Reprint from PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 60 Article 17. Pages 1-21; one plate; wraps. Deals with the classification of the examined flies which belong to Tachy-trechus. View More...
First edition. Lacks front end paper. Cloth. Woodcuts. The author writes about bird life which takes place at various times throughout the year: January--early song; April--return of the warblers; May--month of full song; June & July--from full to l east song; August and September--the decline of summer; Nests and Eggs; On Taming Birds; Waterfowl; etc. View More...
First American edition. Cloth. Woodcuts. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. Page tops are gilt. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. In the Preface the author notes the three categories of British bird books: To give coloured representa tions; manuals of every sort of bird; personal observations. People like him may have nothing new to tell, but may have something "fresh to say". View More...
3 volume complete set in original wrappers. Some chipping and missing pieces to the spine of volume one and the upper left corner of the cover, 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 inch piece missing from the lower right cover of volume II, in ink on the cover of volume III is signed 'Denis G. Baskin'. "Pacific Coast Avifauna, No. 5, 16, 26". Volume I: 166 pages; indexes [published May 15, 1909, Santa Clara, California]. Volume II: Second Installment to end of 1923. 191 pages; indexes [published September 15, 1924, Berkeley, California]. Volume III: Third Installment to End of 1938. 235 pages; indexes [published Dec... View More...
Original publisher's pale green wrapper. 7" x 10 1/2." Eighty pages, complete. One black and white fold-out map in the back that shows the Kotzebue Sound region and places referred to in Grinnell's field notes. Covers and spine clean and intact overall. Covers and spine have a little bit of chipping at the corners, and fore-edge of covers have slight wear. Upper-right corner of front cover has a former ownership signature in black ink by "Seth B. Benson." Pages are very clean and intact. Pages are unopened. Joseph Grinnell (1877-1939) was an American field biologist and zoologist. He... View More...
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 25, pp. 381-392, pls. 33-36. December 29, 1939. Some unopened pages. Page edges are uncut. The authors comment on the great Oreohelix collector, Henry Hemphill, whose large collection fifty years previously is believed by the authors to contain errors. They made their own collecting trips and provided their own commentary on the specimen. View More...
Original green cloth with black lettering and an illustration of a bee impressed on the front cover. Black lettering on spine. 5 1/2 X 7 1/4 inches. 208 pages which include 6 pages of Index. Copy has 36 black and white illustrations and / or photographs. Copy has an advertising pamphlet which lists the synopsis of chapters tipped in next to title page. Synopsis of chapters include, the grasshopper, other orthoptera, other insects, arachnida and myriapoda, crustacea, the fish, batrachia, birds and reptiles, mammals, other invertebrates, collecting and preserving material, classification of anim... View More...
"Agricultural Experiment Station, Memoir 33 (May 1920)". Pages 367-381; illustrations; brown paper wrapper with title on the cover. Very good clean copy. View More...
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Bulletin No. 164. Staple bound booklet, paper wrapper. Previous owner's signature in ink on front, otherwise excellent condition. Pages 139 - 160 with 4 illustrations. Report on the life cycle and control of the cotton worm, or cotton leafworm, whose larvae feed on the leaves, twigs and buds of the cotton plant. View More...
Cloth backed boards. Seven plates in color and other illustrations. Small stains on cover. In keeping with the mission of the Association, this book was prepared for free distribution among the people of Alaska to teach them about the very impor tan t place which the birds of this country (or any country) occupy in the list of national assets. View More...
Original publisher's beige wrapper. No date, circa 1899-1910. 3 3/4" x 6 1/4." Fifteen pages, complete. Includes brief, introductory information on how to care for poultry, such as proper housing for chickens and where to place the chicken coops. Also included are a few pages of testimonials for some of Fleck's Remedies, such as Fleck's Poultry Powder and Fleck's Lice Exterminator. On the back cover is a price list of Fleck's Remedies and a purple stamp of "W. W. Loomis, Flour, Feed, etc., Fulton, N.Y." Pages and covers are clean and intact. View More...
123 pages; drawings; brown cloth binding, dust jacket (some soiling, wear along the edges). Collection of essays following the author's first book 'Bucolic Beatitudes'. Essays first appeared in 'House Beautiful' & 'Country Life in America'. Very good copy. View More...
Bulletin No. 293. Pages 157-172; illustrations, tables. Testing of leafhopper injury to clover and alfalfa with the Kentucky strain of red clover, Ky.1 being the most successful against the pest. View More...
Reprint from THE BULLETIN, Department of Agriculture, State of California, XXVI (July, Aug, Sept. 1937). 320-325, tables, illustrations, bibliography. Results of research in the tomato fields for insect pests. View More...
New York Agricultural Extension Service, Bulletin No. 451. Staple bound booklet, paper wrapper. Previous owner's signature on front, otherwise very good condition. 6 pages with 12 illustrations. Report on the life cycles and control of leaf hoppers in apple orchards. View More...
Inscribed by the author. Brown 3/4 leather binding with red cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt illustration of a hunting dog emerging from the brush with a game bird in its mouth. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. 6" x 8." 373 pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in front. Inscribed by the author in black ink on a front flyleaf facing a printed portrait of said author: "To Robert De Paul, At request of my son Hugh William Leffingwell. Hoping that in later years, when duck shooting is but a memory, t... View More...
Bulletin 676. 44 pages; illustrations; wrapper. Covers the pests that attack stored food products and methods to control them. Former owner's name on the top of front cover 'Calvert E. Norland'. View More...
Excerpt from the September, 1895, issues of St. Nicholas Magazine in cardstock folder. Some discoloration of folder. Magazine pages are held together along spines with tape. Label on front of folder from Dellquest's Rare Books, Los Angeles, California. 8 pages with 6 illustrations. View More...
New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Bulletin 34. Staple bound booklet, paper wrapper. Minor bending at corners, otherwise remarkably good condition. 23 pages with one chart and 8 tables. A study of the life cycle of the Stalk Borer, a moth whose larvae feed on corn stalks and large stemmed plants. View More...
