A superb association copy of this retrospective tribute to the legendary anthropologist, conservationist, and scientist, inscribed to a formative organization in her career, the National Geographic Society.
First printing of this entertaining Atomic Age survey of various world-ending natural or man-made disasters as imagined through human history, written by an astronomer looking backwards from the present "days of despair" (the 1950s).
Uncommon first US printing of this classic of cryptozoology.
Second edition, expanded with additional plates, of this encyclopedic natural history work, published in the era when observational science began to eclipse superstition.
First edition, subscriber copy, of the first herbal produced and published in the US, featuring only animals, vegetables, and minerals native to North and South America.
First edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks (what Warren calls "footsteps of an unknown animal") inscribed to fellow surgeon and Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson, Franklin Bache.
