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Featured Items

Extra engraved title page in Volume I. With 54 beautiful hand-coloured plates, each with accompanying text which includes description of generic and specific characteristics, as well as the author's observations. Half polished green calf and marbled boards, spines in six compartments with elaborate gilt and morocco spine labels. An exquisite copy from the library of Nannette and Richard Selig, the American poet and scholar, with their bookplate in each volume. SAY, Thomas
American entomology, or descriptions of the insects of North America. THE FATHER OF AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGY Philadelphia Museum: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1824-25-28.
Price: $6,500.00
Woodcuts by Hans Weiditz depict a charming stockyard scene on the title page, and a trio of men with a horse on the first leaf (two of the three men have their eyes gouged out, presumably by a previous owner), plus 16 additional smaller text woodcuts of animals. Later vellum; interior lightly browned, faint water stain on first and last leaves, unobtrusive repair on the title page, otherwise an excellent copy. [VETERINARY MEDICINE]
Viehartznei. Erziehung, Gbrauch, Lernung, Artznei in zûfelligen vnd natürlichen Kranckheyten, aller zahmen, dem menschen gebräuchlichen, vnd geheymen Thier vnd viehs. Frankfurt Egenolff 1535
Price: $12,500.00