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8vo [27 x 18 cm]; 137-177 pp, 10 plates, table. original printed heavy paper wraps, a little wear at outer edges of wraps, interior is clean and fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, curator of Botany with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, describes the species of this genus of slipper flower in some detail based on his 1925 expedition to the Cuzco and Puno districts of Peru. Nicely illustrated.
8vo [20 x 13.5 cm]; xi, 296, 40 [publisher's catalogue dated Jul 1904] pp. original red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, cover gilt ruled, edges rubbed, slightly foxed in a few margins, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Called the 'Prince of Alpine Gardeners' by Tyler Whittle, the author, a renowned traveller and plant collector, traveled through Japan, describing the people, customs, plants, etc, with a chapter on Korea. This was his second book and his first non-fiction book. Cox 101.
vi p., 1 l., 216 p. 19 cm. Hardcover Very good condition in dark green cloth, spine ends worn
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 16 plates and very numerous illustrations in the text, half-title lightly spotted, contemporary signature on title; navy cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, small pull at headband else a near fine copy in publisher's binding. With small personal book-label on front paste-down. The Wildfowl Records leaves at end are blank. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo [21 x 16 cm]; xv, 334 pp, frontis, plates from photos, bibliography, index. original 2 color, pictorial cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dj (price clipped, spine lightly faded), else a fine, clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Ernest Henry Wilson was one of the greatest plant hunters of his time, collected and introduced thousands of plants including lilies, rhododendrons, cherries, primroses, trees, etc based on his expeditions in China and Japan. We now take many of these plants for granted in our landscape. He later became the director of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. Foley provides a good biography, well-illustrated and with selections from Wilson's many books.
Book shows light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior has occasional marginalia in pencil. 145 pages with b&w photos, charts, tables, maps. Sections include: Plankton primer, Studying plankton (stocking , productivity), Plankton hall of fame: phytoplankton, diatoms, dinoflagellates, phytoflagellates, zooplnakton, protozoans, crustacans, rotifers, molluscs, chordates, Sills, Spring bloom, Deep inlets, Food chain structure, Plankton and pollution, Pulp and paper, Petroleum, Heavy elements, Red tides, Marine pastures: hunting, ranching , farming, etc.
Features: Capturing Satellites in Space looking back at earth; Waiting for a Vision; Exploring Earth's Life Support System; Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette; Ecuador's Forest Refuge; The Rock Art of Cape York Peninsula; Indian Sites of the Alaskan Islands; Why we do it; The Great Horned Owl. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
96 pages. Includes twenty-seven wonderfully photo-illustrated articles with titles such as: The .38/45 Wildcat; .460 White Horse Magnum; Scopes Do Go on Handguns; Custom Hunting Handguns; The Devel M39 Custom; Customizing the Colt Ace; Lawson Fireball; The Behlert Mini-Combat .45; and much more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
12mo, all in verse, [2], 24 pp., original Phillipps boards, lacking most of back-strip, uncut and unopened, a good copy. Printed at the Middle Hill Press for Sir Thomas Phillipps. The three poems are by Edward Goulburn, Martin Hawke, and Sir Thomas Phillipps, respectively. Holzenberg, 466; Schwerdt 1, p.214.
12 pages. Features: Behind the Scenes photos of employees at work in the Men's Wear Tailor Shop; Jim Dowell and Cliff Carter - photos of their hunting trip; Christmas party reports; Great collage of photos in centerfold shows bowlers (named) at the "Turkey Shoot for Eaton's Bowlers"; Eaton's Berkley brand; Mourning Mrs. Ida May Cochran. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Harrisburg The Stackpole Company and Wildlife Management Institute 1957. In-8 relié toile verte de l'éditeur, IX + 475 pages. Tableau dépliant, dessins dans le texte et 36 planches couleur par T.M. SHORTT (Colour plates of the ducks, geese and swans showing winter and autumn plumages). Très bon état.
pp. vi, 663 + Plus frontis and full page engravings. Text drawings. Inked ownership of Eugene Snyder on title page. Damp stained frontis, title page and first and last few signatures. Paper beginning to brown. Large 12mo. Original full green cloth binding, gold embossed vignette of a hunting dog on front cover. Worn and spotted with small loss top and bottom of spine. A decent copy of this famous and important dog book. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PETS/2
pp. xx, 379 + Plus Frontis, folding map and full page plates. Inked Christmas wish to Gerard from Bernard. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold in lettered. Front board impressively decorated with Harpooners at sea. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. Rudyard Kipling's endorsement "I've never read anything that equals it in its deep sea wonder and mystery." NAVAL BOX 2
255 p. w/ a map of Trinidad. Hardcover Very good condition good
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, title in red and black, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and folding map in pocket at end, preliminaries lightly spotted; original red boards, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, bevelled edges, vellum back lettered in gilt, red endpapers, boards lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 93). Loosely inserted is a slip from the publisher announcing the availability for sale of the author's original drawings for this work.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. Tears on worn dust jacket. 1294 pages. Introduction by Alexander Woollcott. No date of publication shown; circa 1960. Includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Hunting of the Snark, Through the Looking Glass, Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, and all the early and late verse, short stories, essays, phantasmagoria, games, puzzles, problems, acrostics, and miscellaneous writings.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, and 31 fine coloured plates by Edwards; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The first omnibus edition, comprising the seven previous collections Galloping, Shoes, The Call of the Bugle, The Clink of the Bit, Scattered Scarlet, Over the Grass, A Handful of Leather, and Later Verses, together with 16 poems never before collected. A lovely copy.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, and pictorial endpapers, some very light spotting (mainly marginal); sand cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy. Published in the author's 'Beechwood Books' series.
8vo., First Edition thus[?], with engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, 3 engraved plates, and four engraved head-and-tail vignettes (one for each section of the work), some mild age-staining as usual, last leaf of text wanting upper outer corner (with loss of half a dozen words); handsomely bound in contemporary green full roan, boards with double gilt frame border enclosing elaborate blind frame within which sits a decorative gilt rectangle, backstrip elaborately tooled in gilt with with black leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt doublures, red sprinkled edges, green endpapers, a most attractive copy. The plates (one of which is placed as frontispiece) and head-pieces are by Sartorius and engraved by Scott. Some of the tail-pieces are signed 'Austin'. This copy was presented by A.H. Cowie to his friend E.W. Hermon with the former's inscription 'J. Cundee, the publisher of this book was my grand uncle and the original oil paintings by Sartorius were in my family till a few years ago'. Somervile's famous blank verse poem was first published in 1735, its successor 'Field Sports' in 1742. VERY SCARCE.
4to [30.5 x 24 cm]; 139 pp, 48 fine and detailed lithographed plates, 2 folding maps showing the author's route. contemporary black cloth, gilt spine title lettering, covers a little rubbed, signature on endpaper, a very good sound copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author collected 800 species and 10,000 specimens, of which he estimates 100 are new to science. He traveled extensively through eastern Persia and Afghanistan in 1184 and 1885 and describes the vegetation, his itinerary and the plants he collected.
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 176 pp, colored frontis from painting, other colored plate, photo plates, map endpapers, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, small crease at upper spine, small bookplate of H. A. H. Insull, else near fine and clean in fair dj (chipped at spine end, rubbed, tear, not price clipped). A picture of this book is available upon request by e A description of the plant hunters of New Zealand, biographies of exploration, of a country of most unusual plants. Bagnall 472. The colored plates, one being of orchids, are from Margaret Johnson's fine paintings.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 96 pages of text. 66 plates, including 6 in full color.
4to, 32pp., introduction followed by an 88pp., unpaginated facsimile on the 1486 edition, orig. old style parchment wrappers, a little browned with a couple of small tears, uncut.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 62 pages. 10 1/2"w x 12 1/8"h. Previous owner's name sticker inside. Colorful illustrations by Gino D'Achille.
Small folio. Illustrated by Carlise's cartoons of an old-guard pack of irreverent hounds, as they originally appeared in the pages of The Sportsman Magazine. Tan pictorial boards, printed in color. Normal wear here and there, but still a very good copy. Bold manuscript ownership of E. D. Orbell. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 1250 copies. Siegel 87; Frazier C-1-a. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W139