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Manuel Complet d'Artillerie. Tome Premier
H. Plessix
/ Paris: Librairie Militaire de L. Baudoin et Cie. 1884
336 pp., plates; original printed paper wrappers, ownership markings to the front cover and half-title, spine worn, some light foxing, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: military artillery
Item #: 1313769
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$196.00
The Southern Rebellion: Being a History of the United States from the Commencement of President Buchanan's Administration through the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion. TWO VOLUMES
Crafts, William A
/ Samuel Walker & Co 1869
2 volumes (v. 1 printed in 1869; v. 2 in 1867), gilt-stamped full leather (hardcover), a.e.g., 648 & 652 pp., previous owner's small hand stamp to front free endpapers, light wear to spines and covers else text clean & bindings tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: le3 civil war
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Item #: 1313903
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$192.00
The Art Treasures of America. India Proofs Lettered. Volumes 1 & 2
Edward Strahan
/ Philadelphia: George Barrie 1879
2 vols., folio, approx. 500 pp., 100 photogravure plates; original gilt & blind stamped illustrated full green leather, corners very worn, occasional foxing to the margins of the plates, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: art office
Item #: 1313759
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$250.00
Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry Volume 1: H, Noble Gases, Group IA, Group IIA, Group IIIB, C and Si
J. C. Bailar, et al., editors
/ Pergamon Press 1973
1487 pp., hardcover, library markings, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: chemistry llb
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Item #: 1313750
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$196.00
Life with the Thirty-Fourth Mass. Infantry in the War of the Rebellion
William S. Lincoln
/ Worcester: Noyes, Snow & Co. 1879
first edition; 459, 18 pp., albumen photograph frontis.; original gilt & blind stamped brick colored cloth (hardcover), edges worn, spine frayed, top margin of the frontis. is slightly foxed, otherwise it is clear and bright. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana civil war photography le3
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Item #: 1313746
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$250.00
Edifices de Rome Moderne ou Recueil des Palais, Maisons, Eglises, Couvents, etc. Tomes Premier et Deuxieme
Paul Letarouilly
/ NY: The Architectural Book Publishing Co. 1923
2 vols., folio, title pages and tables for parts 1 & 3, with plates 1-100 & 150-248 in the cloth-backed board portfolios for parts 1 & 2; bottom corner of the front cover of the second portfolio broken, otherwise the plates are clean. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: architecture office
Item #: 1313745
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$480.00
Picturesque Europe. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent. Vol. I Div II; II Div. III; II Div. IV; III Div. VI
Bayard Taylor, editor
/ NY: D. Appleton & Co. 1877
4 vols., folio, Vol. I. Div. II pp. 245-488, 10 plates; Vol. II. Div. III pp. 1-226, 10 plates; Vol. II. Div. IV pp. 227-460, 10 plates; Vol. III. Div. VI pp. 255-491, 10 plates; all in the original gilt & black stamped decorated red cloth, spine of the first volume worn and tattered, heads and tails of the spines of the balance are chipped and frayed; internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 4
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: art office
Item #: 1313744
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$495.00
Enumeration of all the Plants Known from China Proper Formosa Hainan the Corea the Luchu Archipelago and the Island of Hong Kong, 1890-1905
F. B. Forbes, W. B. Hemsley
/ London: The Linnean Society 1890
3 vols., 521 + 592 + 686 pp., color folding map, plates; bound in unmatched modern cloth with the original paper wrappers retained (hardcover), ex library, else text and plates clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 3
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: china singapore botany bg3
Item #: 1313743
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$500.00
Familles des Plantes. Deux volumes
Michel Adanson
/ Paris: Vincent 1763
2 vols., cccxxv, 189, [1] (errata) + 640 pp., folding plate at the back of the first volume; contemporary full leather with raised bands and gilt decorations to the spines (hardcovers), minor ownership markings to the blank facing the title page in the first volume, remnants of a book plate to the front paste down of the second volume, small hand stamp to the top corner of a front blank, occasional light foxing, edges rubbed, spine panels and corners worn, else very good. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany bg3
Item #: 1313741
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$1,800.00
Illustrations of South American Plants. Vol. II, 1849-1857
John Miers
/ London: H. Bailliere 1857
iv, 150, 79, [20] pp. + plates 35-87; original green cloth (hardcover), minor library markings, lacks the top third of the spine covering, folding plate frayed at the fore edge, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany bg3
Item #: 1313740
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$200.00
The Floral Magazine and Botanical Repository Vol. 1
William Allbright, et al.
/ Philadelphia: D. & C. Landreth, Nursery and Seedsmen 1916
80 (text) pp., engraved b&w title page, 31 color lithograph floral plates, with tissue guards; contemporary gilt stamped full red leather (hardcover), old moisture stain to the bottom corner of the first six leaves, however the plates are unaffected; title page heavily foxed, with light to moderate foxing to the text, an occasional bit of foxing to a plate, but most are clean and bright. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany botanical plates bg3
Item #: 1313738
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$8,000.00
The Florist and Horticultural Journal. Volume III
H. C. Hanson, editor
/ Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, printers 1854
380 pp., 12 color plates, of which three ar folding; late 19th century quarter leather & marbled boards (hardcover), spine chipped, very minor foxing with the plates mostly clean and bright. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany botanical plates bg3
Item #: 1313737
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$250.00
The Florist and Horticultural Journal. Volume II
H. C. Hanson, editor
/ Philadelphia 1853
388 pp., 10 color plates, one of which is folding; late 19th century quarter leather & marbled boards (hardcover), minor foxing with most of the plates clean and bright. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany gardening bg3
Item #: 1313736
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$350.00
A Year's Residence in the United States. Parts I & II
William Cobbett
/ NY: Printed for the Author by Clayton & Kingsland 1819
2 vols., 304 pp., a mixed set with the first volume being in the original printed boards and the second in contemporary paper-backed plain green boards (hardcovers); the untrimmed texts are heavily foxed, covers very worn, book plates removed from the front paste downs, about good only. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany americana bg3
Item #: 1313735
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$275.00
A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain. Volume I
William Withering
/ Birmingham: M. Swinney for T. Cadel & P. Elmsley, and G. Robinson, London 1776
xcvi, 383 pp., folding frontis., folding plate; old leather boards rebacked and recornered with modern cloth (hardcover), ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany bg3
Item #: 1313734
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$350.00
The American Flora, or History of Plants and Wild Flowers, etc. Vols. III & IV, 1849-1850
A. B. Strong
/ NY: Green & Spencer 1849
2 vols. in one binding; vi, 184, [4] (Language of Flowers), 184, [4] (Language of Flowers), iv pp., color frontis. of Linnaeus and 46 color plates in the third volume, color half-title, frontis., and 46 plates in the fourth volume; later 19th century full decorated leather, a.e.g., occasional pencil underlining to the text, occasional foxing but the plates are primarily clean. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany botanical plates flowers bg3
Item #: 1313731
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$750.00
The Naturalist, containing treatises on Natural History, Chemistry, Domestic and Rural Economy, Manufactures, and Arts. With Twelve Illustrations. Vol. I
D. J. Browne, editor
/ Boston: Peirce and Parker, and Carter and Hendee 1831
380 pp., 12 plates; modern boards and leather backstrip (hardcover), moderate to heavy foxing, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany horticulture gardening bg3
Item #: 1313730
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$200.00
Collected papers. Volume II: Collected Essays, 1929-1968
Gilbert Ryle
/ Barnes & Noble 1971
First edition, first printing, 496 pp., hardcover, very good in a lightly chipped dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0389041130
Subject/Keywords: jk5 philosophy
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Item #: 1313828
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$218.25
The North American Sylva; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Illustrated by 122 coloured plates by Thomas Nuttall. Volumes I-III
F. Andrew Michaux, Thomas Nuttall
/ Philadelphia/New Harmony: J. Dobson, printed by William Amphlett 1841
vols. 1-3, xviii, 122 + 184 + iv, 75-216 pp., 194 hand colored plates; late 19th century quarter leather & marbled boards (hardcovers), edges rubbed, boards worn, old inked signature to the top margin of the title page of the first volume, old light moisture stain to the top margin of the first volume throughout, however only the first plate is affected, endpapers and early and late portions of the text of the third volume bear moisture stains, otherwise the balance of the text and plates is clean. Volumes
Included: 3
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany botanical plates bg3
Item #: 1313724
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$4,000.00
Pomologia Britannica; or, Figures and Descriptions of the Most Important Varieties of Fruit Cultivated in Great Britain. In three volumes
John Lindley
/ London: Henry G. Bohn 1841
first edition; 3 vols., 152 color plates with accompanying text; late 19th century quarter leather & marbled boards (hardcovers), a.e.g., covers rubbed, else internally clean and bright. Volumes
Included: 3
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: botany fruit botanical plates bg3
Item #: 1313723
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$6,850.00