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Features: On Wildlife - Talking to the animals; Mount Wilson Reborn - a new era dawns for "America's Observatory"; Nomads of the High Plateau; The Case of the Caverna da Pedra Pintada - Rewriting South America's Ancient History; Roof of the Americas Expedition - Challenging Britain's Best. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Niche Hypothesis - a hidden symphony of Animal Sounds, the Origins of Musical Expression and the Health of Habitats; Expedition to Another World - Biosphere 2 Crew Completes Mission One; The JASON Project - student participation in Sea Exploration; Off the Beaten Track - a doctor visits Yap Island; Youth in Exploration - M. Lane Olvey, SM '92, Atlanta Chapter; Kamchatka - restless land of Volcanoes; Arctic Ice Rescue - 1993. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: North Pole Expedition on Environmental Mission; Operation Raleigh - Character Training by Exploring; Bouvetoya - the world's most isolated island; Pitcairn Island after 200 years; Kaho'olawe - Hawaii's largest uninhabited island; River of Jade - the Rio Santo Domingo River. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
First edition, 8vo, 67, [3]pp., disbound. Relating to the British raid on Rochefort in 1757.
pp. xv, 435. Full page photographs. Large 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Third printing. Hardbound. Very good. RELIGION BOX 3
8vo [20.5 x 14 cm]; ix, 320 pp, frontis with tissue guard, 36 plates from photos, color plates from paintings, 6 maps and cross-sections, including folding map of route, index. original blue pictorial gilt cloth, with gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, top edge gilted, fine and clean in the rare dust jacket (short tear, chipped at spine head with loss of few letters). A picture of this book is available upon request An important expedition by the staff of the US National Museum that describes the fish, birds, plants, geology, etc of Western Cuba, with much on the people and description of the countryside. Excellent illustrations, the colored plates being of birds and fish, the other plates are mainly scenery, portrait, etc. Wood 383.
1st Penguin edition. Near VG pbk. Small crease to the front cover. Pages browning. 15539. eng
8vo., Second Impression, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Published a year after the first edition.
3rd impression. VG hbk bound in blue cloth,gilt spine lettering. Spine colouring faded.22553. eng
4to [27 x 20 cm]; 2 volumes, xxvi, 568; ix, 569 - 1064 pp, 476 illustrations (some color printed plates) text figures, 9 maps. orig crimson cloth, gilt lettering, dust jackets (rubbed, chipped with one having large section missing), else a fine clean set, with a presentation inscription on the author's card, signed by author to Horace Binney, paperclipped to title with rust mark. A most interesting survey of Liberia and Belgian Congo related to medical and natural conditions. Much of the travel was by foot across Africa. The first volume deals mainly with social and medical conditions, and especially of the little known inhabitants of tribal Liberia and their living conditions but also covers geology, flora, zoology. The second volume is a comprehensive survey of the natural history, with emphasis on birds, mammal, insects and reptiles. Very well illustrated. Not often found with both dust jackets and author's signature. Strong, professor of tropical medicine at Harvard, was accompanied by other physicians and zoologists on the expedition. Conover 659.
274 pages. Index, bibliography and footnotes. "A lucid and convincing analysis of the origins of Stefansson's attitudes and ideas." - from back cover. Minimal markings to contents. Average wear. Three pages of photos loose but present. A worthy working copy. Book
in-8°, 268 pages, broche, couverture illustree 1er plat restauré sinon bel exemplaire. [NAN-5]
pp. vii, 159 + Frontis and photographs. Text drawings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, torn top of spine and price clipped. Hardbound. First Printing. SPACE/6 / 3
pp. x, 294 + Plus frontis, numerous full page photographs. Title page printed in red and black. Bookseller's label. Decorative endpapers. Large 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding, spine repaired. Eleventh impression. AFRICA/2
Exhibition catalogue. Unpaginated. Average wear. Unmarked. High-quality glossy contents in red embossed covers. Black and white illustrations. Solid copy. Book
4to [32 x 25 cm]; xx, 452, [ii, errata and additions, often lacking] pp, engraved view Cape of Good Hope, 17 plates including four folding, other illus, tables. contemporary blind-stamped full calf, gilt spine title lettering, all edges gilted, rubbed, joints cracking with repair, few leaves lightly foxed including few plates, inscription & bookplate on endpaper, very good clean copy with nice wide margins. A pic Most plates include several figures including some of instruments and equipment. Norman 1056: 'With this monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere, Herschel completed the task begun by his father William, who fifty years earlier had catalogued the northern celestial hemisphere. Using a twenty foot reflecting telescope, which he erected just south of Cape Town, Herschel swept the whole of the southern sky, cataloging nebulae, cluster and binary stars, carrying out the counts of over 68,000 stars.. . . he made detailed drawings and maps.' Honeyman 1663: 'The first great star-atlas of the southern hemisphere'. Includes a chapter on Halley's comet. Norman Catalogue 1056.
pp. xiii, 313 + Plus numerous photographs. Map endpapers. Penciled underlings. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, gold lettered. First Edition. Akeley and his wife ransacked Africa for specimens of wild life which he had mounted in life-like tableaux for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AFRICA/1
in-12, 247 pp, broché, couverture illustrée. Rousseurs au dos sinon bel exemplaire non coupé. [FRA-3]
LONDON, Chatto & Windus - 1975 - In-8 - Cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée - Planches de photographies NB HT - X & 373 pages - Bon exemplaire
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; 272 pp, 31 plates from photos, numerous illustrations from drawings, bibliography, appendix. original cloth, spine title lettering, fine and clean in good dust jacket (price clipped, a little used). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author describes his discoveries in the Amazon region in search for lost cities of sun worshippers, facing death and dangers, covering much of same ground as the legendary Colonel Fawcett. He links ancient civilizations in Brazil and Peru with those of Egypt and the middle east in a fascinating and well-illustrated account.
Mild dampstaining to boards. Rough spots to endpapers ; Beautiful fold-out map on japon paper at rear; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages
96 pages. Features: The Ordeals of Old Smith - Jedediah Smith ; "Riding to the Hounds" Prairie Style; The Frenchmen's Colorado Gold; 'A Tip of the Hat to Sam Davis - Samuel Post Davis; Black Hills Stockade - Collins-Russell Expedition; Many Trails Led to Gordon (Nebraska); The Mysterious Ramming of the Pacific - S.S. Pacific, Neil Henley (O'Henly); Bonanza in the Santa Ritas - Helvetia and Total Wreck, Arizona; A Rusty Can's Message - Gideon Gaines; Go Bring Him In - Preferably Dead. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The agony of a Morman Polygamist - Thomas Schofield faced renunciation of loved ones or imprisonment for conscience sake; The disastrous Arthur Dietz Expedition - 'Klondike madness pushed the little party of greehnorns beyond all hope of survival; Livestock Commission man; Ocosta broke the speculators' hearts!; Bushwhacked on the trail; Gold and where to find it; My dog was better known than I was! - Seymour was well known in Arkansas; La Tuileries Gardens - A Cattleman's Folly - Gillpatrick's amusement park, Colorado; Miracle at Stillwater, Oklahoma; I don't want none of your weevily wheat - Perry Hutchinson/Excelsior Mills, Marysville, Kansas; Bloody night on the Gila, Arizona; Captives among the Comanches - the true story of Jane Adeline Wilson; The great opportunist - Chicken Bill of Leadville, Colorado; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
in-16, 215 pp., ill. h.t. coul., broche, couverture illustree plast. Tres bel exemplaire. [PP-1]
in-8°, 372 pp., photographies en noir, broche, couverture illustree à rabats Bel exemplaire. [109B-11]
