Very nice booklet -- hard to find. Clean and tightly bound with a narrow band of toning along spine at front being only fault. Pages clean and unmarked. Measures 8-1/2"x11" and is illustrated with maps, charts and drawings throughout. 96 pages. View More...
Crisp as new book -- no defect. Pristine inside and out. Will arrive with brand new mylar cover to protect it. Beautiful photographs at center of book printed on coated paper in full color. Also illustrated with maps, charts, graphs and tables, as well as a few black and white photos. A new study on the migration patterns of birds of prey which also includes case studies of several raptor species illustrating how the migration strategies can be very different. The author also tells stories and findings from a dozen of the world's most important hawk-watchign sites.320 pages plus index. View More...
Very scarce first edition in nice clean condition. Only fault is light sunning to spine. Blue boards show very little wear and have sharp corners. Book is tightly bound with very clean pages. Former owner's name penciled to front free endpaper, but could be erased if desired. Book is illustrated nicely throughout and provides breeders, exhibitors and judges of bantams with very detailed standards breed by breed. Laid-in is an Ohio card of breeder from Mineral Ridge, Ohio with photo of stock on face.Very scarce in this edition. 255 pages. View More...
ITEM 7783 PAINTINGS BY J.F. LANSDOWNE BIRDS OF THE EASTERN FOREST VOL 1 TEXT BY JOHN LIVINGSTON PUB 1968 BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARD BACK 231PGS 10 X 13 INCLUDES 52 LARGE SCALE BEAUTIFUL COLOR PLATES BOOK AND DJ IN MYLAR FINE CONDITION ,CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT ,NO MARKS OR TEARS [ WILD LIFE EAST SHELF] View More...
Crisp, clean, beauitiful book -- pristine inside and out with no names or writing. Also has no tears or chips and no bumps to boards or to slipcase corners. Page inside at front states that this is #58 of 125 copies in this special edition. Beneath the limitation info Joe Nigg and Roger Tory Peterson SIGNED it.The art is gorgeous in its depiction of thirty fantasy birds extracted from folklore and myth and is accpmpanied with stories about each. Book measures 9" x 12" and 160 pages. View More...
Very clean attractive book in original brown boards with gilt pictorial at face board which also shows a nice beveled edge. Faults include one small reglued tear to top of spine that is holding very well and fading of cloth at upper front corner to a lighter brown. Tightly bound with dark brown binding tape at hinges, neatly and beautifully done, both front and back to match endpapers. Most handsome in clear plastic cover. Copyright date is 1879 and print date is 1880, but gift inscription at first blank page is dated Christmas 1879. Inscription reads "Aubrey C. Bone with his father's love... View More...
Crisp, beautiful book with no names or writing, no bumps to board, and no tears or chips to dustjacket. Has not been price-clipped and will arrive in brand new mylar. Book is oversized at 9" x 11-1/2" and has 256 pages. The author goes step-by step and augments her instructions with educational photographs and drawings. The curriculum here is for the student to compete four carvings --a Greater Yellowlegs, the Semi-palamated Plover, the Dunin, and a Sanderling in flight. View More...
ITEM # 8490 STUDER'S POPULAR ORNITHOLOGY THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA DRAWN AND COLORED FROM NATURE BY THEODORE JASPER PUB 1881 BY JACOB H STUDER CO NY AND COLUMBUS OHIO 182 NMBERED PAGES 12 X 15 , LEATHER BOUND HARD BACK EXTENSIVE TEXT AND 119 FULL PAGE FULL COLOR PLATES TELL ABOUT 700 SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH LEATHER BINDING DEEP EMBOSSED DESIGN AND GILT LETTERING 5 RIB SPINE MARBLED END PAPERS COLOR PLATES WITH TISSUE GUARDS HINGES ARE STRONG COVER SHOWS ONLY LIMITED WEAR INSIDE THERE ARE SOME PROBLEMS , GIFT INSCRIPTION ON FFEP , THAT PG AND FI... View More...
