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FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO 1921. Ontario Department of Agriculture.

By: Criddle, Norman; McLaine, L. S.; Ross, W. A.; Robinson, W.; et al.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada: Printed by Clarkson W. James, 1922.: 1922.

Seller ID: 95877

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. There is a piece out of the head of the spine with a tiny chip to the tail. 71 pages. Illustrated with tables & textual illustrations in black & white. Very good.

Printed by Order of The Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Among the contents of this report are "The Western Wheat-Stem Sawfly in Canada" by Norman Criddle; "The Spread of the European Corn Borer in Southern Ontario" by L. S. McLaine; and "Notes on the Plum Spider Mite or European Red Mite" by W. A. Ross and W. Robinson.
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BIRDS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY NEW YORK.

By: Deed, Robert F.; editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: West Nyack, NY: The Rockland County Audubon Society, 1949.: 1949.

Seller ID: 95327

Condition: Good

- Octavo, softcover bound in printed green wraps. There is some light staining to the rear wrap. 30 & [ 2] pages. There are a few small stains to pages 14 & 15. Good. There is a brief listing of each bird with the date[s] when it was observed and by whom.
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CONRAD GESNER, PHYSICIAN, SCHOLAR, SCIENTIST 1516-1565: A quatercentenary exhibit.

By: Durling, Richard J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: U.S Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965.: 1965.

Seller ID: 35506

Condition: Good

- Octavo, softcover bound in cream-colored wrappers illustrated in black & white. The edges of the wraps are darkened & the top corner of the rear wrap is creased. [iv] & 20 pages, including 4 full-page illustrations in black & white. The contents are very good. Good.

Catalog, published by the Public Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, for an exhibition marking the quatercentenary of Conrad Gesner held in November and December 1965 at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. The introduction to the catalog is by Richard J. Durling.

Conrad G...
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WILD GARDENS OF NEW ENGLAND

By: Eaton, Walter Prichard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, MA: W. A. Wilde Company, (1936).: (1936).

Seller ID: 9098

Condition: Good

Boston, MA: W. A. Wilde Company, (1936).. (1936).. Good. - Small octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The titling on the spine is faded. There are some tiny white marks & a dent to the front cover. The dust jacket is chipped & soiled with a long tear to the upper half of its spine & a piece out of the tail. 124 pages, There is light offsetting to the pastedowns & endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece. Good in a fair dust wrapper.

First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES.

By: Edwards, Everett E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1967.: 1967.

Seller ID: 5812

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, pebbled brown cloth. 307 pp. Near fine.

United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication no. 84.

Reprint of the original edition published by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1930.
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BIRDS OF MADISON COUNTY NEW YORK. Presented as a Thesis for the Degree of Master of Science, Colgate University, Nineteen Hundred One.

By: Embody, George Charles.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hamilton, NY: Colgate University, 1901.: 1901.

Seller ID: 95050

Condition: Good

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GEORGE CHARLES EMBODY - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The binding is darkened and lightly soiled, rubbed & chipped. There is a small stain to the rear wrap. 36 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece. There is a light vertical crease to the pamphlet where it has been folded. Good. First edition. inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper: "Compliments of G.C. Embody". Bulletin of the Department of Geology and Natural History, Colgate University. George Charles Embody [1876-1939] was best known for his research but ...
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SEED ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF TEMPERATE AND BOREAL ZONE FOREST TREES

By: Farmer, Robert E., Jr

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Delray Beach, Florida: St. Lucie Press, (1997).: (1997).

Seller ID: 32000

ISBN: 1574440543

Condition: Very good

Delray Beach, Florida: St. Lucie Press, (1997).. (1997).. Very good. INSCRIBED TO PETER MATTHIESSEN AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ROB FARMER, WITH HIS OWN FAMILY TREE - Quarto, 10-1/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Printed light green & gray boards, titled in green, black & white. The corners of the covers as well as head and tail of the spine and top edge are bumped xiii, [i] & 253 pages with textual illustrations of charts. Very good.

First edition.

Inscribed to Peter Matthiessen by the author Rob Farmer on the front endpaper. Beneath the inscription, Farmer has also penned his own famil...
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THE WORLD OF FOSSILS

By: Fenton, Carroll Lane

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1933.: 1933.

Seller ID: 13880

Condition: Very good

New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1933.. 1933.. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt. The covers are very lightly rubbed, bumped & soiled & the spine is faded. x, [1] leaf & 183] pages. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by the author. Very good.

First edition. First Edition.
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SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO 1948. (Cover title).

By: Fournier, O;; Webber, R. G.; Pond, D. D.; et al.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto: printed by the Printer to the King, 1949.: 1949.

Seller ID: 95212

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, softcover bound in printed light tan wraps. The bottom edges of the wraps are slightly darkened. There are a few tiny marks to the front wrap & its corners are lightly creased. 95 pages. Illustrated in black & white with tables, diagrams & a map. The bottom corners of a few pages are lightly creased. Very good.

Published by Authority of Honourable Thomas L. Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture.
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THE CLASS BOOK OF NATURE; Comprising Lessons on The Universe, The Three Kingdoms of Nature, and the Form and Structure of the Human Body. With Questions and Numerous Engravings. Fourteenth Edition

By: Frost, J.; editor

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hartford: Wm. Jas. Hamersley, 1851.: 1851.

Seller ID: 17049

Condition: Very good

Hartford: Wm. Jas. Hamersley, 1851.. 1851.. Very good. - Small octavo, original printed brown boards with a gilt-lettered black leather spine. The boards are rubbed, bumped & soiled with some light staining. The head & tail of the spine are chipped & the joints are rubbed with short splits at the head of the spine. 283 pages. Numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces. The pastedowns & endpapers are foxed with a contemporary owner's ink name on the front endpaper. For the most part, the contents are unusually clean & bright. Very good.
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FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO 1924. Ontario Department of Agriculture.

By: Gibson, Arthur; Caesar, L.; Hudson, H. F.; Wood, A. A.; et al.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada: Printed by Clarkson W. James, 1925.: 1925.

Seller ID: 96073

Condition: Fair

- Octavo, softcover. There is a handwritten title on the spine. 108 pages. Illustrated with tables & a page of black-and-white illustrations. The edges of the front wrapper are darkened & chipped. The edges of the last page are darkened & its bottom corner is creased. The bottom corners of the remaining pages are lightly creased. Good working copy. Among the contents of this issue are "Notes on the Occurrence of the Lesser Grapevine Flea-Beetle in Canada" by Arthur Gibson; "Mortality of the Larvae of the European Corn-Borer in the Early Instars in 1924" by L. Caesar; and "...
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FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO 1911.

By: Gibson, Arthur; Hewitt, C. Gordon; Criddle, N.; et al.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada: The Ontario Department of Agriculture, 1912.: 1912.

Seller ID: 95879

Condition: Good

- Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. There is some darkening & creasing to the wraps with the bottom corner of the front wrap bumped. The spine is creased & there is a piece out of its tail & the adjacent corner of the rear wrap. 114 pages. Illustrated in black & white. The bottom corners of the first four leaves are creased & darkened with some following leaves lightly creased. The top corners of the last few pages are stained. Good.

Printed by Order of The Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Among the contents of this report are illustrated reports on insects of the year from ...
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BRITISH BOTANISTS

By: Gilmour, John

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London: Collins, 1946.: 1946.

Seller ID: 902

Condition: Very good

London: Collins, 1946.. 1946.. Very good. - (Britain in Pictures). Small 4to, olive green paper covered boards titled in white with vignette in white on front board, in dw (very lightly chipped; spine & edges of rear panel darkened). 46 & [2] pp. (1 loose signature). 8 full-page color illustrations & full-page & textual illustrations in B&W. Very good.

Second printing. Dust jacket present.
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THE FLAMINGO'S SMILE: Reflections in Natural History

By: Gould, Stephen Jay

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1985).: (1985).

Seller ID: 27448

ISBN: 0393022285

Condition: Fine

New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1985).. (1985).. Fine. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in a dust wrapper. The top edge of the dust wrapper is lightly creased & there is a tiny mark to its front fold. 476 pages. Black-and-white illustrations & diagrams. Near fine.

First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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THE CARIBOU. Reprinted from the Seventh Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society

By: Grant, Madison

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY: New York Zoological Society, 1902.: 1902.

Seller ID: 1894

Condition: Very good

NY: New York Zoological Society, 1902.. 1902.. Very good. - Octavo, dark green cloth titled in gilt on spine & front cover.The covers are bumped & rubbed. 24 pp., 1 leaf & 19 pages of B&W illustrations. Also with B&W frontispiece, 1 double-page color map & B&W plates. Very good.

First edition.

Inscribed on the front endpaper: "Compliments of the Author".

The illustrations in the rear are of specimens of the antlers of caribou. First Edition.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF FRANK MICHLER CHAPMAN 1864-1945. Presented to the Academy at the Autumn Meeting, 1947.

By: Gregory, William King.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, DC: National Acadmy of Sciences, 1948.: 1948.

Seller ID: 95044

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, softcover bound in printed light tan wraps. The binding is a bit tanned with a small stain to the front wrap. Pages 111-145. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Chapman. Very good. First separate edition. National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Biographical Memoirs, Volume XXV--Fifth Memoir; Frank Michler Chapman [1864-1945] was an American ornithologist and pioneering writer of field guides. A bibliography of Chapman's works is included.
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THE BIRDS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY NEW YORK. From Records Compiled by Mansell S. Crosby.

By: Griscom, Ludlow.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Press of Urner-Barry Company, 1933.: 1933.

Seller ID: 95041

Condition: Good

- Tall octavo [approximately 11 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed light green wraps. The spine & the edges of the wraps are darkened & the front wrap is starting to become unglued from the spine. 184 pages. Illustrated with 3 black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Crosby. The inside front wrap & the verso of the frontispiece are lightly foxed. Good. First edition. Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York, Volume Three, December 1933. First Edition.
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AMERICAN WEASELS.

By: Hall, E. Raymond.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1951.: 1951.

Seller ID: 95048

Condition: Good

- Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The binding is darkened. The corners of the front wrap & the bottom corner of the rear wrap are lightly creased. There are vertical creases to the spine. 466 pages. Illustrated with 40 plates, including a color frontispiece, on 25 leaves. Also with tables & 31 textual illustrations. A few front & rear pages are lightly bumped, else the contents are very good. First edition. University of Kansas Publications. Museum of Natural History: Volume 4, December 27, 1951. First Edition.
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FOREST AND WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC,

By: Hamilton, Lawrence S.; editor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boulder, CO: Westview Press, (1983).: (1983).

Seller ID: 22920

ISBN: 0865315345

Condition: Good

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, (1983).. (1983).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed dark green wraps. The binding is rubbed & lightly bumped. xxiii, 559 & [1] pages. Black-and-white illustrations, tables, maps & diagrams. An owner's name is stamped on the top edge & the fore-edge is slightly soiled. A few page corners are lightly bumped. Very good.

Westview Special Studies in Natural Resources and Energy Management.
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A TREATISE ON SOME OF THE INSECTS INJURIOUS TO VEGETATION. Edited by Charles L. Flint

By: Harris, Thaddeus William

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY: Orange Judd Company, 1890.: 1890.

Seller ID: 8325

Condition: Good

NY: Orange Judd Company, 1890.. 1890.. Good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth (bumped & lightly rubbed) titled in gilt between gilt rules with vignette of beetle in gilt on spine and with decorative borders & vignettes of insects in blind on both covers. xi, [i] & 640 pages (tear to rear endpaper). B&W frontispiece, 7 B&W plates & B&W textual illustrations supervised by Louis Agassiz (1 plate partially colored in by an owner). Ex-library with handwritten numerals on spine, labels mounted on front endpapers, numerals on copyright page, & pocket & small label on rear pastedown. Overall, a good, tight c...
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Category: Natural History