ALBERT R. BRAND BIRD SONG FOUNDATION

Voices of the Night; The Calls of 26 Frogs and Toads Found in Eastern North America

Cornell University, Albert R. Brand Bird Song Foundation. 1948. (Cloth) Near fine, no dust jacket. Four 78 RPM colored vinyl albums beautifully maintained in oblong 8vo book format with green cloth boards illustrated in black and a black taped spine. Bright and clean. Includes: Spring Peeper, Common Tree Toad, Green Tree Frog, Anderson's Tree Frog, Barking Frog, Squirrel Tree Frog, Bird-Voiced Tree Frog, American Toad, Southern Toad, Oak Toad, Fowler's Toad, Spadefoot, Cricket Frog, Southern Swamp Cricket Frog, Eastern Swamp Cricket Frog, Western Swamp Cricket Frog, Pigmy Swamp Cricket Frog, Ornate Chorus Frog, Meadow Frog, Southern Meadow Frog, Pickerel Frog, Wood Frog, Sphagnum Frog, Mink Frog, Bullfrog, Green Frog. The calls of many of the eastern frogs and toads have been transferred to four double-sided records for the phonograph in the manner followed earlier in the 'American Bird Songs' prepared by the same l•otmdation (see review in the Auk, 60: 288, April, 1943). Although not primarily ornithological, of course, these records are certain to be of interest to nature-lovers in general, many of whom must have wished to become familiar with the sounds of animals other than birds. It may be noted, incidentally, that a few bird voices have crept into these recordings, perhaps were purposely left there since the records are remarkably free from dis- turbing background noises. Some of the batrachian voices are, however, so powerful that other sounds accompanying them might not in any ease be too intrusive ! The inside of the cover of the album contains a list of the species lotrod on each record and the records, themselves, are individually labeled, while the well-known voice of Dr. Arthur A. Allen introduces each performer in turn. The album is thoroughly recommended to everyone interested in the sounds of nature.--J. T. Zimmer.

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Book number: 131187

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Amphibians, Amphibians, Frogs, Music, Natural Science, Toads

DUFFY, FRANK ET AL.

The Edge Futures

London, U.K. Black Dog Publishing. (ISBN: 9781906155261). 2008. (Mass market paperback) Very good. Various. 12mo. Boxed set of 5 paperback books, all in clean, crisp condition. The slip case is solid and without markings. Working and the City / Frank Duffy; Transport and Neighbourhoods / Hank Dittmar; Living and Community / Geoff Mulgan; Education and Creativity / Simon Foxell and William J. Mitchell; Globalism and Regionalism / Jonathan Porritt.

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Book number: 124643

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Environmental Impact, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Society 9781906155261

GILROY, DOUG

Parkland Portraits; Some Natural History of the Prairie Parklands

Saskatoon, Western Producer Prairie Books. 1979. (Cloth) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 127pp. Illus.

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Book number: 104863

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Natural History, Art, Canada, Canadian Prairies

GROOM, PERCY

Trees and Their Life Histories

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd.. 1909. (hardcover) Very good. 407pp. 4to. Re-bound in burgundy half-leather over cloth boards. Spine in six simple compartments, raised bands; lettering in gilt. Bottom board unfortunately marred with a large dampstain; no other evidence of dampening. Light wear to corners from shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription on front-pastedown, crossed out. Textblock bright and clean. Printed on coated, clay-rubbed paper stock. Profusely illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs by Henry Irving; monochrome frontispiece.

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Book number: 121770

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Natural History, Natural Science, Photography, Trees

GROUT, ROY A.; ASSISTED BY THE STAFF OD THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL (EDITOR)

The Hive and the Honeybee

Hamilton, Illinois, Dadant & Sons NONE. 1946. (hardcover) Very good. Issued without dust jacket. 633 +. 8vo. Black buckram, gilt titles stamped to front and spine, though spine faded. Lovely endpapers show a photograph of bees in their hive. Clean, solid, with black and white drawings and photographs. Tables.

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Book number: 127881

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Bee-Keeping, Apiary, Bee Culture, Bee Keeping, Beekeeping

HALL, E. RAYMOND; KELSON, KEITH R.

The Mammals of North America

New York, Ronald Press Company. 1959, 1st edition. (4to, cloth) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. xxx, 546, 79pp. Illus. maps. Volume one ONLY.

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Book number: 111772

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Mammals, Natural History

HARDING, BILL

Uranium Mining in Saskatchewan; Correspondencewith the Premier

Regina, Regina Group for A Non-Nuclear Society. (ISBN: 0-920850-00-6). 1979. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 87pp. 8vo. Dialogue between Allan Blakeney, then NDP premier of the Province of Saskatchewan and Jim Harding of the Regina Group for A Non-Nuclear Society and former United Nations senior official with regard to uranium mining in the province, as well as the priority for settlement of and claims and self-determination for Indigenous people. Black card wrappers, white titles to front and spine. There is some splash stains at the lower edge (coffee?) that are both light and small. Internally clean and bright, solid bound. Very good copy.

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Book number: 130785

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Uranium, Indigenous Land Claims, Nuclear Energy, Saskatchewan History, Self Determination, Uranium Mining 0920850006

HUTCHINS, D.E.

Journal of a Forest Tour

Cape Town, W.A. Richards & Sons NONE. 1892. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 122pp. 8vo. Ex-lib. Copy, stamps, notations, sticker, pocket and one sticker removed, and marker used. Book plate to front fixed endpaper. Starting along the outside hinge and lightly strating at inside front hinge. All of that identified, all information is clean and legible. Navy blue pebbled leather boards, gilt title stamped to front. Colour graph frontispiece. Tables, drawings, diagrams throughout. An important work in forest conservation.

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Book number: 129431

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Conservation, Dendrology, Environmental Studies, Forest Conservation, Forest Research, South Africa

IVENS, WILLIAM H. JR. (EDITOR)

Poodles in America: A Comprehensive Record from 1929 to 1959

n.p. Poodle Club of America, Inc.. 1960. (Cloth) Very good plus. 519pp. Illus.

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Book number: 200937

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Dogs

PRUITT JR., WILLIAM O.

Wild Harmony: The Cycle of Life in the Northern Forest

Saskatoon, Western Producers Prairie 0888331010. (ISBN: 0888331010). 1983. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 179pp.

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Book number: 112835

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Zoology, Canadian Prairies, Northern Saskatchewan, Zoology 0888331010

KIRBY, C.L.; BAILEY, W.S.; GILMOUR, J.G.

The Growth and Yield of Aspen in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan, Province of Saskatchewan. 1957, 1st edition. (4to, wrappers) Fine. 67pp. Maps, tables, charts. Photographs. Department of Natural Resource of Province of Saskatchewan technical bulletin no.3.

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Book number: 113488

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Natural Resources, Canadian Prairies, Ecology and Environment, Environmental Science, Forestry, Saskatchewan

KLEIN, TOM; OLSON, SIGURD T. (PREFACE); FAIR, JEFF (EDITOR)

Loon Magic

Ashland, Wi, Paper Birch Press, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-9613961-0-5). 1985, 2nd edition. (hardcover) Fine in good dust jacket. xii, [1], 145p. Tall 8vo. Grey cloth boards, lettering in white to spine and top board. Dust jacket with some edgewear, closed tear at head of front hinge of jacket. Jacket mylar protected, NOT price clipped. Previous owner's name faintly embossed at foot of ffep, else volume is entirely unblemished. Tight, bright, and clean. Filled with wonderful colour photos.

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Book number: 119724

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Birds, Natural History, Ornithology 0961396105

LARSEN, CLARK SPENCER, ROBERT L. KELLY

Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh: Prehistoric Human Development in the Western Great Basin

New York, American Museum of Natural History. 1995. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 170pp. Illus. maps, tables, charts. Monograph reports on the recovery and study of human remains from the Stillwater Marsh in the American Great Basin in west-central Nevada.

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Book number: 113445

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Natural History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Natural History

LAWRENCE, BONNIE J.; LEIGHTON, ANNA L.

Prairie Phoenix; Lilium Philadelphicum, the Red Lily in Saskatchewan

Regina, Nature Saskatchewan. (ISBN: 0-921104-21-9). 2005, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 139pp. Short 4to. Wrappers. Inscribed on the title page, SIGNED by both authors. Unblemished. Bright and clean. Colour photos throughout.

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Book number: 121403

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Flowers, Botany, Canadian Prairies, Flora, Saskatchewan 0921104219

LECHLEITNER, R. R.; AVERITT, MAX WADE (ILLUS.)

Mammals of Glacier National Park

West Glacier, Montana, Glacier Natural History Association, Inc.. 1971, 3rd reprint. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 92pp +field notes. 8vo. Wrappers. Light rubbing, shelfwear. Else with only light age-toning to wrappers. Internally clean. B&W illustrations from original pencil sketches. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior - Special Bulletin No.6.

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Book number: 123865

Catalogue: Nature and Environment

Keywords: Mammals, Animals, Montana, National Parks, Natural History