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NY Botanical Garden, 1958. Periodical. 33-48 p., 8 color plates; 27 cm. Plates 753-760: Painted Trillium; Epimedium Versicolor Sulphureum; Indian paint-brush; Jack pine; Korean Azalea; Crassula Lactea; Jetbead; Lachenalia Tricolor; Luteola. Cover title. Stock#47240. Vg, ex-library; covers on heavy, acidic stock, chipped.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1961.. Hard Cover. 318 p., illus., 32 cm. "Including eight reproductions in full color and twelve in black and white from the original Alexander Wilson engravings." "Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813-- poet, painter, naturalist-- was the first man to study the birds of America in their native forests." Vg/dj good, has tears. Stock #101,433. Ornithology

N. Y., C. M. Saxton [c. 1850]. Hard Cover. 107, 10, [2] p.; illus. This copy lacks frontispiece but has 12 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Ripley & Scribner, Ornithological Books at Yale, p. 44. From the Lunenburg, Mass. Town Library with bookplate and withdrawal stamps. The binding is stamped maroon cloth with gold vignette cover which is in excellent condition. Stock#OB050.

Avec Texte par R. Siélain. 3e édition. "Bibliothèque de Poche du Naturaliste, I." Pocket book for identifying flowers; in French. Indexes; advertisements on flyleaves & endpapers. Hard Cover. 162 pages, 151 plates, indexes; 16 cm. Blue cloth flexible boards stamped in black, all edges red; spine faded, minor wear, ink owner name dated 1897, pages darkening; Good. stock#866/h.

NY, Doubleday & McClure, 1901. 'Tenth Edition.'. Hard Cover. with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods about our Homes. With Introduction by John Burroughs and Fifty-Two Colored Plates. [Thirty-Eighth Thousand] [xii], 234 p., index. Contents include Bird Families; Habitats of Birds; Seasons of Birds; Birds Grouped According to Size; Descriptions of Birds Grouped According to Color. Green cloth covers stamped in silver, top edge green; no dj, spine faded; VG. Stock# 28549

Macmillan, NY, 1942. Hard Cover. x p., 435 color lithograph plates, xiii-xxvi p., index, portrait front.; 32 cm. First published November 1937. "The 435 plates in this volume were originally published by Audubon, in London, during the years 1827-1838. A superb set of these original ‘Elephant Folio’ plates— a set believed to be the finest in uncut state in America— has, through the courtesy of the owner, been followed in making the present reproductions. The bird names accompanying the present reproductions are those adapted in the 'Check-List' of the American Ornithologists’ Union. Further information about the original plates is to be found in the 'Transcript of Legends on the Original Plates' in the back of the present volume." Maroon… Read More

Pittsburgh] University of Pittsburgh Press, [1958]. Soft Cover. vii, 60 p. 23 cm. The texts of five lectures to honor the centennary of the publication of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection. IAB. Stock# 38,475. Good/ paper.

An unique collection of early printed herbals, notable for quality and condition. The catalog contains a short introduction by Klebs, followed by a detailed bibliographical account of 74 printed herbals published before 1560, 32 of which are incunables. Klebs provides full author, title, plate count, and valuable annotations. Cross-referenced with Choulant, Pritzel, Essling, Hain, Han-Copinger, Pellechet, Proctor, Reichling, Copinger, Sudhoff, other standard references. Originally published: Lugano: L'Art ancien, 1925, as "Bulletin XII." Hardcover. xxiv, 61 pages, illustrations, 3 plates on 2 leaves. Fine, new from publisher in binder's cloth; no dust jacket as issued. Stock#43670x/h.

Baltimore, Privately Printed, 1924; reprint Martino 2002. Hard Cover. [v], ix, 260 p., 23cm. Besterman 4127. Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737) published the first research on fungi in 1729; Christian Hendrick Persoon of South Africa published important papers on classifying fungi; Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1889) wrote over 400 papers on mycology and named approximately six thousand species of fungi. This work, considered by far the most comprehensive in antiquarian titles, describes 6500 items concerning fungi, a group of plants that includes molds, mildews, mushrooms and bacteria. Stock# 42,563x. Fine / binder's cloth; new from the publisher.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1960. Soft Cover. xiii, 114 p. illus. 23 cm. Series: Prentice-Hall foundations of modern biology. IAB. Stock# 38,404. Good/ paper.

NY, Harper & Row [1981].. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 536 p., index, plates, endpaper map; 24 cm. Biography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882. "Darwin's revolutionary conclusions are here seen as an ironic by-product of his profound respect for authority, the highest authority being the laws of nature." IAB. Stock #29,836. VG/ dj vg.

USDA, Washington, D.C., December 1948. Circular no. 797.. 40 p. pamphlet illustrated with photographs; 23 cm. 'Report of a study made under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946.' Potato expeditions to Mexico; The American potato expedition of 1947-48; Potato habitats; Diseases and enemies; Utilization of potatoes; General distribution of wild potatoes in Mexico; Section Tuberarium of the genus Solanum. Stapled; no covers, as issued; VG. 28510

[London, J. Booth, 1819]. Hard Cover. 1 p. l., [v]-xxvii, [3], 272 pages, xxvii color plates; 16.5 cm. One hundred shells illustrated on 26 hand-colored plates. Turton's shell collection was acquired by the Smithsonian (see DNB). Plates listed at pp. 261-272. THIS COPY LACKS TITLE-PAGE AND FRONT COVER; rear cover present & book otherwise complete. NUC 605: 387 (NT 0400022) lists 7 copies. Stock#OB390.

N.Y., Lyons & Burford, c1992. A collection of essays on birds and nature. The catchy, and misleading, title is taken from the second essay, which is more about human psychology than ornithology. Hard Cover. x, 179 pages, 23.5 cm. Vg/dj vg. Stock#101751.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1926]. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 315 p., front. (port.) index, plates; 22 cm. Good, ex library, tear on title-page; rebound by Knowlton in green buckram. Stock#32836.

NY, Harper & Row [1969]. Hard Cover. 280 p., index, 139 b/w illus. 50 color; map, 26 cm. Charles Darwin sailed as unpaid naturalist on the voyage of the Beagle sent out to map the South American coast and measure longitude. The five years, from Sept. 1831 to Oct. 1836, that the Beagle sailed around the world were the years that Darwin studied nature and develop[ed his ideas. IAB. Stock# 30,155. VG/ no dj.

Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library, 1960. Soft Cover. 72, [2] p., illus.; fold. facsim., 27 cm. Includes a facsimile of the 1858 joint Darwin/ Wallace paper. IAB Stock #28,485. VG/ wrappers.

New-York: Printed For The Author, By Hopkins & Jennings, No. 111 Fulton-Street. 1842. First Edition. Soft Cover. 70 p.; 21 cm. Title continues: and on the Modus Operandi of Remedial Agents. Professor Martyn Paine of New York University, one of the strongest voices for an open and egalitarian profession, felt those who wished to increase requirements for medical students were self-interested elitists who were unfairly attacking the honor of the profession for personal aggrandizement. Bound in marbled paper over boards, cloth spine; some foxing on early leaves; very good. Stock#OB617 (iab).

NY, George Braziller, 1956. Hard Cover. x, 462 p., 28 illus., maps, plans; 25 cm. Originally printed in 1950 for a course at Princeton, this collection of 11 essays provides a sound foundation for the study of evolutionary theory in sociology, economics, literature, even in architecture. Stock# NEu372. Vg, spine sunned / no dj.

New York, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1963. Soft Cover. 126 p., Illus., diagrams, 23 cm. Textbook. IAB. Stock# 38,403. Good/ paper.