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South from the Spanish Main: South America Seen Through the Eyes of Its Discoverers (the Great Explorers Series)
HANSON, EARL PARKER (EDITOR) · 1967 · Bluebird Books
$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,955)
New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Editor Earl Parker Hanson has compiled excerpts from accounts left by various explorers of South America, from Christopher Columbus to Charles Darwin. The accounts were edited by Hanson, with his a…
Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work
Gernsheim, Helmut · 1975 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)
New York, Aperture, 1975. Second Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and loving homage to the photographer who photographed Robert Browning, Charles Darwin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ellten Terry, George Frederick Watts, Thomas Carlyle, Longfellow--the list go…
The Lincolnshire Magazine, Vol. 3 No. 12, July-August 1938
Editors: J W F Hill; G S Gibbons; Laurence Elvin; E M Williams; W North Coates. Contribs: Mary Blakiston; W Toyne; Walter Johnson; R H Bassett; H Porter; Kathleen Major; Flora A R Murray · 1938 · Bailgate Books Ltd
£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)
The Lindsey Local History Society, the Lincolnshire Chronicle and Leader, Lincoln, 1938. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrated beige paper covers, binding sound, clean pages. Articles include: Kirkby-On-Bain with Tumby; Reflections; Darwin and…
De geneeskunde en hare wegen tot zekerheid of de theoriën, stelsels en geneeswijzen der artsen. Sedert den leeftijd van Hippocrates tot in onze dagen; Naar den derden verbeterden druk Uit het Hoogduitsdch vertaald; door F. van der Breggen, med. dr. te Amsterdam.
HECKER, A.F. [Transl. by F. van der BREGGEN Czn] · 1809 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.
€325.00 ($358.22 | £271.10 | ¥57,210)
Haarlem, François Bohn, 1809. 8vo. W. 1 engr. textill. on p. 272. Orig. limp speckled marbled covers. [*8, 2*3, A-X8, Y6]. ]. (XXII, 350 pp.). (Uncut.). (Bookplate on upper paste down prof. dr. van der Hoeven; w. his autogr. signature on remains of first free endp.). BMN vol. I…
Notes on the Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada. With especial reference to the conditions of accumulation of the deposits and the marine life of the period. [From the Canadian Naturalist, New Series Vol VI].
Dawson, J W. · 1872 · John Turton
£27.84 (€33.38 | $36.79 | ¥5,875)
Montreal: printed by Mitchell & Wilson, 1872. [vi], 112 pp, frontis plus occasional other plates, 2 maps. Authors compliments to upper section of title page. 'From the library of James CROLL (1821-1890), Scottish scientist and geologist. He was essentially self-taught with a bac…
The Geological and Natural History of Minnesota. The Sixth Annual Report for the tear 1877. Submitted to the President of the University, May 25, 1878.
[Minnesota]. · 1878 · John Turton
£30.16 (€36.16 | $39.85 | ¥6,365)
Minneapolis: Johnson, Smith & Harrison, 1878. 225[1] pp including index & errata leaf, numerous plates, text illustrations, folding and multifolding maps including some that are coloured, text atbles, etc, etc. 'From the library of James CROLL (1821-1890), Scottish scientist and…
The Relative Age of Some Valleys in the North and South of England, and of the various and post-glacial deposits occuring in them. [Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Geologists Association Vol IV No 4].
De Rance, Charles. · 1880 · John Turton
£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)
No printer, publisher or date, (c1880). 33[1] pp, cross section illustration with the pagination. Authors compliments to upper section of the title page. 'From the library of James CROLL (1821-1890), Scottish scientist and geologist. He was essentially self-taught with a backgro…
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts.
Lemuel Gulliver [Jonathan Swift] · 1747 · Rooke Books
£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)
London, Charles Bathurst, 1747 . Leather. E. M. Forster's personal copy of the very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels&apos. The very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's fantastical novel about the adventures of Lemuel Gull…
Die Flora der Schweiz mit besonderer BerŸcksichtigung ihrer Vertheilung nach allgemein physischen und geologischen Momenten.
MORITZI, A. (Alexander) (1806-1850): · 1844 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
CHF 450.00 (€486.81 | $536.56 | £406.07 | ¥85,692)
ZŸrich und Winterthur, Verlag d. Literarischen Comptoirs, 1844, in-8vo, 1 Bl. Verlagswerbung + XXII + 640 S. 1 gef. geologische Karte in Farbe d. Schweiz, etwas stockfleckig, Ex-Libris Louis Agassiz, Titelbl. mit Stempel ÔL.AGASSIZÕ + Ex-libris Peter E. Obergfell, Leinenbd. d. …
Pheasants: Their Natural History and Practical Management
W.B. Tegetmeier · 1897 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, Horace Cox, 1897 . Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated guide to the care and management of pheasants, with an account of their natural history. The third edition, enlarged. In the publisher's original black cloth binding. With a frontispiece, fifteen further m…
Cambridge University Library a History the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
David McKitterick · 1986 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A very smart volume on the History of Cambridge University Library in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with illustrations throughout. A smart first edition copy of the second volume of Cambridge Universit…
Wanderings in South America
Charles Waterton; Sydney Smith · 1891 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Edinburgh and New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1891. Cloth. Smart illustrated edition of Waterton's fascinating travels through South America between the years of 1812 and 1824. In publisher's original blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fif…
The Poets of the Nineteenth Century
Robert Aris Willmott · 1869 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1869 . Cloth. A delightfully illustrated collection of poetry from the most eminent and recognisable nineteenth century writers. A charming and illustrated anthology of poems from the most celebrated poets of the nineteenth century, edited by Reve…
The Signatures in the First Journal-Book and the Charter-Book of the Royal Society
The Royal Society · 1980 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)
London, The Royal Society, 1980 . Cloth. A fine example of the fourth edition of this publication of facsimiles of signatures from the charter book of The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. The fourth edition of this work.This impressive volume reproduces f…
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
Thomas Henry Huxley · 1893 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1893. Leather. A lovely later edition of Thomas Henry Huxley's scientific collection of essays, bound in smart full leather. With chapters on the improvement of natural knowledge, emancipation, scientific education, criticisms of 'On the Origi…
Poems the Saint&Apos;S Tragedy
Charles Kingsley · 1884 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1884. Leather. A beautifully bound edition of Charles Kingsley's The Saint's Tragedy. In a signed Sotheran and Co binding. Published as a part of his Poems, this being volume I. This verse tragedy, in the style of Shakespeare, is based on the …
A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea
Thomas Bell · 1874 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, John Van Voorst , 1874. Cloth. A very smart second edition of Thomas Bell's history of British quadrupeds, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. The second edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A charming history of British quadrupe…
Universal Beauty, a Poem.
Henry Brooke · 1735 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)
London, J. Wilcox, 1735 . First edition. Unbound. The first edition of Part I only of Henry Brooke's poetic tribute to beauty, a work praised by Alexander Pope. A very scarce work in all editions. The first edition of Part I only. Six parts of this work were published in …
A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea
Thomas Bell · 1874 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, John Van Voorst, 1874 . Cloth. The second edition in the publisher's original cloth binding, illustrated with one hundred and sixty woodcuts throughout the text. The second edition in the publisher's original cloth binding. A charming history of British quadrup…
The Land of Magellan
W S Barclay · 1926 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)
London, Methuen and Co, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this travel work regarding South America and its explorers. A very scarce work, in a very scarce 1920's dustwrapper. This work discusses Magellan, The Buccaneers, Darwin's South American…