Paris. 1616. [8],375,[16] leaves. Early vellum. Titlepage slightly worn at fore-edge. Scattered light soiling. Slight worming in gutter, not affecting text; two wormholes through last few leaves, minutely affecting text in spots. Bookplate of famous collector Alberto Parreno on verso of final leaf. Generally very good. Fourth French edition of.....

Chicago. 1869. [2],[133]-337,viii,iv pp. plus portrait frontispiece and fourteen plates (some colored). Original printed wrappers, chipped, spine partially perished. Faint institutional stamp on front wrapper. Very good, with nice, clean plates. In a half morocco box. One of the rarest American color plate books, and among the earliest ornithological representations.....

Boston. 1848. 247pp. Frontis. Illus. Half title. Original printed boards. Boards sunned, lower half of backstrip lacking and top half torn but cords sound, bookplate. Dampstained throughout, some scattered foxing, else internally good. "Second edition - enlarged." Includes a history of the vine, directions for its culture and propagation. Indexed.....

Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1737 [i.e. 1736]. [16]pp. Stitched. Final page soiled, else text quite clean. Final page strengthened at foredge, repaired along gutter. Overall, very good. An early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames' run of almanacs predated Benjamin Franklin's POOR.....

Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1743 [i.e 1742]. [16]pp. Stitched. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Some loss in margins of three leaves, affecting a few letters in one leaf of the calendar. About very good. An early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames'.....

New York. 1813. 75pp. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper lacking. Front wrapper chipped. Foxing throughout. Good. First edition of this dissertation on the medicinal virtues of the thoroughwort or Indiansage plant. Anderson sought to contribute to the materia medica from indigenous American plants and includes accounts of twenty-six experiments conducted.....

Dallas: Banks, Upshaw and Company, 1935. [10],274pp. Contemporary pictorial cloth. Fine. A children's book that encourages "boy and girl readers" to "keep your eyes and ears alert, you can find here the most interesting wild things in America." With many photographs and illustrations.

New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854. Three large octavo volumes. 155 handcolored lithographed plates by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and John Wodehouse Audubon. Contemporary three-quarter black morocco and cloth, spines gilt. Third volume expertly rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. Minor wear to extremities, front hinge of second.....

Boston. March 23, 1833. [3]pp., with integral address leaf, on a folded folio sheet. Previously folded, with old separations along folds expertly repaired with no loss of text. A few very small edge chips. Paper restored where it had been torn away by breaking of seal. Light tanning, slight discoloration.....

New York: J.J. Audubon, 1842. Lithograph, handcolored, by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 27 3/8 inches. Very good. A fine image of the American Wildcat, one of the best images from the greatest illustrated natural history work to be produced in America during the 19th century.....

London. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slight shelf wear. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Very good. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining episodes from his various writings, with many scenes set in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.

Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831-1835. Various paginations. Modern three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some unobtrusive ink underlining on titlepage. Minor foxing and age-toning. Very good. These extracts from ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY pull together in one volume all sixty of the short travel.....

London. 1829. Double elephant folio print, framed. Near fine condition. Audubon's depiction of the Mississippi Kite appeared in 1829 as plate 117 in THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. This plate aroused considerable debate at the time, because many natural historians were quick to note the similarity between the lower of the.....