# 10070 (232). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about bison and the passing away of the herds. During the 1880s the last of the great plains herds were hunted down for their skins and meat and in the end for their bones for fertilizer. What a loss! Good upclose image of a small herd of buffalo grazing on a private ranch in California. View More...
# W33427 (592). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the Matterhorn of the Zermatt Valley and comments on Switzerland. Nice view of the mountain Matterhorn rising up in the background with cows in the foreground. Iconic images of Switzerland. View More...
# 14558 (518). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about about the use of Bactrian (the two hump) camel which will tolerate colder climates, tho slower than the dromedary from the Middle East. Nice image of a caravan composed of the Bactrian camels loaded down and streched along the Peking street as long as one can see. Clean copy except for evidence of a fold down the middle of the board. View More...
# 16756 (45). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the production of butter at a modern dairy. View of a mechanical churn which has just finished a batch of butter with a factory worker washing the product. Fine clean copy. View More...
# 21561 (358). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about Herefords. Developed, at the end of the 18th century for beef. Nice view of a small herd of herefords with their handlers in Hereford, England. Clean copy. View More...
3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 185-16710 by the publisher. Two columns of text explaining the photo and cattle raising on back. Circa 1915. Letter "B" written on back. View More...
36 pages; illustrations; yellow paper wrapper with title on the cover (4 x 6 inch). Parcel post rates on the back cover. Order catalogue for animal shearing equipment and parts manufactured by Stewart. Interesting for the various attachments for different animals including sheep, goats, cows, dogs, horses, etc. View More...
No date, ca. 1860s-1880s? (ii, 7-) 100 pages, illustrations, blue printed front wrapper, 6.5 x 4.5". Corners of front wrapper lightly chipped, rear wrapper lacking. Interesting drawing on page 10 of "Manner of inserting the wires in mounting a Cat." View More...
"Technical Bulletin No. 21". 39 pages; map, illustrations; bibliography; tan paper wrapper. Pamphlet covers the geographic distribution of beavers in North America, along with description and habits; damage by beavers; how to control them through fencing, pond destruction; beaver culture and conclusions on their importance. Evidence of a fold along the right side of the pamphlet, otherwise a clean copy. View More...
"Farmers' Bulletin 335." 31 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inch) stapled. Covers - squirrels, mice, rats, gophers, rabbits, bobcat, coyote, skunks, bats, otter, mink, weasels. Biological comments and habitat of each type of mammals. Fine clean copy, light discoloration around the edges. View More...
Agricultural Expereiment Station, Circular No. 251. 44 pages; illustrations. Paper wrapper. Covers the subject of poultry diseases such as colds and roup, tuberculosis, leg weakness, lice, mites, glies, tapeworms, etc. Visual examples of illnesses, how to perform autopsy and spot problems. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1925-1942. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Imprint of "Becker" [?] in the lower-right corner of image. The style of "DOPS" stamp box was used from 1925-1942. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight corner and edge wear and slight age toning on the back. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows a man and woman standing next to a covered wagon drawn by a bison. View More...
Reprinted from PUBLICATIONS IN ZOOLOGY, 46 (#7). Pages 391-396; maps; stiff paper wrapper (6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inch). Observations on collected kangaroo rats from San Luis Obispo County and Western Santa Barbara County in California. Biological descriptions of the rats with brief bibliography. View More...
Original publisher's blue cloth binding. 6 3/4" x 9 1/2." 465 pages, complete. Fourteen black and white plates, complete. Bibliography in the back. Beige card laid-in postmarked 1947 and addressed to Fred C. Hartman in Los Angeles. Black and gold-colored illustrated endpapers. Gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine but very faded. Top edge gilt but also very faded. Some pages unopened. Pages and covers are clean. Binding is tight. A natural history of California with descriptions of landscapes, wildlife, and flora. Woodblock illustrations of natural scenery by Ari... View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and a gilt facsimile signature of the author on the front cover. Top edge gilt. 5" x 7 1/4." 280 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece, complete (WorldCat lists six plates but it is assumed the number of plates, one, is complete, given it is a frontispiece). Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Offsetting on the front and back endpapers. Front free endpaper is clipped in the top corner on the fore-edge. Slight wear at the corners and head and tail of the spine. A Near Fine copy. John Burrough... View More...
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...
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 a beige slip of... View More...
Original publisher's white cloth binding with black lettering on front cover and spine. Part of "Harper's Black & White Series." 4" x 5 1/4." 161 pages, complete. One black-and-white frontispiece depicting a women riding on horseback in the New England countryside. Four additional pages advertising other books in the back. Former owner's signature in black ink (faint and in fine lettering) on front free endpaper and a front flyleaf. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Pages have light age toning. Covers are darkened to a light beige on front and back... View More...
Original black and white photo postcard. "1922" printed in the description on the back. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." All text, including the title, printed on the back. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for age toning on the back. A Fine copy. This postcard shows a group of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus), formerly known as the Alaska fur seals (Callorhinus alascensis), on a rocky shore. A caption, "In the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco," possibly refers to the location of the original image. There is also a descri... View More...
Original small broadside printed on beige paper. 6" x 9." One page, complete. Paper is very clean and intact. There are three horizontal fold lines and a few splits at the edges along the folds. A list of facts pertaining to the work done by the California Fish and Game Commission toward the protection of "wild life resources" in consideration of conservation, hunting, and fishing. The broadside gives a summary of raising fish in a hatchery and notes how some hatcheries specialize in rainbow, steelhead, black-spotted, or golden trout. It also mentions the State Game Farm in Yountville, ... View More...
