Category: Natural History

Octavo, brown blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 359 pp. Very Good, with light rubbing to covers and bumped corners. Contents: Letters from Europe -- Ruins of Kenilworth - Warwick Castle; A Sabbath at Stratford-on-Avon; Oxford; The Louvre - Luxembourg Gallers; The Louvre; London National Gallery; Experiences of Nature: A Discourse of FLowers; Death in the Country; Island vs. Seashore; New England Graveyards; Towns and Trees; The First Breath in the Country; Trouting; A Ride; The Mountain Stream; A Country Ride; Farewell to the Country; School Reminiscence; The Value of Birds; R...
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Im Paradies der Hirsche: Rotwilderfahrungen und Jagderinnerungen des letzten Wildmeisters beim Fursten PleB. Mit 40 Abbildungen im Text und auf Tafeln.

By: Benzel, Willy.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hamburg: Verlag Paul Parey, (1975).

Seller ID: qms143

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 228 pp. Near-Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket with faint rubbing along edges. From jacket: Das Buch des letzten Wildmeisters der Fursten von PleB ist 1968 mit dem Literaturpreis des Deutschen Jagdschutz-Verbandes ausgezeichnet worden. Diese Wurdigung galt der fur die Jagdhistorik wie fur die Jagdpraxis gleich bedeutsamen und aufschluBreichen Darstellung derbewundernswerten Hegeerfolge, die man in dem einst beruhmtesten Rotwildgebiet im Sudosten Deutschlands erzielt hat.
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Monograph of the West Indian Beetles of the Family Staphylinidae.

By: Blackwelder, Richard E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1941. U. S. National Museum, Bulletin 182.

Seller ID: 61371bd

Octavo, printed wrappers, uncut, vii, [i], 658 pp. Maps, illustrations. Good; small date-stamp on front cover, one-inch tear along fore-edge of front cover, otherwise clean and tight.
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Fire Mountain: The Eruptions of Mount St. Helens. Production and Design: Gary Albertson and Mary Patrizzi.

By: Boly, William.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Portland, Oregon: Cathco Publishing, Inc., [1980]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 00228s

Quarto, black leatherette (hardcover), 74 pp. Full-color photographic illustrations. Fine (As New), in a Near-Fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to its edges. Ò..The comprehensive, definitive book on the volcanic explosion that ripped apart Mount St. Helens with a force 2,500 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Fire Mountain tells the tale dramatically and thoroughly in both pictures and words. Containing over 125 color photos and illustrations by the Northwest's finest photographers and artists, Fire Mountain traces the history of Mount St. Helens from the time of its b...
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A Naturalist at the Zoo.

By: Boulenger, E. G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Brenato's, 1927. First American Edition.

Seller ID: 71536bd

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 206 pp. Plates. Good; spine somewhat dull, a bit of wear to head and foot of spine.
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Shallow-Water Gammaridean Amphipoda of New England.

By: Bousfield, E. L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ithaca: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, (1973). First Edition.

Seller ID: 61173bd

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 312 pp. Very Good, with foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges. Contents: Foreword, by Melbourne R. Carriker; Acknowledgments; Introduction; General Biology of the Amphipoda: External Morphology, Internal Morphology, Body Processes, Habits, Ecology, Zoogeographic Considerations; How to Collect and Prepare Amphipods for Study: Collection and Preservation, Preparation of Animals for Study; How to Use This Guidebook; The Systematics of Amphipods: Basic Information, Key to Suborders of Amphipoda, Key to Families of Gammaridean Amphipoda of ...
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Foxes Three. Illustrated by Pamela Johnson.

By: Burkett, Molly and John. [Johnson, Pamela; Illus.].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1975]. F

Seller ID: 50217s

irst American Edition, As Stated. Octavo, brown cloth, gilt letters, 160 pp. Illustrated. Fine, in Very Good+ dust jacket with small chip to spine. ÒTo John Burkett, the three tiny chocolate brown animals in the basket looked more like mongrel puppies then ten-day-old fox cubs. With their soft, pink muzzles and pale blue eyes incapable of focusing on anything, they seemed quite vulnerable and hopeless. But soon, with loving care from the Burketts -- including some special mothering from their pet spaniel -- the three cubs grew intoo strong, playful, and alert young foxes, miniatures of t...
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A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden. Edited by Marjorie Harris Carr. Foreword by Edward O. Wilson.

By: Carr, Archie.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, (1994). Third Printing.

Seller ID: 71537bd

Octavo, softbound, xviii, 264 pp. Photographs, maps. Fine.
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A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden. Edited by Marjorie Harris Carr. Foreword by Edward O. Wilson.

By: Carr, Archie.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, (1994). First Edition.

Seller ID: 71537bd2

Octavo, cream linen (hardcover), gilt letters, 264 pp. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Ulendo: Travels of a Naturalist In and Out of Africa. Foreword by George Schaller. Preface by and Letters to Marjorie Harris Carr.

By: Carr, Archie.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (1993).

Seller ID: 71541bd

Octavo, softbound, xx, [ii], 303 pp. Photographs, maps. Fine.
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Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores.

By: Carr, Archie.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, (1979). Reprint of the 1956 Edition, with added frontis matter, in support of Caribbean Conservation Corporation.

Seller ID: 71543bd

Octavo, softbound, xl, 258 pp, viii pp. Photographs, maps. Very Good.
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Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores.

By: Carr, Archie.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, (1995). Reprint of the 1956 edition, with added frontis matter, in support of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation.

Seller ID: 71544bd

Octavo, softbound, xl, 258 pp, viii pp. Photographs, maps. Near-Fine, with former-owner name stamp.
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Sugar Down the Wind.

By: Cary, Margaret M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA: The Science Press Printing Company,

Seller ID: 16194scs

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, vi, 155 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner bookplate.
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Living Corals. Photographs and Commentary: Douglas Faulkner. With Text by Richard Chesher.

By: Chesher, Richard.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1979].

Seller ID: 70137s

First Edition. Square quarto, cloth, (hardcover), 310 pp. Color photos. Former-owner inscription; otherwise, Fine in dust jacket.
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Common Ferns and Fern Allies. Illustrated by Eric Heath. [Mobil New Zealand Nature Series].

By: Chinnock, R. J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Auckland: Reed Methuen Publishers Ltd., (1984).

Seller ID: 12467scs

12mo, spiral bound (stiff, full-color illus. white wrappers), 79 pp. Fine (As New), in protective mylar wrapper.
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The Herpetological Collections Made by Dr. Hugh M. Smith in Siam from 1923 to 1929.

By: Cochran, Doris M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1930. Off-print 2834, from the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 7 7, ARt. 11, pp. 1-39.

Seller ID: 61376bd

Octavo olive printed wrappers, stapled, 39 pp. Illustrations. This copy was formerly part of the Herpetology Library of the Florida State Museum, and bears a stamp indicating such. It was also part of Archie Carr's library, and bears an ownership signature and an ownership stamp indicating such. Very Good.
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Natural Kansas.

By: Collins, Joseph T., ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, [1985].

Seller ID: 28470

1st edition. Quarto, cloth, xii, 226 pp. Color photos, illus. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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Category: Natural History