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Item #250572 The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions,...

Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy

The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to Agriculture and Domestic Economy.

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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Item #27402 ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to...

The Future Prime Minister of New Zealand

ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to William Gourlie.

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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Item #309225 Über spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon. from Sitzungsberichte der der...

Freud's Contribution to Evolutionary Biology

Über spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon. from Sitzungsberichte der der Kaiserlichen-Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe LXXVIII. Band. III Abtheilung. Jahrgang...

[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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Item #323848 Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony: Part 1:...

INSCRIBED TO CHILDS FRICK. BY FRIEDMANN

Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony: Part 1: Non-Passeres.

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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Item #247685 Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum...

Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten.

[Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. First edition of the most important late seventeenth century German work on gardening, by Heinrich Hesse, overseer of the Electoral Gardens in Mainz, who specifically adapted French notions of garden design to German conditions, and whose work remained influential through the mid-eighteenth century..... Read More about Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter...

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Item #22909 Cottage Gardening. Gardening, James Main

Cottage Gardening.

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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Item #256107 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes … very much enlarged and amended by...

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes … very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.

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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Item #323387 The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London...

The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and...

London: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second edition overall and first Johnson edition. "This is the first edition enlarged and edited by Thomas Johnson (1595-1644) who corrected many of Gerard's more gullible errors, and improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin's woodcuts" (Hunt)..... Read More about The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in...

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Item #256784 Histoire des Poissons, contenant la description Anatomique de leurs parties externes...

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Histoire des Poissons, contenant la description Anatomique de leurs parties externes & internes, & le caractere des divers genres ranges...

Strasbourg: Amand König [Imprimerie de Jonas Lorenz], 1770. First edition. Uncut and Unpressed. Gouan (1733-1821) was Professor of Medicine at Montpelier and one of the first naturalists in France to follow the Linnean system. Here, in the first section, he treats the anatomy of fish; the second section consists of..... Read More about Histoire des Poissons, contenant la description Anatomique de leurs parties externes &...

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Item #300925 Ever Since Darwin. Reflections in Natural History. Stephen Jay Gould

GOULD'S FIRST BOOK, WITH THANK YOU LETTER FOR BLURB

Ever Since Darwin. Reflections in Natural History.

New York: Norton, [1977]. First edition. GOULD'S FIRST BOOK, WITH THANK YOU LETTER FOR BLURB. First book by Gould, with the ownership signature of Ashley Montagu on the front flyleaf. Montagu’s blurb is at the top of the back cover: “Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most brilliant of..... Read More about Ever Since Darwin. Reflections in Natural History

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