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Birds of America: Includes More Than 100 Portraits in Full Color by T. Gilbert Pearson (Editor), John Burroughs (Editor), Edward H. Forbush (Editor), Herbert K. Job (Editor), - 1936
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Young Eagle; or, Forest Fortunes
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The Artist's Game Bag
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Publication Date: 1936. Beautiful copy of the Artist's Game Bag. Amazing black and white illustrations with a handful of full color full page illustrations. Minor bumping on corners. Very minor wear. Else Fine. No DJ. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. This is a limited print edition. This particular copy is number 596 out of 1,225. Additional postage applies to mail with USPS priority and insurance.
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Muscovy Drake, FROM A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life
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London: Printed for the Author, 1736. First edition. 1736 MUSCOVY DRAKE, ADAPTED TO TROPICAL AND COLD CLIMATES, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has colored engravings by Albin and his…
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A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS
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BEWICK, THOMAS. A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. NEWCASTLE, 1807 8vo, wood-engravings, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, neatly rebacked retaining original spine, slightly spottedEx Libris - NOVA VIRERE FRONDE - Harry Lupton, surgeon (d. 1861) author of LUPTON, Mr. [Harry]. The History of Thame and Its Hamlets; Including the Abbey of Thame, Prebend, Free School, etc. etc. Printed and Published by J. E. and F. Bradford. Thame. [1860]The Figures Engraved in Wood by T. Bewick. Newcastle upon Tyne:T. Bewick and S.Hodgson,1807. Fifth edition (pp. x, 525, advert). Octavo (20 cm) in full mottled leather, gilt decoration, title in compartment on spine. In the addenda, Bewick includes an early mention of two Australian species-- the figures and descriptions of two very rare animals, sent from New South Wales, by James Hunter, Esq. Governor of that settlement . The two animals are the Wombach (sic) and an as yet unnamed amphibious animal with a bill similar to that of a duck. Thomas Bewick (1753- 1828), a…
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Art de Faire Eclore de d'Elever en Toute Saison des Oiseaux Domestiques de Toutes Especes, Soit par le Moyen de la Chaleur du Fumier, Soit par le Moyen de Celle du Feu Ordinaire: [Art of Hatching and Raising Domestic Birds of All Species in All Seasons, Either by Means of Heat from Manure, or by Means of Ordinary Fire]
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Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749. First edition. 1749 FIRST EDITION 2-VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON INCUBATION OF DOMESTICATED FOWL EGGS WITH TECHNIQUES ILLUSTRATED BY FINE COPPER ENGRAVINGS. Two hardcover volumes 6 3/4 inches tall, full calf binding, spine with raised bands, compartments gilt, gilt red title labels, red-speckled edges, xii, Vol. I: xii, 342 pp, 9 folding copper plates; Vol. II: [iv], 339 pp, 6 folding plates; each volume additionally illustrated by 10 engraved title vignettes and several in-text engraved vignettes. Edges of boards rubbed, endpapers browned, pages age-toned, very good. French language. RENE ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE REAUMUR (1683-1757) was a French naturalist regarded as a founder of ethology. He studied the relationship between the growth of insects and temperature. He also computed the rate of growth of insect populations and noted that there must be natural checks since the theoretical population numbers achievable by geometric progression were not matched by observations of…
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Parrots & Pigeons of Australia
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Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1992. Jacket has crinkling to rear and front foldover plus previous owners details in pen to rear of front foldover. 318 pages with colour illustrations and distribution maps. Part of The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Covers 54 species of parrots and 27 species of pigeons. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Missouri Meadow Lark ,Audubon, The original hand coloured lithographs done by the Philadelphia firm of J.T. Bowen John Audubon (1785 – 1851), whose surname became synonymous with birds, produced a prolific body of work, including over 435 paintings of birds. America's dominant wildlife artist for half a century, Audubon's childhood fascination with birds extended into his adulthood, and he spent days and weeks on the frontier, amassing an enormous portfolio of life-size bird drawings. Reflecting his deep love of birds and his concern for conservation, the Audubon Society was established in his name in the late 1800s, years after his death. His work remains the standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists are still measured.
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The Birds of North America
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New York: Published Under The Auspices Of The Natural Science Association Of America, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. New York, Published Under The Auspices Of The Natural Science Association Of America, 1903. Revised Edition. Folio (15.5 x 12.5x x2 inches). pp. 2 p.l., 16, 182, [10]. title in red & black. text in double columns. engraved frontis. portrait & 119 chromo-lithographed plates after drawings by Theodore Jasper. In very good condition, no foxing of plates, minor shelf wear to very solid binging. Ships from Hawaii. A profusely illustrated 1903 publication of The Birds of North America by Jacob H Studer This book was published in 1903 by The Natural Science Association of America It is cloth bound on board and gilt lettering to the front and spine.
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The Crown Bird from Mexico FROM A Natural History of Birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life
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London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE TURACO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has colored engravings by Albin and his daughter Elizabeth Albin. In that book…
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Habitat Management for Migrating and Wintering Waterfowl in North America
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Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press [0-89672-204-X] 1989. (Hardcover) 560pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Tables, distribution maps, charts, photographs, bibliographies. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn and lightly faded on the spine. (Natural History, Habitat Management, Natural History, Waterfowl).
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Birds of America: Includes More Than 100 Portraits in Full Color
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North American Birdfeeder Handbook
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Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]
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New York: Grove Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Helen Macdonald to special themed bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". ix, 261pp. A touch of shelfwear to bright dust jacket. Bound in full black paper over boards, with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in silver. A new, unread signed first edition of this collection of essays about the natural world by Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk. ABOUT VESPER FLIGHTS: From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. Helen Macdonald's bestselling debut H is for Hawk brought the astonishing story of…
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The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird SIGNED FIRST EDITION
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New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink at front free endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 417pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the…
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers: Order Paseriformes, Bulletin 203
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World of Birds
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New York: Doubleday, 1964. Hardcover. Very good. 4to (33 x 24 cm). 288 pp. Signed by Peterson on 2nd blank endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and upper, light wear to head/tail of spine,corners and edges. No DJ.
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Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1968. First edition. ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF ADAPTATIONS OF BIRDS FOR BREEDING BY EXPERT ON DARWIN'S FINCHES. 10 inches tall mauve cloth binding, gilt title to spine, unmarked, very good in good price-clipped dust jacket with edge tears. From dust jacket: "The primary aim of this book is an interpretation of the main adaptations of birds for breeding-whether a species lests solitarily or in colonies, whether it is monogamous or has several mates, the lumber of eggs that it lays, the relative size of its eggs, the rate of development of its eggs and young, and the age at which it first breeds. This book is the first comprehensive survey of these points that has been made, so readers can see what is known, and what emains to be discovered, and hence may be stimulated to add to knowledge. However it is much more than a summary of the facts, for these various adaptations have been interpreted in terms of natural selection, and the author has suggested how each of…
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A Natural History of American Birds of Eastern and Central North America
by Forbush, Edward Howe; May, John Bichard
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Houghton Mifflin Compay Boston, 1939. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. 1939. Revised and Abridged with the Addition of More Than One Hundred Species. Very good red cloth hardcover without dust jacket. Edge wear. Previous owner's name on ffep. Illustrated in color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Allan Brooks and Roger Tory Peterson.
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On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America
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Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million strong, flying in squadrons, these majestic creatures point northward to their Arctic and sub-Arctic breeding ranges. Theirs is an epic story of endurance through the ages. With 153 stunning color photographs, On Ancient Wings presents sandhill cranes in their wild but increasingly compromised habitats today. Over the course of five years, Michael Forsberg documented the tall gray birds in habitats ranging from the Alaskan tundra, to the arid High Plains, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards. With an eye for beauty and an uncommon persistence, the author documents the cranes' challenges to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world. Forsberg argues that humankind, for its own sake, should secure the cranes' place in the future.…
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Bird Banding
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Trade paperback with multiple illustrations, maps, photographs. 340 pages with indexOrnithology and how the banding yields info about birds as carriers of disease.
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$45.00