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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition. Hardcover in light blue cloth decorated in dark blue and spine lettered in gilt. Map endpapers. xi+ 428 pp. with index. Illustrated with drawings and silhouettes by Henry Bigbee Kane. Fine inoriignal dust jacket, about very good, with rubbing to the extremities and folds and fade to… Read more about this item

Scranton, Pa: International Textbook Co, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover in blindstamped black cloth. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams and drawings. Laid in is the almost always lacking folding booklet of seven highly detailed diagrams of overheads and cross sections. Book and insert fine.

Tokyo: Shubun International, 1982. Third edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover. Text in English. Fine in bright, crisp, dust jacket with a bit of bumping to the head edge of the spine and one tip. 266 pp. with appendix list of Japanese birds, general index. With 280 color drawings, black and white photos, and maps. The color illustrations of… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick octavo in dark green cloth covered boards decorated in black and with spine lettered in gilt. xxxiv+ 548 pp. + 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. Correct first edition, in one volume, with 1871 date on title page and no other editions noted, but apparently a later… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: William Rutter, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. fine. First edition. Hardcover in incised emerald green cloth with gilt figure of an insect on front cover and gilt lettering and two insect figures on the spine. A tight, bright, virtually as new example. xx + 670 pp. with systematic index, alphabetical index with over 700 full- and partial- page… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition (no statement). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Hardcover in green polished cloth stamped in gilt. 161 pp. with bibliography. Illustrations. A fine, bright example in a near fine dust jacket, spine a touch toned and slightly rubbed. A series of fascinating biographies of the… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Platform, 1915. Hardcover. Near Fine. Presumed first edition. Hardcover in grey cloth stamped in gilt and black. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Live over with me the criticisms of the manuscript, (See J. 68+72)/ With my best wishes,/ Your cousin/ Sara V. Prueser/ Dec 3-1915/ Defiance, O.". 204 pp. Illustrated with color plates and line… Read more about this item

Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1866. First edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. First edition. Small 8vo in 19th century library binding of dark brown three-quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards. Spine lettered in gilt. The institution's identification is blindstamped onto the leather portion of the front board. 225 pp. with list of "Roses Most Approved By bThe Best… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First American edition (no statement as is correct for this publisher at that time). Hardcover in red cloth lettered and decorated in black. 215 pp. Illustrated with small drawings and diagrams. A tight, generally fine example in the orignal dust jacket, very good, price clipped and… Read more about this item

St Martins Pr, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Oblong oversized hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 259 pp. with bibliography, idex. Illustrated with photos and reproductions. Fine in fine dust jacket. Combining scientific observation, imagination, fear, affection, historic resources, economic motivation and hunger, the American people over the last 500 years have established a unique relationship with this, one of the… Read more about this item

Des Mopines: Better Homes and Gardens, 1928. Softcover. Very Good. 150 pp. in slightly oversized decorated stiff wrappers. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. The authors were, respectively, the pathologist and entomologist of the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station at Lafayette, Indiana. Very good.

London: Collins, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. A bright example in fine condition. No dust jacket. 287 pages with index and color plates.

Abbeville Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Hardcover. 447 pp. with index. Illustrated with reproductiuons of Audubon's drawings, photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Accounts of Audubon's journey to England and Scotland to arrange the publication of "The Birds of America", transcribed from the original 400+ page manuscript.

Abbeville Press, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover. 528 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrations. A tight, fine example in crisp dust jacket with some sunning to the spine.

Privately Printed, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first edition. No place, no date (circa 1931). Hardcover inbrown paper covered boards printed in black, yellow cloth spine strip. 64 pp. Frontispiece by Robert Milne and three additional plates. Very good; gift inscription dated 1931 on front free endpaper, scatted light foxing in the text. (reduced international shipping available.… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1937. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oversized in spiral binding. Orange card covers lettred in black and with tipped on color plate. 92 full color plates printed versos only, plus index at rear. Boards with light even soiling, slightly rounded corners. The inside of both covers as well as the facing tile page… Read more about this item

1912. Leather_bound. Very Good. Large octavo in three quarter dark brown leather over marbled paper covered boards. Variously paginated. Illustrated with photographic plates and engravings. This volume comprised of Vol. XI (1907) through XV (1911). Each issue contains articles, club proceedings, index of species, members list. Articles include "Adolphus L. Heermann, M.D." "Some Birds of Brown's Mills, N.j.",… Read more about this item

Warwick, NY: Warwick Valley Dispatch, 1921. Limited ed. Hardcover. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies only signed by Harry Worcester Smith (of which this is No. 28). Hardcover in ribbed forest green cloth with black leather spine and cover labels lettered in gilt. xlvii+ 213 pp. plus adverts at rear. With illustrated frontis, title and plates reproduced from… Read more about this item

New York: George S. Putnam, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small octavo in dark brown blindstamped cloth, spine lettering gilt. xvi+191 pp. , vignette engraving of a storm-tossed ship on title page. A tight example, spine lettering bright, light partial ring stain front cloth and 1" darkening to the cloth at the top of the rear cloth.… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. First edition. INSCRIBED on the ffep TO A NEW JERSEY CONGRESSMAN AND DATED AT DENNISVILLE, NJ, APRIL 8, 1986. Hardcover. 249 pp. with index, bibliography. Fascinating exploration of both the human and natural landscapes of Guatmala as the author and a photographer pursue the seriously endangered quetzal.… Read more about this item