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Agasizz, Louis Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation & Animals
Huntington, New York Robert E. Kreiger Publishing 1974 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good No DJ
Very nice, clean book, tighly bound with no names or writing. Small spot of wear to back spine area i and two spots to front board visible only when turned in the light. Pages and page edges pristine.Beautifully illustrated throughout. Originally published in 1850. Agasizz was both a medical doctor and a scientist who specialized in natural history, specifically ichthyology, the study of fish. He is not to be confused with Louis Agasizz Fuertes, the ornithologist and painter of birds.Book has 428 pages, plus drawings at back of fish and insects.
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50.00 USD
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Beatty, Robert Journey of the Tern
Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. Ecopress 1994 0963970585 / 9780963970589 First Printing Soft Cover New Wraps, New
Crisp new copy. No spine crease or fault. His brother's mysterious shooting leads an automotive exec into the unfamiliar world of the environmentalists where he not only learns the truth about the murder, but is forced to make a difficult choice between his old life and his new one. 205 pages.
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4.99 USD
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Buckley, Arabella B. Winners in Life's Race
New York D. Appleton & Company 1883 Hard Cover Very Good
Very nice copy indeed. Olive green boards are handsomely and crisply gilded at face and spine with a most decorative cover featuring animals in bright gold against a black scene of water and trees. Spine is likewise pictorial. Small bit of wear to crown and tail of spine and along rear hinge at back, though there is no interior cracking to hinges either front or back and book is tightly bound. No foxing, just mild toning to pages. A sequel to the autror's previous book "Life and Her Children" which dealt with invertibrates. Very nicely illustrated throughout. Arabella Buckley was a British naturalist who specialized in adapting science for children with a strong emphasis on evolution. 387 pages. Indexed, plus ads for other books, including those by Darwin. The author's "The Fairy-Land of Science" also available.
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50.00 USD
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Burroughs, John Under the Maples
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1921 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
A very nice book pubolished after the death of Burroughs, a renowned naturalist. Green boards are very clean and nice with no bumps to board and no names or writing. Tightly bound. Jacket, which shows a potratir of the author at dace, is even toned with a tiny chip to top right of spine. Has not been price-clipped and is most ahdnsoem inj brand new mylar. A collection of essays whoich discuss a holiday ewith Theodore Roosevelt at Pine Knot, wildlife in California and the Smokey Mountains, Marcus Aurelius on Death and much more. 223 pages. Indexed. Book measures 5"x7-1/2"
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30.00 USD
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Caduto, Michael J. & Bruchac, Joseph, Fadden, John Kahionhes (illustrator); Wood, Carol (illustrator) Keepers of the Earth : Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children (Keepers Ser.)
Golden, CO, U.S.A.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1997 Second Printing Soft Cover New Wraps, New 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Crisp BRAND NEW copy of a book geared to teachers, scout leaders and homeschoolers. Filled with traditional stories designed to teach children the importance of respecting the earth followed by tested activities appropriate to all grade levels which foster creative thinking and synthesize knowledge and experience. 209 pages. We also own Keeper of the Animals and Keepers of Life by the same authors.
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11.95 USD
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Cole, William (editor) Transactions of the Essex Field Club Volume III February 25th 1882 to January 27th 1883
Blockhurst Hill, Essex Essex Field Club 1884 Hard Cover Very Good No DJ, as Issued
Nice, clean, tightly bound book which appears to have been rebound by the Library of Congress, as their gilt logo appears on spine. Red, orange and white decorated paper over boards with rose cloth spine printed in gilt. Marbeled page edges. Book is exceptionally nice on the outside with wear at front corners. Inside there is a discard stamp, chipping to edges of all grey pages separating the various parts with final one detached and laid-in, and one fold-out which has come loose, but is laid-in and quite clean. Pages show no foxing. Fascinating to note that the Essex Field Club remains in operation for enthusiasts of geology and natural history of the area of Essex. Book is a compendium of scholarly articles (illustrated) on a variety of topics including the ancient fauna of Essex illustrated with ten woodcuts; the macro-lepidoptera of the district around Maldon, Essex; Denholes (two plates); primeval man in the valley of the Lea (24 woodcuts); the species of the genus Primula and notes on the London clay and bagshot beds at Oakhill quarry. Additional information as well.
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125.00 USD
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Compiled By Globe News Company The Story of Hurricane Cleo
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Globe News Company 1964 Soft Cover Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Oversized booklet measuring 11" by 9" and featuring 58 pages lavishly illusated with black and white photographs of the disaster. Clean as a whistle inside and out with one tiny tear to outer edge of front cover. Includes significant text, as well as a very nice fold-out map which outlines the storm's path. Cleo blasted Key Biscayne and roared along the Florida coast via State Rte. 7 with winds gusting to 110 miles per hour. The devastation was enormous and included Storyland, a popular children's theme park of the day which was never rebuilt. The storm also marks the only time in its history that the Fort Lauderdale News (the precursor of the Sun-Sentinel) failed to publish. The power was out so long that pressmen were unable to melt the lead for the linotype machines. Employees and their finished, but unpublished, copy were forced to spend the night in the newspaper office sleeping on desk tops. Photos are wonderful -- among them are a lone mannequin standing in the window of a blown-out building with an amazed fireman gazing in, a desolate street strewn with women's shoes, and two forlorn men sitting outside a a Shell station which had, appropriately enough, lost it's S. Text is very well written and includes much detail. An interesting piece of Florida history.
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25.00 USD
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Core, Earl L.; Core, Earl Lemley Spring Wildflowers of West Virginia
Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S.A. University of West Virginia Press 2005 0937058955 / 9780937058954 First Thus Soft Cover New Wraps, New
Crisp, beautiful, BRAND NEW copy. Reprinted from 1981, but originally released inn 1948. Illustrated with detailed line drawings by William A. Lunk. A pocket guide to identification.104 pages.
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12.00 USD
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Degraff, Richard M., et al New England Wildlife: Management of Forested Habitats
Washington D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office 1992 No Edition Stated Soft Cover Fine Wraps, Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Crisp, as new copy. Only defect is tiny bit of wear at lower front corner. Clean as a whistle inside and out. Illustrated throughout with photos, charts and tables. Presents silviculture treatments for six major cover-type groups in New England to produce stand conditions providing habitat opportunities for a wife range of wildlife -- 338 species. 271 pages.
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30.00 USD
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Hutchinson, Frances Kinsley Our Country Life
Chicago A,C. McClurg 1912 First Edition Hard Cover Good No DJ
Clean and tightly bound with pristine pages and no names or writing. As with every copy of this book we have ever seen without a jacket, the white printing has lost color. It's virtually gone on the spine and lacking at the O and C of the title, as well as at the last four letters of the author's name. Small corner crease to lower front only other defect. Attractive green tinted pictorial endpapers showcase the author's country estate in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, acquired in 1901 and the subject of a previous book. It's a large gorgeous Tudor set on acreage the author and her husband Charles, who served as president of the Chicago Insistute of Art from 1888-1924, turned into a wildlife sanctuary. Upon their deaths the property was bequeathed to the University of Chicago. Photo illustrated. 316 pages.
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38.00 USD
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Jackson, Jerome A.; Toups, Judith A. Birds and Birding on the Mississippi Coast
Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A. Univ Press of Mississippi 1987 0878053166 / 9780878053162 Hard Cover Near Fine No DJ, as Issued
Nice, clean, attractive copy designed without dustjacket. Laminated boards show no bumping to corners. Only fault is a small light spot on the "son" in second author's last name. Pages and page edges very clean with no names or writing. Blurb on front by Roger Tory Peterson. Illustrated with black and white drawings. Explains where, when, and how to find specific birds on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The majority of the book is comprised of info on the specific species, but there is also info on birdfinding on the mainland, bird finding on the islands and Pelagic birding, as well on birding by the calendar. 303 pages. Indexed.
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16.00 USD
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Knoop, Paul E. Jr. A Place Called Aullwood (SIGNED By Author & Marie S. Aull)
Allan L. Horvath Publications 1996 0965415201 / 9780965415200 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall SIGNED
Crisp, clean copy which has not been price-clipped. No tears or chips to jacket which is most handsome in brand new mylar. Measures 9"x11-3/4" and is illustrated beautifully in full color with photographs by Allan L. Horvath. SIGNED by author, Paul Knoop, and by Marie S. Aull, who along with her husband John, bought the property bordering the Stillwater River in the early 1920's. It has since been given to the people of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio as a nature center.
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20.00 USD
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Long, William J. Mother Nature; A Study of Animal Life and Death
New York Harper & Brothers 1923 First Edition Stated Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Bull, Charles Livingston
Book is beautiful beaneath its dustjacket. Handsome green boards are crisp and clean as new with no wear or fading and nicely printed and ornamented in gilt at face and spine. Dustjacket shows a few small abrasions to front, tiny edgetears at crown and tail of spine and darkening to spine area only, but is most handsome in brand new mylar. Has not been price-clipped. Inside pages are lightly toned, but very clean with two small edge tears. Long was a United Church of Christ minister and popular naturalist of the early part of the 20th century. Here he posits that nature is not cruel, popular belief to the contrary, as everything follows what he terms "the natural law of cooperation." Chapters include: They Say Nature Is Cruel, The Struggle For Existence and Other Delusions, Mythical Terrors of the Wild, The Way of a Wolf, Do Animals Suffer Pain, Brute Instincts and Death in the Woods. Nicely enhanced by the eight color plates rendered by Charles Livingston Bull who also created the paste-on at front of dustjacket. 330 pages.
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75.00 USD
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Marks, William E. (Editor) Water Voices from Around the World
Edgarton, MA William E. Marks Inc. 2007 0979304601 / 9780979304606 Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Crisp, clean copy with no names or writing. One tiny corner crease is only fault to book itself. Pages pristine. Dustjacket shows mild crease to upper rear edge, but has not been price-clipped and is most handsome in brand new mylar cover. A compendium of over 390 lavish color photographs and letters from people all over the world sharing their knowledge of the earth's water. Some are ordinary people, others Nobel and Stockholm Water Prize winners. A three year project to celebrate a precious, but too often compromised, natural resource. 228 pages.
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30.00 USD
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Mathews, Larry E, Caves of Chattanooga
National Speliological Society 2007 187996127X / 9781879961272 First Edition Soft Cover Near Fine 4to - over 9¾
Crisp, clean, beautiful copy of a rather hard to find title. Tells the history of Native American tribes and their relationship with the caves from 8000 years ago to 1838 when the cherokee were removed; how the caves were mined for saltpeter to make gunpowder, both in the War of 1812 and the Civil War; the story of the exploration and commercialization of nine caves; and never before published stories of amazing discoveries inside Lookout Mountain, plus the story of the Great Cave Hoax of 1927. Illustrated with black and white photos and maps. 192 pages. Indexed.
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22.00 USD
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Roach, Frederick A. Hooker's Finest Fruits; A Selection of Paintings of Fruits by William Hooker (1779-1832)
New York Prentice-Hall Press 1989 First Edition Thus Hard Cover Fine Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Lovely condition with only one small tear and wrinkle to lower front corner and a bit of sunning to just the top front edge caused by book being taller than the one next to it on the shelf and facing the window. Otherwise it's clean as a whistle inside and out with no names or writing and pristine pages and page edges.It's a large book measuring 9"x12-1/4", has not been price-clipped, and is very attractive in a brand new mylar cover.Hooker was, and is, one of the finest botanical illustrators, but he was also an artist who gardened, so his love of plants extended beyond visual appreciation. The paintings, those here being a portion of the total, were commissioned by the Horticultural Society of London and consisted of a wide array of fruit types, all of which are meticulously described. Book includes 96 color plates and is very beautiful.
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20.00 USD
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Sbordoni, Valerio; Forestiero, Saverio Butterflies of the World
New York Crescent 1988 0517665840 / 9780517665848 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Hard to find even in this reprint edition. Originally published in 1984. Translated to English from the Italian. Nook is clean and tightly bound with no names or writing and has not been price-clipped. Flat crease to bottom corner of front board. Dustjacket protected by brand new mylar cover. A comprehensive study by two renowned Italian lepidopterists who explain the interrelationships of the world of butterflies -- their evolution, life cycle, geographical distribution, , demography and migrations, and strategies against predators. Beautiful, lavish, and plentiful full color art. 312 pages.
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25.00 USD
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Schneck, Marcus H. Backyard Critters
New York, NY, U.S.A. Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated 1991 0831706694 / 9780831706692 No Edition Stated Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Crisp, clean copy in matching dustjacket which has been protected by brand new mylar. Only defect is original bookstore price stamped on front free endpaper. Lavishly illustrated with color photos throughout. Over 100 "backyard critters" of all kinds get an up close and personal look with info on common and scientific names, habitats and habits, adaptablity to people , and more. 96 pages of fun for the young naturalist.
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10.00 USD
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