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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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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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Blatchley, W. S. A Nature Wooing At Ormond by the Sea
Indianapolis, IN The Nature Publishing Company, 1902 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Very Good- Hardcover Small 8vo 7
Hardcover copy, deep greenish-blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations; spine decoration is a little darkened; front cover is bumped at middle of its top and bottom edges, and has four small shallow dents in its middle; there are a few spots of whiteish discoloration on the spine and back cover; page block edges and extreme page margins are darkened. Binding is square and tight; pages are unmarked. Folding map, twelve full-page black-and-white photos (as called for), and many black-and-white drawings. 245 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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15.00 USD
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Blatchley, W. S. Boulder Reveries
Indianapolis, IN The Nature Publishing Company, 1906 First Edition Hardcover Very Good No Dust Jacket Hardcover 12mo 7" - 7
Olive cloth binding with gold lettering; binding is a little rubbed at its edges and is faintly scuffed on its covers, but is square, tight, and unfaded; top outside corners of both covers are very slightly bumped, not affecting the adjoining pages; page block edges are darkened. Philosophical nature writing in the mold of Thoreau and Burroughs. Blatchley was one of the most important writers on the natural history of Indiana, with books that are still standard works on the beetles and on the weeds of the state. Index, notes. Black-and-white photograph at frontispiece of, you guessed it, a boulder. 230 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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15.00 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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Burroughs, John The Complete Nature Writings of John Burroughs, Volume 6, Riverby
New York William H. Wise & Company, 1904 Hard Cover Good No Dust Jacket Hard Cover 24mo 5" - 6" tall
Sturdy hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and only minimal wear to covers and tips. Some foxing to end-papers, some spotting and staining to boards. Perfectly serviceable reference copy. Nice portrait of the author at frontis-piece, opposite title page. Deckled page edges, with Index. 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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Burroughs, John The Complete Nature Writings of John Burroughs, Volume 7, Ways of Nature
New York William H. Wise & Company, 1905 Hard Cover Good No Dust Jacket Hard Cover 24mo 5" - 6" tall
Sturdy hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and only moderate wear to covers and tips. Some foxing to end-papers, some spotting and staining to boards. Perfectly serviceable reference copy, despite slight damage to first free end-paper. Nice portrait of the author at frontis-piece, opposite title page. Deckled page edges. 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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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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Deam, Charles C. Trees of Indiana, Third Revised Edition
Indianapolis, IN The Bookwalter Company, Inc., 1953 Third Revised Edition Hardcover Very Good No Dust Jacket Hardcover Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall
Red cloth binding, a little rubbed at spine ends and corners; spine just starting to fade; covers a little warped so that book sits open 1/8" when laid flat; page block edges and endpapers a little foxed. Book is tightly bound and clean inside and out. Standard work on its subject. 330 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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15.00 USD
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Felt, Ephraim Porter New York State Museum Bulletin 68, Entomology 18, Aquatic Insects in New York State
Albany, NY New York State Education Department, 1903 Hardcover Very Good- No Dust Jacket Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Green cloth binding with gilt spine lettering; binding is rubbed at its edges (though not frayed) and is faintly scuffed on its faces. Page block edges and endpapers are darkened and a little spotted with foxing. Lots of black-and-white photos and illustrations. Binding is square, unfaded, and tight; pages are unmarked. Protected by a Mylar coat. 517 pp. + index. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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35.00 USD
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Fritz, Emanuel California Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens): an annotated bibliography to and including 1955
San Francisco Foundation for American Resource Management, 1957 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
An annotated bibliography to and including 1955, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Published by the Foundation for American Resource Management, a First Edition, reddish-orange cloth with gilt-lettered title on cover and spine and decoration to cover. Illustrated endpapers (map), and complete with notes, index. Age-toning to pages, but internally clean. Overall, a nice copy. 267 pp. 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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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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