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66p. + Frontis. Text illustrated with drawings. Title page decorated with small drawing of a little girl. Inked ownership of Susan H. Throne, Christmas, 1899. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, lettered in green. Green pictorial front cover vignette of a little girl sitting on her chair with her crutches leaning nearby. Binding slightly soiled. Nice copy. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W70
pp. 69, (2)[Books by Mrs. Wiggin] + frontis. Text illustrated with drawings. Title page decorated with small drawing of a little girl. 8vo. Original full yellow cloth binding, lettered in black. Black pictorial front cover vignette of a little girl sitting on her chair with her crutches leaning nearby. Original dust jacket, small chip rear wrap. Very nice copy which includes the rare dust jacket. "This edition, dramatized edition, arranged for school, home or amateur dramatic club". Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CHRISTMAS/W70
Life and Leisure 8. 145pp. With numerous photographs. Black cloth covers with light wear to corners and a few dot marks. Browned free endpapers.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright boards, tiny scratch to front and no bumping to corners. 180pp. A detailed report by species of all birds seen by Society members during the year throughout the county. With colour plates.
128 pages. Faded at spine. Did you know that: diving birds are an excellent sign of salmon? Steeply shelving areas often hold big chinooks? Trolling slowly and using thin diameter line produces fish? You should fish fast for hook-nosed coho? For the first time, author shares the results of his underwater TV research. Book
1st edition. Near VG hbk in original green cloth, gilt spine lettering. Illustrated with seventeen full-page plates (eighty-one figures) of which four are coloured, and eighty-five figures in the text, from drawings by H. Gronvold. 18350. eng
Roy. 8vo., Best Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 4 fine coloured plates, 15 monochrome plates and numerous illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on half-title, wanting front free endpaper; ribbed cloth, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, covers slightly rubbed, crease in lower board with corresponding short split in lower joint, else a very good, sound, clean copy. The first edition of this important avifauna appeared in 1928 and was quicly out-of-print. This new edition is materially enlarged and updated. Tate (1985), p.65
Four volume boxed set in excellent condition, as new, possible very slight fading to spine. Bindings are solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exteriors shows no blemishes, texts/interiors are clean and free of marking of any kind. Slipcase/box shows corner wear, light scuffing, shelf wear, no tears. 3042 pages in four volumes, cloth coverd boards, green title blocks on the spine with gilt lettering. Volume I :Aardvark to Cyclops, Volume II : Cypress to Juniper, Volume III: Kangaroo to Poor-Me-One, and Volume IV: Porcupine to Zebra, with Index. Heavily illustrated with sepia and color retouched phots, line drawings, charts, tables, maps, cut-away illustrations, Aardvark to Zebra with art, prehistoric & basilisk lizard along the way.
Contains a full checklist of world species -- around 18,000 alternative scientific and over 27,000 alternative English names wheich are used in modern fieldguides and literature to describe 9941 bird species. Changes in relationships between species in the last 30 years are shown and a status column is used to indicate general conservation state. 671 pages. A major reference tool.
230 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Nice book showing light wear to corners, scuffing to dust jacket, otherwise very clean and in excellent condition with interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 382 pages. Lots of full-page color photos on heavy, glossy paper; charts, tables, graphs, maps, liniage charts.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 636 pages. An enormous volume, many photos and illustrations, many maps with distribution of birds, tables, charts. Very clean and little used binding and covers
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean tight booklet with slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. Scarce. 38pp. Undated fifth edition, ca 1950s.
With 30 original photographs by the author and 26 line drawings by Roland Green. Faded blue cloth covers and spine, with marks on the back, and light wear to corners.
Robert Laffont 2007, grand et fort In-8 broché, 375 pages. Très bon état
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.
Octavo in white Dj; 195 p : b&w illus ; 24 cm. Red-tailed hawk -- Biography.
Book is in excellent condition but has notes on the half-title page and marginalia in the "notes" section at the back of the book and in the bibliography; otherwise the text is clean and free of marking. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, Dust jacket shows edge and corner wear with a repair in clear tape to the front cover. Previous owner's name at front endpaper. 219 pages with a section of b&w illustrations and maps at back as well as an appendix: A Vocabulary of the Language at Nootka Sound" by Barry Carlson, John Thomas & Francis Charlie. Contents include: Nootka Sound, Breakers Point, Clumma, Friendly Harbour, Chief Mokquilla, Kerrighum, Furs of the sea otter, Woody Point, Captain Cooke, culture of the Nootka, Manners, Sale of human hands, embroidery, Tattooing, division of labour, Scotts Islands, snug-Corner Cove, tuels, arms, vocabulary, Birds of Prince Williams sound, John MacKoy, Spaniards, La count de Perouse , Monsr. de L'angle.
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. 261 pages, illustrated with b&w drawings throughout. Signed by author on title page.
Large octavo in dark green color-illus DJ; xi, 290 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm; bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index. Ornithology; entymology; Birds -- Ecology.† Insects -- Ecology.†
Roy. 8vo. Second Edition with folding map; original cloth a very good clean copy. Scarce especially in this condition.
Octavo in green cloth and green illus DJ; 218 p. p., illus. (part col.), 22 cm. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Topics: Birds, Purple martin.† Insect pests -- Biological control.†
99pp.+ 4pp.buitentekstills., bib.ex., goed
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, coloured plates, and illustrations, maps and tables in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
