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.....
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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.....
Second, revised edition of this stunningly-illustrated, hand-colored entomological work first published between 1770 and 1782 by wealthy London gold- and silversmith Dru Drury (1725–1803). Drury’s entomological collection rose to fame during his life, and both Linnaeus (1707–1778) and William Kirby (1759–1850) named species after him. Most of the plates were.....
A work of “unsurpassed elegance” on North American fungi by eminent mycologist William Gilson Farlow (1844–1919), after whom Harvard’s Farlow Herbarium library is named. Depicting 103 species of fungi commonly found across the north-eastern United States, the Icones was a forty-one year $50,000 project bringing together “four botanists, two professional.....
A selection of twelve vivid plates of Hawaiian fishes based on those in David Starr Jordan’s authoritative study, The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands. Published by the Honolulu-based Island Curio Company, one of “very, very few curio businesses in the islands” during the early 20th-century (Steiner), this is one.....