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- United States exploring expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842
- v. 1-5. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition during the years 1838-42 / by Charles Wilkes. 1845 -- v. 10. Geology / by James D. Dana. 1849 -- v. 17. Botany : Cryptogamia ; Musci / by William S. Sullivant ; Lichenes / by Edward Tuckerman ; Algae / by J.W. Bailey and W.H. Harvey ; Fungi / by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley ; Phanerogamia of Pacific North America / by John Torrey ; ed. by Asa Gray. 1874., under the command of Charles Wilkes., v. 10, Atlas, has imprint: New York : G.P. Putnam ; London : Putnam's American Agency, [n.d.]., Published under act of Congress of Aug. 26, 1842, which provided: "That there shall be published ... an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring expedition under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes ... which account shall be ... published in a form similar to the voyage of the Astrolabe, lately published by the government of France.", By the same act, the edition was limited to 100 copies. Mr. Wilkes, however, secured copyright on his Narrative of the expedition, under which privilege he published several editions of that part of the reports. Later, also, the authors themselves, or publishers who might be willing to undertake it, were allowed to issue an additional 150 copies of most of the various reports, and under this arrangement, from 100 to 150 copies of most of the volumes were published in addition to the 100 copies provided for by the government. The official edition however was 100 copies only., The publication was never completed. Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18, Botany / by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants / by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology / by Louis Agassiz; v. 24, Physics / by Charles Wilkes., Volumes of unfinished plates--some of them in proof before lettering--are found, without t.p. or other printed matter. The Library of Congress has two such volumes: one of 71 pl. (4 col.) from the atlases to Botany, and one of 32 col. pl., 28 of which belong to the unpublished v. 21-11, Icthyology, and 4 to v. 12, Mollusca and shells., v. 10 book plate: Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans
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- Autograph letter signed, written from Down House, Feb. 22 [1870-1] to Robert Garner, thanking him for sending 'the hybrid gathered from a place to which I am so much attached as Maer.'
- This letter has been dated by the Darwin Correspondence Project to be February 22 [1870-1] because of the printed stationary. Charles Darwin only crossed out ‘Bromley’ and wrote in ‘Beckenham' from April 3, 1869 until May 10, 1871 when he started using printed stationary with Beckenham instead., Bound In: Garner, Robert. The Natural History of the County of Stafford. London, 1844.
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- Andreae Vesalii Brvxellensis, medici caesarei Epistola, rationem modumq́[ue] propinandi radicis Chynæ decocti, quo nuper inuictissimus Carolvs V. imperator usus est, pertractans : & præter alia quædam, epistolæ cuiusdam ad Iacobum Syluium sententiam recen
- Publisher and date of publication from colophon., Signatures: A-2C⁴ 2D⁶ (2C3 missigned C3)., Initials, side notes., Publisher's device at end., Page 9 misnumbered 7, 195 as 196, 198 as 199, 204 as 404., Portrait of author on p. 10 (1st group)., Errata: p. [15] (2nd group)., Includes index.
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- My schools and schoolmasters, or, The story of my education
- by Hugh Miller., Spine title: Hugh Miller's school days.
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- Specvlvm astrologiæ, vniversam mathematicam scientiam, in certas classes digestam, complectens.
- Avtore Francisco Ivnctino Florentino ... Accesserunt etiã Cõmentaria ... in duos posteriores Qvadripartiti Ptolemæi libros ... tomvs prior[-posterior]., Vol. 2 has subtitle: Comprehendens Commentaria in theoricas planetarvm et in Sphæram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco ..., Title page in red and black., Initials, head and tail pieces., Side notes., Text in 2 columns., Includes index.
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- Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti Paracelsi
- durch den hochgelerten Doctorem Paracelsum ; geschriben zů dem groszmechtigsten, durchleüchtigsten Fürsten vnd Herren, Herren Ferdinanden [et]c. Römischen Künig, Ertzhertzog zů Osterreych [et]c., First edition., Imprint from colophon., Title appears above two woodcut illustrations and privilege statement. Text contains 32 emblematic half-page woodcuts attributed to the elder Jörg Breu. Cf. Sudhoff and VD., Signatures: A-F⁴ (F4 blank)., Gift of E. DeGolyer.
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- Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe.
- v.1. Proceedings of the first expedition, 1826-1830, under the command of Captain P. Parker King.--v.2. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-1836, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy.--Appendix to v.II.--v.3. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin., Vol. 3 was reissued the same year in separate form.
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- Anatomia Mvndini ... collata,iustoq, suo ordini restituta
- per Ioannem Dryandrum ... Adiectae sunt, quarumcunq; partium corporis, ad uiuum expressae figurae.
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- Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo.
- Wing. Short-title catalogue. M350.
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- Hortus sanitatis maior.
- Tractatus de herbis -- Tractatus de animalibus vitam in terris ducentium -- Tractatus de auibus -- De piscibus -- De lapidibus -- Tractatus de vrinis., Imprint from colophon: Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo primo die vero Jouis vicesima tercia mensis Junij [23 June 1491]., Signatures: A-C⁸ D-Z⁶⁻⁸ a-m⁶⁻⁸ n-z⁶⁻⁸ (v2, v3 missigned v1, v2) z⁸ aa-ii⁶⁻⁸ kk-ll⁶ [chi]⁸ v⁶ (v2, v3 missigned v1, v2) A⁸ B-E⁶., Each part (except De piscibus and De lapidibus) has separate t.p., Spaces for initials left blank (some have printed guide letters)., In double columns., Includes indexes., Imperfect: wanting leaf [454]; Tractatus de vrinis is from a smaller copy (wormed separately from rest of book; has separate signatures)., Sketch in red and black ink on special t.p. for Tractatus de vrinis.
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- Ioannis Grammatici In posteriora resolutoria Aristotelis Comentaria.
- Text in Greek., Imprint from colophon., Printer's device on t.p., BLC, v. 166, p. 306., BN, v. 136, p. 159., Many ms. notes in margins.
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- Essai geognostique sur le gisement des roches dans les deux hemispheres.
- Par Alexandre de Humboldt.