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Two volumes bound in one, each with its own title page, dated 1809 and (in the imprint to the second work) 1810. 4to; xvi, 400pp, with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Culpeper and 29 hand-colored plates depicting some 450 individual medicinal plants, scrubs, and trees; [1], 256pp, with 13 full-page... more

Price: $1,365.00

8vo: vii,[1],328,[2]pp, with 15 woodcuts in the text. Complete with final (unnumbered) leaf with publisher's advertisements listing other works by Darwin on recto and imprimatur on verso. Original publisher's green pebbled cloth, covers paneled in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, chocolate brown end papers. Early inscription on front... more

Price: $285.00

A spectacularly oversized example, with vast margins, of the scarce large-paper issue of perhaps the most important botanical work on Barbados, a book to "place beside Catesby's Natural History" (Hunt), sumptuously produced and beautifully illustrated. Folio: [4], vii, [13], 250, *251-*254, 251-314, [20]pp, complete with 30 full-page copper-engraved plates, many... more

Price: $6,850.00

First Edition, one of only 500 sets, of Latham's systematic study, providing a "concise account of all the Birds hitherto known" (from the Preface). 4to's; 10 volumes bound in five, complete (comprising the general synopsis, the index ornithologicus, and the supplement to the general synopsis), with eight hand-colored engraved title-page... more

Price: $8,865.00

8vo: [2],514p,[20]pp, with 13 (of 14) full-page engraved plates and 36 further illustrations (17 of fish, 2 maps of the River Lea & the River Dove, 2 autograph facsimiles, 2 leaves of music and 13 other text engravings; 16 of the engravings are new to this edition and 20, including... more

Price: $335.00