New-York: E. Conrad, 1830. First Edition. Address providing a brief overview of the history of gardening societies in Europe and the United States, by the leading obstetrician in New York City. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed; 31pp. Extremities trimmed a bit close though never quite affecting text, light foxing, else Very Good..... More

Tokyo: National Science Museum Foundation, 1995. Octavo (25.5cm). White glazed paper; x,336pp; in-text black and white illus. Former owner's name to f.f.e.p. Lightly rubbed and cocked, else clean and sound: Very Good. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1940. First Edition. Limited Edition, one of 3,025 copies signed by the editor. Quarto (29.5cm); beige cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in beige on black blocking on spine and front cover, and illustrations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top..... More

[Colorado]: The Colorado Museum of Natural History / The Denver Museum of Natural History, 1948. Softcover. Octavo (25cm); blue paper wrappers; [9],10-317,[3]pp; black-and-white photographic halftones throughout. Popular Series, Number 8. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his inked ownership and..... More

Vestfold: Vestfold Historielag, [1964]. Octavo (23cm). Striped paper over boards, backed in cloth, with original dust jacket laid in at rear; 188pp. Ex-library, with stamp to verso of title page. Sound and straight, lightly rubbed, internally clean: Very Good. More

New York: Delacorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1967. First Edition. Second Printing. Quarto (28.5cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; orange endpapers; dustjacket; 74pp; illus. Light rubbing to spine ends, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, spine-faded, with tiny tears and rubbing to extremities; Very..... More

[Lima, OH: The Parmenter Printing Co., 1896]. 12mo (19cm). Red cloth stamped in black; 271,[3]pp; 3pp ads at rear; black and white relief illustrations. Shaken and rubbed, both hinges cracked but holding: Good. More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2011. First Edition. First printing. Pictorial paper-covered boards; [xvi],296pp. Bookplate and name of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution. A straight, clean copy, bumped at corners, headcap coming loose, with old barcode sticker to lower rear panel: Very Good. More

Paris: Morizot, 1859. Large octavo (27cm). Brown pebble-grained cloth backed in leather, gilt stamping to spine, all edges gilt; white moiré endpapers; viii,592pp; 89 hand-colored plates. Straight and sound, externally rubbed, amateur repair to headcap, front flyleaf partly detached with split to front hinge, foxed: just Very Good. Natural history..... More

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. First printing of the Stanford Press edition. Two large, heavy quarto volumes (31cm). Quarter brown linen over coarse-woven ivory cloth; xxv,895; [900]pp. Slight rubbing to spine titles, else tight and clean - Near Fine; in the publisher's white cloth slipcase, slightly soiled at edges but..... More

London: Phoenix House Ltd., 1962. First Edition. First Impression, South African issue. Octavo (22.25cm); yellow paper-covered boards, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,339,[1]pp, with 44 illustrations and a folding map of Provence and the French Riviera. One upper board corner gently..... More

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Softcover in pink paper wrappers; [x],386pp; black and white illus. and diagrams. A straight, sound copy, rubbed at edges, creased and sunned at spine, slightly dusty, with black marks to front wrapper: Good or better. NASA SP-161. Proceedings..... More

Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005. Landscape octavo (22cm). Pictorial glazed paper boards; 215pp; color and black and white illustrations. Bookplate and ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead to front endpapers. Straight and sound, spine sunned, corners lightly bumped, but internally clean: Very Good. More