62 pages. 7-1/2 by 7 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. A collection of poems photocopied on white paper from the text handwritten by Rolando Estévez, who also designed and illustrated the book. The illustrations include a large handcolored horizontal panorama, collages, and small original drawings on the.....

First Edition. A work mostly devoted to entomology (insects being the most common subject of these essays), with a few botanical pieces. Two examples: Essay X, "On a Species of Fly produced on the Flower of a Plant" and Essay XII: "On the Production and Fructification of a Singular Species.....

An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) image of the El Capitan, one of the best-known rock formations in the Yosemite Valley. Watkins made at least five mammoth-plate images from this vantage point over a period of at least 20 years. Watkins took this image between 1878 and 1881. It.....

An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) portrait of Galen Clark holding a rifle and standing in front of one of the first famous trees from the Yosemite area. Watkins took this image in 1865 or 1866, during one of his extended trips to Yosemite. It was printed by Isaiah.....

First Edition. Natural history essays. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Lopez to the host of the Oregon Public Radio show Profiles, Mel Waggoner, "For Mel—with my best wishes, Barry Lopez."

A Junior Library Guild Selection! Adapted from Amy Stewart’s original New York Times bestseller, the young readers edition of Wicked Bugs is a creepy-cool guide to the worst of the worst insects, arachnids, and arthropods. Illustrated by Briony Morrow-Cribbs. Reading age: 8 to 12 years; Lexile measure: 1210L; Grade level.....

First Edition. xiv, 627–1189 pages (continuously paginated from part 1). Part 2 of 4, translated from the German. Original version first published in 1929–1935. First edition in English. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

A terrific and dramatic home front propaganda poster encouraging lumber production published by a lobbying group of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association (now the National Forest Products Association). The poster depicts Uncle Sam, illustrated in a wood-cut style, holding an ax and pointing toward forested mountains. An article in the.....

First Edition. A table of drugs, mostly plant-based, in use in India, with the scientific or English name, the provincial name, and notes by the author. Dey was an early proponent of indigenous medicine. Pepared for the world's fair at the Crystal Palace. 14 pages. The printed leaves of this copy.....

First Edition. Information on "a number of useful drugs of the indigenous materia medica" derived from leaves, with reports and plates documenting microscopic analysis. Includes entries on tea, tobacco, coca, cannabis sativa, digitalis, etc. Government of India, Ministry of Health, Pharmacognosy Laboratory Bulletin No. 2. vi, 124 pages. 7 by.....

First Edition. 152 plants are listed, with scientific name, family, common name, habitat, parts used, distribution, and remarks about use. Includes plants for papermaking, rope, and ceremonial use. v, 40 pages, including an index. Published as the Botanical Survey of India, no. 3. Based on the coding at the base of.....

First Edition. A day-by-day account of Witter's month-long safari in British East Africa in September and October 1948. With a record of animals killed at the back. The illustrations are reproductions of color photographs, printed with particularly intense color, lending an air of hyper-reality to many of them. Witter was.....

First Edition. 198 pages. Illustrated with full-color photographs by Yamashita. First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed to a former author by Yamashita on the title page.