![Item #022054 CABINET FRUIT AND FLOWER PLATES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE:...](https://charlesagvent.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/022054.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750616059)
Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithograph Co., [@1880]. First Edition. Hardcover. Black pebbled cloth (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") with "No. 3" stamped in gilt on the front cover. Illustrated with a color title page and 55 chromolithographs, printed on rectos only, mostly of fruit.
Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithographic Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/4") in black cloth lettered in red. A handsome nursery specimen book with 85 chromolithographs, printed on both sides of the sheet, of trees, flowers, and fruit.
[Rochester, NY]: Rochester Lithographing Company Successors to D. M. Dewey's, [@1900]. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2") in black leather with a color plate of an apple pasted on the front cover. Illustrated with 71 chromolithographs, printed on rectos only with many finished by hand, of mostly fruit.....
[Harrisburg, PA]: Wm. Stanley Ray, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's red cloth (6" x 9-1/4"); 124 pages. Illustrated with 18 color plates and numerous B&W plates. Sticker of an assemblyman of the PA House of Representatives on the front pastedown. Uncommon.
New York: V. G. Audubon, 1851-1851-1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Octavo Edition of the first volume, First Editions of the second and third. Three volumes in modern half black morocco leather with matching corners, retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled; 6-3/4" x 10-3/8"; viii, 383, [1] pages; [2].....
New York: V. G. Audubon, (1849)-1856. Early Edition. Hardcover. Early Octavo Edition of the first two volumes, lacking the third volume. Two volumes in publisher's full brown morocco leather elaborately embossed and stamped, the spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 7" x 10-3/4" with half-title pages.....
(Livingston, MT): (Clark City Press), (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. "Rick Bass has written an inspired essay advocating wolf reintroduction and recolonization, in the context of one small pack's fate." Attractively printed and illustrated with photographs and drawings. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Laid in is a photocopy.....
Newcastle: S. Hodgwon et al. 1792. Third Edition. Hardcover. Demi-octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") bound in contemporary calf leather, recently and neatly rebacked; x, 483 pages. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings by Thomas Bewick.
Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1760. First Edition. Hardcover. Six quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 10") bound in contemporary marbled calf leather, rebacked with later gilt decorated spines. Dual title-pages in French and Latin with parallel text in French and Latin, engraved woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Illustrated with 6 engraved title.....
London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9" x 14-1/4") in modern calf-backed marbled boards with gilt decorations on the spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; [vi], viii, 503 pages. Complete with half-title page and list of subscribers. Illustrated with 2 large folding maps.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. Edward Curtis. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in publisher's decorated green cloth with the scarce gilt-lettered green cloth dustwrappers. The first volume covers Narrative Glaciers, and Natives; the second History, Geography, and Resources with contributions by William H. Dall, Charles Keller, Henry.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. Katherine Howe. First Edition. Hardcover. Seventh Printing in pictorial boards. This copy SIGNED "Rachel L. Carson" on the title page. Illustrated By Katherine Howe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. This book on the effects of pesticides is a landmark in environmental writing inspiring the movement that led to the banning of DDT and raising awareness of the important connection between humans and their environment which hitherto had been generally taken for.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. Reprint. Hardcover. Full dark green morocco leather by Weitz with thick decorative gilt border, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; xxxix, 346 pages.
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set, printed, and bound by the Griffin Press in.....
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in tan oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set, printed, and bound by the Griffin Press in.....
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set, printed, and bound by the Griffin Press in.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Robert Gibbings. Hardcover. Tall quarto (7-1/2" x 12") bound in full sailcloth stamped in brown with a native tapa design; 490 pages. Introduction by Sir Gavin de Beer. Illustrated with text wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on.....
Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, lacking the spine. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly two per image, and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of.....
Albany: Carroll & Cook, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated cloth. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 141 hand-colored lithographs of birds, mostly two per image, and containing "detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief.....
New York: John Wiley, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto in 6s (6" x 9-3-16") bound in contemporary half morocco leather with matching corners, gilt-ruled green boards, gilt-lettered and decorated spine, top edge gilt; xiv, 594 pages. Illustrated with 69 hand-colored lithograph plates by Lemercier of Paris and over 200 wood-engraved.....
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1939). Detmold. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates with tissue guards by Detmold.
![Item #015344 [HERBAL] THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES. GATHERED BY JOHN GERARDE OF...](https://charlesagvent.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/015344.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1573227049)
London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1597, this is the second edition edited by Thomas Johnson (a reprint of the 1633 edition) who corrected many of Gerard's errors and who improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin's woodcuts. Thick.....
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. A portfolio containing the title page and 79 lovely color xylographic plates (6-3/4" x 10") with hand-coloring, some heightened with gum arabic, of macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. Typically these plates are found in a three-volume set with text.....
Mansfield, CT: M. Martino, [1995]. Reprint. Hardcover. Two volumes in one; quarto (8-1/4" x 11"); cloth. This excellent catalogue gives detailed collations of 22,000 volumes including a collection of nursery trade catalogues dating back to 1776.
