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London: Bemrose & Sons, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth lettered in gilt, spine and front cover. Very good. 198 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Inscribed to Scientist and Polymath Herbert Spenser (1820-1903). The latter, a notable English intellect credited with coining the term "survival of the fittest," after reading Darwin's 'On the Origin of The… Read more about this item

Newcastle: J. Hodgson, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Later brown cloth, brown leathe spine labe lettered in gilt. Very good. xxii, [2] 312 pages. 23 x 15 cm. llustrated with engraved frontispiece, folding table, 7 plates (2 of which by Thomas Bewick), and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Author to son Charles Fox with inscription dated 1830 gifted from… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Orig. full blue buckram stamped in gold and in blind. Fine in near fine slipcase. Eisenstaedt, Alfred. 284 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 752 of 2000. Color photographs by Eisenstaedt printed by Princeton Poly-chrome Press, and designed by Philip Grushkin. NEWMAN & WICHE 515. Laid-in the LEC Monthly… Read more about this item

New York: TK Asian Antiquities, 2004. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. decorated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 95 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated mostly in color. Glossary of Technical Terms.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth lettered in gilt and decorated blue boards. Teg. Near fine. 104 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 103 of 160 signed by Huxley. Sharp, bright copy, bookseller label of Philip P. Duschnes.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. First edition. Orig. crimson cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 206 pages. 34 x 26 cm. 286 illustrations printed on high gloss stock and 226 in full color and one map. Chronology. Index.

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. New Edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown calf and dark salmon boards. Very good. 136 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Six colored aquatint plates, one a large foldout. HENREY Vol.II, p.583. "No author's name appears on the title page......in the later editions the author signed her name and address" (rear of book). ABBEY LIFE p.13. Wide… Read more about this item

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 208 pages. 28 x 30.5 cm. Signed by Caponigro in ink on half title. 143 duotone illustrations. Text by Marriane Fulton. Caponigro explores the various configurations of these prehistoric monuments. Selected Bibliography. Owner inscription. Clean, bright copy.

Paris: Batchelier & Carilian-Goeury et Dalmont, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary calf backed boards. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 44 x 27.5. Atlas volume only with 74 lithograph plates, some double-paged. Leroy was a professor at the Ecole Royale Polytechnic. Text in French. Some light foxing and browning, corner, extremity and joint wear, signature on title page of 2nd… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Orig. full blue buckram stamped in gold and in blind. Fine in near fine slipcase. Eisenstaedt, Alfred. 284 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000. Color photographs by Eisenstaedt printed by Princeton Poly-chrome Press, and designed by Philip Grushkin. NEWMAN & WICHE 515. Laid-in the LEC Monthly… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Les Freres Levrault, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon library cloth, Very good. Pages 322 - 329 with a full page plate bearing ten figures (illustrations) for the construction D'une oreille de Charrue -- Jefferson's new design for a plough-ear which he tested in Monticello. This article appeared in "Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" -- Tome… Read more about this item

Prato: Ditta Ruggero Benelli, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Panels are faux-diced shagreen, gilt lettering first panel, two brass rivets front cover for hanging the display. Very good. 27.5 x 13 cm. Salesman's sample advertising display for Super-Iride, 48 dyed sample mounted, eight panels bound accordion style, each panel as noted previously, folds out to approximately 40 inches when… Read more about this item

Paris: Vve A. Cadart, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter red morocco, original red aubergine cloth recased with original leather spine label laid-down. Teg. Near fine. Folio, 48 x 34 cm, Inscribed and signed by Martial on the etched title page. 48 etched india proof plates with descriptive text mounted to stiff paper. Each plate about 6 1/2… Read more about this item

London: White, Cochrane, And Co., et al., 1816. New Edition. Hardcover. Modern half navy spines and marbled boards. Fine in custom, very good solander case with leather spine label printed in gilt. 2 vols. 586 pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Mitford's large paper edition with wide text margins. Half title, engraved folding frontispiece, additional pictorial title, vignette to… Read more about this item

New York: New York World's Fair Corp, 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. Wraps. Orig. embossed and decorated stiff wrappers. Fine. 62 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Prefatory notes by Robert Moses and Paul R. Screvane. Illustrated with photographs. Bookplate.

London: John & James Rivington, 1792. First edition. leather_bound. Full straight-grained red morocco. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 90 & 79 pages. 21 x 23.5 cm. Errata leaf, published posthumously. LOWNDES 1846. "An excellent work, full of profound and abstruse learning." This copy with the leather Johnsonian bookplate of R. B. Adam. Binding attributed to Roger… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Office of the Engineer General Headquarters, Far East Command, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Orig. buff, stapled stiff wrappers. Very good. 2 Vols.. 81 and 205 pages. 27 1/2 x 36 cm. Geology prepared by Geological Surveys Branch Intelligence Division Office of the Engineer, and Engineering prepared by Design Branch Engineering and Operations Division. Vol. I with two… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 654 and 613 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Illustrated. Index. Backstrip Vol. I sunned.

Cambridge: Limited EditionsClub, 1956. Hardcover. Full sailcloth, stamped in brown with native tapa design. Near fine in worn slipcase. Gibbings, Robert. 490 pages. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Designed by John Dreyfus. Introduction by Gavin de Beer. Limited edition, copy 149 of 1500 signed by Gibbings. NEWMAN & WICHE 266.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 164 pages.