Massena, NY: 1812. Softcover. Dates: 1812-1829. Small 4to. 12 pp. Stitched. Primary source material for the study of animals as property in rural America at the turn of the 19th-century. This small but fascinating manuscript is of a type that is rarely encountered. It describes the distinctive markings of animals..... More
![DOG TAX, 1796]. The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the...](/pictures/thumb/3035.jpg?v=1600272785)
London: J. Debrett, 1796. First Edition. 8vo. [10], 839 pp. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards (leather very dry, front cover nearly detached but cords holding). Bookplate of the Fraser Institute, which sold more than 5000 books to Livresse (Gatineau, Quebec), from whom we purchased the present volume..... More
Tokyo: Yamatoya Kihee, Meiji 5 (1872). 2 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers, stitched as issued in the Japanese style (a little stained; early ownership stamps on first pages; light stains to upper margins and colophons). Complete copy in good condition. A remarkable Japanese abridged edition of Joseph Harris's "Harris on the..... More
![GIRAFFES]. Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe,...](/pictures/thumb/3061.jpg?v=1588883968)
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
Philadelphia: W. Horace Hoskins, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in original brown pebbled cloth (slight wear at head and tail, corners a little bumped). xvii, [2], 18-419 pages. With 93 illustrations. Title-page with faint blemish, but the text is clean and unmarked, the binding sound and strong. Early..... More
London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Altogether 69, [3] pp. including 27 superb photographic plates, each with captions on opposite page. The new catalogue raisonne of Penn's astonishing "Cranium" series of Animal skeletons, valuable for forensic research, to say nothing of the extraordinary photographic celebration of each..... More
London: Printed by Luke Hansard [...] for J. Johnson [et al.], 1799. 8vo. xxiv, 355, [5] pp. Original publisher's drab boards; recent light brown paper spine, title ("Perkins Metallic Tractors") and date lettered direct (corners and extremities of boards worn); textblock toned and somewhat foxed or spotted here and there;..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. 563, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with 50 plates and 24 text figures. Original green cloth, blocked in black with illustration of a bull's head on front cover. ¶ Strange U.S. Government production illustrating, with alarming realism, the diseases of cattle. This..... More
Baltimore: 1920. First Edition. Small 4to. Complete volume 53. Library buckram, a little worn, original wrappers (soiled) bound in. Ex-library copy, priced accordingly. Groundbreaking experiments that earned George Whipple the Nobel prize for his discovery that liver fed to anemic dogs reverses the effects of the anemia, leading directly to..... More
