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193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Wild Brother's Secret homes; The Mollusk and Art - through the centuries it has inspired the greatest artists; Wol, the Sweet - the tiny owl native to Cuba; Attitudes of Birds - the song sparrow's individual characteristics; The weather man looks up - the stratosphere; Conservation - the 1935 waterfolw regulations; What Price... Fish?; Land use planning; Bay State Billboards - Massachusetts legislature rejects move of industry and Governor to ruin landscape; Buy who pays? - another row between the Forest Service and the Park Service; Through the Telescope. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
198063 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Features: Silver City; Early Birds of British Columbia; The Battle of Foxtrap; The Murder of Barney The Maltese Trader; Klondike Lost - the Story of Grand Forks; Methods of Placer Mining; Collins' Overhead Telegraph; Muskets vs. Bows and Arrows; The Murder of Daniel Cutway; The Adamite Invasion. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1999116 pages. Includes auction results sheet. 203 lots. "This collection is a reflection of his singular absorption in ornithology. His aim was always to acquire where possible the best available copies of everything and in particular he regards his copies of Gould's The Birds of Australia, with the rare cancelled plates, and A Monograph of the Trochilidai, or Family of Humming-Birds as 'the finest copies you will find." - from page 6. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Book
1960140 pages. Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article about anti-American riots; The Birds' Last Stand - 6,000 exotic birds may be evicted from their Stone Harbor, New Jersey haven; Pilots Aren't Obsolete Yet - the recently-cancelled B-70 Valkyrie bomber may be necessary for our survival; Los Angeles' Cure for Drunks - California desert rehabilitation farm; The Movies' Modern Marco Polo - Stanley Goldsmith is Twentieth Century Fox's chief trouble shooter for pictures filmed overseas; They Call Me Madam (part 2 of 4) - Washington's legendary hostess Perle Mesta; Fabulous Mine in the Sea - The Grand Isle Sulphur Mine in the Gulf of Mexico; Touring Russia Made Easy. Serials: If Hitler Had Invaded England (part 2 of 3); The Tewksbury Feud. Ads: Dogde Trucks (inside front cover); Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of John M. Fox of the Minute Maid Corporation and company driver Eddie Mew plus Ed Waters; GE Appliances; Spring cigarettes; Fantastic two-page color-photo (red) Corvair ad features gents in black suits and hats checking out the car; Old Crow Whisky, with one-page color illustration of James Crow with his neighbors; Two-pages of the Ford Galaxie; Lowry organs; Quaker State Oil; The BMC 850 (Mini) (2 pages in color); Canadian Pacific Dome Cars (1 color page); Nice color photo ad for the (red) Chrysler Imperial in a horse-racing setting; Hotpoint fridges; Cadillac Guide-Matic; Scott Paper; ScottTowel multi-color towels; Schlitz beer - flying a kite; Kem-Tone and Kem-Glo Paint; Johnson V-75 outboard motor; Toro lawn and garden products; Admiral TVs; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Caterpillar; Smith-Corona typewriters; Hertz rental cars; Boeing 720; Samsonite luggge with Queen's guards in background; The Denver Hilton Hotel; Karpen furniture (very funky); Nabisco Veri-Thin Pretzels; American Seating Company; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
2001rif. Q-1885435193Twin Lights Pub 2001-09-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Twin Lights Pub hardcover
1960rif. R200029468EDITIONS DU CHENE. 1960. In-Folio. Broché. Etat d'usage, 1er plat abîmé, Manque en coiffe de pied, Quelques rousseurs. XVI pages + 10 pages de gravures couleur. Quelques rousseurs sur la page de titre ainsi que sur la dernière page blanche. Déchirures sur le premier plat tâché.. . . . Classification Dewey : 636.6-Oiseaux de cage et de volière
1907rif. 011994Sao Paulo Brazil: Museu Paulista/Typographia do Diario Official 1907. Ex-Library. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped little actual wear clear-coated spine panel slightly age-toned with handwritten call number on lower portion. Dark red cloth lettered in gilt not original to issue. Lightly rubbed at corners and spine extremities. xxxviii485 pp. color map at rear labeled Est. II one of 2 originally accompanying maps the other now lacking. Museu Paulista/Typographia do Diario Official Hardcover
1833rif. bf4580Paris, à la librairie médicale de Crochard, rue et place de l'école de médecine, n°13 Gravure 1833 Très belle planche gravée destinée à l'affichage dans les collèges, 55 cm par 81 cm, ici du mitou-poranga à la colombe oxyura en passant par le rouloul de Malacca, planche issue du recueil intitulé : Règne animal de Mr Le Baron Cuvier, disposé en tableaux méthodiques par J. Achille Comte professeur d'histoire naturelle à l'académie de Paris ; Bel état, peu commun. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
rif. 8758Zürich, Silva 1962, 300x220mm, 60 planches en couleurs par volume, reliure de l’éditeur sous jaquette. Bel exemplaire.
1956rif. AUB-4401Paris, Marcus 1956. Bon exemplaire relié, cartonnage orné d'éd., gd in-8 (24x23), 26 pages illustrées.
rif. 0823062481.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 50369528like new. unknown
18938vo., First Edition, on laid paper, title in red and black; cloth, gilt back, front cover blocked with design of birds partly enclosing title and author's name, publisher's initials blocked in brown on lower cover, uncut, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy. PUBLISHER'S SCARCE ALTERNATIVE BINDING. Freeman 1810; Payne, A8 variant 2; Tate, p.223; Wilson 9
1870591 p. illus. 8 col. plates. Hardcover Very good condition, hinges worn
1903rif. 094702London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society 1903. 8th Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Eighth edition annotated and enlarged by the author octavo hardback.Green cloth gilt xxivi 248 pages Good condition Previous owner's name on front end paper. Theosophical Publishing Society hardcover
rif. 29786LONDON OLIVER & BOYD 1953. FIRST EDITION 2 VOLUMES . A LOVELY SET IN VERY GOOD CONDITION RED BOARDS AND DUSTWRAPPERS A FEW REMAINS OF SELLOTAPE ON INSIDE OF DW. WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR ALAN BURNS VOLUME ONE:- STRUTHIONIDAE TO PICIDAE. VOLUME TWO:-EURYLAEMIDAE TO PLOCEIDAE. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED OUTSIDE THE U.K. LONDON, OLIVER & BOYD, 1953 hardcover
rif. 288441953 OLIVER & BOYD LONDON. FIRST EDITION 2 VOLUMES . A LOVELY SET IN VERY GOOD CONDITION RED BOARDS AND PROTECTED DUSTWRAPPERS. WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR ALAN BURNS G.C.M.G. VOLUME ONE:- STRUTHIONIDAE TO PICIDAE. VOLUME TWO:-EURYLAEMIDAE TO PLOCEIDAE. INSCRIPTION TO FRONT PASTEDOWN OF EACH VOLUME. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED OUTSIDE THE U.K. 1953 OLIVER & BOYD LONDON hardcover
rif. 31612LONDON GURNEY AND JACKSON 1922. 1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN BLUE BOARDS. TEG. SOME WEAR TO TOP AND BOTTON OF SPINE. COLOUR FRONTIS LOOSE. INSCRIPTION. ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS. AN ACCOUNT OF AN ORNITHOLOGIST`S CAMPING TRIPS IN THE ARCHIPELAGO. LONDON, GURNEY AND JACKSON, 1922 hardcover
1961rif. 038605Hertford: Stephen Austin & Sons Printers 1961. Book. Illus. by D.M. Henry; C. E. Talbot Kelly et al. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo 21.5 x 14.5 cm. A good run of 5 years 1961-1965 all in the original parts with wrappers 6 parts per year part nos. 4 & 5 missing from 1962 otherwise all years complete = total 28 parts. Some colour plates after various artists including D. M. Henry and Chloe Talbot Kelly. Additionally plates of b/w illustrations and numerous b/w photographic plates. Wrappers generally very good with a little general wear some with original labels and notices attached. Contents clean and tight a few original inserts and adverts. A very good run of this important avicultural journal. Stephen Austin & Sons [Printers] Paperback
rif. 34153FRANCE SEOF EDITIONS 2017. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE SOFTBACK COPY IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAP. TEXT IN FRENCH. A VERY SCARCE BOOK. FRANCE, SEOF EDITIONS, 2017 unknown
rif. 343251968 COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS MIDDLESEX. 2 VOLUMES. QUARTO VERY GOOD CONDITION IN ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH. WITH SLIPCASE. A DETAILED WORK ON DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY. ILLUSTRATED IN BLACK & WHITE AND COLOUR. SIGNATURE ON FEP OF BOTH VOLUMES. 1968 COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS, MIDDLESEX hardcover
rif. 30380MIDDLESEX COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS1968. TWO VOLUMES QUARTO IN SLIPCASE. VERY GOOD CONDITION. NEAT OWNER'S NAME TO FEP IN VOL. 1. A DETAILED WORK ON DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY. ILLUSTRATED IN BLACK & WHITE AND COLOUR. POSTAGE WILL BE EXTRA. MIDDLESEX, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS,1968 unknown
rif. 39172GURNEY & JACKSON. LONDON. 1907. SECOND EDITION VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN BROWN BUCKRAM. ON MOORLAND AND SEA WITH FAUNAL NOTES EXTENDING OVER FORTY YEARS. WITH COLOURED MAP AND NUMERUS ILLUSTRATIONS. VERY GOOD. GURNEY & JACKSON. LONDON. 1907 hardcover
rif. 39177LONDON GURNEY AND JACKSON 1889. 1ST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN DARK BLUE BOARDS. RECORDS OF WILD SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY ON MOORLAND AND SEA. SCARCE. LONDON, GURNEY AND JACKSON, 1889 hardcover
1890rif. 033859Chelmsford: Edmund Durrant et al 1890. Book. Illus. by Whymper Charles. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to a slip tipped on to the front free end paper "A. M. McAldowie Esq.re M.D. KC with the Author's compts July 1984" Very large bookplate stamped Ex. Libris A. M. McAldowie to the front paste-down. Alexander Morison McAldowie - Scottish physician folklore expert and ornithologist author of The Birds of Staffordshire 1893 engraved bookplate of F. C. S. N. The Daltry Library to the verso of the front free end-paper; pp. viii 302 6 - adverts; lithographic frontispiece plate with original tissue guard after Charles Whymper 2 b/w plates of plans of decoys with hand colouring in outline further full-page engravings of decoys; each bird species illustrated with a woodcut after those in Yarrell a few specially drawn by G. E. Lodge and several from other sources; list of subscribers. Original red cloth hardback binding with black lettering very good with a little light wear spine a little faded. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A very good copy. Much more than the usual avifauna with an excellent collection of biographies of the principal Essex ornithologists a chapter on wild-fowl decoys and wild-fowling in Essex plus chapter on Hawks and Hawking in Essex. Essex Field Club Special Memoirs - vol. II. Edmund Durrant et al Hardcover
