Rachel Carson. Lois and Louis Darling, illustrated. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition. Octavo. 368pp (indexed). Illustrated with drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. Publisher's green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, yellow top-stain, patterned endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $5.00.
A. R. Harding. Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants: A Book of Valuable Information for Growers as Well as Collectors of Medicinal Roots, Barks, Leaves, Etc. Columbus, OH: A. R. Harding, 1972. Reprint edition. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs.12mo. (7in. x 5in.). 367pp. Illustrated with black.....
James F. Johnston. The Chemistry of Common Life, 2 Vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855/6. Fourth and eighth editions. Two octavo volumes. 291pp + 12pp ads; 381pp + 2pp ads. Rebacked in later brown cloth, utilizing original cloth boards, endleaves refreshed, spines lettered in gilt. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books.....
Peter Kalm. John Reinhold Forster, translator. Travels into North America; Containing Its Natural History, and A Circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in General, with the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country… 2 Vols. London: T. Lowndes, 1772. Second edition. Two octavo volumes. Illustrated with six engraved plates.....
Gerald Heard. Pain, Sex, and Time: A New Hypothesis of Evolution. London: Cassell and Company, 1939. First edition. Signed in pencil by Larry McMurtry to front free end paper and dated 1962. Octavo. 329pp (indexed). Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City.....
Paracelso (Paracelsus). Botanica Oculta: Las Plantas Mágicas (Occult Botany: Magical Plants). Puebla, Mexico: Medina, Hnos., [No date, circa 1920]. Reprint edition. Mexican reprint of this catalogue of “magical” and “occult” (i.e. medicinal) plants, by Paracelsus. Octavo. 173pp. Publisher’s illustrated card wraps, most pages remain unopened. Includes a small dictionary of occult botany.....
Vincenzo Petrullo. The Diabolic Root: A Study of Peyotism, The New Indian Religion, Among the Delawares. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1934. First edition. Octavo. 185pp. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Publisher’s brick-colored cloth, spine lettered in black. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and.....
G. E. M. Skues (Alex Jardine, illustrator). Itchen Memories. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1951. First edition. Octavo. 128pp. Illustrated by Alex Jardine. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, back board blind stamped, original dust jacket. Very good.
Eric Taverner. Salmon Fishing (The Lonsdale Library Volume X). London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1948. No stated edition. Octavo. 472pp. Illustrated with black and white photos. Publisher's tan quarter cloth over tan cloth, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt, brown topstain, map endleaves, original dust jacket.
Eric Taverner. Trout Fishing from All Angles: A Complete Guide to Modern Methods. (The Lonsdale Library Volume II). London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1969. Reprint edition. Octavo. 448pp. Illustrated with black and white photos. Publisher's tan quarter cloth over tan cloth, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt, red topstain.....
John E. Werler. The Poisonous Snakes of Texas and the First Aid Treatment of Their Bites (Bulletin No. 31). Austin, TX: Texas Game and Fish Commission, 1953. Revised edition. Octavo. 40pp. Illustrated. Publisher’s pictorial paper wraps, staple bound.