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Condición: New.

Condición: New.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages clean, off-white. Wraps have light handling wear. Contents: Cheney, Spenser's completion of The Squire's Tale: love, magic, and heroic action in the Legend of Cambell and Triamond. Cowgill, "By corpus dominus": Harry Bailly as false spiritual guide. Cunnar, Crashaw's Bulla: a baroque and paradoxical mirror image of religious poetics. Maddox, Inventing invention: process in Pléiade poetics. Wooden and Wall, Thomas More and the painter's eye: visual perspective and artistic purpose in More's Utopia. Long, The contribution of architectural writers to a 'scientific' outlook in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Weiss, Hagiography by German humanists, 1483-1516. McClure, Healing eloquence: Petrarch, Salutati, and the physicians. 9.25" tall; 212 pages.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good to Fine. Folder = Very Good. First Collected Edition Thus. A Portfolio of Prints from the Illustrated Natural History of Canada // Collection of 10 Color PHOTOGRAPHY Art PRINTS, with Short BIO on each Creature; (1) Tufted Puffin = Color Photo by: Dave Hancock; (2) Great Horned Owl = Color Photo by: Leonard Trumble; (3) Cedar Waxwing = Color Photo by: Dr. George K. Peck; (4) Water Mite = Color Photo by: Helen Sutton; (5) Racoon = Color Photo by: G. Mindel; (6) Midge = Color Photo by: Bill Brooks; (7) Glaucous-Winged Gull = Color Photo by: Wayne Campbell; (8) Mountain Sheep = Color Photo by: A.H. Carmichael; (9) Lichens = Color Photo by: Fred Bruemmer; (10) Cougar = Color Photo by: T.W. Wall; **** RARE & Collectible Item **** Outer Folder = Very Good; Prints = VG to FINE Size: 10-1/4" x 14-1/2". Color Photos by: Dave Hancock; Leonard Trumble; Dr. George K. Peck; Helen Sutton; G. Mindel; Bill Brooks; Wayne Campbell; A.H. Carmichael; Fred Bruemmer; T.W. Wall; (ilustrador). Book. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Without dust jacket. First Edition. Sold as a good original reading copy only of an uncommon item. Oblong quarto, 6 1/2" x 12', 312 pages with 550 photo illustration and drawings throughout, black and gilt titles on decorated green cloth. A good copy only, with significant shelf wear, rubbing at all corners, back strip cloth starting to fray at top and bottom edges, light exterior soiling; front free endpaper and title pages missing, hinges cracked but secure, paper moderately yellowed with a previous owner's name penned on the front pastdown.…

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Stapled 82 page photo-illustrated magazine. Half inch patches of surface loss at the top and bottom of the spine which has some edge rubbing. Book Store stamp to the front cover. Light edge and surface wear to covers. Light browning to pages and slightly rusty staples.…

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Condición: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. xii+831 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. light cover wear, small tear at top & bottom of spine. Contents: The necessity of scientific education in China to-day; The peoples of Kwangtung: Their origin, migrations, and present distribution; The manufacture of leather in Canton; On the palm and sole prints of Chinese; Manufactures weather; The study of botany in Fukien; A note on Gnetum scandens; The Magnoliaceae of Kwangtung, Macao, and Hong Kong; The botany of Kwangtung and its relation to agriculture; Differentiating fungi by precipitation with water-soluble specific substances; The number of vascular bundles in Ephedra sinica and E. equisetina; Grasses of Canton vicinity; A brief historical survey of the Lingnan University Herbarium; The local resident's opportunity for productive work in the biological sciences in China; Unrecorded plants from Kwangtung Province II; A review of the literature on the growth of Bamboo; Remarks on citrus and citrus relatives in China; The marine and freshwater algae of China; The collection of mosquitoes in south China; On two species of Sphaeridium from the oriental region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae); Gall midges or gall gnats of the orient (Itonididae or Cecidomyiidae); The membracidae of China; A common moth and some of its enemies; The Brethnidae and Lycidae of China; Our present knowledge about the Pupipara of Tabanidae of China; A new species of stonefly from China (order Plecoptera, family Nemouridae); Biological notes on a Chrysomelid pest of bamboo; Termites, destroyers of wood and man's fight against them; Present status of our knowledge of the termites of China; Insect inhabitants of the fruiting sprays of the pagoda tree, Sophora japonica; Studies on the Chinese honey-bee; Some principles useful in solving economic biological problems; Study of Brachyplatus subaëneus Westw.; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) Part I. External characters of the nervous system; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) part II. Internal structure of the brain and ventral nerve cord; External morphology of the corn ear worm; The present status of knowledge bout Chinese Gryinidae; On the cricket locusts (Gryllacrids) of China; A list of the coprophagous Coleoptera of China; Notes on the life history of a wild silkworm; History of Rhynchocoris humeralis Thumb. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae).…

Condición: Good. [23] leaves of text and 20 colour engravings each with tissue guard. (4to) 32.5x24 cm (12¾ x 9½") period three-quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Edges worn, front hinge open; paper a bit toned but overall internally near fine.Henry Vizetelly, Printer and engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street"Plates engraved by Louis Marvy; after Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, J.M.W. Turner, J. Holland, Francis Danby, Thomas Creswick, William Collins, Richard Redgrave, Frederick Richard Lee, George Cattermole, William James Mu?ller, James Duffield Harding, Peter Nasmyth, Richard Wilson, Edward William Cooke, John Constable, Peter De Wint, David Cox, Thomas Gainsborough, David Roberts, and Clarkson Stanfield. Each plate is followed by a short critique by Thackeray. Thackeray was an old friend of Marvy, a French artist, who took refuge in London after the chaos of 1848. Theodore Taylor's 1864 biography of Thackeray mentions the history of the book: "A fine and skillful landscape painter himself, M. Marvy, while here, as a means of earning a living, made a series of engravings after the works of our English landscape painters. The publishers, however, would not undertake the work without a series of letter-press notices of each picture from Thackeray; and the latter accordingly added some criticisms which are interesting as developing his theory of this kind of art" (p.32). An interesting and quite scarce Thackeray item, very rarely found colored.Abbey, Life in England, no 207 : "The majority of the copies issued were uncoloured.".…