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8vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece; original green cloth, sides with double frame border in blind, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, a near fine copy. With a fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down, and errata leaf facing text. A beautiful copy of an important avifauna. Rare, especially in this condition. Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann, p.144.
Pages 442-528 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: Hunting Wild Cattle - an Englishman's stirring adventures while catching bulls in Patagonia; My Mine-Sweeping Experiences - Joe W. White describes his WWI mine-sweeping and submarine-hunting adventures in home waters - a valuable record of the dangerous work and daring methods employed by our fishermen in destroying enemy mines and driving away submarines - with great photos; The Golden Nugget (short story); The One-Handed Hunter and the Rhinocerous; In the Wilds of Siberia - Part III - fascinating narrative with many photos of convicts/prisoners; My Adventures with the Wanderobo (a warlike African tribe); The Strange Order of the Dervishes - article with great photos; Filming the Sea Elephant; The Adventures of a Newspaperman - part 5 - some wartime experiences with German spies and other curious characters; My Week-End at Freetown - a picturesque account of the capital of Sierra Leone, with photos; Relief Worker's Adventures - part III - thrilling photo-illustrated experiences among the war victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia (The American Committee for the Relief of War Victims in the East); Kangaroo Hunting and Bark-Stripping; My South African Adventures - part 2; Canary Birds at School - French methods of breeding and training canaries; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with loss to bottom of back strip and openings between front cover and spine at each end. Bit of writing on back cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
102 pages plus 10 pages of wonderful illustrated vintage advertisements. First issue of this prestigious publication. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations plus several colour illustrations of birds. Features: Wonderful one-page photo ad for the Royal Bank features a photo looking down a busy city street; Canada's Viceroy in the West Indies, The Right Hon. Viscount Willingdon - article with photo portrait of subject and many photos of West Indies locations; With the (1927) Arctic Patrol - F.G. Banting and artist A.Y. Jackson accompany the expedition of 1927, which was under the command of Mr. G.P. MacKenzie - article and fourteen illustrations by Banting; Some Canadian Birds - notes on a selection of four-colour plates reproduced from paintings of feathered friends by Allan Brooks; Dr. Charles Camsell - bio with photo portrait; Article on the Canadian Geographical Society; Excellent one-page photo portrait of Sir Francis Younghusband; In the Heart of Asia - A Summary of the Record of the Expedition to the Forbidden City of Lhasa, Tibet - article with photos; The Camera Takes To The Air - Exploration and Surveying Revolutionized by Flying in Canada and Elsewhere - article with many great photos; Inaugural meeting of the Canadian Geographical Society - article with photos; Lady Kitty Ritson describes her winter time in a shack at Metagama, Ontario - article with photos; Arctic wild flowers - article with photos; Titled Farmers of the Canadian West - The Prince of Wales and a number of other representatives of British and other nobilities in the Back-To-The Land Movement - article with photo of the Prince of Wales' ranch near High River, Alberta and Lord and Lady Rodney; Great one-page Canadian National ad for tourism in Jasper, Alberta; Nice photo-illustrated ad for Westinghouse of Hamilton, Ontario; Back cover Canadian Pacific ad promotes Banff tourism. Average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this historic item. Book
224 pages. Frontis black and white photographic plate of author. Several pages of black and white photographic plates insterspersed through text. Map front endpaper. "... Mrs. Manning was the first woman to be employed in an official Geodetic Survey of the Far North. This book is her on day-to-day record of this Arctic adventure." - from dust jacket. Unmarked. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket which bears some chipping and closed 1" tear at top edge of front panel. Jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Sound copy. Book
4 vols., 8vo., with coloured frontispieces, fine coloured plates and line-illustrations in the text; strongly and elegantly bound in half vellum, marbled boards, backs with tan leather labels lettered and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, a most attractive set.
Deluxe leather bound edition with gilt decoration. Signed by both authors on title page. Limited Edition, #910 of 2500 copies. Cover shows some wear with a small spot where the smooth leather surface has been scraped. Small spots of residue from tape on front cover, and small tear at top front corner of cover. Light wear and scuff marks to rear cover. Ribbon bookmark has small spots on it. 12"w x 15 1/8"h and 3 1/2" thick -- a massive tome weighing more than 16 pounds, this book will require extra shipping charges. 435 beautiful color plates, some that fold out. "The plates are captioned with each bird's currently accepted vernacular name, followed in brackets by Audubon's identification....In addition, each plate carries the bird's up-to-date scientific classification by order, family, and species." Introduction, Concordance, Index of bird names.
Large quarto in stamped and gilt ornamental borow cloth & illus dust jacket; 2 preliminary leaves, xviii, 464 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some color) ; 26 cm; index Uncommon, and unique thus: two lenghty inscriptions to title-page by author, with his signature twice. / Birds -- Alaska. Oiseaux -- Alaska. Birds. Travel & explorations. Nature. / **A large, heavy book. Weighs close to 4 lbs before packing. For international & expedited orders, extra shipping charges may apply. Please inquire.**
In-4°, XX, 752pp, 16 tavole a colori, legatura in tela, titolo al piatto anteriore e al dorso. Capolavoro del Martorelli, dapprima docente al Liceo Gioberti di Torino, che pubblicò 67 studi ornitologici, e la ricercata "Monografia degli Uccelli di Rapina in Italia". Ceresoli, 346: "Magnifica opera considerata un capolavoro dell'arte tipografica". In-4 °, XX, 752pp, 16 color plates, cloth binding, title on the cover and on the spine. Masterpiece by Martorelli, first a teacher at the Gioberti High School in Turin, who published 67 ornithological studies, and the refined "Monograph of the Robbery Birds in Italy". Ceresoli, 346: "Magnificent work considered a masterpiece of typographic art".
An early issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 226-336. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part V; The Votaries of Eternal Silence - the Monastery of La Trappe; E.G. Henham is Saved by a Horse - an 1891 adventure in North-West Canada; A River of Red Lava - photo-illustrated Hawaiian story by Overend G. Rose; Abandoned - Morgan Andrews was left on a desolate island in Lake Winnipeg for 8 days; (Fantastic) Klondike Pictures supplemented by text; The Voyages of the "Mole Hill"; Curious Birds' Beaks; Pirate Hunting in China - Admiral J. Morseby describes the chasing of pirate junks, the queer incidents that happened, and the extraordinary method by which the pirates were smashed (includes photo of Moresby and illustration of the H.M.S. "Snake"); The Indian Child and His Toys - Ute child Capitano and photos of him, his complete outfit of toys, implements and dolls; Christmas in an African Desert - illustrated article by big-game hunter F.C. Selous; How the "Maid of the Mist" Shot the Niagara Rapids (with illustration of Joel R. Robinson); Parachuting adventure of Captain Bidmead (with photos); and more. Front cover loose but present. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Indigo blue cloth cover with somewhat worn leather spine and corners. 251 pages. Slight foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's blind embossed name stamp. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works. Photo of table of contents available. This large, heavy book requires extra charges for international transport.
Very faint bump to head of spine. Former owner's name to ffep in ink. ; St. Andrews University Publications. No. XLV; 302 pages
2 vols., 4to., First Edition thus, with titles in green, orange and black, many hundreds of coloured and monochrome illustrations and maps, and coloured endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed publisher's illustrated board slip-case. Based on the nine-volume Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The set comprises: Vol. I: Non-Passerines; Vol. II: Passerines. Nice copy of a standard reference.
24 pages. Features: Dramatic one-page colour photo of America's Sputnik blowing up on launch pad at Cape Canaveral; Nice one-page colour-photo Campbell's Vegetable Soup ad; Wonderful four-page feature on the Community Farm of the Brethren at Bright, Ontario includes fourteen photos; Photos (one in colour) of "Bran", the Irish wolfhound and regimental mascot of the Irish Regiment of Canada; Photo and brief write-ups of Sylvia Murphy, Joan Fairfax and Joyce Hahn; Behind the Scenes at the CBC - costume-making for CBC productions - includes nice colour photo of Bill Yule and June Sampson - please note that 1/3 of the second page of this article has been removed and is not included; Wow! One-page colour team photo of the Stanley Cup Champion 1957-8 Montreal Canadiens, featuring captain Maurice (Rocket) Richard; Four amazing photos of the Xavantes tribe of Brazil - taken as part of Rolf Blomberg's trip; Photo of Canada's top horseshoe pitching team, W. Faint, G. Miles, E. Crawford and L. Cruise; Wow! - one-page colour pin-up photo of Frank Sinatra!; The MacKay family of Toronto's Forest Hills Village bands birds - ten photos with write-up - son Barry MacKay went on to become a well-known naturalist and artist; Back cover 1958 calendar features large charming colour photo of baby girl in pink bonnet Average wear. Unmarked. Centerpage and covers holding by one staple. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue.. Book
Pages 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
Pages 385-424. Features: This Tourist Business of Ours - is it a billion dollar ballyhoo? - photo at Radium Hot Springs; Painted Mountains - Cameron Lake of Waterton National Park; Camper - Respect the Weather!; White Water - photo-illustrated canoeing article by Grey Owl; Memories of Flashing Streams - the trout run big in Cape Breton; "A Big Bee" Brings Pipe of Peace - wonderfully photo-illustrated article describes how treaty money is paid, land is dealt, etc. with Ontario's Native peoples; Blackbird Blizzards; When You're Lost in the Woods - using your watch as a compass; Birds for the Prairie Shelter Belt; With Our Junior Fire Wardens; Trailing the Clouds on Horseback - the life of Rocky Mountain Guide Old Man Logan; Jack Miner's Mail Bag; A Bird Sanctuary in Nova Scotia - by John W. Piggott; Forest Business in British Columbia, by Hon. N.S. Lougheed - includes amazing half-page photo of fallers, their long saws and massive fallen timber; ; Black Bass Furnish Hot Weather Sport, by Ozark Ripley. Nice two-colour ad for C.I.L.'s Dominion Ammunition inside front cover. Canadian National ad inside back cover promotes big game hunting in Canada. Nice ad for Western Super-X shotgun shells on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
61 page softbound folio with text in German has small crease on top corner of cover. One loose sheet with biographical paragraph about Maria Sibylla Merian in six languages. 16 loose brightly colored plates (12 1/4" w x 18" h) of Merian's engravings: Pomeranze und Spiegeltrager; Granatapfelblute und Laternentrager; Batate und Spinner; Baumwollblatt-Jatropha und Schwarmer; Ingwergewachs und Castnia-Motten; Hibiskubluten und Schwalbenschwanz; Zedratzitrone und Bockkafer; Fledermausapfel und Gottesanbeterin; Mexikanischer Stachelmohn und Bockkafer; Bananenfrucht und Caligo; Passionsblume und Insekten; Gelbe Mombinpflaume und Blauling (small spot on this plate); Korallenbaum und Seidenspinner; Granatapfel und Blauer Morpho; Paprika und Schwarmer; Bluhende Banane und Automeris and one black and white plate: Guayave, Spinnen und Insekten. All in very good slightly soiled off-white cardstock portfolio with pencil writing and small blemish inside front cover, edge wear, and small tears at corners. A beautiful collection, suitable for framing. Printed and bound in Germany.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured photographs (many full-page) throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 53 coloured plates by Rickman; original brown buckram, gilt backs, backstrips very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of the standard county avifauna. Tate, p.219.
5 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 147 coloured plates containing many hundreds of illustrations; original dark blue buckram, gilt backs, rose tops, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, very lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. 'Witherby' remained the standard reference for almost half a century. The work comprises Vol. I: Crows to Flycatchers (1938); Vol. II: Warblers to Owls (1938); Vol. III: Hawks to Ducks (1939); Vol. IV: Cormorants to Crane (1940); Vol. V: Terns to Game Birds, Additions, Corrections, Systematic List and Indices (1941). See Tate, p.44.
5 vols., 8vo., Fourth Impression, with coloured plates containing many hundreds of illustrations, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, tops lightly dust-soiled; original navy cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. 'Witherby' remained the standard reference for almost half a century. The work comprises Vol. I: Crows to Flycatchers (1938); Vol. II: Warblers to Owls (1938); Vol. III: Hawks to Ducks (1939); Vol. IV: Cormorants to Crane (1940); Vol. V: Terns to Game Birds, Additions, Corrections, Systematic List and Indices (1941). See Tate, p.44.
This undated edition was published by L. Rene in London, probably in the late 1890s. "Complete Edition, with engravings." - title page. Colour plates. A fascinating nostalgic presentation of the birds and the bees, and the development of the child from conception to birth, and beyond. "Erection is chiefly caused by scuraum, eringoes, cresses, crysmon, parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to powder and drank in muscadel, scallion, sea sheel fish, etc... The act of coition being over, let the woman repose herself on her right side, with her head lying low..." - p.10. Hinges open. Some plates loose but present. Above-average but not excessive wear. Tiny binder's tag inside back board, otherwise unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Regent cigarette ad features illustrations of Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby and Vera Zorina; Brief obituaries for Alexandre Millerand, Daniel C. Roper, Mrs. Janet Roper, Tomas Garrido Canabal, and Richard D. Sears Sr.; Photo of Margie Hart, ex-burlesque stripper; Nice ad for the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York; Allies dashing after Rommel to push him into trap; Major war coverage; Hitler's Outstanding Military Mistakes; Photo shows the hierarchy of Allied Air command in Tunisia - Sir Arthur W. Tedder, Carl A. Spaatz, James H. Doolittle, Arthur Coningham and Harry Broadhurst; Diagram of immersion bombing ships; The need for air power in the Pacific; Photo of Hitler with King Boris of Bulgaria at Berchtesgaden; photo of testing a 16" gun over the Chesapeake; Fascinating one-page color ad by Kimberly-Clark shows English cop arresting man for tossing a candy wrapper - because he didn't recycle it for the war effort!; Photo of P.L. Sequestri whose leg was amputated on Guadalcanal; True story of de Gaulle visit shows blocks to French Unity; Bancor and Unitas steal show from rest of currency plan - article with photos of Keynes and White; The Treasury Postwar Plan for Money; Rough Detroit Red Wings sweep the NHL finals amids shower of pucks and barrage of bottles article with photo of Jim Orlando - who was arrested for draft evasion; Nice color Schlitz ad features swallows (birds); Archbishop Francis J. Spellman - article and photo; Photo of 8'-7" Cliff Thompson, a junior at Marquette School of Law; Great propaganda ad shows two mean looking Nazi soldiers beneath the caption "If they win... only our dead are free."; Bell Aircraft color ad inside back cover shows Jap air base being strafed; and much more. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers almost loose. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: 3-page colour photo Ford Auto ad inside front cover; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Algoma Steel's new wide cold strip mill; Canada's National Parks - unspoiled, or neon jungles?; A Maclean's Flashback - Francis Bond Head, the hapless hero who "Saved" Upper Canada; The Big Airport - Toronto International - photos and text; The changing Catholic Mass; Front letters to my son - Donald Pearce's poignant journal from the push into Germany 20 years ago; World Hopping to Watch Birds - 33 avid birders go around the world with first stop in Japan; Whipper Billy Watson accepts nomination to run as a Progressive Conservative in the York East constituency; Gerald Stevens and Canadiana; Leisure Living - seasonal section with colour photos; Full-page colour photo ad for the unlamented OMC Snow Cruiser snowmobile; Curling goes Country Club; "One Helluva Way to Pick Up a Moose", by Paul St. Pierre; Canadian ski racers - with photos of Nancy Greene, Peter Duncan, Rod Hebron, Scott Henderson; 2-page colour photo ad for the 1966 Chevrolet Caprice; Full-page Crown Zellerbach ad featuring their activity at Nitinat, Canada's largest grand stand; Colour ad for the 1966 Mercury models inside back cover. Light moisture staining to lower corner. Book
Popular work on the trapping of birds with a range of hides and disguises for the trapper including one in the form of a false cow. Half-title, engraved frontispiece and 34 plates of bird traps, hides, tools etc. xxiv, 246, xlii pages. Later half morocco covers. A few stains. spine gilt. An III de la République, [1795]. Small bookplate of J. Renard on front pastedown.
Ex-library copy with usual library stamps, call numbers and pocket. Light foxing to endpapers. Top of spine is chipped. Tear along one side of spine cover but holding. Spine is discolored. Former owner's name on ffep. Slight wear to corners. Slight rubbing to boards. ; Scarce. Birds in Greek literature and folklore identified (where possible). English and Greek text, plus some Latin and French descriptions. ; 205 pages
