Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1941. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto; pp; 80-102, summary, bibliography; Illustrated, map, chart, plates; original printed green paper wrappers; Ex-Reading Museum with just a call number upper right of wrapper, no other markings what-so-ever. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries Volume 50, bulletin 36. More
(London): The Linnean Society by the Academic Press, (1981). Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 193, index; charts and graphs; red cloth, gilt in publisher's glassine;. A very nice copy. More
Buckarest: Jugendverlag, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 109, (iii),; illustrated with a black and white frontispiece portrait of the author, thirty pages of reproduced cyanotype photographs comprising forty-four images and three large folding maps; original printed pictorial color wrappers; Text is in German;. Scarce, OCLC locates just a single..... More
New York: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1897. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 561-569; original brown pictorial printed wrappers;. This is the Edinburgh printed edition supplied with an American title page for American distribution. More
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp.x, 675 with index; Frontispiece portrait plus three photographs; blue cloth, gilt in a dust jacket; jacket is chipped at edges;. Smith was with the US Department of Agriculture and became the "Dean of American plant pathologists". Scarce definitive biography. More
(Ottawa): National Museum of Canada, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; iii, (i), 132,bibliography, index; Four plates, photographs; burgundy cloth, gilt; Text slightly toned, otherwise very good. More
Np: Conservation Commission State of Missouri, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. (1944). Quarto; pp. unpaginated, (180); color frontispiece, range map, illustrated endpapers and decorations plus eighty-four photographs; decorated burgundy fabricoid cloth, gilt; Foreword by J. N. "Ding" Darling; Very good; Important work dealing with Conservation and management of the Prairie Chicken..... More
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. 423pp. with index, appendices and notes. Very good in like jacket. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884. First American Edition. Cloth. Small octavo (4 7/8" x 7 3/4), terra cotta cloth. Cover decorated in black stamped border design, which is blind stamped on the back cover. Spine titled in gilt. 351, (17)pp. with publisher's ads for scientific books, including a...... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911. Hardcover. Sextodecimmo red cloth decorated in black with the design repeated on the grey-green jacket. 156pp. with index and appendices. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of a platypus and an echidna and drawings and diagrams in the text. The jacket has a closed tear from the..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Limited edition, 500 copies. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 399, (i), colophon; illustrated; cream cloth lettered in gilt in a slipcase; Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated. Foreward by Brooke Hindle. Pieces by Assimov, Arthur Clarke and others. Pieces by Assimov, Arthur Clarke and others. More
London: Hutchinson University Library, (1967). Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 216 with index; Illustrated; terra-cotta cloth in dust jacket; Previous owner's name;. Not an ex-library copy. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 255; blue cloth lettered in red, and silver in a pictorial dust jacket;. Tale of a Roebuck in the Scottish Highlands. More
Boston: Smithsonian Institution & Little Brown and Co., (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo; pp; 256, index; profusely illustrated with color & black and white photographs; blue cloth and yellow paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Drawn from the popular exhibit at the Smithsonian's National..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, (1981). First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Folio; pp; xii, 159, index; beautifully illustrated with fifty, (50) color plates from watercolors; brown buckram lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers in a pictorial dust jacket;. This book is divided into two main parts; Part 1 contains a review..... More
Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1945. First Edition. Thick octavo (6" x 9.25"), original printed wraps. 528pp. text plus 100 plates in black and white. Very good but for the number "70" written in ink, upper right corner of the front wrap. With a bibliography, index to stations..... More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum, 1942. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 341-490; Illustrated with folding map and chart of the Uinta Basin and black and white plates; original printed wrappers; Uncut, a "time-capsule" copy. Vol. XXVIII, of the Annals of the Carnegie Museum. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo, pp; 50, (i), ad; frontispiece; brown blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers; A perforated stamp from the Hartford Medical Society Library, small paper spine label else very good, a tight clean copy. A curious edition; after each leaf..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1993). Quarto (8.75" x 11.25")` black cloth and tan boards, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 174, (3)pp. with index and credits. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth decorated with fern motif. Top edge gilt. 362pp. with index and glossary. Illustratedwith "over two hundred illustrations from original drawings and photographs". Good or better. Some edgewear; title ink rubbed from spine. The author includes a section..... More
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9.25"), brown cloth. 260pp. plus colophon. Index and bibliography. Illustrated and maps. The fore-edge is untrimmed and many leaves are unopened. A few pages were carelessly opened and the resulting tear was repaired with tape. A little defect..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1907. Second edition, this originally appeared in 1895 in a two volume set. Hardcover. Two volumes in one; Octavo; pp; I; xxiii, (i), 208, (ii), ads; II; vi, 231, (iv), ads; illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and another seventy eight black and..... More
London: Cassell & Company, 1903. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 294, index; illustrated with one hundred twenty-three black and white photographs by Cherry & Richard Kearton; decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, lettered in gilt; previous owner's bookplate; A solid copy. Frontispiece toned else very good. A classic natural..... More
Danbury Ct. Danbury Medical Printing Company, Publishers, December, 1899. Original edition. Wraps. Tall quarto; pp; xvi, 467-496, xvii-xx, 497-506, xxi-xxii, 167-180, xxiii-xliv; great illustrated ads; original printed paper wrappers;. A serious medical journal with contributed articles; Scarce, all copies listed are not original, Nabu, etc PODs as of catalogue date..... More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp. xviii, 550 with bibliography and index; Illustrated, three hundred eighty black and white figures; green cloth, gilt; near fine; An Important Contribution! More