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Berkeley: University of California, 1951. Cloth. Very Good (no DJ). 8vo, 1032 pp., color frontis., b/w plates. Covers rubbed, handled and lightly dustsoiled, page edges soiled, previous owner name, otherwise unmarked.

Norwood, MA: Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, 1927. First editions. Cloth. Very Good/No dust jacket. Volume One & Two only. 481pp./461pp. Illustrated with color plates by L.A. Fuertes, drawings and b&w photographs, text figures and diagrams. 8" x 10". 461 pp. Green cloth. Volume one covers the Water Birds, Marsh Birds and Shore birds. Volume two covers Land Birds from Bob-Whites to Grackles. Endpaper of Volume One contains bookplate of Arthur Newton Pack, the publisher of Nature Magazine.

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1925. First printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No dust jacket. 7" x 10". 215pp. illus. wth 331 color portraits of North American Birds from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and 94 illus. in b&w. Previous owners signature at the top of the front flyleaf. Includes forward by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, Common Birds of Town and Country by Dr. Henry Henshaw, How Birds Can Take their Own Portraits by by George Shiras 3rd, Encouraging Birds Around the House by Krederick H. Kennard, Our Greatest Travelers by Wells Cooke, The World Record for Feathered Friends.

Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1923. First edition. Boards. Good (No Dust Jacket). 8vo, 247 pp., 142 b/w plates. Signed by author. Significant wear to edges and extremities with loss at corners and edges of boards; soiling to endpapers, dampstain to top edge affecting page margins throughout, page edges tanned and dustsoiled; light scattered marks and notes in text.

J.N.Dymond, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Wide 8vo, 148 pp., b/w illus. Related ephemera laid in. Top fore-edge corner bumped.

Corvallis, OR: Oregon State College, 1940. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/No dust jacket. 650pp., illus. Color frontispiece. bw photos. The map in the pocket in the rear of the book is present and in Fine condition. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf.

New York: Viking Press, 1981. First edition. Boards. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Small 4to, 211 pp. Edges of boards and page edges just a bit sunned, previous owner blind stamp. Jacket priceclipped, sunned, edgeworn.

Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1974. First edition. Cloth. Good in Good Dust Jacket. 8vo, 370 pp., illustrated throughout. Signed by author. Spine cocked, heel of spine bumped, slight bow to baords, a few small stains to page edges. Jacket sunned, stained, edgeworn, with numerous small chips and tears.

New York: Time-Life, 1977. Second printing. Cloth. Very Good/No dust jacket. 184pp, illus. B/W, Color Photographs. A visual tour and history of the deserts of Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico. Text by Ed Abbey and others including Mary Austin, Joseph Wood Krutch and B. Traven.

Salem, MA, 1886. Sewn in Wraps. Good. 8vo, 8 pp. Wrappers sunned, handled, edgeworn, bumped and chipped at edges and corners, with small tears at crown and heel; gentle vertical creased to wrappers and text block; a couple of pencil notes in text.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1984. Wraps. Very Good. 4to, 357 pp., 95 color plates, 40 figs. Wrappers sunned, corners lightly bumped, book plate on first leaf.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1967. First printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Y. Matsumura. 8vo. 392pp. Illus. B&W drawings. Green Cloth. Fine in Fine unclipped jacket.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1972. First printing. Cloth. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. Y. Matsumura. 8vo, 392 pp., line illus. Light rubbing and edgewear to jacket.

Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon. Cloth. Good. 1902, 1903. 4to, 456 pp., color plates, b/w plates and illus. Superb full-page color plates by Sherman Foote Denton (fish), Louis Agassiz Fuertes (birds), and others. Insect damage to covers also affects edges and margins of first few leaves after endpapers. Edgewear and a few small marks to covers, covers and page edges tanned, interior clean and unmarked except for gift inscription on title page, plates crisp and bright.

London: Wm. S. Orr, 1838. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo, 432 pp., color frontis. and title page illustration, several colored plates, b/w text illustrations. Covers rubbed and worn with edges and corners bumped, small nicks at head and heel of spine; front hinge starting; previous owner name; light foxing to interior affecting some plates.

Lichfield: John Jackson (Botanical Society at Lichfield), 1787. First English printing. Hardbound Buckram. Good/No dust jacket. 8vol. 386pp. Rebound in Hardciver brown buckram with gold titles on spine. .Foretitlepage, titlepage, dedication-page; lxxx page sincluding a 38-p. 'Accented Catalogue of the Generic and Trivial Names of Plants used by Linneus Ownership signature of William Gibbons on top of foretitlepage. [publisher: Lichfield, printed by John Jackson, . . ., MDCCLXXXVII. (1787)] Hardcover First Edition 1 blank sheet,(iv) pages incl. , . . .', 386 pages; 1 blank sheet. - Original Halfleather-binding of the period with loose colour-marbled panels and fragmentary gilt-titled leather spinelabel; 8vo.(ca. 21 x 14 x 2,5 cm). *** [Verlängerter ERWEITERTER HERBSTVERKAUF / Ongoing FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF LINNÉ'S EPOCHMAKING PUBLICATION, IN A BINDING OF THE PERIOD: Both panels completely loose, the leatherspine is quite rubbed and the spinelabel only present with its centerpart; front blank… Read More

Lichfield: John Jackson (Botanical Society at Lichfield), 1787. First English printing. Hardbound Buckram. Good/No dust jacket. 8vol. 386pp. Rebound in Hardcover brown buckram with gold titles on spine. .Foretitlepage, titlepage, dedication-page; lxxx page including a 38-p. 'Accented Catalogue of the Generic and Trivial Names of Plants used by Linneus Ownership signature of William Gibbons on top of foretitlepage. William Gibbons was an American lawyer and revolutionary from Georgia. He was a member of the colonial assembly 1760-62 and joined the Sons of Liberty in 1774 and in 1775 was part of the group who broke into King's ammunition storage in Savannah and removed 600 pounds of his powder. Among other associations, he was a member of the Continental Congress in 1784.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1988. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Robert DeWitt Ivey. New Mexico Natural HIstory Series. 8vo, 294 pp., section of color photos, line illustrations throughout. Page edges just a bit dusty, otherwise Fine. Jacket sunned at edges and spine, small area of wrinkling to laminate along bottom edges of front and rear panels.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1988. First printing. Cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. Color Photography by Charles R. Hutchins. Illustrations by Robert DeWitt Ivey. 294pp. A guide to New Mexico's fall floral life. Includes illustrations (color photographs and drawings), general descriptions, range and habitat, and key characters for 348 species of wildflowers appearing in NM in the Fall season.

Harrisburg: Department of Agriculture, 1924. Wraps. Fair. Vol. 7, No. 5 (May 1924); Bureau of Plant Industry Technical Series No. 2. 8vo, 245 pp., 235 figs. Wrappers stained, creased, chipped and worn; stains to page edges and first several leaves; corners bumped.