London, England: Linnean Society's Journal - Botany, 1916. Offprint Edition. Soft Cover. C. (55) pages; with 11 very sharply defined black and white photo-plates on heavy paper stock, illustrated in the collotype process taken by the author & printed by the London Stereoscopic Co.; several of the plates with human.....
Albany, N.Y. Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. 96 text pages + plates, illustrations, charts, maps, facsimile - all collated complete according to the list provided: Title page with "...the compliments of James T. Gardiner, Director" tipped-on. According to his biography and material in the NY.....
Boston, Mass. C.W. Hobbs, 1880. Map. Soft Cover. Folding map, approx. 19 1/2" x 27" overall size, printed in black and white. Front cover title & front endpaper with advertisement of De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. Archway Bookstore. One of the (blank) back panels of the map with the previous.....
Gotha Germany: Justus Perthes, 1878. Map. Not Bound. Color map of this area, only. Approx. 10 1/2" x 16" overall size. from Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen, Schnellpressendruck v. C. Hellfarth in Gotha. Small, faint previous ownership stamp on one of the back (blank) panels of the map of collector Dr. George.....
London, England: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First Edition. Leather. xx + 289 pages; errata slip at back; with the half-title. Illustrated with 10 copper-engraved plates, accompanying various articles. The Preface describes the "...nature and objects of this Institution, and the claims which it possesses to professional.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. Et al, 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. ii + 408 + (1) page advertising books by B.H. Chamberlain + (1) page Japanese copyright page at back. With a color folding map of Japan in Provinces, inset map of Yezo & the Kurile.....
Osaka Japan: Aoki Szandow, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. C. 120 pages; most of which have an illustration and sometimes two. Text in Japanese; titles given in English. Colin Franklin in 'Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls' calls these publications an "…appealing series of guides… As travel within Japan had been.....
Lugduni Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans, 1720. First Edition. Illustration. (64) + 215 + (57) pages; title page printed in red & black; a few woodcut initial ornaments & tailpieces; Latin text throughout. Title page with the small previous ownership stamp of collector Dr. George R. Brush, U.S. Navy; served as a......
Venetiis: Ex Typogaphia Balleoniana Jose Eustaquio Vaamonde, 1774. Edititio Secunda Veneta. Leather. x + 385 pages; title page printed in red & black; a few pages illustrated with musical notation in red line, black notes; a few woodcut chapter ornaments & tailpieces; Index Rerum Notabilium printed double-column at back; Latin.....
A Paris: Chez J.-B. Bailliere Libraire De L'Academie Imperiale De Medecine, 1856. First Edition. Leather. xx + 770 pages; useful index. Black and white illustrations within the text and folding tables, French text; marine medical researches & recommendations by the reforming French naval doctor Jean- Baptiste Fonssagrives (1823-1884). Small bookseller's.....
A Paris: Chez Pierre-Francois Didot Le Jeune, Libraire Imprimeur De Monsieur, Quais Des Augustins, 1785. First Edition. Leather. xvi + 256 pages, with the half-title; French text. Medical climatology & physiological researches concerning tropical climates, especially in the Caribbean, by Jean-Barthelemy Dazille (circa 1733 - 1812) French marine medical surgeon.....
A Verone: De L'Imprimerie Giuliari, 1797. First Edition. Leather. Complete in 4 volumes, bound in two: (4) + 312 + (4) + 312 + (4) + 312 + (4) + 312 pages, with all the half-titles; French text and occasional sections in Italian, quoting various references. The theories of Pierre.....
Chicago, Illinois: Rand, McNally & Co., 1887. Pocket Map. Hard Cover. Pocket map of Japan, printed in colors, detailing the Japanese island system in two separate maps: Northern Japan with an inset at top of Chishima; with the previous owner noting the location of the volcano Bandai-San. Approx. 13 3/4".....
London, England: Published for the Committee of Council on Education By Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. xvi + 112 + 16 pages of advertisements at back (some unopened); black and white illustrated throughout; with text describing dozens of Japanese pottery-ware, the history of the kilns, types.....
A Paris: Chez J.-B. Bailliere, Libraire De L'Academie Royale De Medecine, 1837. First Edition. Leather. (2) + 424 pages; with the half-title. French text, the author's theories, especially those considering the influence of climate conditions on human development, medicine & the forms illness may take in varying temperature conditions; also.....
New York, New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. First American Edition. Hard Cover. xiii + 417 pages. Black and white illustrated frontispiece & throughout; with color folding "Map Showing M. Bonvalot's Route" in pocket at front, approx. 16 1/4" x 20" size. The Translator's Preface notes that "...Starting from the.....
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. 207 pages + 7 + (1) pages of publishers' advertisements at back. With a useful alphabetically-organized "Index of Authorities" with page number citations at back. John Gamgee (1831-1894) presents his theories on epidemic disease and specifically Yellow Fever.....
Chicago, Illinois: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Publishers, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. 351 pages; with a useful index. Black and white illustrated throughout, with scenes, maps, views and an extensive advertisement section; laid-in is a folding color map of the "Denver and Rio Grande Railroad System" approx. 15" x 18".....
Venetiis: Typis Remondinianis, 1752. Editio Postrema Veneta Emendatissima. Leather. xxxii + 496 pages, with a few woodcut initial letters and tailpieces. The medical work of Giorgio Baglivi (1668 - 1707) an Armenio-Italian physician and scientist. This copy does not have the author's portrait; Pages 231-232 with woodcut figures; Dissertatio VI.....
London, England: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1777. First Edition. Hard Cover. Twenty-two issues of this yearly British almanac, bound in one volume; consecutive and inclusive from the 1777 issue to 1797. These are printed in red & black, have the tax stamps on the margins of the title.....
Brooklyn, New York: Privately Printed, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. A presentation copy, the front free endpaper having the handwritten inscription, "Mr. Daniel Tredwell with regards of T.W.F." The author Thomas W. Field to his fellow Long Island historian Tredwell, author of "Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long.....
Chicago, Illinois: L. Schick, 1891. First Edition. Flexible Cloth. Folding frontispiece plan of the inner city + 510 pages + (1) city plan showing the burned district of the Chicago Fire + (1) blank + 48 pages concerning the Suburban Stations, ports, cable rates, growth statistics, street railways & other.....
A Geneve: Chez J.J. Paschoud, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1807. First Edition. Leather. Complete in three volumes: xvi + 471 + (2) + 402 + (4) + (1) errata + (2) + 347 pages; all three volumes with their half-titles present. French text. Jean Senebier (1742-1809) Swiss botanist and naturalist who demonstrated that.....
New York, NY: Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution, 1816. First Edition. Hard Cover. x + (2) contents + 180 + (2) Table IV (Finis) pages (last page blank). Title page with the ownership signature of James R. Wood at top;.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1864. First Edition. Soft Cover. lxxiv + 750 pages. Name of 'U.S.S. Itasca' on front cover. The extensive Index to Appendix at front is divided into the various U.S. Navy squadrons and their operations in this year of the Civil War, with detailed reportage from.....
