt design and title to front cover. Lacks Rainbow Trout plate at page 136. Tear to top edge of spine, contents shaken leaving some pages/plates loose with fraying to edges. Foxing to end papers. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 376 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. : 1899

Seller ID: 2281

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

11" - 13" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Relaciones Geograficas de Indias Peru - 3 Volumes (of 4) Publícalas el Ministerio de Fomento

Price: $240.00

Publisher: Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia : 1885 - 1887

Seller ID: 3367

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia. Very Good. 1885 - 1887. Hardcover. Volume II, III and IV. Quarter mottled Spanish calf on textured boards. Gilt title to brown calf label to spine, gilt volume number to blue calf label to spine and previous owner's name to brown calf label to spine, raised bands, decorated endpapers. Vol. II: [XLIX], 242 pp., [CLVIII] Vol. III: [XL], 276 pp., [CLXXV] Vol. IV: [VII], 45 pp., [CCXLIII], slight loss to title page not affecting text.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Seventh Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission State of New York 1901

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, : 1902

Seller ID: 2254

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth cover and gilt title to front board. Significant tears to front binding of spine. Previous owner's name stamped to pastedowns. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 534 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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The Botanical Keepsake; an Arrangement of British Plants. Illustrated with Twenty-Eight Coloured Plates, drawn from nature.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: London, T. Allman : 1846

Seller ID: 7873

Condition: Good

Scarce. Green cloth with gilt-stamped decorations to front board and particulars to spine. Stamped fleur de lis rule to boards. All edges gilt. Contains twenty-eight vivid hand-colored lithographs of British plants, primarily floral in nature, presented alongside dialogues on British botany. Staining to boards; fading to spine; chipping to head and tail of spine (see image). Spine is slightly skewed. No previous owners' names or other inscriptions. 4.3 x 6.6 inches.
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The Florist's Journal for the year 1840.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London, How and Parsons : 1840

Seller ID: 2606

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Textblock only, lacking binding. 10 full-page hand-colored engraved plates.; 236 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Third Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., Printers : 1897

Seller ID: 2253

Condition: Very Good

Decorated cloth cover. Includes colored "Map of the State of New York, Showing Catchment Basins of the Several Rivers of the State" as well as 13 colored plates. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 454 pages.
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Conservacion 2

By: Arturo Eichler

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela, Publicacin del Rectorado de la Universidad de Los Andes, Merida : 1966

Seller ID: 3064

Condition: Very Good

Bound in cloth, blocked title to cover and spine, decorated endpapers.; 8vo 8 - 9 tall; xix pp., 750 pp. pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for Naturhistorischer Atlas zum Gebrauch beim Unterricht. Säugethiere. 30 Tafeln nach der Natur und nach ausgestopften Exemplaren gezeichnet.

Naturhistorischer Atlas zum Gebrauch beim Unterricht. Säugethiere. 30 Tafeln nach der Natur und nach ausgestopften Exemplaren gezeichnet.

By: August Luben & Heinrich Leutemann

Price: $1,800.00

Publisher: Leipzig & Vienna, Georg Wigand : [1858]

Seller ID: 1434

Condition: Very Good

Loose in folio. Light moisture mark to lower left margin; light foxing (see image 1). Thirty sur blanc folio plates, 29 of which are hand colored. Please request further images for details. ; Folio (16x13 inches); All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick. To which is added the Calendar of Flora.

By: Benjamin Stillingfleet

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London, J. Dodsley, Baker and Leigh, and T. Payne : 1775

Seller ID: 5766

Condition: Good

Full flame calf with gilt rule to board edges and gilt dentelles to sides; gilt particulars and red label to spine. Marbled endpapers. Hors texte plates at back. Evidence of previous lacquering to spine (see image). Front board detached. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise no other markings or names. xxxi, 391 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.
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Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Fascicule 4.

By: Cassin, John

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Company : 1853

Seller ID: 888

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Text pages 97-128, plates 16-20 as issued in original wraps. Five exceptionally bright and clean untrimmed tissue-guarded hand-colored lithographic plates measure 7.5 x 11 inches (19 x 28 cm). ; 31 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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Image for Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Fascicule 8. Text pages 213-240 & plates 36-40 as issued in original wraps.

Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Fascicule 8. Text pages 213-240 & plates 36-40 as issued in original wraps.

By: Cassin, John

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Company : 1854

Seller ID: 892

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Five exceptionally bright and clean untrimmed tissue-guarded hand-colored lithographic plates measure 7.5 x 11 inches (19 x 28 cm). ; 28 text pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces [Two Volumes]

By: Charles Lanman

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, John W. Moore : 1856

Seller ID: 8069

Condition: Good

Two volume set. Partially recassed with original red cloth. Gilt particulars to front covers and spines. Twelve plates. Previous owner's name and date to front endpapers. Wear to corners, as well as to heads and tails of spines (see image). Overall clean interiors with no other markings. Vol. I pp. 514 and Vol. II pp. 517 with 8 pages of ads to rear. 6.5 x 9.25 in First Edition.
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Image for The horse's mouth, showing the age by the teeth : containing a full description of the periods when the teeth are cut, the appearances they present, the tricks to which they are exposed, the eccentricities to which they are liable, and the diseases to which they are subject

The horse's mouth, showing the age by the teeth : containing a full description of the periods when the teeth are cut, the appearances they present, the tricks to which they are exposed, the eccentricities to which they are liable, and the diseases to which they are subject

By: Edward Mayhew

Price: $380.00

Publisher: London, Fores : c 1850

Seller ID: 4712

Condition: Very Good

Half grained morocco by Morrell with horse heads to ruled spine panels. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. xii, 194 pages, 9 unnumbered colored engravings including frontispiece. Gift inscription to front fly, otherwise a very sound copy in a fine Morrell binding.
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Mamiferos da Amazonia. Volume I: Introducao Geral e Primatas

By: Eladio da Cruz Lima

Price: $1,850.00

Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Belem do Para : 1944

Seller ID: 2629

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Rio de Janeiro: Belem do Para. Very Good. 1944. Limited Edition. Forty-two enchanting chromolithographed plates of primates made by the author, in publisher's printed wrappers. The limited edition was published simultaneously in English and Portuguese, consisting of 975 english copies and 975 portuguese copies. This, one of only 975 Portuguese copies. Eladio da Cruz Lima was a multi-talented Brazilian lawyer, painter, writer, archaeologist and naturalist who served as a Justice on Brazil's Supreme Court. He researched the primates of the Amazon for the department of Zoology at the Mus...
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Image for The North American Sylva; or, a description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce. (6 Volumes in 5 Books - Complete) To which is added a description of the most useful of the European Forest Trees. Illustrated by 277 fine hand-colored engravings & lithographs.

The North American Sylva; or, a description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce. (6 Volumes in 5 Books - Complete) To which is added a description of the most useful of the European Forest Trees. Illustrated by 277 fine hand-colored engravings & lithographs.

By: F. Andrew Michaux, Thomas Nuttall; with notes by J. Jay Smith)

Price: $6,000.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, D. Rice and A. N. Hart : 1857

Seller ID: 7348

Condition: Very Good+

Full dark brown morocco with embossed decoration to boards, 5 raised bands with debossed decoration and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt. Stated in the preface to this edition: "The whole of the sheets of the last imprint were destroyed by a fire at the bindery, wither they had been sent for collation; but fortunately the French copper-plates were in another building. This has enabled the new publishers to issue the work in a much improved style, and has allowed for opportunity for additional notes and remarks." Michaux's volumes contain 156 hand colored plates, all protected with tis...
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The Life-History of the Atlantic and Pacific Salmon of Canada. Signed copy.

By: F. Gray Griswold and R. D. Hume

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Duttons. Inc. : 1930

Seller ID: 3174

Condition: Very Good

New York: Duttons. Inc.. Very Good. 1930. Sage paper boards with black spine. Gilt title and fly motif to front cover. Gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. Dedication to front free fly. Title boldly signed by author. Blue stamp reading "for propaganda in Canada" to title page. An otherwise clean copy. Housed in navy blue cloth slipcase with printed title to label to faded spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiii, 179 pages; Signed by Author; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for The Animal World Display'd. Or, the nature and qualities of living creatures described, under the denominations of I. Birds, II. Beasts, III. Fishes, IV. Serpents. In which all the necessary and useful knowledge, contained in the many learned works, written on this subject, in different languages, is familiarly conveyed to the English reader; and the gross errors of ignorant compilers are carefully avoided.

The Animal World Display'd. Or, the nature and qualities of living creatures described, under the denominations of I. Birds, II. Beasts, III. Fishes, IV. Serpents. In which all the necessary and useful knowledge, contained in the many learned works, written on this subject, in different languages, is familiarly conveyed to the English reader; and the gross errors of ignorant compilers are carefully avoided.

By: Frederick Watson

Price: $680.00

Publisher: London, R. Baldwin : 1755

Seller ID: 3778

Condition: Very Good

London: R. Baldwin. Very Good. 1755. Full modern brown morocco by F.L. Wood with gilt title to spine & date to foot. Five gilt double-ruled raised bands. Nineteen engraved plates, two of which "Herring Fishery" & "Whale Fishery" are folding. Bottom half of plate 3/page 10 removed (as usual) as was found to be offensive, but represented in facsimile by plate from different (less explicit) edition. An otherwise very nice, clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 16mo ; xii, [i], 283, [v] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Naturgeschichte in Bildern mit erläuterndem Text. II. Lieferung. Vogel.

By: Fried. Strack

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Dusseldorf, Arnz & Co. : 1820

Seller ID: 4056

Condition: Very Good

Dusseldorf: Arnz & Co.. Very Good. 1820. Half sheep over marbled boards with primitive rebacking. Wear to corners. Blue paper remnants to pastedowns; occasional foxing. 72 nicely hand-colored sur blanc plates. Publisher's note to rear of book. ; Oblong 8 x 10 inches; 72, [48], [4], [i] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Category: Natural History