Norwalk: The Easton Press, 2008. Leather_bound. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xi, 135pp. Handsomely bound in decorative genuine leather with spine and covers stamped in gilt. Spine with 3 raised bands. All edge gilt. Peach silk moire end papers with matching silk bookmark sewn in. Pages are clean and unmarked..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1861. New Edition, Revised. Hardcover. This dazzling 1861 popular introduction to the science of electricity features a vignette of a gentleman experimenting with an electric eel in bright gilt to its front cover, a treasury of Victorian-era information about the exciting physical phenomena called electricity..... More
Stockholm: Fr. Skoglunds Forlag, 1880. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 5 1/2". 218pp. Text in Swedish. Three quarters bound in leather, with four raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Heavy rubbing to edges, with mild scratching to paper over boards. Corners bumped and rubbed to boards. Bound by..... More
London: W. H. Carpenter, 1820. First Edition. Leather bound. 8 5/8" X 5 1/2". xxxix, 501pp. Bound in circa 19th century full polished calf with boards ruled in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt over black. Five raised bands and gilt floral designs to spine. Inner dentelles in blind. Edges speckled..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. Leather bound. 9" X 6 1/8". xlv, 736pp, plus fold-out map. Bound in full dark blue leather, with boards and spine stamped in gilt. Rather heavy scattered rubbing to silt on boards, with hard bump to top corner of upper board with creasing to..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2003. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 9 7/8" X 6 3/4". 157pp. Bound in full forest green leather, with boards and spine stamped and decorated in gilt. Four raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. Gold satin ribbon placemarker. Light scratching to gilt at..... More
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New York: Longman, Green, and Co., 1900. Hughenden Edition. Leather_bound. Bindings by Morrell Bindery of London. 8" X 5 1/2". Halfbound in blue calf, with blue cloth over boards and spines lettered in gilt with floral gilt compartments, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Moderate wear to bindings, with rubbing..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Leather bound. 8 1/8" X 5 1/4". 448pp; x, 452pp; 452pp; xxiii, 196pp; x, 473pp; 500pp. Half bound in brown morocco with marbled paper over boards. Spines lettered in gilt. Heavy wear to bindings, with heavy rubbign to edges and extremities, headbands and..... More
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1889. Hardcover. This bright and bloom-bedecked 1889 edition of Cactus Culture for Amateurs is the work of British botanist and horticulturist William Watson (1858–1925), a gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1879 who ascended to the title of Curator shortly after this book was..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. This bug and beetle-bedecked 1897 first edition of Life Histories of American Insects is the work of the New England naturalist, entomologist, and botanist Clarence Moores Weed (1864-1947), author of Butterflies Worth Knowing among many other books on nature study. Swarming..... More
San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2012. Leather_bound. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 639pp. Decorative leather over boards in near fine condition with five raised bands to spine. All edge gilt with light bump to bottom edge of text block. White silk bookmark sewn in. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding..... More
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. Leather bound. Bound in handsome full calfskin, this 1891 printing of Glimpses of Nature was originally awarded to a young student for achievement in reading. Glimpses of Nature holds a bevy of reflections on nature, from starfish to spleens, by the naturalist, zoologist, and physiologist..... More
Copenhagen: Fr. Woldikes Forlag, 1873. Leather bound. 8 1/8" X 5 1/4". 492pp. Text in Danish. Marbled pape rover boards, with spine backed in leather and lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards, sunning and cracking to spine, and scattered rubbing. Plain yellow..... More
