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Introduction to the Study of Fungi. Their Organography, Classification, and Distribution for the use of Collectors

360 pp. The binding is faded. On the flyleaf is a note from the author written in ink informing us that the publisher would not pay for better illustrations. He signs the statement and includes a postage size stamp picture of himself.

Offered by De Wolfe and Wood

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$125

LUMINOUS IMAGES. Faune du Golfe du Lion. Coralliaires Zoanthaires sclerodermes, Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale: [Fauna of the Gulf of Lion. Corals Zoantharia scleroderma, Archives of Experimental and General Zoology]

Lacaze-Duthiers, Henri de

Paris, 1897. First edition.
1897 FINE COLOR LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF MEDITERRANEAN SEA ANEMONES FROM CORAL REEFS.
15x23 cm hardcover, journal monograph in 3/4 calf binding, spine with raised bands, gilt title, marbled boards and endpapers, ink inscription by previous owner noting that the…

Offered by Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB

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READY TO FRAME. The Crown Bird from Mexico FROM A Natural History of Birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE TURACO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good.…

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[INSCRIBED] Mountains and Rivers Without End

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996. First Edition, First Printing.
INSCRIBED by Gary Snyder on the half title: "For Jaye /Gary Snyder." The author's epic poem on the natural world, which took him 40 years to write. He explains his thinking and process in an end note and defines various…

Offered by Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

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A Manual of the Mollusca, Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells

Woodward, S.P. and Tate, Ralph

London: Crosby Lockridge & Co., 1880. Fourth edition, enlarged.
1880 BEAUTIFULLY BOUND ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN MANUAL OF EXTANT AND FOSSIL MOLLUSCS.
7 inches tall, 2 inches thick hardcover, green cloth covered binding, gilt nautilus to cover, gilt octopus to spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece…

Offered by Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB

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$200

42 FINE PLATES. Selections from Embryological Monographs I. Crustacea; II. Echinodermata; III. Acalephs and Polyps TOGETHER WITH Bibliography to Accompany I. Crustacea and Bibliography to Accompany III. Acalephs

Agassiz, Alexander, Faxon, Walter, Mark, Edward L. and Fewkes, J. Walter

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 1882, 1883, 1884. First editions.
SCARCE ATLAS OF EMBRYOLOGY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ AND COLLEAGUES--42 FINE LARGE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT.
Three paperbound monographs 23x29 cm, printed…

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$250

The Aquarium: an Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea

Gosse, Philip Henry

London: John Van Voorst, 1854. 278 pp. Good condition in 3/4 Moracco leather binding. Minor wear along the spine. Complete with 6 color lithographic plates and has the bookplate of Charles F. Cox the very important in founding the New York Botanical Gardens and was the director of the New…

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$250

95 ENGRAVED PLATES. A Description of above Three Hundred Animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the use of all capacities.: Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is neatly engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect described in the whole book.

[Boreman, Thomas]

London: Wilson and Spence and R. Christopher & T. Jennett, 1803. 1803 EARLY ENGLISH CHILDREN'S NATURAL HISTORY WITH 95 COPPER PLATES CONTAINING 300 ANIMALS PICTURED AFTER ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 leather binding with gilt…

Offered by Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB

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$250

The World a million years ago at A Century of Progress International Exposition. . . .

[CENTURY OF PROGRESS - 1933]. [MESSMORE, George Harold & DAMON, Joseph A.]

[New York] & Chicago, IL: [Messmore & Damon, Inc., Designers & Builders, 404 West 27th St.], 1933. 4to. 8.5 x 11 in. [2], 17, [1] pp., printed & illustrated in sepia throughout, on cream-coloured paper. Self-printed softcovers, cover art by Damon on front cover of the famed Prehistoric…

Offered by Zephyr Used & Rare Books

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Letter of recommendation for American naturalist Richard Harlan while visiting Europe

Brongniart, Alexandre [Harlan, Richard]

Letter of recommendation for Philadelphia-born naturalist, anatomist, and physician Richard Harlan, written by French scientist Alexandre Brongniart and addressed to Professeur Sismonda (either Angelo or Eugenio) of Turin. Single sheet, bifold, with some separation to folds, two pages of…

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The Animal Kingdom, arranged According to its Organizaiton

Cuvier, Georges, Carpenter, William B. and Westwood, John O.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1863. New edition with considerable additions.
1863 FINE EDITION OF CUVIER'S ANIMAL KINGDOM ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PLATES AND 500 WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
18 x26.5 x 6 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, blindstamped rulings and gilt decorative title to cover, gilt title to…

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Wilderness of fools: an account of the adventures in search of Lieut.-Colonel P.H. Fawcett.

[FAWCETT EXPEDITION -- BRAZIL]. CHURCHWARD, Robert.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1936. 8vo. xii, 299, [1] pp. Frontisp. photo, photo plates, 2 maps. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine (minor dustsoiling), w/ d.j. beautiful wraparound cover art by Terence Skeffington Smyth (couple very slight closed tears, very slight…

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