SCIENCE AND NATURE from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne, Gilbert White. Published by the Folio Society, London, 1994. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 213pp., appendix; introduction by Ian Niall; black and white engravings by Chris Wormell (illustrator). Green cloth spine over marbled boards; brown title label with gilt titles. In fine, unread condition. Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne was first published in 1789;… Read more about this item

Natural History: A Selection, Pliny, the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus); Healy, John F. (translator). Published by Penguin Classics, 1991. Card covers, 448pp. In fine, unread condition. Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as… Read more about this item

Shakespeare's Flowers, Kerr, Jessica. Published by Longmans, 1969. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 86pp., Illustrated, Notes: Bibliography. Illustrations by Anne Ophelia Dowden. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Tape residue marks to endpapers and otherwise contents are free of markings, tears or folds. Dustjacket has a chip to spine and edge wear. Color illustrations accompany quotations from twenty-four Shakespearean dramas about… Read more about this item

Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth, Danson, Edwin. Published by Oxford University Press, 2005. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 289pp., illustrations. Institute name to free endpaper and otherwise volume is in fine condition; dustjacket has the lightest of shelf wear. Weighing the World is a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the scientific events leading to modern map making written… Read more about this item

An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan and Part of Tibet, Turner, Capt. Samuel. Sub-title: To which are added, views taken on the spot by Lieutenant Samuel Davis and observations botanical, mineralogical, and medicinal by Mr. Robert Saunders. Introduction by Hugh Richardson. Published by Manjusri… Read more about this item

Mental Pathology and Therapeutics, Wilhelm, Griesinger. The New Sydenham Society Volume 33. Published by The New Sydenham Society, London, 1867. First English Edition. Translated from the second German edition by C. Lockhart Robertson, MD and James Rutherford, MD. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 530pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles; all edges red. Foxing to first few pages and occasional… Read more about this item

The Fight for Everest: 1924, Lieutenant-Colonel E.F. Norton, And Other Members of the Expedition. Published by Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1925. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 372pp. with 32 plates from photographs, 8 of them in color, plus a folding map and folding panorama map. Dark green cloth boards with gilt titles front and spine.… Read more about this item

Everest 1933, Ruttledge, Hugh. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1934. First Edition. Gift card from The Lord Provost of Edinburgh dated 1934 pasted to free endpaper. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; xvi, 390pp. 58 sepia photographic plates plus frontispiece, 3 diagrams in text and 4 maps (3 folding); chronology of the expedition; index. Black cloth boards with… Read more about this item

The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being A Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts: the first written by Mr. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq. with the Lives of the Authors: and notes, historical, supplementary, and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. and the present editor. Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the… Read more about this item

The Compleat Angler, Walton, Izaak, and Charles Cotton. Edited and with an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne. Illustrated by Edmund H. New Published by John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1897. First Gallienne edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; lxxxiv, (iv), 428, (xiv) Angler's Calendar, by Hi Regan, (iv) Advertisements. Frontispiece portrait of Walton, illustrated throughout with full… Read more about this item

Fabre's Book of Insects, Mrs. Rodolph Stawell; Retold from Alexander Teixeira De Matto's Translation. Published by Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1936. Third printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. [ix], 271pp. Twelve tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards colour plates by E J Detmold; title page printed in red and black. Green cloth boards with gilt titles… Read more about this item

The Bedside Book of Beasts: A Wildlife Miscellany, Gibson, Graeme. Published by Doubleday Canada, 2009. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 368pp., illustrated. Orange cloth boards, dark orange titles, illustrated endpapers. In fine, unread condition and house din a fine, unclipped jacket. The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, also available. The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and… Read more about this item

Conifers, Junipers & Yew: Gymnosperms of British Columbia, John Davidson. Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1927. First Edition. Ivy Abercrombie (illustrator). xvii,72pp. with appendix, index, glossary. 37 full-page tissue- guarded plates (18 in colour and 19 in black and white). Orange cloth boards with gilt titles; high quality paper. Contents are in very nice condition without tears, marks or… Read more about this item

Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition, Bown, Stephen R. Published by Da Capo Press, 2017. First Edition. Quarter black over blue boards. 326pp. with illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine jacket. The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great… Read more about this item

The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood, Finkel, Irving. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. First American Edition. 432pp. with illustrations in color and black and white, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Quarter red over tan boards. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket. The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking… Read more about this item

The Longbow, the Schooner & the Violin: Wood and Human Achievement, De Villiers, Marq. Published by Sutherland House Books, 2022. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 318pp. White boards with silver titles; illustrated endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine unclipped jacket. The English longbow, made of rare yew wood, unmatched for accuracy, speed of fire,… Read more about this item

The Last Great Sea: A Voyage through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean, Glavin, Terry; David Suzuki. Published by Greystone Books; Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver & Toronto, 2000. First Edition. Volume is in fine condition; laminate on dustjacket has some ruffling.

The Naturalist on the River Amazons. A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel, Henry Walter Bates. Published by John Murray, London, 1891. Sixth Edition. x, 395pp. with frontispiece, map and illustrations; rear section of publisher's ads. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration… Read more about this item

Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death, Essig, Mark. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2004. First Edition. 358pp. with index; illustrated. Cream boards with copper titles. Both volume and jacket are in fine, unread condition. , Essig, Mark. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2004. First Edition. 358pp. with index; illustrated.… Read more about this item

Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem, Singh, Simon. Published by Viking/Penguin, Toronto, Boston, New York, 1997. First Edition. 315pp. with appendices, index, illustrated. Foreword by John Lynch. Black boards with copper titles, yellow endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine clipped dustjacket.