Claremont, California: Scripps College [Anderson, Ritchie & Simon: The Ward Ritchie Press], 1962. Original wraps. Octavo size, 12 pp. Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was a marine biologist and conservationist best known for her book "Silent Spring", a study of the negative effects of pesticides on the environment and an unsparing criticism... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. Crowder, William. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7.75” to 9.75” tall, 469 pp. Written in 1931 by noted marine biologist William Crowder, this detailed guide to representative species of nearly all types of invertebrate animals of the North American Atlantic coast includes... More
[Government Publication / National Government Publication], [1884]. Elliott, Henry Wood. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 190 pp. Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930) was an American watercolor painter, author, and environmentalist whose work was mainly focused around Alaska; this "Report", his field notes and observations upon the Seal Island of Alaska, was... More
New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 540 pp., signed by Stephen Jay Gould. The fifth volume in a series of essays, begun in 1974 in the pages of "Natural History" under the rubric "This View of Life." Professor Gould wrote "this... More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1924. Hardcover. Quarto size, 770 pp. Joseph Grinnell (1877 - 1939) was a field biologist and zoologist; he extensively studied the fauna of California, and is credited with introducing a method of recording precise field observations knows as the "Grinnell System"; he was the... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1902. Hardcover. Third printing (with Margaret Armstrong cover), quarto size, 170 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often for... More
Yosemite National Park, California: Yosemite Association [printed by One Heart Press], c. 1993. Thiebaud, Wayne. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 284 of 450 copies, octavo size, 55 pp. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was a landscape architect and journalist, as well as a major figure in the conservation movement in America. While... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Satterlee, Marion and Smith, Alice Josephine. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 236 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often for the works... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Peterson, Roger Tory. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 336 pp., with signature of Clarence Cottam. Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) was an imminent naturalist and ornithologist, as well as a talented artist, who first published "A Field Guide to Birds" in 1934, considered the first modern... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 2000 copies, quarto size, two volumes (complete), 225 pp., inscribed by author. "The Farallones" is a collection of poems by Milton S. Ray (1881-1946), an engineer and industrialist native to San Francisco; his success in business gave him time... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 314 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often for the works of well-known authors such as Charles... More
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, Limited, 1893. Linnell, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete, number 247 of 350 copies, quarto size, 512 pp. The Tercentenary Edition of "The Compleat Angler", which since its first publication in 1653 has gone through over 400 editions: author and biographer Izaak Walton's (1593-1683)... More