Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-120 pp. Beige cloth with brown lettering on the spine and brown and beige decorations on the front board. Illustrated with several black and white drawings, several full-page and in-text illustrations. Bright and vibrant illustrated endpapers and pastedowns, with color..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, LTD., 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [3], 2-256, [2] pp. Three-quarter brown morocco over blue cloth boards, the spine in six compartments with gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Bayntun. Lacks the publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-257, [1] pp. Maroon cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontis photograph of the author, and..... More
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [vi], vii-xii, [2], 3-285, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with seven black and white photograph plates, five tables, and one map. A...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. Early Reprint. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xl, [3], 4-527, [3]; [5], vi-xix, [4], 4-547, [3] pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on each spine. Volume one illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Pizarro and a map of Peru; volume two illustrated with..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vi-xi, [1], 319, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and fourteen additional plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to American biologist and naturalist Francis Harper, known for his..... More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company [1961], 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Quarter black cloth over brown, blue, and black patterned paper boards with gold lettering and blue decoration on the spine, light blue topstain. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black..... More