- Quarto, 11-3/8 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Purple cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a color pictorial violet dust wrapper. There is a tiny spot of rubbing to the bottom right corner of the jacket's front panel. 266 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout. Near fine. First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- 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. View More...
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. View More...
- 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 Notes on the Life of the ... View More...
- 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 the so... View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
- 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. View More...
- 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. View More...
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. View More...
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... View More...
- 49 words typed on a sheet of New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University / Cornell University Agricultural Research Station letterhead, 10-1/2 inches high by 8 inches wide, with the address and Department of Entomology printed at the top. Dated July 23, 1932. Signed Glenn W. Herrick. The bottom right corner of the letter is bumped. Folded 3 times for mailing. Very good. Herrick writes to a correspondent in Poughkeepsie, New York: I can say to you that the small beetles you sent me were not the black vine weevil. This vine weevil is five or six times as large and wellknown to ... View More...
New Bedford: E. Anthony & Sons Incorp., Printers, 1911.. 1911.. Good. - Octavo, softcovers bound in printed gray wraps. The rear joint is split along its top half and the rear cover is in danger of becoming detached. 137 pages. The pages are slightly darkened and there is a red ink mark to the foreedge of the book. The rear endpaper is diagonally creased and the front edges of a few leaves are slightly creased. There is a minor chip to the bottom edge of the first 2 leaves. Good.
Very good. - A 2 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide slip of paper signed by William Temple Hornaday. The inscription reads: "To my good Friend, Earl N. Hale, with the regards of W.T. Hornaday". The inscription may be in the hand of the recipient. There are faint glue stains to the corners of the verso, else near fine. William Temple Hornaday was a zoologist and taxidermist. He was the first director of the Bronx Zoo and was a pioneer in wildlife conservation. Earl N. Hale was a young autograph collector. View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream-colored wraps. 20 pages. 2 black-and-white illustrations on 1 plate. Fine. Bulletin No. 7 of the Research and Records Committee, John Burroughs Natural History Society. January 1964. View More...
London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.. 1911.. Good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a vignette of a bird in gilt on the front cover. The head and tail of the soiled and darkened spine are chipped. xxii & 363 pages, with profuse textual illustrations, 8 black & white plates, and 8 brightly colored plates. The front hinge is cracked and there is a previous owner's inscription penned on the front endpaper. The leaves are slightly darkened. Good only. View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial tan wraps with an illustration in black by Ernest Thompson on the front cover. The edges of the front cover are slightly darkened & its corners are very lightly creased. Pages [61]-215. Illustrated in black & white with tables & photographic illustrations and with a folding map bound in at the rear. The corners of the folding map are creased. Very good. Roosevelt Wildlife Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 2. October, 1939. This is the bulletin of the New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y., Samuel N. Spring, Dean. It is published by the college's Ro... View More...
Washington, DC: The American Tree Association, 1927.. 1927.. Very good. - Octavo, soft cover bound in printed green wraps with a decorative border & vignette in dark green. There is some very light staining to the wraps & the bottom corner of the front wrap is lightly creased. 123 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. Very good. View More...
Oxford: (Oxford University Press, 1965).. 1965).. Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth. viii & 329 pages plus colophon. 7 black-and- white plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous black-and-white full- page & textual diagrams. The fore-edge is very lightly foxed & the top corners of the first few leaves are lightly bumped. Very good. View More...
[Copenhagen, Denmark]: Fremads Rejseboger, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in a pictorial dust wrapper. There is minor soiling & chipping to the dust jacket with a tear to the top edge of its rear panel & a small piece out. 128 pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Very good.
This title in Fremad's travel and natural history book series is about the bird population of Svalbard in the Arctic. The text is in Danish. Dust jacket present. View More...
