First edition. Adams issued this pamphlet not as a trade catalog or a scientific venture, but to encourage those who received it to trade shells with him in order to expand his collection: The design of this catalogue is simply to facilitate exchanges with correspondents. The author would be happy.....
![Item #8146 [With autograph notes] Une maison au bout du monde [The Outermost House]. Henry Beston](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8146_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689807605)
First French edition. Includes two signed notes by Beston from 1960 on Chimney Farm notecards. Both addressed to Jasper Jacob Stahl, a historian of Waldoboro, Maine. First note reads “Dear Jasper, Thank you a world for your warm and erudite congratulations. When I saw a letter from you in the.....
First edition of this fine volume of plates depicting scenes in the White Mountains of New Hampshire by noted artist Isaac Sprague. As Oakes explains in the preface, he conceived of this work while preparing a flora of the White Mountains, to which he wanted to add an illustrated guide.....
First editions of both works. Two rare and early works by the polymath naturalist Constantine Rafinesque (1783–1840), born in Constantinople and raised in Marseilles, though his name is forever associated with American botany, zoology, and linguistics. After an American apprenticeship, Rafinesque lived in Palermo from 1805 to 1815 and published.....