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Prato: Ditta Ruggero Benelli, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Panels are faux-diced shagreen, gilt lettering first panel, two brass rivets front cover for hanging the display. Very good. 27.5 x 13 cm. Salesman's sample advertising display for Super-Iride, 48 dyed sample mounted, eight panels bound accordion style, each panel as noted previously, folds out to approximately 40 inches when displayed. Color plates mounted on first and last panels with 48 dyed fabric sample in a wide range of colors, lettering in black and red. Super-Iride solid dyes are Azo synthetic, more stable than vegetable, and/or aniline dyes provide a distinct advantage for coloring wool, cotton and silks as they are highly resistant to sun and repeated washing. This brand is perhaps best known for the advertising poster of a looming red devil drawing forth a rainbow of color from a wooden barrel depicted here in the first panel. Scuffing to extremities, back cover with, slight loss of shagreen at back cover.

Newcastle: J. Hodgson, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Later brown cloth, brown leathe spine labe lettered in gilt. Very good. xxii, [2] 312 pages. 23 x 15 cm. llustrated with engraved frontispiece, folding table, 7 plates (2 of which by Thomas Bewick), and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Author to son Charles Fox with inscription dated 1830 gifted from "Mrs. Charles C. Fox dated 15 Nov. 1915. One of the most significant 18th century collections of Natural History and Ethonography. A catalogue of the museum's holdings that includes a section entitled "Utensils of Savage Nations" which includes material from New Zealand, "Owhyhee, and other Sandwich Islands," "Otaheite and Society Islands," George's Island, the Pacific Northwest, etc, including material collected during Cook's voyages, and a number of natural history specimens are described like the wombat (illustrated), the koala, and the duck-billed platypus from Australia, and an extensive foreign ornithological section which includes many… Leer más

Paris: Batchelier & Carilian-Goeury et Dalmont, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary calf backed boards. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 44 x 27.5. Atlas volume only with 74 lithograph plates, some double-paged. Leroy was a professor at the Ecole Royale Polytechnic. Text in French. Some light foxing and browning, corner, extremity and joint wear, signature on title page of 2nd Lt. William J. Cook of the US Army Signal Corps.

Cambridge: Limited EditionsClub, 1956. Hardcover. Full sailcloth, stamped in brown with native tapa design. Near fine in worn slipcase. Gibbings, Robert. 490 pages. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Designed by John Dreyfus. Introduction by Gavin de Beer. Limited edition, copy 149 of 1500 signed by Gibbings. NEWMAN & WICHE 266.

Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in orig. but chipped glassine overwrapper. 38 pages.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth lettered in gilt and decorated blue boards. Teg. Near fine. 104 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 103 of 160 signed by Huxley. Sharp, bright copy, bookseller label of Philip P. Duschnes.