Thoughts on Animalcules: or, a Glimpse of the Invisible World Revealed by the Microscope by Mantell, Gideon Algernon - 1850

New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1975. Nearly 2,700 illustrations from woodcuts, large thick quarto, pp (38), 1632, (46), slight foxing to the fore and other edges, otherwise clean internally, the fore-edge is convex due to the weight of the book and the spine conversely concave, otherwise a good cloth-bound copy, in a slightly worn and torn dustwrapper which is faded on its spine. [Very heavy - extra postage may be needed.]. Cloth. Very Good/A little worn and frayed.

London, Dublin & Edinburgh: Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood, 1802. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates a little browned and marked, pp 432, vii, slightly used throughout, the blank page following the front endpaper is creased and lacking a corner, bound in a later brown cloth. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young, but I can find no justification for this ? Fussell certainly made no such assertion.]. Second edition. Cloth. Good.

Vindobonae [Vienna]: Joannis Thomae Trattner, 1763. ["A little book which shows Colchicum autumnale (Meadow Saffron) root not only safe for human use, but also useful for internal cures whenever diseases, difficult to cure, will not yield to other medicines".]. Small octavo, illustrated with one folding engraved plate (a little foxed around the margins and with a corner creased), pp 96, some foxing but otherwise firm throughout, the verso of the title pages has an early stamp of an Austrian library, also with the perforated stamp of the John Crerar library and its tiny withdrawn stamp, an early signature on the title page, with the attractive bookpate of the Crerar Library on the front endpaper, the free front endpaper nearly detached. red quarter morocco and marbled boards, rubbed . [Anton von Storck (1731 - 1803) was an Austrian physician. Storck is remembered for his clinical research of various herbs, and their associated toxicity and medicinal properties. His studies are considered to… Read More

The Hague: W. Junk, 1978. Two volumes, large octavo, pp xvi, 1439, a slight mark to one fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrappers are slightly rubbed and age-toned. SCARCE. [A heavy set - extra postage may be needed.]. [Southern Africa is certainly not a naturally bounded area so that there are several possibilities for delineating it and concepts about its extent. Wellington discussed the various possibilities for delineation and suggested that one line stands out more clearly and definitely as a physical boundary than any other, namely the South Equatorial Divide, the watershed between the ZaIre, Cuanza and Rufiji Rivers on the one hand and the Zambezi, Cunene and Rovuma Rivers on the other. This South Equatorial Divide is indeed a major line of separation for some organisms and is also applicable in a certain geographical sense, though it does not possess the slightest significance for many other groups of organisms, ecosystems or geographical… Read More