Wild Animals

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Shandy Press,, 2015.. Edition of 25. 6 x 8"; 62 pages. Letterpress printed, using polymer plates, on a Vandercook Proofing Press. Typeface is Hoefler. Text paper is Schiller. Paper for prints is Zerkall. Tip-ins. Bound in unbleached abaca handmade by Nicole Donnelly. Signed and numbered by the artist. Susan Viguers: "'The Opossum' is a specimen book in various ways. Most obviously, it is about a particular animal, the Virginia opossum. Conceived in the tradition of the type specimen book, it is a compendium of voices/observations about the opossum. The preface to the book consists of a statement by John D. Godman in 1831: 'Perhaps nothing can more clearly demonstrate the impatience of the human mind, and the reluctance with which men yield to the hard necessity of carefully observing the operations of nature, than the history of this animal.' The primary text, my own story of encounters with the opossum, is surrounded by passages from… Read More

1829 RARE 1ed Huish Animal Kingdom Illustrated Plates Lion Bears Tigers MonkeysRobert Huish's 'The Wonders of the Animal Kingdom' is a 19th-century illustrated work on rare and exotic animals. While the contents of the text are desirable, the real draw of this work is the exquisite illustrations. It is quite rare to find this work with all of the illustrations intact, as the plates are often extracted from the binding and sold individually. Note the attention to detail from H. Smith's illustrations. Published in 1829 London, this first edition work features 63 full-page engravings. An extremely rare and valuable work!Item number: #5225Price: $1500HUISH, RobertThe wonders of the animal kingdom. Exhibiting delineations of the most distinguished wild animals in the various menageries of this country.London, T. Kelly, 1829. First edition.Details: Collation: Complete with all pages[ii], 122, [2]Illustrated throughout – 63 EXQUISITE full-page platesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Leather; tight and secureSize:… Read More

1790 1st ed Vaillant Africa Voyages Hottentot Ethnology Zoology Birds Giraffe 2v

François Le Vaillant was an 18th-century French explorer known for his descriptions of animals and birds in Africa. In 1780, he began a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope with the Dutch East India Company. While there, he collected various specimens of animals and plants, and encountered local natives, the Hottentot people. These two volumes include views of the Hottentots and their villages, as well as birds, and large African mammals such as giraffes.

This first edition is famous for its inclusion of uncensored depictions of Hottentot men and women within the 12 full-page engravings.
Item number: #5711
Price: $950
VAILLANT, François Le
Voyage de M. Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique : par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 et 85
A Paris : Chez Leroy, Libraire, rue Saint-Jacques, vis-à-vis celle de la Parcheminerie, no 15, MDCCLXXX [1790]. First edition.

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Madison, WI: Stanton & Lee Publishers , 1983. SIGNED BY ARTIST Owen Gromme in ink. Publisher's promotional poster, distributed in limited numbers at the 1983 ABA trade show. Near Fine, small faint creases. SIGNED lower right in ink. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . SIGNED BY ARTIST. First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 23"w x 29"h.

Boston: The Chapplle Publishing Company, Ltd., 1915. First Edition. With a great profusion of illustrations from photographs, over 90, on full page plates throughout. Tall 8vo, publisher's original dark green cloth, the upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt and with a photograph of the author with his trophies, the spine lettered in gilt. xvi, [1], 410 pp. A handsome and very well preserved copy of this rare book, the cloth in fine order with little evidence of use, the text-block clean and sound, the binding strong and without fault. Some mellowing to the gilt on the spine panel and very slight evidence of shelving. FIRST EDITION OF THIS ELUSIVE BOOK RARELY FOUND IN COLLECTOR'S CONDITION. The text is derived from Mr. Eagle's diaries written during two very successful safaris hunting throughout East Africa, Northern Rhodesia and the Zambia. The author penned that the "more a real sportsman hunts, the less he wants to kill, and finally he uses his rifle but little and falls back… Read More

Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1898. First edition. REPORT ON THE ACTION OF RATTLESNAKE VENOM ON HUMAN AND ANIMAL BLOOD WITH 6 COLOR PLATES BY NOTED AMERICAN NEUROLOGIST. 11 3/4 inches tall hardcover, leather covers with new cloth spine, published in Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume VIII, 14 pages with color plates, unmarked, very good. SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1829 - 1914) was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia and erythromelalgia. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of MD at Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the Civil War he had charge of nervous injuries and maladies at Turners Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist in neurology. Silas Weir Mitchell discovered and treated causalgia (today known as CRPS/RSD), a condition most often encountered by hand surgeons. He is considered the father of neurology as well as an early pioneer in scientific… Read More

Privately Printed for W. S. Van Dyke by California Graphic Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Collectible first edition, first printing of legendary American film director W. S. Van Dyke's journal written during the filming of Trader Horn in central Africa, a film, in turn, based on the book Trader Horn by celebrated ivory trader Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn. "First Printing" so stated on copyright page. Inscribed and signed by W. S. Van Dyke on front free endpaper thus: "To you Tyler - | and don't be too hard | on it! | W. S. Van Dyke | L. A. | 1-22-35." Signature unconditionally guaranteed to pass any COA examination. Bound in dark blue linen with gilt lettering to front and spine panels and gilt water buffalo to front panel. Includes 26 full-page photos of natives, big game animals and more, taken on location. 219 pp. Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear. An exceptionally presentable copy of an important African safari collectible.

Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey , 1907. SCARCE in current commerce. xi, 453, (1) pages, with 21 plates, 16 of them color lithograph plates of fish, and 188 figures in text. E.M. Uzzell and Co., Raleigh, printers and binders. Very Good Plus, no jacket, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering., cloth a bit faded at bottom of spine, light rubbing to boards, interior clean, bright, and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Small 4to.

Albany, NY: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and lighlty soiled, pages toned and some light finger soiling.. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Annual reports by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and black and white illustrations by Hy S. Watson. Blue cloth boards with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front boards. 24 color plates of fish, possibly by Denton, of Sea Herring, Kingfish, Rock Bass, Cod, Flat Fish, Rose Fish, Burbot, Maskalonge, Channel Bass, Calico Bass, Crappie, Yellow Mackerel, Pollack, Spotted Catfish, Flounder, Pompano, Short Pompano, Haddock, Gold Fish, Fresh-Water Drum, Hake, Whiting, Halibut, Spade Fish. Color plate of Partridge by W. S. Gillette and color plate of Beaver by Ernest Thompson Seton. Two folding maps of Adirondack areas. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 419 pages .

These two profusely illustrated books comprise a very comprehensive study of snaked in the United States and Canada. Volume One is in Very Good Condition with a Very Good Dustjacket. Volume Two is in Good Condition with a Very Good Dustjacket.
Due to the size of this item, expedited or priority shipping prices will be individually quoted. Media Mail cost within the U.S. will remain as listed.

London: Wilson and Spence and R. Christopher & T. Jennett, 1803. 1803 EARLY ENGLISH CHILDREN'S NATURAL HISTORY WITH 95 COPPER PLATES CONTAINING 300 ANIMALS PICTURED AFTER ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 leather binding with gilt rules and marble paper covered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt red leather label, new endpapers, 210 pp, 300 animals illustrated on 95 copper plates, including folding plate of whaling in Greenland (reinforced with paper backing). Browning to title page and page edges, overall good+ in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS BOREMAN (1730–1743) was one of the earliest English children's book publishers particularly dealing with animals. His bookshops were located around London. Boreman published along with Richard Ware and Thomas Game from the 1730s. His Three Hundred Animals was the first, published ca 1730 and written for children. He published approximately a dozen titles. Many of his books were based on… Read More

London: J. Cooke, at Shakespear's Head in Pater-Noster-Row, [ca. 1760]. First Edition. With an engraved frontispiece of a "chace" in the field, showing dogs, keepers, men on horseback and a country scene. Large 12mo, handsomely bound in contemporary antique mottled calf, the covers with double gilt fillet lines at the borders, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, the compartments elaborately decorated with fully gilt decorative tooling, two contrasting red and green morocco lettering labels gilt, elaborate gilt rolled turnovers, marbled end-leaves, all edges gilt. vi, [7] - 240 pp. A handsome copy, the text-block in excellent condition, clean and crisp, the binding with some light rubbing and age evidence, but without loss or significant wear. FIRST EDITION. A complete work for the sportsman, written at a time when field sports, hunting and angling were a gentleman's recreations and a socially important pastime. The preface states that the author has 'advanced nothing but what he knows… Read More

GAGGIN, E.R. Jolly Animals. With Illustrations by Keith Ward. NY: Rand McNally [1930]. 4to, 111pp. Grey cloth with spine stamped in black and color pictorial label affixed to the front. Pictorial endpapers in green ink; 7 full-page color illustrations and smaller illustrations on every other spread, alternating between full color and b&w. Spine ends and corners a bit worn, edges a bit rubbed, some light soiling and stains to front cover, minute traces of hand-soiling in a few page margins, else an internally clean, tight copy.
First edition. A collection of humorous stories about a group of anthropomorphic animals who find themselves in delightfully strange situations. The charming illustration of Keith Ward (best known as a commercial illustrator who created Borden's Elsie the Cow as well as the 1940 editions of Dick and Jane) are reminiscent of the work of Harrison Cady and capture the brightness and levity of these amusing tales.

Excudebat Antverpie Everardus Hoeswinckel, anno 1583.
Very elongated oblong 4to [275 x 120 mm]. Few scratches on the covers. Contemporary soft vellum.
First state of the 20 engravings.
The set comprises "a frontispiece and 20 copper-engraved plates (210 x 85 mm), unnumbered".
J. Thiebaud (Bibliographie des ouvrages français sur la chasse), says it is "very rare".
The engravings represent horses, deers, cows, rabbits, bears, boars, dog, butterflies, ostriches, birds, ducks, swans, peacocks …
They are the work of Queen Elizabeth of England's painter, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, born in Bruges towards 1530.
Painter and engraver, he studied with his father, Eghbert Gerards, in the Guilde in Bruges in 1558, then with Marten de Vos. In 1571 he was a painter for the queen Elizabeth of England.
A work by a great artist in contemporary condition.

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Excudebat Antverpie Everardus Hoeswinckel, anno 1583.
In-4 oblong, très allongé. Plats épidermés. Vélin souple de l'époque.
275 x 120 mm.
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New York, Delacorte Press, 2000, hardcover, 181 pp, First Printing thus by numberline, Fine in Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight bump to head of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight scuff to heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The first book in the master of children's fantasy writing's twelve-book, 'Wolves' series. Illustrated from drawings by Pat Marriott. ISBN 9780385327909