London: Robinson and Dilly, 1791. Thomas Bewick. Second Edition. Leather_bound. x,483 pages. Title vignette and numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Leather spine, original boards, black spine label. Large octavo. Chafing to spine, spine label cracked and chipped, corners bumped. Beautiful navy, plum and cream marbled endpapers, light foxing throughout. Binding..... More
London: John Murray, 1887. Second Edition. Hardcover. Complete set in three volumes. Frontis of Darwin to each volume, 2 plates. ix,539,396,418 pages, Index. Gren cloth, large octavos with titles in gilt. Volume I has contemporary inscription dated 1887. Some foxing to endpapers, notes in pencil to rear endpaper of each..... More
Paris, France: Editions du Museum, 1958 (and 1965-66). Softcover. 4to. 322 pages color frontispiece & 36 plates with tissue guards. Illustrations in text . Original printed stiff printed wrappers, front wrapper lightly worn along edges, otherwise a very good plus copy. Second volume: Heim, Roger avec collaboration R. Cailleux, R. Wasson..... More
Paris, France: P. Pourrat Freres, 1840. Second Edition. Hardcover. Deuxieme EditionRevue, corrigee et augmentee par L'auteur --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION: Le topic et contenu de ce livre est Oiseaux! Même si la page de titre indique "HUMAINES ET COURSES Mammifères", tel est le titre du tome I. Ce livre est particulièrement Volume II SEULEMENT et..... More
London, England: B. & J. White, 1793. Peter Mazell. Third edition. Leather-bound. Two Quartos, Approximately 10" x 8". Quarterbound in original speckled calf, recently rebacked, with new speckled calf (leather) spine, gilt-stamped, with five raised bands (six compartments), gilt-ruled, and gilt-lettered contrasting spine labels of dark maroon. Red silk ribbon..... More
London, England: Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, 1810. Leather-bound. Half-leather, 15 x 23.2 cm, xvi 901 pp. plus three pages of advertisements. Rebound with hand-marbled paper over calf spine and corners, with contrasting maroon leather spine label ("A New Family Herbal -- Bewick") and gilt spine titles and decorations..... More
