New York & Philadelphia: J. J. Audubon and [vols. I-V] J. B. Chevalier, 1839-40-44. First octavo edition. First... Read More about The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories
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Np: Sept. 29, 1887. "I sit here amid the junipers of the Hudson with purpose every year to go to Florida, or to the West Indies, or to the Pacific Coast, yet the seasons pass & I am still loitering, with a half defined suspicion perhaps, that if I remain..... Read More about Autograph quotation signed, a passage from Signs and Season beginning "I sit here amid the...
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [n.d., c. 1904-1913]. Riverby edition. Attractive group of the works of the noted American naturalist (published over many years and eventually running to 23 volumes). Read More about The Writings of …
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904-1922. Autograph edition, no. 266 of 750 copies, signed by the author and publisher, with EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THE ULTIMATE SET. WITH MANUSCRIPT. Complete in 23 volumes with an extra volume 19 with inlaid manuscripts for "The Hungry Sheep," c. 24 pages in pencil..... Read More about The Writings of …
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London: Caxton Publishing Company, Clun House, Surrey Street, Strand, [1907-1908]. Read More about Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Order Passeres
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London: 56 Regents Park Road, 16 September 1875. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine, continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th “which wil be..... Read More about Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of...
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1862. Second edition. The second edition, after the first of 1853-56, with the same content, of this important American color plate and ornithological work. Cassin intended his work to supplement that of Audubon. He had originally suggested to Audubon's sons a plan for extending the..... Read More about Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America
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Boston: Little Brown, 1891. First Edition. Read More about A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada. Based on Nuttall's Manual
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Charleston, South Carolina: [c. 31 August 1886]. An album of 120 vintage albumen photographs showing the devastation to the city of Charleston, South Carolina, following the earthquake of August 31, 1886. Estimated to have reached a magnitude of between 6.6 and 7.3 on the Richter scale, the earthquake left 60..... Read More about Album of 120 photographs of the aftermath of the Charleston earthquake of 1886
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New York: J. Q. Premble, [1860s]. First edition. Hand-Colored. A scarce publication: OCLC locates only a single holding, at New York State Library. J. Q. Premble also published, 'Uncle Joseph's Pretty Stories About The Camel'. Read More about Uncle Joseph's Pretty Stories about Birds
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Albany: D. & S. Whiting, 1803. Second American edition. Read More about A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees:...To which are added, an Introduction...
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Wellington: John Mackay, GPO, 1906. Inscribed on upper cover, "Dr. --Pranseau with L. Cockayne's Compliments." The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography sums up Cockayne's achievements: He "was one of the most influential of New Zealand's scientists. Although lacking formal training, he made important and original contributions to botany, stimulating research..... Read More about On a Specific Case of Leaf-Variation in Coprosma Baueri
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N.p: n.d. Edition of 15. Connett’s ‘Woodcock’. Superb original etching by sportsman and Derrydale Press publisher Eugene V. Connett 3rd, whose few artworks give evidence of his keen eye and innate talent. This etching — one of only two he ever did, by all accounts — is an attractive head..... Read More about Etching of a Woodcock Head
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. First edition. Read More about A View of the Present State of the Salmon and Channel-Fisheries
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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1884-1885]. First edition, one of 300 copies. Comprises 18 plates of birds, and 1 plate of a nest, only (without any of the text, the map or the three plates of bird heads). Read More about The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo
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New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898. First edition, one of 950 copies. Read More about The Journal of Jacob Fowler. Narrating an adventure from Arkansas through the Indian Territory,...
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London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster, 1827. Read More about An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology; contained in his "Histoire Naturelle...
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Chicago: University of Chicago, [1947]. First edition. Science Classic. Dr. McIntyre and his colleague Dr. A.E. Bennett study here curare as a therapeutic agent and give its complete history for the first time. Read More about Curare. Its History, Nature and Clinical Use
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London: Privately printed at R. Martin's Lithographic Office, 1827. Done Entirely in Lithography. According to the subscriber's list the privately-printed work was limited to only 100 copies, subscribed for by 97 individuals. Very scarce with five examples cited by OCLC, with varying numbers of leaves: British Library (41 leaves); Yale..... Read More about Flowers: A Series of Short Poems, original and translated: illustrated with figures drawn and...
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Down, Beckenham, Kent: November 26, [1869]. Regarding a new American edition of Origin. Unpublished. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) writes to Charles Layton, London agent for Appleton, about bringing out a revised and expanded second American edition of On the Origin of Species. The letter is a reply to Layton's of the..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Darwin"), to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent,...
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London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue with misprint "htat" on page 208. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) “completed his great cycle of evolutionary writings. It proved popular, not least because of its accessible subject matter and plentiful illustrations, including some of the earliest..... Read More about The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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New York: HaFiner Press, 1952. Number 55 of 250 copies of a facsimile reprint of the First edition done for the Book Collectors Society. Read More about Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various countries visited by...
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Boston: Beacon Press, [1963]. First edition. Davenport's First Book. Read More about The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings. Selected, with an...
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Albany, NY: Printed for Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly, 1844. Read More about Zoology of New York or the Fauna … Part II. Birds
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