Category: Animals

Control of Injurious Rodents in California.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, College of Agriculture : 1942

Seller ID: 9693

Agricultural Extension Service, Circular 79 (November 1933 / Revised August 1942). 66 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper. Discussion of rodents, the damage they do and various methods to control them. Revised edition.
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Control of Injurious Rodents in California.

By: Storer, Tracy I.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berekely, California, University of California, College of Agriculture : 1933

Seller ID: 9694

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Agricultural Extension Service, Circular 79. 55 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper. Covers squirrels, gophers, moles, rats and mice, and rabbits which are a problem around farms and homes. Deals with their life cycles, damage caused, and methods of control.
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Instructions for Successfully Operating Sure Hatch Incubators and Brooders

By: Sure Hatch Incubator Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Clay Center, Nebraska, Sure Hatch Incubator Company : 1906

Seller ID: 020341

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's gray wrapper. 5" x 7 3/4." Thirty-two pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. This pamphlet promotes Sure Hatch incubators and brooders and describes proper handling of the machines and equipment for hatching chicks. There are also descriptions of the incubation process, how to care for hens, and how to test eggs and monitor chick development. In the back is a list of prizes for "reports of best hatches, photographs and sales." Past winners are also listed in the back.
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Original Photo Post Card - "The Mountain Wood Carriers at Roosevelt, Arizona"

By: The Ariz. Souv. Picture Co.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: : 1908

Seller ID: 025224

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original black-and-white photo post card. Postcard is used. Title handwritten in maroon ink on front. Correspondence and recipient's address handwritten in black ink on back. Green 1-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp tipped in on back. Postmarked October 17, 1908 in Mesa, Arizona. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Postcard is very clean and intact except for light to moderate age toning on front and back, some discoloration at edges on front, minuscule surface wear, a few wrinkles, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. A postcard showing the titular "wood carriers," a team of donkeys with wood ...
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Original Photo Post Card - "Street Scene, Roosevelt, Arizona"

By: The Ariz. Souv. Picture Co.; Edith

Price: $10.00

Publisher: : 1908

Seller ID: 025225

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original black-and-white photo post card. Postcard is used. Title handwritten in maroon ink on front. Correspondence and recipient's address handwritten in black ink on back. Green 1-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp tipped in on back. Postmarked 1908 in Mesa, Arizona. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Postcard is very clean and intact except for light to moderate age toning on front and back, some discoloration at edges on front, minuscule surface wear, a few wrinkles, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. A postcard showing a street scene in Roosevelt, Gila County, Arizona. A pair of donkeys...
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Collection of Eight Printed Promotional Ephemera from the G. E. Conkey Company, Cleveland, Ohio, c. 1920s-1930s

By: The G. E. Conkey Company

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: 024675

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fine

Collection of eight original printed ephemera from the G. E. Conkey Company of Cleveland, Ohio, namely, two advertisements for Conkey's Roup Remedy and Conkey's Fly Knocker and six duplicate certificates that can be used in exchange for Conkey's Stock Book, a book about livestock. Printed in ink (multiple colors) on light beige paper. No date, circa 1920s-1930s. Roup Remedy ad measures 3 1/2" x 6 1/4." Fly Knocker ad: 3 1/2" x 6." Each certificate: 5 1/4" x 2 1/2." Six pages (four-page ad and two-page ad) and six certificates. The ads and certificates are very clean and intact except for...
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The Game of Derby Day (Original Card Game)

By: The Parker Games Co. Ltd.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, England, The Parker Games Co. Ltd.

Seller ID: 024376

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Original card game, Derby Day, in original white cardboard slipcase and sliding box. Contains cards, instructions, and red and black numbered chips (circular cardboard discs). Complete except for three missing black chips (numbers 10, 20, and 30). Forty-eight cards in two suits (red and black) of twenty-four each, with color illustrations, complete. Outer slipcase features a blue and white illustration on front and back of a jockey on horseback. Interior sliding box is dual-compartment (smaller beige box within this one) and holds the cards and chips. Box measures 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" x 1 1/2...
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Hunting Big Game with Gun and with Kodak: A Record of Personal Experiences in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

By: Thomas, William S.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons : 1906

Seller ID: 024353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 6" x 8 1/2." 240 pages, complete. Black-and-white plates and illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in front. Index in back. Printed by the Knickerbocker Press. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for a small bit of sticker residue on front free endpaper. Binding is tight. Covers are very clean and intact but have some rubbing at edges, corners, front and back outer joints, and head and tail of spine. Bottom corners of the covers are slightly bumped. A Fine copy. An autobiographical account by William S. Thomas in which h...
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Nature's Invitation: Notes of a Bird-Gazer, North and South

By: Torrey, Bradford

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin and Company : 1901

Seller ID: 023063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 4 3/4" x 7 1/4." Pages and covers very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A few scratch marks to the covers. Front free endpaper has some offsetting. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. Printed by the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A collection of the author's autobiographical essays which were first published in various magazines and newspapers. Essays organized by the following regions: "New Hampshire," "Florida," and "Texas and Arizona." Index in back. Bradford Torrey (1843-1912)...
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The Clerk of the Woods

By: Torrey, Bradford

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton, Miffin and Company : 1925

Seller ID: 021984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Illustration of a tree on the front cover. 4 3/4" x 7." 274 pages, complete. Former owner's inscription in pencil on the front pastedown: "D. D. Bruce, Nov. 6th, 1903." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight rubbing on the front and back covers and slight wear at the corners and head and tail of spine. Bradford Torrey (1843-1912) was an American ornithologist and author. A book with observations about plants, animals, and nature. Index in the back. Prefatory Note:...
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Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

By: Tristram, W. Outram

Price: $37.50

Publisher: London, England, Macmillan and Company : 1894

Seller ID: 021702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's 3/4 brown leather binding. Blue marbles boards and endpapers. Gilt letters and decorations on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 376 pages, complete. Former owner's signature in black ink written on front flyleaf: "G. W. B. Cape[?], 1920." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight edge wear and rubbing to the front and back covers. Text block has a minuscule amount of foxing. A Fine copy with Fine binding. This novel centers upon the different types of horse-drawn transportation and main roads in England.
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Dairy Husbandry; Correspondence Courses in Agriculture, Course 10, University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley

By: True, G. H. and L. M. Davis

Price: $37.50

Publisher: University of California. Circa 1928. Berkeley, California. : 1928

Seller ID: 2921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. Ink notation front end paper. Lessons I - XVII. Course includes chapters on: The Herd Sire; Pure Breed Dairy Cattle; Care and Handling of the Heifer from Breeding to Calving and Care of Calves from Birth to Weaning; Diseases of Dairy Cows; Co mposition and Secretion of Milk; The Babcock Test for Butter Fat; Sources of Milk and Cream Contamination; Market Milk Production; Farm Buttermaking; Farm Cheesemaking; Ice Cream Making.
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Some Birds of the Fresno District, California (Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 9)

By: Tyler, John G.; Grinnell, Joseph (Editor); Swarth, Harry S. (Editor)

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Hollywood, CA, Cooper Ornithological Club : 1913

Seller ID: 019627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's wrappers bound in plain black cloth. 7" x 10 1/2." 114 pages, complete. Inscribed by author on half title page in ink dated "June 1931." Pages and covers are clean and intact. The Pacific Coast Avifauna accommodates papers that could not be included in the Cooper Ornithological Club's main publication, The Condor, for their length. This paper discusses the boundaries of the Fresno district, the status of bird populations in the district, and descriptions and field note observations on various bird species that reside there. In the back on gray cardstock is a price ...
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Agricultural Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1891, Being the Third after Leap Year, and Until the 4th of July, the 115th of American Independence

By: Various

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lancaster, Pa, John Baer's Sons : 1891

Seller ID: 14156

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

[67th Volume]. [36] pages; calendars; illustrated paper wrapper (6 3/4 x 8 3/8 inch) chipped and frayed along the edges. A almanac centered in the Pennsylvania 'Dutch' country of Lancaster, Pa. Standard fare of agricultural information, calendars, and basic advice. Very good clean copy.
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Agricultural Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1887; Being the Third After Leap Year, and Until the 4th of July, the 111th of American Independence

By: Various

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lancaster, Pa, John Baer's Sons. : 1887

Seller ID: 14157

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

[62d Volume]. [36] pages; calendars; illustrated paper wrapper (6 3/4 x 8 3/8 inch} chipped and frayed along the edges. An almanac centered in the Pennsylvania 'Dutch' country of Lancaster, Pa. Standard fare of agricultural information, calendars, and basic advice. Very good clean copy.
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Agricultural Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1894, Being the Second After Leap Year, and Until the 4th of July, the 118th of American Indepenedence

By: Various

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lancaster, Pa, John Baer's Sons : 1893

Seller ID: 14159

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

[69th Volume]. [36] pages; calendars; illustrated paper wrapper ( 6 3/4 x 8 3/8 inch) with minor missing chips along the edges. An almanac centered in the Pennsylvania 'Dutch' country of Lancaster, Pa. Standard fare of agricultural information, calendars, and basic farm advice. Very good clean copy.
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State Agricultural Society

By: Various

Price: $15.00

Publisher: (Sacramento), (California State Fair Horse Show Program) : 1940

Seller ID: 4241

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

62-page booklet provides an Order of Events for the Horse Show Program during the California State Fair, August 30 - September 9, 1940. Booklet includes Rules and Regulations, Classifications and How Judged, names of horses and their exhibitors; etc. Categories include Draft Horses, Children's Saddle Ponies, Hackney Horses, Shetland Ponies, Jumpers, Palomino Parade of Horses, etc. The front cover is a reprint of the famous painting, "The Horse Fair" by Rosa Bonheur (French) 1822-1899. Local advertising. Rear cover has color advertisement announcing the new Studebaker models for 1941.
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Notes on the Osteology and Myology of the Domestic Fowl, (Gallus Domesticus,) for the Use of Colleges and Schools of Comparative Anatomy and for the Independent Zoological Student.

By: Vaughan, Victor C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI, Sheehan and Company : 1876

Seller ID: 019449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's green pebble cloth binding. Ex-library. 5" x 7 7/8." 116 pages, complete. Black and white diagrams and illustrations, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover. Impressed decorations and border on front and back covers. Pages are clean; binding is tight. Binding is chipped on the top of the spine. A textbook on the bone and muscle structures of domestic fowl.
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Selected List of References Relating to Irrigation in California.

By: Venable, Reid.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, College of Agriculture : 1923

Seller ID: 9683

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular No. 260. 62 pages, appendix, paper wrapper. Annotated bibliography of literature relating to irrigation in California. Covers annual reports to yearbooks by Department of Agriculture, Congress, Department of Commerce and Labor, Governors' Conference, Department of Interior, and Societies and Organizations.
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Color Changes and Structure of the Skin of Anolis Carolinensis; X (cover title)

By: von Geldern, Charles E.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences : 1921

Seller ID: 4283

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

40-page booklet. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. X, No. 10, pp. 77-117, pls. 7-9, February 12, 1921. Small inked stamp imprint, and ink notations, on front cover. Page edges uncut. Some unopened pages. California State Library, Sacramento, lending slip laid in with last due date of April 3, 1974. From the author's opening works: "The Anolis carolinensis, or so-called Florida Chameleon, belongs to the family Iguanidae and is in no way related to the true chameleons". The author describes the causes and mechanism of color changes, food, skin, habitat, etc.
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Category: Animals