A Monograph of the Pheasants
London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First Edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Beebe's... Read More
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Curiosities of Natural History. First & Fourth Series.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. Reprint.
Price: $200
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Luther Burbank. His Method Discoveries and Their Practical Application. Prepared from his original field notes...under the Editorial Direction of John...
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.
Price: $325
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 of.....
Price: $1,250
DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Catalogue No. 331. Burlesque Paraphrenalia and Side Degree Specialties and Costumes.
Greenville, Ill: De Moulin, [1924]. With supplement to 1927 Catalog No. 331.
Price: $250
Plant Hunter's Paradise.
New York: Macmillan, 1938. First American Edition from English sheets.
Price: $150
Observations on Abortion: Containing an Account of the Manner in which it takes place, the Causes which produce it and...
Troy, N.Y: Printed by Wright, Goodenow, and Stockwell, 1808. First American edition. Previously published in England in 1806, then again with revisions in 1807; this first American edition is based on the revised edition of 1807.
Price: $750
The Writings of ….
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).
Price: $250
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...
Price: $7,500
“Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful…”
Flower Arranging — A Fascinating Hobby … and Homes and Flowers — Refreshing Arrrangements.
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 …”.
Price: $225
34 Photographs
"A Report on the Development of a Land Management Plan for the Shasta Reservoir Lands under Bureau Jurisdiction."
Sacramento, California: US Dept of Interior, March 3, 1947. Copy No. 5-M. 34 Photographs.
Price: $350
![Memoirs Read before the Anthropological Society of London Vol. I 1863 &1864. [with:]: 1865-1866 Vol. II. Richard Francis Burton.](/pictures/thumb/236757.jpg?v=1534805533)
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.....
Price: $500
Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde: ein Leitfaden bei akademischen Vorlesungen und bei dem Studium des Faches.
Marburg: Chr. Garthe, 1829. First edition.
Price: $400
Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Order Passeres.
London: Caxton Publishing Company, Clun House, Surrey Street, Strand, [1907-1908].
Price: $500
Travels in the French Republic; containing a Circumstantial View of the Present State of Learning, the Arts, Manufactures, Learned Societies...
London: Printed by T. Giller, Salisbury-Square, for R. Phillips, 1801. First Edition in English. The author was Professor of Mathematical Astronomy at Copenhagen. Much on Astronomy, pp. 213-257 on National Observatory and Public Observatories.
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Cadillac Eight Type 51 For care and Operation.
Detroit: Cadilalc Motor Car Company, [c1915]. Third Edition.
Price: $75
California Gold, Silver, Lead, &c
A Practical Treatise on the Chemistry of Gold, Silver, Quicksilver and Lead tracing the crude ores from the Mines through...
San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, Book and Job Printers, 1860. First edition. California Gold, Silver, Lead, &c.
Price: $325
![[Proceedings of the Friends of a Rail Road to San Francisco, at their public meeting, held at the U. S. Hotel, in Boston, April 19, 1849. Including an address to the People of the United States] “Rail Road to San Francisco” (Caption title). California Railroads.](/pictures/thumb/23632.jpg?v=1534803905)
Friends of a Rail Road to Calfornia
[Proceedings of the Friends of a Rail Road to San Francisco, at their public meeting, held at the U. S....
[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...
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![Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly." William Carpenter, English naturalist and physiologist, enjamin.](/pictures/thumb/31440.jpg?v=1534804116)
Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly."
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...
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Eastern Carpets, Twelve Early Examples. Preface by Sir George Birdwood. Second Series.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893. First edition.
Price: $950
H.A. Moyer Designer and Builder of High Trade Carriages.
Syracuse, New York: Moyer, 1908.
Price: $250
Nouvelle Géographie en Estampes. Revue pittoresque de l'Univers Nouvelles, Contes, Légendes et aperçus Historiques sur les Moeurs, Usages, Costumes des...
Paris: Amédée Bédelet, Librairie-Editeur, [c. 1852].
Price: $250
![Catalogue of the Oriental Museum.[Wyld's] Great Globe, Leicester Square](/pictures/thumb/310099.jpg?v=1534808255)
Catalogue of the Oriental Museum.[Wyld's] Great Globe, Leicester Square.
London: Printed by W.J. Golbourn, Princes Street, Leicester Square, 1857. Wyld's Great Globe (also known as Wyld's Globe or Wyld's Monster Globe) was in Leicester Square from 1851-1862 and was owned by mapmaker James Wyld. It had as its cenerpice a 60foot diamter globe which had an interior staircase.
Price: $750