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Item #23427 Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after...

Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with full directions for the young...

London: Turner & Hadley for Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition. Pirages: Brookshaw (ca. 1751-1823) was a successful London cabinet-maker whose painted Neoclassical furniture attracted such titled enthusiasts as the Duke of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales, but he suddenly abandoned this livelihood in the 1790s. Art historian Lucy Wood..... Read More about Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...

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Item #317348 Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, and Their Proper Remedies. By...

Parmly Copy (from the family)

Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, and Their Proper Remedies. By Solyman Brown, A.M. with Notes, Practical...

New York: Peabody & Co., 219 Broadway, 1833. First edition. Parmly Copy (from the family). "This classical poem was a marked literary production, considering the subject, and was extensively quoted at the time and favorably commented on by the best critics and writers in the profession, and had a great..... Read More about Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, and Their Proper Remedies. By Solyman Brown,...

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Item #300498 Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden. P. T. van Brussel

53 Hand-Colored Floral Plates

Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden.

Amsterdam: T.B. Elwe, 1794. First edition. 53 Hand-Colored Floral Plates. A lovely copy of the first edition. This significant contribution to late eighteenth-century botanical art ably demonstrates the superiority of Dutch horticulture in the period. The 53 plates include stunning illustrations of tulips, hyacinths and auriculas, many of them further..... Read More about Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden

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Item #243577 "Turnstone" Edgar Burke

Early Original Watercolor by Edgar Burke

"Turnstone"

Great South Beach, Long Island, N.Y: 1911. Early Original Watercolor by Edgar Burke. A fine early watercolor drawing of the Turnstone, an American shore bird, by sportsman, artist and physician Edgar Burke Edgar Burke, MD (1889-1950) successfully combined the vocation of medicine (he was a member of the American College..... Read More about "Turnstone"

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Item #333397 [Archive of letters, typescripts, photographs and other material relating to...

[Archive of letters, typescripts, photographs and other material relating to Burroughs and Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, the curator of the...

Vp: 1902-1920. Typescripts Typescript by Burroughs, corrected in holograph by Fisher, titled in pencil by Fisher, "Fuss & Feathers". 5pp. See The Writings of John Burroughs, vol. XX, chap. IV. Typescript poem attributed to Burroughs with a holograph pencil correction, apparently unpublished, a love poem titled The Eternal Feminine, beginning..... Read More about Archive of letters, typescripts, photographs and other material relating to Burroughs and Dr. G....

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Item #333371 Autograph letter signed to mountaineer Annie S. Peck, thanking her for her letter...

To the Famous Female Mountain Climber

Autograph letter signed to mountaineer Annie S. Peck, thanking her for her letter and advising how she can get in...

Roxbury, NY: Sept. 7th [1919]. To the Famous Female Mountain Climber. "Yours recd. Of course I know of you & your wonderful mountain climbing feats, but I have not yet had a chance to read your books. But I shall, as I am expecially interested in that kind of literature..... Read More about Autograph letter signed to mountaineer Annie S. Peck, thanking her for her letter and advising...

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Item #333394 Autograph quotation signed, a passage from Signs and Season beginning "I sit here...

Autograph quotation signed, a passage from Signs and Season beginning "I sit here amid the junipers of the Hudson with...

Np: Sept. 29, 1887. "I sit here amid the junipers of the Hudson with purpose every year to go to Florida, or to the West Indies, or to the Pacific Coast, yet the seasons pass & I am still loitering, with a half defined suspicion perhaps, that if I remain..... Read More about Autograph quotation signed, a passage from Signs and Season beginning "I sit here amid the...

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Item #310634 The Writings of …. John Burroughs

THE ULTIMATE SET. WITH MANUSCRIPT

The Writings of ….

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904-1922. Autograph edition, no. 266 of 750 copies, signed by the author and publisher, with EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THE ULTIMATE SET. WITH MANUSCRIPT. Complete in 23 volumes with an extra volume 19 with inlaid manuscripts for "The Hungry Sheep," c. 24 pages in pencil..... Read More about The Writings of …

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Item #236757 Memoirs Read before the Anthropological Society of London Vol. I 1863 &1864....

Memoirs Read before the Anthropological Society of London Vol. I 1863 &1864. [with:]: 1865-1866 Vol. II.

London: published for the Anthropological Society, by Trübner and Co, 1865-66. First editions. Three volumes of this Society's publication (entitled Memoirs Read before the Anthropological Society of London) were published between 1865-1870); Burton contributed to the first two volumes. Volume I contains his "Notes on certain Matters connected with the..... Read More about Memoirs Read before the Anthropological Society of London Vol. I 1863 &1864. [with:]:...

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