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49 items found
Audubon, J. J.
Account of the habits of the Turkey Buzzard ( Vultur aura), particularly with the view of exploding the opinion generally entertained of its extraordinary power of smelling.
Edinburgh, Adam Black, 1827. 8vo (22.5 x 14.4 cm). 13 pp. [numbered 172-184]. Original printed wrappers.
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Box, H. E.
Typescripts, correspondence and papers.
Various places and publishers, 1923-1953. 4to and 8vo. Over 60 items of various size and shape. Many thousands of pages, numerous illustrations including some original photos. Preserved in two similar cardboard folders with punch holes.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossils of the Tertiary formations of the United States. Illustrated by figures, drawn from nature.
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1838. 8vo (21.1 x 15.6 cm). viii, 80, [vi] pp; 51 plates [numbered 1-32, 34-50, followed by two without number] (Plate 45 pencilled). Later half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossils of the Tertiary formations of the United States. Illustrated by figures, drawn from nature. [Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the United States 1-2; Fossils of the Miocene formation of the United States 3-[4].]
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1838-1861. Four parts in one. 8vo (23.1 x 14.2 cm). xvi, 89 pp; 52 plates (numbered 1-32, 34-49 [Plates 3, 7, 11, and 19 in two widely different states; 24-25, 46-47 without number; 48 wrongly numbered 47, 33 not used]). 20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original brown, printed wrappers bound in.
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Dorman, R. M.
The Origin of Primitive Superstitions. And their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America.
Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). 398 pp.; 21 numbered text-engravings, five plates of which four originally hand-coloured, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece (= Plate I), Original dark brown buckram. Spine with red lines, gilt pictorial vignette and title; boards with red border; front board with pictorial gilt vignette. Dark green endpapers.
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Elliot, W. [P.]
The patentee's manual; containing a list of patents granted by the United States for the encouragement of arts & sciences, alphabetically arranged, from 1790 to 1830. [To be continued by supplements.] Also, the laws of Congress for granting patents; with a digest of all decisions which have taken place in the Courts of the United States respecting patents.
Washington, DC, S. A. Elliot, 1830. 8vo (22.6 x 13.6 cm). Title page, xviii, 118, 137-53 pp. Contemporary (original?) blind boards; spine with handwritten label.
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Fans
[Collection of five paper fans].
Indonesia, U.S.A, and France, various manufacturers, ca. 1900-1950. All made of wood. 1. Indonesia, Soerabaya, Wassimal Brothers, Toko Bombay Moerah. Pasar Toendjoengan 36 (21.3 x 2.8 x 1.1 cm, 28 ribs), floral pattern on outer ribs back side; 2. Idem, however, with a 26 instead of 28 ribs, a metal shackle, and a different floral design. 3. Washington, DC, Hotel Powhatan (21.3 x 2.4 x 1.1 cm; 23 ribs); outer ribs silver-printed, translucent rice paper, with floral pattern, heightened with silver and gold. 4. Clermont-Ferrand, Taillerie de Royat, 35 Rue Neuve près la Place Jaude. (21.1 x 1.9 x 2.0 (widest); 16 ribs. With a photoprint titled Taille des agates, showing factory workers processing agate gemstones. 5. (28.8 x 2.0 x 3.9 [widest point] cm); ten ribs. Floral patters over a silver background. Pochoir on both sides. With calligraphed Chinese texts referring to tea.
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Goss, N. S.
A Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. With descriptive notes of the nests and eggs of the birds known to breed in the State.
Topeka, KS, Kansas Publishing House: T. D. Thacher, 1886. 8vo (23.5 x 15.0 cm). v, 70 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt title on the front board.
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Gregorio, A., De
Monographie de la faune Éocénique de l'Alabama et surtout de celle de Claiborne de l'étage Parisien (horizon à Venericardia planicosta Lamk.). Avec 46 pl. (contenant 1480 figures de 751 espèces et mutations).
Palermo, Librairie International L. Pedone Lauriel (Charles Clausen), 1890. Folio (33.2 x 24.0 cm). 316 pp.; 46 fine lithographed plates. Original printed boards.
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Hague, J. D. and C. King
United States geological exploration of the fortieth parallel. Volume III. Mining industry by James D. Hague. With geological contributions by Clarence King. [AND] Mining Industry atlas. [COMPLETE including the nearly always missing Atlas].
Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1870; New York, NY, Julies Bien, [1870]. Large 4to (29.2 x 23.2 cm) and very large, oblong folio (49.0 x 64.2 cm). Lithographed frontispiece, xiii, 646 pp.; 37 plates and maps (text volume); [AND] title page; 14 large maps, of which all but one hand-coloured or colour-printed (atlas volume). Original green cloth with embossed boards and gilt title on the spine (text volume); [AND] original green half roan over green cloth. Front boar with gilt title (atlas volume).
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Harris, W. H.
Louisiana products, resources and attractions, with a sketch of the parishes. A hand book of reliable information concerning the State.
New Orleans, LA, W. M. Harris [for the State], 1881. 8vo (23.4 x 14.9 cm). 248 pp., one large, folded coloured map, one lithographed frontispiece portrait. Original pictorial wrappers. In protective transparent cover.
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Heim, J. [Publisher]
American Commercial Specimens. Amerikanische Mercantil-Arbeiten.
Wien and Leipzig [printed in Milwaukee], Josef Heim, ca. 1900. Folio (33.0 x 25.1 cm). Title leaf, 32 printed leaves of which 17 tinted, or, mostly, in full colour. Pictorial front wrapper and plain rear wrapper.
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Hitchcock, E.
An attempt to discriminate and describe the animals that made the fossil footmarks of the United States, and especially of New England.
Boston and Cambridge, MA, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1849. 4to (30.3 x 24.5 cm). 128 pp.; 24 finely lithographed plates (several very large, folded), and one large, folded table. Disbound, no wrappers.
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Klauber, L. M.
A Key to the Rattlesnakes. with Summary of Characteristics.
San Diego, CA, The San Diego Society of Natural History, 1936. Large 8vo (25.7 x 17.0 cm). Title page, 91 pp.; 112 (groups of) illustrations, including many on photos of living animals on glossy paper. Mid-20th-century blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Leonard, T.
Spotted Cat. [Original of a book front-cover illustration, signed by the artist].
Philadelphia, PA, The Artist, ca. 2005. A fine, original full-colour painting (16.5 x 20.3 cm, with a 3.8 cm white border). Acrylic on cardboard, by the American animal painter Tom Leonard.
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Owen, D. D.
Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota; and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska territory. Made under instructions from the United States Treasury Department [AND] Illustrations to the geology report of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Two parts in two. 4to (31.1 x 23.0 cm). Engraved frontispiece and title page, 639 pp. (first xxxviii in Roman numbers), numerous fine steel-engravings (text volume); title page, 27 (I-XV, IA-D, IIA-B, IIIA, VA-B, VIIIA, XIIA-B) fine lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, and 21 mostly folding (all but two) and (partly) hand-coloured (all but two) geological maps, views, and profiles (atlas volume). Original near uniform blind-tooled cloth. Text volume spine with gilt title, plate volume with gilt title on the front board.
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[Printed paper samples] Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons
Samples of specialities in cover papers.
Boston, MA, Griffith-Stillings Press [for Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons], ca. 1900. Oblong folio (17.0 x 25.5 cm). 38 paper samples, each named and illustrated with an appropriate vignette, of which several printed in two or more colours. Colour-printed soft cover, with large Art Nouveau vignette.
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Saussure, H. [L. F.] De
Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle de Mexique, des Antilles et des États-Unis. Ire livraison. Mémoire sur divers crustacés nouveaux du Mexique et des Antilles.
Geneve, J. Kessmann, 1858-1861. 4to (29.0 x 22.2 cm). 82 pp., six lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers (protected by transparent paper).
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[The Western Society of Malacologists]
The Echo. The Western Society of Malacologists Annual Report. 1-20.
Pacific Grove, CA, The Western Society of Malacologists, 1968-1987. In 20 volumes. 8vo and 4to (28.0 x 21.7 cm). Numerous pages, several illustrations (shells, meeting participants, etc.). Original pictorial wrappers.
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Tizard, T. H. et al. (eds.) [Thomson, C. W. and J. Murray (general editors)]
Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Volumes I - II. Narrative of the Cruise. [The complete narrative].
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1882-1885. Two volumes in three. 4to (29.2 x 24.6 cm). Volume I (in two parts) (1885): liv, 1111 pp.; two elongate photographic frontispieces; 340 numbered (groups of) woodcuts and many unnumbered, often acting as head- or tailpieces; 75 charts; 35 numbered photographic plates; 15 chromolithographed plates (numbered A-I, K-P), and a very large map (in two parts) of both hemispheres, with the complete itinerary, in a rear pocket in Part I; a second, very long, full-colour map on the salinity of the oceans in Part 2. Volume II (1882): viii, 744, 42, 29 pp.; several text engravings and two plates, of which one in chromolithography, and a tipped-in note on the reason for publishing Volume II ahead of Volume I. Original, uniform, dark-green blind-stamped pebbled cloth. Boards with bevelled edges. Gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers.
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[Trade Catalogue - Japanese Silk]
Well-known raw silk producers and their trade marks - Empire of Japan - Compiled for Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904.
Tokio [Tokyo], The Japan Sericultural Association, 1904. Folio (29.6 x 22.0 cm). Preliminary leaf, title page, (xiv [advertisements]), 166, 7, [ix] pp. 144 text illustrations (logos), of which 142 in colour - mostly in full colour chromolithography, a few partly printed in silver. Additional full-colour illustrations in the advertisement sections. Original multi-colour pochoir wrappers, with two silk ties. Printed erratum leaf tipped in.
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[Trade Catalogue] National Blank Book Co.
Catalog of Blank Books. Manufactured by National Blank Book Co. Holyoke, Mass.
New York, NY, National Blank Books, 1911. 8vo (23.5 x 14.8 cm).liv, 192 pp.; numerous full-colour illustrations. Publisher's full cloth. Spine with gilt title; front board with gilt and black printed panel, gilt armorial company's devise and gilt number (22); rear board with gilt armorial company's device. Printed endpaper; book block with rounded corners and marbled edges.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the fresh-water univalve Mollusca of the United States. (In continuation of Prof. S. S. Haldeman's work, published under the above title). Turbidae. Physadae.
Philadelphia, PA, The Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1870. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). 238 pp; 17 hand-coloured lithographed plates [ Paludina 12-17; Limnea 16-18; Physa 6-9; Planorbis 5-7; Ancylus 2.] Later olive buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca inhabiting the United States.
Philadelphia, PA., [the author], 1866. 8vo (21.7 x 13.7 cm). 203 pp. [159, xliv]; 18 lithographed plates, each in careful original hand-colouring. Contemporary gilt-bordered black pebbled morocco over grey pebbled cloth. Spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, gilt lines and title. Yellow endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca inhabiting the United States. With illustrations of all the species.
Philadelphia, PA, the author, 1866. 8vo (21.1 x 13.7 cm). 159, xliii pp.; 18 lithographed plates in double suite: hand coloured, and uncoloured, sepia-tinted (for a total of 36 plates). Later olive buckram. Gilt bands and title on the spine.
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Tryon, G. W.
American Marine Conchology: or, Descriptions of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from Maine to Florida.
Philadelphia, PA, The Author, 1873. 8vo (22.5 x 14.9 cm). 32 pp. (first seven with Roman page numbers); eight finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates by the author. Original printed wrappers.
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Tuomey, M. and F. S. Holmes
Pleiocene fossils of South-Carolina: containing descriptions and figures of the Polyparia, Echinodermata and Mollusca.
Charleston, SC, Russell & Jones, [1855-] 1857. Large 4to/Folio (34.5 x 26.5 cm). Title page, 168 [xvi, 152] pp.; 30 finely lithographed and tinted plates. 19th-century full linen. Spine with two black morocco labels with gilt title.
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Wachsmuth, C. and F. Springer
The North American Crinoidea Camerata. In two volumes with eighty-three plates.
Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1897. In three volumes. Large 4to (two text volumes) and folio atlas (34.7 x 27.0 cm). ii, 359, [359-837 pp. 83 very fine tinted lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Uniform contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Wheeler, G. M.
Report upon United States Geographical Surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler. Vol. I. - Geographical report.
Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1889. Large, thick 4to (29.3 x 23.5 cm). 780 pp.; 38 fine, tinted lithographed plates (several in chromolithography, tissue-guarded), three (very) large folded maps [listed as plates I-XXXVIII and Maps 1-3]. Publisher's embossed cloth. Spine with gilt vignette and title. Printed errata slip bound in; Wheeler's printed compliments tipped in on the front pastedown.
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