London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803. First edition. Extraordinary Copy in Original Boards. Rejecting the... Read More about Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including Some Remarks on Grecian...
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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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Hawarden Castle, Chester: July 11, 1881. An answer to an attack on him by Thomas Huxley. Gladstone was Prime Minister four different times. WITH: Signature of Palmerton laid in. Read More about Autograph Letter Signed, in the Third person. To the Editor of the Nineteenth Century and quoting...
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Philadelphia: J. Grigg, 1830. New Edition, with Corrections and Alterations. Read More about A History of the Earth and Animated Nature
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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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New York: Harmony Books, [1995]. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on the half title, “For Robert Silvers, with thanks for a long association, Steve / Stephen Jay Gould”. Read More about Dinosaur in a Haystack
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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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New York: Norton, [1985]. First edition. Inscribed to Ashley Montagu. Signed by Ashley Montagu on fly-leaf and on inscribed by the author on half-title, "To Ashley with respect and affection, Steve" Read More about The Flamingo's Smile. Reflections in Natural History
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New York: Norton, [1983]. First edition. With reviews annotrated by Ashley Montagu laid in. Read More about Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
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New York: Norton, [1980]. First edition, erratum laid in. Ashley Montagu's copy, with his tearsheet of his review in Nature (4 December 1980) loosely inserted, with other clippings of reviews. Read More about The Panda's Thumb
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New York: A.S. Barnes, [1964]. First edition. Inscribed by the author, director of exhibits at the Miami Seaquarium, to the great sportsman, “To Michael Lerner. With highest [esteem] as a great angler & with all best wishes: Capt. William B. Gray”. Read More about Porpoise Tales
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Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, (1960). First edition. Number 353 of 500 copies signed by the author. A notable breakthrough in high-speed photography made it possible for the first time to record hummingbirds in flight in their native environments; this book is the result. Read More about Hummingbirds
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Garden City, N.Y: Published for the American Museum of Natural History by Doubleday, [1960]. First edition. Number 238 of 500 copies, signed by the author. A notable breakthrough in high-speed photography made it possible for the first time to record hummingbirds in flight in their native environments; this book is..... Read More about Hummingbirds. With a Foreword by Dean Amadon, Lamont Curator of Birds
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London: Published and Sold by the Author, 1883. "Third Edition, Enlarged, Illustrated, and Revised" Read More about Choice Stove and Greenhouse Flowering Plants, comprising Descriptions of upwards of Thirteen...
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Chicago: American Greenhouse Mfg. Corp. Sucessors, [c. 1928]. First edition, but with new publisher's label pasted over bottom of title page. Read More about American Greenhouses. Pronounced Agemco. AGMCo. Everyhouse a Gem
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New Bedford: The Darwin Press, 1937. First Edition. Read More about In Quest of Gorillas
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Langensalza: Schulbuchhandlung des Thuringer Lehrerververeine, 1853, 1855. A study of the Earth, interior and exterior, its peoples, animals, the Moon and Planets. Read More about Die Erde, ihr kleid, ihre Kinde und ihr Inneres durch karten und Zeichnungen [bound with] Die...
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San Francisco: High Times Press/Golden State Publishing, 1976. First edition, fourth printing. Read More about Growing the Hallucinogens: How to Cultivate and Harvest Legal Psychoactive Plants
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Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1967. First edition. The curious and facinating last book by scholar, diplomat, and novelist Robert H. van Gulik, who kept gibbons and in whose fictions they sometimes appear. The substantial introduction is illustrated from the author’s photographs of gibbons he knew. Read More about The Gibbon in China. An Essay in Chinese Animal Lore
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London: Witherby, 1953. First edition, no. 83 of 485 copies. The essential and comprehensive reference work on the Dodo of Mauritius and the Solitaires of Réunion and Rodriguez. Read More about The Dodo and Kindred Birds or The Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands
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New York: Harper & Row, [1978]. First American Edition. Authoritative, fully illustrated discussion of these most majestic and graceful birds, one of the most easily distinguishable and widely dispersed avian species in the world. Includes information on the classification, distribution, behavior, migration, and habitat for each of the 61 recognized..... Read More about The Herons of the World. Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson
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Demerara: "The Argosy" Company, Limited, 1904. First edition. Rare. Read More about The Fishes of British Guiana
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Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1911. Beautiful Colored Plates. State of New York, Department of Agricultural Eighteenth Annual Report, Vol. 3-Part II. Read More about The Plums of New York. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Staion for the year 1910
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San Diego: 1881. Scarce catalogue of fossil mollusks for sale by the noted California collector. Hemphill's collection of land, freshwater, and marine mollusks became the holdings of the California Academy of Sciences and Stanford University. Read More about A List of Fossil Mollusks from the Tertiary Beds of California. Collected & For Sale by Henry...
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halle: Hermann Giesenius, nd (c. 1905). 17-20 tausend. Read More about Die Raubvogel Mitteleuropas
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Troy, N.Y: Nims and Knight, 1888. Sprague, Isaac. First edition. Read More about Flowers of the Field and Forest. From Original water-color drawings after nature
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