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Price: $20.00
Publisher: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8465
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Wrappers. "Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, No. 45." Illustrated with charts, grafs and line drawings and four photographs on two plates. 58 pages. View more info
By: Byng, George
Price: $100.00
Publisher: 1809
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019399
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Signature on beige document in brown ink by George Bynq. December 20, 1809. On board HMS Belliqueen off Prince of Wales Island (Pulau Penang (Penang Island) in the Strait of Malacca, Malaysia; Penang was ceded to the British East India Company in 1786). 7 1/2" x 10." One page. George Bynq (1768-1831) was the 6th Viscount of Torrington and became an admiral in 1821. This document certifies that the "loss of a buffaloe" provided by a contractor was not the fault of the ship's crew. (Also included is a brief biographical annotation on Georg Bynq, handwritten in brown ink on... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 11213
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
118 pages; illustrations; bound in light brown cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. History of the horses in the old and new world with illustrations in color by Edward Miner. Unusual for such a clean fine copy. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Author's Edition: 1889
Seller ID: 13964
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Extracted from Bulletin of the American Museum, Volume II, Number 3 issued June 7, 1889. [6] pages; gray paper wrapper (6 x 9 1/4 inch). Group of biographical papers written by Frank M. Chapman. Very good clean copy. View more info
By: Clarke, Rev. D.W. (editor)
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Cincinnati, Swormstedt & Poe: 1856
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5364
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Ribbed cloth, with pressed design in gilt on spine. Chipping at top and bottom of spine and extremities. Former owner's name on frond end paper. End papers browned. Scattered foxing throughout. 416 pages. View more info
By: Cooper, Frederic Taber (Editor)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The Hamptom Publishing Company: 1921
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019360
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with an illustration of an eagle and tortoise in a landscape on the front cover. 7 1/4" x 9 1/2." 275 pages, complete. Multicolored illustrations, complete. Gilt lettering on spine. Very light wear on the spine. A collection of fables divided into several parts by author and culture including Aesop, Babrius, Phaedrus, Avianus, Indian fables, Persian fables, Chinese fables, and Armenian and Turkish fables. View more info
By: Cooper, Sarah
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, N.Y., American Book Company: 1887
Seller ID: 8886
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Clean inside and out, bound in green cloth, still tight. Title on spine with bumped corners. Lots of illustrations. 413 pages with index. View more info
By: Cuvier, the Baron; P.A. Latreille; Translated By H. M'Murtrie, M.D.
Price: $375.00
Publisher: New York, G. & C. & H,. Carvill: 1831
Seller ID: 8352
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Full contenporary tan leather. Staining to outside of all volumes. Joints strong. Binding a bit scuffed but unworn. Internal moderate foxing. xxxiii, (1) -448, (1); 4 plates. xv, (1) -475; 10 plates. xx, (1)-575, 3 plates. xii, (1)-545, (1), 3 plates. Complete. All plates black and white only. First edition of this translation and first edition of the M'Murtrie contributions. View more info
By: Davies, C. J.
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Manchester, England, "Our Dogs" Publishing Company Limited: 0
Seller ID: 020347
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's purple cloth binding. No date, circa 1928. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2." Eighty-five pages, complete. Six black and white plates and illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact except for some foxing on front and back endpapers and top edge. Book explains what breeding to type is, heredity, strains, color, and other topics related to the breeding. In the back are a breeders' table and table of breeding data. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: College Station, Texas, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.: 1940
Seller ID: 11742
Condition: Collectible-Fine
38 pages; maps, tables; bibliography; paper wrapper (6 x 9 inch) stapled with title on the cover. Biological discussion of pocket gophers and the destruction they do to range land and farms. Also methods of controlling them is included. Fine clean copy. View more info
By: De Kay, James E.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Albany N. Y., W. & A. White & J. Visscher: 1842
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 018433
Condition: Very Good
Original brown cloth binding with a gilt illustration on the front cover. The illustration shows Lady Justice on the left and Lady Liberty on the right with ships and a train in the background; an eagle is in the center with a banner that says, "Excelsior." Front and back covers have lightly impressed decorative borders. Gilt lettering and an illustration of a deer head on the spine. 9 3/4" x 11 3/4." This book is divided into two sections. The first section is titled "Introduction" and is about the history of New York. It is 188 pages and has two black and white... View more info
By: Destler, Paul
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Banning, California, The Desert Protective Council, Inc.: 1959
Seller ID: 12445
Condition: Collectible-Fine
[3] pages; folded paper reprinting; title on the cover with portrait of Muir. Reprinted from WILDERNESS NEWS (December 1958). An account of John Muir and his life-long anti-hunting philosophy and his reaction when others around him when they tried to hunt. Fine clean copy. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: University of California, Davis: 1966
Seller ID: 9626
Condition: Collectible-Fine
'Keepsake Number 1' issued by the Library Assoicates of the University of California, Davis. 400 copies printed by the Printing Department, University of California, Berkeley. 12 pages pamplet in an orange wrapper with title on the cover. Foreword by J. Richard Blanchard. A biographical lecture on John Adams, better known as 'Grizzly Adams' and his travels in California and the Pacific Northwest. View more info
By: Dougherty, J.E., And S.S. Gossman
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Berkeley, California., University of California, College of Agriculture: 1923
Seller ID: 9680
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular No. 268. 32 pages, illustrations, drawings. Paper wrapper. Guide to labor saving methods for a poultry operation. Design of cages, feeders, chicken catchers, sorting tables, etc. Actualy quite useful for a small operation. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Annals of Carnegie Museum: 1934
Seller ID: 8464
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
"Reprinted from Annals of the Carnegie Museum Vol. XXIII, p. 241-274, 1934. Issued August 4, 1934." Photo illustrated. A nice copy in original wrappers. View more info
By: Farley, Walter
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Random House: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14655
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
viii, 256 pages; drawings; light green cloth binding, dust jacket under mylar. Walter Farley (1915-1989) was an American author of children's horse stories. The 'Black Stallion' was the first and most famous of his works (1941). Very good clean copy. View more info
By: Gates, Gordon E.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: No City, California Academy of Sciences: 1941
Seller ID: 4326
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 30, pp. 443-452, text figs. 1-4. September 30, 1941. Unopened pages. Inked stamp imprint front cover. "The worms which provided the material for this article are from a small collection forwarded by Dr. A. W. Herre of Stanford University. The author describes the worm Plutellus papillifer (Eisen) 1893. View more info
By: Goodwin, Richard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, California, Richard Goodwin:
Seller ID: 10717
Condition: Collectible-Good
63 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (4 x 5 3/4 inch) illustrated. Pamphlet covers most of the common aliments of dogs and cats along with the proper medicines to use on the animals. Includes many ads for Goodwin Products. Goodwin was a noted animal handler in Southern California who had kennels and a veterinarian service, along with medicines for pets. View more info
By: Guilbert, H.R., G.H. Hart, K.A. Wagnon, and H. Goss.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Berkely, California, University of California, College of Agriculture: 1944
Seller ID: 9689
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 688. 35 pages; illustrations, tables, charts; bibliography; paper wrapper. Reviews the experimental procedures used and its results, along with a discussion of growth and development. Useful bibliography at the end. View more info
By: Hall, E. Raymond
Price: $10.00
Publisher: No City, California Academy of Sciences: 1944
Seller ID: 4333
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 37, pp. 555-560, 1 text fig. August 22, 1944. Unopened pages. Inked stamp imprint front cover. "To ascertain if the ermine (Mustela arctica Merriam) of North America was more than subspecifically different from the ermine (Mustela erminea Linnaeus) of the Old World, I borrowed, in 1937.selected pertinent specimens from eastern Asia." The author clarifies some confusion as he writes about: Mustela erminea kaneii (Baird) and Mustela erminea digna Hall, subspecies nova. View more info
