Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1925-1942. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. Photographer's imprint next to the title. The style of "DOPS" stamp box on the back was used from 1925-1942. Postcard is unused. Postcard is virtually pristine and intact. A Fine copy. This postcard shows two mule deer fighting on what appears to be a frozen, snow-covered Medicine Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1910-1930. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "AZO" stamp box on back was used from 1910-1930. "678" printed in reverse on the left edge of the image. Postcard is unused. Postcard is clean and intact overall but has some creases and a few closed tears at the edges slightly affecting the image. A Good copy. This postcard shows a young child holding a kitten in a small carriage which is drawn by a goat. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1910-1930. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "AZO" stamp box on back was used from 1910-1930. "678" printed in reverse on the left edge of the image. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact overall except for a few marks on the front and back that are mostly limited to the margins. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows a young child holding a kitten in a small carriage which is drawn by a goat. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1907-1917. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "Velox" stamp box on back was used from 1907-1917. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for a slight age wear and a few faint marks. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows a deer standing calmly next to a man wearing suspenders and a hat. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1904-1918. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." The style of "AZO" stamp box on back was used from 1904-1918. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight corner and edge wear and slight age wear. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows a portrait of a boy riding a donkey. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1918. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." The style of "AZO" stamp box on the back was used from 1904-1918. Postcard is unused but has two inscriptions on the back. Postcard is clean and intact overall except for slight wrinkling and a couple punctures on the left. One of the punctures is limited to the bottom margin; the other affects the image but neither of the two sitters. A Good copy. This postcard shows a portrait of a boy sitting with a puppy. There are two brief inscriptions on the back; the one in black ink appears roughly contemporary wit... View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1907-1917. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "Velox" stamp box on the back was used from 1907-1917. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight corner and edge wear. A Near Fine copy. This postcard shows a mother cow with her two calves. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1904-1920s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "CYKO" stamp box on the back was used from 1904 to the 1920s. Postcard is unused. Postcard is virtually pristine and intact except for slight corner and edge wear and a few light marks on front and back. A Fine copy. This postcard shows a mother horse and her foal. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1904-1920s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "CYKO" stamp box on the back was used from 1904 to the 1920s. Postcard is unused. Postcard is virtually pristine and intact except for a few almost imperceptible marks on front and back. A Fine copy. This postcard shows what may be a couple of mules in an open field. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1904-1920s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "CYKO" stamp box on the back was used from 1904 to the 1920s. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for a few small marks on front and back. A Fine copy. This postcard shows a man and woman in front of a horse. The man looks at the horse while the woman looks at viewers. A house is visible in the background. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1904-1920s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "CYKO" stamp box on the back was used from 1904 to the 1920s. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight corner wear and a few light marks on the back. A Near Fine copy. This postcard shows several buildings on a hill. View More...
Original blue cloth with impressed designs on both covers. 6 1/4 X 10 inches. 880 pages. From the title page, "with four hundred engravings" of black and white illustrations throughout copy. Contents include information on Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta and Vermes. Foxing on many pages. A corner is missing from a page. Text and illustrations are not affected. Dampstain spots on covers. Corners and edges slightly worn. Despite foxing, pages are clean and complete. Binding is complete. View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Small illustration of a fox terrier on front cover. 6" x 8 3/4." 191 pages, complete. Eleven black-and-white plates and seven black-and-white illustrations, complete. Index in back. Pages are very clean and intact overall. There is slight scuffing at the corner of the text block, slight age toning to pages, and a wrinkle, a small hole, and what appears to be glue residue (perhaps from a former bookplate) on front free endpaper. Covers also very clean and intact except for slight corner and edge wear,... View More...
Original brochure on beige paper containing an advertisement for a book published by Adam & Charles Black. No date, circa 1923. 5 1/2" x 8." Four pages, complete. One leaf folded in half and printed on all sides. Brochure is very clean and intact overall. Slight wrinkling in lower-right and upper-right corners not affecting text. A Near Fine copy. This brochure is an advertisement for The Squirrel by T. C. Bridges. Excerpt from Publisher's Note reprinted on first page: "The last addition of the popular series of Animal Autobiographies is the Life of the Squirrel, the winsome, shy crea... View More...
Agricultureal Experiment Station, Circular No. 272. 48 pages, map, paper wrapper. Covers status of farm tenancy in California; leasing practices for farming, dairies, livestock ranges, poultry plants, various crops; legal requirements and framework; provisions for various types of leases. Discusses leasing methods of Sacramento and San Joaquin Deltas. View More...
Two volumes, complete. Red 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Marbling in red, blue, green, and white. Gilt lettering on spine. Five raised bands. Printed by the Riverside Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 6 3/4" x 10." All pages of each volume, complete. Black-and-white plates and illustrations and color maps, complete. Vol. I: [7] xiii-xxii, [1] 2-314. Vol. II: [1] 2-220. Index in back of Vol. II. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Slight darkening to leather and microscopic surface wear. Fine copies. Two beautiful... View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 6" x 9." 128 pages, complete. Former owner's bookplate tipped in on the front pastedown: "No. 122; Charles Mosher, Grass Valley, Nevada County, California." Inscription in black ink by Mosher on a front flyleaf: "Charles Mosher, Grass Valley, Cal, Sept 16th 1868." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight sunning on the spine and edges of the covers. Slight wear to the head and tail of spine. A small part of the fore-edge on the covers is bumped. A Very Good copy. A collection of lectures, in support ... View More...
"Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural history, Vol. XLVII, Art 1, pp. 1-38, New York, Issued July 20, 1922.: Original wrappers. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology stamp and ink withdrawal notation on front cover. Illustrated with one text figure and four photos, one in color. 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...