Shepherd, Jack

The Forest Killers: The Destruction of the American Wilderness

New York, Weybright and Talley, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. 423pp. with index, appendices and notes. Very good in like jacket. Very good/very good.

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Boeknummer: 13146

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; Ecology; Conservation; Forest Service; Forest Strip-Mining; Erosion; Deforestation; Ecology Bookshelf;

Sheppard, Nathan, ed

Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself; Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1884. First American Edition. Cloth. Small octavo (4 7/8" x 7 3/4), terra cotta cloth. Cover decorated in black stamped border design, which is blind stamped on the back cover. Spine titled in gilt. 351, (17)pp. with publisher's ads for scientific books, including a list titled "Standard Evolution Library". Very nice condition. Slight wear at the extremities. There is a (probably) nineteenth century pencilled price on the front free-endpaper, which has been erased. There remains an indentation from the pencil of the heavy-handed bookseller. "This volume contains, of course, only an outline of the contents of the twelve volumes from which it is compiled, and for which it isby no means intended as a substitute. It will, on the contrary, we should hope, create an appetite which can be satisfied only by a careful reading of the works themseves." A great sales pitch, which is followed by two pages of "Darwin and His Theories from a Religious Point of view. Very good + .

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Boeknummer: 19313

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; Darwin; Natural Selection; Professor Nathan Sheppard

Smith, Geoffrey

Primitive Animals

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1911. Hardcover. Sextodecimmo red cloth decorated in black with the design repeated on the grey-green jacket. 156pp. with index and appendices. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of a platypus and an echidna and drawings and diagrams in the text. The jacket has a closed tear from the top of the spine into the front panel which is not very noticeable in the mylar jacket cover. Endpapers have some offsetting. One of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature. Very good/good +.

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Boeknummer: 15161

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; Primitive Animals;

Smithsonian Institution. Hindle, Brooke (Foreword)

The Frontiers of Knowledge; the Frank Nelson Doubleday Lectures at the National Museum of History & Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1975. Limited edition, 500 copies. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 399, (i), colophon; illustrated; cream cloth lettered in gilt in a slipcase; Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated. Foreward by Brooke Hindle. Pieces by Assimov, Arthur Clarke and others. Pieces by Assimov, Arthur Clarke and others. Near Fine in very good slipcase .

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Boeknummer: 17149

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Astronomy; Physics

Stephen, David

Six-Pointer Buck

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 255; blue cloth lettered in red, and silver in a pictorial dust jacket. Tale of a Roebuck in the Scottish Highlands. Very good/very good.

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Boeknummer: 18025

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Stewart, J and Hennessey, E F.

Orchids of Africa a Select Review

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1981. First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Folio; pp; xii, 159, index; beautifully illustrated with fifty, (50) color plates from watercolors; brown buckram lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers in a pictorial dust jacket. This book is divided into two main parts; Part 1 contains a review of the African Orchids south of the Sahara, Part 2, is comprised by the fifty plates, of selected species illustrated by Esme Hennessey and described. A beautiful book. Near fine/new.

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Boeknummer: 17248

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Botany; Africa; Orchids;

The Commissioners

Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests

Albany, State of New York, 1897. First Edition. cloth. Quarto (8.5" x 11"), blue-grey clcoth with pictorial cover in black ink. 521pp. 9 full page chromolithographs of fish by Denton, and one of shells and starfish. Numerous photographs in black and white of camps and activities, some of Raquette Lake. Charts and statistics. The hinges are becoming weak, and the back hinge exposes the mull. Plates are all clean and bright. The "Pike Perch" plate has a 1/2" closed tear at the bottom center margin. Denton's signature on this plate only partially printed in the left margin. This copy was presented to the owner by one of the commissioners of that year, Charles H. Babcock, according to his stamp. Ill.: Denton et al. Good + .

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Boeknummer: 19450

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Fish & Game Reports, Denton Fish, Natural History, Aquatic Life, Oysters. Raquette Lake Denton Et Al. Fly Fishing & Angling

Ward, Geoffrey C. with Diane Raines Ward

Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Great Cats

New York, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. 1993). Quarto (8.75" x 11.25")` black cloth and tan boards, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 174, (3)pp. with index and credits. Very good/very good.

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Boeknummer: 16522

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Natural History, Tigers; Tiger-Wallahs; Tiger-Men; India;

Waters, Campbell E.

Ferns: A Manual for the Northeastern States

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth decorated with fern motif. Top edge gilt. 362pp. with index and glossary. Illustratedwith "over two hundred illustrations from original drawings and photographs". Good or better. Some edgewear; title ink rubbed from spine. The author includes a section on "fern-photography" to encourage picture taking rather than collecting specimens to protect native ferns. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 13100

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; Botany; Ferns

Weiss, Harry B.

Thomas Say: Early American Naturalist

Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9.25"), brown cloth. 260pp. plus colophon. Index and bibliography. Illustrated and maps. The fore-edge is untrimmed and many leaves are unopened. A few pages were carelessly opened and the resulting tear was repaired with tape. A little defect in the cloth at the bottom of the front cover. Small stain on the spine. Thomas Say was known as the "Father of American Zoology. Good + .

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Boeknummer: 14332

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Natural History; American Naturalists; Thomas Say; Zoology

White, Gilbert

The Natural History of Selborne; with Notes by Richard Kearton

London, Cassell & Company, 1903. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 294, index; illustrated with one hundred twenty-three black and white photographs by Cherry & Richard Kearton; decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, lettered in gilt; previous owner's bookplate; A solid copy. Frontispiece toned else very good. A classic natural history text. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 16163

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Nature; Birds; Ornithology; Ecology Shelf;

White, Gilbert

The Natural History of Selborne & Observations on Nature; with the Text and New Letters of the Buckland Edition, Introduction by John Burroughs, Illustrations by Clifton Johnson

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1907. Second edition, this originally appeared in 1895 in a two volume set. Hardcover. Two volumes in one; Octavo; pp; I; xxiii, (i), 208, (ii), ads; II; vi, 231, (iv), ads; illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and another seventy eight black and white photographs by Clifton Johnson; pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt, lettered in white ; Original Amy Richards design with her initials lower left; A bit of fading to the spine else bright and very good. A classic natural history text. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 16173

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Nature; Birds; Ornithology; Ecology Shelf;

Wile, Dr. William C. (Editor) & Dr. John C. Berry, Assistant Editor

New England Medical Monthly and Prescription Vol. XVIII, No. 12, Whole No. 216

Danbury Ct, Danbury Medical Printing Company, Publishers, 1899. Original edition. Wraps. Tall quarto; pp; xvi, 467-496, xvii-xx, 497-506, xxi-xxii, 167-180, xxiii-xliv; great illustrated ads; original printed paper wrappers. A serious medical journal with contributed articles; Scarce, all copies listed are not original, Nabu, etc PODs as of catalogue date 7/16/16. Edge wear else, very good .

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Boeknummer: 16883

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Ephemera

Williams, Austin B.

Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida

Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp. xviii, 550 with bibliography and index; Illustrated, three hundred eighty black and white figures; green cloth, gilt; near fine; An Important Contribution!. Near Fine .

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Boeknummer: 12358

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; Shrimp; Lobster; Crab; Atlantic Coast; Atlantic Fishery

Wilson, Andrew

Glimpses of Nature, Part I.

New York, Humboldt Publishing Company, 1892. Humboldt Library Of Science Edition. Wraps. octavo; pp; 96, (8) catalogue; Illustrated; Original printed wrappers. Oysters, Lobsters, Spiders and more. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 15121

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Natural History; Lobsters; Oysters;