Category: Natural History, Geology, & Geography

A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster, On Occasion of the Late Earthquakes

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Vertue and Goadby, Stationers at the Royal Exchange : 1750

Seller ID: k200225b

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Good

One of several editions published in the year of the quake, 1750 (priority unknown.) 12mo, 16 pp. Unbound, as issued. Stitched at left margin, but stitches mostly pulled. ##### In 1750 a series of five earthquakes rocked London. This sermon by Thomas Sherlock warns of a merciful God to a sinful people and lays part of God’s wrath at the feet of a sinful press: "Have not all the Abominations of the publick Stews been open to view by lewd Pictures exposed to Sale at Noon-day? Have not Histories or Romances of the vilest Prostitutes been published, intended merely to display the most execrable s...
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The Quantocks and Their Associations. A Paper Read Before the Members of the Bath Literary Club on the 11th December 1871. [Significant, inscribed association copy]

By: NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Bath: Printed for Private Circulation : 1873

Seller ID: k190121l

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the landscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscription on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mathematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [1804-1877]. We believe Jones m...
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The Tower of Pelee: New Studies of the Great Volcano of Martinique

By: Angelo Heilprin

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., : 1904

Seller ID: k200120j

1st ed., 4to. 3/4 red cloth. 24 b/w plates, 62pp. of text. Heilprin was an American geologist who arrived in Martinique soon after the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902; he was the first scientist to ascend the crater of the volcano. This work is his report on his third visit the volcano in 1903 and includes photographs by him. Good: Internally, a clean, tight copy. Covers worn at extremities, panels soiled and toned, rubbing to spine; hinges lightly shaken.
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The Book of the Hamburgs

By: Baum, L. Frank

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Books of Wonder : 1991

Seller ID: g1001

First thus. Facsimile edition;first hardcover edition. 12mo, brown illustrated cloth. Published 14 years before The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, this was Baum's first book -- an illustrated guide to the breeding and raising of the many varieties of Hamburg chickens. The book displays the origins of Baum's folksy writing style. New copy.
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The Volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa: their variously recorded history to the present time.

By: BRIGHAM, William T.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press : 1909

Seller ID: k190114d

Condition: Very Good

4to. Tan cloth with black lettering. [vii, 222 p. illus., pl. xli-lxvii] color frontispiece, 26 b&w plates, numerous text illustrations. First edition. Separately published as Vol II No. 4 in the Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. William Tufts Brigham (1841-1926) was curator of the museum and wrote on all aspects of Hawaiian culture and natural history. This work is a history of the recorded eruptions of the volcanoes and is comprehensive in its coverage of sources and past accounts of volcanic activity. Condition: ex-lib but in very goo...
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Pictures of California Floods 1955 - 1956 [portfolio]

By: California State Dept of Education

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sacramento, California State Dept of Education : 1956

Seller ID: k181231a

40 single plate black & white photographs (8 1/2" x 11"), printed on stiff paper and housed in publisher's printed portfolio folder; accompanied by three page "Teacher's Guide"). Plates are fine; folder has some wear and a few nicks but very good overall; title written in red ink on the spine. The photographs depict the famous CA flooding throughout the north state the week before Christmas --, principally Yuba City and the Feather River, but also other cities and counties -- including a few in the south state. ; a photographic archive of the mainly northern and central California flood even...
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The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules To Judge of The Changes of The Weather Grounded on Forty Years Experiance: By Which You May Know The Weather For Several Days to Come and Some Cases Months. To Which is Added A Rational Account of The Causes of Such Alterations , The Nature of The Wind, Rain, and Snow etc

By: Claridge, (John)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Thomas Hurst : 1827

Seller ID: k190220f

Condition: Fair-Good

London: Thomas Hurst, Edward Chance, & Co., 1827. 1827. Small 8vo. xi, 56 pp. Original ¼ leather over plain boards, gilt-stamped spine title. A “new edition” of a classic first printed in 1670 as “The Shepherd's Legacy”. , Observations and predictions about weather, with aphorisms, rhymes, and folk wisdom. CONDITION: Fair-Good. The text block is clean, with no tears and very little foxing or toning. Covers have moderate edgewear but substantial rubbing of the spine, front hinge split, rear hinge cracked; prior owners penciled names on front flyleaf.
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THE PICTURESQUE WORLD OR, SCENES IN MANY LANDS

By: COLANGE, Leo De (editor)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Estes & Lauriat, Boston : 1878

Seller ID: k200830b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st ed. Folio, (10" x 12-1/2"). Vol 1 only (of two); publisher's decorated morocco leather, gilt titles, raised bands, a.e.g. Illustrated with 48 steel engraved views and hundreds of smaller wood engravings comprising mountain, lake, and river scenery, parks, palaces, cathedrals, churches, castles, abbeys, and other views. Vol I containing chapters on Europe: Italy France Russia Belgium Holland, Greece, Spain, Germany. Condition: Good+; Internally Vg; a clean bright copy with occasional light foxing not affecting the plates. FEP cracked. Covers heavily rubbed at corners, surface wear to b...
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East African Annual 1931-32.

By: The East African Standard Ltd.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Nairobi, The East African Standard Ltd. : 1932

Seller ID: k200824d

Condition: Good

1st ed. 4to (11 x 15.5 inches). 166 pp. Library binding, orange cloth. With original pictorial covers bound in. Hundreds of period photographs and advertisements illustrate East African agriculture, hunting, architecture, natural history, sports, etc. [Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar]. This was the second year of publication. Ex-libris Paramount Pictures Research Department with the film studio’s ink stamp and library pocket inside front cover. Condition: Good; Covers fair -- well worn and soiled. Interior very
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Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection.

By: Tyndall, John.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Appleton : 1882

Seller ID: k190203a

Condition: Good

8vo, brown decorated cloth. 338pp. CONDITION: Good -- internally clean, tight and, bright. Covers lightly rubbed at corners and spine edges, more so at spine ends with some chipping.
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Eugenic Marriage, The. Volumes I-IV Complete

By: W. Grant Hague, M.D.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: The Review of Reviews : 1914

Seller ID: dg17122301

12mo. Half leather over marbled boards. Tight, square binding. Four of four volumes. Very good; some fading at extremities and spine, several small nicks to spine ends, end papers toned. Internally clean and tight.
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Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, Etc. with a short description annexed to each plate.

By: WHYMPER, Josiah Wood

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge : 1849

Seller ID: k190220e

Condition: Fair

1st ed. thus, 4to., (13 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches). 30 hand-colored engraved plates. Original publisher's brown cloth, blind decorations, gilt titles. Whymper was an English wood engraver, book illustrator and watercolor painter who specialized in riverscapes. He was also well known for his fine engravings of animals, fish, and landscapes for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (as here). The plates were first published in 1846 and this collected edition in 1849. They were offered both colored and uncolored versions. Scenes depicted include the Aurora Borealis, Geysers of Iceland, Niagra F...
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Hand-colored copper engraving “Geography”, World Map, 1686

By: [Cartography] Richard Blome

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Richard Blome : 1686

Seller ID: k201016b

Condition: Very good

Hand-colored copper engraving “Geography”, World Map, 1686 #####Size: approx. 9.3 x 15 inches ##### This unusual illustration of the science of geography centers on a simple double-hemisphere map of the world depicting California as an island. The surrounding oval contains engravings showing how the land is measured and divided; The Earth is divided into Realmes, Realmes into Provinces, Provinces into Regions, Regions into Countreys, Countreys into Territories, Territories into Lands, Lands into Acres, Acres into Rodds, Rodds into Paces, Paces into Feet, Feet into Inches and Inches into Bar...
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Reforesters of America: A Plan in which Every Man, Woman and Child can have a Part in Reforesting Our Country

By: [Hollywood] MILLS, MABEL L. (Ed)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: American Reforestation Association : 1925

Seller ID: s200901c

Binding: Illustrated boards

Condition: Good

First and only printing. Small 4to, illustrated boards, 118 pp. illustrated throughout with photos of film celebrities planting trees, decorative borders. A collaboration between the American Reforestation Association and Hollywood stars to encourage communities to plant and preserve the nation’s trees. Practical advice with poetic inspiration, with photo illustrations of Sequoia National Park, the Hooker Oak and other trees. Full page portraits of about 20 Hollywood stars planting tees, including Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, Norma Shearer, Rudolf Valentino, and Mary Pickf...
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Wellington Kansas Tornado, 1892. Five cabinet card photographs

By: [Tornados] E.B. Snell Elite Gallery

Price: $175.00

Seller ID: k220722b

Condition: Good

Four 4.25x6.5" sepia toned cabinet card photos by E.B. Snell Elite Gallery, Wellington KS. One 5.25x8.5" by H. Beck Winfield Kansas, with two inked annotations identifying destroyed properties./////On May 27, 1892, a cyclone ripped through the heart of Wellington Kansas, leaving 17 dead, numerous injuries, leaving hundreds homeless, and causing $500,000 in property damage. At that time, Wellington was one of the state's fastest growing cities, with a population of 12,000. The cyclone caused extensive damage to a 26-block area and ended the momentum of growth the city had been experiencing. P...
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Category: Natural History, Geology, & Geography