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The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768-1771 (2 Volume set)
by Banks, Joseph and J.C. Beaglehole
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(Sydney, 1962): Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in Association with Angus and Robertson. First Editions. Octavo. 2 volume set. Color frontispieces. Volume I, xxvi, 476 pages, and 39 plates. Volume II, xvi, 406 pages, index, 2 page folding map, and 40 plates. A few plates in color. A well annotated text of the Endeavour Journal.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Charley's Museum; a Story for Young People
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Philadelphia; (1855): H.C. Peck & T. Bliss. First Edition. approx. 3 ½" x 4 ½" Engraved frontispiece, 96 pages, illustrated. A book for young people on how to collect natural history. It begins with a boy's uncle helping him to begin collecting sea shells and continues with other aspects of nature. Toward the end, the young boy wants to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ceratopsian Dinosaurs from the Two Medicine Formation, Upper Cretacious of Montana
by Gilmore, Charles W.
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Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1939. Octavo. 18 pages, illustrated. The Two Medicine Formation in northwestern Montana has had one of the most remarkable findings of dinosaurs and other important fossils from the Campanian stage. Charles W. Gilmore was a major American paleontologist whose papers were written primarily while in the employ of the National Museum of Natural History. This is… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Birds and Their Story, a Book for Young Folk
by Lodge, R.B.
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London, nd States Sixth Thousand: Charles H. Kelly. Octavo. Raised lettering at foot of titlepage "sample copy". Color frontispiece, 188pp., illustrated in color and in black and white depicting various birds and their habitat. Bound in green cloth pictorially stamped and lettering in gilt, spine lettering and all edges gilt previous owner's name and inscription, tiny tears to head.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Havasupai Ethnography, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
by Spier, Leslie
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- 1928
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New York City: The American Museum of Natural History, 1928. Octavo. [81]-392pp. illustrated. Volume XXIX, Part III. The Havasupai are a small and obscure group of Yuman-speaking Indians living in the neighborhood of the Grand Canyon in north central Arizona. Our earliest knowledge dates from their discovery in 1776 by Padre Francisco Garces. They were a very secluded tribe.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Man and Wildlife in Arizona: The American Exploration Period 1824-1865
by Davis Goode P. Jr.
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- 1982
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Arizona: (The Arizona Game and Fish Dept.), 1982. Octavo. 232pp., illustrated, edited by Neil B. Carmony and David E. Brown. This work was first present as a Madteer's Thesis to the University of Arizona in 1973. It received immediate acclaim. Not only was the work of great interest, but the text was also highly readable. The scientific importance of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reports on the Fishes, Reptiles and Birds of Massachusetts
by Emerson, George B., D. Humphreys Storer, et al.
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- 1839
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Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1839. First Edition. Octavo. . 426pp., 4 full page plates. The reports contained in the present volume were presented to Governor Evertt, during the session of 1838-1839. The governor authorized the publication of fifteen hundred copies of the reports which he had received. There is also a listing of those who received a copy. This… Read more about this item Item Price
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Erpetologie generale, ou, Histoire naturelle complete des Reptile (General Herpetology or Complete Natural History of Reptiles) (6 Volume Set with atlas)
by C Dume´ril; Gabriel Bibron; Auguste Henri Andre´ Dume´ril; Roger Bour
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Ithica, New York: Society for the Stud of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2022. Octavo. The Original 9 volume sets issued in five plus the atlas volume. French text. (9 volumes plus an atlas of colored plates, 1834-1854). This latter work, generally known as "D & B," has been reprinted and is still considered the most comprehensive work ever done, it… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wet Days at Edgewood with Old Farmers, Old Gardeners, and Old Pastorals
by [Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908.)
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- 1865
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New York: Charles Scribner, 1865. First Edition. Small Octavo. 342pp. The author writes about each of the nine days when it was cloudy or rainy. He retreats to his library with a large window that overlooks the land he lives on and finds comfort in visiting old friends within these books. From Theocritus, Columella, Virgil, to Louden, Burke, Homer… Read more about this item Item Price
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My Summer in a Garden
by Warner, Charles Dudley
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- 1871
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Boston: James R. Osgood and Co, 1871. First American Edition. Small Octavo. 183pp., Introduction by Henry ward Beecher. The author writes in his journal something about gardening each week through the nineteenth week. Bound in green cloth tooled in blind, spine lettering gilt, brown coated endpapers, chipping to spine ends, light wear to corners, binding lightly rubbed. A very… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Countrie Housewifes Garden
by Lawson, William
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- 1948
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Herrin, IL: The Trovillion Private Press, 1948. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 53 (4) pp. illustrated. Limited to 997 copies, the present copy is #310 signed by Violet Trovillion. Originally published in 1617. For a full century after its appearance in 1617, Lawson's book held the field unopposed as the first women's gardening book. In 1716, almost one hundred years… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Old English Herbals
by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
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- 1922
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London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1922. Quarto. Color frontispiece, 243pp. illustrated with 17 illustrations. The author presents those authors of a variety of the great early Herbal books published. such as Herbarium of Apuleius, A Saxton Herbal, Gerard's Herball along with Thomas Shirley's The Curious Distillatory, The English Physician, Theatrum Botanicum and others. Bound in beige cloth centrally stamped… Read more about this item Item Price
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Desert Neighbors (inscribed By Edith M. Patch to the Exile Writers Committee)
by Patch, Edith M. And Caroll Lane Fenton
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- 1940
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Macmillan: New York, 1940. Octavo. Later Printing. Inscribed by the author. 170 pages, illustrated by Carol Lane Fenton, index. The Exiled Writers Committee was a project to raise money for writers who had been exiled by the Third Reich. They were a part of the anti-Stalinist left wing. In February 1941, they asked major authors who were in sympathy… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Made Under the Directions of the Secretary of the War in 1853-1854. 33d Congress. 2nd Senate. Ex. Do
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Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1855-59; George W. Bowman, 1861 and Thomas H. Ford 1860. Quarto. 12 Volumes in 13. As stated by Wagner-Camp, these reports were printed as they were received. There is no overall system or arrangement, nor are there general indices to the volumes, and as Camp has pointed out, there is the usual duplication of print and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Cloud Forest; A Chronicle of South American Wilderness (signed on the Half Title page)
by Matthiessen, Peter
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- 1961
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New York: Viking, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author on the half-title page. 280 pages, index, illustrated with photographic images. A thousand miles beyond the south. One of the finest accounts of the land of dark purple shadows. This work goes into areas often missed by explorers and at times he touches on the same travels as… Read more about this item Item Price
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Under the Mountain Wall; a Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age (signed By the author)
by Matthiessen, Peter
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New York; (1962): The Viking Press. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author. xiv, 27 black and white photographic images, 256 pages, photographic images after page 160 continues photographs 28-85, xxxii. The first edition recalled from publisher and distristrubed through a book club which notes at bottom of "Table of Contents" that it now was a book club edition… Read more about this item Item Price
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Moths of the Limberlost
by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1912. First Edition. Small Quarto. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to a close friend. Books signed by Mrs. Stratton-Porter are quite scarce as she enjoyed her privacy. Those books she did sign were usually non-fiction titles and were presentation copies to close friends only, as with the present copy. 369(1)pp., illustrated throughout… Read more about this item Item Price
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Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the Shore
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1855
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Boston: Tickner and Fields, 1855. First Edition. 16mo. 165pp., 8pp. publisher's ads at rear. The story for the naturalist about the sea and its shores and the natural history of those items found on the shore. A very good copy bound in brown embossed cloth, spine lettering gilt, pale yellow endpapers, some wear to spine ends two lightly bumped… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wild Harvest - The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn
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Np.(1997): Sporting Classics and Wildlife Art Magazine. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. 168pp., illustrated with 133 color plates and 36 black and white illustrations. Laid in is a large sized ExLibris of the artist's bookplate made for this title signed by Kuhun and included within 4800 first editions. Additinally signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title. According to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Moths of the Limberlost
by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1914. Small Quarto. 369(1) pp. Beautifully illustrated in color which serves as a guide to identification for readers. Also illustrated in black and white within the text. A moth book based upon the study of moths found in the Limberlost swamp of Northeaster Indiana--a habitat with which Mrs. Stratton-Porter's readers became familiar in… Read more about this item Item Price
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