Rome: Banca Commerciale Italiana, 1960. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Unusual to find in such nice condition. A handsome set. Hint of toning at board edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows light shelfwear, light toning at rear and top, else tight and clean. Halfbound, beige cloth spine cream stiff.....
Price: $75.00
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. As new collection of images at natures edge. Organized in four broad sections (Extreme Growth, Extreme Abilities, Extreme Movement and Extreme Families), there are over 150 entries. An exceptional collection of images. Signed by the author in metallic silver ink on the.....
Price: $145.00
Dublin: Printed for H. Chamberlaine, W. Watson, Potts, et al. 1784. First Irish Edition. Hardcover. First Dublin edition of the official account of Cook's third voyage. This edition occurs with maps and plates included in the three volumes; with the maps and plates in a separate atlas volume (in 4.....
Price: $2,000.00
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. An early and important work on New Zealand (Maori social life, Hokianga, etc.). Overall, a rather handsome copy. From the collection of Edouard Stackpole, renowned whaling scholar, curator of Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic, CT. 1951-1966) and director of.....
Price: $1,750.00
Berlin: Friedrich Nicolai, 1721-1779. First Edition. Hardcover. An unusually fine copy of [the textblock of] the first edition 'of the first important German treatise on insects' (Miall p. 240). 'Frisch was a careful and diligent observer, bent not merely upon observing, but upon interpreting the facts of structures and habit.....
Price: $2,000.00
London: Hamlyn Publishers, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Touch of sunning at heel, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, small closed tear, price clipped, else bright and clean. Blue textured paper boards, gilt lettering, color pictorial endpages4to. 96pp. Illus. (color plates). Index.
Price: $25.00
Philadelphia, PA: Chilton, 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. A wonderful collection of images from what was then the last bits of undefiled "nature" in the industrial Ruhr Forest area of Germany. Very minor shelf wear, a touch of sporadic foxing, gift inscription on ffep, bottom corner bumped, else tight, bright.....
Price: $25.00
Cincinnati, OH: Stewart Kidd Co., 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a very nice reading copy of this increasingly uncommon volume. Light shelf/edge wear, corners gently bumped, light fraying at head and heel, light toning at spine, light glue toning at endpages, rear joint split (tight, carefullly repaired with Japanese paper).....
Price: $25.00
Minocqua, WI: Willow Creek Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Small ink notation near credits and initials on page 108 by the owner/contributing photographer. A very handsome copy. Very discrete notation in two spots, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf wear, else bright and clean. Blue paper.....
Price: $30.00
New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography of a confessed fishing fanatic of his time in and about Florida. A nice reading copy. Light shelf/edge wear, spine moderately toned, gilt lightly toned, minor fraying at head, partial split at front hinge (carefully repaired with Japanese hinge paper), minor.....
Price: $25.00
Dublin: Stationary Office, 1930. Second Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome copy of this rather scarce volume (all the moreso with its maps in such Fine condition). Light shelf wear, one corner gently bumped, text block edged slightly dusted, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ moderate shelf/edge wear, light toning/soiling, moderate.....
Price: $45.00
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Drawings by Richard Keane. . Very minor shelf wear, two corners very gently bumped, discrete gift inscription on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. xiii; 480pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Appendixes. Index.
Price: $25.00
New York: Scribner, 1900 [1899]. Second Printing. Hardcover. Eight full page plates, many marginal sketches. Noted flaws notwithstanding, a very presentable copy of this minor classic. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of fraying at head and heel, light toning at boards (darker at spine), endpages missing, small split at rear hinge.....
Price: $25.00