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Bordas 1992, In-12 relié cartonnage éditeur illustré, 319 pages, 530 espèces décrites, 145 planches en couleurs, cartes de répartition. Très bon état
As-new with straight spine, text unmarked in any way, sharp corners to the clean, bright covers. 656 pages, maps, color photos. Buy from a book seller that actually inspects and grades their stock!
8vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette and very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 15 fine coloured plates and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers unevenly sunned at head and tail of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped but very worn dustwrapper, the latter with loss at upper edge of front panel (eliminating most of title) and upper edge of rear panel. Beautifully illustrated studies of seabirds and sailing. Scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title in blue and black, title-vignette in monochrome, 15 coloured plates and numerous monochrome illustrations in the text, small 'dog-ear' (without loss) at lower corner of front free endpaper and half-title, some very mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at tail of backstrip (not affecting lettering) and with some light soiling against the (predominantly white) lower panel. An unusually nice copy of BB's classic work, free from inscriptions and price-clipping. With a small early twentieth century trade ticket on front paste-down.
494 pages. Apparently rebound in black half-leather and blue/gold marbled boards and endpapers. Index. "In 1899 a treaty with the Indians of the great Mackenzie basin followed the report of a Senate select Committee, chaired by Sir John Schultz; but, owing to the absence of roads and markets, and other essentials of civilized life, not to speak of the vast unsettled areas of prairie to the south, the incoming, until now that the railways are projected, of any great body of immigrants was very wisely discouraged, and this in the interest of the settler himself. The following narrative, therefore, has lain in the author's diary since the year of the expedition it records." - Preface. Numerous black and white photographic plates including tissue-protected frontis. Attractive colour fold-out map dated 1900 depicts the areas encompassed by Treaty No. 8 and the Indian tribes therein. Top edge gilt. Contents clean and unmarked. Tight and square with moderate external wear. Wallace p.54, Lande 1332, Peel [3] 2463. Book
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
4to, 128 pages, illustrated. Introduction by Colleen McCullough. eng
331 p. Front flyleaf and half-title excised. Large 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Great reading. NH8
125p. + Plus eight full page plates. An extra of plate eight, (frontis?). 12mo. Disbound. Text clean. NH 4
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked lightly sunned boards, dusty top page edges, slight foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 178pp. The first bird subject Monograph in the New Naturalist series with 26 colour paintings and 11 black & white photographs plus maps and diagrams.
Book and jacket in as new unread condition. 188pp. A study of Britain's most common bird although one most often unseen. Illustrated.
8vo., First Edition thus, with title-vignette, coloured plates, photographs and illustrations in the text; blue cloth gilt, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY ROGER TORY PETRSON ON HALF-TITLE. SIGNED COPIES OF THE UK EDITION ARE SCARCE.
32 pages, illustrated, glossary, index, (Little Big Books). eng
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
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 48 pages. 6 1/8"w x 8 3/4"h. Full gray-blue cloth boards. Previous owner's name inside. Blurb from dust jacket cut out and pasted to front endpapers. "Here is the story of how numbers grew from notches on a stick to figures in a row. After you have read it you may see why numbers are such fun to play with and why they cannot be shut up between the covers of your arithmetic book. Watch them surprise you every time you cut an orange for your breakfast or catch a snowflake." Lovely line drawings throughout.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. Previous owner's name stamp inside. 39 pages. 6 5/8"w x 8 1/2"h. Beautiful color illustrations by Hildegard Woodward. A children's sex education book from the fifties - sperm, eggs, mother, father, pregnancy, babies.
280pp. 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, pland and diagrams; coloured p[ictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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