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JACQUEMONT, Victor. Letters From India;London : 1834
First published in French the previous year, the year after Jacquemont's death. These letters to his family and friends were sent during a government sponsored scientific expedition to India. The books proved immensely successful, providing what Buckland describes as "a most vivid account … of the social condition of India in those days" (p....Learn More
SHOVE, George A. Life Under Glass, Containing Suggestions Toward the Formation of Artificial Climates.Boston : 1874
First edition of this early exploration of engineered climate systems. Building on the Victorian fashion for greenhouses and ornamental horticulture, Shove outlines how enclosed environments can be controlled to ensure year-round access to beneficial plants and to support experimental cultivation.
The book is expanded from Shove's article...Learn More
RIVER ENGINEERING - CUI, Shijie. Huanghe fuyuan zhi liyong ("Harnessing the Natural Resources of the Yellow River").[Qingdao : 1935
First edition of this rare and extensively illustrated proposal for increasing freight traffic and other commercial transport along China's second-longest river and building new port facilities at the mouth in the Bohai Sea. The valuable maps and plans show infrastructure and key locations along the river, as well as past and proposed...Learn More
WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne,London : 1789
First edition of one of the great 18th-century English books, a landmark of natural history and the product of more than 20 years' work. White's Natural History has long been valued as much for its literary style as for its scientific contributions.
Gilbert White (1720-1793) first seriously engaged with the natural world in a series of...Learn More
MORTON, Timothy. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence; [together with] -- Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People.New York & London : 2016 & 2017
First edition, first impression, of Dark Ecology, and first edition, second impression, of Humankind, both inscribed by the author on the title pages. Morton argues that it is impossible to separate humankind from nature through conceptualizing the "anthropocene". An object-oriented philosopher, he rejects the notion that humans are privileged...Learn More
WILSON, Edward O. On Human Nature.Cambridge, Massachusetts : 1978
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For John Pfeiffer, a profound student of human nature, with thanks and warm regards, Edward O. Wilson, Woods Hole, Mass., 1 September 1978". They were close collaborators: Wilson quotes from Pfeiffer's books and an extract from Pfeiffer's review of Sociobiology (1975) is...Learn More
CARSON, Rachel. Silent Spring.Boston : 1962
First edition, first printing, of Carson's indictment of the pesticide industry. It was of enormous consequence to the grassroots environmental movement, the deep ecology movement, and the rise of ecofeminism.
Carson, a nature writer and editor-in-chief for the Fish and Wildlife Service, had long been concerned about the widespread use of...Learn More
THOREAU, Henry David. Walden; or Life in the Woods.Boston : 1854
First edition. A beautiful, unsophisticated copy of this pivotal work, a back-to-nature classic, which made Thoreau one of the prophets of the early American environmental movement.
"The writing of Walden, completed after Thoreau's 1847 return to Concord, was an extended process in which Thoreau worked through seven drafts. Midway through...Learn More
KING, Franklin Hiram. Farmers of Forty Centuries, or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan.Madison, Wisconsin : 1911
First edition. In 1909, King, a specialist in agricultural physics, spent nine months travelling in Asia to study organic farming and sustainable agricultural practices, turning these experiences into a book that is now considered a classic of the field. It remains much-cited today, appearing in at least 26 editions since initial...Learn More
SAUDI ARABIA. The Wadi Abha Dam & an Outline about Assir.Al Khobar : [1975]
First edition, first printing, of this report covering agriculture, town planning, municipality projects of Asir, and particularly Abha, the capital of the region. The handsome illustrations include one of H.R.H. Fahd ibn 'Abdul-'Aziz Al Saud inaugurating the Wadi Abha Dam.Learn More
MOORE, David. Concise Notices of the Indigenous Grasses of Ireland,Glasnevin : 1843
First and sole edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Messrs Lawson with the author's complements". An uncommon and naturally fragile work, traced in ten institutions worldwide.
The Lawsons were likely the Edinburgh nurserymen Peter and Charles Lawson of Lawson & Son, founded in 1770:...Learn More
STANDISH, Arthur. New directions of experience to the commons complaint[London : 1613
One of four contemporaneous 1613 editions, without established priority, of "one of the first treatises to be published in this country entirely devoted to forestry" (Henrey). It is uncommon in any state; ESTC and WorldCat locate copies of this particular edition at two UK institutions (NLS and Rothamsted, the latter this copy, deaccessioned in...Learn More
CALLENBACH, Ernest. Ecotopia.Berkeley, California : 1975
First edition, first printing, inscribed in red ink on the initial blank, "For Tee, with love, Chick". Ecotopia, a cult favourite and one of the first ecological utopias ever written, was highly influential on 1970s counterculture and the sustainability movement.
A widely admired futuristic novel by the American film scholar and...Learn More
HEIM, Roger. Destruction et protection de la nature.Paris : 1952
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, doubly inscribed on the half-title by the author and illustrator to natural historian Robert Lami, surrounded by two highly finished hand-coloured ink sketches by Bory depicting young explorers climbing trees and making studies of fish on the ocean floor.
Heim, a mycologist and early...Learn More
PORTER, Eliot. Portfolio One. The Seasons.San Francisco : 1963
First edition, first printing, of this fine suite of colour nature photographs. Having pursued colour photography since the 1930s, Porter found his first real success with the Sierra Club, who published his Thoreau-inspired photoessay, In Wildness is the Preservation of the World, in 1962. Porter served as director of the Sierra Club, an early...Learn More
