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1911Best.-Nr. 021516-EAlbany New York: J.B. Lyon 1911. Book. Illus. by Unknowen. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 1911 Green cloth hardcover with gilt letters to thr cover and spine 616 page book with 98 full page plates with 97 in full color . Note : the October plate p.298 was never inserted in any publication of the volume. Condition : Near Fine with very light rubs to the edges . A very clean tight unmarked volume . Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. J.B. Lyon Hardcover
1833Best.-Nr. 6158London: Liverpool George Smith and Ackermann & Co London 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/None. Quarter bound leather and gilt edged leather corners. Robust boards though faded spine binding and cover all fine. Spine is in six sections with gilt title on red leather background and small gilt illustrations in each section of the spine. Contents very clean with no inscription only a previous price in pencil with faded gilt outer edges. A small number of pages have a tiny piece missing at the top edge - please see photos. 21 beautiful colour lithographic plates of birds. Liverpool, George Smith and Ackermann & Co, London hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. L409Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, 224 p.
19698vo, 254 pages, not illustrated. Light foxing to the page edges. eng
1999Fine Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 23 cm). In English, Turkmen, and Russian. 355, [15] p., color ills. The red data book of Turkmenistan. Vol. 1: Invertebrate and vertebrate animals.= Türkmenistanin gizil kitabi. Tom. 1: Omurgasiz ve omurgali hayvanlar. The red data book is intended for workers of nature protection services, specialists in the field of botany, zoology and ecology, students and instructors of higher educational establishments, for a wide audience interested in nature and ecological problems as well.
1960Features: Twilight of the great beasts - Africa's wildlife is disappearing - photo of dead rhino and smashed car after collision (large clipping from the first page of this article); A visit with Robert Frost - at 86, the great poet of New England is as perceptive as ever; I call on Perry Como (part 2 of 3) - Perry's candid view of the new generation of singers - and of the songs they sing; First Lady of the Funnies - Dale Messick is the 'mamma' of Brenda Starr; Dreamers on the Payroll - physicist William Thaler and his staff are used by the Navy to 'dream freely' to produce that one idea in fifty which might be useful; The Wondrous Outer Banks of North Carolina; Nice colour ad for the Chrysler Imperial, "America's Most Carefully Built Car." Nice color Cadillac ad. Ad clipped from page 61 - text unaffected. Above-average wear. Book
1946Original cloth dark blue boards with gilt lettering, 185 x 245mm., 255pp., 3 maps and 19 photos b/w. Factual presentation of the salient features ans characteristics of the existing individual herds of pedigreed Scotch Shorthorns. Good condition.
Best.-Nr. 14979, Edinburgh, The Scottish shorthorn breeders?? Association, 1946, Original cloth dark blue boards with gilt lettering, 185 x 245mm., 255pp., 3 maps and 19 photos b/w.
1980Best.-Nr. 6047873London [u.a.], Academic Press 1980. 8°. XX, 321, IXLI; XX, 324 - 945, IIC pp., mit zahlr. Textabb. Original Leinwand. Goldgeprägter Titel auf Rücken und Deckel. Kleines Signaturschild auf Buchrücken. Stempel verso Titel. Sonst sehr ordentlich.
1970Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. "This definitive book contains detailed, authoritative, up-to-the-minute chapters on wildlife shooting, upland gunning, trap and skeet shooting; practical advice on shotgun makes, models, and functions; highly useful chapters on actions, gauges, barrels, loads, chokes, pellets, and ballistics." - dust jacket. 332 pages. Index. Photographic plates. Prior owner's gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Light wear to book. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. A sound copy. Book
1969Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs. 217 paginated pages.
1976In his Zoo in Jersey Gerald Durrell has created something which is far rarer than it should be : a scientific centre for breeding and research which is also a source of entertainment and delight to all who visit it "A Warm, Wise, and Funny Account of His Struggles to Create the Perfect Zoo" 159p. + 16 pages of B & W plates. Remainder mark, else as new Book
1976In his Zoo in Jersey Gerald Durrell has created something which is far rarer than it should be : a scientific centre for breeding and research which is also a source of entertainment and delight to all who visit it 157p.illus. plates.maps om endpapers. Book
Best.-Nr. 0266877524.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1396171401.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
196557pp.with 42 figures, 29cm., in the series "Académie royale de Belgique. Classe des sciences, mémoires, collection in-4o, deuxième série" tome XVI fascicule 5, orig.softcover, pages uncut, VG
1965Best.-Nr. W66086Bruxelles, Palais des académies 1965 57pp.with 42 figures, 29cm., in the series "Académie royale de Belgique. Classe des sciences, mémoires, collection in-4o, deuxième série" tome XVI fascicule 5, orig.softcover, pages uncut, VG
1991No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 77pp. A report by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust on the wildlife and conservation of the Suffolk Estuaries.
1986Best.-Nr. 129261Springer-Verlag. New York Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo. 1986. XI, 343 pages. Illustrated original hardcover binding. (A little used). 24x16 cm
Best.-Nr. 1396001794.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1950Features include: The Tropic Seas for Trochus - author's experience with the hunters of these sea-molluscs; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County - Part I of the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois; Born Lucky; South Sea Solomon - The disastrous tale of a man with big ideas in the South Seas; The Runaway Steamer - The illegal voyage of a New Zealand river-steamer, the Ruawai, from Helensville to Auckland; Amazon Wonderland - author's experiences with Amazonian wildlife; Corporal Garaba's Return - A remarkable story from West Africa; Bushed - Lost in the Australian outback; Magic or Moonshine - A veteran inspector's puzzling stories of 'black magic' in Africa; Giuliano - Bandit Extraordinary; Close-Up - Peacock's Feathers; The Beehive. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Unmarked. Binding sound. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1927Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The "Goldenburg Coward" - True tale from the headwaters of Spruce River, British Columbia during the gold stampede of summer 1900; Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger - Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy describes an eventful hunt for this tiger which is larger and more ferocious than the Indian variety; Through Arctic Seas - Part I - The eventful cruise of the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life - with photos; Through Spain in Disguise - Part V - The Count and Countess Malmignati, disguised as Arab beggars, sing and dance for a living; Photo of the smallest teapot in the world, fashioned by Mr. T.A. Vickery, of Main Street, Bantry; Rebecca's Vengeance - An odd story of "Black Man's Magic" in the West Indies from 1903; Looking for Trouble - Alexander MacNab experiences disaster while engaged in a Mexican revolution under General Carranza; ; A Near Thing - A British Intelligence agent arouses suspicion while in German territory; Painting Wild Indians - A. Hyatt Verrill describes his experiences after spending years painting the little-known Indians of Central and South America; Cowboys and Raiders - Jesse C. Carson relates his association with Pancho Villa as a rebel 'general'; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Grace Sprange describes two years of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaster attempting to grow oranges - with photos; The Last of the Little "Shanghai" - brief update and photo on this trusty craft which had previously sailed from Shanghai to Copenhagen; Trapped in a Flooded Tunnel - The terrible experience which befell a diver near the Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Dam, near Pretoria, South Africa; "For the Hounour of the Mounted Police of Canada" - Herbert Patrick Lee relates an experience from when he was a recruit at Regina. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1922Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in British New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1933Stories: Beachcomber's Luck; Exploring in Unknown Tibet; Canada's Wildlife Sanctuaries; Falconry in India; The Day that Disappeared; Hank; The Cruise of the Teddy; Hot Oil; Dope (Drug Smuggling in Egypt); Second Mate; Messenger of the Court; The Man with the Harp Once More; The Haunted Island. Above-average wear. Book
1957Features: The Wreck of the El Dorado - a four-masted lumber schooner enroute to Chile from Astoria, Oregon, goes down 700 miles from isloated Easter Island; Fear Saved My Life - a tiger brings death to the people of the Indian swampland; The Swallowing Swamp - a continuation of the Maufrais Saga in French Guiana; The Devil in the Cabin - a wolverine (carcajou) attacks a man in northern Canada; Caravan of Slaves - attempting to liberate a party of young natives destined for the slave market of Arabia; Jungle Takes the Air - wildlife escape mid-air over East Africa; Night of Horror - alone in the Papuan jungle; Curse of the Pagan Temples - a story from Burma; Isle of Devils - the natives were scourged by Elephantiasis; Gold on Their Backs - Man's desire for Otter fur almost drove them to extinction; Desert Ambush - a religious fanatic and his gang of ruthless henchmen brutally attacked the Colonial Administrator in the mountains of South West Arabia; and more. Small chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
