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  Anouncement: The First Annual Auction Sale of Lepidoptera Will be Held at No. 104 West 61st street, New York City, Saturday January 25th 1896....(cover title)
New York, R. Ottolengui. 1896. Stapled wrappers, with spine rusted through were stapes were. Some soiling to front and back cover. An auction catalog in which "three hundred species will be offered, of which more than 20 have been described since the publication of Smith's Check List." No prices realized list. 13 pages. Good.
USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 | £UK 22.75 | JP¥ 3310] Book number: 7815
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  Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 5, September, 1886 (cover title)
No City, California Academy of Sciences. 1886. Illustrated Wrappers. Sutro Library book plate affixed to inside front cover. 92-page booklet with weather maps. Page edges are uncut. Some unopened pages. Contents include: Revision of the California Species of Lithocharis and Allied Genera, Thos. L. Casey; Studies in the Botany of California and Parts Adjacent, IV, Edward Lee Greene -- 1. On Some Chicoriaceous Compositae, 2. Some Species of Euphorbia -- Anisophyllum, 3. New Polypetalae; A New Species of Californian Coleoptera, J. J. Rivers; Contributions to the Larval History of Pacific Coast Coleoptera, J. J. Rivers; Notes on Saturn, Geo. Davidson; Weather Types on the Pacific Coast, W. A. Glassford; Transits of the II and III Satellites of Jupiter, Geo. Davidson; The Annular Solar Eclipse of March 5, 1886, Geo. Davidson.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 4278
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(BUDGEN, L. M.)  Episodes of Insect Life. By Acheta Domestica, M.E.S.
New York, J. S. Redfield. 1851, First American Edition. Three volumes, first, second and third series, xvi, 320; xiv, 326; xv, 432 (+6) pages, black and white illustrations, index, green cloth with elaborate gilt and blind decorations of all sorts of bugs - bees, beetles, moths, grasshoppers, spiders, and books, 8.5 x 6". Bindings just a little edge worn and faded, still quite a nice set.
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 200.25 | £UK 180.5 | JP¥ 26477] Book number: 6750
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  The Museum of Birds.
New York, Kiggins & Kellogg. No date. ca. 1850s? 8 pages, illustrations of the owl, quail, dove, robin, sparrow, and crane, printed wrapper, small booklet measuring 3 1/4 x 2". Very good, paper darkened, no chipping or creasing.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 6142
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  Origianl Stereocard Photograph. "Millions of South African Gannets Near Capetown, So.Afr."
Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 11994 (583). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about a colony of gannets, their migrations north and south, and the fishing methods on herrings. Photo of a vast colony of gannets in South Africa. Clean copy with left photo somewhat darker. Very Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9374
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  Original Stereocard Photograph: "Just Out--Baby Ostriches on the Cawaton Ostrich Farm, California."
Keystone View Company. 3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 239-13528 by the publisher. Shows a young boy and girl with baby ostriches on a table in front and full grown ostriches in a pen behind. The Cawaton Ostrich Farm was located in South Pasadena. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on back discussing ostriches, where they are from and where they are raised and their commercial possibilities. Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8168
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  Original Stereocard Photograph. "A Nightingale on Its Sheltered Nest."
Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 21200 (359). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the bird, its habits and poetry by Keats. Photo taken in England of the Nightingale sitting on the nest among folage. Evidence of a fold down the middle. Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9253
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  Original Stereocard Photograph. "Woodcock in Nest."
Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 7965 (72). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the bird, its habits and camouflage techniques. View of the bird in among sticks and leaves. Nice clean copy. Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9254
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  Original Stereocard Photograph. "Feeding Mulberry Leaves to the Young Silk Worms, Japan."
Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 14748 (538). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the feeding room stage during a 30 day period when the worms are feed six times a day mulberry leaves before the worms pass into the chrysalis period. View of a Japanese lady feeding the silk worms on a try with mulberry leaves with racks of trays in the background. Nice clean copy. Very Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9323
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  Original Stereocard Photograph. "Silkworm Incubator, Japan."
Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 14746 (536). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the egg stage of silkworm production which lasts about ten days. View of a two story incubator in which the young eggs are placed and heated till hatching being tended by to people in native dress. Nice clean copy. Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9324
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  Original Stereocard Photograph. "Silk Worm Concons in Their Nests - The Silent Toilers Have Finished Their Spinning and the Cocoons Ar Ready for the Silk Manufacturer, Japan."
Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 14750 (539). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the third stage of silk production when the silk worm has finished eating and begins to spin its cocoon of silk threads which are a quarter mile long or more and then begins to change into a moth. Nice image of the cocoons with straw placed over the silk worms and the cocoons formed. Clean copy. Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9327
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  Original Stereocard Photograph. "White Leghorn Hens on Egg Farm, Bound Brook, N.J."
Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 16717 (56). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 ionch) with commentary on the backside about the production of chickens and eggs in the United States ca.1916. Photo of the inside of a poultry barn with chickens feeding on different levels, in the days before corporate farming and all the animals caged and machine feed. Fine clean copy. Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9522
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  Original Stereocard Phtotograph. "Feedng Time at the Pigeon Farm, Los Angeles, Calif"
Littleton, N.H. B.W. Kilburn. 1907. #17038. Stereograph on tan board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with title on the bottom and publlisher across the backside. Image of someone feeding the pigeons in front of a small building with the birds landing to be feed. Clean copy. Very Good.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 11271
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ACZEL, MARTIN L.  Fruit Flies of the Genus Tomoplagia Coquillett (Diptera, Tephritidae).
Washington, D. C. Smithsonain Institution. 1955. #3343 - From the Proceedings of the United States Natinal Museum. Vol. 104, pages 321-411. Uncut seperate in gray-green wrapper with plates. Former owner's name on cover "C. Ellaland" in ink. The writer describes 15 new and 12 already (1955) existing species of fruit flies. Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9705
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ALDRICH, J. M.  Descriptions of New and Little Known Diptera or two-winged Flies.
Washington, D. C. Govenment Printing Office. 1926. From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 69 Article 22. Pages 1-26; wrapper. Description of new genera and species, with notes of some previously described froms. Former owner's name in ink on cover "Calvert E. Norland". Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9868
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ALDRICH, J. M.  New Diptera, or Two-Winged Flies from America, Asia, and Java with Additional Notes.
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution. 1932. # 2932 - From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 81, Art. 9, pages 1-28, 1 plate. Seperate in gray wrapper with former owner's stamp on cover "San Diego State College". Paper describes 4 new genera, 13 new species, and a new variety of Diptera. Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9702
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ALDRICH, J. M.  Records of Dipterous Insects of the Family Tachinidae Reared By the Late George Dimmock, with Description of One New Species and Notes on the Genus Anetia Robineau-Devoidy.
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution. 1932. # 2920 - From the Proceedings of the Unted States National Museum, Vo. 80, Art. 20, pages 1-8. Seperate in gray wrapper. Former owner's stamp on cover "San Diego State College".Title describes content of article. Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9698
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ALDRICH, J. M.  Revision of the Two-Winged Flies of the Genus Coelopa Meigen in North America (cover title)
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Illustrated Wrappers. Circa 1930. No. 2808. -- From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum Vol. 76, Art. 11, pp. 1-6. Ink notation front cover. Unopened pages. From page 1: "The present revision has been prepared as the result of recent correspondence with Mr. J. E. Collin, of Newmarket, England, who has furnished information relating to synonomy and has also supplied the Museum with determined European specimens; from his data and the specimens it appears that the North American members of the genus have been misidentified to a large extent. Two species from the Bering Sea region, formerly considered to be identical with European forms, are here described as new".
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 3990
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BALL, ALICE E.  A Year with the Birds. 56 Colored Plates.
New York City, New York, Gibbs & Van Vleck, Inc. 1916, First Edition. Ill.: Robert Bruce Horsfall. 191 pages; 56 plates (complete); index; bound in full blue leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine (binding by James MacDonald Company, New York). Color plates accompanied by selected poetry about the birds illustrated. Handsome fine clean copy. Fine.
USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 | £UK 60.25 | JP¥ 8826] Book number: 11293
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BENT, ARTHUR CLEVELAND  Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl; Order Anseres (Part)
Government Printing Office. 1925. Washington.. Wrappers. Illustrations. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Bulletin 130. Some tearing to wrappers' edges. Some unopened pages. Page edges are uncut. The book describes the habits of the wide variety of wild fowl: courtshi p; ne sting; eggs; young; plumages; food; game; winter; breeding range; spring migration; etc.
USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 | £UK 22.75 | JP¥ 3310] Book number: 2460
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BENT, ARTHUR CLEVELAND  Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos and Their Allies ... Order Passeriformes
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution. First Edition. (1950). United States National Musuem Bulletin 197. Original gray-green wrappers. Copy of Seth Benson, with his signature and the date July 5, 19590 on front upper right hand corner. 48 photographic plates, complete. 411 pages, including index. Fine.
USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 | £UK 22.75 | JP¥ 3310] Book number: 8463
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BICKERTON, W.  The Baby Bird and Its Problems. With Ninety-Six Illustrations.
London, England, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1927, First Edition. xvi, 135 pages; illustrations; index; bound in green cloth with title and author imprinted on the cover, gilt letteing on the spine. An account by a leading orthonologist of juvenile birds and their growth before leavng the nest. Accompanied by illustrations. Some foxing to the front pages, otherwise a clean copy inside and out. Very Good.
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 10863
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BRASHER, REX  Secrets of the Friendly Woods
The Century Co. (1926). New York.. First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations by the author. Inscribed by the author: "To 'Johnni' Rue from Roy & Rex Brasher". The author writes about: Chickadee Valley; Who's Who in the Blue; Br'er Grouse; A Buffoon in Blue; Chuck Luck; Co ons o f Chestnut Caverns; Ghost of the Graylands; etc.
USD 47.50 [Appr.: EURO 31.75 | £UK 28.75 | JP¥ 4192] Book number: 2465
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CALVERT, PHILIP P.  The Odonate Collections of The California Academy of Sciences from Baja California and Tepic, Mexico, of 1889-1894; No. 41
No City, California Academy of Sciences. 1947. Illustrated Wrappers. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 41, pp. 603-609. September 15, 1947. Unopened pages. Page edges uncut. Inked stamp imprint front cover. "From 1889 to November, 1894, expeditions of the California Academy of Sciences made collections of Odonata..totalling more than 3100 specimens. These were listed and described by me in two papers published in the Proceedings.." "..the disastrous fire of 1906 destroyed, as I understand, all the Odonate material which I had returned to the Academy". "In view of the probability that students of the Odonata may have assumed that all of these collections were destroyed, I have prepared the present paper to indicate for each species listed in the two papers of 1895 and 1899 (a) the total number of specimens originally listed, (b) the specimens now in the California Academy's possession, and (c) the duplicate specimens allotted to me..".
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 4337
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CHAPMAN, FRANK M.  Bird Studies with a Camera; With Introductory Chapters on the Outfit and Methods of the Bird Photographer
D. Appleton and Company. 1900. New York.. First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. In the Introduction the author writes about -- what is bird photography and the scientific value and charm of bird photography. The Outfit and Methods of the Bird Photographer: camera, lens, blin ds, haunts, seasons, etc. Sections on: Bird Photography Begins at Home; Two Herons; Where Swallows Roost; Life on Pelican Island; etc.
USD 47.50 [Appr.: EURO 31.75 | £UK 28.75 | JP¥ 4192] Book number: 2462
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