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.....
First edition of the first book devoted entirely to parrots in captivity, and one of the finest illustrated works on the order. Intended as a guide for keeping parrots as pets, the work features handsome hand-colored plates of macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and lovebirds. The plates were created by.....
First edition of this fine volume of plates depicting scenes in the White Mountains of New Hampshire by noted artist Isaac Sprague.
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.....