THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN. Comprising Inquiries Into The Modifying Influence Of Physical And Moral Agencies On The Different Tribes Of The Human Family. With Thirty six coloured and four plain illustrations engraved on steel, and ninety engravings on wood. by PRICHARD. JAMES COWLES

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1884. Very Thick Quarto. xxxiv, errata, first part 757pp., second part 759-1009pp. Includes 40 textural woodcuts, 132 extraordinary full page plates (which often are lacking) of which three are double paged and three are folding all with descriptive over leafs. This work is designed to present figures and descriptions of the vast number of species of vertebrates of all classes, but more especially of the mammals of the Tertiary lake-basins of the American West. This was the first time a paleontologist has been able to present a complete and wide-ranging work on the Tertiary period of the Western region. Besides including extinct orders, suborders and families, it has an incredible bearing on evolution (as George Gaylord Simpson was later to note). It took over a year for the Federal bindery to prepare the collations and binding of the massive volume (it weighs just under 15 pounds. It was initially reviewed in the Naturalist which noted that is was a… Read More

London: John Murray, 1900. Second Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Second Edition, Fifth Impression, of Darwin's exhaustive study of the deleterious effects of inbreeding. 8vo: viii,487,[1]pp, with one diagram and 109 tables. Original publisher's standard green pebbled cloth, covers paneled in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, black end papers, book plate on front paste-down. As with the first edition, the spine title spells "fertilisation" with a "z," while title page uses an "s." The text of this edition remains unaltered up to p. 370, where the addition of a large footnote necessitated resetting of the remaining pages. A truly superlative example, completely unopened and virtually pristine. Freeman 1260. First published in 1876, as a complement to Fertlisation of Orchids, but "too technical and too detailed to command a wide sale." (Freeman) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar… Read More

London:: John Murray, 1887., 1887. 3 volumes. 8vo. ix, [1], 394, [4]; [iv], 393, [3]; iv, 418, [2]. Frontis. portraits, index, ads. Original bluish-green blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; spine ends rubbed. Armorial bookplates of Hugh Macdonald Sinclair, ownership signature of C.S. Sherrington. Very good. SIR CHARLES SCOTT SHERRINGTON'S COPY. Second edition. Fifth Thousand. Includes a broad selection of letters to 28 different recipients on a variety of topics, selected by Darwin's son Francis, who was "largely guided by the wish to illustrate [his] father's personal character." Topics include Darwin's early life, "The Foundations of the 'Origin of Species", botanical letters, and many others. Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, H. W. Bates, Thomas Henry Huxley, Asa Gray, and others, along with various family members. PROVENANCE: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) was an English neurophysiologist, pathologist, and bacteriologist who won the NOBEL PRIZE in Medicine in 1932 for his work on the… Read More

1836 Jardine Naturalist Natural History Mammals Africa Buffalo Oxen Illustrated
Sir William Jardine was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist most known for his extensive series of books on natural history, 'The Naturalist's Library'.

This edition of Jardine's 'Mammalia'
is beautifully color illustrated with engravings of various species of mammals! The plates from Jardine's works are exceedingly desirable and are found framed and displayed by themselves. This volume showcases African animals such as buffalo, gazelles, and sheep, American Bison, goats, oxen, and cows. These hand-colored plates are tremendously beautiful! An excellent piece!
Item number: #16117
Price: $550
JARDINE, Sir William
The Naturalist's Library, Mammalia… vol IV. Ruminantia. Part II.
London, Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1836. 1st edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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xv, 264, 8
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32 engraved plates (many hand-colored)
· References: Lowndes 1192
· Language: English
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Near Fine. 1840-1844. Royal Octavo Edition. Print. From the first Royal Octavo edition of Birds of America published from 1840 to 1844. Octavo (approximately 10.25 x 6.5 inches). Drawn from nature by JJ Audubon, printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. One edge unevenly trimmed as a result of removal from binding. Please examine the provided photo's for personal inspection of condition. Near fine print or better. .

Phoenix. H. Walker Publishing Company. 1940 Bound in original titled wrappers. 4to. This Privately Printed Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies, of which this is #236. Signed by Barry Goldwater to Limitation page. Illustrated with a map and various drawings en texte. Very rare 1st Issue of Goldwater's renowned exploration of the Colorado and Green rivers, compiled from his personal diary of the journey. Covers reinforced with take along edges. Remnant of sticker to front cover ( not obscuring title).Internally, very crisp and clean.

1825 1ed Wanderings South America Natural History Darwin & Wallace Inspiration

Charles Waterton (1781-1865) was a famous English naturalist, explorer, taxidermist, pioneering conservationist and overall polymath interested in anything and everything.
first visited British Guiana with his father in 1804. He subsequently returned on 4 occasions between 1812 and 1824, during which time he travelled extensively in the Guianas and across the northern part of South America. He was one of the first to observe the birds and animals of the tropics. He described his discoveries in this book 'Wanderings in South America,' which inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

This 1825 first edition of Waterton's 'Wanderings' catered to the reading public's taste for adventures with its descriptions of a fight with a boa constrictor and the capture of crocodiles and his descriptive writing caused a stir in Victorian England with the publication of a drawing of a half man, half animal creature he was… Read More

Large dramatic print of a pair of red-breasted geese, Branta ruficollis (formerly Bernicla ruficollis).Fine handcoloured ornithological lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter and John Gould from Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, London, 1862-73.Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902) was an English zoological illustrator who produced a large number of handcoloured lithographs of birds for English 19th century ornithologist John Gould.Large lithograph (34 x 52cm) mounted in a cream-coloured French matt (52cm x 74cm).

1886 British Butterflies Illustrated BUTTERFLY Insects Coleman Lepidoptera
A rare, beautiful edition of W.S. Coleman's "British Butterflies". Published in the mid-1860s, this book is an impressive collection of illustrations and descriptions of butterflies found in the United Kingdom. Each of the engraved pages features numerous figures of moths and butterflies in full color.
Item number: #17294
Price: $550
COLEMAN, W.S.
British Butterflies : Figures and descriptions of every Native species with an account of butterfly development, structure, habits, localities, mode of capture, and preservation
London : Routledge & Sons, [ca. 1886].

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vii, [1], 179, [1]
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16 plates of engravings (14 in color)
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Supralibros – The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 110 Livery Companies of the City of London and ranks second in order of precedence. The Grocers' Company was established in 1345 for merchants occupied in the… Read More

1764 ATLAS MAPS & Voyages Pluche Geography Asia Arabia Greece America Egypt
Noël-Antoine Pluche was an early 18th-century French priest and historian who is most remembered today for his landmark work of natural history 'Spectacle of Nature'. While this work would have significant influence on botanists and naturalists, Pluche designed the work to be for the general population, not of scientific merit.
Pluche, however, was not known for just 'Spectacle'. He wrote several other works including a large geographical concordance. This book, published in 1764, is an alphabetical concordance supplemented with 14 folding plates and maps.
Item number: #18476
Price: $750
PLUCHE, Noël Antoine
Concorde de la géographie des différens âges
Paris : Les frères Estienne, 1764.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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511, [5]
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14 engraved plates
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
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