Natural History of Quadrupeds, Illustrated with Numerous Engravings

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1840. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Among the most consummate and admirable, therefore, of the terrestrial works of the great Creator, and signally manifesting his wonder-working skill, his unspeakable wisdom, power, and goodness, and the study of their organization, and character, and habits, cannot be otherwise than highly entertaining and instructive" (from the publishers' Preface). Another fine addition to the Harper and Brothers Family Library, this being No. 104. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in marbled paper over boards, creamy calf leather over tips and spine. Replete with fine half-page black-and-white engravings. Penned anonymously, but probably by a team of natural historians on staff in Britain at the time, but clearly prior to the Darwin/Wallace revolution of two decades later. First Edition was published the prior year. Forty-one illustrations throughout. viii [324 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 357210

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: mammals natural history quadrupeds mammalia

Faubion, Nina Lane; L.K. Phillips, ed.

Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Cook Them

Portland, Oregon , Binfords & Mort, 1964. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Meet the Morels, Chanterelles, Puffballs, Corals, Inky Caps and field mushrooms, the Boletes and smokey Puffballs. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover of the stated Second Edition, first published in 1938, clean, unmarked of interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Pictorial covers, depicting several score mushrooms. Dust jacket, illustrated, is price-clipped, moderately worn of exterior panel, closed tears, tape-repaired. Plentiful full-color illustrations in black-and-white and full-color. 198 pp., and will full index and name index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Fair,

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N° du livre: 355251

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: Nina Lane Faubion L.K. Phillips mushrooms mycology Morels Chanterelles Puffballs Corals Inky Caps field mushrooms Boletes

Gibbons, Euell

Stalking the Wild Asparagus: Field Guide Edition

New York, David McKay, 1970. Second Reprinting . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the stated Second Reprinting; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Illustrated card stock covers, lightly soiled endpapers, paper edges, else clean, with plentiful black-and-white illustrations. 303 pp., with complete index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 356791

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: foraging Euell Gibbons Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Valentine, Herbert and Agnes W. Valentine

Tales of a Tent: A Remarkable Diary of Camping Holidays in Lakeland in the Halcyon Days Before the First World War

Beckermet, Cumbria, Michael Moon at the Beckermet Bookshop, 1977. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As an antiquarian bookseller, I buy thousands of books every year. Occasionally, I come across a book which awakens the collector instinct in me and which makes me feel I would like to add it to my own collection. Tales of a Ten is such a book." Published first in 1913, this wonderful work of nostalgia is augmented with plentiful illustrations including two spectacular black-and-white photographs, one at title page, the other, opposite at frontis. Red and brown pictorial covers. Lovely illustrations throughout.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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N° du livre: 356438

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: Herbert Valentine Agnes W. Valentine

Kerr, Alfred, ed.

Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History), Complete in Four Volumes and Four Supplemental Volumes

London, Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, and sold at Longmans & Co., B. Quaritch, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., and the British Museum of Natural History , . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. An absolutely indispensable to for the historian and student, bibliographer and librarian, rare book dealer and natural historian, a truly massive bibliographical catalogue of all the natural history books held in the British Library (British Museum), featuring over 100,000 entries, with precise collations and notes galore. A handsomely produced set, complete in eight volumes, published in First Edition state between 1903 and 1940 and sold at multiple bookstores and through the Museum itself, beginning in 1903 with publication of the first volume. Preface to the first volume by E. Ray Lankester, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), then a Foreword by B.B. Woodward to that first volume and then additional Forewords to each volume. Big, tall, quarto format, five volumes bound in a very dark blue cloth, three in an olive-drab cloth, with gilt lettering to spines, gilt publisher's devices to front covers. Bumping to spine heads and feet, some but not much rubbing to extremities, and internally quite fine, each volume standing tank-like by itself on the shelf. Main texts are double-column, and with each new entry in bold-face. Volume 1 shows a 2" split to upper rear join, else the set is clean, tightly bound, bright, and unmarked. The previous owner has noted that the set comes from the personal library of Mr. Richard I. Johnson, a long-time Research Associate at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, an eventual and quite proficient gentleman scholar, especially as regards malacology, or the scientific study of molluscs. Volume I (1903): A-D: viii [1], 2-500 pp.; Volume II (1904): 501-1038 pp.; Volume III (1910): 1039-1494 pp.; Volume IV (1913): 1495-1956) pp.; Volume V (1913): 1957-2403 pp.; Volume VI Supplement (1922): 1-511 [1], 2-48 pp.; Volume VII (1933): prelims plus 514-967 pp.; Volume VIII (1940): prelims plus 970-1480 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 353256

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: Alfred Kerr British Museum catalogue books manuscripts maps and drawings bibliography Alfred Kerr natural history biology

Kerr, Jessica

Shakespeare's Flowers

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A precious little book that combines fascinating lore and glorious pictures to re-creat the gardens and meadows of Elizabethan England. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound in bright yellow cloth, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat, but price-clipped. Many, many score fine, full-color reproductions of flowers common during Shakespeare's time. [10], 86 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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N° du livre: 355829

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: Jessica Kerr Anne Ophelia Dowden William Shakespeare Botany English English flowers

Michaux, Henri

Light Through Darkness

New York, The Orion Press,, 1963. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, bright interior, lightly worn and soiled grey cloth covers, still sharp white and gold lettering to front cover and spine, minimal rubbing to extremities, and some foxing to page edges. First English Edition, having been translated from the 1961 original French edition by Haakon Chevalier. Michaux's important treatise investigates his "explorations among drugs." The poet and visual artist, Henri Michaux (1899-1984), makes here an important contribution to drug literature. His own personal experimentation with psychedelics began in his own 50s, but then he ceased drug-taking before taking them up again a decade or so later in therapeutic mode. The present tome blends prose and poetry analysis of his experience with psilocybin, mescaline, and marijuana. He opines, too, as did Aldous Huxley, on mental illness and possible curative functions of psychedelia. Michaux was Belgium-born. This was the first American edition. Later on in his career, Michaux was associated with the so-called Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 230 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 356741

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: Henri Michaux drugs botany ethnobotany psychodelia Haakon Chevalier

Olson, Everett CX.

Late Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates, U.S. A. And U.S. S.R.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The American Philosophical Society, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy in First Edition, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the simple printed wraps. Double-columned texts, many score black-and-white illustrations and photographs, printed on high-gloss paper. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Volume 52, Part 2. 3-224 pp., with a list of prior A.P.S. memoirs they published on rear panelMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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N° du livre: 351408

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: American Philosophical Society Everett C. Olson terrestrial vertebrates biology evolution Late permian natural history science nature

Rainey, Thomas B.

Sacred Lake: Siberian Writers and the Struggle to Save Lake Baikal

Olympia, Washington, The Welsh Hill Press & Forge, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. This is Copy #148 of a Special Limited Edition of only 250 copies, printed on fine paper. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the printed blue wraps. Blind-stamped with a likeness of a seal at front cover, with multiple other illustrations. 16 pp., including full notes section. The colophon notes the inspiration provided by Elspeth Pope. Laid in is a lovely typed script from Ms Pope to the former owner of the item, Mr. Richard L. Press of Sacramento, California, signed by her.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Other. . Fine

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N° du livre: 346967

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: poetry|environment|Thomas B. Rainey|Lake Baikal|Elspeth Pope|Soviet Union|Nature|ecology

Richards, Horace G.

Studies on the Marine Pleistocene

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The American Philosophical Society, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Currently few additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy in First Edition, crimped upper tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the simple printed wraps. Double-columned texts, many score black-and-white illustrations and photographs, printed on high-gloss paper. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Volume 52, Part 3. 3-141 pp., with a list of prior A.P.S. memoirs they published on rear panelMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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N° du livre: 351410

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: American Philosophical Society Horace G. Richard Marine life Pleistocene Marine Pleistocene natural history science nature

Terres, John K., ed.

The Audubon Book of True Nature Stories

New York, Bonanza Books, . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, sunned at spine, chipped along top edge, protected by a plastic coat. Many, many score short stories of natural history selected and edited by John K. Terres, and illustrated in black-and-white by Walter W. Ferguson. Contributions by Freeman Tilden, S.W. Oliver, Louise de Kiriline, Ruth Rowland Thomas, Helen Hoover, Alan Devoe, Penelope Weigel, Lillian E. Miles, Frank F. Gander, Percy L. DePuy and many, many others. x [2], 294 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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N° du livre: 356599

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: John K. Terres Walter W. Ferguson

Thomassen, Alexander

Pithecologia, Sive de Simiarum Natura, Carminum Libri Duo [Pithecology, or on the Nature of the Apes, Two Books of Poems, in Favor of the Literary Republic]

Amstelaedami, Ex Typographia Gerardi Tielenburg, 1774. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Uncommon in the trade, there being currently only a single additional copy available on-line. Appears to be one of only two titles by the author (the other, held in the Esther Bobst Library at N.Y.U., is Seculum Philosophicum . . . ) and the only edition thereof, according to Worldcat dot org; located only in three U.S. and one U.K. libraries. The title page continues: "In gratiam Reipublicae Literariae," by Alexander Thomassen (1726-1798), published in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by Gerardi Tielenburg (1734-1776), & Sociorum, in 1774. Previous owner (a bookseller and appraiser, fluent in Latin) denotes "eighteenth-century acid-treated calf" over boards, with newer, finely tooled backstrip, with gilt lettering and fleurs-de-lis, title stamped in gilt over a short strip of burgundy leather. Front and rear boards blind-ruled. Wave-patterned, comb-marbled endpapers front and rear, still quite sturdily bound, with only slightly wavy text-block, moderately to heavily toned, but easily readable. Elaborate title-page vignette depicting an exemplar of Homo sapiens teaching fire-making to bipedal but non-human primate members. Opposite, at frontis, is a spectacular black-and-white engraving depicting God (Zeus?), thunderbolts in one fist, sceptre in another, looking down, six primates looking up in supplication, all with tails, but one with an 18th-century coiffure. Additional fine engraved tails. Text wholly in Latin. Another reviewer (fluent in Latin) writes "A curious, satirical, and sometimes serious, piece of hexametric neo-latin poetry." The author's "Prooemium" mentions Aldrovandus, Jonston, Linnaeus, Brisson, Buffon, thus invoking science, reason, and perhaps the first stirrings of evolution, at least relatedness of primate species, in a way that presupposed Lamarck. Frontispiece, 61 [3] pp., the final being a page of errata. All in, a scarce title in robust condition suitable for preservation for another couple hundred years.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 355900

Catalogue: Nature

Mots-clés: Latin Alexander Thommasen non-human primates poetry poems