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Bee-Keepers' Supplies Jan. 1, 1912

By: N/A

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Medina, Ohio, The A.I. Root Company: 1912

Seller ID: 018634

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original brown wrappers. 6 x 9 inches. Illustrated with line drawings throughout. Liad in are: Order form, Discount offer for erarly orders; Order form for "Gleaning in Bee Culture'; Advertising form and signup sheet6 for the magazine "Farm Journal"; Pre-printed envelope.
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The Journal of the American Association of Instructors and Investigators in Poultry Husbandry

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J., 0

Seller ID: 018841

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

1914 to 1920. Volume One Number One through Volume Six Number Ten. The first 60 issues of this trade journal. Stapled wrappers. 7 x 10 inches.
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Canaries: Their Varieties and Management

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Newark, New Jersey, Spratt's Patent Limited: 0

Seller ID: 019440

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's multicolored wrapper with an illustration of canaries on front. No date, circa 1920s -1930s. 5 1/4" x 7 1/4." Forty pages, complete. Insides of front and back covers have advertisements for Spratt's bird food. Pages 38-40 are dedicated to some tips on Common Goldfish and tropical fish care and include advertisements for Spratt's fish food. Pages are clean. Tiny stain on lower edge of spine. A very clean copy overall. This is a concise bird care guide for current and prospective canary pet owners. The guide provides a brief history of the canary and how it...
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Episodes of Insect Life. By Acheta Domestica, M.E.S.

By: (Budgen, L. M.)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, J. S. Redfield: 1851

Seller ID: 6750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Three volumes, first, second and third series, xvi, 320; xiv, 326; xv, 432 (+6) pages, black and white illustrations, index, green cloth with elaborate gilt and blind decorations of all sorts of bugs - bees, beetles, moths, grasshoppers, spiders, and books, 8.5 x 6". Bindings just a little edge worn and faded, still quite a nice set.
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Travels in a Tree-Top

By: Abbott, Charles C.

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 13970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

215 pages; illustrations; index; green cloth binding with gilt lettering and design. Abbott (1843-1919) was an American natural history writer. The book is an account of the bird life among the tree tops. Very good clean copy.
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Fruit Flies of the Genus Tomoplagia Coquillett (Diptera, Tephritidae).

By: Aczel, Martin L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Smithsonain Institution: 1955

Seller ID: 9705

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

#3343 - From the Proceedings of the United States Natinal Museum. Vol. 104, pages 321-411. Uncut seperate in gray-green wrapper with plates. Former owner's name on cover "C. Ellaland" in ink. The writer describes 15 new and 12 already (1955) existing species of fruit flies.
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Revision of the Two-Winged Flies of the Genus Coelopa Meigen in North America (cover title)

By: Aldrich, J. M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum:

Seller ID: 3990

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Circa 1930. No. 2808. -- From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum Vol. 76, Art. 11, pp. 1-6. Ink notation front cover. Unopened pages. From page 1: "The present revision has been prepared as the result of recent correspondence with Mr. J. E. Collin, of Newmarket, England, who has furnished information relating to synonymy and has also supplied the Museum with determined European specimens; from his data and the specimens it appears that the North American members of the genus have been misidentified to a large extent. Two species from the Bering Sea region, formerly consid...
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Records of Dipterous Insects of the Family Tachinidae Reared By the Late George Dimmock, with Description of One New Species and Notes on the Genus Anetia Robineau-Devoidy.

By: Aldrich, J. M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution: 1932

Seller ID: 9698

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 2920 - From the Proceedings of the Unted States National Museum, Vo. 80, Art. 20, pages 1-8. Seperate in gray wrapper. Former owner's stamp on cover "San Diego State College".Title describes content of article.
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New Diptera, or Two-Winged Flies from America, Asia, and Java with Additional Notes.

By: Aldrich, J. M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution: 1932

Seller ID: 9702

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 2932 - From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 81, Art. 9, pages 1-28, 1 plate. Seperate in gray wrapper with former owner's stamp on cover "San Diego State College". Paper describes 4 new genera, 13 new species, and a new variety of Diptera.
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Descriptions of New and Little Known Diptera or two-winged Flies.

By: Aldrich, J. M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Govenment Printing Office: 1926

Seller ID: 9868

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 69 Article 22. Pages 1-26; wrapper. Description of new genera and species, with notes of some previously described froms. Former owner's name in ink on cover "Calvert E. Norland".
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American Birds: Winged World; Sights and Sounds of the Winged World, Study of Birds to Make National Geographic Color Photographs Yields Rich Scientific Knowledge of Their Habits and Behavior. Volume 87, Pages 721-744. June 1945. An Article from the National Geographic Magazine.

By: Allen, Arthur A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 1945

Seller ID: 021268

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original publisher's brown wrappers backed with black cloth. Red and blue decorative stripes on front cover. Bound by the Angwin Book Bindery in Angwin, California. 6 5/8" x 9 5/8." Pages 721-744, complete. Sixteen color plates, one black and white plate, and two black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. In the upper-left corner of the front cover are numbers handwritten in red pencil. "South Sacramento School" stamp in the lower-left corner of the front cover. Very slight rippling near the top edge. Back c...
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List of Mammals and Birds Collected in Northeastern Sonora and Northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, on the Lumholtz Archaeological Expedition, 1890-1892

By: Allen, J. A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, American Museum of Natural History: 1893

Seller ID: 016713

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Paper wrapper, moderate chipping, stamp and pencil notes on front, not affecting text. Fold line in back cover. Paginated 27 - 42. Reprint of an article first published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol V, Article III. Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922) was a Norwegian explorer and ethnographer who conducted several expeditions to Mexico from 1890-1910 for the American Museum of Natural History. This booklet lists the birds and mammals collected on one of these expeditions.
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The Museum of Birds.

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Kiggins & Kellogg:

Seller ID: 6142

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

No date. ca. 1850s? 8 pages, illustrations of the owl, quail, dove, robin, sparrow, and crane, printed wrapper, small booklet measuring 3 1/4 x 2". Very good, paper darkened, no chipping or creasing.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "A Nightingale on Its Sheltered Nest."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 9253

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Good

# 21200 (359). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the bird, its habits and poetry by Keats. Photo taken in England of the Nightingale sitting on the nest among foliage. Evidence of a fold down the middle.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Woodcock in Nest."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 9254

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 7965 (72). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the bird, its habits and camouflage techniques. View of the bird in among sticks and leaves. Nice clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Feeding Mulberry Leaves to the Young Silk Worms, Japan."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 9323

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

# 14748 (538). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the feeding room stage during a 30 day period when the worms are feed six times a day mulberry leaves before the worms pass into the chrysalis period. View of a Japanese lady feeding the silk worms on a try with mulberry leaves with racks of trays in the background. Nice clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Silkworm Incubator, Japan."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 9324

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 14746 (536). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the egg stage of silkworm production which lasts about ten days. View of a two story incubator in which the young eggs are placed and heated till hatching being tended by to people in native dress. Nice clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Silk Worm Concons in Their Nests - The Silent Toilers Have Finished Their Spinning and the Cocoons Ar Ready for the Silk Manufacturer, Japan."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 9327

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 14750 (539). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the third stage of silk production when the silk worm has finished eating and begins to spin its cocoon of silk threads which are a quarter mile long or more and then begins to change into a moth. Nice image of the cocoons with straw placed over the silk worms and the cocoons formed. Clean copy.
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Origianl Stereocard Photograph. "Millions of South African Gannets Near Capetown, So.Afr."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 9374

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

# 11994 (583). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about a colony of gannets, their migrations north and south, and the fishing methods on herrings. Photo of a vast colony of gannets in South Africa. Clean copy with left photo somewhat darker.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Tower of London, London, England."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 9398

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 2111 (349). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the history of the tower from William the Conqueror through today. It held the high prisoners like Sir Walter Raleigh among others and is now home to the royal jewels and 'beefeaters' costumes. ca.1912.
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