First edition. Inscribed in ink by Beston on the front free endpaper, as follows: “For George Hall, Esqr., with the compliments of the Outermost Householder. Henry Beston October 1928.” CONDITION: Good, extremities slightly worn, spine faded with author and title barely legible, newspaper clippings about Beston affixed to the front.....
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.....
First and only edition of a rare American color plate natural history. With text divided into sections on birds, fishes, reptiles (with a sub-section on amphibians), and articulata or annulose animals (invertebrates), followed by twelve handsomely colored plates with multiple images per plate. Each section of text concludes with a......