Nature, Natural History & Animals

Barrows, Walter B., and E. A. Schwarz. The Common Crow of the United States. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895. 98 pages. Index. Illustrations. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Division of Ornithology and Mammology, Bulletin, 6. General Report: Walter B. Barrows. Report on Insect Food: E. A. Schwarz. Good wrappers (soft cover), edges slightly sunned. Pages unopened. #24855. $20
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Beal, F. E. L. Food of the Bobolink, Blackbirds, and Grackles. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. 77 pages. Index. Illustrations. Map. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Division of Biological Survey. Bulletin, 13. Good wrappers (soft cover), upper part of backstrip frayed.. #24854. $20
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Cahalane, Victor H. A Biological Survey of Katmai National Monument. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institutions, 1959. iii, 246 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Folding map. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Volume 138, Number 5. Exlibrary. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover) in library pamphlet binding. Call number on spine, stamp inside front cover, on title page, on title page verso, and contents page; pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #24977. $20
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Carpenter, James, Drawings, and John Ferris, Commentary. The Herbs of Lost Thyme. Shelburne, Massachusetts: Lost Thyme Press, 1971. Edition limited to 500 copies. 4to (large book). 39 pages. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Unrelated gift inscriptions on first and second blank front flyleaf. #24817. $35
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Ellis, David H., George F. Gee, and Claire M. Mirande, editors. Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry, and Conservation. Foreword by Sir Peter Scott. Blaine, Washington: Hancock House Publishers, 1996. 4to (large book). 308 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Color and black-and-white photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Pictorial endpapers. Exlibrary. Stamps on top and bottom edges, title page, Contents page, and rear free endpaper. Very good plasticized pictorial hardcover. ISBN 0888393857. #23593. $40
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Gusey, William F. The Fish and Wildlife Resources of the Gulf of Alaska. Houston, Texas: Environmental Affairs, Shell Oil Company, 1978. 4to (large book). xxix, 580 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. Folding maps. Dated April 1978. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #25485. $75
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Howe, William H., coordinating editor and illustrator. The Butterflies of North America. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1975. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book). xiii, 633 pages. Index. Bibliography. 97 color plates containing 2093 illustrations and 32 text figures. Endpaper illustrations. 'This book is a comprehensive volume on the butterflies and skippers of Canada and the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. It is written for everyone who is interested in butterflies, from beginning student to professional.' - Preface. Exlibrary. Very good pictorial cloth-bound hardcover. Top third of front and rear cover slightly faded. Spine title label slightly worn. No external markings except library stamp on top edge. Library stamps and markings on flyleaf and top of title page. ISBN 0385049269. #21212. $50
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Isaacson, Richard T., compiler and editor. FPI: Flowering Plant Index. Volume 3, Number 1. Minneapolis: Andersen Horticultural Library, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 1995. 4to (large book). 377 pages. Index. Very good soft cover. Exlibrary: stamp on front cover and title page, call number in ball point pen on front cover. #27361. $35
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Isaacson, Richard T., compiler and editor. FPI: Flowering Plant Index. Volume 3, Number 2. Minneapolis: Andersen Horticultural Library, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 1997. 4to (large book). 389 pages. Index. Very good soft cover. Exlibrary: stamp on front cover and title page, call number in ball point pen on front cover. #27362. $35
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Monteil, Vincent. Essai sur le Chameau au Sahara Occidental. Saint-Louis du Senegal: Centre IFAN-Mauritanie, 1952. ix, 132, [2] pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Etudes Mauritaniennes, 2. Ouvrage Publie avec le Concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. A study of camels in Africa. Text in French. Good hardcover, rebound in library cloth. Exlibrary: title and call number printed on spine, stamp inside front cover; barcode label on rear flyleaf, pocket inside rear cover. #28276. $50
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Moynihan, M. Some Behavior Patterns of Platyrrhine Monkeys. I. The Night Monkey (Aotus Trivirgatus). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1964. Publication 4533. iv, 84 pages. Illustrations. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 146, Number 5. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary. Small call number label on upper left hand corner of front cover; small stamps on front cover, inside front cover and on title page, small stamps on bottom edge; remainder of pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23795. $25
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Pycraft, W. P. A History of Birds. Introduction by Sir Ray Lankester. London: Methuen, 1910. 1st edition. xxxi, 458 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Diagrams. Frontispiece (color photographs). Animal Life: An Evolutionary Natural History, volume II. Good hardcover. Hinges worn and slightly frayed. Pencil underlining. #18461. $20
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Russell, William F., Jr. Falconry: A Handbook for Hunters. Drawings by W. D. Sargent and Photographs by the Author. New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 1st edition. vi, 180 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Glossary. Frontispiece. Good hardcover; covers are dampstained and worn, spine title almost faded. Internally sound. #29126. $185
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Schmidt, Herta. Der Flug der Tiere. Mit Beitragen von Heinz Felten, Elli Franz, Wolfgang Klausewitz, Otto Kraus, Robert Mertens, Joachim Steinbacher und Wolfgang Struve. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1960. 1st printing. 164 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Senckenberg-Buch, 39. Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. Text in German. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Name in ink on title page. #25066. $25
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Smith, F., Colonel. A Manual of Veterinary Hygiene. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1905. 3d Edition, rewritten. xv, 1035 pages. Index. Illustrations. Slightly worn and frayed hardcover. Spine title illegible. Foxing throughout. #23286. $20
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Smith, Ray F., Thomas E. Mittler, and Carroll N. Smith, editors. History of Entomology. Palo Alto, California: Annual Reviews, Inc., in cooperation with the Entomological Society of America, 1973. vii, pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Topics covered include early entomology in East Asia and the Middle East, in the western world and medieval times, early naturalists and anatomists during the Renaissance and 17th century, Systematics, paleoentomology, phylogeny, morphology, insect physiology and ecology, etc. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0686092988. #28325. $45
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Tiner, Ralph W., and Peter L. M. Veneman. Hydric Soils of New England. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension Communication Center, 1989. Oblong 4to. 27 pages. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Cooperative Extension, University of Massachusetts, C-183R. 'The purpose of this publication is to familiarize people with the concept of hydric soils and the application of this concept to wetland identification.' - Page 1. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #29413. $25
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Van Someren, Vernon D. A Bird Watcher in Kenya. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. 1st printing. xvi, 270 pages. Index of birds mentioned in the text. Photographs. Includes a Bird Census List, September, 1951. Very good hardcover in slightly worn, torn and chipped dust jacket. #24449. $15
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Wiesner, Ekkehard. Die Leukosen des Rindes. Jena: Gustav Fisher Verlag, 1967. Zweite, neu bearbeitete Auflage. 169 pages. Bibliographical references. 13 photographs, including 2 in color. 19 Tables. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamp on blank front flyleaf, barcode label on rear flyleaf, pocket inside rear cover. #28278. $45
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