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 speculates... Read More about Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First Edition. Read More about The History of the First Locomotives in America

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. Reprint. Read More about Curiosities of Natural History. First & Fourth Series

New York and London: Luther Burbank Press, 1914. Signed by Burbank on the Colophon page (designed by Tiffany & Co.). Dr. L. G. Visscher's Copy. SIGNED. Read More about Luther Burbank. His Method Discoveries and Their Practical Application. Prepared from his...

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 BurkeEdgar Burke, MD (1889-1950) successfully combined the vocation of medicine (he was a member of the American College of..... Read More about "Turnstone"

New York: Macmillan, 1938. First American Edition from English sheets. Read More about Plant Hunter's Paradise

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [n.d., c. 1904-1913]. Riverby edition. Attractive group of the works of the noted American naturalist (published over many years and eventually running to 23 volumes). Read More about The Writings of …

Atlanta, Ga: The Coca-Cola Company, 1940; 1941; and 1943. First editions. “Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful…”. By the mother of William Burroughs, author of Junkie, Queer, The Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys, etc., etc., with help from Coca-Cola. “Boy and Girl Scouts are taught the fundamentals …”. Read More about Flower Arranging — A Fascinating Hobby … and Homes and Flowers — Refreshing Arrrangements

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:]:...

London: Caxton Publishing Company, Clun House, Surrey Street, Strand, [1907-1908]. Read More about Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Order Passeres

Detroit: Cadilalc Motor Car Company, [c1915]. Third Edition. Read More about Cadillac Eight Type 51 For care and Operation

[Probably Boston: 1849]. Friends of a Rail Road to Calfornia. The meeting of the Friends of a Rail Road to California at the United States Hotel in Boston April 19, 1849 with P. P. F. DeGrand's address “To the People of the United States. Rail Road from St. Louis to... Read More about Proceedings of the Friends of a Rail Road to San Francisco, at their public meeting, held at the...

London: 56 Regents Park Road, 16 September 1875. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine, continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th “which wil be... Read More about Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of...