London: R.H. Porter, 1893-1900. Three parts in one. Folio. [ii], xx, xiv, 226; 227-320, 21 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 83 plates, including 55 hand-colored lithograph plates by and after J.G. Keulemans and F.W. Frowhawk, 20 collotype plates from photographs (including one duplicate plate “Group of Four White Albatrosses”), and 8..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1900. 8vo. xvi, [ii], 311, [1] pp., including half-title, page with abbreviations, and index. FIRST EDITION. Excellent first-issue double-ruled blue publisher’s cloth, spine with gilt title and decoration; spotting and foxing throughout. Ownership signatures and annotations on the blank leaves. More
London: R.H. Porter, 1894-1900. Four volumes. Folio. xxxv, 220; iv, 194; iv, 245; iv, 242 pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with all contents, lists of illustrations and index. With 100 hand-colored lithographs after J. Smit and J. Wolf and 121 text illustrations; Contemporary brown gilt-ruled cloth with gilt lettering, gilt vignette of..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1912; 1928. Two volumes. 8vo. [vi], 461, [1]; [ii], viii, 289 pp., plus 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements. Both volumes with numerous text illustrations. Recent cloth. From the library of Martin J. Klein, professor of the history of science at Yale, and the first recipient of the Abraham..... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1862. 8vo. 46 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original green printed wrappers. Head and tail of spine tattered, one-inch tear to front cover, minor soiling, some pencil notations on rear cover. Signature of N.R. Chapman dated August 14, 1862 on front wrapper. First printing of the Albany..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911. 8vo. [vi], 195 pp., including author book list and 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Red cloth with gilt title and author on front board and spine; gilt top edge, bottom and fore-edges untrimmed. Preserved in a clamshell box, spine label;..... More
New York: 1855. 4to. xii, 95, [8], pp. With frontispiece portrait. FIRST EDITION, First issue. Half morocco on marbled boards with original front cover bound inside (at the back). More
