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BURT, Isabella.
Memorials Of The Oak Tree; With Notices Of The Classical And Historical Associations Connected With It.
London: Printed For The Authoress By Thomas Piper, 1863..
16mo. pp. 2 p.l., 82, [1 leaf]. wood-engraved frontis. & numerous text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spine ends chipped, spine lettered in ms.). Second Edition.
$87 USD Book Number: NRTmoBUR20 Order / Enquire
CAP, P[aul] A[ntoine] [1788-1877].
Le Muséum D'Histoire Naturelle.
Paris: L.Curmer, 1854..
2 Parts in 1. large 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 180; 238, [1 leaf]. with half-title. 2 wood-engraved divisional titles. 15 hand-coloured lithographed plates (13 of flowers, 2 of birds), 4 (of 5) lithographed plans (2 double-page), & 21 b/w plates (mostly portraits). numerous text illus. contemporary quarter chagrin, gilt edges (piece chipped from head of spine, short split in upper front joint, corners worn, some scattered foxing, dampstain to inner upper margin of some plates, marginal chips to a few plates). First Edition. Actually forming part of a larger work but complete on its own and usually found thus. The first part gives a history of the Natural History Museum in France, 1635-1853, with biographies and portraits of famous men associated with it, i.e. Tournefort, Buffon, Jussieu, Cuvier, &c., and details on the gathering and remitting of foreign specimens by explorers and colonials from Canada and elsewhere. There is a double-page plan of the garden of medicinal plants in 1636, and single page plans of the Jardin du Roi in 1640 and 1788. The second part gives a description of the museum in 1853, administration and budget, topography, botanical school, gardens, orchard, greenhouses, menagerie, mineralogy collection, and library. There is a double-page plan of the garden, and fifteen hand-coloured plates of flowers and birds. The plan of the labyrinths is wanting. Vicaire II pp. 42-43.
$599 USD Book Number: NPMCAP, 65 Order / Enquire
CASTILLON, [A.].
Nouvelle Chasse Aux Papillons.
Paris: A.Courcier, [1858]..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 396. with half-title. chromolithographed frontis. & 11 chromolithographed plates of butterflies. contemporary quarter chagrin, gilt back, cloth covers paneled in blind, all edges gilt (corners frayed, some light foxing). First Edition.
$1199 USD Book Number: elala2311 Order / Enquire
CHENU, Dr. J[ean] C[harles] [1808-1879].
Manuel De Conchyliologie Et De Paléontologie Conchyliologique.
Paris: Victor Masson, 1859-62.
2 Volumes in 1. large 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., vii, 508; 3 p.l., 327. with half-titles. title vignettes (Vol. I vignette in colour). 4944 text figures (79 in colour). modern half calf (library stamp on verso of first title, occasional light foxing). First Edition.
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CHITTENDEN, F.J. (Editor).
Rock Gardens And Rock Plants Report Of The Conference Held By The Royal Horticultural Society And The Alpine Garden Society at the Greycoat Street Hall, May 5, 6 and 7, 1936.
London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1936..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 171. 18 double-sided photographic plates. index. wrs. (extremities slightly worn).
$31 USD Book Number: NITckCHI0 Order / Enquire
CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G. & WARBURG, E.F.
Excursion Flora Of The British Isles.
Cambridge: At The [Cambridge] University Press, 1959..
12mo. pp. xxxiii, 579. unillustrated. glossary. index. bds. (previous owner's signature on flyleaf). dw. (extremities bit chipped & rubbed). First Edition.
$31 USD Book Number: NAPcuCLA79 Order / Enquire
CLARKE, William H.
Horses' Teeth: A Treatise Of Their Mode Of Development, Anatomy, Microscopy, Pathology And Dentistry.
New York: William R.Jenkins, 1893..
12mo. pp. xxx, 308, [14]illus., [10]ads. 1 plate & several text illus. original cloth (spine ends chipped, inner front hinge cracked). Fourth Edition, Re-Revised, With Second Appendix.
$150 USD Book Number: elala3904 Order / Enquire
COATES, Brian J.
The Birds of Papua New Guinea Including the Bismarck Archipelago Bougainville.
[Alderley]: Dove Publications, [1985]..
2 Volumes. folio. pp. 464; 576. profusely illus. (many colour). biblio. index. bds. dw. First Edition.
$699 USD Book Number: alyssa212 Order / Enquire
COBBETT, William [1762-1835].
The English Gardener; Or, A Treatise On the Situation, Soil, Enclosing, and Laying-Out, of Kitchen Gardens; on the Making and Managing of Hot-beds and Green-houses; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of all sorts of Kitchen-Garden Plants, and of Fruit=Trees.And Also, On The Formation of Shrubberies and Flower-Gardens.Concluding With A Kalendar.
London: Published By A.Cobbett, 1845..
12mo. pp. 2 p.l., 405, [1]blank, [5] +12(ads). folding plan. several text illus. original quarter cloth, recased (extremities trifle frayed, light foxing to prelims). Goldsmiths' 34101. NCBEL III 1207. Pearl 150.
$300 USD Book Number: elala2324 Order / Enquire
COLEMAN, W[illiam] S[tephen].
British Butterflies. Figures And Descriptions Of Every Native Species With An Account Of Butterfly Development, Structure, Habits, Localities, Mode Of Capture, And Preservation.
London & New York: George Routledge And Sons, 1886..
small 8vo. pp. vii, 179, [1] + [4]ads. weith half-title. 16 plates printed in colour by Edmund Evans. text illus. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (spine sunned & chipped at ends). Eighteenth Edition. cfFreeman 745.
$103 USD Book Number: NLEitCOL8 Order / Enquire
COON, Nelson.
Using Wayside Plants.
New York: Hearthside Press Incorporated, [1969]..
12mo. pp. 288. 12 photographic illus. & 268 line illus. biblio. index. bds. (gift inscription on flyleaf). dw. Fourth Revised Edition.
$31 USD Book Number: NONinCOO34 Order / Enquire
CORY, Charles B[arney] [1857-1921].
The Birds Of The Bahama Islands.
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1890..
4to. pp. 1 p.l., 7, [19], [11]-250. 7 (of 8) lithographed plates of birds with tissue guards: lacking frontis. biblio. index. cloth (some spotting to cloth mainly to spine, 2 short scratches to upper cover, shelf-wear to lower edges). Second Revised Edition (first: 1880). Casey Wood p. 300. Nissen 203.
$500 USD Book Number: elala5956 Order / Enquire
CUVIER, [George Chrétien Léopold Frederick Dagobert, Baron] [1769-1832].
Le Règne Animal Distribué D'Après Son Organisation, Pour Servir De Base À L'Histoire Naturelle Des Animaux Et D'Introduction À L'Anatomie Comparée.
Paris: Deterville., 1817..
4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxxvii, 540; xviii, 532; xxix, 653; viii, 255. with half-titles. 15 engraved plates by Pierron after Laurillard. 10 folding engraved plates from another work bound in at end. contemporary quarter sheep, gilt backs (spines somewhat worn, several joints cracked, scattered foxing). bookplate (1825), ownership entry (1834) & rubberstamp on title of A.Chambion on titles. First Edition of Cuvier's most comprehensive work, which embodied the whole of his previous researches on the structure of living and fossil animals and laid the foundations of modern comparative anatomy. Here Cuvier introduced his famous classification system, according to which the animal kingdom is divided into four main groups, 'vertebrata', 'mollusca', 'articulata' (insects, lobsters), and 'radiata' (all remaining types). "This type theory is Cuvier's greatest contribution in the sphere of systematization and represents, although in a somewhat modified form, the basis of all subsequent animal classification." (Nordenskiöld) Opposing the current view that the structure of an animal determined its functions and habits Cuvier maintained that an animal's structure was due to its functions and habits. Throughj the exact study of the anatomy of living and fossil species, he could reconstruct extinct forms from a few surviving bones. At the end of Volume IV (pp. 95-170) is an important annotated bibliography of zoological literature. Brit. Museum Cat. of Natural History I 410. Brunet II 457 (incorrectly citing date 1816). Casey Wood 307. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 195. Nissen 1013. Nordenskiöld, History of Biology, pp. 339-41. Printing and the Mind of Man 276. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 42, Plate 134, pp. 31-32. Waller 11796. Wellcome II 423 (incomplete). cfGarrison & Morton 327.
$1998 USD Book Number: elala537 Order / Enquire
D'ABRERA, Bernard.
Butterflies of the Australian Region.
[East Melbourne]: Lansdowne, [1971]..
folio. pp. 415. mounted errata slip. profusely illus. in full colour. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$225 USD Book Number: dola440 Order / Enquire
D'ABRERA, Bernard.
Butterflies of the Neotropical Region Part I Papilionidae & Pieridae.
[East Melbourne]: Lansdowne Editions in Association with E.W.Classey, [1981]..
folio. pp. xiv, [2], 172. profusely illus. in full colour. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$150 USD Book Number: dola441 Order / Enquire
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