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. View More...
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 came to... View More...
Original greeting card printed in multicolored ink on white paper. Doubles as a postcard. Card is unused. No date, circa 1890s-1920s. 3 1/2" x 5 3/4." Card is very clean and intact except for age toning, slight darkening on front, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. An original greeting card for the occasion of Easter. The title is printed in gilt lettering on front. The front also features a color illustration of two yellow chicks and purple flowers. Illustration and title are slightly embossed. The back has spaces for writing the recipient's address and correspondenc... View More...
Original greeting card printed in multicolored ink on white paper. Doubles as a postcard. Card is unused. No date, circa 1890s-1920s. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." Card is very clean and intact except for age toning and slight wear to extremities. A Near Fine copy. An original greeting card for celebrating Easter. The front features a slightly embossed color illustration of white lilies and a window (placed over the flowers) looking out onto a scenic countryside with trees and farm buildings at sunrise or sunset. Two yellow chicks are perched in the window. There are spaces for writing correspond... View More...
Original lithograph card with a color illustration on front of a surreal scene in which a woman wearing a fancy outfit (hat, pink sash and shoes, and green dress] stands atop a blue egg as three yellow chicks run about. The egg is cracked open and empty. It is unclear if the woman or chicks emerged from the egg. Possibly published on the occasion of Easter or springtime. No date, circa 1890s-1910s. 3" x 5." Card is very clean and intact except for light age toning and a small crease in the lower-left corner. A Near Fine copy. This card bears some resemblance to trade cards, which are a... View More...
Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1920s-1930s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed in the center of the image. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact overall but there is a smudge in the upper-right corner and a bend in the lower-left corner, both of which are mostly limited to the margins. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows two ostrich chicks, one of which appears to have just hatched from its egg. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
#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. View More...
Collection of three original printed promotional ephemera from the Albers Brothers Milling Company, namely, a five-page bulletin and two one-page advertisements or announcements. Printed in black ink on beige paper and brown cardstock. Bulletin is stapled in the upper-left corner. Circa 1922 (one of the ads is dated March 1922; the bulletin and other ad are undated). 8" x 11." Seven pages (one five-page bulletin, and two one-page ads). Small black-and-white illustrations on the ads show bags of chicken feed. Pages are very clean and intact except for horizontal and vertical fold lines, ... View More...
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". View More...
# 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. View More...
# 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. View More...
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 considered... View More...
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 cover has a coupl... View More...
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. View More...
# 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. View More...
# 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. View More...
Original stereocard on tan boards. Board dimensions 7 x 3 1/2 inches, photograph dimensions 6 x 3 inches. Title at base of photos. Photo of eight ostrich eggs and two ostrich chicks. View More...
# 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. View More...
