Fine Bird Books 1700-1900
London and New York: Collins and Van Nostrand, 1953. First edition, Number 127 of 295 Copies. Read More
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An Account of the Construction in the Years 1932 to 1934 of the Pipe-Line of the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited...
N. P: Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd, 1934. First edition. The Iraq Petroleum Company which was a British, Anglo-Dutch, American, French and Gulbenkian concern was awarded the concession for oil development in northern and central Iraq in 1925. In 1961, after various revisions in the original grant the company was deprived... Read More
Price: $200
Manuscript receipt for $250, initialled by Agassiz, "for the quarterly Salary of the Agent"
Cambridge, Mass: June, 1865. Alexander, 1835-1910, American naturalist and industrialist was the son of Louis Agassiz. Read More
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Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean … Geological Report, by …...
Washington, D.C: 1856. First edition. Read More
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Preserved Leaves of Mull
Two autograph letters signed “Argyll”.
Kensington and N. P: Argyll Lodge and Balmoral (stationery), n.d. and 28 September 1855. Preserved Leaves of Mull. The first stating that he will send specimens of the ores and the [?] Leaves of Mull to Glasgow for the Museum, the leaves only being “furnished on loan as the specimens... Read More
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Petri Artedi sueci Genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis...
Grypeswaldiae: Ant. Ferdin. Roese, 1792. Second edition (first ed., 1738). Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (February 22, 1705 - September 27, 1735) was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology." Artedi was born in the province of Ångermanland. Intending to become a clergyman, he went, in 1724... Read More
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Inscribed to His Son
Some Rules of Conduct for my Children and their Children.
[np]: Daniel Moreau Barringer, 1916. First edition. Inscribed to His Son. Flyleaf inscribed by Barringer' to his son Richard on 3 May 1922 on his 13th birthday Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860 - 1929) is best known for being the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on Earth... Read More
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One of 10 Copies, Specially Bound and Signed
The New Wolves.
[New York]: Lyons Press, [1998]. Deluxe edition. ONE OF 10 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY BASS & NICK LYONS. One of 10 Copies, Specially Bound and Signed. Read More
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Portrait inscribed and signed “William Beebe”.
N. P: n.d [ca. 1930's]. The American naturalist and explorer. Seymour Halpern was a Representative from New York. From 1931 to 1933 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Long Island Daily Press and the Chicago Herald Examiner. Read More
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Report on Horne Zoological Corporation.
Los Angeles: 1929. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis, which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals, birds and reptiles to be... Read More
Price: $9,500
Presentation Copy
Les poissons des eaux douces de la France. Anatomie - physiologie - description des espèces - moœurs - instincts -...
Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1866. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed, "A Monsieur Jules Kinckel témoingage d'affection de l'auteur E. Blanchard." Read More
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![Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly." William Benjamin Carpenter, English naturalist and physiologist.](/pictures/thumb/31440.jpg?v=1474604499)
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... Read More
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The Antelope and Deer of America. A Comprehensive Scientific Treatise Upon the Natural History, Including the Characteristics, Habits, Affinities, and...
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company. Nos. 39 & 450 Park Row, 1881. Second Edition. "The first scientific treatise on the deer to appear in America.includes an impressive chapter on the chase.thorough and extraordinarily fine, this is a blue-chip deer book" Wegner. Read More
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The Cat's Meow of Calling Cards
The Calling Card of Mark Twain's Cat 'Socrates Goldenrod'.
[Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York?]: July 12, 1886. The Cat's Meow of Calling Cards. Mark Twain loved cats. He owned them, adopted them, wrote about them, and lived the better part of his mature years surrounded by them. W.H. Auden wrote an essay about the gift some artists have for... Read More
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Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold [by] ….
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1921]. First edition. Read More
Price: $400
The Cole Library of early Medicine and Zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. Part I. 1472-1800.
[Reading]: The Alden Press for the Library of the University of Reding, 1969. First edition. With an ALS to Montagu from Eales and an off-print laid in. Read More
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The Canadian Entomologist. Volumes XXXIX-LVIII for 1907-1926.
London, Ontario: 1907-1926. Read More
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A Pioneer of Systematic Entomology
Philosophia entomologica sistens scientiae fundamenta adiectis definitionibus exemplis, observationibus, adumbrationibus.
Hamburgi et Kilonii: Carol. Ernest. Bohnii, 1778. First edition. A Pioneer of Systematic Entomology. Fabricius first major work on the system and theory of entomology, and perhaps his greatest theoretical contribution to the science. "Fabricius was undoubtedly one of the most distinguished entomologists and ranks with Carl de Geer, P.A.... Read More
Price: $800
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
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Fish Culture. A Practical Guide to the Modern System of Breeding and Rearing Fish.
London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863. First edition. Read More
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CatEgor Y.
New York: Gotham Book Mart, [1973]. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Gorey on the title page. Read More
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Die Erde, ihr kleid, ihre Kinde und ihr Inneres durch karten und Zeichnungen [bound with] Die Erde und das Westall.
Langensalza: Schulbuchhandlung des Thuringer Lehrerververeine, 1853, 1855. A study of the Earth, interior and exterior, its peoples, animals, the Moon and Planets. Read More
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The Fishes of British Guiana.
Demerara: "The Argosy" Company, Limited, 1904. First edition. Rare. Read More
Price: $275
A Forerunner of Utilitariansim
De l'homme, de ses Facultés Intellectuelles, et de son Éducation. Ouvrage posthume.
Londres [i.e., Hague? Paris?]: Chez la Société Typographique, 1775. Later (third?0 edition. A Forerunner of Utilitariansim. First published in 1773 from the manuscript found among his papers after his death in 1771, de l'Homme is generally considered to be a supplement to Helvetius' major philosophical work De l'Esprit (1758), which... Read More
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History of the American Fauna … and A General Natural History of the World ….
New York: Virtue & Yorston, n.d. First edition. Read More
Price: $1,750