The Herbal, or General History of Plants. Facsimile of the complete 1633 edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Johnson de Gerard, John (& Thomas Johnson) - 1975

Toronto, Viking/Penguin Canada, 1991, hardcover, xvi-200 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the front endpaper. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge bumps, rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. An examination of diseases and other catastrophes that have decimated world populations throughout history. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs and reproductions of artworks. Appended: Bibliography and Index. ISBN
9780670831227

Australia: Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. Light card - illustrated.. Near Fine. Pages 164, illustrated - photos of Thylacines, expedition history, searcher's comments etc. Scarce First edition. Near fine, clean (175)
Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently ship items only to Australian addresses.

Washington DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. First edition. Hardback. Good/No jacket. 1816 4to. Ex-library, University of Hull, with a donation label from the author. Green cloth-covered boards, 341 pages, many illustrations from photographs. Two folding maps, one as frontispiece and one bound in with text block. Condition notes: Boards bumped and worn, with some spottiness, especially to the front board. Small split to back board/spine joint (about half an inch, at the top). Wear and fraying to extremities of spine strip. Library labels, stamps and remnants to front paste down, with library's blind stamped and subsequent withdrawal stamp to title page. Both maps in excellent condition.

Printed for the Proprietor. London. 1843. Octavo. Unpaginated [114pp]. Contemporary full tree calf. Gilt lettering, motifs, floral embellishment, rules and dentelles. Head and tail of spine partially relaid and tooled. Brass clasp. Marbled endpapers. Bumped to corners. Some browning. "Made and Sold by T Bedwell, Mathematical and Philosophical Instrument Maker" tipped in to title page, over Joseph Long. Final page partially relaid.
Joseph Long, mathematical, optical and hydrometer instrument maker. The mathematical instrument maker Thomas Bedwell was established in the sixteenth century.

First edition. Duckworth and Co. London. 1918. Octavo. xviii, 372pp. 7 plates, 20 text illus. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine relaid. Endpapers renewed. Corners rubbed and slightly bumped. John George Adami (1862 - 1926) FRS, FRSE, CBE, LL.D., "qualified in medicine at Manchester and in 1892 was appointed professor of pathology at McGill University. At the invitation of the Royal College of Physicians (in London) he delivered the Croonian Lectures in 1917. He chose the title 'Adaptation and disease; the contribution of medical research to the study of evolution'. Adami believed that medical work had brought to light important facts about heredity that had not been communicated adequately to biological scientists. He used the lectures to describe this work, placing particular emphasis on his contention that acquired characters are inherited." M. Buttolph Journal of Medical Biography 2010.

Toronto, Viking/Penguin Canada, 1991, hardcover, xvi-200 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the front endpaper. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge bumps, rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. An examination of diseases and other catastrophes that have decimated world populations throughout history. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs and reproductions of artworks. Appended: Bibliography and Index. ISBN
9780670831227

Australia: Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. Light card - illustrated.. Near Fine. Pages 164, illustrated - photos of Thylacines, expedition history, searcher's comments etc. Scarce First edition. Near fine, clean (175)
Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently ship items only to Australian addresses.

Washington DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. First edition. Hardback. Good/No jacket. 1816 4to. Ex-library, University of Hull, with a donation label from the author. Green cloth-covered boards, 341 pages, many illustrations from photographs. Two folding maps, one as frontispiece and one bound in with text block. Condition notes: Boards bumped and worn, with some spottiness, especially to the front board. Small split to back board/spine joint (about half an inch, at the top). Wear and fraying to extremities of spine strip. Library labels, stamps and remnants to front paste down, with library's blind stamped and subsequent withdrawal stamp to title page. Both maps in excellent condition.

Printed for the Proprietor. London. 1843. Octavo. Unpaginated [114pp]. Contemporary full tree calf. Gilt lettering, motifs, floral embellishment, rules and dentelles. Head and tail of spine partially relaid and tooled. Brass clasp. Marbled endpapers. Bumped to corners. Some browning. "Made and Sold by T Bedwell, Mathematical and Philosophical Instrument Maker" tipped in to title page, over Joseph Long. Final page partially relaid.
Joseph Long, mathematical, optical and hydrometer instrument maker. The mathematical instrument maker Thomas Bedwell was established in the sixteenth century.

First edition. Duckworth and Co. London. 1918. Octavo. xviii, 372pp. 7 plates, 20 text illus. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine relaid. Endpapers renewed. Corners rubbed and slightly bumped. John George Adami (1862 - 1926) FRS, FRSE, CBE, LL.D., "qualified in medicine at Manchester and in 1892 was appointed professor of pathology at McGill University. At the invitation of the Royal College of Physicians (in London) he delivered the Croonian Lectures in 1917. He chose the title 'Adaptation and disease; the contribution of medical research to the study of evolution'. Adami believed that medical work had brought to light important facts about heredity that had not been communicated adequately to biological scientists. He used the lectures to describe this work, placing particular emphasis on his contention that acquired characters are inherited." M. Buttolph Journal of Medical Biography 2010.