Natural History from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

London: John Murray, 1890. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The author's third major work of evolutionary theory, following On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871). Initially intended as a chapter in The Descent of Man, The Expression grew in length and was published separately in 1872. This book concerns the biological aspects of… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Co, 1907. Hardcover. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by John Muir to Alice Spencer Jones on the front flyleaf. Jones (1868-1938) was the niece of hardware millionaire John Daggett Hooker, a friend and patron of Muir's in his later years. Most of his best writing from the period around 1910 was accomplished in the… Read more about this item

San Francisco and New York: The J. Dewing Company, Publishers, 1888. Hardcover. Very good. Folio, two volumes: 478 p. with over 600 etchings, photogravures, wood engravings, etc. In one-half morocco over pebbled cloth bindings, with decorative gilt stamping, five raised bands, and beveled edges. A closed tear to p.45-6 in the first volume has been neatly mended. Small… Read more about this item

Dunwoody, Georgia: Norman S. Berg, Publisher, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 500 copies. "When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt… Read more about this item

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Popular account of the three Asiatic expeditions Andrews (1884-1960) led, to Tibet, southwest China, and Burma (1916-17); northern China and Outer Mongolia (1919); and central Asia (1921-22 and 1925). Numerous important discoveries were made on the third Asian expedition: the first known dinosaur eggs; a… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Account of Muir's journey from the University of Wisconsin to his first summer in the Sierra, consisting of his journal of the walk ending in San Francisco, an excerpt from a letter detailing his first excursion in California to Yosemite, and an essay expressing his… Read more about this item

Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association, Inc, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This centennial history examines the campaigns to establish this pair of national parks and the critical decisions that have controlled use and development. Foreword by William Penn Mott, Jr. Octavo: xii, 379 p. with textual photographs and maps. Original light green cloth binding, with gilt… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Muir (1838-1914) made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in this book, which he was… Read more about this item

Boston, New York, Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A rather scarce John Muir title, issued as no. 247 in the Riverside Literature Series. Kimes notes, "As early as June, 1910, Muir wrote to a friend, saying, 'I also have another book nearly ready, made up of a lot of animal stories for boys drawn… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1892. Second Edition, Revised - Fourth Thousand. Hardcover. Very Good. First published in 1868, this book began as an expansion of the first two chapters of On the Origin of Species (1859): "Variation under Domestication" and "Variation under Nature," and it developed into one of his largest works; Darwin (1809-82) referred to it as his… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Signed by the author on the title page. The first of two books written by Mary Farrand Rogers Miller (1868-1971), the American writer, naturalist, and educator. A graduate of Cornell University, she was married to noted landscape architect Wilhelm Tyler Miller, with whom… Read more about this item

New York: Abbeville Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Lavish celebration of India's incredible natural abundance, featuring more than 2,000 stunning full-color images. Thick quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, housed in the publisher's slipcase - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Hardcover. Good. Third edition, with an appendix by Prof. T.G. Bonney, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.G.S. 344 p. with three folding plates and the publisher's ads. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with decorative gilt and black stamping. An ex-library copy with minimal markings: a bookplate to the front pastedown and a small numeric… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Large Paper Edition, this is number 129 of 550 copies. This copy comes from the library of Lucretia Thatcher Perry Osborn (1858-1930), with her bookplate to the front pastedown and a holographic note in her hand on the front flyleaf ("This narrative is one of… Read more about this item

Pasadena, California: Many Moons Press, 2001. Trade paperback. Very good. This copy is inscribed by Pomeroy on the title page, with a holographic note from her laid in. 148 p. with textual photographs. Octavo. Original paper wrappers, with the prospectus laid in. Mild dust staining to the bottom edge, with some light sun fading along the spine; otherwise… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. 18 plates, with 90 illustrations. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1955. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The spine is a trifle sun faded; otherwise very good.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Compiled over the course of 31 years, this is as detailed and authoritative a zoological taxonomy as you can find, with the animals divided by genus, and profiled by size, weight, common and latin names, range, unique physical and biological attributes, and behavioral traits. Profusely illustrated. Quarto,… Read more about this item

San Diego, California: Sunbelt Publications, 1999. First edition. Soft cover. Fine. 337 p. Foreword by Edgar Wayburn, M.D., Honorary President, Sierra Club. Textual photographs, illustrations, and maps, including the color folding map at the rear. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wheat to distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the half-title. Original glossy paper wrappers. A fine… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Frontispiece photograph, with illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton. Collection of previously unpublished notes, essays, diary entries, poems, and articles by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), compiled by his second wife Julia, that serves as a sort of informal biography of the beloved writer and… Read more about this item