London: Groombridge and Sons, 1862; 1864; 1865; 1865. 4 vols. 8vo. Frontispieces in colour, 44 plates (mostly coloured, tinted, and silver), numerous text woodcuts and indexes. Contemporary violet cloth with gilt-ornamented spines, Volume VII bound in darker half-calf over textured cloth; extremities worn. This popular Victorian journal of science and..... More
Padua: Stamperia del seminario, 1810. 8vo. viii, 421 pp., including index. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; a fine, clean copy. Eighth edition. More
Stockholm: Gedruckt in der Central-Druckerei, 1893. 4to. [2], 66 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 plates, each containing numerous figures, plus accompanying index for each plate. Original printed wrappers, torn at joint and edges, author’s presentation stamp on top wrapper; a clean copy. First edition of this fascinating monograph on the..... More
Padua: Nella stamperia del Seminario, 1710. Two works in one. 4to. [xvi], 51, [1]; [xii], 160 pp. FIRST EDITIONS. Each work with separate title. With 14 folding plates (10 in the first volume, 4 in the second volume). Contemporary vellum in fine condition; from the library of Antonio Pacchioni (1665-1726)..... More
Amsterdam: C.G. van der Post, 1859. 4to. [2], 77, [3] pp., including errata and contents. With 3 engraved plates. Original printed wrappers, taped (front becoming detached). Unopened. Ownership inscription dated 1859 on cover. An informative, illustrated study of the potto. The potto, also known as Bosman’s potto (after its discoverer)..... More
Brest: Edouard Anner, 1845. 12mo. 84 pp. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. With half-title and 1 engraved plate. Stiff blue marbled wrappers, with some light wear to spine. From the library of Jerry Stannard, with his book-label. PRIZE WINNING ESSAY ON SWAMPS. First and only edition of this prize-winning essay, written..... More
Berlin: In Taberna Libraria Scholae Realis, 1812. 8vo. lxvi, 550 pp. FIRST EDITION. With the large folding map of Lapland, hand-coloured in outline, l folding engraved table, and 30 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rebacked; interior lightly browned. With a large bookplate from the Academiae Harvardianae donation fund..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. 8vo. xvi, 494 pp. SECOND EDITION. With half-title and 2 page publisher's advertisements. Heliotype frontispiece portrait of author, 1 hand-coloured folding map, text illustrations and diagrams. Original green cloth. Second edition of Wallace's treatise on the theory of natural selection. This is Wallace's restatement of..... More
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel Augustus Mitchell, I: 1808; 1810; II: 1825; 1828; 1828. Vols. I and II of nine volumes. Folio (350 x 265 mm); Vols. I, II, and III of four volumes. Folio (375 x 290 mm). iv (ie., vi), 158; v-xii, 13-167, [1] pp. Each volume with..... More
