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The Witchery of Wasps by Edward G. Reinhard - 1929

by Edward G. Reinhard

The Witchery of Wasps by Edward G. Reinhard - 1929

The Witchery of Wasps

by Edward G. Reinhard

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The Sheep and Its Skin

The Sheep and Its Skin

by Alfred Seymour-Jones

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The Leather Trades Review, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Some edgewear, corners torn from title page, pages 236 & 238, but not affecting text or plates. In all other respects a solid copy. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 5530. .
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A naturalists wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A narrative of travel and exploration from...

A naturalists wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883

by Forbes, Henry O

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Harper & Brothers. New York. 1885. 8vo. xix, (1), 536, 4pp adverts. Coloured frontispiece of Mrs Forbes Honey Eater with tissue guard, 14 plates, numerous text illustrations including 1 map, 3 coloured folding maps, I coloured map, 1 monochrome map. Original pictorial cloth, gilt and black, slight wear to head of spine. Uniformly toned, a tight crisp copy. Orientalia booksellers plate, New York to rep. A nice copy.
Henry O Forbes (1851-1932) Scottish explorer, zoologist and botanist. Travels and observations in The Cocos-Keeling Islands, Java, Sumatra, Moluccas and Timor-Laut, Buru, Timor etc
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Thoughts on Animalcules: or, a Glimpse of the Invisible World Revealed by the Microscope
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Thoughts on Animalcules: or, a Glimpse of the Invisible World Revealed by the Microscope

by Mantell, Gideon Algernon

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London: John Murray, 1850. New edition. Small square octavo, pp xvi, 144, (4). + publisher's catalogue 8 pages, with 12 lithographed plates, delicately hand-coloured, all edges gilt, very clean internally, a contemporary signature on the front endpaper [Charles H. Hingeston, 1852], original blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover, slightly faded, a little worn at the corners, very neatly re-backed with a modern cloth spine, unlettered. Still a very pleasing copy of a work which is difficult to find in good condition. [In many ways a ground-breaking work, as was much of Mantell's opus. It alerted the Victorians to an aspect of natural history which had previously largely escaped them, and was a remarkable precursor to the germ theory.]. Cloth. Very Good.
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The Voice of the Coyote
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The Voice of the Coyote

by J. Frank Dobie

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Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1950. 6th printing, Inscribed by Author with drawing of Pima symbol of coyote track. Inscription reads "Dear Billie Wolfe - I wouldn't want to be a coyote, there are too many of the Damned human race. If I were a coyote trotting around the south plains I would stop under your window and sing you a coyote song - Frank Dobie 1958". Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and  Economical Route for...
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Volume VIII

by Baird, Spencer F.

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Washington DC: Beverley Tucker. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner name (Ralph S. Palmer) stamped on . front pastedown endpaper, pages toned, some light scattered foxing and a . few smudges.. 1857. Hardcover. Volume VIII of this multi-volume survey made for the US Secretary of War in 1853-56 to plan a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean is concerned with mammals found on some of the proposed routes. Red cloth binding titled in gilt on spine. Many wood-cut engravings in the text and engraved plates detailing skulls, teeth, and other anatomical details of various mammalian species. xlviii, 757pp + 43 engraved plates. Bound in circa 20th century red reinforced cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Index of common names, index of scientific names. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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A Popular History of British Crustacea; containing A Familiar Account of their Classification and...
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A Popular History of British Crustacea; containing A Familiar Account of their Classification and Habits

by Adam White

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London : Lovell Reeve, 1857 A very good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 20 hand coloured plates by G B Sowerby. This volume is part of Lovell Reeve's Popular Natural History series designed for young people and those starting out to study the natural world. The binding has gilt decoration and titles to the spine and a gilt crab design to the front board, with blind stamped decoration to both boards. Internally a list of Reeve's publications has been inserted before the front endpaper. With half title, frontispiece, title page, text with 19 further plates, and publisher's advert at the rear. The cloth binding has been rebacked, relaying the original spine, so it is sound and tight. The cloth has some fading particularly to the spine but is clean with a bright gilt crab. There is an armorial bookplate of James Cowan to the front pastedown which is a little grubby.The contents are in very good clean condition. The rear endpaper has a slight fold. Light toning to page edges.… Read More
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The Frozen Deep
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The Frozen Deep

by Collins, Wilkie

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THE FROZEN DEEP BY WILKIE COLLINS, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. USED. GOOD- CONDITION Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. Tight binding, bright pages. There is a liquid spill on a couple of pages as shown in our photos.
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Birdman Of Alcatraz
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Birdman Of Alcatraz

by Gaddis, Thomas E.

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RARE SIGNED STATED FIRST EDITION: Gaddis, Thomas E.: Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud .1955 Random House 1st. Ed. w/ exlib replacement 1st Ed. DJ is an original HARVEY GABOR White/black jail bars/ bird inset dust jacket protected by a mylar wrap. Unclipped Front flap states 9/55. Used. Good-/Good condition original dust jacket. Front cover states: "The fantastic true story of the prisoner with the longest record of solitary confinement in the United States – who became a leading authority on birds." The original source material for the gripping American film starring Burt Lancaster. Quite the find. Will ship from Oregon.
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A New Work of Animals
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A New Work of Animals: Principally Designed From the Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus

by Samuel Howitt

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Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studiesComplete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of platesPlate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispieceSamuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher, famous for his scenes with animals, hunting, horse-racing, sporting and landscapes. He is best known for his illustrations to Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807). Other works include Thoughts on Hunting (1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (1803), British Field Sports (1807); The Angler's Manual (1808), Groups of Animals (1811), The British Sportsman (1812) and Foreign Field Sports (1819).Blue buckram spine, marble boards bumped and darkened, new endpapers, tissue guards, all plates with varying degrees of spotting and foxing, mostly outside the image, one with 10cm tear within image, first 25 plates with small… Read More
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A Description of above Three Hundred Animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects....
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London: Wilson and Spence and R. Christopher & T. Jennett, 1803. 1803 EARLY ENGLISH CHILDREN'S NATURAL HISTORY WITH 95 COPPER PLATES CONTAINING 300 ANIMALS PICTURED AFTER ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 leather binding with gilt rules and marble paper covered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt red leather label, new endpapers, 210 pp, 300 animals illustrated on 95 copper plates, including folding plate of whaling in Greenland (reinforced with paper backing). Browning to title page and page edges, overall good+ in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS BOREMAN (1730–1743) was one of the earliest English children's book publishers particularly dealing with animals. His bookshops were located around London. Boreman published along with Richard Ware and Thomas Game from the 1730s. His Three Hundred Animals was the first, published ca 1730 and written for children. He published approximately a dozen titles. Many of his books were based on… Read More
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

by Engle, Joanna

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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series

by Kipling, Rudyard

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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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The Polynesian Triangle

The Polynesian Triangle

by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert

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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)

by Berenstain, Stan and Jan

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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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On Pourtalesia. A Genus of Echinoidea
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On Pourtalesia. A Genus of Echinoidea

by Loven, Sven

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Stockholm: Kongl. Boktryckeriet, 1883. First edition. 1883 MONOGRAPH ON DEEP SEA URCHINS BY NOTED SWEDISH MARINE BIOLOGIST--ILLUSTRATED WITH 21 VERY FINE LITHOGRAPHS. 12 inches tall folio hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, green cloth spine with paper title label, institutional handstamps bottom of title page, contemporary ink signature top of front paste-down, 95 pp, many figures in text, 21 fine lithographed plates; wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. SVEN LUDVIG LOVEN (1809 - 1895) was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist. The Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences at both Kristineberg and Tjärnö are named in his honor. He was first Keeper then Director of the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. He was also Professor of Natural History at Stockholm University. He was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1881 and a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1885. The World Register of Marine Species… Read More
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A Naturalist in the Guianas
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A Naturalist in the Guianas

by Andre, Eugene

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of...

Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People

by Authors: Mark Owens; Delia Owens; Alexandra Fuller (foreward)

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2006. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Inscribed & signed by both authors on the title page. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Text unmarked. Jacket clean and bright. Laid-in tri-fold pamphlet from the Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxvi + 230 pages. Crossing stick bridges over swollen rivers and battling swarms of tsetse flies, Mark and Delia Owens found their way into one of the most startlingly beautiful, wild places on earth, the northern Luangwa Valley in Zambia. As they were setting up camp to launch their lion research, gunfire echoed off the cliffs nearby. Gangs of ivory poachers were not only shooting the elephants but also virtually enslaving local villagers. Against unimaginable odds, Mark and Delia stopped the poaching by helping the villagers find other work, start small businesses, and improve their health care and education. Living with wild creatures all around (lions sleeping… Read More
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A Lot of Insects: Entomology in a Suburban Garden
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A Lot of Insects: Entomology in a Suburban Garden

by Frank E Lutz

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Green cloth board covers with green and yellow spine. Edge wear and corner bumps, no dust jacket. Previous owners stamps on inside covers. Soiling on page edges. Clean, tight pages and binding. Published by The Cornwall Press in 1941. First Edition/First Printing. Insects. Measures 8.5x5.75 with 304 pages. Good
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Last Tales

Last Tales

by Dinesen, Isak

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Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands,...
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France

by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)

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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More
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