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1995Best.-Nr. 24720NY: Sterling. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0806912626 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Fine in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Sterling hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 33428NY: Howell Book House. Fine. 1994. Hardcover. 0876059701 . Fourth printing. Fine in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket. . Howell Book House hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 23235Wynnewood: Livingston Publishing Company. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0870980335 . Color photographs throughout. First edition. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Livingston Publishing Company hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 24527Blaine: Hancock House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 088839330X . Color photographs. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Hancock House hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 21763NY: Crowell. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0690047223 . Illustrated by Gary Allen. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Crowell hardcover books
1997Best.-Nr. 6048San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0871569825 . Farley Mowat blurb. First printing. Remainder dot on top edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Sierra Club Books hardcover books
2004Best.-Nr. 24883NY: Ecco Harpercollins. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0060197455 . First printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Ecco (Harpercollins) hardcover books
1996Best.-Nr. 22906NY: William Morrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0688136001 . Illustrated by the author. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . William Morrow hardcover books
1997Best.-Nr. 41084Boston:: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0395845432 . Illustrated by the author. First printing. Near fine in a near fine one short closed edge tear on rear panel dust jacket. . Houghton Mifflin, hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 31305Austin: University of Texas Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0292711476 . Color photographs by Barbara Garland. First edition. Previous owner's name on half-title page else fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Texas Press hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 31395NY: George Braziller. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0807614343 . Retold by Barbara Wersba based on the Margaret Bloom translation from the French. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Book club edition. Fine in a near fine spot of abrasion on front panel dust jacket. . George Braziller hardcover books
1903Best.-Nr. 157487London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1903. Hardcover. Good clean and tight contents with very last pages unseparated; faint age toning to fore edges; covers soiled. College ex-lib. copy with usual marks including call number on spine stamp on front cover bookplate and card pocket. Interior hinges cracked but binding still sound. Cream vellum/boards with gilt lettering and design. 349 pp. errata xiii pp. Deckle edges. Several charts/tables including one folding which is separated into two pieces from wear and has a small tear across one section. Volume 5 only of the series: Comparisons Survey and Conclusions. Written in two sections with 20 total chapters and an index. Part of a multi-volume work. "This particular volume published in 1897 as Vol. IX of 'Life and Labour' has undergone detailed revision and the Abstract of the first 9 volumes which was formerly given here has been transferred to the final volume as part of the Summary of the now complete work." Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1985Best.-Nr. 172016San Francisco: New Langton Arts 1985. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition held from October 8 through November 2 1985 at New Langton Arts. Illustrated in black-and-white. Very Good plus in saddle-stapled moderately rubbed wrappers. New Langton Arts unknown books
1870Best.-Nr. D21123Long Island 1870s. Hardcover. Fair. Manuscript album belonging to an N. T. Lawrence dated 1873 at the front. Small quarto. Marbled paper over boards front board detached. Pages numbered to 159 but all blank after p. 48. Many birds with no entries. Roughly 20 leaves with entries the Latin name of the bird at the top and specific measurements given for the unfortunate bird. Sold as is. hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 142933Grand Rapids MI: Grand Rapids Art GALLERY 1950. Softcover. VG- Very clean tight text but catalogue has mailing stamp and address to original art museum. Yellow and grey stapled wraps with black lettering. 4.5x11 inches. 24 pp. with 10 bw illus. Catalogue of 67 works exhibited by as many artists from a total of 198 submitted for consideration from Jan. 8 to Feb. 14. The exhibition was held during the gallery's 50th anniversary year before it was renamed the Grand Rapids Art Museum and moved into new premises. Grand Rapids Art GALLERY paperback books
1958Best.-Nr. 010081New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1958 44 pgs. Yellow cloth hard cover with slight spine lean and prev. owner's bookplate else fine; photo-illustrated dust jacket with chips tears and wear original price intact $2.75. Text and b&w photographs following the goings-on of a nest of robins including the appearance of eggs and the eventual hatching and growth of the chicks. The photographer Myron E Scott is best known as the inventor of the Soap Box Derby and is credited for coming up with the name "Corvette" for Chevrolet. . First Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Myron E. Scott Photography. Square 8vo. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover books
1845Best.-Nr. 01111262Concord NH: Rufus Merrill c1845. 16 pp. booklet with original yellow paper wraps with 9 woodcut illustrations. Nine 9 identified illustrations include Lyre Bird swallow Boat Bill Roseate Spoon bill Blue Jay Hoopoe Robin Belted Kingfisher and doves. Accompanied by narrative description and rhyming verse. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" chapbook. Make-do sewing repair along back strip. Rufus Merrill paperback books
1840Best.-Nr. 10158316mo 2 1/2 x 4 original paper wrappers illustrated 16 pp. Some staining and soiling to covers stitch a little loose slight tears along hinges a little browning and foxing. In pretty decent condition for such a delicate item. Scarce children's title OCLC locates only a couple of copies with bird wood engraved illustrations. Includes description and small illustrations of the Robin Golden Eagle Blue Bird Turtle Doves Owl Wild Goose Quail and Nightingale. OCLC. Bailey & Noyes, books
1996Best.-Nr. 170032Hartford CT: Wadsworth Atheneum 1996. Vintage brochure for the September 22 to November 24 1996 exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Connecticut. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Accordion fold with an extended first/last leaf with a three-hole punch as issued. Near Fine. Wadsworth Atheneum unknown books
Best.-Nr. 2222252ca. 1910. First edition 5 1/4" x 3 1/2". Full color pictorial sewn cloth wrappers. Fine. 10 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Cope page 76 No. 118. Dean's Rag Book Co., Ltd. unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 87829Tokyo Japan: Yama-to-Keikoku Sha Co. Ltd 1970. Two Volume set with two mini vinyls tipped into rears of text. Two Octavo volumes 19cm; photographic paper-covered boards; dustjackets; ii2062pp; ii2062pp; colorful photographic illustrations throughout both volumes. Text in Japanese with Scientific names and English names included for bird species. Both volumes have modest shelf-wear with rubbing to paper of board edges and trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Volume I dustwrapper has trivial surface wear; Very Good. Volume II dustwrapper has trivial surface wear with tiny tear to lower front flap fold; Very Good. Volume I explores over 90 species of terrestrial birds each classified by their habitat. Volume II includes 93 species of wild birds focusing on those on watersides and the coastal area. Both volumes include colorful illustrations and Scientific names of the bird species. 87829. Yama-to-Keikoku Sha Co., Ltd unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 4209Boston: Lee and Shepard 1880. First Edition. Original publisher's gilt stamped cloth. Good; hinges reinforced. 8vo xviii 366 pp. frontispiece This is the account of his 'birding' in the West Indies for the Smithsonian Inst. . During his trip he identified 22 new species. The account also contains a vivid narrative of his treks through the wilds and mountain ascents. Smith O1; DAB XIII 606. Lee and Shepard hardcover books
1772Best.-Nr. 143651772. Jonston John and Nicolas Robert. Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares 1772 preserves Nicolas Robert's seventeenth-century ornithological imagery in an eighteenth-century publication devoted to birds from the royal menagerie and Jonston's natural history of birds. Published in Paris by L. C. Desnos the work joined Robert's images of birds associated with the French royal collections to a French treatment of Jonston's earlier natural history placing seventeenth-century court-sponsored observation within the expanding eighteenth-century literature of ornithology. Jonston John and Robert Nicolas. Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares. Paris: L. C. Desnos 1772. Etching depicting six birds of prey each perched on a branch; one bird wears bells attached to its legs a detail associated with trained birds used in falconry. Etching measures 11" by 7"; overall sheet measures 12.5" by 17.75". The plate belongs to Desnos's Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares gravés et dessinés d'après nature which incorporated images by Nicolas Robert with material derived from Jonston's natural history of birds. Robert worked for Gaston d'Orléans before his natural-history paintings passed with Gaston's collections to Louis XIV. Under royal patronage Robert continued depicting plants and animals including birds kept at the royal menagerie; his surviving vellums became an early nucleus of the natural-history illustration collections now preserved by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris France. This 1772 printing records the continued circulation of Robert's seventeenth-century bird imagery more than a century after its creation while the bells visible on one raptor preserve a specific visual reference to contemporary falconry practice. Condition not supplied. unknown books
1772Best.-Nr. 143661772. Jonston John and Nicolas Robert. Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares 1772 preserves Nicolas Robert's seventeenth-century ornithological imagery in an eighteenth-century publication devoted to birds from the royal menagerie and Jonston's natural history of birds. Published in Paris by L. C. Desnos the work joined Robert's images of birds associated with the French royal collections to a French treatment of Jonston's earlier natural history placing seventeenth-century court-sponsored observation within the expanding eighteenth-century literature of ornithology. Jonston John and Robert Nicolas. Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares. Paris: L. C. Desnos 1772. Etching depicting six birds of prey each perched on a branch; one bird wears bells attached to its legs a detail associated with trained birds used in falconry. Etching measures 11" by 7"; overall sheet measures 12.5" by 17.75". The plate belongs to Desnos's Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares gravés et dessinés d'après nature which incorporated images by Nicolas Robert with material derived from Jonston's natural history of birds. Robert worked for Gaston d'Orléans before his natural-history paintings passed with Gaston's collections to Louis XIV. Under royal patronage Robert continued depicting plants and animals including birds kept at the royal menagerie; his surviving vellums became an early nucleus of the natural-history illustration collections now preserved by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. This 1772 printing records the continued circulation of Robert's seventeenth-century bird imagery more than a century after its creation while the bells visible on one raptor preserve a specific visual reference to contemporary falconry practice. Condition not supplied. unknown books
1772Best.-Nr. 143641772. Jonston John and Nicolas Robert. Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares 1772 preserves Nicolas Robert's seventeenth-century ornithological imagery in an eighteenth-century publication devoted to birds from the royal menagerie and Jonston's natural history of birds. Published in Paris by L. C. Desnos the work joined Robert's images of birds associated with the French royal collections to a French treatment of Jonston's earlier natural history placing seventeenth-century court-sponsored observation within the expanding eighteenth-century literature of ornithology. Jonston John and Robert Nicolas. Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares. Paris: L. C. Desnos 1772. Etching depicting six birds of prey each perched on a branch; one bird wears bells attached to its legs a detail associated with trained birds used in falconry. Etching measures 11" by 7"; overall sheet measures 12.5" by 17.75". The plate belongs to Desnos's Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares gravés et dessinés d'après nature which incorporated images by Nicolas Robert with material derived from Jonston's natural history of birds. Robert worked for Gaston d'Orléans before his natural-history paintings passed with Gaston's collections to Louis XIV. Under royal patronage Robert continued depicting plants and animals including birds kept at the royal menagerie; his surviving vellums became an early nucleus of the natural-history illustration collections now preserved by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. This 1772 printing records the continued circulation of Robert's seventeenth-century bird imagery more than a century after its creation while the bells visible on one raptor preserve a specific visual reference to contemporary falconry practice. Condition not supplied. unknown books
