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HISTOIRE DES INSECTES TRAITANT DE LEURS MOEURS ET DE LEURS METAMORPHOSES EN GENERAL by EMILE BLANCHARD - 1845
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HISTOIRE DES INSECTES TRAITANT DE LEURS MOEURS ET DE LEURS METAMORPHOSES EN GENERAL
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PARIS: LIBRAIRIE DE FIRMIN DIDOT FRERES, 1845. In 16. Dim. 18,5x12 cm. Pp. (4)+V+(1)+396+10 pl., (4)+524+(10). Prima edizione del 1845 di questo trattato sulla storia degli insetti scritto dal celebre entomologo e zoologo francese Emile Blanchard (1819-1900). Blanchard lavorò nel Museo Nazionale di storia naturale per un lungo periodo e nel 1862 diventà Presidente della sezione di storia naturale dei crostacei, invertebrati e insetti. L'opera è composta da due volumi ed è completa.Il primo tomo è dedicato agli Imenotteri e Coleotteri, il secondo ad altri tipi di insetti. Alla fine di ogni volume 10 planches molto dettagliate per un totale di 20 planches. Note manoscritte con matita colorata. In buone condizioni Copertina in mezza pelle coeva con titolo in oro al dorso in buone condizioni con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. Pagine in buone condizioni con fioriture e rare bruniture. Leggerissime gore d'umidità all'angolo inferiore destro. Planches dalla 18 alla 20 sono state invertite.Original edition of 1845 of this treaty work about history of insects by the famous french entomologist and zoologist Emile Blanchard (1819-1900). He worked in the National Museum of Natural history for a long time and in 1862 he became President of Natural History crustaceans, invertebrates and insects. This work is made up of two volumes and it is complete. The first tome is dedicated to Hymenopters and Coleopterons, the second one to the other kind of insects. At the end of each tome there are ten out of text very detailed planches for a total of 20 planches. Handwritten notes with coloured pencil. In good conditions. Half leather coeval cover with golden title and decorations in the spine in good general conditions slightly worn. Binding in good conditions. Pages are in good conditions with foxings and occasional yellowings. Very slight water stain in the lower right corner. Planches from 18 to 20 have been bound inverted.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. Edited with notes by Grant Allen
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Nature's Wonderland (Four Volumes) : Or Short Talks on Natural History for Young and Old
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NY: F. R. Niglutsch. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, spines . sunned and stained, faint foxing to endpapers, but otherwise clean and . bright interiors.. 1894. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of 1890 edition. In four volumes, uniformly bound in brown gilt-blocked cloth. All edges gilt. Each volume contains hundreds of black and white plates and small engravings, as well as some chromolithograph plates. Tight bindings. Vol. I - Invertebrates, Crustacea, and Insects. Color plates of Mayflies, Starfish & Worms, and Hercules Beetle. Vol. II - Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds. Color plates of Grey Kingfisher, Paradise Fish, Crocodiles, Cranes, and Birds of Paradise. Vol. III - Mammals and The Natural History of Man, Part One. Color plates of Lion, Chimpanzee, Arabs. Vol. IV - The Natural History of Man, Part Two. Color plate of Eskimos. A handsome, if heavy, set. The black and white plates of the invertebrates are particularly lovely. A good example of the Victorian…
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THE PUBLIC EDIFICES OF THE BRITISH METROPOLIS with Historical And Descriptive Accounts of the Different Buildings
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London: C Taylor; Sherwood, Gilbert And Piper; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; T Hughes; T Mason, 1825. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Splendid collection of 21 fine engravings of London buildings, with short accompanying descriptions. St Paul's, Westminster Abbey, 'Buckingham House', Horse Guards, Carlton Place, Pantheon, Bank of England and Westminster Bridge among the subjects. Some foxing and a little marking. Bound in half-leather with marbled paper boards, all heavily worn. Gilt titling to spine. Scarce. Folio. 20pp + plates.
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INSTRUCTOR CLERICALIS Part IV. Being a Continuance of Bars and other Pleadings from the Third Part
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(Opera) Q. Horatius Flaccus, Ex recensione & cum Notis atque emendationibus Richardi bentleii. Editio tertia.
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(Amsterdam), apud Rod. & Jacob Wensteniuos & Guil. Smith, 1728. 4to. (xxvi), 356, (ii), 357-717, (i),239, (i) pp. With engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, and half-page initial headpiece. Title in red and black. Contemporary full vellum binding, blindstamped. A nice copy.Third full Bentley edition (an abridged third edition in 8vo. was produced in Cambridge, 1713), according to Brunet. The present edition, and its Amsterdam predecessor, are distinguished by having Bentley's editorial notes on the same page as the text. Dibdin and Brunet therefore preferred them to the Cambridge first.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. Edited with notes by Grant Allen
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John Lane The Bodley Head. London. 1902. Early Edmund New illustrated edition, originally issued in 1900. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4). Fully illustrated with 50 full page, and 135 smaller engravings by Edmund H. New. Fine bright copy in a beautiful binding of half dark green morocco. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with double gilt ruled borders. Two sections lettered in gilt and the others decorated with gilt design of a bird on a branch. Marbled paper on boards. A lovely copy.
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Nature's Wonderland (Four Volumes) : Or Short Talks on Natural History for Young and Old
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NY: F. R. Niglutsch. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, spines . sunned and stained, faint foxing to endpapers, but otherwise clean and . bright interiors.. 1894. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of 1890 edition. In four volumes, uniformly bound in brown gilt-blocked cloth. All edges gilt. Each volume contains hundreds of black and white plates and small engravings, as well as some chromolithograph plates. Tight bindings. Vol. I - Invertebrates, Crustacea, and Insects. Color plates of Mayflies, Starfish & Worms, and Hercules Beetle. Vol. II - Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds. Color plates of Grey Kingfisher, Paradise Fish, Crocodiles, Cranes, and Birds of Paradise. Vol. III - Mammals and The Natural History of Man, Part One. Color plates of Lion, Chimpanzee, Arabs. Vol. IV - The Natural History of Man, Part Two. Color plate of Eskimos. A handsome, if heavy, set. The black and white plates of the invertebrates are particularly lovely. A good example of the Victorian…
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THE PUBLIC EDIFICES OF THE BRITISH METROPOLIS with Historical And Descriptive Accounts of the Different Buildings
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London: C Taylor; Sherwood, Gilbert And Piper; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; T Hughes; T Mason, 1825. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Splendid collection of 21 fine engravings of London buildings, with short accompanying descriptions. St Paul's, Westminster Abbey, 'Buckingham House', Horse Guards, Carlton Place, Pantheon, Bank of England and Westminster Bridge among the subjects. Some foxing and a little marking. Bound in half-leather with marbled paper boards, all heavily worn. Gilt titling to spine. Scarce. Folio. 20pp + plates.
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INSTRUCTOR CLERICALIS Part IV. Being a Continuance of Bars and other Pleadings from the Third Part
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London: John Walthoe and Tho Bever, 1717. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Printed by E Nutt. In VG order throughout. Very little marking. Pages crisp and clean with just a little offsetting. Full leather contemporary binding with five raised bands, a little worn. Titlepieces have been added. Additional photos on request. 8vo. xvi + 483pp.
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(Opera) Q. Horatius Flaccus, Ex recensione & cum Notis atque emendationibus Richardi bentleii. Editio tertia.
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(Amsterdam), apud Rod. & Jacob Wensteniuos & Guil. Smith, 1728. 4to. (xxvi), 356, (ii), 357-717, (i),239, (i) pp. With engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, and half-page initial headpiece. Title in red and black. Contemporary full vellum binding, blindstamped. A nice copy.Third full Bentley edition (an abridged third edition in 8vo. was produced in Cambridge, 1713), according to Brunet. The present edition, and its Amsterdam predecessor, are distinguished by having Bentley's editorial notes on the same page as the text. Dibdin and Brunet therefore preferred them to the Cambridge first.
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Histoire des Insectes, Traitant de Leurs Moeurs et de Leurs Metamorphoses en General - 2 volumes
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Librairie de Firmin, Paris, 1845. hardback. good+ condition in marbled boards with a leather spine. some wear and bumping and spine fading- 10 plates in each volume. no dust jackets
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Winter - Notes from Montana
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
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