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Audubon, John James, and John Bachman Selected Quadrupeds of North America
Kent, Ohio Volair Limited, 1977 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Hardcover 4to 11" - 13" tall
Handsomely produced leather-bound volume, filled with gorgeous full-color reproductions of Audubon's drawings of all manner of four-legged creatures. Sterling condition hardcover copy, like-new condition. Spine uncracked. Gilt-stain to three edges, with very slight scuffing. Moire endpapers. Sewn-in satin ribbon pagemarker. Brown leather covers with gilt illustration show minor edgewear at bottom front. Gilt lettering and illustration to raised-edge spine. 319 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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29.00 USD
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Bateman, Robert Robert Bateman: a retrospective of limited editions, complete in three volumes
Venice, Florida Mill Pond Press, 1991 Softcover Fine Fine Softcover Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall Signed by Author
Gorgeous full-color collection of Robert Bateman Limited Edition nature drawings. Each of three volumes volumes signed and dated '93 on full title page. Volume I: 1978-1982, 115 pp.; Volume II: 1983-1986, 109 pp.; Volume III: 1987-1991, 125 pp. Sterling condition softcover copies, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Raised gilt lettering to front of each. All neatly stored in a gray cloth-covered cardboard slipcase with gilt lettering to front and spine. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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64.00 USD
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Beaufoy, S. and E.M. Beaufoy Butterflies of the Wood
London Collins, 1953 Softcover Good Softcover 16mo 6" - 7" tall
Structurally sound softcover copy, with moderate shelfwear, soiling to illustrated paper wrappers, but a perfectly serviceable reference copy. Written and illustrated by the Beaufoys. Notes, bibliography, scientific names. 35 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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7.00 USD
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Bennett, George W. Management of Artificial Lakes and Ponds
New York Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1963 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good- Hard Cover 12mo 7" - 7
Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, a second printing of the original 1962 edition, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and only minor wear to covers and tips. Dust jacket is still bright and shiny, but is showing some shelf-wear to extremities and edges. Notes, indexes, black-and-white photos, etc. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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4.80 USD
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Berry, Wendell The Unsettling of America: culture & agriculture
San Francisco Sierra Club Books, 1978 Third Printing Very Good Very Good 8vo 8" - 9" tall Signed by Author
Legendary nature writer Wendell Berry's "criticism" of "modern or orthodox agriculture," demoted by necessity, in his words, to a "review" because "Criticism requires a subject that is 'finished'." Either way, this is a fascinating look at the state of farming in the United States, begun by Berry when, in 1967, he "realized that [his] values were not only out of fashion, but under powerful attack" by the Johnson administration, et al. Signed and dedicated by the author in 1984 at the front endpaper. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with lightly bruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs. Blind-stamped navy covers with silver metallic lettering to spine. Light scuffing to spine head and foot. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing minor wear and a white "Signed" label affixed near spine foot. Protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 228 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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148.00 USD
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Blair, F.G. Illinois Arbor and Bird Day 1911
Springfield, Illinois Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1911 First Edition Softcover Good Softcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, moderate wear of covers, creased, one tip gone, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Pictorial covers, moderately worn, a bit soiled and sunned. Stuffed with black-and-white photographs of birds, bird eggs, and other critters. Foreword by the Governor of the State of Illinois. 95 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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12.00 USD
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Brose, Patrick H. Photo guide for estimating fuel loading and fire behavior in mixed-oak forests of the Mid-Atlantic Region
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2009 Soft Cover Near Fine Soft Cover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Trade paperback with tight binding, no markings, and minimal wear. Field guide with 45 pairs of photographs depicting ericaceous shrub, leaf litter, and logging slash fuel types of eastern oak forests and observed fire behavior of these fuel types during prescribed burning. The guide contains instructions on how to use the photo guide to choose appropriate fuel models for prescribed fire planning. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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3.50 USD
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Brown, Douglas A., Official Reporter Proceedings of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress: Fifth Annual Convention Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 9 and 10, 1908
Cincinnati, Ohio For the Secretary of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, by The Ebbert & Richardson Co., 1909 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Former price sticker to spine bottom. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Light age-toning to text, else clean and unmarked. First Edition, published by the Ebbert & Richardson Company. Comprises multiple addresses given by various members of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in 1908. 276 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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20.00 USD
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Bruyere, Christian and Robert Inwood In Harmony With Nature: creative country construction
New York Sterling, 1979 Softcover Near Fine Softcover 4to 11" - 13" tall
Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, marred only by torn first free endpaper. Pictorial Wraps. Duotone illustrations throughout. 213 pp., depicting in step-by-step fashion, building and growing projects from the small to the big, from digging and stocking root cellars to crafting full houses. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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14.00 USD
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Buchwald, N.F. Hagerups Svampetavler I: spiselge svampe
Copenhagen, Denmark H. Hagerup, 1946 First Edition Softcover Good Softcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
H. Hagerup, Kopenhaven [Kopenhagen], 1946. Wrappers [a folding chart]. Condition: Very good. [No Edition Stated]. A Very Good copy of this Danish Guide to edible mushrooms with the text by Professor N. F. Buchwald, illustrated by R. Hesthave (some wear to the outer portions protecting the folding map, a few of blue ink marks and scratches to the front wrapper), about Fine within. [Chart No. 2 -- not offered here -- is a guide to poisonous mushrooms Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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65.00 USD
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Buss, Irven O. Elephant Life: fifteen years of high population density
Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. Iowa State University Press, 1990 0813801397 / 9780813801391 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good- Hard Cover 4to 11" - 13" tall
Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and only minimal wear to covers and tips. A single ding to top board, very minor, else Fine. Illustrated paper dust jacket fully intact, but showing some edge-wear and chipping along the top, else Very Good. Profusely illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Dr. Buss is a world-renowned expert in the African elephant, and this book represents the culmination of 25 years' research into the elephants of Uganda. Quite a nice copy indeed. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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6.40 USD
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Connelly, Thomas L. Discovering The Appalachians
Harrisburg, PA Stackpole Books, 1968 0811705307 / 9780811705301 Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Hard Cover tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall
Introduction by Ralph R. Widner. A tightly bound, unmarked copy with slight wear to the boards, in a clean, price-clipped dust jacket with only moderate shelfwear. Oversize. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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5.00 USD
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Cruickshank, Allan D. Birds Around New York City: Where and When To Find Them
New York, New York The American Museum of Natural History, 1942 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Dust Jacket Hard Cover Small 8vo 7
An ex-library copy with the usual discard markings. Still in original blue cloth with a blind stamped bird and gilt lettering on the front board. Map end papers and black and white photograph illustrations. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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8.00 USD
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Davies, William C. New Zealand Native Plant Studies, Second revised edition
Wellington, New Zealand A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1961 Second Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Hard Cover 6vo 10"-11
A clean, tight copy with no markings in the text and minimal wear to the boards. Green cloth boards, pages bright and shiny, slight waviness to front end-paper. Tips unbruised, spine and binding tight. Book-plate on front end-paper, otherwise unmarked. Chock-a-block full of beautiful old photos of the plants of New Zealand. Frontis-piece portrait, illustrations throughout with facing notes, references, glossary, index, and with two maps at end. Dust jacket slightly scuffed at corners, but protected by mylar. Oversize. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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12.00 USD
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de Fonvielle, W. Thunder and Lightning
New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897 Hard Cover Very Good- No Dust Jacket Hard Cover 16mo 6" - 7" tall
Sturdy, structurally sound hardcover copy, translated from the French by T.L. Phipson. A few pages of the translator's preface are missing. First end-paper clipped, illustration at frontis-piece opposite title page near detached, so handle with care. Lots of black-and-white illustrations, text followed by ads Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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11.20 USD
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Fullaway, David T. and Noel L. H. Krauss Common Insects of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii Tongg Publishing Company, 1945 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall Yasutaro Oda
Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Tongg Publishing Company, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1945, being a First Edition in octavo format. 228 pp. Illustrated by Yasutaro Oda throughout in both black-and-white and color. Original publisher's brown cloth, very light soiling thereto. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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30.00 USD
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G.M. Slark Thirty Choice Views of Canadian Rockies
Alberta, Canada G.M. Slark, First Edition Softcover Very Good Softcover Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall
Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy in oblong format, minor wear of stapled, illustrated covers, with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. No date of publication, but appears to be early 1900s. 27 views on 14 photogravure plates. Protected in a sleeve. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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22.00 USD
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Gersh, Harry, in cooperation with National Recreation and Park Association, Washington, D.C. The Animals Next Door: a guide to zoos and aquariums of the Americasn
New York Fleet Academic Editions, 1971 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good- No Dust Jacket Hard Cover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Withdrawn from an academic library, with many usual markings, but a good, sturdy, perfectly serviceable reference copy. No dust jacket, tips unbruised, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and neither underlining nor highlighting. Illustrated further by Thomas Bewick. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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5.20 USD
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Gibson, William Hamilton Happy Hunting-Grounds: a tribute to the woods and fields
New York Harper & Brothers, 1887 Hardcover Near Fine Very Good Hardcover 4to 11" - 13" tall William Hamilton Gibson
An exquisitely beautiful copy of an early, second printing (1887) of the original, true First Edition, published in 1886 (so says the copyright page). Dust jacket (see below) not depicted but present. Sterling condition hardcover copy bound in teal-green cloth, with unbruised tips, beveled edges, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Gorgeously illustrated cover (and throughout, by the author), and with remarkably sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover. All edges gilt, 202 pp. and with full and complete index. Frontis illustration, tissue-guarded. Decorated endpapers. The book is covered by a mylar-coated dust wrapper in Near Fine condition but that also advertises "Pastoral Days; or, memories of a New England Year" on the front panel and "Highways and Byways" on the rear panel, with "Happy Hunting-Grounds" on the spine. Additionally, present but tape-repaired is the extremely scarce box, covered with lettered and illustrated blue paper. Extremely scarce in the trade. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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90.00 USD
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