Wild Animals

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large octavo (215 x 140 mm). Contemporary tan calf prize binding, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, black morocco label, double lines rules to boards and Hanley Castle Grammar School Crest to upper board gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, turn-overs ruled in blind. Colour frontispiece and 20 engraved plates, engravings throughout the text. Contemporary presentation inscription to the front blank. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, small gouge from top edge of lower board, blank piece of paper pasted over an inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper, light spotting to contents. A very good copy. An attractively bound and copiously illustrated work on British insects by the naturalist John George Wood (1827-1889), originally published in 1872. Wood began his career in the Church of England, but from the early 1850s "was developing a career as a natural historian; his first book, The Illustrated… Read More

Chicago: R.C. Herzog & H.B. Riemer, 1920. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. [1], 5 pp. Multigraphed tri fold sheets, with original staple removed and bound in contemporary half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to boards, bookplate on paste down, bookseller notation in pencil on title page, creasing to sheets, slightly rusted staple holes, a little wrinkling to terminals. A very scarce work on designing and treating duck decoys, published by the authors. Subtitled An Exposition of Important Discoveries in the Treatment of Decoys With Specifications of a Process, Which Prevents Excessive Reflection of Light By the Decoys in Clear Weather. No copies in OCLC Worldcat. [Phillips, p. 177.].

Cambridge University Press, 1988. A few illustrations, octavo, pp viii, 567, the slightest of marks to the fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth in excellent condition, otherwise a very good copy in a dustwrapper which is slightly age-toned on the fold-over flaps. VERY SCARCE. [Providing a synthesis of our present knowledge of a colourful group of monkeys - the African Guenons, this book examines some of the current views on mammalian community structure and speciation, as well as on the phylogeny of African primates. ]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

1842 Jardine Mammals Naturalist LION Skunks Raccoon Bats Illustrated Capybara
Sir William Jardine was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist most known for his extensive series of books on natural history, 'The Naturalist's Library'.
This fine 1842 edition of Jardine's 'Naturalist's Library' is beautifully illustrated with 32 color engravings of the world's mammals! The plates from Jardine's 'Mammals'
are exceedingly desirable and are found framed and displayed by themselves. This volume of British Quadrupeds covers a wide variety of lesser-known animals such as the Banded Civet, Capybara, and Echinda, as well as more common mammals including the lion, skunk, raccoons, anteaters, squirrels, wallaby, fox, and bat.
Item number: #13311
Price: $499
JARDINE, Sir William
The naturalist's library: Mammalia, introduction [series vol xiii]
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; S. Highley, London, 1842.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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xiii, 313, [1]
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32 hand-colored plates
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Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1950. 6th printing, Inscribed by Author with drawing of Pima symbol of coyote track. Inscription reads "Dear Billie Wolfe - I wouldn't want to be a coyote, there are too many of the Damned human race. If I were a coyote trotting around the south plains I would stop under your window and sing you a coyote song - Frank Dobie 1958". Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Spring Books, [1956]. Folio. Original buff, heavy-grain cloth, titles to spine and Stegosaurus design to upper board in brown. With the dust jacket. 60 lithographic plates of which 31 are in colour. Lower corner of the binding knocked, which has also slightly creased the corner of the text block and the jacket, spine rolled. A very good copy in the bright jacket that is lightly rubbed at the extremities with a few nicks and short closed splits. First English language edition, first impression of this vibrantly illustrated work, originally published in Prague under the title Tiere der Urzeit in the same year. Rare in the dust jacket in such nice condition. Between the 1930s and 1960s "the foremost painter of dinosaur restorations was Zden k Burian (1905-1981). His canvasses were used to illustrate a number of popular books on prehistoric life by Joseph Augusta, and in the late 1950s and 1960s these were translated into English and widely circulated. So the Burian illustrations offered an… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, all edges dyed red. With the dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece and 14 plates of which 11 are double-sided, including 2 double-sided colour illustrations. Numerous illustrations within the text. Yellow pencil sometimes used to highlight passages, primarily in the early chapters. A few tiny bumps at the edges of the cloth. An excellent, fresh copy in a very attractive example of the dust jacket that is lightly rubbed with some small nicks and chips, a little creasing at the edges, and mild toning of the spine panel. First edition, first printing and a lovely copy in the dust jacket. The Field Book of Animals in Winter is much less common than Morgan's book on ponds and streams, and is rarely found in such nice condition. As a child, Ann Haven Morgan (1882-1966) developed a love of nature by exploring the areas around her home in Connecticut. She earned her bachelor's degree and doctorate at Cornell, the latter… Read More

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1905. 1st. Hardcover. very good/no dj as issued. The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands, Section II. the Deep-Sea Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands; Section III. the Commercial Fisheries" -- Government Printing Office, 1905. (extracted from the Bullettin of the US Fishing Comission.) List of Illustrations: 8 pages, Text and 81 Illustrations on 138 pages (pagination from 575-713), 11" x 8" 35 plates are full-page with 1 or 2 illustrations printed only on recto. Plus 46 illustrations in the tex.Very good detailed printing quality. Solid blue hardcover binding. with gilt title and publication year on the spine. Spine a bit rubbed. Ex-Libris of Robert Hoyt (1929) in inside front cover. === Very rare, especially in this quality. Ships from Hawaii. ==.

San Diego: Academic Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Page tops and fore-edges foxed.. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0120724057 . xix, 380pp. Index, references, illustrations, photos. "This is the first comprehensive treatment of Aotus, the nocturnal New World owl monkey often used in behavioral and biomedical studies. Found in tropical forests from Nicaragua to Argentina, owl monkeys have been used in laboratories as model organisms for studies of diseases, such as malaria and various forms of cancer, as well as studies of reproductive physiology and neuroanatomical structure and function." From rear cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

St. Cloud, MN: Land's Edge Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges foxed.. 1999. Hardcover. 096758910X . One of 750 signed and numbered copies. Illustrations, references cited. Detailed bibliography of books about big game hunting in Africa compiled by the antiquarian bookseller and professor. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pages .

New York, Delacorte Press, 2000, hardcover, 181 pp, First Printing thus by numberline, Fine in Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight bump to head of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight scuff to heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The first book in the master of children's fantasy writing's twelve-book, 'Wolves' series. Illustrated from drawings by Pat Marriott. ISBN 9780385327909

Copenhagen: Royal Greenland Trade Department, 1961. Limited edition of 400 (#238/400). Introduction by Jens Rosing; Signed by Rosing. In ENGLISH and DANISH. Exterior green portfolio contains interior portfolio that holds introduction and eight lithographs of Aron's work. Exterior green paper portfolio is in Very Good condition with creasing, tearing, curling, and edgewear overall as well as an old ownership stamp on the inner flap. Interior portfolio is in Near Fine condition; it contains a printed introduction by Jens Rosing and eight pages of lithographs containing two illustrations each (for a total of 16). The interior portfolio is slightly creased at the top of the fold; lithographs and introduction are in Fine condition; upper corner on first lithograph very lightly bumped; final lithograph has small bend at top and a smudge towards the bottom. For additional information or photographs, please do not hesitate to contact us. Photos are of the set here at Barbed Wire Books.

This book has some minor wear to covers, some markings first inner pages by previous owner. Spine intact, some wear. Very good shape considering its age. "Mary Kingsley's "Travels in West Africa" has become a classic, and deservedly so. Her story is remarkable. In the 1890s, unmarried and no longer having to care for her parents, Kingsley decides she should travel in "the tropics" and sets off for "West Africa" (i.e., the West coast of Central Africa). She travels as a scientist, collecting fish specimens, and finances her travels by trading along the way--but mostly she travels for the love of adventure and to satisfy an appetite for the unknown. "Travels in West Africa" is a treasure trove of information about Atlantic-coast Central Africa in the late 1800s. The last third of "Travels in West Africa" consists of three long chapters on fetish customs. Although she lacks a systematic view of the role of fetishes and other spiritual tokens in the cultures she met, her depiction of their impact on… Read More

Rare! Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2000. Paperback. First Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 52 pages. A collection of short stories set mainly in Guyana which feature brave, ingenious, kindly, and sometimes mischievous animals and children.

Word underlining on pages 39 & 41; marginal notes on 303; otherwise text is clean; tanned with age. Notations inscribed on endpapers; ffep price-clipped. Upper tips of pages 279 - 303 creased. Rubbing of spine ends & cover corners. Tiny cut marks of lateral board edges. Decorative/embossed green boards/spine typical to the turn of the century.