An Eastward Look
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1974. Limited Edition. Soft cover. No. 12/26 copies signed by the author. More
Nature
New York State Museum Memoir 12: Birds of New York: Part I: Introductory Chapters; Water Birds and Game Birds
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910. Green Cloth. Part I only. Left edge front cover slightly rubbed, cover corners gently worn. Binding tight, text clean. Black and white photographs and color illustrations throughout. Solid copy. Scarce. More
A Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise
NY and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977. Facsimile Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Double elephant folio, quarter navy morocco over burgundy loth with pressed title in gilt to cover and spine. Facsimile reprint of the 1873 edition, this #68 of the 250 numbered handbound copies. 36 color..... More
Die Bestimmung des Menschen. (The Determination of Man)
Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung, 1800. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarter vellum over decorated paper-backed boards. 338p. 19thC ownership name,Heidleberg, in black ink on title page. 338pp. Covers soiled, internals better than very good, solidly bound. More
The Theory & Practice of Rivers
Seattle: Winn Books, 1986. Russell Chatham. First. Hardcover. Signed by Harrison on the half-title page. Emerald and tan cloth binding with matching slipcase with gilt signature of author. As new. More
THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK
Albany: State of New York, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
STURTEVANT's NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS
Albany: State of New York, 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
Adventures Among Birds
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1923. Leather Spine/Cloth Boards. One of 750 copies for sale in England. Red leather spine with gently rubbed edges, red leather corners very slightly worn. Binding bright. Text clean. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. More
Aldo Leopold: Mentor By His Graduate Students: Proceedings of an Aldo Leopold Centenniel Symposium Held in Madison , Wisconson, April 23-24, 1987
Madison WI: Deprtment of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconson- Madison, 1987. First Edition. Soft cover. Wide 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 126 pages. Testimonial statements of twenty of Leopold's graduate students at the University of Wisconsin. Uncommon. More
Notice des Insectes de la France, Reputes Venimeux, Tiree des Ecrits des Natruralistes, des Medecins, & de l'Observation
Paris: Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, viii + 302 + (2) + 2 foldouts. Uncommon treatise on insects, and more uncommon in orignal paper-backed pasteboard covers, worn abourt edges, and with some loss to spine ends and to paper over spine. Spine label chipped and lacking..... More
The North American Sylva; or a Description of Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia To which is added a Desctiption of the Most Useful of the European Forest Trees (3 of 5 volumes)
Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter, 1865. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Three volumes of the 1865 edition, each in uniform publishers binding, in elaborately stamped (fornt and back) full leather binding, five raised bands to spine, gilt titles. aeg. Vol III is third volume of Micahux's) 180pp, plates 103 -156. Volume IV and..... More
THE GARDENER'S KALENDAR
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by C. Rivington, London, 1732. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon first edition. 8vo, xvi + 252 + 4p publishers' listings, frontispiece engraved by Pine, contemporary speckled panelled calf with rules and ornaments in blind, gilt dentelles and cover edges. Front cover hinge partially revealed..... More
THE GARDENER'S KALENDAR; Directing what Works are necessary to be performed Every Month....
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. and F. Rivington, et al, 1769. 15th Edition. Hardcover. Fifteenth edition 8vo, lxvi + 382 + index + 1p adv. likely early 19thc calf with single rule in gilt, raised bands, red leather label spine. Covers heavily worn, with some loss..... More
And Clouds Flying; A Book of Wild Fowl
London: Faber & Faber, 1947. Scott, Peter. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Scott on the half -title with an finely-rendered illustration of the head of a duck in blue ink, and scarce thus . Dustjacket has small tears on bottom edge and top spine, about very good. Book near fine..... More
RAILS OF THE WORLD
Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. Lansdowne, J. Fenwick. Limited First Edition. Half Red Leather, Beige Cloth. #108 of 400 copies. Signed, numbered print laid-in. Handsome, red, half-leather over cloth. In publisher's cloth slipcase. Fine. More
THE STORY OF THE HEREFORDS
Chicago: Sanders Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, 1914, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original publisher's binding- blue cloth, gilt titles, pictorial pastedown. Stains to edges her and there not affecting text block. Solid copy. Scarce. More
The Eye of the Wind: An Autobiography
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good, price clipped dustjacket. Inscribed by Scott to an American collector "Inscribed to Hugh McMillan by Peter Scott October 1965" on the title page with a finely articulated open-winged goose in flight drawn in blue ink, plus a...... More
A new method of chemistry : including the history, theory, and practice of the art : translated from the original Latin of Dr. Boerhaave's Elementa chemiae, as published by himself : to which are added, notes and an appendix, shewing the necessity and utility of enlarging the bounds of chemistry : with sculptures. (2 volu,mes)
London: Printed for T. and T. Longman, 1753. 3rd Edition, Corrected. Hardcover. Vol 1: xvi + 591p. Vol 2: 410p + index + Plates I - XVI on 8 foldout sheets, plate XVII single sheet, appedix of 8 plates on single sheets. Bound in old calf, some foxing. Good copies..... More
THE CRACKER BARREL
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fifth printing. Plainly signed by Sloane on the half title. No other names, inscriptions, bookplates, etc. Near fine in better than very good unclipped (price inked out) dustjacket. More
A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fourteenth printing. Plainly signed by Sloane on the half title. No other names, inscriptions, bookplates, etc. Near fine in better than very good unclipped (price inked over) dustjacket. More
AMERICAN BARNS AND COVERED CARRIAGES
NY: Wilfred Funk, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fourth printing. With an original Sloane drawing in blue ink of a covered bridge with the word "Peace", in Sloane's lettering style. proclaimed above it and below inscribed "to Dave Garroway Eric Sloane New Milford Conn". Garroway (1913 - 1982) was..... More
JAMES HOUSTON: A RETROSPECTIVE
NY: Steuben Glass (Corning Glass Works), 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine, unused exhibition catalog, of Steuben's crystal pieces featuring Inuit or Eskimo themes, the primary interest of Steuben's then president, James Houston. More
THE SHOREBIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. Clem, Robert Verity. Limited First Edition. Full-Leather. #236 of 250 copies .Full leather. Prospectus laid-in. Near fine copy, in original publisher's cloth slipcase. More
MAKING THE GROUNDS ATTRACTIVE WITH SHRUBBERY
Ny: McBride, Nast & Company, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, white stamped titles and decorations on green cloth, 54 pp, 8 b&w full page photos. Minor loss to white stamp front cover, else near fine, lacking dustjacket. Incribed by Tabor on the ffe: "To Samuelk Eastman Kimball - not..... More
NORTH AMERICAN WILD FLOWERS
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1925. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, 5 volumes, limited to 500 copies. Original, navy blue morocco backed, linen-covered boxes, metal Smithsonian medal front cover, cloth ties. Each portfolio contains 80 loose lithographs of floral specimens with descriptive text. Volume 1 w/ string-tied booklet w/ forward signed..... More