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1919Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
1967rif. VV271001967 190 p., num. photographs, hardbound (dust jacket). Good copy.
2002rif. 21721Boubée 2002 In-8 broché, 297 pp, illustrations en noir de Patrick Suiro, et en couleurs de Jacqueline Candiard
1941rif. 101037Berkeley, 1941. M. 20 Taf. 178 S. (Univ. Calif. Publ. zool. 46/1).
2011rif. 051617Heidelberg: Springer Verlag 2011. xvii 263pp index references bw & col ills diagrams. Green boards. As new. The care and breeding of ratites such as ostrich and rhea in a farming situation. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo. Springer Verlag Hardcover
19778vo., First Edition, with 5 coloured plates on 4 and 28 monochrome plates on 20, inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
1971rif. 002434Chicago: J.G. Ferguson Publishing Co. 1971. Special limited edition bound in blue leather #1392 of 3000. 260pp. color and b&w plates ills. An overview of waterfowl and game birds with brief species descriptions notes on habits and habitat and conservation; illustrated with the art of Richard Bishop. 64 full-page plates in color plus numerous reproductions of etchings. Index. Slipcase has some corner wear and scuffs. Book is fine with a tiny amount of wear at spine tips. Full-Leather. Fine. Illus. by Bishop Richard E. illustrator. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. J.G. Ferguson Publishing Co. Hardcover
1973rif. VV270621973 232 p, 24 col. plates, 29 distribution maps, col. frontispiece, cloth (spine and front cover gilt). Previous owners name on first free end-paper, else good copy.
1975rif. 416619London u. New York, Country Life u. Arco, (1975). M. 70 (60 farb.) Taf. v. P. Scott, sowie zahlr. Ill. u. Ktn.-Skizzen. OLwdbde. m. Rücken- u. Deckelverg. in farb. ill. OLwd.-Schuber.
1954rif. VV173841954-1964 (1st ed.). 4 vols (complete). 284, 232, 270, p., 16, 24, 20, 6 col. pls, 33, 29, 46 maps, blue decorated cloth (vol. 1 rebacked, spines vols 2-3 used). Library stamps. Working copy.
rif. 15140COUNTRY LIFE. LONDON. 1973. VERY GOOD FOUR VOLUME SET CREAM CLOTH FIFTH IMPRESSION 1973. SIXTEEN PLATES IN COLOUR BY PETER SCOTT AND THIRTY-THREE DISTRIBUTION MAPS. COUNTRY LIFE. LONDON. 1973 hardcover
1973rif. 036261London and New York: Country Life-Hamlyn Publishing Group/Arco Publishing Co. 1973. Book. Illus. by Peter Scott. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete in four 4 volumes uniformly bound in gold cloth front covers and spine panels decorated in gold foil lettered in gold foil text block edges stained dull red or brown as originally issued. All volumes essentially as issued with very slight foxing evident on spine panel cloth. 284 232 270 388 pp. illus. w/ a total of 66 color plates and 108 distribution maps over the 4 volumes; index. Siipcase cloth- and paper-covered boards shows mild shelf wear and a few slight indentations along one edge VG to Near Fine. Originally copyrighted 1954-64 this set uniformly issued 1973 with various printings I and II 5th ptgs. III and IV 2nd ptgs. Country Life-Hamlyn Publishing Group/Arco Publishing Co. Hardcover
rif. 24089LONDON GORDON FRASER 1981. FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES LARGE OBLONG GREY CLOTH WITH SLIPCASE. FINE COPIES. LONDON, GORDON FRASER, 1981 hardcover
1985rif. 037706Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1985. HEAVY. xvii 331pp index bibliographynum col photographs maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Foxing to edges and prelims- heavy on half-title. Covers 67 species of Australian waterbirds inhabiting marshes swamps rivers and other wetlands in detail. Second of ten in this important series of books on Australian wildlife. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
1934rif. 22-009Please see photos for Contents & condition. The Derrydale Press hardcover
19978vo., First Edition, with 48 plates of coloured paintings, and numerous illustrations and maps throughout; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
1992rif. 131558Academic Press, London and San Diego, 1992. 460 S. ; 29 x 22 cm ; Pp. ;
1976139p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1910rif. 039004London: Witherby & Co. 1910. Book. Illus. by Thomas Baddeley. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small 4to. Volume 1 - The Mammals and Birds of Cheshire. Volume 2 - The Dee as a Wildfowl Resort The Reptiles and Amphibians of Cheshire and The Fishes of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay; pp. vol. I: xxxii 472; vol II: xx 210. Illustrated from b/w photographs by Thomas Baddeley folding map in colour. Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spines very good with minimal wear spines and gilt bright. Top edge gilt other edges uncut spotting to fore-edges . Contents clean and tight paper crisp and bright some fine areas of spotting to the first few pages but clean within. A very good clean set. Witherby & Co. Hardcover
1987rif. VV312631987 Cambridge, I.C.B.P., 1987 : In-8 Ecu, Broché. viii, 267 pp., nombreuses illustrations N&B in-texte, ensemble de communications présentées à la XIX conférence mondiale sur la protection des oiseaux, couverture illustrée. Etat neuf !
rif. 44934PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2013. QUARTO A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. VERY WELL ILLUSTRATED. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 unknown
195244 pages. Features:;Six by Two - article on the ship's bunk; British Signals for a Pilot; The Bermuda Race; Shipwrights of Buckler's Hard - this tiny hamlet was once an important shipyard; Intuition of Sea-going rats; Looking at Lisbon - City of Ulysses - article with nice photos; The Gannet - the largest and most impressive of British sea birds; Cleared Foreign; Sailors' Warning; Danish Captain Christiansen , Pilot - A photo-illustrated admiring article of this highest order seaman and navigator by Commander J. Radford, R.D., R.N.R., Retired; Oil Tankers To-day - photo-illustrated article; H.M. Queer Craft - strange vessels which did and did not see operation in WWII, including several two-million ton artificial icebergs envisioned as floating aircraft carriers by Churchill; and more. Numerous excellent illustrated ads. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1972rif. VV308801972 London, Octopus, 1972 : In-4 Carré, Cartonnage d'éditeurs. 136 pp., 147 photos en couleurs et N&B, jaquette fraiche, date en page de garde, un aperçu sur le monde des oiseaux Jaquette Etat du neuf, Couv. fraîche, Dos impeccable, Intérieur frais.
19758vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
rif. 18-5473Oakland CA: TBW Books 2008. . 8vo. 36 pp. Stiff white wraps. Very good with marginal soiling across wraps. Black and white plates. Black printed endpapers. Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco CA from September 4 through October 18 2008. Limited edition: Numbered 181 of 500 copies. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. Oakland, CA: TBW Books, 2008. paperback
