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![[Ornithology] A history of British birds. by Thomas Bewick](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0913.jpg "[Ornithology] A history of British birds. by Thomas Bewick")
8vo: xl,386; xviii,424pp. Collated and complete in two volumes: I. containing the history and description of land birds; II. containing the history and description of water birds. Illustrated throughout with engravings on wood by Thomas Bewick. Uniformly bound in contemporary full polished calf, covers framed in double gilt fillets and... more
Price: $935.00
8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored albumen prints, mounted on cards, of stuffed birds. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that would permit short exposures." Goldschmidt & Naef) Publisher's forest-green pebble-grained cloth, spine and upper... more
Price: $785.00
![Essays on Landscape Gardening, and on Uniting Picturesque Effect with Rural Scenery: Containing Directions for Laying Out and Improving the Grounds Connected with a Country Residence [Presentation Copy]](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0920.jpg "Essays on Landscape Gardening, and on Uniting Picturesque Effect with Rural Scenery: Containing Directions for Laying Out and Improving the Grounds Connected with a Country Residence [Presentation Copy]")
Large 4to: viii,91,[1]pp, illustrated with six aquatinted plates (3 hand-colored and 3 in sepia, 2 of which have slip overlays). Of the two copies in the Library of Congress, only one has the three hand-colored plates. Beautifully rebound to style by Fitterer over the original boards, red calf spine lettered... more
Price: $4,865.00
Large 4to: xii,238,[2] pp, with 41 (of 42) full-page aquatinted plates (many hand-colored, several tinted, and including two double-page panorama and 13 with moveable slides, or flaps, demonstrating the effects of Repton's proposed alterations to landscapes and dwellings); one wood-engraved plan with letterpress, wood engravings and aquatints in the text.... more
Price: $13,850.00
Seventh Edition, with corrections and improvements [Henrey 1288 and 1032; Hunt 687]. With 38 finely hand-colored botanical plates engraved by F. P. Nodder. Octavo, collated and complete. Skillfully rebacked with end papers renewed; moderately age-toned and foxed throughout with the first and last few gatherings more heavily so; else, a... more
Price: $685.00
First UK edition, First Impression of the author's first book under her married name (a collection of poems appeared in 1878 under Edith Newbold Jones). Batsford bound up sheets from the first American edition and issued them with a cancel title page. Tall, wide 8vo; pp xxii, 204, [2]pp, with... more
Price: $865.00
First Edition. 8vo, with 18 hand-colored plates (including the frontispiece and the engraved title with vignette) after Charles Williams. Near Fine, with just light wear along the leather spine and occasional foxing, with some heavier browning and soiling to the first few pages and the usual offsetting to pages preceding... more
Price: $685.00
Complete in three volumes. 12mo; viii, 319; 321; 326pp, plus 12 hand-colored plates engraved variously by Maddocks, E. F. Burney, and W. Read. Uniformly rebound to style by Fitterer, with period marbled paper-covered boards and modern paper labels; top edges gilt; end papers renewed with laid paper. Binding pristine; some... more
Price: $635.00