San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co. and Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch (printed by Taylor, Nash & Taylor), 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto size, [94] pp., inscribed by the author, Willis Linn Jepson. Willis Linn Jepson (1867-1946) is known as California's most distinguished early botanist, being identified with the University of California..... More
London: "The Electrician" Printing & Publishing Company, Ltd., 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 96 pp. Finnish geophysicist Karl Selim Lemström (1838-1904) is perhaps best remembered today for his studies on the aurora borealis; he has been described as the "forgotten pioneer of northern light studies" and his..... More
New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1885. Hardcover. Octavo size, 128 pp. A delightful volume of poetry paired with lovely floral chromolithographs, in a gorgeous publisher's decorate trade binding. Susie Barstow Skelding (1857-1934) selected the poems and produced the illustrations, this volume one of a series she produced with flowers..... More
(Turin): Printed by Vincenzo Bona for Editions Glenat, (1991). Viala, Pierre; Vermorel, Victor. Hardcover. Folio size, 167 pp., in French. All oenophiles revel in the beauty not just of the wine sparkling in the glass, but in the delicate vines and glowing fruit; to be in a vineyard, surrounded by..... More