[BIBLIOGRAPHY] -- [NATURAL HISTORY]. A group of 27 works, various 4to and 8vo sizes, many illustrated, most in original cloth, many with dust jackets, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good.
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
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[BIBLIOGRAPHY] -- [NATURAL HISTORY]. A group of 27 works, including:
RAMON Y CAJAL, Santiago. Histologie du Systeme Nerveux de L'homme & des Vertebres. Madrid, 1972. 2 volumes. Second French edition. -- SALLANDER, Hans. Bibliotheca Walleriana the Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science Collected by Erik Waller. Stockholm, 1955. 2 volumes. -- HOOK, Diana H. et al. Origins of Cyberspace. Novato, CA, 2002. -- DOE, Janet. A Bibliography of the Works of Ambroise Paré. Chicago, 1937. -- ROBBINS, Christine Chapman. “John Torrey (1796-1873) His Life and Times.” Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 95, no. 6. Torrey Botanical Society, 1968. Contemporary cloth. Provenance: George Hill Mathewson Lawrence (1910-1978), American Botanist (bookplate, inscription). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ROBBINS TO LAWRENCE. -- ROBERTS, Verne L. et al. Bibliotheca Mechanica. NY, 1991. -- GILLISPIE, Charles C. Dictionary of Scientific Biographies. NY et al, 1981. 16 parts in 8 volumes, plus 2 volumes of supplements. -- DORF, Philip. Liberty Hyde Bailey an Informal Biography. Ithaca, NY, 1956. Provenance: Helen Van Pelt Wilson (1901-2003), American Garden Writer (inscription). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY DORF TO WILSON. -- ARAGO, Francois. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men. London, 1857. -- CROWTHER, J.G. British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century. London, 1962. Second edition. -- Important Scientific Books: The Richard Green Library. NY: Christie's, 2008. -- The Library of the Earl of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle. London: Sotheby’s, 2004-2008. 10 volumes (Vols I-VII, IX-XI only). -- And 15 others. Together, 27 works in 50 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, many illustrated, most in original cloth, many with dust jackets, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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