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Leiden: Elzevir, 1627. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 24mo. pp. 535, [17]. Engraved title page. Bound in period vellum. Pages are very clean and crisp. Small ink spot on outer fore-edge of book block; bibliographical note written in an early hand on front blank free fly leaf. Part of Elzevirs republic series. Contains a collection of writings on Switzerland relating to history, geography, travel etc., including Josias Simmlers "De Republica Helvetiorum libri duo" (first published 1576), a work by Daniel LErmite, and three other works. Three editions were published in 1627. This is the 2nd edition with fleurions on p. 4 and p. 535. [Willems 278; Berghman 1763; Rahir 242].
Flora Oxoniensis, exhibens plantas in agro Oxoniensi sponte crescentes, secundum systema sexuale distributas by Sibthorpe Joanne - 1794
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Flora Oxoniensis, exhibens plantas in agro Oxoniensi sponte crescentes, secundum systema sexuale distributas
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Oxford: Fletcher et Hanwell et J. Cooke, 1794. First edition. Octavo, pp xxiv, 422, [14], a little age-toning thoughout and the occasional blemish, the top margin of pages 19 - 39 slightly bruised with slight tearing, lacking the half-title, otherwies very good internally, probably contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, rather rubbed and a little worn, the spine head a little frayed, the spine lettering faint. RARE. [From the lbrary of the botanist B Daydon Jackson with his signature on the title page, and the later bookplate of the nurseryman Will Ingwersen on the front endpaper. Two other earlier names on the front blank - Mary and Julia Rowley, 1835, and George Rowley. [Blanche Henrey 1320 - "the second book ever published on the wild plants of an English county".]. First Edition. Half morocco. Good.
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Helvetiorum respublica diversorum autorem quorum nonnulli nunc primum in lucem prodeunt.
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE: GLACIERS
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Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.. Very Good+. 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations are twenty-five plates produced by the Heliotype Co. This work was a major example of heliotype printing and the first of what was intended to be a series, but it seems to have been the only publication to make it to press. Clean brown pebble cloth with gilt titles on spine & front cover. Top edge gilt. Interior of text Is tight, clean & intact. Chapter head decorations. Geology, Glaciers, Science; Heliotype Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 196 pages .
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OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON THE THEORY OF GLACIERS NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED A PREFATORY NOTE ON THE RECENT PROGRESS AND PRESENT ASPECT OF THE THEORY
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Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Good+. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt title on spine. (xxix) 278pp. Covers with some shelf wear. Spine color lightly faded, ends rubbed..A few lightly foxed pages. Illustrated with 9 plates (one folding) including chromolithographic frontispiece and many text engravings. Geology; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages .
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Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe (Signed Easton Press Ed)
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Easton Press, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 148x16x168. Signed. JANE GOODALL SIGNED LEATHER-BOUND EASTON PRESS EDITION! Includes ironclad Easton Certificate of Authenticity. Book is like new and unread. Expedited shipping is welcome; international please request a shipping quote before purchase. Signed by author.
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SCOTLAND. New Naturalist No. 119. Signed Leatherbound Limited Edition - LETTERED, Hors Commerce
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London: Collins, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover in Slipcase. As New/As New. Gillmor, Richard (Dustjacket). A particularly attractive copy of this beautiful edition - one of a very small number reserved exclusively for contributors and lettered. 75 numbered copies were made available for sale to subscribers. Full leather gilt with the New Naturalist monogram to the upper cover, two raised bands and gilt titles at the spine. pp. x, 484, illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams. Tipped-in limitation plate to the front endpaper which is signed by the author and, in addition, the traditional New Naturalist dustjacket is provided and has been signed directly by its artist and designer, Robert Gillmor. This copy is lettered "G" and was reserved for the late British botanist and New Naturalist series co-editor, Professor Richard G. West, with his printed name-plate fixed to the front paste-down. As New condition in dustjacket and slipcase. Provenance: from the library of…
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Helvetiorum respublica diversorum autorem quorum nonnulli nunc primum in lucem prodeunt.
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Leiden: Elzevir, 1627. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 24mo. pp. 535, [17]. Engraved title page. Bound in period vellum. Pages are very clean and crisp. Small ink spot on outer fore-edge of book block; bibliographical note written in an early hand on front blank free fly leaf. Part of Elzevirs republic series. Contains a collection of writings on Switzerland relating to history, geography, travel etc., including Josias Simmlers "De Republica Helvetiorum libri duo" (first published 1576), a work by Daniel LErmite, and three other works. Three editions were published in 1627. This is the 2nd edition with fleurions on p. 4 and p. 535. [Willems 278; Berghman 1763; Rahir 242].
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE: GLACIERS
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Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.. Very Good+. 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations are twenty-five plates produced by the Heliotype Co. This work was a major example of heliotype printing and the first of what was intended to be a series, but it seems to have been the only publication to make it to press. Clean brown pebble cloth with gilt titles on spine & front cover. Top edge gilt. Interior of text Is tight, clean & intact. Chapter head decorations. Geology, Glaciers, Science; Heliotype Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 196 pages .
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OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON THE THEORY OF GLACIERS NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED A PREFATORY NOTE ON THE RECENT PROGRESS AND PRESENT ASPECT OF THE THEORY
by Forbes, James D.
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Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Good+. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt title on spine. (xxix) 278pp. Covers with some shelf wear. Spine color lightly faded, ends rubbed..A few lightly foxed pages. Illustrated with 9 plates (one folding) including chromolithographic frontispiece and many text engravings. Geology; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages .
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Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe (Signed Easton Press Ed)
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Easton Press, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 148x16x168. Signed. JANE GOODALL SIGNED LEATHER-BOUND EASTON PRESS EDITION! Includes ironclad Easton Certificate of Authenticity. Book is like new and unread. Expedited shipping is welcome; international please request a shipping quote before purchase. Signed by author.
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SCOTLAND. New Naturalist No. 119. Signed Leatherbound Limited Edition - LETTERED, Hors Commerce
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London: Collins, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover in Slipcase. As New/As New. Gillmor, Richard (Dustjacket). A particularly attractive copy of this beautiful edition - one of a very small number reserved exclusively for contributors and lettered. 75 numbered copies were made available for sale to subscribers. Full leather gilt with the New Naturalist monogram to the upper cover, two raised bands and gilt titles at the spine. pp. x, 484, illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams. Tipped-in limitation plate to the front endpaper which is signed by the author and, in addition, the traditional New Naturalist dustjacket is provided and has been signed directly by its artist and designer, Robert Gillmor. This copy is lettered "G" and was reserved for the late British botanist and New Naturalist series co-editor, Professor Richard G. West, with his printed name-plate fixed to the front paste-down. As New condition in dustjacket and slipcase. Provenance: from the library of…
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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Winter - Notes from Montana
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
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Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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