Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1857. First Edition. Agassiz was a prominent zoologist and geologist, who held positions at the University of Neuchatel and Harvard. He made significant contributions to the study of fish, extinct species, and glaciers, though this research has more recently been overshadowed by his unfortunate beliefs..... More

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

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto; cloth boards; publisher's slipcase; 252pp. Fine, apparently unread copy in a fine slipcase - a new-appearing copy. More

New Castle: Johnson Reprint Corporation, [1974]. Limited Edition. One of 1000 copies printed. Elephant folio (50cm). In chartreuse cloth stamped in gold on front; plain endpapers; x, 12, [164]pp; 40 color plates. A bright, clean copy, rubbed and sunned lightly at upper edge, else Near Fine. Facsimile of Bateman's 1837-43..... More

[Bruxelles]: [M. Hayez], [1888]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm). Modern half dark green buckram and light green buckram, titled in gilt; marbled endpapers; 119,[1]pp. Bookplate of James G. Mead. Rebound with slight external smudges, internally clean: Very Good or better. Mémoires couronnés 41. Treatise on beaked whales from the collection of..... 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

Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1924. Octavo (20.5cm). Blue cloth, stamped in gilt with vignettes to front and spine; plain endpapers; 262pp; frontispiece and 15 black and white halftone plates. Sound but rubbed, corners bumped, internally clean: around Very Good. An account of whaling in the 1910s. More

Newport, PA: The News Printery, 1984. First, Limited Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); black publisher's cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering, no dustwrapper; VI,141pp. Textblock displays mild handling wear and yellowing to edges. Final pages of book are blank, but have some tears and creases; else pages are clean and sound..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1875. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Orange cloth, stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; xiv, [2], 407, [1]pp; numerous wood engravings. Straight but generally worn and soiled: Fair. More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; ix,[1],220pp.; photographic frontispiece, 19 leaves of photograhic plates. Upper cover quite unevenly faded, as is spine cloth, spine a bit cocked, else Very Good, internally fine. Tipped in 3pp. autograph letter, signed..... More

Sedro-Woolley, WA: Loggers World, 1966. Quarto (28cm). Green comb-bound softcover; [4],130,[2]pp; black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Rubbed at edges, slight roll to spine, minor marks to rear cover, else Very Good. Cartoons and stories by loggers for loggers. [63342]. More

Washington DC: Cetacean and Turtle Assessment Program, 1981. Folio (27.5cm). Tan buckram, gilt spine title, original paper wrappers bound in; discontinuous pagination; black and white graphs and illustrations. Ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead to f.f.e.p. Sound and straight, with minor dust to edges of textblock: Very Good..... More