Bismarck, N. D: The Tribune Co., Printers, 1900. Only edition. ‘The wolf is the enemy of civilization, and... Read More about Corbin's Advice or The Wolf Hunter's Guide. Tells How to Catch 'Em and All about the Science of...
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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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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 Unpublished.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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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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Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, at The Stone House, 1797. First American Edition. A New Edition. UNCUT, IN ORIGINAL BINDING. “As a physician Erasmus Darwin was widely recognized as England’s finest medical doctor. He was asked several times to be personal physician to King George, although his lack of respect..... Read More about Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life. Second Part.l & Part II...with an Introductory...
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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, 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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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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Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1900. From an edition limited to 500 numbered sets, this is number 183. Remarkable Nature-Printed Work, Accompanied by Thirty-One Original Moth and Butterfly Specimens From the Denton Brothers. From an edition limited to 500 numbered sets (this is number 183) of this sumptuous color plate book on..... Read More about As Nature Shows Them. Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains
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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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Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. COMPLETE SET - THE WEBB COPY. "A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history" (Phillips). A landmark of American sporting publication, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the..... Read More about The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports
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[Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig], 1892. First edition. The first separately published work by Norman Douglas, with his surname misspelled, an offprint limited to "about 50 copies for private distribution" and preceded only by periodical appearances. Written by Norman Douglas following a brief visit to the island of Santorin..... Read More about Zur Fauna Santorins [drop title]. [At head of title] Separat-Abdruck aus dem »Zoollogischen...
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[London]: The Zoologist, 1894. First edition, The author's second separately published work, an offprint from The Zoologist, printed in an edition of "about fifty copies for private distribution". Very uncommon. Read More about Contributions to an Avifauna of Baden. [At head of title:] Reprinted from ‘The Zoologist’ for...
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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..... 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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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 and 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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London: Grant Richards, 1909. First edition. Read More about Oxford, Its Buildings and Gardens
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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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