London: Printed for John Martyn, 1667. Full Description: HOOKE, Robert. Micrographia. Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries thereupon. London: [Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1667]. First Edition, second issue. The first edition sheets reissued with a new.....
London, 1861. London: 1861. Full description: [DARWIN, Charles]. Manuscript. From Chapter III (pages 114-115) of "On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects and on the good effects of intercrossing." [London: n.d.c.a. 1861-62]. One leaf (12 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 328 x 200.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Faces in the Struggle for Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first issue, with two quotations on the verso.....
London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. ABEL, Clarke. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China. And of a Voyage to and from that Country in the Years 1816 and 1817, Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the.....
San Francisco: Edward Vischer, 1862. First edition, third and best issue (with three more lithographs than the first issue). Title leaf (frontispiece) and twelve lithographic plates by Vischer, with a total of 25 engravings. Oblong folio, mount size (10 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 275 x 345 mm). The lithographer.....