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Item #4047 [AMERICAN SONGBIRDS]. Two framed original chromolithographs from the Zoology /...
Two framed chromolithographs of American Songbirds

[AMERICAN SONGBIRDS]. Two framed original chromolithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean"

Washington DC: War Department, 1859. First Edition. Together two matted and framed chromolithographs (visible portion: ca. 245 x 190 mm; frame size: ca. 303 x 274). The are original prints, NOT reproductions! AN EXCELLENT PAIR OF ORNITHOLOGICAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS from the famed "Pacific Railroad Surveys" of 1853-1855. "The ornithological studies produced..... More

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Item #4046 [HAWKS]. Two original lithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the...
Two fine chromolithographs of American Hawks

[HAWKS]. Two original lithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean"

Washington DC: War Department, 1860. First Edition. Together two chromolithographs (287 x 212 mm), loose in mylar L-sleeve (plate XVI with short marginal tear at top, not affecting image). Our prints have VERY LITTLE offsetting which almost invarably spoils the illustrations of this publication and is SUITABLE FOR FRAMING. The..... More

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Item #3449 SIX original hand-colored flower prints from Curtis's Botanical Magazine 1840 - each...
Fine Curtis flower prints from "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" (1840)

SIX original hand-colored flower prints from Curtis's Botanical Magazine 1840 - each one matted and with accompanying letterpress texts

London: For the Proprietor Samuel Curtis, 1840. First Edition. A quantity of 6 hand-colored engravings, matted, stained at the tape hinges in the upper margins (SEE IMAGES), each print with accompanying descriptive text loosely laid in (some foxing as commonly), pl. 3769 matte with staining to left margin, not affecting..... More

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Item #4320 [ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND ECOLOGY]. The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the...
The "Jevons Paradox": the Curse of Energy Efficiency, applied to Climate Change, Computing Efficiency and even Artificial Intelligence

[ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND ECOLOGY]. The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines

London: Macmillan, 1906. Third edition, revised, with a new Preface by the editor A.W. Flux. 8vo. l (i.e. 50], [2], 467, [1] pp. With two plates of statistical charges. Original brick-red publisher's cloth, edges untrimmed (some gatherings roughly opened, particularly those of the Preface and pp. 281-288 creased and now..... More

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Item #3061 [ZOOLOGY: THE FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY OF GIRAFFES]. Recherches historiques,...
Presentation copy from the author to the taxidermist

[ZOOLOGY: THE FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY OF GIRAFFES]. Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin)

Paris: Imprimerie veuve Berger-Levrault, 1845. First Edition. Large 4to (306 x 231 mm). 2 ff., 124 pp. With 17 plates lithographed by Delor after drawings by Joly. Bound in modern blue percaline cloth by Lobstein-Laurenchet, red morocco spine label gilt, original front cover wrapper preserved. Separate printing of the "Mémoires..... More

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Item #1641 [EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748]. Telliamed, ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un...
Extraordinarily Prescient Theories of Evolution

[EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748]. Telliamed, ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer, la formation de la Terre, l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.G[uers]

Amsterdam: Chez l'honore et fils, libraires, 1748. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. I: [10], cxix, [7], 208 pp. + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom. 1). II: [2], 231 pp. + 1 f. ("Addition") + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom 1 [sic]). First title page with unobtrusive paper..... More

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Item #1363 [PHOTOBOOK]. Cranium Architecture. Irving Penn
Beauty in animal skulls

[PHOTOBOOK]. Cranium Architecture

London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Altogether 69, [3] pp. including 27 superb photographic plates, each with captions on opposite page. Protected by mylar sleeve. The new catalogue raisonne of Penn's astonishing "Cranium" series of Animal skeletons, valuable for forensic research, to say nothing of the extraordinary..... More

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Item #4426 [APPLES]. American Pomology: Apples. 290 Illustrations. John Warder
Still a Standard Authority on American Apples, Profusely Illustrated with 290 Engravings (1867)

[APPLES]. American Pomology: Apples. 290 Illustrations

New York: Orange Judge, 1867. First Edition. Thick 8vo. 744 pp. With 290 line drawings illustrating the text. Original publisher's brown cloth, front cover stamped in gilt with large apple, spine blocked and gilt (gathering 18 pulling away from textblock and slightly proud, cloth on spine lightly faded, front endpaper..... More

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