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1995010771Wilmington Massachusetts U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin College Div 1995 First Edition. Hardcover 263 pp. Inside the minds and lives of birds of prey. Illustrated by master bird artist David Sibley. Gift quality. Fine in fine dustjacket. Houghton Mifflin College Div hardcover
1930220535Sioux City, 1930-36.
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, pland and diagrams; coloured p[ictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
41011LONDON THRESHOLD/HARRAP1987. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES SIGNED BY PETER OLNEY THIS BEING NUMBER 65. TEXT BY OLNEY AND INTRODUCTION BY SCOTT. WITH 60 VERY FINE TIPPED-IN FULL PAGE PLATES IN COLOUR A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON JONES APPENDIX GLOSSARY INDEX. OBLONG FOLIO BOUND IN HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER BLUE CLOTH. A NEAR FINE COPY - THE GILT TITLE ON THE SPINE HAS FADED THERE ARE A FEW FOXING SPOTS. THE BOOK WEIGHS 5.3 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. LONDON, THRESHOLD/HARRAP,1987 hardcover
30379LONDON THRESHOLD/HARRAP1987. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES SIGNED BY PETER OLNEY THIS BEING NUMBER 12. TEXT BY OLNEY AND INTRODUCTION BY SCOTT. WITH 60 VERY FINE TIPPED-IN FULL PAGE PLATES IN COLOUR A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON JONES APPENDIX GLOSSARY INDEX. OBLONF FOLIO BOUND IN HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER BLUE CLOTH. THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE OF DAMP-STAINING HAVING AFFECTED THE FIRST AND LAST PRELIMS. THE BINDING HAS BEEN STRENGTHENED FRONT AND BACK SMALL MARK TO CLOTH OF FRONT BOARD OTHER WISE VERY GOOD WITH THE PLATES CLEAN. PRICED ACCORDINGLEY. THE BOOK WEIGHS 5.3 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. LONDON, THRESHOLD/HARRAP,1987 hardcover
Octavo in a sky blue DJ ; 288 p : illus ; 22 cm Author signed and inscribed title page // Parrots -- California -- San Francisco -- Human -- Animal relationships -- Homeless persons
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
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
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
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
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
1941101037Berkeley, 1941. M. 20 Taf. 178 S. (Univ. Calif. Publ. zool. 46/1).
2011051617Heidelberg: Springer Verlag 2011. xvii 263pp index references bw & col ills diagrams. Green boards. As new. The care and breeding of ratites such as ostrich and rhea in a farming situation. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo. Springer Verlag Hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with 5 coloured plates on 4 and 28 monochrome plates on 20, inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
1971002434Chicago: J.G. Ferguson Publishing Co. 1971. Special limited edition bound in blue leather #1392 of 3000. 260pp. color and b&w plates ills. An overview of waterfowl and game birds with brief species descriptions notes on habits and habitat and conservation; illustrated with the art of Richard Bishop. 64 full-page plates in color plus numerous reproductions of etchings. Index. Slipcase has some corner wear and scuffs. Book is fine with a tiny amount of wear at spine tips. Full-Leather. Fine. Illus. by Bishop Richard E. illustrator. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. J.G. Ferguson Publishing Co. Hardcover
1975416619London u. New York, Country Life u. Arco, (1975). M. 70 (60 farb.) Taf. v. P. Scott, sowie zahlr. Ill. u. Ktn.-Skizzen. OLwdbde. m. Rücken- u. Deckelverg. in farb. ill. OLwd.-Schuber.
15140COUNTRY LIFE. LONDON. 1973. VERY GOOD FOUR VOLUME SET CREAM CLOTH FIFTH IMPRESSION 1973. SIXTEEN PLATES IN COLOUR BY PETER SCOTT AND THIRTY-THREE DISTRIBUTION MAPS. COUNTRY LIFE. LONDON. 1973 hardcover
1973036261London and New York: Country Life-Hamlyn Publishing Group/Arco Publishing Co. 1973. Book. Illus. by Peter Scott. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete in four 4 volumes uniformly bound in gold cloth front covers and spine panels decorated in gold foil lettered in gold foil text block edges stained dull red or brown as originally issued. All volumes essentially as issued with very slight foxing evident on spine panel cloth. 284 232 270 388 pp. illus. w/ a total of 66 color plates and 108 distribution maps over the 4 volumes; index. Siipcase cloth- and paper-covered boards shows mild shelf wear and a few slight indentations along one edge VG to Near Fine. Originally copyrighted 1954-64 this set uniformly issued 1973 with various printings I and II 5th ptgs. III and IV 2nd ptgs. Country Life-Hamlyn Publishing Group/Arco Publishing Co. Hardcover
24089LONDON GORDON FRASER 1981. FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES LARGE OBLONG GREY CLOTH WITH SLIPCASE. FINE COPIES. LONDON, GORDON FRASER, 1981 hardcover
1985037706Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1985. HEAVY. xvii 331pp index bibliographynum col photographs maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Foxing to edges and prelims- heavy on half-title. Covers 67 species of Australian waterbirds inhabiting marshes swamps rivers and other wetlands in detail. Second of ten in this important series of books on Australian wildlife. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
193422-009Please see photos for Contents & condition. The Derrydale Press hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates of coloured paintings, and numerous illustrations and maps throughout; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
1992131558Academic Press, London and San Diego, 1992. 460 S. ; 29 x 22 cm ; Pp. ;
139p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1910039004London: Witherby & Co. 1910. Book. Illus. by Thomas Baddeley. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small 4to. Volume 1 - The Mammals and Birds of Cheshire. Volume 2 - The Dee as a Wildfowl Resort The Reptiles and Amphibians of Cheshire and The Fishes of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay; pp. vol. I: xxxii 472; vol II: xx 210. Illustrated from b/w photographs by Thomas Baddeley folding map in colour. Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spines very good with minimal wear spines and gilt bright. Top edge gilt other edges uncut spotting to fore-edges . Contents clean and tight paper crisp and bright some fine areas of spotting to the first few pages but clean within. A very good clean set. Witherby & Co. Hardcover
