London: 1815. First Edition. 24 engraved plates; woodcut illustrations in the text, xvi, 367 pages. 8vo, full contemporary straight-grained red morocco, all edges gilt; rubbed, some foxing, etc. FIRST EDITION. Many full-page engravings of dog breeds. Covers bulldog, collie, mastiff, foxhound, Irish wolfhound, greyhound, lurcher, terrier, bloodhound, pointer, setter, newfoundland.....
RIDGEWAY. Volume V-Zoology. Washington: GPO, 1875. With numerous natural history plates, including 15 fine color lithograph bird plates by Ridgway. Thick 4to. Original ¾ leather; binding worn, upper cover detached, generally clean internally.
Washington: 1855-61. 12 volumes in 13. With a profusion of lithograph views, natural history plates (some in color), folding maps, etc., etc. 4to, volume I in contemporary 3/4 leather, II-VII, & XI in newer buckram, VIII & IX original cloth, XII parts 1 & 2 original calf-backed boards; Volume X......
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1888. FIRST EDITION. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Very Good. Illustrated, including folding map inside rear cover pocket. 2 volumes. 8vo, cloth; top edge gilt; shelf wear, ex-library Bowdoin College. Contains a profusion of colored maps, photographs of the steamer and illustrations. .
Leyden: Van Der Aaa, Engraved title vignette; 2 engraved maps, on 1 folding sheet; 2 engraved text illustrations. (1) leaf; 74 columes; (2) pages. Folio, modern boards; moderate wear, minor browning and soiling, etc.
New York, 1935. Illustrated. Tall 8vo, cloth-backed boards, unopened; light wear. ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES (out of series copy), Signed by Byrd. Also SIGNED on the half-title by Alton A. Lindsey, Bill McCormick, Joseph F. Hill, each member of the second Byrd Expedition.
London: Published by the author, 1841. Second Edition. 178 plates; 3 maps (1 folding). 2 volumes. 8vo, ½ calf (chipped and frayed with loss); some foxing, generally sound otherwise. (Howes C-241). .
GEORGE CATLIN. 180 chromolithographed plates (including 3 maps, one folding). 2 volumes. Royal 8vo, 10x6 1/2 inches, publisher's richly gilt pictorial cloth, minimal wear, uncut, several plates bound out of sequence (as common); original worn dust jackets; a very sharp copy. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926.
Published with the Sanction of the Connecticut Historical Society. Hartford: Wm. Jas. Hamersley, 1851. First Edition. Cloth. I vol. 8vo. -12mo, pp. [i-v] vi-x [xi] xii-xxvi 1-509 [510 blank], flyleaves at front and rear, folded map and six plates inserted, other illustrations in text. The author's first book. Cloth worn.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910. . .
Rio de Janeiro, (1944). 48 mounted color plates (one loose). 2 volumes. Folio, ¾ leather; moderate wear, library number on spines. ONE OF 6 LETTERED COPIES. Jean-Theodore Descourtilz (France, ca. 1796 - Riacho, Santa Cruz (now Aracruz, 1855) was a French medical doctor, naturalist, painter, and draughtsman who lived for several.....
Paris, 1769. xii,114. [3] pages; errata. 24 engraved plates (2 folding). 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments, front cover scored, generally clean and sound otherwise. FIRST EDITION. (Houzeau & Landcaster 8899).
New York: First American Edition. New York, 1882. Illustrated, including folding map inside cover pocket. 2 volumes. 8vo, pictorial cloth; some shelf-wear, minor foxing and soiling, etc.
Based on the Archives and Records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and Contemporary Letters and Accounts with Biological and Topographical Notes. New York, 1906. The Grafton Press. 12 mo., uncut, top edge gilt. Photogravure plates. Worn, slightly shaken, sound internally. .
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London: 1900. First Edition in English. Photogravures, 4 folding panoramic views, 1 (of 2) folding map. 4to, 3/4 red morocco, top edge gilt; rubbed, corners worn, unobtrusive library markings, lacking sketch map of Mount St. Elias region, generally sound internally. First Edition in English, Neate F24. .
Ontario: J.W. Lyon, Guelph, 1874. 'A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar and Equatorial Regions of the Globe'. All edges marbled as well as endpapers. 811pp. including index. Leather spine and corners. 5 raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Two volumes in one. Cover is worn. Profusely.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. 1913. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 54.
An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern. New York: Macmillan, 1909. First Edition. Cloth. A summary of Abbott H. Thayer’s discoveries. With an introductory essay by Abbott H. Thayer. Illustrated by Abbott H. Thayer, Gerald H. Thayer, Richard S. Merryman and Others and with Photographs. xix.....
Hartford: Limited Editions Club, 1962. 2 volumes, 4to. 2 folding maps; 16 color plates (13 after Carl Bodmer); maps and sketches. 1 of 1500 copies. A fine set in a slipcase, glassine torn at spine with some loss.
Boston: 1860. First American Edition. Cloth. xxiv, 375pp. plus fifteen plates (one folding) and three folding maps. Frontispiece portrait. Original blue publisher's cloth, gilt pictorial cover and spine. Slight wear to head and toe of spine, covers a bit soiled, spine sunned. Very good. First American edition. Dr. John Rae.....
London, 1857. “Second and cheap edition.” Illustrated, folded map. Worn, some signatures loose.
Isaac Sprague. Boston, 1848. 16 lithograph plates after drawings by Isaac Sprague. Folio, (11 x 15 inches), publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth; minor foxing, generally sound otherwise. 1) "The White Mountains," 2) "Mount Crawford," 3) "The Notch of the White Mountains," 4) "The Lower Cascade of the Notch," 5) "The Gate of the.....
Boston, 1848. Folio, (17 ½ x 13 inches) illustrations with tissue guards. Bent “Classics,” p. 1. Rebound in black quarter-morocco and cloth, the central gilt-stamped decorative piece from the original binding inlaid to style. Minor marginal stain, generally sound otherwise. 1) "The White Mountains," 2) "Mount Crawford," 3) "The Notch of.....
New York, 1907. Illustrated, including folding maps. 8vo, cloth; spine ends frayed, generally sound otherwise. FIRST EDITION.
Fine large color lithograph print depicting 4 ice-bound Arctic explorers fending off a polar bear attack. 19-3/4 x 27-3/4 inches, in contemporary elaborate gilt wooden frame (chipped at corners); moderate wear, vertical crease near center image. Published circa mid-19th Century, np.