THE COSTUME OF TURKEY, ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS; with Descriptions in English and French, descriptions and drawings by Octavian Dalvimart (active early 19th century), engraved by John Dadley (British, 1767-after 1807) and William Poole (British, active 1803-1807), 1802. Printed for William Miller, London. Quarto, 58 stipple engravings with hand coloring and laid tissue […]

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin: Ambassador, Author and Conjurer, First Edition, by Robert-Houdin, edited by Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie, 1859. Published by George G. Evans, Philadelphia. Octavo, 445 pages including index, hardbound in brown pebbled cloth with shield pictorial covers and gilt lettering to spine, brown end papers with pencil inscriptions from previous owner. 7 3/4" H […]

Nine (9) Books related to early America. 1st item: Three Years Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, For More than Five Thousand Miles by Captain Jonathan Carver, 1796. Published by Key and Simpson, Philadelphia. Octavo, 360 pages including appendix, 20 pages of list of subscribers, hardbound in modern black cloth with gilt lettering […]

Ten (10) Midwifery/Medical books. 1st item: A Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery, Vol. II, by Thomas Denman, M.D., 1802. Printed by James Oram, for William Falconer and Evert Dyckinck, New York. Octavo, 281 pages with index, rebound in brown leather with original covers and spine with gilt lettering, ink inscription from previous owner, top […]

Ten (10) Botanic Garden books. 1st-4th items: The Botanic Garden, Vol. I, Part I and II, in one (1) book, Vol I., Part III and Vol. II, Part IV, in one (1) book, Vol. II, Part V and VI, in one (1) book, and part IX, in one (1) book, by Benjamin Maund, F.L.S., 1825, […]

Eight (8) late 18th/mid 19th century herbal related books. 1st item: Culpeper's English Family Physician: Or, Medical Herbal Enlarged, Vol. II, by Joshua Hamilton, M.D., 1792. Printed for W. Locke, London. Octavo, 378 pages including indexes and explanations, 84 copper plate engravings with hand-coloring, old rebinding in three-quarter brown leather with brown cloth covers and […]

Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, Theoretical and Practical, First Edition, by Thomas Reid, 1826. Printed for John Fairbairn, Edinburgh, James Duncan, London, J. Cumming, Dublin. Octavo, 476 pages including appendix, index, bibliography, 20 folding copper engraved plates with additional illustrations, rebound in half brown cloth with brown leather corners and brown marbled paper, original […]

Eight (8) Roger Tory Peterson leather-bound books. 1st item: Author Signed, The Peterson Field Guide Series: A Field Guide to Western Birds, Third Edition, Numbered 843/2000, text and illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson, maps by Virginia Marie Peterson, 1990. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 12mo, 432 pages including systematic checklist, index, chromolithographic, and lithographic […]

The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio Audubon's Birds of America, First Edition, by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson, 1981. Published by Abbeville Press, New York. Baby Elephant Folio, 694 pages with concordance and index, chromolithographic frontispiece of Audubon, 482 full page plates, and 435 duotones, hardbound in half black faux leather with off […]

A Field Guide to the Birds, First Edition, First State, by Roger Tory Peterson, 1934. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York. 12mo, 167 pages including index, lithographic and chromolithographic plates and frontispiece with additional illustrations, hardbound in green leather with silver lettering on title and spine, ex libris bookplate, inside of front cover. 7 […]