Natural History & Science from Knickerbocker Books

Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. 1971 Stated First Edition. VERY GOOD in GOOD price-intact dust jacket. Owner name and dates neatly penned on half-title page. no other markings. Pages crisp and clean. Bound in gray hardcover, gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners lightly bumped, cover otherwise fine. Binding and hinges tight and firm. Unclipped jacket is moderately… Read more about this item

Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 2007 Stated First Univ. of Virginia Press Edition, First printing with full number line. FINE in NEAR FINE dust jacket. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages fine as is the hardcover of gray paper-covered boards with a light tan cloth spine. Title is gilt-stamped on spine. Hinges and binding… Read more about this item

New York: Geological Society of America, 1956. March 1956 First Edition. NEAR FINE hardcover, complete with 4 folding maps (bathymetric charts). Pages fresh and clean, the only mark to the book is owner's name and a number penned to upper corner of front free endpaper. The maps are in a pocket affixed to the rear pasted endpaper. One folded… Read more about this item

Madrid, Spain: Don Benito Garcia y Compania, 1806. 1806 (per title page). VERY GOOD. Complete title reads, "Reflexiones Sobre La Naturalez Escritas en aleman para todos los dias del año por M. C.C. Sturm; Aumentadas y dadas á luz metódicamente en frances con el titulo de Lecciones de la Naturaleza por Mr. Luis Cousin Despreaux; y traducidas al Castellano. Tercera… Read more about this item

Post Mills, VT : Chelsea Green Pub Co, 1992. 1992. AUTHOR SIGNED First Printing, with full printing number line. FINE softcover. Levin inscribed the title page, in blue ink, "For Christopher - Best wishes, Ted Levin." No other markings. A fresh, crisp copy, tight binding. No soiling, no tears, chips or creases to pages or to softcover. Very slight… Read more about this item

New York: W.A. Townsend, 1864. A GOOD+ copy of scarce early (1864) printing of 1857 edition. Authored by Dinks (Jonathan Peel), Edward Mayhew and William Nelson Hutchinson. Edited by Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert). Illustrated with 6 full-page engravings and 29 line illustrations in text. A clean, well-bound copy - the only marking a penciled owner name at top… Read more about this item

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927. 1927 publication by the Department of the Interior; U. S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 149. VERY GOOD+ softcover bound in tan paper wrapper title printed in dark brown on front and spine. Complete with large folded chart in pocket attached to rear cover. Also one fold-out diagram bound in and 32 pages of… Read more about this item

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. 1961. VERY GOOD softcover. Pages clean and unmarked. Beige paper cover, titled in black on front and moderately worn but binding is firm and pages are crisp and near fine. Transcript (Part 2) of April 1961 Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics and Subcommittees Nos. 1, 3 and 4, U.S.… Read more about this item

London and Edinburgh; Boston: T.N. Foulis; LeRoy Phillips, 1912. October 1912 printing. NEAR FINE in GOOD+ dust jacket. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy. Illustrated with 8 tipped-in plates, exquisitely rendered watercolors by Beatrice Parsons. Each with tissue guards. Tissues have toned, resulting in light toning to facing text pages but the color plates are barely affected and remain… Read more about this item

Kunming, China: Yunnan Universtiy Press, 1999. May 1999 First Edition. NEAR FINE large format softcover. Bi-lingual edition (Chinese and English). A clean, totally unmarked copy. Pages fresh and fine, firmly bound in a color pictorial, thick paper cover with folded flaps. Cover slightly shelf rubbed, otherwise fine. No soiling, no tears, chips or creases. Exquisite color photographs, printed on gloss… Read more about this item

Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University, 2005. 2005 Softcover. NEAR FINE. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked copy. Pages fine, tightly bound in stiff pictorial paper cover. Cover lightly edge rubbed, otherwise fine - no tears or chips. The catalog to accompany the fall 2005 exhibition shown at Wright State University Art Galleries and Purdue University Galleries. Essays by Vince Leo and… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. October 1904, First Illustrated Edition, with 23 photographic plates by Rudolf Eickmeyer, Jr. VERY GOOD+. A clean, well-bound copy. No writing or other markings. Pages, top edge gilt, front and bottom edges untrimmed, are complete and near fine - all plates complete with captioned tissue protectors. Four pages (78-79 & 86-87) have areas… Read more about this item

Cedar Run, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Down the Shore Publ. & The Sandpiper Inc, 1993. 1993 Edition, second printing (printing line begins with "2"). NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD price intact dust jacket. A clean, totally unmarked and firmly bound copy. Pages fresh and fine. Gray hardcover, titles stamped in black on front and spine, is lightly edge rubbed but otherwise… Read more about this item

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1886. 1886 Printing (first was 1868). NEAR FINE. A beautiful copy - clean, totally unmarked and firmly bound. Pages fine, unblemished. Hardcover is of light gray paper over boards, printed in black, with dark brown-black cloth spine. Cover is clean and square with only slight edge rubbing. Hinges and binding firm, intact and straight. Bees,… Read more about this item

Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, 2003. 2003 Stated First Edition. FINE in NEAR FINE price intact dust jacket. A clean, totally unmarked copy, tightly bound in black cloth hardcover, titled in silver on spine, blind embossed title on front. Pages and cover are fresh and fine. Unclipped color pictorial hardcover is bright and clean. It has the red oval "Endangered!" sticker… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000. 2000 First Edition, First Printing with full printing number line. FINE in FINE price intact dust jacket. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked copy, firmly bound in bright coral colored hardcover, title gilt stamped on spine. Boards and spine straight. Unclipped jacket is clean and complete, no tears, chips or creases. Incredible close-up color photography by… Read more about this item

Sheffield, UK: The Society of Glass Technology , 1949. "Comprising Proceedings and Reports, Transactioins, Abstracts of Papers from other Journals and News and Reviews." NEAR FINE copy of the 33rd Volume. A beautifully preserved hardcover: clean, totally unmarked, and tightly bound in binding of green marbled paper over boards with dark green leatherette spine. The title is gilt-stamped on spine.… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964. 1964 Fifth Printing of the 1943 edition. (There is a colophon page at end of book with this information, Otherwise the book could be mistaken for the First edition.) NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE dust jacket. A lovely, clean, totally unmarked copy. Pages fresh and fine, firmly bound in hardcover of beige… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 2005 Stated First Edition. Hardcover. FINE in FINE price intact dust jacket. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked and solidly bound copy. Black cloth hardcover, titled on spine with green and orange stamping is fresh and unworn. Binding and hinges tight, intact and straight. Unclipped color pictorial jacket is clean - no… Read more about this item

New York: Collins, Keese & Co., 1839. 1839. Rare original edition of Olmsted's "An Introduction to Astronomy." Title page is dated 1839, the year of first publication. Also in this volume, Ebenezer Porter Mason's 1841 "Introduction to Practical Astronomy, Designed as a Supplement to Olmsted's Astronomy..." also published by Collins, Keese & Co. "An Introduction to Astronomy" features an illustrated… Read more about this item