Natural History from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: The Rock Foundation, 1986. Spines and slipcase very slightly toned, otherwise a near-fine set with minimal signs of handling. Two volumes, oblong folio. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Danny Lyon, Gilles Peress, Lynn Johnson, Dan Budnick, etc. Original linen, images mounted on covers; matching slipcase. First edition. It was issued simultaneously both as this single-volume… Read more

Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. A near-fine copy. 8vo. 142 pages. Original cream linen, green decorated cloth cover; printed slipcase/. Limited edition, number 18 of 150 copies so designated in calligraphy and signed by the author.

Toronto: M. F. Feheley Publishers Limited, 1977. A near-fine copy, jacket price clipped and with a few small soft creases and soilmarks to spine panel. Folio (14 x 10 inches). Illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's plain card slipcase. First edition. With a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson. An exquisitely… Read more

New York: Cassell & Company, 1887. Cloth a little dull, gilt-lettering somewhat rubbed, some light fraying at corners and ends of spine, the plates and text clean and bright. Folio (31.2 x 23.7 cm). 64 pages. With half-title. 24 chromolithographs, including frontispiece. Original olive decorated cloth, all edges gilt. Provenance: 1894 pencilled gift inscription on flyleaf to Isabella… Read more

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. A near fine copy, in a worn jacket.. 10 x 7 inches. 164 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.

Tielt: Lannoo, 2009. A near-fine copy with some very modest wear to jacket. 13.5 x 10 inches. 190 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005. A fine copy. 10.75 x 8.5 inches. 200 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition, published to accompany the exhibition from 2 May to 11 September 2005. "The magnificent old, the masterful new, this is the premise in this lush publication with 180 plant portraits that span 1,000 years. These portraits… Read more

Alderley, Australia: Dove Press, 1990. A near-fine set with some minor handling wear to the jackets. Two volumes, folio. Lavishly illustrated with color photography. Cloth; dust jackets; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, signed by Coates on the titles of both volumes. The first definitive account of the bird life of the country.

Actes Sud, 2005. A fine copy with one indentation on front jacket panel and a few minor bumps to slipcase. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket; slipcase.

Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2013. A fine unread copy. Folio. Text in German and English. 224 pages. Decorated cloth; slipcase. "This elegant book features exquisite reproductions of a rare 17th-century album of floral illustrations. Very little is known about The Green Florilegium. Neither signed nor dated, it is generally attributed to the German painter Hans Simon Holtzbecker… Read more

[Nuremberg], 1773. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. 10 parts in one volume, folio (518 x 353 mm). 3 mezzotint portraits of Trew, G. D. Ehret and J. J. Haid, one engraved general title, heightened in red and gold, 100 hand-colored engraved plates by Johann Jacob Haid and Johann Elias Haid after Georg Dionysius Ehret, each… Read more

Paris: L. E. Herhan for Delachaussie et Garnery, 1805. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Folio (506 x 332 mm). Half-title. Title with stipple-engraved vignette, 65 stipple-engraved plates by Bouquet, Jacques Chailly, Mlle. Delelo and others, after Redouté, printed in colors by Langlois. Contemporary marbled calf gilt, spine with red and tan morocco lettering-pieces gilt. Some light… Read more

Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1543. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Folio (377 x 242 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, large Isengrin device on final recto, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 517 botanical woodcuts by Viet Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists at end, woodcut… Read more

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. Cloth somewhat soiled, hinges tender, some pale toning to text and plates. Thick 8vo. 1000 pp. 96 lithographic plates, some tinted, by Avil Company, Philadelphia. Original cloth. The text is divided by the Mississippi River, with Ezra A. Carman providing the descriptions of the industry to the East, and… Read more

London: E. Grant Richards, 1911. First edition. Spines faded, volume 2 cloth cockled, internally a very fresh and clean set save some occasional pale spotting. 5 volumes. Folio. 2 folding maps printed in colors, 2 anatomical diagrams of birds 318 photogravure plates after original drawings by Lilian M. Medland. Original cloth, gilt-lettered on front covers and spines, top… Read more

New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1959. First. 8vo. Original cloth (spine lightly sunned); original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, soft crease to inner flap). First edition, first printing.