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Sitka: The Alaskan Publishing Company, 1885-1886. Three folio newspapers, 4pp. each. Small stab holes in inner margin of each issue from prior binding, old folds and minor splitting. General edge wear and small closed tears, heavier in first and second issues, just into edge of text on first leaf of.....
Omaha, Ne. 1884. 64,[6]pp. including several full-page and in- text illustrations, plus three colored plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Light wear to wrappers, but on the whole very clean and near fine. An interesting Nebraska promotional item, giving a county-by-county description of the state and the best types of fruits to.....
Boston. 1848. 247pp. Frontis. Illus. Half title. Original printed boards. Boards sunned, lower half of backstrip lacking and top half torn but cords sound, bookplate. Dampstained throughout, some scattered foxing, else internally good. "Second edition - enlarged." Includes a history of the vine, directions for its culture and propagation. Indexed.....
Philadelphia: Charles Alexander, 1838-39. Five issues. Original printed wrappers. Moderate wear to extremities. Fore-edge of front wrapper trimmed affecting border. Vignette clipped from front wrapper of fourth issue. Occasional dampstaining and spotting. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper of third and fourth issues. Good. An early American silk manual, published.....
Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1737 [i.e. 1736]. [16]pp. Stitched. Final page soiled, else text quite clean. Final page strengthened at fore-edge, repaired along gutter. Overall, very good. An early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames' run of almanacs predated Benjamin Franklin's POOR.....
Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1740 [i.e. 1739]. [16]pp. Stitched. First and final leaves extremely soiled and stained, obscuring some text. Text tanned, and with some internal staining as well. Fair. An early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames' run of almanacs predated.....
Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1743 [i.e 1742]. [16]pp. Stitched. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Some loss in margins of three leaves, affecting a few letters in one leaf of the calendar. About very good. An early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames'.....
Cambridge. 1924. vii,102pp. plus forty-one colored plates. Quarto. Original red cloth. Small white paint spot on lower front cover. Bookplate. Else clean and very good. Beautiful color plates of bird watercolors done by the author, including sandpipers, plovers, etc.
Dallas: Banks, Upshaw and Company, 1935. [10],274pp. Contemporary pictorial cloth. Fine. A children's book that encourages "boy and girl readers" to "keep your eyes and ears alert, you can find here the most interesting wild things in America." With many photographs and illustrations.
Maplewood. 1967. xvi,307pp. Cloth. Very good. In slightly torn dust jacket. Includes 150 color prints by Audubon and his son of American Quadrupeds.
New York. 1926. 349pp. Mezzotint portrait by Cruikshank. Original cloth. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, else clean and very good. This is one of forty-two special large paper copies with a 19th-century mezzotint portrait of Audubon by Cruikshank inserted as the frontispiece. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining.....
London. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slight shelf wear. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Very good. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining episodes from his various writings, with many scenes set in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
New York. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slightest shelf wear. Very good. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining episodes from his various writings, with many scenes set in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831-1835. Various paginations. Modern three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some unobtrusive ink underlining on titlepage. Minor foxing and age-toning. Very good. These extracts from ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY pull together in one volume all sixty of the short travel.....
London. 1829. Double elephant folio print, framed. Near fine condition. Audubon's depiction of the Mississippi Kite appeared in 1829 as plate 117 in THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. This plate aroused considerable debate at the time, because many natural historians were quick to note the similarity between the lower of the.....
Ardsley. 1979. 26pp. Facsimiles. Frontis. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Near fine. From an edition limited to 400 copies, signed by the editor, Michael Zinman. This volume presents, for the first time, two widely differing texts by the famous naturalist.
Edinburgh. 1831-1839. Five volumes. A few in-text illustrations. Half title in each volume. Large, thick octavos. Modern buckram, printed paper labels. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light foxing, primarily to first and last few leaves. Tear in half title of second volume, repaired with tape.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Two volumes. xiv,532; viii,554,[1]pp., plus frontispiece portrait in each volume, and numerous plates. Original black cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Cloth lightly rubbed and edge worn, scuff and three small dents in backstrip of first volume. Clean internally. About very good. A handsomely-produced compilation of John.....
Norman. [ 1964]. 488,[1]pp. Color frontis. Illus. Cloth. Fine. In slightly worn dust jacket. Biography of the famed naturalist.
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. 1861. 139,xxxvi,[2]pp. Original printed boards (detached), spine perished. Bit tanned, else internally very good. An enthusiastic overview of Prince Edward Island's natural resources and agricultural and mineral possibilities, including descriptions of flora and fauna of the island, as well as a history of its settlement. The.....
Baltimore: Williams & Watkins Company, 1925. xxi,[1],146pp., plus folding map and seventy- six color plates. Quarto. Original brown faux leather, front board and spine gilt. Light edge and spine wear. Later gift inscription, ownership and bookseller's labels on front free endpapers. Light tanning to text, plates fine. About very good.....
London. 1868. 596pp. Portrait frontispiece plus 22 plates and 2 partially colored maps of the author's routes (1 folding). Contemporary morocco, expertly rebacked with gilt spine in matching style. Insect damage to face of back cover. Internally clean and very good. Second edition of this account of travel and hunting.....
London. 1781. iv,viii,557,[1]pp. plus pp.*471-*477, plus two maps (one folding), five folding tables, and two plates. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Good. A strange ensemble, but the two articles in the collection of the greatest interest are "The Possibility of approaching the North Pole.....
Washington. 1889. 405pp. Folding map. Cloth. Hinges worn. Internally good. Prepared with C. Hart Merriam. The "Columbian Exchange" of New World and Old World animals is always fascinating. When one considers the horse, the potato, and various diseases, the effect of the mingling strains is intense. This is especially true.....
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Joseph Crukshank, 1775. xii,293,[3]pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled sheep; spine with raised bands and blindstamped “B” in the second compartment. Worming along joints, corners worn of front pastedown. Small worm track in lower margin of front free endpaper and following twelve leaves, and in gutter of.....
