In China's Border Provinces - the Turbulent Career of Joseph Rock, Botanist-Explorer by Sutton, S.B - 1974

London: Jonathan Cape [1936], 1st printing of the new edition. (4to) 166pp. plus xl plates. Very good, no dust jacket. Rust cloth with gilt titles. The top edge is stained rust, 2 maps, 40 plates, illustrations, folding plan, index. Contributors include M.N. Tod (Inscriptions from Southern Palestine; Greek). Introduction by Frederic Kenyon. Locale: Middle East. (History--Africa).

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1907. Good-Very Good condition (see photos). Volumes 1 and 2 [May 1907- May 1909] of the Jute, Hemp, Flax, Rope, and Twine Trades' Journal. Complete in 24 monthly numbers, bound into one large volume. Oversize Hardcover. 9.75" wide by 12.25" tall. The binding is brown cloth with maroon leather spine and corners. Covers moderately rubbed with a few tiny nicks. Front joint cracked, but holding firm. Internal condition is Very Good. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. First Edition. Well illustrated with drawings, photos, diagrams, etc. Indexes. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments (but only the standard charge for media mail). . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Good-Very Good condition. 236pp. + 214pp.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Half calf and marbled boards, modern leather spine label. Marbles textblock and endpages. Bindings tight and square. Moderate handling wear. Text clean, no ownership markings, light even toning. 8vo; (iii)-viii, 472 pages. 8.5 by 5.25 inches.  First Edition. Woodcut illustrations.. Reports about life under the Ottoman Turks and descriptions of regional monuments, Pyramids, etc. This is a curious mixture of information from St. John's own travels in 1832-3 with details from many other writers on Egypt, e.g. Alpinus, Light, Wilde, Burckhardt, Belzoni. A shortened and "more literary" description of the author's Egypt and Mohammed Ali REF: OCLC: 25950873. Bold: 013781126; Hilmy: 204ff [vii]

New York: Thomas R. Knox & CO, 1885. A Very Good Hardcover. A Very Good Hardcover; No Dust Jacket Issued.. Publisher's dark brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt and spine and front stamped decoration in black. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with frayed spine tips and minor rubs on corners. Endpages renewed. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; xv, [i], 441 pp. Frontispiece & 15 plates.. The Montauk's cruise was from New York to the Caribbean, which set sail February 21, 1884 and returned May 3, 1884 stopping at Bermuda, St. Kitt's, St. Pierre, Martinique, Trinidad, Curacao, Jamaica, Cuba, Havana and Florida. An interesting amount of sheet music and poetry add to the narrative. Gives very detailed descriptions of social conditions with notes on slavery and the natives in the places visited. The author was an accomplished stylist including ironic humor, puns and amusing turns of phrase in his narration. REF: Toy,1057; Morris & Howland, 92;… Read More

Boca Raton: CRC Press 978-1-4398-5222-4 [978-1-4398-5222-4] 2011. (Hardcover) 584pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Color photographs, plans, charts, tables, bibliography, index, CD in pocket. The bottom corner is bumped. (Science, Groundwater, Hydrology, Science).

I.N. Kushnerev & Ko., Moskva (Moscow), 1892. Printed boards, no dust jacket. Good /No Jacket. A well-used copy of the rare first edition of a popular Russian flora. The author was Piotr Feliksovich Maevsky (1851-1892). Significant edgewear to cover, internally sound with minimal tanning of paper. Owner's signature and oil spot on ffep (M. Kirshbaum?), another on end paper (V. Rikovshky?) with oaktree bookplate of Heino Ross. Spine sl. frayed at top edge, some insect damage to glued areas. The text contains keys to genera and species, generic descriptions and Russian and Latin names of genera and species, summaries of distribution (by local government region) and habitat, flowering times, and selected line drawings mostly showing both the whole plant and flowers or fruits. A compact yet comprehensive flora which went through several editions, a third (edited by B. Fedchenko) in 1902 and another in 1917, an 8th (with a slightly different title) in 1954 and a 9th (edited by B.K. Shishkin) in 1964.… Read More

London: the author, 1813. 1st edition. Publisher's boards. Good /No Jacket. Donor's inscription "A present from Rev. H. Pritchard Dinas Hall Anglesea (sic) to Owen Price, 1881" on t.p. A nicely preserved copy with untrimmed edges, title blind-inscribed (by hand) on spine. xvi, 151, xiv, plate facing p. xv, 153-255 pp. The first Welsh local flora, particularly noted for its appendix of Welsh names of plants.

London: John W. Parker, 1850. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 293, 279pp. Blue embossed cloth, gilt ship vignette to front cover, all edges gilt, frontispiece with tissue-guard for each volume. Covers edgeworn, spine chipped at head and tail and darkened, contents age-toned most heavily at first and last few pages, light foxing to fronitspieces and c first and last few pages, binding is tight. Evocative descriptions of the landscapes, environment and the people in America in mid 19th century.

London: J.M. Cobbett, 1822. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 360pp. Bound in modern leather, marbled boards, paper spine label. folding map. Text is tanned and clean, folding map has minor archival tape repair and is in very sound condition. Author's descriptions of the country, it's culture, its agriculture including a discussion of the farming of the Ruta Baga. He crtiicizes at length Morris Birkbeck's settlement in Illinois. Howes C- 525.

NEW ~ 2 Vols. Hardcover with dust jackets. Vol. I, Kuntursuyo: 2a edicion, 354 pp; Vol. II, Uturunkusuyo: 1a edicion, 361 pp. Articulos publicados originalmente en el diario El Comercio, de Lima. The essays in these hefty volumes cover both major national parks and lesser-known sacred sites of ecological conservation in Peru in all geographical regions--coastal, Andean, and Amazonian. En espanol / Spanish. Brand new--removed from original plastic to access publishing information. Weight over 8 lbs may result in additional shipping charges.