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Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte der Insecten 1. Teil [Discourses on the Natural History of Insects, Volume I] by Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias - 1796
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Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte der Insecten 1. Teil [Discourses on the Natural History of Insects, Volume I]
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1796 FIRST EDITION OF INSECT VOLUME (MAINLY BEETLES) WITH 46 SPECTACULAR HAND COLORED COPPER PLATES BY RENOWNED AUGSBURG ENGRAVER.
6 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/2 inches hardcover, green paper covered boards, green leather spine with red leather gilt title label, ink inscription by previous owner dated 3.4.1921 to front free endpaper, engraved title page depicting cherubs in the countryside collecting and mounting insects on a board. 376 pp, 46 hand-colored copper plates. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, gilt spine bright, scattered foxing and browning of text and plates, but colors are vivid and unmarked. Very good minus. Volume I (offered here) contains beetles, grasshoppers, mantises, cicadas, leafhoppers, aphids.
GOTTLIEB TOBIAS WILHELM (1758 - 1811) was a Protestant pastor and natural history writer, probably best known for his monumental "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" ("Wilhelm's Discourses on Natural History"). This was issued in weekly instalments from his father's publishing house, with illustrations by renowned Augsburg engraver JACOB XAVER SCHMUZER (1713–1775). Overall scope of the work: 25 volumes (with a total of 1469 illustrations), 19 volumes.
1796 FIRST EDITION OF INSECT VOLUME (MAINLY BEETLES) WITH 46 SPECTACULAR HAND COLORED COPPER PLATES BY RENOWNED AUGSBURG ENGRAVER.
6 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/2 inches hardcover, green paper covered boards, green leather spine with red leather gilt title label, ink inscription by previous owner dated 3.4.1921 to front free endpaper, engraved title page depicting cherubs in the countryside collecting and mounting insects on a board. 376 pp, 46 hand-colored copper plates. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, gilt spine bright, scattered foxing and browning of text and plates, but colors are vivid and unmarked. Very good minus. Volume I (offered here) contains beetles, grasshoppers, mantises, cicadas, leafhoppers, aphids.
GOTTLIEB TOBIAS WILHELM (1758 - 1811) was a Protestant pastor and natural history writer, probably best known for his monumental "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" ("Wilhelm's Discourses on Natural History"). This was issued in weekly instalments from his father's publishing house, with illustrations by renowned Augsburg engraver JACOB XAVER SCHMUZER (1713–1775). Overall scope of the work: 25 volumes (with a total of 1469 illustrations), 19 volumes.
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The Forms of Fiction.
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The Poetical Romances of Tristan; Tristan: Recueil de ce qui Reste des Poëms Relatifs a Ses Aventures
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Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Title page in Volume 1 in both English and French.. Publisher's original cloth in a small sand grain design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type 'M' (Tomlinson). Krupp (p.30) notes this as San1, but without a Winterbottom cross-reference. She ascribes an appearance date of 1850 for this early design; to find it on books published in 1835 is a treat. That it would appear on a Pickering work should be no surprise. Pickering started experimenting with bookcloth as early as 1823 through his binder, Archibald Leighton, who was responsible for many innovations in the design and use of early bookcloth. The text constitutes mainly the remains of Thomas of Britain's Tristan Romance, composed in the 12th and 13th centuries in Norman French and Greek, here edited and rendered in the originals by Fr. MIchel. This is a…
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OPTICKS: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light
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London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1931. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Reprinted from the Fourth Edition (1730), with a foreword by Prof. Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate, and an introduction by Prof. E.T. Whittaker, F.R.S. Small octavo: xxviii, [2], 414 p. with textual figures. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild foxing along the edges, with some light edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. First published in 1704, Newton's Opticks provides not only a survey of 18th century knowledge about all aspects of light, but also countless number of the author's unique scientific insights.
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NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing.. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.
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Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Title page in Volume 1 in both English and French.. Publisher's original cloth in a small sand grain design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type 'M' (Tomlinson). Krupp (p.30) notes this as San1, but without a Winterbottom cross-reference. She ascribes an appearance date of 1850 for this early design; to find it on books published in 1835 is a treat. That it would appear on a Pickering work should be no surprise. Pickering started experimenting with bookcloth as early as 1823 through his binder, Archibald Leighton, who was responsible for many innovations in the design and use of early bookcloth. The text constitutes mainly the remains of Thomas of Britain's Tristan Romance, composed in the 12th and 13th centuries in Norman French and Greek, here edited and rendered in the originals by Fr. MIchel. This is a…
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OPTICKS: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light
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London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1931. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Reprinted from the Fourth Edition (1730), with a foreword by Prof. Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate, and an introduction by Prof. E.T. Whittaker, F.R.S. Small octavo: xxviii, [2], 414 p. with textual figures. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild foxing along the edges, with some light edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. First published in 1704, Newton's Opticks provides not only a survey of 18th century knowledge about all aspects of light, but also countless number of the author's unique scientific insights.
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Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte, der Insecten [dritter Theil].
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Augsburg, in der Martin Engelbrechtischen Kunsthandlung 1798.. 8°. 418 S. mit Kupfertitel mit Vignette u. 52 altkolor. Kupfertaf.; es fehlen die 11 Register-Bll. im Anhang. Späteres HLn. Kanten berieben, Ecken bestoßen, Rücken mit Kleberesten eines Etiketts, Vorsätze erneuert. Titelbl. mit Löschung des Titelzusatzes "dritter Theil". Wenige Seiten oder Taf. mit leichten Randläsuren. - (Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte, Bd. 8) Dritter Teil der Abhandlung über "Insecten", der als 8. Band innerhalb des 25 Bände umfassenden Werkes "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" von Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) erschienen ist. Wilhelm war Pfarrer und widmete sich intensiv der Naturgeschichte. Sein Vater Christian Wilhelm war Kupferstecher und Verleger, er war zudem Inhaber der Engelbrechtschen Buchhandlung in Augsburg. Die Kupfertafeln zeigen u. a. Wespen und Bienen aber auch Krebse.
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Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Der Insecten erster Theil. [Und:] Der Insecten zweyter Theil. [Und:] Der Insecten dritter Theil. [3 Teile in 3 Bden. m. zus. 145 (von 150) gestochenen u. handkolorierten Taf.].
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Augsburg, Engelbrechtische, 1796 - 1798. Kl.8°, 1. Teil: Gestochenes Titelbl., XLVIII, 376 S. u. 45 (von 46) gestochene u. handkolorierte Taf.; 2. Teil: Gestochenes Titelblatt., 424 S. u. 52 gestochene handkolorierte Taf.; 3. Teil: Gestochenes Titelbl., 418 S., 11 Bl. Register u. 48 (von 52) gestochene handkolorierte Taf., Priv.-HLwd. d. Zt. m. Rundum-Rotschnitt, In Teil 1 fehlt die Taf. 46, in Teil 3 fehlen die Taf. 49 - 52. Rücken min. fleckig u. etw. gebrauchsspurig, etw. berieben, tlw. min. stockfl., Taf. an den Ràndern tlw. knittrig; allg. gutes Ex. Jeweils Erstausgabe. - Der (bis auf 5 Tafeln) vollständige Teil der Insekten (bei 25 Bänden des Gesamtwerks). - Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758 - 1811) war der Sohn des Augsburger Kupferstechers und Kunstverlegers Christian Wilhelm, Inhabers der Martin Engelbrechtischen Kunsthandlung. Er besuchte von 1767 bis 1777 das Gymnasium bei St. Anna, studierte von 1777 bis 1781 in Leipzig Theologie, Philosophie und Philologie bei den Professoren Ernst…
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar
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The Silence Of The North
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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