Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, (Ethno-Mycological Studies) by Robert Gordon Wasson - 1972-01-01

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1935. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Very Good interior. Text and illustrations unmarked. Pages clean and intact with age toning. Cover intact with staining to upper corners of front and rear (see image). Upper spine also lightly stained, to a lesser degree. This does not intact the interior. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Light wear. Binding and hinges intact. 253 pages.

Buffalo N.Y.: Corps of Engineers , Dept of the Army. Very Good. 1969. First Edition. Soft Cover. 8 soft cover volumes plus envelope with 5 folded maps, published June 1969. Accompanied by a letter from the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army. Volume 1. Summary Report. Volume 2. Appendix A, B, C; History, Plan Formation, Project Designs and Cost Estimate. Volume 3. Appendix D; Economic Base Study. Volume 4. E, F; Hydrology, Flood Control. Volume 5. Appendix G, H; State Water Laws, Water Quality & Water Supply. Volume 6. Appendix J, K; Agriculture Studies, Sedimentation. Volume 7. L, M, N; Hydroelectric Power, Outdoor Recreation, Fish and wild life. Volume 8. New York State Supplement. Item 9, an envelope containing 5 folded maps. Illustrated with tables, charts, photographs and maps. Binding clips are some what rusty. Science; Maps, Photographs, charts and tables; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Unpaginated pages .

It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family dressed in colorful robes and served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Chistie, Frank Zappa, and many other celebrities at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in their mansion in the Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos with their spiritual leader, Father Yod. Yod was an outlandish figure who had 14 wives, drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted his own psychedelic rock band, Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time. He surprised many by suddenly morphing from health food restaurateur into mystical leader of what many considered a cult: a group of young people who lived strictly devoted to his esoteric teachings, unusual sexual practices, and philosophies of natural living and dying. Still, as controversial as he was to outsiders, Father Yod was, by inside accounts, a deeply loving and spiritually powerful magus who taught his Family to recognize their divinity within and… Read More

Raleigh, N.C.: Printed by W. E. Pell, State Printer- Sentnel Office, 1867. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 12mo. 31 pages. Bound in mid-20th century cloth-backed pressboard with a paper label on the front cover. The original pamphlet is held in with flexible cloth tape with the tape extending about 3/4 an inch over the spine of the pamphlet. Brown printed wrappers bound in. A sound copy. The text it toned, and there is some foxing on the wrappers. Printed on the rear wrapper is, "For further information, and terms of sale, apply to the Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C." This is not an illustrated work. Printed just two years after the Civil War. Scarce. NOT FOUND IN THORNTON.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very good copy with previous owner's name and date (May 1968) written neatly on the front free endpaper. Original dustwrapper with some minor chipping to the corners and edges. A slight forward lean to the book but overall a very good copy.

William Smith. London.,1846. Fourth Edition, with considerable additions and corrections. 8vo. (6.6 x 4.4 inches). Hand finished colour printed frontispiece and several small engravings throughout the text. Neat previous owners inscription, dated 1848, on the front paste down endpaper. A very good copy in an attractive early fine leather binding. Full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt decoration. Compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt. Double gilt ruled borders, with floral corner pieces, on boards. Floral gilt decoration on inner boads. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. Edges of the binding just a little rubbed but overall a lovely copy in a fine quality early Victorian binding.:

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
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From the library of Enid Lucy… Read More

THE FROZEN DEEP BY WILKIE COLLINS, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. USED. GOOD- CONDITION Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. Tight binding, bright pages. There is a liquid spill on a couple of pages as shown in our photos.

London: J.M. Cobbett, 1822. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 360pp. Bound in modern leather, marbled boards, paper spine label. folding map. Text is tanned and clean, folding map has minor archival tape repair and is in very sound condition. Author's descriptions of the country, it's culture, its agriculture including a discussion of the farming of the Ruta Baga. He crtiicizes at length Morris Birkbeck's settlement in Illinois. Howes C- 525.

Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers [1-4020-0628-4] 2001. (Hardcover) 504pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, charts, tables, glossary, index. Top edge bumped. (Natural History, Environment, Geology, Lake Sediments, Natural History).