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Two volume set. A Hyperion Press reprint that was originally published in 1935 by The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company. Dark green faux leather with gilt particulars to front covers and spines. Nice clean copies without previous owners' names or other defacements.
Vol. I pp. [xiv] 559 and Vol. II pp. [vi] 568
7.5 x 10.5 in each

Hand-colored lithograph from John James Audubon's second octavo edition of Birds of America published in 1856.Sheet size: 6.5 x 10.25 inches.

Full green cloth with faded gilt particulars to spine. Loss to head of spine (see image) and wear to cloth on corners. Library bookplate to front pastedown. One page of ads to rear. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names.
5.25 x 7.75 in

Pictorial paper wraps. Copiously illustrated with full color photographs throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Moisture mark to bottom fore edge of pages throughout, not effecting text or images. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Shipped through boxed insured USPS Priority mail.

Full dark brown morocco with embossed decoration to boards, 5 raised bands with debossed decoration and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt. Stated in the preface to this edition: "The whole of the sheets of the last imprint were destroyed by a fire at the bindery, wither they had been sent for collation; but fortunately the French copper-plates were in another building. This has enabled the new publishers to issue the work in a much improved style, and has allowed for opportunity for additional notes and remarks." Michaux's volumes contain 156 hand colored plates, all protected with tissue guards; and Nuttall's volumes contain 121 hand colored plates, also protected with tissue guards. Nuttall's title: "The North American Sylva... and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux, and containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific, and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the… Read More

Dark blue cloth with gilt title to spine. A total of 120 black/white plates. German text. Ex-library with perforated library stamp to title page, as well as to the bottom of the last plate, and the usual library remnants to the rear pastedown. Otherwise a tight clean copy with no pervious owners' names or other markings.
9.5 x 12.25 in

Full camel beige cloth with pictorial dustjacket wrapped in plastic. English text, of which 1,000 copies were produced. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other markings.
10 x 13.5 in