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19902091502135704669Hyogo Prefecture 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Hyogo Prefecture paperback
105 pages. Generously illustrated with reproductions of colour and black and white photos. The fascinating autobiography of Frank Barnard who, after serving in WWII, returned to Canada and went on to a successful business career in the tree seed business. Clean and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Book
184 pages. Black and white diagrams and photographic plates. Map endpapers. Gilt lettering upon red cloth. Authors kept a log while trekking the wilds of Alaska to study the forests and forest diseases of the state. They experienced "a big country of mountains, timber, game, salmon rivers, and glaciers, The pleasure derived from this simple account was so great that we decided to allow others to share it with us. It is our wish that you may tramp, eat, and camp with our party each day." - Preface. No dust jacket, apparently as issued. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. TOURVILLE 432. Book
xiv, 159, [7] pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of photos. Numerous detailed diagrams. Pocket inside back board contains a booklet of six 12 x 9" engineering drawings of sleigh designs. "Provides a description of conventional ways of pulpwood hauling in Eastern Canada from planning and road construction to placement of wood on landings. Analyses these parameters from the efficiency standpoint. Several hundred recommendations are contained on sound practices to be followed and the faults to be avoided." - Introduction. A deadly serious exposition on how pulpwood could be most efficiently moved by horse and sleigh back in the day. Ink stamp inside front board. Hinges open. Average wear to publisher's pale green cloth-covered boards. 25 x 17 cm. A worthy copy of this fascinating investigation which is sure to make those fortunate enough to benefit from today's heavy-duty logging equipment appreciate how far their technology has advanced over the intervening decades. Book
Inscribed by author upon title page. 309 pages including bibliography and index. Black and white photos. Illustrations of logging practices. "In this fine history of the glory days of logging in an area of Vancouver Island that because of its magnificent stands of timber was sometimes called the loggers' Eden, Richard Mackie tells us not only how the logging was done but who the loggers and their families were, not only how they worked but how they lived, established new communities, and sustained and reshaped older ones." - from back panel. Clean with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Pages 194-256. Features: The Passing of the Maine Wilderness - article with photos of destruction by John C. Phillips; An Anchor to Forestward - How America Tried to Grow Trees for Sail of the line on Santa Rosa Island; Naming the Sequoia - article by Cristel Hastings; Robins and Ruminations - article by Guy W. von Schriltz; How Dierks Lumber and Coal Company is Placing one of the largest bodies of controlled timber in the world uner forest management; Wilderness Classroom - article with great animal photos by R.W. Hiestand; Bankers Join Forest Converts - realization that florests are 'flood insurance' arouses financial interests; American Forest Week - proclamation by President Calvin Coolidge; The Paradise of the Cedars - The Park of the Cedars in Algeria - great photos; Fireproofing the Georgia Woods, by I.F. Eldridge; Centerfold contains 8 amazing photos of unique trees; Chief Forester Greeley's Retirement; The Chinese Elm - a Valuable Tree; The Raindrop Family - a story for children; Shirley W. Allen Takes Up New Work; Snapshots of European Forests by an American Forester - Part IV - Finnish Forestry Pays, by John D. Guthrie - with photos; Boy Foresters Serve Denver - by David W. Thomas; Nice illustrated ad for the American KampKook gas range for the outdoor chef; A nice assortment of vintage ads; Pacific Pumpers ad on back cover. Centerfold loose but present. Cover holding by one staple. Somewhat above-average wear. Pencil markings to back cover. Magazine
Pages 707-768. Features: The Christmas Fir is Born - by Henry Clepper; Meeting the Red Menace (Forest Fire) - Uncle Sam's Policy of Trying to Save Pennies on Forest Fires is the Weak Link in National Forest Protection - article with great photos by Col. William B. Greeley; Evergreens of the Old Testament - by Adelaide Borah; Taming the Christmas Tree - the growing of evergreens for the Yule-tide season enters the ranks of new American industries - article with photos by Ovid M. Butler; Southern Cypress - article by Lysle Tomerlin with photos; Rusty and Ben (two bears) - story with photos by Stephen Doering; Keeping Christmas Green - the use of Holly and other plants to make wreaths; The Sport of Kings - Falconry - article with photos by Mabel Gillespie; Cutting Today's Forests to use in Coal Mines - article with nice photos by Thomas H. Wittkorn; The Tree That Would Not Die - the bald cypress beside the Monastery walls at St. Benedict's College in Indiana; Making better use of trees - article by C.L. Hamilton with amazing photos at the Wood Conversion Company at Cloquet, Minnesota; Seed Gathering in Minnesota's Pines - Men, Women and Children Comb the Innermost Haunts of America's Last Great Stand of Norway and White Pine for Seed in northern Minnesota - with photo of the Cass Lake Nursery kiln; The Fruit that named a forest - the Manzano apple trees planted at a Spanish mission centuries ago; Nice full-page travel ad for South Africa; Full-page ad by the Southern States Lumber Company features the sale of their 1,400 acre Magnolia Farm in Baldwin County, Alabama; Nice nostalgic ads. Average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Minimal pencil markings to contents. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Timberline Pine - poem by Eunice Skamser; The Plateau of the Thousand Cows - Plateau de Millevache in France - interesting article with photos illustrating the reclamation of 400,000 acres of worn-out grazing land; Redwoods - Ever-living memorials - article by J.D. Grant with fantastic photos; The Fugitive Canoe - by Olaus J. Murie; Southern Forestry Project Expands; Pymatuning - Penn's Wilderness - photo-illustrated article by George Miksch Sutton; The First-born of Alaskan Forests - How the Russian ship "Phoenix" was hewn from the Sylvan monarchs of Resurrection Bay - it was the first ship built on the Northwestern Coast of America - photo-illustrated article by H.J. Lutz; August George Becker - the Cabinet-Maker of Clermont - photo-illustrated article by Charles R. Keyes; Dressing up wayside (roadside) refreshment stands - article by Clare Winger with photos of "The Bee Hive" owned by George A. Parker of Hoosick Falls, New York, and "Green Gable Tavern" owned by James B. Stoughton, of Boswell, PA; Photo-illustrated article on fishing by Harry Botsford; Ariel - by Will Simmons; Bobby - the story of a young Robin - photo illustrated by Hugh and Elin Spencer; The Sovereign Cypress; Their Uninvited Guest - Constance Mainwaring writes of her family's adventure - with photos; The Planting of Trees and Forests; Editorial - Miscontrolling the Mississippi; Are Gray Squirrels Carnivorous? - photo-illustrated article by R.S. Maddox, State Forester of Tennessee; and more - including great photo ads. Pacific Pumpers ad on back cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Faint mark across front cover (see photo). Name written atop Table of Contents. Relatively minor portions of moisture-related damage to top edge of last few pages. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
19392080502106502214Dainippon Agricultural Society 1939. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Dainippon Agricultural Society paperback
54DGo.J. Farbige Lithographie. Bildformat: 67 x 91 cm.
77977Vevey, Imprimerie et Librairie de Loertscher et Fils 1830, 215x135mm, 328pages, broché. Couvertures d’rigine, non rogné.Rousseurs marginales. Bande de papier collée au dos. Bon état.
190074812Washington D.C.: United State Geological Survey 1900. First edition. Text volume: Large quarto 8 x 11 1/2 inches. 711 1 III-XI 1 pp. plus numerous full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt logo of USGS on front. Minor spine extremity wear and bookplate else a very good copy. Atlas: 33 of the 39 folding chromolithographed maps listed but does include the folding map listed as Plate 1 of the text volume; it also includes 15 more color folding maps for the Twenty-first Annual Report but these are from Parts I II II IV & VII. The 7 maps from Part VII are of Texas and they are all that is called for in the list of maps for Part VII. The map from Part II is a very large monochrome map of Alaska.Part V of this annual report is concerned with the forest reserves in the three states along the west coast and the state of Wyoming. The Big Tress and Yosemite maps are present. Perhaps a meaningful assemblage as the bookplate is of a Dr. Alice G. Duden. United State Geological Survey hardcover
191058819Tokyo Japan: Bureau of Forestry Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce 農林çœå±±æž—å±€ 1910. 8vo. 6 127 3 pp. With 12 collotype photo plates all preserving original tissue guards. Dark green silk publisher’s cloth gilt lettering stamped on front cover minor ink stain to back cover minor warping to boards edgewear at corners minor rubbing still VG copy. First edition of this scarce work examining forest zones forestry practices and lumber and wood available in Japanese forests and tree farms at the end of the Meiji Era. In addition to discussion of forestry resources and the practices for Imperial Public and Private forests there are also discussions of conservation for certain forests either for aesthetic reasons or in maintaining environmental diversity and fish stocks. The collotype photographs are particularly well done and are reminiscent of the images produced by Kazumasa Ogawa 1860-1929 a pioneer in Japanese photography and photomechanical printing who had introduced collotype printing to Japan in the 1890s. Bureau of Forestry, Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce, 農林çœå±±æž—å±€, hardcover
19362090502124701072Dainippon Forestry Association 1936. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Dainippon Forestry Association paperback
1844417071Breslau u. Oppeln, Graß, Barth u. Comp. 1844. Gr.-8°. M. Stahlst.-Portr., 1 Faks. u. 1 gef. Tab. XII, 320 S. Mod. marmor. Ppbd. m. goldgepr. Rtit. Teils etwas stockfl. Einige S. wasserrandig. Ohne d. Ansicht d. Wohnhauses (diese war a.d. OU.).
1957122190Hamburg/Münster, 1957-84. OLwd. 1966/67 als Doppelbd.
1842417070Berlin, Nicolai'sche Buchh. 1842. M. 4 lith. Taf. u. mehr. Textholzschn. XX, 477 S. Hlwdbd. m. mont. OU.-Titel. Einbd. etwas fleckig. M. mehr. St. Gebräunt u. teils etwas stockfl.
19672080402107100857Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association 1967. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association paperback
19722080402107100828Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association paperback
19732080402107100856Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association paperback
19742080402107100855Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association paperback
19692080402107100845Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association paperback
1818171815Leipzig u. Berlin, Kummer, 1818. M. 2 gest. Taf. OKart. mit lith. Einbandillustrationen. Etwas beschabt, bestoßen u. fleckig. Rücken teilw. beschäd. bzw. m. Sign. St. od. Name a. Tit. Gebräunt, teils braunfl.
1820171817Leipzig u. Berlin, Kummer, 1820. M. 1 gest. Taf. OKart. mit lith. Einbandillustrationen. Etwas beschabt, bestoßen u. fleckig. Rücken teilw. beschäd. St. od. Name a. Tit. Gebräunt, teils braunfl.
