Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Inscribed "Presented by the Author" on the endpaper. FIRST AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC... Read More about Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of Connecticut River by John C. Warren,...
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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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San Francisco: Flash, 1974. A. Faber. First edition. Read More about A Guide to Growing Cannabis Under Fluorescents
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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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Cassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer in Cassel, 1894. Second edition. 2 auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem Text. With a foreword by von Riesenthal dated September 1893. This edition includes an explanatory text briefly describing each raptor; the sixty plates depict the birds in a natural setting, most frequently at one-third..... Read More about Die Raubvögel Deutschland und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas.... Darstellung und Beschreibung...
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Bellows Falls, [Vermont]: Printed by Bill Blake & Co, 1820. First edition. Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy. Practical compendium of recipes by Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837), stirical poet, inventor, and lawyer. “Between 1809 and 1822 Fessenden divided his residence between Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he renewed his interests in..... Read More about The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to...
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London, British Museum: 21 August 1848. The Future Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fitzgerald acknowledges the receipt of “your obliging present of two specimens of Melania from the Falls of Essequibo” [Kaieteur Falls in Guyana] to the National Collections. Gourlie was a noted botanist and member of the Edinburgh Botanical..... Read More about ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to William Gourlie
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London: George Allen, nd. Later Edition. Read More about Flowers and Flower Lore
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Stuttgart: Jannar 1866-1868 (36 issues complete),1873 (11 issues), 1877 (1-10). Read More about Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung herausgegeben von der Gartenbau-Gesellschaft
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Boston: 1929. Vol. I reprint; others first editions. Read More about Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States
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Paris: Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1764. For the Commercial Traveller. Read More about Instructions pour les Voyageurs et les Commercans, contenant l'indication des Villes commercantes...
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Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1776. Nouvelle edition plus correcte que les précédents. Rules of the Hunt. Environmental law: Including game and fishing laws and those of the hunt as well as those for forestry and water. Read More about Ordonnance de Louis XIV…sur le Fait des Eaux et Forets Donnée à S. Germain en Laye au moid...
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Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1753. Nouvelle edition plus correcte que les précédents & augmentée des Réglement rendus en interprétation, depuis le mois de Juin 1673 jusqu'en 1752. Rules of the Hunt. Environmental law: Including game and fishing laws and those of the hunt as well as those..... Read More about Ordonnance de Louis XIV…sur le Fait des Eaux et Forets Donnée à S. Germain en Laye au mois...
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Paris: Chez Debure l'aîne, 1772. Commentary on the environmental and game laws. Read More about Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance des Eaux et Forêts du mois d'Août 1669
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[Wien: aus der E.K. Hof.- und Staatsdruckerei, 1878]. First Seperate edition. Offprint of Freud's very rare third paper. Freud's Contribution to Evolutionary Biology. Freud's third paper, done while he was a medical student. Read More about Über spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon. from Sitzungsberichte der der...
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Washington, D.C: GPO, 1930. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Bulletin 153. Presentation copy from Friedmann to Childs Frick on front wrapper "To Mr. Childs Frick with the regards and compliments of Herbert Friedmann." INSCRIBED TO CHILDS FRICK. BY FRIEDMANN. Read More about Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony: Part 1: Non-Passeres
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Wandsbeck: Chromolgraphie und Verlag Artistische Anstalt Gustav W. Seitz, nd. ca. 1890. Read More about Frühlingsblumen. Zwölf Blätter mit Sinnsprüchen Deutscher Dichter
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Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. First edition, special publication of the Field Museum of Natural History. Read More about Album of Abyssinaian Birds and Mammals
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Gaylordsville: Slide Mountain Press, 1931. No. 31 of 77 copies. Three stanzas beginning I know a little serval cat - Never get out! Read More about Never Get Out!
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London: Printed by Willoiam Clowes and Sons, 1844. Offprinted from the “Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England”. Following the passing of the Allotment system which provided a plot of land for laborers the author wished to provide the basic instructions necessary to grow a successful garden. He recommends..... Read More about Cottage Gardening
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London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1825. Second Edition. Read More about The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house and conservatory practice...
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Paris: Henry Soulangfe-Bodin, 1927. #241 of 300 copies. Read More about La Gazette Illustrée des Amateurs de Jardins Années MCMXXXVI-MCMXXXVII. Coup d'Oeil sur les...
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Paris: D.-A. Longuet, (c.1913). First edition. Read More about Les Jardins de France des Origines à la fine du XVIIIe Siècle
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[Lower Basildon, Reading, Berk.]: World Pheasant Association, [1994]. Number 19 of 50 copies of a Special leather-bound edition, signed by the author. Read More about Peafowl, Their Conservation, Breeding and Management
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New York: The Viking Press, [1967]. Clem, Robert Verity. Deluxe Limited Edition, Number 114 of 350 copies signed by Stout, Matthiessen, Clem and Palmer. The rare deluxe edition of this landmark book on shorebirds. Read More about The Shorebirds of North America. Text by Peter Matthiessen. Species Accounts by Ralph S. Palmer
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London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third edition. John Gerard was a 16th-century English botanist with a large herbal garden in London. His Herball, a 1,484 page illustrated book, was first published in 1597. It was a largely unacknowledged translation of Rembert Dodoen's herbal, itself published in..... Read More about The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes … very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson
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