Search Results: Nature from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 385 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. 14 x 9 1/2; 40 pp.; (viii), 40 pp.; original leaf tipped on (vii); reproductions of illustrations from the herbal throughout including portraits of Dodoens and Plantin; type Janson linotype, paper machine made; bound in grey-green cloth, title and illustration in green on front cover; title in gold on spine. In plain, tan paper jacket with a smudge & light soil, title in ink on spine. Prospectus laid in. Carey Bliss's text discusses not only the Herbal but also the history of early published herbals, the life of Dodoens, and the work of the the printer Christopher Plantin. (BCC 200th,156) .

Berkeley: Heyday Books. As New. 2008. Hardcover. 1597141062 . 247 pp., incl. bibliography, index; small folio; olive green cloth with botanical inset front cover. Still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. In this opulently produced book, photographer Stephen Joseph presents images of plants collected directly by Muir, while scholar Bonnie Gisel richly lays before us the life and words of a man at once familiar and surprising, a towering figure forever smitten with 'nature's irresistible, divine beauty'. .

Seattle: University Of Washington Press. Fine. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0295963042 . 156 pp., 4to; cloth, in pictorial yellow jacket; illustrations throughout including plates containing 21 illustrations in full color. This book discusses the reasons for the rapid transformation in the study of natural history, and looks at the lives and adventures of eight of the nineteenth century's travelling naturalists including: Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm, and Mary Kingsley. Fine , with protective mylar wrap .

N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company. Good. 1900. Authorized Edition. Hardcover. 461 & 478 pp.; 8vo; burgandy cloth; spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; illustrations. Light cover wear; spines faded with back cover of volume 1 heavily faded leaving the sillouette of a bookend. .