New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Cloth. Light chipping to jacket at edges with slight loss and a couple very short tears. A couple chips missing at head and tail of spine, rubbing and small tear to jacket at front hinge; wear to red cloth at edges and heavier at..... More
Liege: Lemaire, 1790. Hard Cover. Ouvrage qui peur servir aux Confesseurs selon l'esprit de St. Francois de Sales. Rebacked some time ago with brown cloth tape, holding firm. A few ecclesiastical library marks, otherwise Vg internally. 439pp plus approbation. Scarce, just two copies in OCLC. Provenance: Bibliotheca S. Petri Cinncinnatensis..... More
Brenner Pass: 1869. Hardcover. Printed box with 24 flower speciments collected in the Brenner Pass on August 20, 1869 by Eloise and Lenny McCue. Gift inscription to Miss WItzel. Each sample is affixed to a card with the Latin name below. An album that captures a frozen moment one day..... More
Basel: 1955. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth - bound up index of the plants in Martha Von Hirsch's garden in Basel. With two supplemental indexes laid in from 1964 and 1973. 3 photographic plates of maps of the garden, 67 leaves and 19 tabbed dividers. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped..... More
1895. Hardcover. Half leather over marbled boards - substantial course notebook in French with notes, diagrams and drawings broken up into cryptogams and phanerogams. 371 pages with an additional 24 blanks. In purple with red and blue coloring and some diagrams and fold outs in pencil. The professor is almost..... More
Cambridge: Folson, Wells and Thurston, 1841. First Edition. Softcover. Original printed wrappers - modest general foxing and browning; browning and discoloration to plates. 373pp, 15 plates at rear. Old college library stamps in a few places. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science &..... More
Paris: G. Desprez, 1765. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary mottled calf, worn at edges, hinges cracked by still sound. 358pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Farming & Rural Life. Inventory No: 048305. More
London: W. Wilson for E. Brewster, 1653. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Rebound in full leather in a period style. General browning, a few loose pages, 19/20 detached but present, slight chipping to a few page edges, ink stains in the margin in a few spots, small burn mark on page..... More
London: Hardqicke and Bogue, 1878. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Light wear to boards, slight scattered foxing, old private library label to endpaper. 253pp, index, 2opp ads. 16 colored plates (plate VII bound as frontis). Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology;..... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight fading to brown cloth, foxing and staining to plates, quite bright otherwise. 11 plates, 130pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 048302. More
Providence: Field & Maxcy, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Rebound in brown cloth, old Chicago Historical Society punch stamp on title and a few other places, old signature on title. Browned early on, light foxing and browning otherwise, worm trail on final index page. 288pp This is the..... More
Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Original beige cloth, lettering piece worn, scattered mostly light foxing, a bit heavier to initial pages. The first American edition. 110pp Though remembered principally for his theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, he was an important biologist and evolutionary theorist and..... More
Albany: Websters and Skinners, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Original leather backed plain boards. Modest foxing and spotting; a nice, unsophisticated copy. Usually considered the first American book on Zoology, it is mostly European animals with a few from the Americas. Eaton hoped that it "might serve as a...... More
London: T. Woodward, 1728. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary acid calf, quite worn, hinges cracked but held by cords, front blank in vol 1 detached, spine ends chipped. Quite clean internally, light scattered browning, with a nice folding plate in volume one. Bradley, though with no formal education in..... More
France: 1500. Disbound. Manuscript leaf on vellum, probably French, ca. 1500? Finely decorated in red and blue with gold added to every element - wide margins; a sybaritic production. A few light brown spots, foxing, in margins. ca. 7 1/2" x 6". Contains half of Psalm 39 and the end..... More
France: 1425. Disbound. Manuscript leaf on vellum, probably French, in two columns with fine pen work and decorative initials. Ca. first quarter of the 15th century. Chipping at removed edge, some browning and age toning. ca. 5 5/8" x 4" Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More
France: 1550. Disbound. Manuscript leaf on vellum, probably French, first half of the 16th century. Fine initials in red and blue eith three heightened with gold. Includes parts of psalm 45 "diffusa est gloria...". 5.5" x 4" Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion..... More
Paris: 1520. Single leaf, disbound, measuring 7" x 4", printed on vellum and hand illuminated, early 16th century. Some foxing in margins. Hard to date because it was an intentionally anachronistic enterprise, but likely Paris, the first quarter of the 16th century. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight..... More
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1484. Disbound. Single leaf from the Humiltas section. 10.25" x 14.5", dampstain to top, rubricated, chipped at edge, marginalisa in an early hand. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 048292. More
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1484. Disbound. Single leaf from the Humiltas section. 10.25" x 14.5", dampstain to top, rubricated, chipped at edges. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 048291. More
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1496. Disbound. Three leaves from the Epistolae de rebus familiaribus section of Petrarch's works. A few light stains, printed in a fine Roman typeface. The first collected Latin works of Petrach edited (though it is uncertain how much of the work he edited) buy Sebastian Brant,. 7.75"..... More
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1496. Disbound. Four leaves from the Epistolae de rebus familiaribus section of Petrarch's works. A few light stains, printed in a fine Roman typeface. The first collected Latin works of Petrach edited (though it is uncertain how much of the work he edited) buy Sebastian Brant,. 7.75"..... More
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1496. Disbound. Four leaves from the Epistolae de rebus familiaribus section of Petrarch's works. A few light stains, printed in a fine Roman typeface. The first collected Latin works of Petrach edited (though it is uncertain how much of the work he edited) buy Sebastian Brant,. 7.75"..... More
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1496. Disbound. Two leaves from the Epitomatis Illustrium uirorum: section of Petrarch's works and one from Augustalis. A few light stains, small chips at edge; printed in a fine Roman typeface. The first collected Latin works of Petrach edited (though it is uncertain how much of the..... More
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1496. Disbound. Three consecutive leaves from the Epistolae de rebus familiaribus section of Petrarch's works. A few light stains, printed in a fine Roman typeface. The first collected Latin works of Petrach edited (though it is uncertain how much of the work he edited) buy Sebastian Brant,..... More