Category: Natural History

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON / THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. June 16 and 17, 1983. Sale Number 5054. (Catalog)

By: (Audubon, John James)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY: Sotheby's, 1983. : 1983.

Seller ID: 30388

Condition: Fine

NY: Sotheby's, 1983.. 1983.. Fine. - Quarto, pictorial wraps. 325 pp. Profusely illustrated in B&W & color. Near fine.

Catalogue of 435 bird prints from Audubon's masterpiece.
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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM OF POLYNESIAN ETHNOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY. VOL. IV. - NO. 3. DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR 1908

By: (Bishop Museum)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Honolulu, H.I.: Bishop Museum Press, 1909. : 1909.

Seller ID: 22248

Condition: Good

Honolulu, H.I.: Bishop Museum Press, 1909.. 1909.. Good. - Octavo, softcovers bound in printed light green wraps. The covers are slightly soiled with some minor creases to the corners and darkened edges. There is a short tear to the bottom edge of the front cover. 47 pages, with 5 full-page and several textual photographic illustrations, and 2 charts, including one folding. There is some slight damage and staining to the bottom edge of a very few pages. A good partially unopened copy. Included in this report: "Walled Fish Traps of Pearl Harbor" by John F.G. Stokes (pp.23-36) and "...
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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM OF POLYNESIAN ETHNOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY. VOL. VI - NO. I. DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR 1913

By: (Bishop Museum)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Honolulu, H.I.: Bishop Museum Press, 1914. : 1914.

Seller ID: 22246

Condition: Very good

Honolulu, H.I.: Bishop Museum Press, 1914.. 1914.. Very good. - Octavo, softcovers bound in printed light brown wraps. The covers are slightly soiled with some minor creases to the corners and a tiny paper remnant at the lower inner edge of the front cover. 39 pages, with 8 pages of photographic illustrations. A very good unopened copy.
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THE HAUNTERS OF THE SILENCES: A Book of Animal Life

By: (Bull, Charles Livingston). Roberts, Charles G. D

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, MA: L. C. Page & Company, 1907. : 1907.

Seller ID: 30406

Condition: Good

Boston, MA: L. C. Page & Company, 1907.. 1907.. Good. - Octavo, pictorial cloth titled in gilt with a gilt vignette on the spine & an image of a polar bear in white, cream & gilt on the front cover. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with the spine slightly faded & its head lightly chipped & frayed. xiv & pages 3-316 plus 10-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull with black-and white vignettes, 44 black-and-white plates, & 4 color plates with printed tissue guards, including a frontispiece.The rear hinge is cracked & the front hinge is just starting. The top 2 inc...
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APES, ANGELS, & VICTORIANS: The Story of Darwin, Huxley, and Evolution. With a New Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley

By: (Darwin, Charles; Huxley, Thomas). Irvine, William

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Time Incorporated, (1963). : (1963).

Seller ID: 16173

Condition: Fine

New York: Time Incorporated, (1963).. (1963).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wraps. The spine is very slightly darkened. xx, [4] leaves, 494 & [2] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine.
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FABRE'S BOOK OF INSECTS. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. Illustrated by E. J. Detmold

By: (Detmold, E. J.). (Fabre). Stawell, Mrs. Rodolph

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1939). : (1939).

Seller ID: 21502

Condition: Good

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1939).. (1939).. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 10-1/4 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], titled in green within a gilt panel & with decorations in gilt on the front cover. The binding is rubbed. The spine is darkened with its head & tail chipped & fraying to the head. The titling & decorations on the spine are almost completely faded. viii, [iv] & 271 pages. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates by Detmold, including a frontispiece. The pastedowns & endpapers are darkened. Good.
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BIRDS IN TOWN & VILLAGE

By: (Detmold, E.J.). Hudson, W. H

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1920). : (1920).

Seller ID: 16721

Condition: Fair

NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1920).. (1920).. Fair. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine with the title and a vignette of a bird stamped in gilt on the front cover. There is dampstaining to front edges of the covers and a small white stain to the rear cover. The spine is faded and stained. ix, [iii] & 323 pages, illustrated with a color frontispiece & 7 color plates by E. J. Detmold. The front hinge is cracked opposite the frontispiece. There is evidence of slight early worming to the front margins of pages 145-174, not affecting the text. There is some scattered foxing to the prel...
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THE STREAM

By: (Hines, Bob). Murphy, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1971). : (1971).

Seller ID: 15806

Condition: Fine

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1971).. (1971).. Fine. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly chipped & its spine is faded & rubbed with a small black stain. Half-title, title, [3] leaves & 205 pages.Illustrated with black-and-white plates by Bob Hines. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

Second printing.

A fictionalized account of the destruction of a natural habitat Dust jacket present.
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EARLY HERBALS FROM THE LIBRARY OF DR. F. W. T. HUNGER VOORSCHOTEN. To be sold by auction November 7,1951

By: (Hunger, Dr. F. W. T.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, International Antiquariaat, 1951. : 1951.

Seller ID: 31760

Condition: Good

Amsterdam, International Antiquariaat, 1951.. 1951.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light tan wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped with the spine & extremities darkened and the head and tail of the spine chipped. There is a small, light stain to the rear wrap. 52 pages. Illustrated in black & white with a frontispiece portrait & numerous facsimiles. Part of the surface of the verso of the frontispiece has been rubbed away. The top page corners are lightly bumped. Good. Dr. F. W. T. Hunger was a historian of the botanical sciences,specializing in classical and sixteenth-century h...
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CACHE LAKE COUNTRY: Life in the North Woods

By: (Kane, Henry B.). Rowlands, John J

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1947). : (1947).

Seller ID: 23524

Condition: Very good

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1947).. (1947).. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt with vignettes in gilt & green on the front cover & spine in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with a small, light stain to the bottom inner corner of the front cover. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed, chipped & soiled with several small pieces out & with an erasure on the front panel. There is an owner's address stamp on the rear fold. 272 pages. Full-page illustrations, head- & tail- pieces and numerous vignettes in black & white by Henry B. Kane. The same owner's address st...
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FLOWERS OF TEN CENTURIES: Catalogue of an Exhibition April 28 to July 26 / September 15-November 15

By: (Marquand, Eleanor C.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1947. : 1947.

Seller ID: 6162

Condition: Very good

NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1947.. 1947.. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. Lightly soiled with the spine darkened. 70 pp. Illustrated with B&W plates. Very good.
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HEART OF THE RAINCOAST: A Life Story

By: (Matthiessen, Peter). Morton, Alexandra; Proctor, Billy

Price: $50.00

Publisher: (Victoria, BC, Canada): Horsdal & Schubart, (1998). : (1998).

Seller ID: 26605

Condition: Fine

(Victoria, BC, Canada): Horsdal & Schubart, (1998).. (1998).. Fine. INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDRA MORTON AND BILLY PROCTOR TO PETER MATTHIESSEN - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. xiii & 208 pages. Black-and- white photographic illustrations by Alexandra Morton. Near fine.

Inscribed to Peter Matthiessen and signed by Alexandra Morton and Billy Proctor on the title page. The story of Billy Proctor, a Canadian who spent his life fishing, handlogging, repairing boats, clam digging and beachcombing, and who came to realize that the Pacific coast he loved was dying.
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CATALOGUE OF THE ENTRIES FOR THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR of the New York State Agricultural Society, to be Held at Albany, September 10 to 16, 1885

By: (New York State Agricultural Society)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Albany, NY: Printing House of Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, 1885. : 1885.

Seller ID: 1325

Condition: Good

Albany, NY: Printing House of Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, 1885.. 1885.. Good. - Octavo, printed tan wraps. There is a large piece out of the upper half of the spine & the wraps are soiled & stained with pieces out. The rear wrap is nearly detached & there is an owner's pencil name on the front wrap. 218 pp. with errata slip bound in. There are scattered pencil notations, & staining to the inside rear wrap & the last few leaves. Page 189 is torn nearly in half and there is a tear in 1 page of the index. Good working copy. The catalogue includes cattle, horses and other livestock, farm imple...
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THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: Illustrated Catalogue of an Exhibition of Manuscript Illuminations, Book Illustrations, Drawings, Cylinder Seals, and Bindings

By: (Pierpont Morgan Library)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library, [1940]. : [1940].

Seller ID: 23219

Condition: Very good

NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library, [1940].. [1940].. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. Very lightly soiled with a short tear. 70 pp. Illustrated with B&W plates. Very good.

Printed at the Plantin Press.
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THE ROADMENDER

By: (Taylor, Will F.). Fairless, Michael [Barber, Margaret Fairless]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1922. : 1922.

Seller ID: 26827

Condition: Good

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1922.. 1922.. Good. - Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], dark green cloth with a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with a stain to the vignette. ix, [iii] & 121 pages. 20 black-and- white photographic illustrations by Will F. Taylor tipped onto gray stock. The pages are somewhat rippled & the versos of the pages of gray stock are darkened. The rear endpaper is darkened & there is offsetting to the front endpaper from the bookplate on the front pastedown. Good. Mounted on the front pastedown is the bookplat...
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WALDEN REVISITED: A Centennial Tribute to Henry David Thoreau

By: (Thoreau, Henry David). Whicher, George F

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL: Packard and Company, (1945). : (1945).

Seller ID: 904

Condition: Good

Chicago, IL: Packard and Company, (1945).. (1945).. Good. - 8vo, light gray cloth (lightly bumped; lightly spotted & soiled; stain to tail of spine & adjoining corners of covers) titled in dark green on spine with printed dark green label mounted on front cover. 93 pp. (staining to bottom inside corners of endpapers, prelims & last 10 pages of text, with light staining to remaining text pages; offsetting to front endpaper with owner's ink name & date). Good. "Nothing could be more opposite to the totalitarian doctrines of our times than the transcendentalist's belief in the dignity of man ...
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ALEXANDER WILSON: NATURALIST AND PIONEER. A Biography

By: (Wilson, Alexander). Cantwell, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1961). : (1961).

Seller ID: 3120

Condition: Good

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1961).. (1961).. Good. - Quarto, green cloth titled in gilt within black rectangles on front cover & spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are bumped with rubbing & slight fraying along the bottom edges. There is a tiny hole in the cloth of the rear cover. The head & tail of the spine are chipped & frayed. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with a number of pieces out. 318 & [1] pages. Illustrated with 8 color plates, 16 full-page black-and- white illustrations & black-and-white drawings by Robert Ball. There is occasional l...
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BIRDS OF THE CARIBBEAN

By: Allen, Robert Porter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY: The Viking Press, (1961). : (1961).

Seller ID: 328

Condition: Very good

NY: The Viking Press, (1961).. (1961).. Very good. - 4to, light green cloth (lightly bumped; extremities slightly faded; scoremark to rear cover) titled in gilt with vignettes of birds stamped in gilt on front cover, in dw (rubbed & lightly chipped; stain to front panel; scoremark to rear panel; price-clipped). 256 pp. with text printed on variously colored stocks. Profuse color illustrations, many full-page. Fine internally.

First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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THE GENUS EPIDENDRUM IN THE UNITED STATES AND MIDDLE AMERICA.

By: Ames, Oakes; Hubbard, F. Tracy; Schweinfurth, Charles.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Botanical Museum, [1976 ]. : [1976 ].

Seller ID: 94827

Condition: Good

- Octavo, softcover bound in cream-colored wraps. The binding is lightly soiled & bumped with the spine & extremities darkened. xi & 233 pages plus colophon. The top edge & fore-edge are foxed with occasional foxing elsewhere in the volume. Good. Originally published by Harvard's Botanical Museum in 1936. Reprinted at the Harvard University Printing Office in 1976.
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THE SHARP-SHINNED HAWK.

By: Audubon, John James; et al.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: (New York): National Audubon Society, circa [1940s]. : [1940s].

Seller ID: 95237

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, softcover. A sheet of paper is folded once to form 4 pages of text, each 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Laid in are 2 plates, one a black-and-white line drawing of 2 sharp-shinned hawks sitting on a tree branch with a countryside view in the background & the other a version of the same picture by Bruce Horsfall in color. The left-hand bottom corners of the plates are very slightly creased. Very good. National Audubon Society Leaflet No. 37.
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Category: Natural History