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By: Page, Chas. N.
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Des Moines, Iowa, Published By the Author: 1902
Seller ID: 8148
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
(1902). Illustrated with photos and drawings. Wrappers. From the cover: " A treatise on the breeding, rearing and training of canary birds, and an account of a visit to the famous canary breeding districts of the Hartz Mountains, Germany." Paper browned. Slight bump to bottom front corner, but a nice clean copy. 80 pages, including index. View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Boston, MA, A. Williams and Company: 1882
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019703
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's green cloth binding. 6" x 8 1/2." Twenty-eight pages, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover. Two newspaper articles on birds and ornithology laid-in near front of book and in the back. On the front free endpaper is an inscription written by Helen King Spofford in black ink: "To Ruth Roberts (a friend of the author from another friend)" and a white card tipped-in with a gift message from Spofford to Ruth, also written in black ink. Spofford's signature (written in black ink) on title page but in the top margin. Pages and covers are clean and intact.... View more info
By: Plummer, P.J.G.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Canada, Dominion of Canada, Department of Agriculture.: 1936
Seller ID: 9878
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Publication 502, Farmers' Bulletin 6. 8 pages; illustrations; wraps. Concerned with scabies in Foxes and other animals. Former owner's names in ink on the cover "Calbert E. Norland, Raymond J. Hock." View more info
By: Price, W.A.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky, University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture: 1940
Seller ID: 9855
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Circular No. 345. 30 pages pamphlet with illustrations. Covers the range of insects and pests that invade the household and methods to control and kill them. Among them fleas, bedbugs, silverfish, ants, cockroaches, clothes moths, carpet beetles, mosquitos, and flies. View more info
By: Rendu, Victor
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Paris, France, Librairie Hachette Et Cie.: 1870
Seller ID: 12502
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
[Written in French] viii, 324 pages; illustrations; 1/4 vellum binding with leather label on the spine. Insects and the role they play in French agriculture. Fine clean copy, some light wear to the top of the spine. A handsome book. View more info
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Minneapolis, The University Of Minnesota Press: 1932
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 018439
Condition: Collectible-Fine
2 Volume Set. Original tan cloth with brown leather on the spine. Gilt lettering and designs on the spine. 8 3/4 X 11 1/4 inches. Top edges gilt. This volume set is number 86 of 300 copies signed by the author. Volume I has 691 pages and 49 color plates and 298 black and white photographs and/or illustrations. Volume II has 821 pages (27 pages of index), plates number 50-90 and has black and white illustrations and/or photographs number 299-606. All plates are fully intact. Copy's are very clean and complete. Binding is tight. View more info
By: Ruggles, A. G. and A. C. Arny
Price: $15.00
Publisher: University of Minnesota Agricultural Extension Division: 1927
Seller ID: 016733
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Special Bulletin No. 116. Staple bound booklet, paper wrapper. Minor darkening at edges, previous owner's signature on front, otherwise very good condition. 8 pages with 5 illustrations. A study of the life cycle, history and control of the European Corn Borer, a moth whose larvae bores into the cobs of corn. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14953
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's green cloth, white lettering, pressed design on front cover. Photo illustrated. After a family financial setback, Mrs. Saint Maur and her husband moved to a farm and started raising, for profit, poultry, fruit, vegetables, herbs, flowers and bees. In her entertaining way, she tells the story of how to live and financially thrive on a small farm. 229 pages. View more info
Price: $37.00
Publisher: Boston and New York and Cambridge, Houghton, Mifflin and Company and the Riverside Press: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 15011
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publishers green cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine. Black lettering and gilt illustration of a circle of butterflies on front cover. Personal inscription on front fly leaf. 9 black and white plates, complete. 279 pages with index to names of insects. 12 pages after index listing author's works on butterflies with descriptions and examples. From the note, "The following papers are a small selection, for the general reader, of those published in the author's "Butterflies of the Easter United States and Canada", which was mainly of interest to specialists. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Berkeley, California, Hilgardia, A Journal of Agricultural Science.: 1931
Seller ID: 9818
Condition: Collectible-Fine
HILGARDIA, 6 (November 1931): 253-276, tables, illustrations, bibliography. Study of the method of transmission of disease in beet crops by the Beet Leafhopper through the pests mouth. Contains the whole issue in wrapper. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Washington, D. C., Govenment Printing Office: 1926
Seller ID: 9869
Condition: Collectible-Fine
From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 69 Article 9. Pages 1-52; index; wrapper. A revised synopsis of all the American species of the tribe Xylotini. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Washington, D. C., Govenment Printing Office: 1927
Seller ID: 9870
Condition: Collectible-Fine
From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUJSEUM, 70 Article 9. Pages 1-34, plate; wrapper. In this material a number of new genera and species have been recognized and are herein described. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: University of Minnesota, Agricultural Experiment Station.: 1939
Seller ID: 9766
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Bulletin 341. 42 pages; illustrations; bibliography; wrapper. Covers the various pests and methods to control them. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: University of Minnesota, Agricultural Experiment Station.: 1939
Seller ID: 9767
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Bulletin 340. 30 pages; illustrations, tables; bibliography; wrapper. Informational pamphlet dealing with pests that attack grain and seed storage on the farm. View more info
By: St. George, R.A.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Washington, D. C., Department of Agriculture: 1943
Seller ID: 9844
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Farmers' Bulletin No. 1582. 22 pages; illustrations, tables. Aid to select types of wood for construction, the pests that attack wood, its prevention and/or control. Clean copy. View more info
By: St. John, Claude
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, David MaKay Company:
Seller ID: 11256
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
156 pages; illustrations; yellow paperback with title on the cover. Deals with: cages, feed and water, bird room and temperature, bath, breeding, sex type, development of egg, incubation, problems in raising young healthy, moult, training for show. Clean copy. View more info
By: Stearns, L. A., W. R. Haden, and L. L. Williams
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Newark, Delaware, University of Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station: 1936
Seller ID: 016725
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Bulletin No. 198. Staple bound booklet, paper wrapper. Some chipping, otherwise very good condition. 44 pages with 16 illustrations and 14 tables. Report of a study of the life cycle and control of the grape leaf-hopper and the grape-berry moth, two major pests to cultivated grapes. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Berkeley, California, Hilgardia, A Journal of Agricultural Science.: 1957
Seller ID: 9921
Condition: Collectible-Fine
HILGARDIA, 26 (January 1957): 417-430, illustrations, bibliography. Complete issue devoted to Steinhaus' article. Account of new instances in which a single species is subject to both a granulosis and a nuclear polyhedrosis virus. View more info
By: Stevens, Lyla
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Whitcombe & Tombs Pty. Ltd. (Circa 1950). Melbourne.:
Seller ID: 2469
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Illustrated boards. Color illustrations. Front end papers split at spine. The author describes some birds of Australia -- some known for their beautiful plumage, others for their remarkable habits: Eastern Rosella; Satin Bower-bird; Lyre-bird; B rog la; Kookaburra; Wedge-tailed Eagle; Boobook Owl; etc. View more info
By: Stone, Lois C.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Berkeley, California, 1968
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 14330
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Reprinted from The Auk (Vol. 85, July 15, 1968). Pages 404-409; paper wrapper (6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inch) with title on the cover. Inscribed in ink on cover 'Compliments of Lois C. Stone to John & Mary Belle Swingle'. Also included is a short letter by Lois Stone to the Swingles talking about Lee Chambers and Stone's plan for a series on early western naturalists. Lee Chambers (1878-1966) was an ornithologist and played a major role in the Cooper Club of Southern California. Fine clean copy. View more info
