Journal Of Arid Environments. Volume 1 (1978) Through To Volume 71 (2007) [lacking A Few Parts) -

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2014.. Edition of 8. 7.5 x 7"; hybrid structure of 13 flag pages plus an 8-page pamphlet sewn into on fold. Accordion structure extending from back pastedown. 13 flag pages have 3 asymmetric flags per page. Silkscreen and hand painting. Printed on [Katie] MacGregor Handmade Paper. Letterpress text designed and printed by Scott Vile of Ascenius Press. Bound in cloth-covered boards. Numbered. Signed by artist and poet.. Another in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series. Rebecca Goodale's heart-shaped flags are accompanied by Miller's poem. Wild ginger, a low perennial with two heart-shaped leaves, is listed in Maine's threatened flora category. Cathleen Miller: "I am a poet, herbalist, artist, dreamer, gardener, systems-thinker, and special collections librarian living in Portland, Maine. I am an observer, in poems and in life. I write about connection, desire, place, the natural world, and bodies in space".

London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1908. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 115 pages. Blue cloth with gilt stamped lettering and photograph in-lay. Top edge is gilded. Covers show just a hint of rubbing, and remain bright and clean. Book plate of J. H. Bullard on front paste down, and his inked name with the date of 1922 is seen on the first blank page following free end page. Small book seller's decal at bottom of front free end page, and light rubbing/scuffs can be seen on the same page. Volume remains tight and is otherwise bright and clean. A lovely copy of this scarce title.

Amsterdam: Chez l'honore et fils, libraires, 1748. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. I: [10], cxix, [7], 208 pp. + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom. 1). II: [2], 231 pp. + 1 f. ("Addition") + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom 1 [sic]). First title page with unobtrusive paper defect on lower margin, not affecting text; this copy is lacking half-title and Errata leaf for Tom. 2. Very attractive 19th-century French red glazed boards, red morocco spine, lettered in gilt directly (two insignificant worm-holes on lower hinge, leading nowhere; trifle wear to binding extremities. Completely unsophisticated. First printing of "Telliamed," in every way a remarkable book. Disguised as an Oriental fantasy, it contains perhaps the earliest appearance of one of the most important of all evolution speculations, namely the so-called ultra-neptunian theory: that the entire Earth was, and is, a marine deposit, and that all life on land originated from creatures of the sea. Maillet hypothesized that the earth was… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1869. Second Edition. Very Good. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 â€" 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection His paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Darwin's writings in 1858This prompted Darwin to publish On the Origin of Species Like Darwin, Wallace did extensive fieldwork; first in the Amazon, and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia This 2 volume set is the second edition, 1869, of his seminal work in the Malay Archipelago Includes half-titles, and one folding color map only (of 2, lacking the Physical Map in vol1), wood-engraved plates, other maps… Read More

London: John Murray, 1869. Fifth (Tenth Thousand). Good. Considered one of the most important books every published, any edition (there were six) of The Origin of Species that was published during Darwin's lifetime (he died in 1882) is exceptionally sought after, since the print runs were relatively small for such a significant work Only 10,000 copies were printed cumulatively through this fifth edition (which was for only 2,000 copies) This copy was custom bound in full leather with gilt tooling, but the spine and front board are loose and the back board has detached But the hinge breaks are clean and should be repairable The text block is very sound however, and except for the hinge detachments, the leather binding is in relatively good condition There is modest foxing on the ffeps, but otherwise the contents are in very good condition with only minor age toning The edges are marbled, as are the endpapers.

London: Darton & Harvey, 1805. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 4to. pp. Additional engraved titles and 84 plates by J. Tookey after Ibbetson. Contemporary full leather bindings, rebacked preserving original spine, very good with a little general wear and rubbing, corners worn. Contents clean and tight, minimal foxing. A very good tight copy. Nissen 886.

Der Akademie Ubergeben Den, 1856. Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to. Extracted from the Transactions of the Akademie Ubergeben, Vol. XXVI, Part I. Pp: 33-86, plus three folding plates. Two plates showing the skull of the grizzly bear, and one beautifully hand colored plate of the bear. Recently bound in green cloth boards, and black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Paper shows some signs of age, and the third (b/w) plate shows slightly creased corners. Contents are otherwise clean and intact.

1829 RARE 1ed Huish Animal Kingdom Illustrated Plates Lion Bears Tigers MonkeysRobert Huish's 'The Wonders of the Animal Kingdom' is a 19th-century illustrated work on rare and exotic animals. While the contents of the text are desirable, the real draw of this work is the exquisite illustrations. It is quite rare to find this work with all of the illustrations intact, as the plates are often extracted from the binding and sold individually. Note the attention to detail from H. Smith's illustrations. Published in 1829 London, this first edition work features 63 full-page engravings. An extremely rare and valuable work!Item number: #5225Price: $1500HUISH, RobertThe wonders of the animal kingdom. Exhibiting delineations of the most distinguished wild animals in the various menageries of this country.London, T. Kelly, 1829. First edition.Details: Collation: Complete with all pages[ii], 122, [2]Illustrated throughout – 63 EXQUISITE full-page platesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Leather; tight and secureSize:… Read More

[Simi Valley, California]:: Pie in the Sky Press,, 2019.. Edition of 50. Standard: 7.5 x 11"; 64 pages. Letterpress printing on the Vandercook Universal III power press using Centaur and Arrighi type, cast by M & H Type Foundry and Swamp Press, wood French Clarendon, and photo polymer plates onto Zerkall Book Wove, handmade Kitakata, and Korean Hanji papers. Botanical pages (contact prints) printed on Strathmore Aquarius II watercolor paper. Longstitch binding, sewn with hand-dyed Kinglet Cottage linen thread through a white oak spine. Bound in a cover of contact printed and dyed handmade Indigo watercolor paper. Signed and numbered by the artist. Deluxe: Housed in 9.75 x 12.75 x 2.5" cloth-covered hinged box lined with Cave handmade paper. Set in a niche compartment is a Quercus lobata acorn. The acorn has been frozen for 12 months, baked for 8 hours then sealed. In a drawer with cloth pull tab is "Quercus", a suite of prints. Each print signed and dated. A standard… Read More

Early original watercolor. 8 1/2 by 10 5/8 inches; mat size 14 1/2 x 16.