Resultados de búsqueda: NATURAL HISTORY from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

[New York: Maurizio Martino. Four volumes, cloth, as new.

Philadelphia: Atkinson and Alexander, 1830. First edition. Two volumes, uncut in period style quarter green morocco. 7-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches, xii, 268, 276 pp. 100 woodcut plates printed in green, with plates 50 and 53 (the last in v. 1 and the first in v. 2) provided in excellent facsimile. Fine condition. "Beginning in 1818, with his 2,000-mile tour to the west of the Alleghenies, Rafinesque made important botanical explorations, mostly on foot, as far as Kentucky and Illinois" (DSB). "Rafinesque was a great botanist, conchologist, archaeologist, and economist,... This work describes for the first time a number of American Indian remedies". Garrison-Morton 1849; Meisel III, p. 400; Sabin 67457.

London: White, Cochrane [et al.], 1813. Two volumes, recent leather spines, old marbled boards. Old and rather faint school library stamp on title pages, offsets from the plates, a very good, clean copy. Frontispiece and one additional engraving in each volume, the one in volume 2 ("A Hybrid Bird") has colored by hand.