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(2)p. manuscript letter measuring approx. 8" x 10 ½", folded, signed and dated January 14, 1867, Coast Survey Office, to Charles Lanman in regards to information pertaining to Prof. A.D. Bache. Mr. Hilgard was born in Germany. He settled with his parents in Illinois. Studied engineering in Philadelphia. He entered the Coast Survey in 1845. He was in charge of the Coast Survey under the Superintendent from 1862 until 1875. Throughout the American Civil War he served the Union Army and Navy by the construction of maps and charts and by surveys as well as by tidal and other information. During the failing health of Professor Bache, Hilgard, who was at that time in charge of the Coast Survey office, was obliged to perform the duties of Superintendent, which he did without extra compensation. He was Commissioner of the Committee of International Standards (seeking uniformity of weights and measures). In 1875, he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Author of…
Read More The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes Gathered By John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie by Gerarde, John and John Johnson - 1636
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The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes Gathered By John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie
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London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636. Thick Folio. 3rd edition printed from the second edition and considered the best edition because of Johnson's expansion and extensive corrections. Johnson added over eight hundred new species and seven hundred new illustrations. [42]; 30, 29-30, 1630[1]pp. [46]pp. This edition with Dlr last line begins "of". In three books. 1. The First Book containing grasses, bushes, reeds, corne, flags, and bulbous or onion-rooted plants. 2. The Second Book containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbes, for meat, medicine, or sweet-smelling use. 3. The Third Book containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of trees, shrubs, busses, fruit-bearing plantes, rosins, gums, roses, heath, mosses, some Indian plants, and other rare plants not remembered in the proeme to the fist booke. Also mushrooms, corall, ad their severall kindes. Contains the following pagination errors: p. 31 misnumbered 29, p. 32 misnumbered 30. p. 33 misnumbered 29. p. 370 is misnumbered 400. p. 371 misnumbered 401. p. 372 misnumbered 402.. p. 403 misnumbered 379. p. 410 misnumbered 386. p. 445 misnumbered 449. p. 446 misnumbered 450. p. 681, 682, 683 684 misnumbered 761, 782, 783 and 764. p. 795 misnumbered 797. p. 819 misnumbered 719. p. 1207 misnumbered 1217. p. 1269 misnumbered 1272. p. 1457 misnumbered 1459. p. 795 is misnumbered 797. p. 1457 is misnumbered 459. With the advertisement to the readers. (pagination is incorrect but work is complete) Upper corner margins on page 1453 either roughly cut or paper flawed (not extending to text), A very nice copy bound in an early 20th (possibly 1930s) 3/4 brown morocco over brown cloth, raised bands, raised bands, lettering, and top edge gilt, renewed endpapers retaining original front blank with a few contemporary handwritten recipes for varnish or oils. A few illustrations hand-colored (most likely those specimens found by a previous owner). [ESTC-S122175].
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Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories; Volume 3. The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West, Volume III
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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…
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A System of Geography: or, A New & Accurate Description of the Earth in all its Empires, Kingdoms and States. Illustrated with History and Topography and Maps of every Country. Fairly engraven on copper, according to the latest discoveries and Corrections
by Moll, Herman and Rober Falconer
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London: For A. and J. Churchil and T. Childe, 1701. First Edition. Folio. From the library of John, Earl of Loudoun (John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun (5 May 1705 - 27 Apr. 1782) In 1727, Campbell entered the Army. He was commissioned major general in 1755, and appointed the following year as commander-in-chief of British forces in America during the French and Indian War, and named titular governor of Virginia. Variant issue, with both Churchil & Childe in imprint, 2 parts in 1 volume. Frontispiece, title page in red and black, 4; [24] contents, 444pp; 1-230; [28]pp. index. While the collation is haphazard, the book itself is complete with all catchwords matching, (with dupicate 125 pagination as in all copies) Frontispiece, 2 Engravings of Ptolomei and Copernici systems; 2 engraved compasses; and 44 textual maps, (45 maps if one counts the small china strip map).Contains the following maps. 1. Earth 2. Europe 3. Britain 4.Scotland 5. Ireland 6. France 7. Netherlands 8. United…
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Containing Amusing Dissertations and Enquiries Concerning a Variety of Subjects the Most Remarkable and Proper to Excite Curiosity....
by Hutton, Charles, M. Ozanam and M. Montucla
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London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. Octavo. Improved with many additions and observation by Hutton. Four Volumes in Two, Four Title pages, 98 plates on 97 leaves(some folding) with 4 manuscript pages bound in(mathematical) some plates hand colored(most likely by previous owner?) Hutton was an English mathematician and surveyo. He was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bound in 3/4 maroon polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and corners rubbed, some toning or scattered foxing to plates, text clean. A good set of this scarce work.
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Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: a Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge (in 4 Large volumes)
by Barnard, Frederick A P; Arnold Guyot
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New York: A.J. Johnson & Son, 1876. Thick Quartos. In four volumes Illustrated with maps, plans and textual engravings. With numerous contributions from writers of distinguished eminence in every department of letters and science in the United States and in Europe. The editors included such scholars as Asa Gray of Harvard and Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian who also wrote definitive articles (many of which are cited today). Originally designed to have 4700 pages in three volumes, it became evident that a fourth volume would be required. The plan led to 6,983 pages of text with intext illustrations. The maps are unnumbered as is the various pages of those who reviewed the set's importance. Former President Grant considered it essential as did Hamilton Fish, Winfield Hancock and Alexander Stephens. A lavishly bound set in full brown morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, spine and all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (volume two lacking a front endpaper) Each volume has fabric sewn on the free marbled…
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Rocky Mountain Trees. A Handbook of the Native Species with Plates and Distribution Maps
by Preston, Richard J. Jr.
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Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State College Press, 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by J. Frank Dobie to his brother as a birthday gift. lix, 285, lxxxi pp.illsutrated, bound in green cloth pictorially stamped in brown and yellow, spine lettering brown over yellow.
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Almanack for 1884
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London; [1883]: George Routledge and Sons. First Edition. 12mo. no pagination. Charming colored illustrations produced by color printer Edmund Evans who gave English speaking children the benefit of lithographic illustrations. A very nice copy bound in white pictorial gilt paper wraps with very faint finger soiling to covers. An exceptionally nice copy.
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A View of Chaco Pueblo Bonita
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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. (19.5 x 21.2). Photograph from the Paul Coze Estate Photographers not identified A view of Chaco Pueblo Bonita. The site was the main social and ceremonial center of the Anasazi culture. Its construction began AD 900 to 1100. Paul Coze (1903-1974) was a French-American anthropologist, artist, and writer, most notable as a French authority on Native Americans. Coze moved to the United States in 1938, and lived in Pasadena, California since 1942, spending two years producing murals at Mesa Verde National Park. In 1951, Coze moved to Phoenix, Arizona. He soon founded an art school and created nine major pieces of public art in the city, including large multimedia installations at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum and other civic landmarks, most with Native themes. He also provided artistic designs for Arizona's celebration of 50 years of…
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Scrapbook of Warm Springs with Photographs of Nurses, Patients, and Celebration of the Little White House, 1944-1947
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Warm Springs (1944-47). 84 photographs, also included are: 13 paintings of patients being fitted for body casts, water therapy and the ever present wheel chairs. Albert Gold's paintings are also in the Smithsonian, the Philadelphia College of Art and many museums. The most interesting are the photographs of the Dedication of the Little White House after FDR's death. The photograph of Grant Jackson's singing there is dated June 1947. The photographs are much clearer than those published in the Atlanta Constitution on June 26, 1947. Laid in is a 20 page booklet "The Story of the Warm Springs Foundation" which not only features President Franklin Delano Roosevelt but lists all the Medical Doctors, Therapists, and administrators. (Program laid in June 20, 1947 with Josephus Daniels, Secretary of Navy, and other dignitaries with Graham Jackson presenting a medley of Franklin D. Roosevelt's favorite songs. See picture on lower right hand corner p. 17. A newspaper excerpt shows Florence Carr, Physical…
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Plates Prepared Between the Years 1849 and 1859, to Accompany a Report on the Forest Trees of North America (Limited to 300 copies)
by Gray, Asa (1810-1888)
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Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1891. Limited Edition. Quarto. After Gray's death, the 23 plates were thought to have been lost but had been carelessly stored in his sprawling house. These surviving plates (total in all the few known complete copies) were expertly drawn by Isaac Sprague. They have survived as fine chromolithographic plates (2 folding). The Smithsonian then issued them in portfolio format in an edition of 300 copies. The plates as in all auction copies are numbered 1-4, 8, 10, 20, 25, 27, 30, 31, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 46-50, 52, 63. The orignal title page as well as an introduction by Samuel P. Langley, who was Secretary of the Smithsonian, were mounted and laid in. Our copy collates the same as the Smithsonian copy (other copies have images sometimes reversed, possibly due to a binder's error; a few on OCLC appear to be missing plates). The last copies to appear at auction were in the early 1990's and typically brought between $2,000 to $4,000 even with stated imperfections.…
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar
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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.
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Winter - Notes from Montana
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
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Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.
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