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American Museum Press, 1924-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. Ex-Library, private collection. Stamps and markings. Name inked to front cover. Approx 1 1/2 inch tear at top of spine. Darkening to spine and cover edges. Small pieces missing from back cover, top and bottom edges. Uncut pages are age tanned, but clean.

Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons. Collectible - Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt on cover and spine. This is the book of plates containing figures of the Gasteropoda, Pteropoda and Cephalopoda of the Upper Helderburg, Hamilton, Portage and Chemung groups. Description of the plates is on the tissue guards of each plate. Book is in Very Good condition with clean pages and a tight, square binding. Wonderful plates. Photos upon request.

Albany, New York: C. Van Benthuysen, 1854. First edition.. There is scattered foxing to the endpapers, some light foxing and browning to the plate tissue guards, the hand-colored plates are bright and clean, and the cloth binding is clean and unused; a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. viii, 272, 49 full page plates - 46 are hand-colored, 3 are plain. Original blind-stamped and gilt-decorated brown cloth, original yellow endpapers, lg 4to. This volume presents superb hand-colored plates of the butterflies, moths, and other insects of New York. The extensive text section covers descriptions of all of the illustrated insects. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

New York: D. Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, 1851. Hardcover. Vol. I: Covers turned to brown; head/foot of spine damaged; one signature loosening at top; light-moderate foxing throughout, although some plates are clean; one folding plate (map) has a large chip at bottom edge. Several plates suitable for framing. Vol. II: Tight text block. Age toning to page edges and foxing to some; damp staining to bottom edge of several pages; spine detached and laid in (missing top/bottom inch). Vol. III: Tight binding with edge/corner wear and rubbing to back cover. Clean interior but with light foxing to publication pages. A good reading set.. Black cloth/boards with gilt-embosses lettering and decoration. Vol. I: 371 pp. with 6 engravings, several bw figures and tables, and XXI plates, of which many are colored and/or folding. Vol. II: 343 pp. plus an Appendix of 50 pp.; 42 of 57 color and bw plates at end of Appendix. Vol. III: 340 pp. with several bw outline drawings of various fruits. A comprehensive… Leer más

Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, Ltd. and G.E. Steichert & Co., 1906 One of more than 30 publications resulting from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a major anthropological expedition to Siberia, Alaska, and the north west coast of Canada. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate the relationships between the peoples at each side of the Bering Strait. The expedition was sponsored by Morris Jesup and planned and directed by Franz Boas, and produced a number of important ethnographies (this among them), as well as valuable collections of artifacts and photographs. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His name stamped to the TOC page. Wraps rebound into hardcase with loss of forematter up to TOC. Condition notes: 193-300 numbered pp + plates; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight; a.e. modestly tanned, Plate VIII dampstained.… Leer más

Albany, NY: C. Van Benthuysen. FR/No Dustjacket. 1851. ........ Cloth. Comprising an Account of the Classification, Composition and Distibution of the Soils and Rocks, and the Natural Waters of the Different Geological Formations; Together witha Condensed View of the Climate and the Agricultural Productions of the State . 4to., vii, 100 pls., cover rubbed, frayed, edges chipping and splitting, binding loose, yellowing, foxing, 3 plates taped .

A complete set of Part V of the Natural History of New York: Agriculture. Five volumes bound in original dark brown cloth with gilt stamping on front boards and spine. The top and tail of the spines are frayed and two of the volumes have library labels on the spine (see photos) plus usual library labels and stamps on front and back endpapers, volume V has a library stamp throughout the text. The top half of the spine on Volume II is lifting away. Volumes II & III (text) are signed by Fred Hubbard who donated these books to the library. Volume III is in two volumes with a separate volume of plates. Multiple plates, black & white and colored, as well as many foldout charts and maps. Some volumes have heavy mottling and tanning. Bindings are firm, full details of each volume available on request. An outstanding body of work on agriculture in the mid-1800s in New York State. Price reflects condition. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR bottom shelf)

Albany: C. Van Benthuysen. First edition. Hardcover. Good. The complete set of Part V of the Natural History of New York on the Agriculture of New York. Five volumes bound in original dark brown cloth in good condition. Additional details on condition available on request. Volume I (1845) comprises an account of the climate, the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks, and the natural waters of the different geological formations. Twenty-one plates several of which are large folding plates of tinted lithographs. Engravings. Folding colored agricultural map of New York. Volume II (1849) is devoted to the agricultural production of vegetables, cereals, grasses, and fruit and forest trees. Twenty-eight plates of vegetables, grains, and wood structures, about half of which are in color. Temperature charts. Volume III (1851) in two volumes, text and plates, on the fruits of the state. The plate volume consists of eighty plates of fruits most of which are bright and colorful… Leer más