Ethology: What Animals Do and Why (Science for Everyone)
Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1988. Mass Market Paperback.
Edge wear.
294 pp. A description of ethology, which is the study of animal behavior.
Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1988. Mass Market Paperback.
Edge wear.
294 pp. A description of ethology, which is the study of animal behavior.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Milotte, Alfred & Elma. First English Language Edition. Large Hardcover.
First English language edition. Minimal wear to corners, spine lightly foxed, ink gift note on front endpaper.
74, [1] pp. Tipped in glossy photographic illustrations reproduced from scenes in the 1955 Disney / True-Life.....
Leominster, Massachusetts: The Eusey Press, Inc., 1921. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1980s facsimile of 1921 original. Rear endpaper lightly soiled, small dealer bookplate on rear endpaper corner. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
587 pp. No images, making it an oddity in the series (other volumes include numerous.....
West Hartford, Connecticut: American Morgan Horse Register, 1939. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1980s facsimile of 1939 original. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, minor loss of gilt from spine. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
230, [2] pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A continuation of the series begun by Joseph.....
Burlington, Vermont: The Champlain Printers, 1949. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1980s facsimile reprint of 1949 original. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
350 pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A continuation of the series begun by Joseph Battell, who passed away shortly before the publication of volume.....
Providence, Rhode Island: The Oxford Press, Inc. / The Morgan Horse Club, Inc., 1960. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1980s facsimile of 1960 original. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
427 pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A continuation of the series begun by Joseph Battell, who passed.....
New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1966. Large Hardcover.
Lacks slipcase. Both volumes: Spine faded.
xxxi, 223 plates; plates 224-431, lv pp. Two volume set. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt titles. John James Audubon, (born April 26, 1785, Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue, West Indies [now in Haiti]—died January 27, 1851, New York.....
Garden City, New York: Halcyon House, 1943. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Jacket heavily rubbed with chips and tears.
xviii, 268 pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: How, When and Where to Look and Listen; Bird Photography and Banding; Attracting by Planting; Attracting by Artificial Feeding; Attracting by.....
Middlebury, Vermont: Register Printing Company, 1894. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1980s facsimile reprint of 1894 original. Edges lightly soiled, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xx, 996 pp. Two-panel pedigree chart precedes text, map of United States follows text, black-and-white photographs and woodcut/engraved illustrations.....
Montpelier, Vermont: Capital City Press, 1983. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1983 facsimile of 1915 original. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
691 pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout. The last volume of the register published under the name of the author who started the series in the.....
Garden City, New York: The Junior Literary Guild / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Beatty, Hetty Burlingame. Hard Cover.
Slightly musty. Jacket base stained; chips, tears and creases to jacket edges. Pencil name on title page.
136 pp. "Bronto wasn’t much of a horse. At least that’s what everybody thought.....
Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally & Company, 1936. Allen, J.C. Small Hard Cover.
Edge wear, one inch by one inch chip along top edge of last page, surface tears on rear paste-down endpaper.
Unpaginated. Illustrated by J.C. Allen. Black-and-white illustrations of various farm animals and pets.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine, edges, and some pages foxed.
x, 333 pp. A guide to North American gulls and terns and their habits, by the American ornithologist commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution to publish what was at the.....
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition - a paperback original. Some pages uncut. Three inch tear to corner of rear wrapper which has been mended with tape, rear wrapper creased.
ix, 734 pp. A guide to North American Wood Warblers and their habits.....
New York: 1895. Soft Cover.
Front wrapper loosening but still holding, small chips and small tears to wrapper edges.
91 pp. Extracted from Bernard's Elements de Palontologie, Paris, 1895. From Fourteenth Annual Report N.Y. State Geologist, 1895, pp. 127-217. In the last years of the 19th century, Félix Bernard (1863–1898).....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Pencil name on front endpaper.
xi, 47 pp. A guide to cat dissection. The author describes the study of the anatomy of the cat in his preface as 'a desirable prerequisite for college courses in human physiology and.....
Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1828. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Lacks buffalo color plate, includes color leopard frontispiece, color fox vignette title, and other nine color plates. Rebacked with new cloth and end sheets, with original leather backstrip laid down. Boards rubbed, foxed throughout.
189, [5] pp. 12mo. Leather spine and.....
Toulouse: Les Freres Douladoure, 1945. Hard Cover.
Custom bound in blue cloth with previous owner's initials (S.C.B.) on spine base, gilt titles. Pages toned, bookplate, pamphlet, and small note laid in, ink name and date on front endpaper, explaining that Robert L. Gering (a Ph.D. in arachnology, from whose library.....
Tours: Ad Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs-Libraires. 1843. Third Edition. Full-Leather.
Third edition. Gift bookplate on front endpaper, likely indicating this was a school prize (a common practice in the 19th century). Edges a bit rubbed, lightly foxed throughout.
262 pp. 12mo. French text. Green full leather, with intricate blind-stamped design.....
Cambridge: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1886. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Bookplate of John E. Thayer on front endpaper. Thayer was an industrialist active in western railroad development, and also an amateur naturalist, collector, and author. He sponsored several scientific expeditions.
22, [22] pp. 4to. Leather spine and corners, marbled boards.....
Cambridge, Mass. The Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1906. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Author's bookplate laid in. Hinges weakening, ink name on front endpaper.
426 pp. Includes four plates and three maps. A study of the birds of Cambridge, Massachusetts. William Brewster (July 5, 1851 - July 11, 1919) was.....
London / Paris / New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1890. Hard Cover.
Some loss from spine head, light stain on bottom fore edge corner of a few pages, a few pages dog-eared, front and rear endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square.
viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of an.....
Buffalo, New York: Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1919. Stapled Binding.
Small sticker ghost on front wrapper, minor general wear.
59 pp. Eusthenopteron is a genus of prehistoric sarcopterygian (often called lobe-finned fishes) which has attained an iconic status from its close relationships to tetrapods. Early depictions of this animal.....
Toronto: Pagurian Press Limited, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Rear jacket faintly rubbed.
126 pp. Includes color plates and B&W drawings. A diary of a wildlife artist's three week voyage with an arctic traveller to Bathurst and Ellesmere Islands. Includes numerous color plates and black & white sketches.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday / Natural History Press, 1974. Peterson, Roger Tory; Eckelberry, Don; Singer, Arthur; Gilbert, Al; Tudor, Guy; Ward, Neil; Malick, Don; Ferguson, Walter; Yrizarry, John; Pineo, Chris. Hard Cover.
Preliminary corrigenda for the supplement laid in, detailing submitted corrections. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from.....