6 361 résultats
1958réf. 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
1965réf. 27351Caracas Venezuela: Banco Central De Venezuela. Near Fine in Poor dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. DJ is badly rubbed & chipped around the edges ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 138 pages . Banco Central De Venezuela hardcover
1950réf. 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
1958réf. 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
1924réf. 014513Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology 1924. Part One pp.1-210 covering Holboell's Grebe through Coot; Part Two pp. 211-402 covering Red Phalarope through Hawk Owl. Compiled from the diaries and journals of William Brewster by Ludlow Griscom. Note: four parts were issued separately over a 14 year period. In original paper wraps. Vol. 1 has a few chips. First Edition. Original Wraps Softbound. Very Good. Museum of Comparative Zoology Paperback
1968réf. 008082New York: McGraw-Hill 1968. In two volumes. 946pp. ills color plates maps. Diurnal birds of prey of the world ecology habits identification taxonomy. 125 full-page color plates by 11 artists including Peterson Eckelberry Kelly Cohealeach etc. Nice slipcase. Book edges lightly rubbed. Cloth. Very Good/Slipcase. Illus. by Peterson R.T.P.et.al. ill. 4to. McGraw-Hill Hardcover
1931réf. 014674New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts Inc. 1931. Photos drawings by Francis L. Jaques index 416 pages. Barro Colorado Island in the Panama. Canal Zone. Gilt bird on cover. Nice clean crisp copy. Dust jacket pasted in on rear flyleaf/inside cover. Hard Cover. Very Good. Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Hardcover
1964réf. 007077Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd 1964. Color plates illustrations photos fold-out map index 511 pages. As is often the case the box with the title on the spine has partially rubbed off. Otherwise a nice tight copy. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Oliver and Boyd Hardcover
1912réf. 012677London and Edinburgh: Gurney and Jackson/Oliver and Boyd 1912. Ex-Library. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Olive cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel top edges in gilt deckled edges. De-accessioned from non-circulating museum collection minimally marked/stamped clear-coated spine panel slightly age-toned with handwritten call number on lower spine. Modest shelf wear surfaces a bit rubbed. Contemporary review mounted on front endpapers. xvi323 vii346 pp. illus. with maps weather charts and other illustrations 25 plates spread over both volumes. Solid copy. Gurney and Jackson/Oliver and Boyd Hardcover
1986réf. 003178Oxford: Oxford Univirsity Press 1986. Color plates photos ills. maps biblio 722pp. Hard Cover. New/New. 4to. Oxford Univirsity Press Hardcover
1964réf. 068482Narberth PA: Livingston Publishing Co. for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1964. Book. Illus. by Earl L. Poole and George Miksch Sutton. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light green cloth lettered in gold foil. Near Fine text block edges a bit tanned by age otherwise about as issued. Color illus. dust jacket VG with mild foxing/soiling in a few areas mild surface rubbing corners and extremities a bit rubbed now in mylar. 2nd ptg. xvi430 pp. illus. Livingston Publishing Co. for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Hardcover
2000réf. 57635Chelsea MI: Ann Arbor Press. Very Good. 2000. First Printing. Softcover. Tight unmarked book in bright covers.; 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.8 inches; 352 pages . 1575041138 . Ann Arbor Press paperback
1925réf. 071149Pennsylvania German Society 1925. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. PGS Vol. XXXI 31. Softcover blue stiff paper wraps lettered in dark blue rough-cut text block edges. Several mild indentations to front cover appears to be from binding twine otherwise typical rubbing along extended cover edges. Binding is firm and square with the expected stress creasing surface paper tanned. This volume also contains a summary of and reports from the annual meeting in Ephrata. Limited to 600 copies. 483 pp. illus. w/ plates. Pennsylvania German Society Paperback
réf. 071600Book. Fine. Original Wraps. Facsimile Reprint Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Stiff light blue wraps lettered in black. Uncredited facsimile reprint of Pennsylvania-German Society Vol. XXXI 31 Autograph Edition limited to 200 copies originally copyrighted in 1925. xii483 pp. illus. w/ plates. Essentially as issued. Paperback
1917réf. 059550Rochester NY: Stecher Litho. Co. 1917. Book. Illus. by Will. F. Stecher. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Stiff color litho wraps stapled binding. 16 pp. alternating full color and red/blue/gray spreads with a bird for every letter of the alphabet. A lovely copy showing only slight handling wear. Stecher Litho. Co. Paperback
2004réf. 049354Falsterbro Sweden: Falsterbro Bird Observatory 2004. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff color pictorial wraps French flaps. 180 pp. color photos. As issued. Text in English translated from original Swedish. Very scarce. Falsterbro Bird Observatory Paperback
1994réf. 16944Cambridge MA: Candlewick Press 1994. Signed by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Pictorial laminated boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Penelope Lively won the 1973 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. She won the 1976 Whitbread Children's Book Award. She won the 1987 Booker Award. Candlewick Press, hardcover
2017réf. 045847Zagreb: Profil Knjiga 2017 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Thus. ". the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her translation of "H is for Hawk" into Croatian by by Sasa Drach. 294p. bibliography NO copy found in Croatian . Profil Knjiga paperback
1971réf. 56491NY: Harper and Row. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Page bottoms foxed owner name on front . pastedown endpaper jacket price-clipped with tape repair on the reverse . of the front panel. 1971. First Printing. Hardcover. 0060127759 . Cream cloth. xi 220pp. Foreword black and white illustrations and colored plates. In addition to sixty handsome plates there are also reproduced dozens of sketches in pen and ink pencil and stunning black-and-white wash which show Fuertes at his informal best. rear jacket panel. Foreword by Dean Amadon introduction by Roger Tory Peterson. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Harper and Row hardcover
1975réf. 051347New York: Dept. of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History 1975. Book. Near Fine. Pamphlet Binder. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Copied typescript in pamphlet binder. x2072 pp. Light wear to binder. Contents clean and unmarked. Dept. of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History Paperback
1867réf. 55047London: Published for the Ray Society By Robert Hardwicke. Good with no dust jacket. Pages toned owner name Peter Stettenheim on front free endpaper spine cracked between pp5-15 with tape repairs and semi-detached leaves.; Translated from the German and edited by Philip Lutley Sclater Bound in dark green reinforced cloth. x 181pp. Index. Ten etched plates showing feather structures of various bird species eight engravings in text. Preface by Sclater and second preface by H. Burmeister who edited the original 1840 edition from Nitzsch’s manuscript. Appendices by A. D. Bartlett and P. L. Sclater adding to Nitzch’s ornithological observations list of Nitzsch’s works explanation of plates.; Folio 13" - 23" tall . First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 1867. Published for the Ray Society By Robert Hardwicke hardcover
1961réf. 059909Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Light green cloth lettered/illus. in brown. 2nd revised/enlarged edition 28th ptg. thus: Jan. 1961. Slight tanning along cover edges and text block edges otherwise nearly as issued. Gift inscription inked on verso of front flyleaf. Inscribed by author on main title full signature with generic "With best wishes" salutation undated but accompanied by 21 Mar. 1962 news clipping detailing the event at which Peterson inscribed this copy. Color illus. dust jacket rubbed along edges and flap folds with minor loss at several corners and shallow loss at head of spine now in mylar. Houghton Mifflin Co. Hardcover
1912réf. 47922Mohonk Lake NY: Mohonk Salesrooms. Very Good; Covers toned. 1912. Softcover. Stapled color illustrated card covers with red cord tie at spine. 52pp 4pp publishers ads. 40 color illustrations of birds. Comes with remains of original color illustrated cardboard gift box. Field guide to some of the common wild birds of New York State. . Mohonk Salesrooms paperback
1935réf. 011966Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd 1935. Ex-Library. VG. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped clear-coated spine panel lightly age-toned with hand-written call number on lower portion. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt with deckled edges top edge in gilt. lv397 pp. illus. with 18 b&w plates foldout color map at rear. Only slight shelf wear. Complimentary publisher's slip laid in. Oliver and Boyd Hardcover
1964réf. 044629Copenhagen Denmark: Munksgaard 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Brown leatherette decorated in white. Minor shelf wear. 156 pp. well illus. w/ color plates. Munksgaard Hardcover
