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19157367J. Watson Lyall & Co. Ltd. 1915. Softcover. Used - Acceptable/None. Spine and binding are fine. The indexes section at the front is tanning heavily though legible; the remaining sections from Section I onwards have barely any sign of tanning and are very clean. Faded soft leather cover with spine which is scuffed on the lower third. There is a large fold out map bound at the front and I believe another map is missing from a slip also at the front. Very interesting book with equally interesting adverts. J. Watson Lyall & Co. Ltd. paperback
Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. "This definitive book contains detailed, authoritative, up-to-the-minute chapters on wildlife shooting, upland gunning, trap and skeet shooting; practical advice on shotgun makes, models, and functions; highly useful chapters on actions, gauges, barrels, loads, chokes, pellets, and ballistics." - dust jacket. 332 pages. Index. Photographic plates. Prior owner's gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Light wear to book. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. A sound copy. Book
1987019596Sydney NSW Australia: Angus & Robertson 1987. 692 pages with colour illustrations and distribution maps. Part of the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife series. Heavy book 2.9kg. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
19806047873London [u.a.], Academic Press 1980. 8°. XX, 321, IXLI; XX, 324 - 945, IIC pp., mit zahlr. Textabb. Original Leinwand. Goldgeprägter Titel auf Rücken und Deckel. Kleines Signaturschild auf Buchrücken. Stempel verso Titel. Sonst sehr ordentlich.
Original cloth dark blue boards with gilt lettering, 185 x 245mm., 255pp., 3 maps and 19 photos b/w. Factual presentation of the salient features ans characteristics of the existing individual herds of pedigreed Scotch Shorthorns. Good condition.
Features: Twilight of the great beasts - Africa's wildlife is disappearing - photo of dead rhino and smashed car after collision (large clipping from the first page of this article); A visit with Robert Frost - at 86, the great poet of New England is as perceptive as ever; I call on Perry Como (part 2 of 3) - Perry's candid view of the new generation of singers - and of the songs they sing; First Lady of the Funnies - Dale Messick is the 'mamma' of Brenda Starr; Dreamers on the Payroll - physicist William Thaler and his staff are used by the Navy to 'dream freely' to produce that one idea in fifty which might be useful; The Wondrous Outer Banks of North Carolina; Nice colour ad for the Chrysler Imperial, "America's Most Carefully Built Car." Nice color Cadillac ad. Ad clipped from page 61 - text unaffected. Above-average wear. Book
Fine Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 23 cm). In English, Turkmen, and Russian. 355, [15] p., color ills. The red data book of Turkmenistan. Vol. 1: Invertebrate and vertebrate animals.= Türkmenistanin gizil kitabi. Tom. 1: Omurgasiz ve omurgali hayvanlar. The red data book is intended for workers of nature protection services, specialists in the field of botany, zoology and ecology, students and instructors of higher educational establishments, for a wide audience interested in nature and ecological problems as well.
8vo, 254 pages, not illustrated. Light foxing to the page edges. eng
18336158London: Liverpool George Smith and Ackermann & Co London 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/None. Quarter bound leather and gilt edged leather corners. Robust boards though faded spine binding and cover all fine. Spine is in six sections with gilt title on red leather background and small gilt illustrations in each section of the spine. Contents very clean with no inscription only a previous price in pencil with faded gilt outer edges. A small number of pages have a tiny piece missing at the top edge - please see photos. 21 beautiful colour lithographic plates of birds. 136 pages. Liverpool, George Smith and Ackermann & Co, London hardcover
1911021516-EAlbany New York: J.B. Lyon 1911. Book. Illus. by Unknowen. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 1911 Green cloth hardcover with gilt letters to thr cover and spine 616 page book with 98 full page plates with 97 in full color . Note : the October plate p.298 was never inserted in any publication of the volume. Condition : Near Fine with very light rubs to the edges . A very clean tight unmarked volume . Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. J.B. Lyon Hardcover
1921021516-DAlbany New York: J.B. Lyon Co. 1921. Book. Illus. by Unknowen. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 1921 Green cloth hardcover 636 page book with 80 full page color plates . Condition : Fine with ink stamp on first blank page compliments of David E. Jeffery member of assembly . This is one of the finest copies I have had of the book . Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. J.B. Lyon Co. Hardcover
197634931Peacock Press, Toronto, 1976. Seiten nicht paginiert / pp. not nummerated, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen / richly illustrated; Seiten, zahlreiche Abbildungen; Einband mit minimalen Gebrauchspuren, ansonsten tadellos. 4° quer, 23 x 28 cm, kartoniert / Paperback
176 pages including index and an abundance of black and white illustrations. A collection of stories about the Canadian North. These stories chronicle the real-life adventures of Gerald Malaher, pioneer conservationist, who following Ernest Thompson Seton, influenced the course of northern wildlife preservation and development in Manitoba in this century. Prior owner's details neatly atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
112 pages. Features: The Hodding Carters - Working for decades in the intransigent heartland of the South, they dedicated themselves and their newspaper to exposing the cruelties and injustice around them and reaffirming the basic goodness of the South they loved - article with photos (including cover); New Battles Over School Budgets - landmark California decisioin affecting John Serrano; Ten Days That Shook Me Up in Russia - the tormented world of Soviet dissidents; "Dewar's Profiles" features David O. Hill, Wildlife Conservationist of New York City; Swept Away - people continue to build along coastal areas despite terrible storms and the damage they cause; Poirot's First Case - Agatha Christie describes how she created her first detective story, and her grandest sleuth, while surrounded by poisons; Fantastic two-page centerfold ad for Jovan fragrances; Photos of Nubby Knits; Throwing a Curve - John Saladino designed this curved apartment; Sexy color-photo ad for luxurious silk bikini panties by Macy's; A Mess of Mopeds; Toyota Celica ad on back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Nice ad for Sony Cassette-Corder inside front cover; Great one-page ad for Harness House features photo of gent with belts slung over his bare shoulder; The 'Black Mayonnaise' at the Bottom of Jamaica Bay - photo-illustrated article; Yale Faculty Makes the Scene - article with photos of Charles Reich, Kenneth Keniston, Erich Segal, Robert Lifton, Robert Penn Warren and Robert Brustein; Was Eisenhower a Political Genius? A Brilliant Man?; The Four Big Fears About Nuclear Power; Save the Children Federation ad features photo of young Glen Conway; 'Valentino' fashion photos; Interior design photos of Harrison Cultra's small city duplex. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
xiv + 368pp.+ 48 plates out-of-texte & some plans, green cloth, 22cm., ("(all known british butterflies shown lifesize in colour and 56 colourphotographs of living specimens by S.Beaufoy, 24 plates in balck and white, 32 distribution maps and 9 other diagrams")
132 pages including index. "An authoritative natural history and a visual celebration of this playful creature. Together, text and photographs combine to capture the beauty and power of the coastal seas and to emphasize that we must take part to help ensure the continued prosperity of this fascinating creature." - from dust jacket. Negligible wear to clean, bright and unmarked book. Light wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
1992039498New York, Oxford., Facts On File. (Publisher)., 1992. Photographs by Terry Domico. 208S. mit zahlreichen farbigen Fotografien. Nachtitelblatt mit privater Widmung. 4°. OPappband.
1909156803London, Paris, New York, Toronto and Melbourne, Cassell and Company, 1908, 1909. IV, IV, VII, 1128 S., mit Illustrationen und farbigen, montierten Tafelbildern, 4° OHalbleder, Lederecken, mit goldgeprägten Rückentitel,
8vo, ix-359 pp, maps, drawings, full-page plates on superior paper, index. HB + DW VG++/G [P-20]
1958q10n1084Siam Society, Bangkok, 1958. Contents: The Flowering of Teak / Tectona Grandis in Aspects of Tree Breeding; The Genus Eria Lindley (Orchidaceae) in Thailand; Thailand Forest Soils; Identification Keys to Genera and Species of the Dipterocarpaceae of Thailand etc. 91 S. Englisch. Einband etwas lichtrandig, Seiten etwas angebräunt, Besitzvermerk auf Vorsatz, Gesamtzustand gut und sauber. gr.8° [5 Warenabbildungen] Broschiert
1958q10n1083Siam Society, Bangkok, 1958. Contents: Generalized Key to the Soils of Siam; On the Nymphaeaceae of Thailand; A Preliminary Study of the Sea Turtles in the Gulf of Thailand. 36 S. Englisch. Seiten sehr gering angebräunt, sauber, Besitzvermerk auf Vorsatz, Gesamtzustand gut und sauber. gr.8° [6 Warenabbildungen] Broschiert
2010021413Sydney Australia: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2010. Light general wear to covers. 438 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Paperback
1853biblio478London: Nathaniel Cooke Milford House Strand 1853. Very Good. <p>8vo xviii 342 publisher gilt cloth stained 70 woodcuts 4 full page map edges gilt last 70 pages lightly damp stained in margins</p> Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand hardcover
20091611281674zbvkNew York, Alfred A. Knopf / Norwalk CT, Easton Press, 2009. xix, (10) 403 pages, colour-illustrated throughout. - Publisher's richly gilt-decorated and gilt-titled thick greyblue leather-binding over 3 raised bands with tipped-on glossy colour-plate photoprint ('Man on the Moon'), all edges gilt, silken strong marker-ribbon and moirée-silk endpapers; 4to.(ca. 27 x 23 x 3 cm; ca. 2 kg.).