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Best.-Nr. 31680OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1977-94. A COMPLETE SET OF THIS MAJOR WORK ON ORNITHOLOGY 9 VOLUMES. A VERY FINE SET IN ALL WITH COMPLETE FINE DUSTWRAPPERS. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS WILL BE REQUIRED. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1977-94 unknown
1769Best.-Nr. 016541Lugduni Batavorum: Westenium 1769. Latin text throughout. Title page dedication leaf pp 506 ii with seven engraved folding plates and one folding table slight damage to the margin of the ornithological plate a little age-toning generally endpapers unevenly browned but otherwise very clean internally bound in full contemporary polished calf slight wear at the corners joints cracking slightly lacking a small piece at the head of the spine. The students whose names appear on the dissertations were not necessarily their authors; it was their function to present the dissertation and defend it in public debate but the responsibility for the content of the dissertation was largely that of the professor in this case Linnaeus. The fact that Linnaeus cited the Amoenitates as the place of publication for plant names he credited to himself indicates that he was generally the principal author of the work. At the end of this volume is a list of "Editiones operum auctoris" including the Amoenitates with the clear implication that Linnaeus is the author. Of great importance for "Potus Theae" in which Pehr Tillaeus discussed among other things the properties and benefits of tea as a medicine. Tillaeus's dissertation was the first in-depth botanical study of the tea bush and he also named parts of the plant. The tea plant had only been introduced to Sweden and Europe generally as recently as 1763. Also includes Hoffman's "Potus Chocolatae" - a botanico-medical essay on the merits of drinking chocolate flavored with vanilla. Botanical accounts are given of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao L. and of the vanilla orchid Epidendrum vanilla L. = Vanilla fragrans. The preparation of the chocolate beans and of the beverage by the Spaniards is described. Linnaeus advocated use of the beverage as a pleasant drink and for treatment of hypochrondria and hemorrhoids. Other essays include : Gahn's "Fundamenta Agrostographiae" - a classified list of grasses of economic importance preceded by a history of prior studies of grasses. Laurin's "Menthae usus" - an essay on the kinds of mints useful in medicinal preparations. Lado's "Motus polychrestus" - an essay on the importance of physical exercise as a preservative and restorative of good health. Tengborg's "Hortus Culinaris" - an essay on edible and economic plants of Sweden their culture and hardiness. Includes those then in use and others suggested. Backmann's "Fundamenta ornithologica" - an exposition of the fundamentals of Linnaeus' classification of birds. Uddman's "Lepra" - An overview of leprosy including hypotheses about causes types of leprosy possible treatments. Aphonin's "Usus historiae naturalis" - An essay on the importance of a knowledge of natural history to greater improvement of agriculture and horticulture with emphasis on those kinds of plants best suited as food for each kind of domestic animal. Osterdam's "Siren lacertina" - an account of the two-legged Siren lizard of South Carolina sometimes known as the Carolina mud iguana. Berlin's "Usus Muscorum" - an historical study of the economic uses of lichens in Sweden including Lapland. Roos' "Mundus Invisibilis" - a medico-botanical treatise on airborne spores and microorganisms some of which Linnaeus believed to be responsible for infectious diseases. Blad's "Fundamenta entomologiae" - an historical review of entomology with a list of 32 pre-Linnaean authors instructions on how to collect and preserve insects and the fundamentals of their classification. Wedenberg's "Varietas ciborum" - a medico-nutritional essay on the wide range of foodstuffs eaten by man and a classification of these foods into 10 groups and the effects of diets in which each group dominates and the diseases which might result. Linnaeus' concluding advice is "Ne quid nimis" nothing in excess ! With approximately ten other essays. LATIN TEXT THROUGHOUT. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AMOENITATES VOLUMES. RARE. Full Leather. Very Good. Westenium Hardcover
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1960Best.-Nr. 004032Garden City NY: Doubleday American Museum of Natural History 1960. Signed limited edition this being #272 of an edition of 500. Bound in full green leather in the original slipcase. 272pp. ills 68 tipped-in photographic color plates. Greenewalt was one of the first to master photographing hummingbirds in flight. Photos are supplemented by detailed illustrations and diagrams. Behavior and characteristics; feathers color and iridescence; flight photographic methods and equipment. References index. Very light tiny spots of edgewear otherwise fine. Full-Leather. Very Good. 4to. Doubleday (American Museum of Natural History) Hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. Alibris.0015691Thomson Sweet & Maxwell. 2005. 10th ed. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. still sealed in plastic! Includes 1st supplement. Thomson, Sweet & Maxwell hardcover
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1857Best.-Nr. 251321857 From Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarkables Par Leurs Formes et Leurs Couleurs. Scenes variees de leurs moeurs & de leurs habitudes- Paris: Ledot aine (or Berrieux) and London: E. Gambert & Co. (or Victor Delarue), ca. 1857- Lithographs with original hand-coloring,grandes marges leg.efftrangées marges,timbre sec,bon etat
1909Pages 333-372 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: Notable American Homes - "Firenze Cottage," the Summer Home of Daniel Guggenheim, Esq., Elberon, NJ.; A Swimming-Pool for Private Gardens; Trellises; Vacation Home-Making; L'Art Nouveau Houses in Austria; Birds and the Country Home; A Group of Bungalows at Pasadena, California, Costing from Fifteen-Hundred Dollars Upwards - great two-page compilation of 16 photos; Photographing Birds; Concrete Ornaments for the Garden and How to Make Them; A Colonial Suburban Home - Guaranteed Cost $6,000; "Weldacre," The Home of George E. Smith, Esq., Philips Beach, MA; Do Plants Think?; Nice one-page photo-ad for the Invincible vaccum machine by the Electric Renovator Mfg. Company; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Covers and some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
1908494 pages. Apparently rebound in black half-leather and blue/gold marbled boards and endpapers. Index. "In 1899 a treaty with the Indians of the great Mackenzie basin followed the report of a Senate select Committee, chaired by Sir John Schultz; but, owing to the absence of roads and markets, and other essentials of civilized life, not to speak of the vast unsettled areas of prairie to the south, the incoming, until now that the railways are projected, of any great body of immigrants was very wisely discouraged, and this in the interest of the settler himself. The following narrative, therefore, has lain in the author's diary since the year of the expedition it records." - Preface. Numerous black and white photographic plates including tissue-protected frontis. Attractive colour fold-out map dated 1900 depicts the areas encompassed by Treaty No. 8 and the Indian tribes therein. Top edge gilt. Contents clean and unmarked. Tight and square with moderate external wear. Wallace p.54, Lande 1332, Peel [3] 2463. Book
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1868Best.-Nr. 11094Paris, A. Laplace, [1868]. In-4 de XII-367 pages, demi-chagrin vert, dos à 4 petits nerfs orné de fleurons, filets, encadrements et titre dorés, plats de percaline, tranches dorées. Coins frottés, quelque petites épidermures, manque à la coiffe supérieure. Quelques rousseurs.
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183312mo., text in double-column, with engraved title-vignette and very numerous fine woodcut illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in black full roan, sides with debossed multiple frame border stopped at corners by rosettes all in blind and enclosing Coape crest blocked in gilt, back with four raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, red endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. WITH THE FINE NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF JAMES COAPE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Harris's 'Natural History' was first published in 1793. This scarce edition is, we believe, the first issue with the title 'Dictionary'. 'In the present edition of Dr. Harris's valuable work it has been deemed advisable to throw the Appendix into the general alphabet. No other alterations have been made; but some important corrections and copious additions have been introduced, both the in the body of the work and in the notes' (Advertisement following title). A DELIGHTFUL AND HIGHLY DESIRABLE COPY OF AN ELEGANT AND EXTREMELY SCARCE EDITION PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS.
