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By: Lenglet, E[tienne]. G[ery]. (1757-1834)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Paris: Verdiere, libraire, 1812.: 1812.
Seller ID: 32691
Paris: Verdiere, libraire, 1812.. 1812.. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in gray wrappers. The book is disbound and the front wrapper is lacking. x, 341 & [3] pp. Page 207 is skipped in numbering with no loss of text. Illustrated with 2 folding tables, 1 of them a genealogical table, & 1 B&W plate. A good copy, well worth binding. First edition.Very scarce. First Edition. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888.: 1888.
Seller ID: 30224
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888.. 1888.. Good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the spine with decorations in black. The binding is rubbed & spotted & the cloth is chipped along a section of the front edge of the rear cover. xxix & 202 pages plus a 10-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white drawings & diagrams. Good. First American edition.The International Scientific Series, Volume LXIV. First Edition. View more info
By: Maury, M.F
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856.: 1856.
Seller ID: 29971
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856.. 1856.. Good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a vignette of a ship in gilt on the front cover. The covers are rubbed, bumped and stained with some fading, particularly to the spine. The corners and head and tail of the spine are slightly worn and there are small ink stains to the joints. 348 pages, illustrated with 4 textual illustrations (referred to as "plates") and 9 folding plates, including charts and... View more info
By: Mery, Fernand
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Paris: Editions Denoel, (1956).: (1956).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 1332
Paris: Editions Denoel, (1956).. (1956).. Fine. - Octavo, natural limp buckram titled in orange on spine with vignettes on the front cover. 188 pages & [2] leaves and numerous pages of delightful photographic illustrations depicting cats. Near fine. First edition. Presentation copy with a 5-line inscription by Mery in blue ink on the half-title. Cleverly signed by Mery within the body of a cat observing birds which he has sketched at the bottom of his inscription. Fir... View more info
By: Murphy, Robert
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968.: 1968.
Seller ID: 8109
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968.. 1968.. Fine. - Quarto, cloth, in a dust wrapper. There is a small dent to the spine. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the head of its spine lightly chipped. 288 pages. Profusely illustrated with maps & wirh photographic illustrations in black & white & color. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
By: Necker, Claire
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1972.: 1972.
Seller ID: 17348
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1972.. 1972.. Very good. - Octavo, light green cloth titled in black. Lightly soiled with light stains to front cover; spine & extremities slightly faded. 511 pp. Very good. First edition. First Edition. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York: George H. Doran Company, (1898).: (1898).
Seller ID: 11808
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1898).. (1898).. Good. - Octavo, pictorial green & blue cloth. The binding is rubbed & bumped. There are 2 short tears to the head of the spine & the tail is chipped & slightly frayed. Half-title, title, [x] & 277 pages. Black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece & 2 maps, and full-page & textual illustrations. The book is lightly cracked at page 235. There is dampstaining to the top edges of the rear pastedown & endpaper & index... View more info
By: Oldfield, Margery L.; and Alcorn, Janis B
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Boulder, CO: Westview Press, (1991).: (1991).
Seller ID: 15273
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, (1991).. (1991).. Very good. - Octavo, softover bound in decorative greem & black wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped. xviii, [iii] & 349 pages. Some front & rear page corners are bumped. Black-and-white tables, diagrams & photographic illustrations. Very good. First edition. First Edition. View more info
By: Pickwell, Gayle
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York/London: Whittlesey House, (1939).: (1939).
Seller ID: 3686
New York/London: Whittlesey House, (1939).. (1939).. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in yellow with a vignette in yellow & green on the front cover. The covers are very lightly bumped. xvi & 252 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece & 67 black-and-white plates. Very good. First edition. First Edition. View more info
By: Pratt, Ambrose
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Australia: Robertson & Mullens, 1940.: 1940.
Seller ID: 31266
Melbourne, Australia: Robertson & Mullens, 1940.. 1940.. Good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt with vignette of a lyre bird stamped in gilt on front cover. The covers are lightly bumped; the head of the spine is chipped & slightly frayed & the tail is rubbed. 79 & [1] pp. The front endpapers are somewhat darkened with an owner' s small printed label on the pastedown & ink name & date on the endpaper; the edges of the title are slightly darkened with slight soili... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Storrs-Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino, circa (1995).: (1995).
Seller ID: 22230
Storrs-Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino, circa (1995).. (1995).. Very good. - 4to, dark blue cloth (lightly bumped) titled in gilt. [vi] & 576 pp. Near fine. Limited edition reprint of 150 copies.Originally published Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1872.The text of this botanical checklist, excluding titles in other languages, is in Latin. View more info
By: Raven, Charles E
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1947.: 1947.
Seller ID: 29782
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1947.. 1947.. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth. The binding is lightly rubbed & the extremities & the head & tail of the spine are slightly faded. The book is slightly cocked. x & 379 pages. The fore-edge is foxed and there is light foxing to the bottom edge, the pastedowns & endpapers. There is a previous owner's ink name on the front endpaper. Good. First edition. First Edition. View more info
By: Riley, J. H
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1938.: 1938.
Seller ID: 10172
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1938.. 1938.. Very good. - Octavo, soft covers bound in printed gray wraps. The spine & extremities are darkened & the head & tail of the spine are chipped. There is an ink name in the top corner of the front wrap & there are a few tiny brown marks to the rear wrap. iv & 581 pages, partially unopened. Very good. First edition.Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum Bulletin 172. First Edition. View more info
By: Rudolph, Willi
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, M.B.H., 1946.: 1946.
Seller ID: 1153
Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, M.B.H., 1946.. 1946.. Good. - Octavo, rust cloth backed tan paper covered boards titled in black The boards are warped & there are 2 tiny indentations to the spine. 253 & [1] pp. & 1-page ad. The pastedowns are partially unglued & the rear endpaper & ad are chipped. The pages are slightly darkened and some page corners creased. Illustrated in B&W. Good. A study of "nutrition and raw materials from the sea". The... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York: Simon and Schuster, (1977).: (1977).
Seller ID: 12450
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1977).. (1977).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly chipped & soiled. The head of the jacket spine is torn & the top edge of the rear panel is creased. 220 pages. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge & 1 rear blank is slightly soiled. Black-and-white illustrations from drawings, & color photographic illustrations by the author. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition. D... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969).: (1969).
Seller ID: 673
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Square 8vo, navy blue cloth (bottom edges of covers slightly faded) titled in silver with vignette of whales stamped in blind on front cover, in dw (darkened & chipped; lightly soiled). viii, [ii], 213 & [1] pp. (owner's blind stamp on half-title). Illustrations in dark blue & white by Leonard Everett Fisher. Very good in good dw. First edition.The author, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servic... View more info
By: Schulberg, Budd
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York: Delacorte Press, (1975).: (1975).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 4541
New York: Delacorte Press, (1975).. (1975).. Very good. - Large octavo, green paper covered boards backed with blue cloth titled in silver on the spine with the title stamped in blue on the front board, in a dust wrapper. The boards are dampstained. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. [xi], 147 & [4] pages. Profuse color & black-and-white photographic illustrations by Geraldine Brooks. The contents are very good. First edition.Nicely inscribed on the verso of the ha... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.: 1901.
Seller ID: 35567
- Octavo, pictorial brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine & front cover with an illustration stamped in black within a decorative gilt frame on the front cover, a circular vignette in black on the rear cover & decorations in black on the spine. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed & the rear cover is faded with some brown staining. The head & tail of the spine are chipped. 360 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white plates & vignettes by the author. There is occasion... View more info
By: Siddle, Sheila
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York: Grove Press, (2002).: (2002).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 26949
New York: Grove Press, (2002).. (2002).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. xiii, 281 & [2] pages. Near fine. Uncorrected proof.The book was written with journalist Doug Cress, a member of the board of trustees of Siddle's Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage. The foreword is by Jane Goodall.From the library of Peter Matthiessen. Laid in is a form letter on "Friends of Chimfunshi" letterhead from Doug Cress asking Matthiessen for a "jack... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: [Baltimore, MD]: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1944.: 1944.
Seller ID: 16716
[Baltimore, MD]: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1944.. 1944.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light blue wrappers. The wraps are bumped with their edges darkened. Pages 402-409. Very good. After some ruminations on the history of the truffle in France, the author speculates on the likelihood of getting the government to finance an American truffle industry. View more info