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16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: The Galapagos Islands One Hundred Years after Darwin; Wings of the Storm - gulls and cormorants in the north Atlantic; Kentucky Blue-Grass; Feathered New Yorkers; Puddlestone Gardens; Conservation - court decisions hep migratory birds; Progress in Roadside Legislation - the signboard debate; Covering Nature's Nakedness - a sacred duty - planting seedlings in Michigan; The Mourning Dove; Planets and Planetoids. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Wild Brother's Secret homes; The Mollusk and Art - through the centuries it has inspired the greatest artists; Wol, the Sweet - the tiny owl native to Cuba; Attitudes of Birds - the song sparrow's individual characteristics; The weather man looks up - the stratosphere; Conservation - the 1935 waterfolw regulations; What Price... Fish?; Land use planning; Bay State Billboards - Massachusetts legislature rejects move of industry and Governor to ruin landscape; Buy who pays? - another row between the Forest Service and the Park Service; Through the Telescope. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
148 pages. Features: The law of the sea; microprogramming; the script of the Indus Valley civilization; mitochondrial DNA; the future of the universe; memory in food-hoarding birds; oscillating chemical reactions; autopsy; and more. Small initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
168 pages. Features: Acute respiratory failure; Amorphous-semiconductor switching; Magnetic recording; Non-Euclidean Geometry before Euclid; The Origin of the Oceanic Ridges; The Receptor site for a Bacterial Virus; How Birds Sing. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
124 pages. Topics: The Future of American Defense; Sulfate Aerosol Climatic Change; The Molecular Architects of Body Design; When is Seeing Believing - digital manipulation of photographs; Liquid Mirrors of mercury or gallium; AIDS and the use of injected drugs; The Terror Birds of South America; Particle Metaphysics. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Little Salt Spring; Tokyo Fish Market - A Wholesale Look at the Japanese Diet (Tsukiji); A New Island country; Stars for Kings; Birds of Rabbit Island; The Unknown World of Flipper; Hypothermia - Surviving Killer Cold. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Unicorn that Goes to Sea; What is Sea Level; the Successful Submarine that Failed; Protection from Shark Bite - a suit of mail; Catalina's life-saving marine laboratory; Up from the deep; Waikiki roughwater swim; The Australian Institute of Marine Science; the Birds of Midway Islands; Life in a Boat Channel. Sound copy. Book
Features: Vision in marine animals; The sea birds of northern Britain; Ex Libris - Neptunus Rex; In search of spiny lobster larvae; the unspoiled Little Barrier Reef of Saudi Arabia; Winter kill of summer flounder; The ancient sea that became a state; Master of disguise. Sound copy. 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
Features: Surprising island of the Northern Sea - Iceland; The Flowers Known as Birds - the Bird of Paradise from South Africa; What Maestros Look like to me - Sol Nemkov tells his adventures in the concert world while playing for such temperamental geniuses as Toscanini and Stokowski; You can't live in New York - untold miseries plague those who set up housekeeping in Manhattan, says long-time resident Horace Sutton; My Next 60 Movies - James Stewart (conclusion); Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - Satchel Paige, the American League's first Negro pitcher; The Coyote - World's Champion People Taunter - some claim he is one of man's best friends. Above-average wear. Covers almost detached. Small clipping from ad on page 55 - text unaffected. 1/6 page photo of coyote clipped from page 42. Top 2/3 of page 81 clipped out - this seems to have removed part of a novel. Nice color Coke ad on back cover. Book
Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: Two against the ocean, including a polio victim; White Man Fire-Walker - Methodist Missionary The Rev. Eric. L. Robinson; Pilot's 300 Crashes into Balloon Cables - continuing 'The Sky's No Limit," the first authentic story of the test pilots; The Mongoose - killer of Cobras; I Joined the Rush for Uranium - The Colorado Plateau; Rendezvous with Maneaters - Adventurer's Paradise Continued; Captured by Chinese Pirates - the steamer Ningpo; Below Zero Road - The Alaska Highway; The Trail of Crab Oonaka; Search for the Whooping Crane - trailing two wild birds for over 2,000 miles; We found unknown mountains - Nepalese adventures; The Beads of Assa - Somali adventure; Up-Helly-A - Norse Festival; and more. Backstrip missing; Covers partially loose. Still a worthy copy. Book
47 pages. Features: The (bilingual) National Theatre School of Canada, located in Montreal; They Expect Miracles of (baseball player) Frank Howard; Dillies by Dali - the famed surrealist applies his ideas to a new medium - the designing of jewelry - with seven colour illustrations; Amanda Blake says "I don't need men" - marriage has no place in the life of the girl TV viewers know as Gunsmoke's Kitty Russell; Maurice Chevalier - the eternal youth; Anatomy of a Wedding - X-ray wedding photos!; Showing the flag - 798 Mini-minor cars are arranged to form a giant Union Jack (with colour photo); They have a word for it - a series of new Canadian dictionaries published by Gage; Essie Johnson - new model missionary - a Canadian works in Northern Rhodesia to prepare the Africans to educate their own people; Colour photos of birds; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
52 pages. Features: Photo and "Aurevoir" by C.H. Greenway, Wing Commander, Commanding Officer; article by Chaplain F/L W.C. Daniel; The Philosopher and the Birds - A short Christmas Story; Ivan Ackery - A Master Showman, by LAC. S.R. Finkel; Station Adjutant Flight Lieutenant R.A. Kirkwood, by W01 K. Pugsley; Tops in Entertainment; Our First Station Dance; Sergeant John Chipman Kerr, V.C.; Film Cutting in One Uneasy Lesson, by Flying Officer Phillip Booth; Sports - considerable news of station sports activities; Phone interview with Lovely Susan Hawyard; Presentation of a Kittyhawk aircraft to the R.C.A.F.; Acceptance Testing of New Aircraft for the R.C.A.F., by W.L. Thomlinson, Squadron Leader; British Columbia Takes a Bow, by F/Sgt., D.J. Miller; Defence of the Airmen's Mess, by F/O H.J. Bird; Wonderful centerfold montage of photos with captions, and message from Commanding Officer; Army News; Women's Auxiliary to the Air Service; Nice photo ad for Harron Bros. Limited Funeral Home; Dozens of excellent vintage ads for Vancouver-area small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Tiny ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy of this vintage R.C.A.F. publication. Magazine
P., anc. maison Morizot / Laplace, sans date (environ 1880). Grand in-8 relié demi chagrin rouge, dos à caissons ornés, plats en percaline rouge chagrinée, tranches dorées, IX-367 pages. Rousseurs éparses.
Volume I xxiv, 379 pages. Volume II 391 pages. With alphabetical list of British Birds giving English and systematic name. Modern calf-backed boards. Light wear/scuffing.
Book and jacket in as new unread condition. 188pp. A study of Britain's most common bird although one most often unseen. Illustrated.
Book is in excellent condition, as new, no flaws. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for gift inscription inside front cover. 167 pages , heavily illustrated with graphs, charts and how-to instructions; subjects include: Hooking, Transfer Designs, Hook , Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, Animals, Birds, Abstract Designs, Dye , Fabrics, Backgrounds, Spot-Dyeing, Projects, Hex Sign, Floral Trio, Nottingham, Delft Daisies, etc.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and diagrams in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear.
Bella incisione acquarellata a mano coeva della fine del 1800, inizi 1900 tratta dall'importante opera di ornitologia "A history of British Birds" di Morris. L'opera venne pubblicata in diverse edizioni dal 1851 al 1903. Morris è noto per aver scritto opere di storia naturale e in particolare di ornitologia. L'incisione rappresenta il Cursorius cursor. Testo in lingua inglese. L'incisione è montata su un elegante passepartout In buone condizioni. TECNICA: incisione COLORE: acquarellatura a mano coeva DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 19x26 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 11x17 EPOCA: fine XIX secolo, inizi XX secolo. Beautiful print coloured by hand with aquarello of the end of 1800, first years of 1900 taken from the important work of ornythology "A history of British Birds" by Morris. The work was published in different editions from 1851 until 1903. Morris is famous because he wrote different works of natural history in particular of ornythology. The engraving represents the Courser. Text in english language. The engraving is mounted in an elegant passepartout. In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Engraving COLOUR: coeval colouring with aquarello by hand PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 19x26 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 11x17 PERIOD: end of XIX century, first years of XX century
Bella incisione acquarellata a mano coeva della fine del 1800, inizi 1900 tratta dall'importante opera di ornitologia "A history of British Birds" di Morris. L'opera venne pubblicata in diverse edizioni dal 1851 al 1903. Morris è noto per aver scritto opere di storia naturale e in particolare di ornitologia. L'incisione rappresenta il falco pennacchiolo occidentale. Testo in lingua inglese. L'incisione è montata su un elegante passepartout In buone condizioni. TECNICA: incisione COLORE: acquarellatura a mano coeva DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 24x31 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 13,5x21 EPOCA: fine XIX secolo, inizi XX secolo. Beautiful print coloured by hand with aquarello of the end of 1800, first years of 1900 taken from the important work of ornythology "A history of British Birds" by Morris. The work was published in different editions from 1851 until 1903. Morris is famous because he wrote different works of natural history in particular of ornythology. The engraving represents the Honey buzzard. Text in english language. The engraving is mounted in an elegant passepartout. In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Engraving COLOUR: coeval colouring with aquarello by hand PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 26x19 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 15x9 PERIOD: end of XIX century, first years of XX century
Bella incisione acquarellata a mano coeva della fine del 1800, inizi 1900 tratta dall'importante opera di ornitologia "A history of British Birds" di Morris. L'opera venne pubblicata in diverse edizioni dal 1851 al 1903. Morris è noto per aver scritto opere di storia naturale e in particolare di ornitologia. L'incisione rappresenta la strolaga minore. Testo in lingua inglese. L'incisione è montata su un elegante passepartout In buone condizioni. TECNICA: incisione COLORE: acquarellatura a mano coeva DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 17x27 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 11x16,5 EPOCA: fine XIX secolo, inizi XX secolo. Beautiful print coloured by hand with aquarello of the end of 1800, first years of 1900 taken from the important work of ornythology "A history of British Birds" by Morris. The work was published in different editions from 1851 until 1903. Morris is famous because he wrote different works of natural history in particular of ornythology. The engraving represents the red-throated diver. Text in english language. The engraving is mounted in an elegant passepartout. In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Engraving COLOUR: coeval colouring with aquarello by hand PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 17x27 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 11x16,5 PERIOD: end of XIX century, first years of XX century
Bella incisione acquarellata a mano coeva della fine del 1800, inizi 1900 tratta dall'importante opera di ornitologia "A history of British Birds" di Morris. L'opera venne pubblicata in diverse edizioni dal 1851 al 1903. Morris è noto per aver scritto opere di storia naturale e in particolare di ornitologia. L'incisione rappresenta il picchio tridattilo. Testo in lingua inglese. L'incisione è montata su un elegante passepartout In buone condizioni. TECNICA: incisione COLORE: acquarellatura a mano coeva DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 20x26 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 11x17 EPOCA: fine XIX secolo, inizi XX secolo. Beautiful print coloured by hand with aquarello of the end of 1800, first years of 1900 taken from the important work of ornythology "A history of British Birds" by Morris. The work was published in different editions from 1851 until 1903. Morris is famous because he wrote different works of natural history in particular of ornythology. The engraving represents the three-toed woodpecker. Text in english language The engraving is mounted in an elegant passepartout In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Engraving COLOUR: coeval colouring with aquarello by hand PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 20x26 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 11x17 PERIOD: end of XIX century, first years of XX century
Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and without marking of any kind. Unpaginated with 39 examples, with Category, Characteristics, Voice, Food, Breeding and Distribution and habitat listed. Book shows very light general wear, color photos. photos.
Full plum colored cloth boards; faded and a bit spotty at spine. Silver illustration of a nude on cover. Lovely line drawings. 290 pages. A bit musty smelling. Bumped corner.
