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SOCIÉTÉ NATIONAL D'HORTICULTURE DE FRANCE. SECTION DES ROSES.
Les Plus Belles Roses Au Début Du XXe Siècle. Ouvrage honoré du prix Joubert De L'Hiberderie.
Paris: Charles Amat, [c1912].
vo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 235, [1]. 1 plate of portraits of members of the Rose Section of the French National Society of Horticulture, with tissue guard printed with the names of the members, 9 other black & white plates, 2 plates in sepia, & 16 beautiful chromolithographs of different varieties of roses J.L.Goffart after drawings by P.Seguin-Bertault & others, all with tissue guards. numerous text illus. (some full-page incl. 2 plans, & 1 double-page plan). A very nice uncut copy in original colour illus. wrs. (light soiling & foxing to wrs., spine faded, some light offsetting from some plates, a few tissue guards torn). First Edition. Werger & Burton 1123.

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Book Number: NCIsSOCI54

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SORKIN, Michael.
The Next Jerusalem: Sharing The Divided City.
[New York]: Monacelli Press, [2002]..
8vo. pp. 431. numerous illus. (some colour). wrs. First Edition.
$50 USD Book Number: alyssa258 Order / Enquire

SOUTHWELL, Thomas [1831-1909].
The Seals And Whales Of The British Seas.
London: Jarrold And Sons, 1881..
square 8vo. pp. vi, [1 leaf], 128, [2]ads. 12 wood-engraved plates & 17 text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with portion of spine mounted. First Edition. Freeman 3488.
$225 USD Book Number: elala2975 Order / Enquire

SOWERBY, George Brettingham [1812-1884].
Popular British Conchology.
London: Lovell Reeve, 1854..
16mo. pp. 2 p.l., xii, 304. 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted. First Edition. Freeman 3494.
$350 USD Book Number: elala2976 Order / Enquire

SOWERBY, John E[dward] [1825-1870] (Illus.) & Charles JOHNSON [1791-1880] (Text).
The Ferns Of Great Britain: Illustrated By John E.Sowerby, Proprietor Of Sowerby's English Botany. The Descriptions, Synonyms, &c. By., Botanical Lecturer At Guy's Hospital. [WITH:] The Fern Allies: A Supplement.
London; John E.Sowerby, 1855-56..
2 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 87, [1]; 1 p.l., 52. 80 partly hand-coloured engraved plates. contemporary half calf (worn but solid, endleaves foxed). Freeman 1284 & 1286. Nissen 994-95. Pritzel 8793-94 [vide SOWERBY].
$1048 USD Book Number: NChe& Ch49 Order / Enquire

SPRUNT, Alexander Jr. & CHAMBERLAIN, E. Burnham.
South Carolina Bird Life [At Head Of Title:] Contributions From The Charleston Museum: XI.
Columbia: University Of South Carolina Press, 1949..
8vo. pp. xx, [1], 585. 35 colour plates reproduced from paintings by Francis Lee Jacques, Roger Tory Peterson, Edward Von S. Dingle & John Henry Dick. Many b/w photographic illus. biblio. index. cloth. First Edition.
$103 USD Book Number: NRUutSPR38 Order / Enquire

SQUIRES, W. Austin.
The Birds of New Brunswick.Monograph Series No. 4.
Saint John: The New Brunswick Museum, 1952..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 164. 12 photographic illus. on 6 plates. 1 map. biblio. index. wrs.
$51 USD Book Number: NUIeSQUI71 Order / Enquire

STRATTON-PORTER, Gene.
The Moths Of Limberlost.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916..
8vo. pp. xiv, 369, [2]. 21 colour plates (incl. frontis.), 1 colour text illus., & numerous b/w text illus. (many full-page). A nice copy in original cloth. with worn & broken original box. First Edition.
$225 USD Book Number: elala5209 Order / Enquire

SURELL, Alexandre.
Étude Sur Les Torrents Des Hautes-Alpes.
Paris: Carilian-Goeury Et Vor. Dalmont, 1841..
4to. pp. xix, 283, [1]errata. with half-title. 6 folding lithographed plates. contemporary quarter roan (joints rubbed, some foxing, outer margins of several plates bit tatty). First Edition of this study of the torrential rivers of the Alps by engineer Alexandre Surell, with discussion of the causes of the formation and violence of torrents, flooding and other destructive effects, preventive measures and legislation, &c.
$599 USD Book Number: elala2989 Order / Enquire

SUTTON, George Miksch.
Portraits Of Mexican Birds Fifty Selected Paintings.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1975]..
Foreward by Enrique Beltran. folio. pp. xi, 106. profusely illus. in colour. bds. dw. (corners of dw. rubbed). First Edition.
$135 USD Book Number: alyssa264 Order / Enquire

TAPLIN, William.
The Gentleman's Stable Directory; Or, Modern System Of Farriery.
London: Printed for G.G. and J.Robinson; and G.Kearsley, 1796..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xvi, 504, [8]index; viii, 416. with half-title in Vol. II. engraved frontis. portrait in Vol. I. contemporary sprinkled calf (worn, covers detached, spine labels wanting, internally very good). Thirteenth Edition of Volume I; Fourth Edition of Volume II. The first volume deals mainly with equine diseases and injuries and their remedies and treatment, the second with breeding, breaking, shoeing, stabling, exercise, and rowelling. cfHuth p. 54.
$225 USD Book Number: elala603 Order / Enquire

TAVERNER, P.A.
Les Oiseaux de l'Est du Canada [At Head Of Title:] Canada Commission Géologique Mémoire 104 No. 3, Série Biologique.
Ottawa: Department Of Mines Geological Survey, 1922..
4to. pp. 1 p.l., iii, 308. 100 colour illus. on 25 double-sided plates incl. in the pagination. index. wrs. (extremities bit worn, hinges reinforced with cloth tape). Second Edition.
$77 USD Book Number: NVEsTAVE30 Order / Enquire

THOMPSON, Eloise Reid [Illustrations] & MINER, Edna Wolf [Botanical Descriptions].
Wildflower Portraits.
Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, [1964]..
4to. pp. xiii, [201], xv-xix. 100 full-page colour illus. index. cloth (fore-edges of leaves trifle cockled throughout, but slightly worse toward the back). dw. (back dampstained & cockled, extremities rubbed). First Edition.
$77 USD Book Number: NMIld& M65 Order / Enquire

THORBURN, Archibald [1860-1935].
A Naturalist's Sketch Book.
London...: Longmans, Green And Co., 1919..
folio. pp. viii, [72]. title in red & black. 60 plates of birds & animals (24 in colour & 36 in collotype) with tissue guards. contemporary half morocco, t.e.g. First Edition.
$850 USD Book Number: elala4865 Order / Enquire

THORNTON, Robert John.
Thornton's Temple of Flora With Plates Faithfully Reproduced from the Original Engravings and the work described by Geoffrey Grigson with Bibliographical Notes by Handasyde Buchanan.
London: Collins, 1951..
folio. pp. viii, 20. 36 full-page plates (12 coloured including frontis). tissue guards. original half morocco in slipcase, t.e.g. (slightly rubbed, extremities bit worn, some light foxing, tape remnants on front paste-down, slipcase damaged and lacking lower edge). Limited to 250 numbered copies, Signed by Grigson, Buchanan & Stern. Designed and produced for Collins by George M. Rainbird & Ruari McLean.
$1499 USD Book Number: NORorTHO4 Order / Enquire

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