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3 vols.,illus. Hardcover Good condition
437p., illus. Brief descriptions of the more common & useful species of Massachusetts, w/ accounts of their food habits ... Hardcover Good condition; front hinge repaired w/ paper tape
437p., illus. Brief descriptions of the more common & useful species of Massachusetts, w/ accounts of their food habits ... Hardcover Good condition
Three volumes. Volume I: Water Birds, Marsh Birds and Shore Birds. Volume II: Land Birds - From Bob-Whites to Grackles. Volume III: Land Birds - From Sparrows to Thrushes. 1408 p. + Maps; + Plus numerous color plates (93) on glossy paper, from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), and others by Allan Brooks. Each plate with multiple birds; + Plus over 45 glossy black and white photos with two birds each; and over 175 figures in the text. Large 8vo. Original full cloth bindings, faded. "This book is the first comprehensive work on the birds of this state. It marks notable advances in our knowledge of the local distribution of species." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NH8
Small quarto in red cloth; xx, 437 p. col. front., illus., LVI pl.; 25 cm. A handsome work on high quality paperstock with numerous illustratins. A fairly early conservation work. // Ornithology, conservation; birdlife; birds. Early Dust Jackets
192 pages. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. Colour and black and white photos. "A detailed account of the rules and practice of falconry, the husbandry and breeding of birds of prey, and the many species that can be trained." - from dust jacket. Heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Still a worthy reading copy. *Please note: missing pages 117 and 118 which fall in the eagles section. Book
Book shows very slight shelf wear to covers only. Text/interior has charts through the last half of the book and these sometimes have notations: circles and underlines in pencil, indicating birds have been sited. Book otherwise appears new. 255 pages. Metal comb binding.
124 pages. Features: Stay ahead of mold, mildew and pests common in hot weather; Prevent Finch Behavior Problems; Potty Train Your Bird; Australian Doves; Choosing a good caretaker for your birds when you take a trip; Discover the Pionus Parrot; Dealing with feather plucking; Birds Just Want to Have Fun; Jonas Englund - Parrot Artist of Hawaii; Feeding live food - which of your birds need live protein and how you can supply it. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages including index. Small amount of writing on half title page. Average wear to covers and page corners. A bird book like no other. Concentrating on behaviour rather than species identification, the book delves into why birds act the way they do. It will raise the pleasure of birding to new heights. Starting with scenes as common as a swampy rookery of blue herons or the antics of a nesting nuthatch, the author adds new meaning to the everyday experiences of birders around the world. Learn that: blue herons live in colonies so that members can follow the colony's most successful hunters on forays rather than risk failure on solo expeditions.; female tree swallows commit mass murder against neighbouring offspring and females during nesting season; songbirds adjust their music to suit the eacoustical characteristics of the surrounding terrain, and much more. Book
pp. 281, (5) [Publisher's catalogue]. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Unopened. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. 200mm. From Morley's Universal Library, uniformly bound with others in the series. Gilt lettered faux vellum spine over blue gray linen boards. Spine very slightly darkened. Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a popular lecturer and prolific writer who did more to promote education and love of literature than any other person in the Victorian era. LOC W48/BAG 12
793 p. Text illustrations. Eges uncut. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Bookplate of Samuel Hull Dyke. First Edition. Part XI. A Descriptive catalog of birds, including: The American Vulture; Hawks; Eagles; Kites; Harriers; Old World Vultures; Ospreys; Falcons; and Caracaras. Full descriptions and synonymics. This carries on a series started by Robert Ridgway covering all the birds of North America. NH9
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers all 24 members of this colourful family.
Christopher Helm, 1992. In-8 reliure toile éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 324 pages. Planches en noir et en couleurs, cartes. Petit scotch sur le haut de la jaquette sinon Bon état
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. 324 pages. Color plates, maps, illustrations.
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
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
First edition, 157pp., frontis., orig. cloth, inner hinges shaken, head and foot of spine slightly frayed.
100 pages. Songs include: The Pink Panther, Meggie's Theme, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Pennywhistle Jig, Crazy World, The Thorn Birds Theme, Pie in the Face Polka, Baby Elephant Walk, Two for the Roadk, Speedy Gonzalez, Theme from "The Molly Maguires", Medley - Days of Wine and Roses/Charade/Moon River; Cameo for Flute. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this most entertaining compilation. Book
As performed by Mary Saxton, Michael Logie and the studio orchestra. Sheet music
1st edition. Near VG in blue cloth with yellow lettering. Inscription on the front endpaper.14061. eng
Very large format book in nearly new condition with unbumped corners and light shelf wear only to covers. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book features giant full color photos of birds in their natural environment with informational section at the front with the body of the book being a description of about 55 individual birds, their habitat, behavior etc. 10 1/4"w x 14 1/2"h.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 170 pages with three large full color photos per page on R. page with descriptions on L. page featuring birds from the following families: Loon, Grebe, Pelican, Heron, Waterfowl, Hawk, Falcon, Grouse, Rail, Crane, Plover, Avocet, Sandpiper, Gull etc. etc. -- at least 25 more listed in the contents. Map at front.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers. 43pp. Early volume of the RSPB magazine.
"Greece is a wonderfully varied and exciting country, with unspoilt scenery, from hot, barren, sun-baked rocky wastes to snow-capped mountains, forests, abundant natural lakes, many of the deepest gorges in Europe, and Vast areas of saltmarsh and coastal lagoons, all relatively undiscovered. This fabulously illustrated new travel guide describes hundreds of places where these landscapes and their inhabitants can be seen at their best, all in easy reach of the travelling naturalist." 317p. illus (col) index Book
In-8°, XXXII, 176pp, 24 tavole, legatura in pelle piena, con nervi e titolo al dorso in oro, buone condizioni. Si tratta del primo volume e l’unico pubblicato. Sacerdote, studiò nel Collegio dei Gesuiti; naturalista e botanico ma anche astronomo e metereologo, raccolse un ricco museo di Storia naturale in cui confluì anche quello di P. Tommaso Maria Gabrini; direttore della Specola Vaticana dal 1800 fino alla morte, anni durante i quali fece osservazioni metereologiche due volte al giorno, seguì anche i lavori per il rifacimento della torre Gregoriana e si occupò di proteggere con un sistema di parafulmini la Basilica Vaticana. Insieme a G. Xuarez creò l'Orto Botanico Vaticano-Indico, pubblicando le Osservazioni Fitologiche (1789-92) che gli meritarono la stima dei botanici H.Ruiz e J.Pavon i quali diedero ad un genere della Famiglia delle Polemoniacee, piante tipiche degli habitat desertici dell'America, il suo nome (cfr. Descripciones y láminas de los nuevos géneros de plantas de la flora del Perú y Chile por Don Hipólito Ruiz y Don Joseph Pavon,.... Madrid 1794, Gilia p.25). Fu socio di diverse accademie: gli Apatisti di Firenze, i Georgofili di Treja, Corneto e Foligno, i Volsci di Velletri, i Soci agrarii di Torino, gli Accademici Italiani, Arcadi, Aborigeni, i Lincei di Roma; lasciò diversi manoscritti che si conservano in Vaticana, fra i quali un' opera sui parafulmini e una vita di Nicola Zabaglia, mastro pontiere alla Fabbrica di S.Pietro. Nella cappella del S.Crocifisso all'Aracoeli dove riposa, lo ricorda un'epigrafe dettata dall'amico Abate Francesco Cancellieri: cfr. Efemeridi Letterarie di Roma vol.4, 1821 p. 281; F.Cancellieri, Gilii Filippo Luigi in E. de Tipaldo, Biografia degli Italiani illustri nelle scienze, lettere ed arti ..., Venezia 1838, Vol.6, pp.362-4; G.Lais, Memorie e scritti di Mons. Filippo Luigi Gilii in Memorie della Pont. Acc. dei Nuovi Lincei 6, 1890, pp.49-62 In-8 °, XXXII, 176pp, 24 plates, full leather binding, with bands and golden title at the spine, good condition. This is the first and only published volume. Priest, he studied in the Jesuit College; naturalist and botanist but also astronomer and meteorologist, he collected a rich museum of natural history which also brought together that of P. Tommaso Maria Gabrini; director of the Vatican Observatory from 1800 until his death, years during which he made weather observations twice a day, he also followed the works for the reconstruction of the Gregorian tower and took care of protecting the Vatican Basilica with a system of lightning rods. Together with G. Xuarez he created the Vatican-Indico Botanical Garden, publishing the Phytological Observations (1789-92) which earned him the esteem of the botanists H. Ruiz and J. Pavon who gave a genus of the Polemoniacee family, typical plants of America's desert habitats, its name (see Descripciones y láminas de los nuevos géneros de plantas de la flora del Perú y Chile por Don Hipólito Ruiz y Don Joseph Pavon, .... Madrid 1794, Gilia p.25) . He was a member of several academies: the Apatisti of Florence, the Georgofili of Treja, Corneto and Foligno, the Volsci of Velletri, the Agricultural Partners of Turin, the Italian Academics, Arcadi, Aborigeni, the Lincei of Rome; he left several manuscripts that are in the Vatican, including a work on lightning rods and a life by Nicola Zabaglia, master bridge master at the Fabbrica di S. Pietro. In the chapel of the S.Crocifisso all'Aracoeli where he rests, an epigraph dictated by his friend Abate Francesco Cancellieri reminds him: cf. Literary Ephemerides of Rome vol. 4, 1821 p. 281; F.Cancellieri, Gilii Filippo Luigi in E. de Tipaldo, Biography of illustrious Italians in the sciences, letters and arts ..., Venice 1838, Vol. 6, pp. 362-4; G.Lais, Memoirs and writings of Mons. Filippo Luigi Gilii in Memoirs of the Pont. Acc. Dei Nuovi Lincei 6, 1890, pp. 49-62
