Natural History from The Owl at the Bridge

Offprint, pages 139-149, illus.; stapled with cover title; inscribed to Irving Beck MD of Providence RI. Good. Stock#ofc0462.

Four catalogues. Marlborough: 193 items, illus. Junk: (248) 332 items, illus.; (250) 80 items; (252) 215 items., illus. All in pictorial paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0282.

Two Bow Windows Book Shop catalogues: (67) 636 items; (77) 562 items, library date stamp on front cover; stapled in pictorial paper covers; Good. Three Dawsons of Pall Mall catalogues: (224) 316 items, pencil & orange marker buyer notes on rear cover & page margins; (275) 60 items, color pictorial paper covers; (253) 325 items, pencil & orange marker… Saber más sobre este artículo

"A selection of 300 rare and important books illustrating the history of Medicine, Science and Technology including Chemistry and Pharmacology, Natural History, Botany, Zoology and related subjects." Bookseller catalogue, 299 items, index, illus.; paper covers; Good. Stock#ofc0280.

336 items, b&w illus.; Very Good in paper covers. Stock#ofc0212.

London: Groombridge & Sons, Paternoster Row, 1855. First Edition. Hard Cover. iv, 252 p., 60 leaves of colored plates; 32 x 26 cm. Beverley Morris was a younger brother of Francis Morris, the famous ornithologist. "A collection of accounts of British game birds, with a statement of the distribution and habits of the species and descriptions of the birds,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Rand McNally, MCMXLIII [1953]. Hard Cover. "How To Identify [59] American Trees." 62, [1] p., index, illus., 17 cm.; pictorial green covers; top of paper spine torn, minor wear; good. 35252 {ns}.

William Morrow, NY, 1966. Hard Cover. 321 p., illus., 5 maps, index, 24 cm. "as a Bengali moneylender may in middle age feel the call to take up the begging-bowl or an innkeeper of Donegal to visit the Eternal City, I thought of devoting the next winter to the cold ocean beach. ...By the last of October… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chromographie und Verlag: Gustav W. Seitz, Wandsbeck. Hard Cover. Title-page, 13 individual color lithographs, matted, with flowers and a verse, one for each month + Frühlingslied. Red cloth case decorated in black & gold, tears at front corner, slightly soiled; withal VG. Stock#20036.

NY, Harper & Bros., 1872 [i.e. 1873]. Hard Cover. 120, 170, 179 pages, text illustrations; 17 cm. Hooker was professor of medicine at Yale. "For the use of families and schools. Intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature." First published New York, 1857. Black covers, black leather spine stamped in gold, edges… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, Cresset Press, 1960. Hard Cover. xxiii, 296 p., ill., 20.5 cm. Illustrated with wood engravings by Claire Oldham. This edition first published, 1947. White, "the greatest [non professional] naturalist Britain has produced." produced a classic in his study of the natural history of the Hampshire village of Selborne. PA. Stock# 35,914. Vg/ dj good+. Fisher, James, 1912.

Harper & Row [1988]. Perennial Library. Soft Cover. 271 p.; 20.5 cm. "We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence... 'Seem like we're just set down here,' a woman said to me recently, 'and don't nobody know why'." Contents: Heaven and Earth in Jest, Seeing, Winter, The Fixed, Untying the Knot, The… Saber más sobre este artículo

Riverside, Calif., Manessier Pub. Co. [1969]. Hard Cover. xlvi, 319, v p. illus., 2 fold. maps (in pocket), ports. 29 cm. Facsimile reprint of the 1874 ed., with a new introduction. Scammon's maps of Baja California and Ballenas Lagoon appear here for the first time. See: Howes S136, Cowan 570, Wickersham 732, Sabin 77441, Ricks p. 192. Stock# 43,156.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Knopf, NY [1979].. Hard Cover. 863 p., index, illus., color plates; 19 cm. A format convenient for carrying outdoors on hikes or camping. Stock# 32109. Green plastic covers; VG.

Brooklyn, 1924-1928; reprint Martino 1994.. Hard Cover. Three volumes. 1800 p. 22cm. The Role Played by the Scientific Societies; Scientific Journals; Natural History Museums and Botanic Gardens; State Geological and Natural History Surveys; Federal Exploring Expeditions in the Rise and Progress of American Botany, Geology, Mineralogy, Paleontology and Zoology. Sheehy EC 52. A definitive and important bibliography, strong on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Rocky Mountain Nature Association / National Park Service, c1981. Soft Cover. Oblong, 64 p., endpaper map, b/w illus. & color photos throughout, 14 x 22 cm. Tundra divided above the treeline into krummholz, meadows, snow accumulation & moist areas, fellfields, unstable & disturbed areas, and summits & rocky outcrops, each area with distinctive physical features and plants. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Providence (R. I.) Journal Co. [1984].. Hard Cover. 223 p., photos; 22.5 cm. Weber tramps the fields and woods of Rhode Island and writes a weekly column for the local newspaper. Stock# 33,578. Good+/ dj good. Autobiography; natural science; conservation.

New York, Boni and Liveright [c1923]. Hard Cover. xv, 242 p. col. front., illus., col. plates. 25 cm. Langford was a genuine paleontologist, a graduate of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School and he wrote this book on dinosaurs for public, perhaps juvenile, consumption. Stock# 41,820. Vg / illustrated boards.

Barre, Mass., Barre Publishers [1966]. Hard Cover. 48 p. illus. 21 cm. Short sketches in unicorns in myth and legend. Bibliography: p. 48. Stock# 102,427x. Vg / dj vg.

Hunt Botanical Library, Pittsburgh, 1963. Hard Cover. xcviii, [6], 36 pages, 34 plates (8 double-page), [12] pages; 31.5 cm. "Number 1 of The Hunt Facsimile Series Editor: George H. M. Lawrence." This was Dr .Lawrence's own copy. "This Edition Is Limited To 2000 Copies." Bound in marbled paper boards with heavy paper spine; corners scuffed; internally fine. Stock#OB349.