Halae Sailcae [Stockholm]: Apud Io. Gottl. Bierwirth, 1747. Edito Nova Multo Correctior. Linnaeus the Taxonomic Bibliographer. This first... Read More about Bibliotheca botanica recensens libros plus mille de plantis huc usque editos, secundum systema...
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New York: Printed and sold by T. and J. Swords, 1804. First American. Read More about The Temple of Nature
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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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Paris: 1825-1827. First edition. In Boards, with American Medical Provenance. This zoological manual of mollusks and conches (though de Blainville's definition was vague) contains impresive engraved plates by Prêtre and Turpin, the best French natural history artists of the period. The author, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), studied art..... Read More about Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchyliologie
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Albany: Printed for Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly, 1844. First Edition. Only 300 sets were hand-colored. Read More about Natural History of New York: Zoology of New York, or the New York Fauna; Comprising Detailed...
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London: Country Life Limited, 1951. First edition. Read More about The Pheasants of the World
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N.p: Privately Printed for Alfred Denison, 1872. Limited to 25 copies. Read More about A Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing written...
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. Clark, Roland. First edition, no. 22 of 50 copies. Inscribed on the half-title: “For Dr. Shepard Krech / Good Ducks--& Good Shooting / Roland Clark / X-11-38”. Rare in any event, and especially so in the original box, which Frazier does not illustrate and..... Read More about Roland Clark's Etchings
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London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1921]. First edition. Read More about Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold [by] …
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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. First edition. Historical accounts of life and travel in India by the noted ornithologist. Wide ranging and well written. Read More about Bygone Days in India
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Albany, New York: Published by Luther Tucker, June 1846-June 1848. Edwin A. Stevens Copy. Compendium of information about horticulture in America at the midpoint of the nineteenth century, with wood-engraved illustrations touching upon fruit growning, trees, rural cottages, landscape architecture, and more. With a distinguished and interesting provenance: the ownership signatures..... Read More about The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape...
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Harper: Harper & Brothers, No. 82 Cliff-Street. Second edition, with additions and emendations. In 1837, Dr. Draper (1811-1882) took an appointment at New York University; he was elected professor of chemistry and botany the next year. He was a professor and founder of its school of medicine from 1840 to..... Read More about A Treatise on the Forces Which Produce the Organization of Plants. With an Appendix, containing...
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New York: Forest and Stream, (1901). First edition. An exhaustive work, divided into The Duck Family, Wildfowl Shooting, and The Art of Duck Shooting, profusely illustrated. Read More about American Duck Shooting
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Cambridge: at the University Press, 1904. First edition. Read More about Studies from the Anthropological Laboratory The Anatomy School Cambridge
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Paris: H. L Guérin et L. F. Delatour, 1760. First edition. From the Great French Advocate of the Tree. Important work on the cultivation of trees by this prolific 18th-century polymath abd savant (1700-1782), member of the Royal Academy, who published over 100 separate during his prolific lifetime, on a...... Read More about Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever...
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Washington, D.C: Published by the Author, 1938. First Edition, one of 2500 copies. Read More about Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Their history, makers and uses,...
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[Reading]: The Alden Press for the Library of the University of Reding, 1969. First edition. With an ALS to Montagu from Eales and an off-print laid in. Read More about The Cole Library of early Medicine and Zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. Part I. 1472-1800
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London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. First edition. A gardening manual arranged according to the months of the year. The author, Thomas Ellis, was gardener to Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Read More about The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and...
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London: 1865, 1870 & 1883. First editions of the first and third titles. Read More about Diamonds and Precious Stones Their History, Value, And Distinguishing Characteristics. With...
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c 1830-1860. Read More about Botanical Drawing: Gouache on Paper
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London, Ontario: 1907-1926. Read More about The Canadian Entomologist. Volumes XXXIX-LVIII for 1907-1926
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Clifton, New Jersey: Amwell Press for The National Fraternity Limited, [1977]. Limited edition, number 6 of 1,000 copies, signed by Evans, Rikhoff and Shoffstall stamped "Publisher's Presentation and dated 12/19/77." With TLS from Rikhoff to Robert Holland thanking him for his help on the book. Read More about The Woodcock Book. Foreword by James Rikhoff
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London: Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1679. Third edition, “much inlarged, and improved,” etc. Evelyn’s Sylva , first published in 1664, is a treatise on forestry, written to promote the cultivation of timber for building the Royal Navy. As Disraeli wrote: “It was an author in..... Read More about Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions....
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Hamburgi et Kilonii: Carol. Ernest. Bohnii, 1778. First edition. A Pioneer of Systematic Entomology. Fabricius first major work on the system and theory of entomology, and perhaps his greatest theoretical contribution to the science. "Fabricius was undoubtedly one of the most distinguished entomologists and ranks with Carl de Geer, P.A...... Read More about Philosophia entomologica sistens scientiae fundamenta adiectis definitionibus exemplis,...
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