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Sydney: Ure Smith., 1991. (AUS) This is the 4th printing of the second edition, 1991. Tiny errant pen dot to the leading edge of pages, no other markings, a touch to rubbing to cover edges, otherwsie Near Fine; no dust jacket as published. Glossy boards, 312pp, index, many full-page colour paintins by the fine ornithological painter, Wm Cooper. This book contains detailed descriptions of every species and subspecies, together with info about distribution, habits, movements, feeding and care if parrots in captivity. A heavy book. (4.0 JM LVR 202/b0. 2nd. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Cooper, William T.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Christopher Lake SK: Jason Leo Bantle Publishing, 2010. (cad) 1st edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "Mother Nature is calling, go out & enjoy! Respect Nature. Jason Bantle 2010", no other markigns, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Glossy boards, 168pp. Colour photos of animals by Bantle, who lives in northern Saskatchewan. Bantle is one of only 100 photographers worldwide to be recognized by the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) competition. More than 48,000 entrants vied for this honour, the most prestigious of all wildlife photography awards. A heavy book, (3.9 JM HOJ 303/a2. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Montreal: John Lovell, 1864. (CAD) Presumed First Edition Owner's name and date in pencil on end paper, pages clean, faint stain to covers, chip and loss of material to spine extremities, 3" split to cover material to lower edge of spine, thus Fair used copy; no dust jacket. Textured red boards with gold titles, vi, 112pp index [4]pp publisher's ads. Small B&W illus of animals. (1.1 JM HOQ 101/a1. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Clayton ON: Artists for Conservation, 2011. (CAD) Stated first edition, INSCRIBED BY Robert Bateman to the half-title, no other makrings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 192pp, colour photos and reproductions of the artworks of members of Artists for Conservation including Robert Bateman, Daniel Davis, Rob Dreyer, Vicki Ferguson, Bo Lundwall, and many others. (2.7 JM HOJ 301/a2. Inscribed. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

NY: Sepia Eye, 2012. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, [192]pp, colour photos throughout. From the jacket: In this book, photographer and multimedia artist Atul Bhalla documents a five-day trek along the sacred Yamuna River as it passes through his home city of New Delhi, India. Through his vivid and haunting photographs, Bhalla explores the myriad ways that modern life along the Yamuna is shaped by water, from the rural outskirts of the city to the polluted landscape of urban Delhi. Climbing over fences, crossing concrete overpasses, and navigating between blooming fields and piles of waste on his journeys, Bhalla also shows the diverse marks of human development that can be read in the image of the river. THe result is a facinating, close-range documentation of the impacts of the urban setting on the river. (3.2 JM 0112. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Bhalla, Atul. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Ottawa: Dept of Mines, National Museum of Canada, 1926. (CAD) Preseumed 1st edition, Owner's name to end paper, this is a well used "venerable" book with some spotting to cloth covers, the signatures are shakened, but holding, one colour plates is missing (LII), thus sold as Acceptable ; no dust jacket probably as published. Blue cloth, pp, index. Plates I- LXXXIV in colour; figure 1-70 key to page 23 and 71-315 scattered throughout text. (4.0 JM HOQ 101/0. 1st. Hardcover. Acceptable/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. (CAD) No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 636pp, index, distribution maps, B&W photos. This is a thorough and up-to-date inventory of nonpasserine avifauna in BC. A very heavy book. (6.0 JM LVR 205/a0. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1986. (CAD) No markings,Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket iwith minor scuffing to back panel; DJ is n mylar sleeve. This, the revised eiditon of 1986. Pebby blue boards with silver titles, , map end papers, 525pp, index. Colour illus. by John A. Crosby. Line drawings by S.D. MacDonald. This boook appeared in 1966 and covers all 519 bird species known to occur in Canada or to have occurred within historic times. Over 420 species are illustrated in colour. There are distribution maps, flight sihouettes, and information on voice, nesting, habitat preferences, distribution summaries, peripheral localities, food habits, English, French and scientific names. A heavy book. (6.0 JM LVR 200/b0. 2nd. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by CROSBY, John; MacDonald, S.D.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1990. (CAD) 1st edition. No markings, but upper cover corner are slightly bumped, there is a bump to the lower edge of the front cover, just breaking the cover paper, thus Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Boards, 636pp, index, distribution maps, B&W photos. This is a thorough and up-to-date inventory of nonpasserine avifauna in BC.Includes an insert from the publisher apologizing for the delay in the publication of the book and offering a season's greeting with a reproduction of a Snowy Owl by Michael Hames reproduced in colour and laid into the book. As well, there is the original brochure announcing the publication of the book and three progress reports dated May 1990, June 1990 aand August 1990 informing the subscriber of the delays in the publication. Finally there is a newspaper clipping on Wayne Campbel from the Vancouver Sun dated July 8 1989. A very heavy book. (6.0 JM LVR 201/b6. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Folio - over… Read More

UK: Edward Elgar, 2012. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket probably as published. Glossy boards, 288pp, index. graphs. This original and timely volume provides unique insights and analysis on the pressing question of how to achieve environmental sustainability while fostering economic growth. The emphasis of the book lies in finding critical solutions to global climate change including chapters on environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain, EU structural and cohesion policy and sustainable development, ecological tax reform in Europe and Asia, Australia's carbon pricing mechanism, and many other timely topics.This insightful volume will appeal to policy makers in government as well as academics and students in environmental law, environmental economics and environmental sustainability. (2.1 JM HOZ 402/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

UK: Wordsworth Editions, 1989. (UK) No markings, Fine in Very Good dust jacket with light rubbing to flap corner tips. Boards, 105pp, then 10pp index, 83 large full-colour plates of British birds. This is a reprint of the "New edition" of 1917. Thorburn (1860 - 1935) was a Scottish artist and animal painter and bird illustrator, painting mostly in watercolour. The birds here are almost all drawn from life. A heavy book. (7.5 JM LVR 204/0. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

NY: The New Press, 2015. (USA) 1st printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: " k---& P-----/ Thanks so much for caring/ Save the Arctic!/ Ben Stewart", owner's notes to the last two black pages, no other markigns, about Fine in Fine dust jacket. 376pp, index, a few B&W illus. Tth crew of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic.But their protest is met with brutal force as Putin’s commandos seize the Arctic Sunrise. Held under armed guard by masked men, they are charged with piracy and face fifteen years in Russia’s nightmarish prison system. (1.9 JM LVR 201/b1. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Swift Current SK: Dominion Experimental STATION, 1955. (CAD) Edition Not Stated There is a faint water stain to portions of the top edge of pages and to the lower corner tips,, the cardboard front cover is slightly wavy from water, darker stain to the back cover, interior pages clean, Good used copy. 35 x 21.5 cm, stiff pattern boards, with black cloth tape to sine and all cover edges, this copy is bound incorrectly as the first page is numbered135 which goes to page 264, then follows [7] unnumbered leaves of line drawings of plants, then [1] Index to sceintific names 2-135 where this last page 135 is the same as the first page 135 that started the book. The pages are in typewritten text with rectos printed only )the versos are blank). There is a label adhered to the back of the front cover " With the compliments of the Dominion Experimental Farm, Swift Current, Sask." and SIGNED "Arch. C. Budd (Range Bontanist}". This appears to be a draft of Budd's major work later… Read More

NY: MacMillan, 1975. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, just a touch of soiling to lower page tips, Fine in uncliped about Fine dust jacket whose flaps have been attached to the inside coves with two pieces of magic tape. Boards, xiv, 366pp. 500 colour photos and 700 line drawings make this an indispensible reference. Geographical range, size, habitat, commercia importance,behaviour patterns, with cross-references of common names and synonyms. (3.9 JM LVR 201/b3. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Milne, Annabel; Stebbing, Peter. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Toronto: Stoddart, 2002. (CAD) 2nd Printing INSCRIBED BY SUZUKI on the title page: "To T----/Spread the news/ David Suzuki", no other markings, Fine in unclipped Fine Dut jacket with very light rubbing to panel gloss. Black boards, 398pp, index. No illus. The authors write about working solutions that can help all of us protect the environment. (2.4 JM HOQ 102/5. Inscribed By Author. Hardcover. Fine/Fine (-). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1948. (UK) 5th impression 1948. No markings, but a small patch of faint white residue to cover of Volume II, slight spine slant to volume V, otherwise Good to VG; lacking the dust jackets. Blue cloth with gold spine titles. Volume I: Crows to Firecrest, xl, 326pp, index, 32 colour plates; B&W illus in text. Volume II; Warblers to Owls, xiv, 352pp, index, colour plates 33 to 60, B&W illus and maps. Volume III; x, 387pp, index, colour plates 61 to 92, B&W illus and maps in text; Vollume IV, Cormorants to Crane, xiv, 461pp, index, colour plates 93 to 125, B&W illus and maps in text; Volume V: Terns to Game-Birds, xii, 381pp, index, colour plates 126 to 147, B&W illus and maps in text. scientific index volumes I-V. The Handbook of British Birds was a pioneering bird guide published in five volumes by H. F. & G. Witherby, first edition in 1941. It was itself a much enlarged and revised version of H.F. Witherby's Practical Handbook of British… Read More

Hamilton IL: Dadant & Sons, 1975. (USA) This is the 2nd printing of the fourth revised edtion. Owner's name to title page, notes to the lower part of last page and the inside of rear end paper, no other markings, Very Good used copy; lacking the dust jacket. Tan coloured cloth, brown titles, photo endpapers, xviii, 740pp, index. B&W photos in text. A successor to the book LANGSTROTH ON THE HIVE AND THE HONEYBEE written by a staff of apiary specialists. The book first appeared in 1946 (3.0 JM LVR 202/b4. 4th. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hamilton IL: Dadant & Sons, 1963. (USA) No markings, the lower corner of the front cover is slightly bumped, Very Good used copy; lacking the dust jacket. Green-gray cloth, gold hive and titles, photo endpapers, xx, 556pp, index. Colour frontis; B&W photos in text. A successor to the book LANGSTROTH ON THE HIVE AND THE HONEYBEE written by a staff of apiary specialists. This is the first printing of the (third) extensively revised edition of 1963. A heavy book (2.5 JM HOQ 101/a5. 3rd. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Duckworth & Co., 1909. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. Bookplate to front pastedown, there is a photograph of a plaque of Jefferies birthplace adhered to the front endpaper, a bit of rubbing here and there to the cover edges, a touch of foxing to the leading edge of pages,overall Very Good; lacking the dust jacket, Black cloth with gold spine titles, top edge gilt, xxxii, 312pp, Intro. by Edward Thomas; Choosing a gun; skating; Marlborough forest; Village churches; Birds of spring; etc. John Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.(1.9 JM HOQ 101/4. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London / New York: George Routledge & Sons / E.P. Dutton, 1905. (UK) Bookplate from the City of Sheffield for year ended July 31, 19--, (partially rubbed away) to the front pastedown, no other markings, light spotting to the covers, with lower corner tips rubbed through, endapers tanned,about Good; no Dj. 20 x 13.5 cm, red cloth with gold titles to front and to spine, design device of a rising sun to front and sea cliff scene to the spine, xx, 444pp, index. Colour frontis of "The King of Beasts"; 480 B&W illus of animals and birds in the text. There is a preface (for the first edition) which is dated 1852 and an undated preface for the second (revised) edition. This is a description of the habits and habitats of animals and birds, with some material on fishes and insects, in the correct classification "drawn from personal experience and from the most recent zoological writers". There is a lot of anecdotal material included which makes the most interesting reading.… Read More