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Paris: Firmin-Didot Freres, 1873. Octavo, quarter morocco & pebbled cloth (hardcover), 526, [ii] pp. Frontis portrait. Near-Fine.

Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, (1997). Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 379 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Africa has fewer orchid species than the other tropical continents, with some 1550 species in 99 genera. Most African epiphytes do not have bright colors or large flowers, yet possess a subtle beauty; the terrestrial orchids, on the other hand, include some of the most beautiful and vividly colored species in the world. Although African orchids are increasing in popularity, relatively few are found in cultivation. This book covers the orchids of sub-Saharan Africa, excluding Madagascar and other Indian Ocean islands, but including the islands off the west coast of the continent. The orchids found in this area are distinctly different from the European-related orchid species found in North Africa. The authors have included all plants available from nurseries and many that are being grown but are not yet available in the trade, along with a few species… Read More

Timber Press, Inc., (2008). Quarto, red boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 524 pp. Numerous full-color photographs, glossy paper. Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: The infinitely varied orchid family provides a never-ending source of unusual plants in a range of shapes, colors, fragrances, and sizes. As the demand for interesting and unusual species increases, so too does the need for a comprehensive reference on how to grow them. This encyclopedia, written by respected botanist Isobyl la Croix, offers detailed descriptions of 1500 cultivated species in 350 genera from Acampe to Zygostates. The author’s broad knowledge of orchids is evident throughout.; her experience gained as a scientist, plant hunter, and horticulturist, along with her deep passion for orchids, informs the plant selection and adds depth to the plant descriptions. The cultivation advice incorporates information about each orchid’s native habitat, which will significantly… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. First Edition, As Stated. Royal octavo, pink cloth (hardcover), [64] pp. Very Good+, with slight fading to covers, in a Very Good+, price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing. “Did you know that on Christmas Eve all animals can talk? Neither did Dan nor Matthew -- until this Chirstmas Eve, when their discovery of the animals’ special powers involves them in an eerie adventure. Because their father is out of work, the boys are afraid that their little sister Sarah might not have a very merry Christmas this year. So, to brighten up her holiday, they decide to buy her a gift with their meager savings. The trip downtown to a famos Manhattan toy store begins innocently enough, until Dan discovers that Matthew is nowhere to be found. To his further surprise, a sparrow informs him that his brother has, more or less, been kidnapped by some crafty pigeons. Dan sets out to rescue Matthew, who has been lured into a dangerous situation in the park.”

New York: William Wood, 1916. Second, Revised Edition. Prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General United States Army and published by the authority of the Secretary of War. Octavo, brick-red cloth, xii, 457 pp. Photos., illustrations, fold-out table. Very Good.

Mt. Ida, Arkansas: Lancer Militaria, (1991). Facsimile reprint of the 1916 edition. Second, revised edition. Prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General United States Army and published by the authority of the Secretary of War. Octavo, brick-red cloth, xii, 457 pp. Photos., illustrations, fold-out table. Fine.

Paris: Editions Leo Delteil, 1924. Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 268 pp. Original wrappers bound in cloth. Near-Fine. Illus. with b&w plates.

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1920. Off-print. Inscribed, “For that noble Roman, my friend / and fellow fisherman / Ed Ballard / with all good wishes of / [signed] John O LaGorce / Washington / D.C. Mar 1921.” Octavo, limp brown suede with glit lettering, including the former owner’s name Charles Elliott Ballard (hotelier and circus owner), [ii], [195] - 230, 511 - 546 pp. Photographs. Very Good.

Cortona: Calosci, (1989). Signed & Inscribed by Author. Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color illus. boards), full-color illus., 75 pp. Fine. From Prologue: There is no pretext to offer this exploration as a complete history of the almond tree and its considerable influence upon mankind. It does cover an expansive period of time and the profusion of roles that this unique tree has played, and continues to play, in endless cultural achievements of society...Information has been gathered from a range of specialists in dissimilar professions providing a mosaic of influences by the almond tree on the artistic, relgious, cosmetic and dietary areas of human life.

DeLand, Florida: The E. Ol. Painter Printing Co., 1913. Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), 205 pp. Near-Fine, with foxing (age darkened spotting), and lightly rubbed edges. From Preface: Trucking for Beginners first appeared in a series of weekly aricles in the Florida Grower. The appreciation with which they were apparently received by many and the often expressed wish by others to have them in book form is my excuse for publishing this little book, coupled with the hope that its pages may prove of assistance to the newcomer as well as the beginner in startinghim right in that branch of farming for which Fllorida is so peculiarly adapted.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition, stated. Octavo, tan cloth & olive green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 313 pp. Near-Fine, with a touch of foxing to page edges; in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Anne LaBastille, author of the best-selling Woodswoman, may be one of the few ecologists to follow the decline of a creture from well-balanced population to extinction. Twenty-five years ago, she became fascinated by a flightless diving bird found only in the highlands of Guatemala. Called the giant grebe, it had a call that sounded like Poc. From the 1960s to the late 1980s, the noted ecologist -- known affectionately as Mama Poc -- saw the bird’s decline and the poisoning of its volcano-rimmed setting, once pristine Lake Atitlan. This is the story of the assaults, both natural and man-made, on one small ecosystem. The introduction of large-mouth bass nearly destroyed the food chain. Earthquakes, rampant development, and the murder of a game warden all… Read More

Philadelphia: Published by John Conrad and Co., 1815. 1st American edition. Octavo, rebound in modern green boards, paper label, 356 pp. Very Good; foxed throughout, former-owner signature.

Cape Town, South Africa: National Parks Board (S.A.), [1957] Oblong octavo, stiff color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, 52 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Good; worn, corner creases.

Paris: La Combe, 1787. Two Volumes. Dudecimo, original tan half polished calf & marbled boards rebacked in well-matched modern polished calf, calf labels, viii, 378 pp + [iv], 406 pp. Fine.

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1877. Fourth edition. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1877. Fifth Edition. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1878. Third Edition. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1880. Seventh Edition. Four volumes. Quarto, full gilt-decorated red morocco, all edges gilt, v, 577, [blank], [ii catalogue] pp + iv, 603 pp + xii, 520 pp + viii, 570 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographs, wood engravings. Fine.

Oxford University Press, (2006). Octavo, gray boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xxxi + 414 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg’s Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union’s flank and win the battle -- and perhaps the war. Now, Glenn W. LaFantasie -- bestselling author of Twilight at Little Round Top -- has written a gripping biography of Ates, a narrative that reads like a novel and that reveals, for the first time, the compelling and sometimes astonishing dimensions of this remarkable individual. Oates was no moonlight-and-magnolias Southerner, as LaFantasie shows. Raised in the hard-scrabble Wiregrass Country of Alabama, he ran away from home as a teenager, roamed through Louisiana and Texas -- where he took up card sharking -- and finally returned to Alabama, to pull himself up by his bootstraps and become a respected attorney. During the war, he rose to the rank of… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., (1964). First Edition. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 278 pp. Very Good, in a Very Good dust jacket. From dust jacket: The four squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps that went to France in August 1914 were commanded by Army majors who had learned to pilot aeroplanes. One of them was John Maitland Salmond. Three years later his energy, courage and exceptional ability had raised him to the rank of Major General and made him, at thirty-six, the youngest-ever member of the Army Council. In January 1918 he returned to France to command the Royal Air Force on the Western Front. With squadrons totalling two thousand machines he conducted the great closing air battles of the War. Then came the years when the R.A.F. had to fight for its own life against those who wanted to whittle it away. In a frontier-war in Iraq, Salmond demonstrated brilliantly that the Air Force could conduct ‘control and police’ duties at a fraction of the cost… Read More

London: Ian Allan Ltd., (1987). Octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 128 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature; in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jackeT: World War I was probably the most horrific conflict mankind has ever endured, costing millions of lives and devastating vast tracts of land on a front in northwest Europe which remained virtually static during four murderous years. The killing fields of such places as the Somme and the Ypres Salient became a pulverised wilderness under the incessant pounding of shells; with the rains it was transformed into a vast sea of mud, swallowing up both the quick and the dead, all manner of equipment and myriad fragments of ordnance. World War 2, in comparison, was a war of mobility, and consequently the remains of men and equipment were strewn over a far wider, and therefore less concentrated, area than that of World War 1. In Battlefield Archaeology John Laffin, an acknowledged expert in the field of unearthing relics from the… Read More

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1986). First Edition, stated. Quarto, purple cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, full-color illus. endpapers, 224 pp. Near-Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket that has been price-clipped. From dust jacket: Lagerfeld’s Sketchbook is a personal illustrative tribute to Anna Piaggi. A brilliant fashion editor, an arbiter of taste and design, and one of the most original personalities of the modern fashion world, she has developed a unique mode of dressing. Drawing on the past as well as the present, she consistently invents her own costumes: possibly a cloak from the 1920s by Poiret combined with a warrior’s tunic from Benin, or a French pharmacist’s overall worn as a party dress. The result is always utterly original, often intensely dramatic, and occasionally flamboyantly theatrical. These never-before-published watercolors and pen-and-ink sketches, with their uncanny depiction of detail and their ability to convey the effect of an entire outfit,… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. First Edition. Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), x, 238 pp. Color plates. The story the impresonment of Francis Lagrange, an art forger known as “Flag,” on Devil’s Island. Very Good; a touch of insect damage to head of spine, otherwise clean and tight in dust jacket with protective mylar.