Category: Animals

Two Extraordinary New Blind Nematognath Fishes from the Rio Negro, Representing a New Subfamily of Pygidiidae, with a Rearrangement of the Genera of the Family, and Illustrations of Some Previously Described Genera and Species from Venezuela and Brazil, No. 40

Price: $10.00

Publisher: No City, California Academy of Sciences : 1944

Seller ID: 4336

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 40, pp. 591-602, 1 text fig., pls. 52-56. November 7, 1944. Unopened pages. Page edges uncut. Inked stamp imprint front cover. "Among the many interesting fishes obtained by the late Dr. Carl Ternetz in Brazil and Venezuela during 1923, 1924, and 1925, none is more remarkable than two singular species of minute blind pygidiids collected at the Sao Gabriel Rapids of the Rio Negro". The author writes of: Typhlobelus ternetzi Myers, new species; Glanapteryx anguilla Myers; Ochmacanthus orinoco Myers; etc.
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Real Photo Post Card - "Dog Team; N.P.S. 91"

By: National Park Service

Price: $10.00

Publisher: National Park Service

Seller ID: 022647

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1930-1950. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. "N.P.S." likely refers to the National Park Service but may refer to either the team or an imprint. The style of Eastman Kodak Company ("EKC") stamp box on the back was used from 1930-1950. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for a couple pinholes at the top and a small dampstain on the back. The dampstain is located toward the right edge and does not affect the front. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows a dog sledding team in a snow...
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Descriptions of New Squirrels from Mexico and Central America.

By: Nelson, E.W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Biological Society of Washington : 1898

Seller ID: 11578

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

"Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, XI (June 3, 1898)." Pages 145-156; gray paper wrapper (6 x 9 1/4 inch). Jospeh Grinnell's signature in ink on the top front cover. Among the squirrels listed are Richmond's, Tampico, Toluca, Goldman's, Managua, Oak Woods, Michoacan, Colima, Guerrero, Popocatepetl, Perote, and Acapulco squirrels. Fine clean copy.
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The Biology of Twins (The University of Chicago Science Series)

By: Newman, Horatio Hackett

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press : 1917

Seller ID: 019791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's red cloth binding. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 186 pages, complete. Various black and white illustrations and diagrams, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt decoration on front cover. Former ownership signature of H. R. Hunt, a professor of biology and genetics, on front free endpaper in black ink: "H. R. Hunt, Oct. 1919." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Spine is a little bit faded but is otherwise clean and intact. A fine copy. Author Horatio Hackett Newman (1875-1957) was a professor and pioneer in the field of human genetics. In this book,...
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The Farmers' Manual and Complete Accountant

By: Nichols, J. L. editor and compiler

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Naperville, Ill., J. L. Nichols & Co. : 1905

Seller ID: 015976

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Title continues: "New Methods of Penmanship; Law without a Lawyer; Business Forms and Business Laws. A Complete Treatise on Insects Injurious to Vegetation. How to Breed, How to Train, and How to Doctor Horses; How to Doctor Cattle, Hogs, Sheep and Poultry. A Complete Set of Breeder's Tables." Publisher's black cloth binding, rubbing and spotting. Some splitting at front hinge. 363 pages with index. Dimensions 9 x 11 1/2 inches. Numerous diagrams, illustrations and tables. All purpose manual for the early 20th century farmer.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "and Nicodemus Was Fed By the Wayside."

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company : 1899

Seller ID: 9110

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 9651. Stereograph on a tan board (7 x 3 1/2 inch). Image of a man milking a cow with a cat begging for milk. Nice clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Moving a Herd, Sierra Bonita, the Oldest Ranch in Arizona."

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, N.Y., Underwood & Underwood

Seller ID: 8997

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Image # 6155 (S 258) on dark gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside. View of a cattle herd headed toward the camera with very little vegetation save a Yucca tree. clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Ostriches, Matariych, Egypt."

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company : 1899

Seller ID: 9020

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

No. 9767 (22) photo by B.L. Lingley. Stereograph on tan card (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside. View of a small 'flock' of ostriches with an adobe wall in the background. Nice clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Tails"

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, N.Y., Underwood & Underwood : 1897

Seller ID: 9109

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Unnumbered. Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with title in six languages on the backside. Farming scene of young pigs at the feeding trough with chickens in the background. Nice clean copy.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "The Shepherd and His Flock, Montana"

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company : 1909

Seller ID: 8982

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Image # 13647 (168) on dark gray stereocard (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary printed on the back of the card. Shepherd and his dog looking down on a large herd of sheep in Montana east of Yellowstone National Park. Very nice image.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Thrifty and Contented Hogs (Poland China) in Rich Alfalfa Pasture, Kansas

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 7648

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 183-16736 by the publisher. Two columns of text on back discusses the black and white photo, the type of hog and hog raising in general. Circa 1915. Letter "B" written on back.
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A New Rodent of the Genus Nesoryzomys from the Galapagos Islands; No. 21

By: Orr, Robert T.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: No City, California Academy of Sciences : 1938

Seller ID: 4317

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 21, pp. 303-306, pl. 25. September 1, 1938. "A native species of Galapagos rodents, as known at present, belong to two closely related oryzomine genera, Oryzomys and Nesoryzomys". The author describes: Nesoryzomys swarthi Orr, new species, Plate 25.
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Mammals from Sikang, China; No. 22

By: Orr, Robert T.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: No City, California Academy of Sciences : 1938

Seller ID: 4318

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 22, pp. 307-310. September 1, 1938. Mammalogy. The Academy ".received as a gift . a collection of large mammals from near Tatsienlu, Sikang (formerly western Szechwan), far western China. The relative scarcity of material of this sort in American institutions as well as the actual rarity of certain of the species represented appear to be sufficient justification for the present paper making known the existence of these specimens". Pithecus thibetanus (Milne-Edwards), Short-tailed macacque; Pseudois nayaur szechua...
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Mammals of the Clearwater Mountains, Idaho; No. 35

By: Orr, Robert T.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: No City, California Academy of Sciences : 1943

Seller ID: 4331

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences; Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 35, pp. 511-536; pls. 45-47. August 18, 1943. Unopened pages. Page edges uncut. Inked stamp imprint front cover. "Relatively little of a general nature has been published regarding the mammals of this region and even less of a detailed nature concerning its mammalian fauna". The author writes about: Description of Area; Habitats; Sorex vagrans monticola, Merriam, Wandering Shrew; Ursus americanus cinnamomum, Audubon and Bachman, Black Bear; Citellus lateralis tescorum (Hollister), Mantled Ground Squirrel; etc.
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Biological Investigations in Alaska and Yukon Territory

By: Osgood, Wilfred H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office : 1909

Seller ID: 016617

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Paper wrapper, moderate chipping. Some notes in ink on front. Body and binding in excellent condition. 96 pages with index, 3 maps and 8 black and white photographs on plates, complete. North American Fauna No. 30. William Hudson Osgood (1875-1947) was an American zoologist who spent his career at the United States Bureau of Biological Survey, then as curator of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. This survey of birds and mammals in Alaska concentrated on three areas: I. East Central Alaska II. The Ogilvie Range, Yukon III. The Macmillan River, Yukon.
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Bird Songs of New England

By: Paine, Harriet E.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Boston, MA, A. Williams and Company : 1882

Seller ID: 019703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's green cloth binding. 6" x 8 1/2." Twenty-eight pages, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover. Two newspaper articles on birds and ornithology laid-in near front of book and in the back. On the front free endpaper is an inscription written by Helen King Spofford in black ink: "To Ruth Roberts (a friend of the author from another friend)" and a white card tipped-in with a gift message from Spofford to Ruth, also written in black ink. Spofford's signature (written in black ink) on title page but in the top margin. Pages and covers are clean and intact. Birds Songs o...
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Home Course in Animal Breeding.

By: Palmer, C.C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pleasant Hill, Ohio, National School of Animal Breeding : 1944

Seller ID: 8816

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

A set of ten lesson pamphlets, complete, in their green illustrated wrappers. Nice clean copies inside and out. 14 to 29 pages each with illustrations.
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Real Photo Post Card - "Nuts About Oregon"

By: Patterson, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Frank Patterson

Seller ID: 022377

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1920s-1930s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed to the side of the image. "#1" and "Pat.," the possible imprint of Frank Patterson, are printed in the lower-right corner on front. "A Patterson Photograph" is 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 chipmunk standing on its hind legs atop a rock. Frank Patterson (1883-1961) was an Oregon photographer who began his career in the 1920s. There is documentation of his photography bus...
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Real Photo Post Card: "'Good Morning; #5 Pat."

By: Patterson, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Frank Patterson

Seller ID: 022443

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1920s-1930s. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. "#5" and "Pat.," the possible imprint of Frank Patterson, are printed at the bottom of the image. "Patterson Photograph" printed on the back. Postcard is unused. Postcard is virtually pristine and intact except for minuscule corner wear. A Fine copy. This postcard shows a bear peeking between two trees. Frank Patterson (1883-1961) was an Oregon photographer who began his career in the 1920s. There is documentation of his photography business in 1926 at whic...
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Nature Lovers Library. Birds of America (volumes 1-3), Mammals of America, Mammals of Other Lands, Birds of Other Lands and reptiles, Fishes, Jointed Animals and Lower Forms.

By: Pearson, T. Gilbert, Editor in Chief

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The University Society Inc. : 1923

Seller ID: 5800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

6 volumes (complete), illustrations, many in color, green cloth with gilt titles, 11 x 8.5" Very good overall, the mammals volumes show some use, one plate in v.4 is loose, front hinge of v.6 weak. More attention is given here to habits and characteristics of the birds and animals than in previous scientific works.
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Category: Animals