Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1989. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Top edge of jacket bumped. Remainder mark, top page ridge lightly foxed.
xiii, 370 pp. Provides detailed information on the characteristics, behavior, life cycle, and habitat of ruffled grouse.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges faintly toned, sticker remnant to front endpaper.
An account of his 1826 journey to England and Scotland to arrange the publishing of his Birds of America. Contains black-and-white reproductions of portraits and illustrations.
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1990. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Address label on half-title page.
xi, 83 pp. Featuring a variety of techniques: inserting glass eyes; carving and painting eyes; burning; carving with and without fillers; suggesting detail.
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1990. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Address label on half-title page.
x, 85 pp. Offers a wide variety of techniques for creating all kinds of feet for all kinds of birds, with over 150 step-by-step photos. The methods used by innovative carvers like Dan Brown.....
New York: Pantheon, 2002. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Top of wrapper worn.
176 pp. Internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and naturalist Robert Bateman has sketched and painted bird life in every corner of the globe. And a lifetime of observing an extraordinary range of species has given him a......
New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
176 pp. Internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and naturalist Robert Bateman has sketched and painted bird life in every corner of the globe. And a lifetime of observing an extraordinary range.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine and top edge of front board foxed, pages ridges and some pages foxed.
x, 333 pp. A guide to North American gulls and terns and their habits.
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. 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: Bonanza, 1989. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Faint edge wear.
331 pp. Guide to bird identification which offers an instant key to bird patterns and tone characteristics.
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. No jacket. Author's bookplate laid in. Hinges starting, ink name on front free endpaper.
426 pp. Includes four plates and three maps. A study of the birds of Cambridge, Massachusetts. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Brewster (July 5.....
NJ: Winchester Press, 1982. Revised Edition. Large Hardcover.
Includes two jackets, related notes laid in. Outer jacket: one inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, two half-inch tears to edges of rear jacket panel, jacket clipped. Inner jacket: general light wear.
xiv, 291 pp. Illustrated with more than.....
Piscataway, New Jersey: Winchester Press, 1988. Third Edition. Large Hardcover.
Third edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Bookplate on front free endpaper.
xv, 383 pp. "Contains simple and advanced carving projects and includes descriptions of game bird species and dimensional data to help the carver create reproductions."
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Seton, Ernest Thompson. Hard Cover.
Minor loss to spine head, top page ridge stained.
xvi, 195 pp. Newly illustrated with 75 color plates reproduced by lithography from illustrations by Ernest Seton Thompson. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and front board.....
West Chester, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper verso with inscription, "Fred, Wishing you flocks of success in all of your creative endeavors! Best regards." Light crease on rear jacket panel. Bookplate and address label on front free endpaper
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Pennsylvania: Schiffer, 1987. Kurman, Sina Patricia. Large Hardcover.
Minor general wear.
272 pp. "Following the success of the first book about songbird carving, the authors revisit the subject with five new projects. Again, the carving techniques are exhaustively covered, illustrated with beautiful photographs and drawings. The songbirds include male and.....
Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1914. Fuertes, Louis Agassiz. Large Hardcover.
VOLUME TWO ONLY. Presentation copy from assemblyman Charles Gallup with his ink stamp on front endpaper, lightly stained along top edge, binding a bit shaken.
719 pp. Volume 2 of 2. Includes color plates 43-106.....
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Elliot, Lang. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Ink gift inscription on half-title page. Includes CD.
135 pp. Includes audio compact disc featuring songbird concerts and solos. Includes information and photographs of more than seventy birds and showcases their songs on the accompanying audio.....
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Includes belly-band. Covers soiled.
317 pp. Contains over 700 color photographs alongside complementary text coverage of all North American species of birds and classifications that enable the reader to become a master at the art of field identification.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Edges of all volumes lightly rubbed.
An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America in three volumes. Covering 835 species of birds recorded on the continent. 1245 full color photographs, 193 paintings, 442 drawings and 650.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Soft Cover.
Second printing, second printing, first printing. Minor general wear.
Three volume set. An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America in three volumes. Covering 835 species of birds recorded on the continent. 1245 full color photographs, 193 paintings, 442 drawings.....
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Sticker on front jacket flap.
144 pp. "Shows the life cycle of the kingfisher, describes its range, and looks at territorial instincts, courtship behavior, feeding habits, and the development of the young."
Massachuesetts: Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, 1925. Fuertes, Louis Agassiz; Forbush, Edward Howe; et al. Reprint. Large Hardcover.
3rd, 2nd, and 1st printings, respectively. Boards a bit rubbed with loss of gilt from first volume, related article laid in.
Three volume set. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Illustrated with colored.....
New York: Liveright, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous.....