Down, Beckenham, Kent: November 26, [1869]. Regarding a new American edition of Origin. Unpublished. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) writes... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Darwin"), to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent, about a...
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Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. First edition. The Caribbees refer to the Lesser Antilles. This Ober's first book From 1876 to 1878 he made ornithological surveys to the Lesser Antilles where he discovered 22 bird taxa new to science. Two of them - the Lesser..... Read More about Camps in the Caribbees
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Austin: University of Texas Press, [1974]. Fuertes, Louis Agassiz. Editor's Copy, with His Bookplate. This beautifully illustrated and definitive work on the birds of Texas, compiled by Harry C. Oberholser (1870-1963) and illustrated from the 1901 watercolors by Fuertes, was edited by Edgar B. Kincaid, Jr., nephew of the celebrated..... Read More about The Bird Life of Texas … Edited, with distribution maps and additional material by Edgar B....
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Austin: University of Texas Press, [1974]. Fuertes, Louis Agassiz. The beautifully illustrated and definitive work on the birds of Texas, compiled by Harry C. Oberholser (1870-1963) and illustrated from the 1901 watercolors by Fuertes. Read More about The Bird Life of Texas … Edited, with distribution maps and additional material by Edgar B....
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Paris: Imprimeries Oberthur — Éditeurs, 1947. With more than 120 of Oberthur’s superb pencil drawings throughout the text. Read More about L’Activité Migratoire. Illustrations de l’Auteur
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London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896. Read More about A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds. Lloyd’s Natural History
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. First Edition. Ayer credits this work as giving a “thorough treatment of the subject. Extensive synonymies, distribution of species, specimens dsecured on United States government expeditions, field notes on habits, and descriptions of new species and genera, with occasional analytical keys have made an authoritative..... Read More about Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, F. V. Hayden, U. S....
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Salem, Mass: Essex Institute Press, 1868. First Separate Appearance. This work appeared in the Communications of the Essex Institute in May 1868, titled “Catalogue of the Birds of North America contained in the Museum.” Coues stated that “the reprint gives the faunal list precedence over the museum catalouge, but this..... Read More about A List of the Birds of New England. [Reprinted from the Proceedings Essex Institute, Vol. V
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Second edition, revised. Read More about From the Greeks to Darwin
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np: [1977]. First edition, published privately by Gordon Osmaston, the author's son,one of 125 copies. Read More about Wild Life and Adventures in Indian Forests from the diaries of...Imperial Forest Service...
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London: Grant Richards, 1909. Wildman, William A. Edition de luxe, No. 28 of 100 copies. Edition De Luxe, One of 100 Copies. Read More about Oxford: Its Buildings and Gardens
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Monaco: Imprimerie de Monaco, 1903. First edition. The stature of the indigenous Patagonians was observed by Magellan and became legendary in Europe. Verneau's monograph, drawing upon collections brought to Europe by the comte H. de La Vaulx in the 1890s, is divided into three sections: a brief discussion of anthropological..... Read More about Les Anciens Patagons. Contribution a l'Étude des Races Précolombiennes de l'Amérique du Sud
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Chicago: Rand McNally, 1892. First edition. Read More about American Game Fishes Their Habits, Habitat, and Peculiarities; How, When, and Where to Angle for...
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London: E. Lloyd, 1824. First Edition. Phillips (1775?-1838) was a Worthing banker, a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Linnaean Society, and the author of several botanical works including the History of Cultivated Vegetables. Read More about Flora Historica: or the Three Seasons of the British Parterre…with observations on planting, to...
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London: Longman, Hurst, et al, 1823. First Edition. First Edition, Uncut in Original Boards. A guide to ornamental planting, hedges, and picturesque botanical effects. Phillips (1775?-1838) was a Worthing banker, a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Linnaean Society, and the author of several botanical works including the..... Read More about Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated; with observations on the...
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Paris: Knapen & Fils, 1782. Abbé Pluche's work -- intended for the instruction of the young -- first appeared in 1732 and was frequently reprinted thereafter. Read More about Le spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle, qui ont...
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Paris: C. L. F. Pancoucke, 1819-1820. One of 25 large paper copies in quarto. "Beautifully engraved plates illustrating the science of botany" (Dunthorne) Published as the last volume of P.P. Chaumeton's Flore Medicale, the work was issued separately in three different formats: a regular issue in octavo, 25 large-paper copies..... Read More about Leçon de Flore. Cours Complet de Botanique ... suivi d'une Iconographie Vegetale ... Ouvrage...
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Ursellis [i.e., Oberursel]: Typis Cornelii Sutorii, sumptibus Ion[a]e Rosae, 1601. Third (?) edition, preceded by the editions of 1586 and 1593. The Face of Humanity. "Porta was one of the pioneers of the scientific outlook, not himself a discoverer but a popularizer ... We are prone to think today of..... Read More about De humana physiognomonia Ioannis Baptistae Portae Neapolitani, libri IV. : qui ab extimis, quae...
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London: S. and J. Fuller at the Temple of Fancy, 1810 [altered in manuscript to 1812]. The author served as the drawing master at Rugby School and here offers lessons illustrated with progressive plates of flowers and floral arrangements. "The necessity of an Improved Essay on Flower Painting is obvious..... Read More about A Practical Essay on Flower Painting in Water Colours
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Paris: Éditions du Muséum, 1958; 1967. First editions. Wasson’s Mexican Mushroom Trip. The lavishly produced, pioneering study of the sacred mushrooms of Mexico, embracing anthropology, archology, natural history and chemistry. Beginning in 1953, Heim accompanied R. Gordon Wasson on his expediitions to Mexico and subsequently brought samples to Albert Hofmann..... Read More about Les Champignons Hallucinogènes du Mexique. Études Ethnologiques, Taxinomiques, Biologiques,...
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Second half of the 18th C. Read More about Two hand-colored engravings depicting horticultural views, entitled “Prospectus Propugnaculi...
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Garden City, NY: Published for The American Museum of Natural History by The Natural History Press, 1968. First American edition. Read More about Handbook of New Guinea Birds
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London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintot at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates, [1718]. "The Second Edition, revis'd and finish'd." Best Edition. Read More about Of Gardens. A Latin Poem. In Four Books. English'd by Mr. Gardiner
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