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Berlin: Im Verlah Ullstein, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. Udet, Ernst (1896-1941). (Garnett, Tay). Mein Fliegerleben (My Life as a Pilot). Berlin: Im Verlag Ullstein, 1937. Inscribed copy to American film director (and fellow pilot) Tay Garnett (1894 - 1977). Spanning nearly 60 years, Garnett's scriptwriting and directing career moved from the silents to the heyday of the Hollywood motion picture studio to television; of the hundreds of projects he either wrote or directed, he is best known for directing the American noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). As a young man he served as Naval Air pilot in WWI and worked as a cartoonist before finding work as a title writer for Mack Sennett Studios. By the time sound came along, he was directing feature theatricals. Garnett and Udet met while Garnett was directing SOS Iceberg (1933). The two had much in common: both were accomplished cartoonists but most importantly both served, albeit in enemy forces, as air pilots in WWI, Udet being a…
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South Moulton Company, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. The Birds of California. A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State.
San Diego: South Moulton Company, 1923. Four volumes in the 'Format De Luxe, Patron's Inlaid Edition'. Signed by Dawson in Volume One. Copy Number Twenty-one. Illustrated with 110 full-page color plates of birds and 44 drawings in the text by Allan BROOKS. Additional illustrations include 30 photogravures, 120 full-page duotone plates, and more than 1100 half-tone cuts of birds, nests, eggs and favorite haunts, from photographs. This edition comprises the first choice of selected sheets from the first impressions of the format de luxe of the Birds of California. In full leather with hand-carved and hand-colored hardwood bird portraits in half relief on covers, spine panels separated by inlaid bird figures. The Patron's Inlaid Edition is the most opulent and rare of the many editions of The Birds of California published under the sponsorship of Ellen Browning Scripps. Together with offprint from The Condor: Bibliographic Notes on Dawson's Birds of California by W. Lee Chambers (1939). ' By far the most sumptuous book prepared on the birds of any American State.' - Mengel -.
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London: Printed for W. Miller, 1803. Seventy-Three Fine Hand-Colored Stipple Engravings of The Russian Empire With Descriptions Derived From Authentic Sources [ALEXANDER, William]. The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings. With descriptions in English and French. London: Printed for W. Miller, 1803. First edition, later issue. Folio (13 13/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 350 x 257 mm.). [xviii], 73 leaves of text. Text printed in English and French. Seventy-three hand colored stipple-engravings. Plates watermarked J. Whatman 1817, text watermarked 1811. A few plates with minor marginal discoloration and light offsetting onto facing text leaves. Full contemporary red straight-grain morocco. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, spine with three wide and shallow raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt board-edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate of Holcombe Ingleby on front paste-down.…
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The Seventeen Years of Travels of Peter de Cieza through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru, and the Large Provinces of Carthagena and Popayan in South America
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[viii]+244+[12] pages with engraved map, folding plan and four engraved illustrations in text and index. Quarto (9 ¾" x 7½") bound in period calf with modern rebacking, original gilt spine leather laid down and ruled gilt edges to cover. Translated by Joh Stevens. First English Edition.This is a highly regarded chronicle of the conquest and colonization of Peru by Spaniards in the latter part of the 16th century and is lauded for its (at the time) objectivity. Cieza de Leon's Chronica was to appear in 4 sections, this translation being the first part only, all that was available of the history until the latter part of the 19th century.Pedro Cieza de Leon was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru. He is known primarily for his history and description of Peru, Cronicas del Peru. He wrote this book in four parts, but only the first was published during his lifetime; the remaining sections were not published until the 19th and 20th centuries. Cieza de León was born to a family of Jewish…
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A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-Making
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Boston: Light & Stearns, 1 Cornhill, 1837. 18mo, original dark gray patterned cloth with gilt title on upper cover; 131 pp., [blank], 12 pp. of ads. CONDITION: Very good, minimal wear, moderate foxing throughout. The scarce, first edition of this influential work advocating the use of whole grain flour for bread-making. Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was a vegetarian and the inventor of "Graham bread," known to us today in the rather corrupted form of the Graham cracker. His advocacy of whole grains and vegetables gave rise to a diet reform movement with strong moralistic overtones: "In the 1830s, critiques of American food and eating were rampant and shrill, and usually attached to the name of Sylvester Graham, the de facto founder of the diet reform movement in the antebellum United States. During the 1830s and 1840s, the man Ralph Waldo Emerson described as the 'prophet of bran bread' made a name for himself lecturing and publishing books on diet and proper living...The diet reform…
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A Dissertation concerning the War of Troy, and the Expedition of the Grecians, as Described by Homer; Shewing that No Such Expedition was ever Undertaken, and that No Such City of Phrygia Existed.
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Jacob Bryant. A Dissertation concerning the War of Troy, and the Expedition of the Grecians, as Described by Homer; Shewing that No Such Expedition was ever Undertaken, and that No Such City of Phrygia Existed. Illustrated with folding map. 4to. Late 18th or early 19th century half-calf over marbled boards, leather label on spine. London N.D. (1796 per ESTC). First Edition of Bryant's controversial dissertation in which he ignited one of the longer scholarly controversies of the 18th century, asserting that there never was a war at Troy. Bound with: John Bacon Sawrey Morritt ('Troy Morritt'). A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians, Who Have Recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy. In Answer to Two Late Publications of Mr. Bryant. Illustrated with a folding map of the plain of Troy and 5 folding plates. York 1798. First Edition of Morritt's very critical and beautifully illustrated response to Bryant. The 5 folding pictorial views include the plain of troy; the tombs of Ajax;…
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Nantes: Pré Nian Editions, 1988. loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. Pré Nian Editions. folio (15 1/8 x 11 inches). loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. (28) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 60 copies, on Johannot paper, each copy signed by the poet and the artist. A sequence of five haiku by the Scottish poet Kenneth White who lives in France and has written verses in English and in French. Each page has the English verse, followed by the French verse set in italic; the recto of each page is Bertrand Bracaval's silkscreen. Inspired by the ancient monuments of Greece, the Acropolis, Delphi, etc. The haiku catch the starkness of the Greek landscape, as do the stone-like triangles in Bracaval's square silkscreens. The French artist has also set the type. Bracaval has been awarded many prizes through nearly four decades beginning with the Prix Lafont in 1967 and most recently the Prix Robert Beltz in 2002. His works are…
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Berlin: Im Verlah Ullstein, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. Udet, Ernst (1896-1941). (Garnett, Tay). Mein Fliegerleben (My Life as a Pilot). Berlin: Im Verlag Ullstein, 1937. Inscribed copy to American film director (and fellow pilot) Tay Garnett (1894 - 1977). Spanning nearly 60 years, Garnett's scriptwriting and directing career moved from the silents to the heyday of the Hollywood motion picture studio to television; of the hundreds of projects he either wrote or directed, he is best known for directing the American noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). As a young man he served as Naval Air pilot in WWI and worked as a cartoonist before finding work as a title writer for Mack Sennett Studios. By the time sound came along, he was directing feature theatricals. Garnett and Udet met while Garnett was directing SOS Iceberg (1933). The two had much in common: both were accomplished cartoonists but most importantly both served, albeit in enemy forces, as air pilots in WWI, Udet being a…
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[viii]+244+[12] pages with engraved map, folding plan and four engraved illustrations in text and index. Quarto (9 ¾" x 7½") bound in period calf with modern rebacking, original gilt spine leather laid down and ruled gilt edges to cover. Translated by Joh Stevens. First English Edition.This is a highly regarded chronicle of the conquest and colonization of Peru by Spaniards in the latter part of the 16th century and is lauded for its (at the time) objectivity. Cieza de Leon's Chronica was to appear in 4 sections, this translation being the first part only, all that was available of the history until the latter part of the 19th century.Pedro Cieza de Leon was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru. He is known primarily for his history and description of Peru, Cronicas del Peru. He wrote this book in four parts, but only the first was published during his lifetime; the remaining sections were not published until the 19th and 20th centuries. Cieza de León was born to a family of Jewish…
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A Method for the Calculation of the Zeta-Function. [Received 7 March, 1939. - Read 16 March, 1939]. [In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series. Volume 48]. - [TURING'S FIRST WORK ON THE ZETA-FUNCTION]
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1945. London, Hodgson & Son, 1945. Royal 8vo. Entire volume 48 of "Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series" bound WITH ALL THE SIX ORIGINAL FRONT-WRAPPERS for all six parts of the volume (bound in at rear) in a very nice contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt ex-libris ("Belford College. Univ. London") to spine. Very minor bumping to extremities. Overall in excellent, very nice, clean, and fresh condition in- as well as ex-ternally. Small circle-stamp to pasted-down front free end-paper and to title-page ("Bedford College for Women"). Book-plate stating that the book was presented to the Library of Bedford College by "Professor H. Simpson./ 1945" + discreet library-markings to upper margin of pasted-down front free end-paper. Pp. 180-197. [Entire volume: (4),477, (1) pp + 1 plate (balance sheet)]. The very rare first printing of Turing's first published paper devoted to the Riemann-zeta function, the basis for his famous "Zeta-function Machine", a…
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Acts of Assembly Passed in the Province of New-York, from 1691 to 1718
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1719. London: Printed for John Baskett, 1719. Folio. London: Printed for John Baskett, 1719. Folio. 1719 Compilation of New York Laws Printed in London by John Baskett [New York (Colony)]. Acts of Assembly Passed in the Province of New-York, From 1691, To 1718. London: Printed for John Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1719. xv, 292 pp. Folio (13-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt rules to boards, extra gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, endleaves retained, hinges mended. Shallow scuffing to boards, some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, hinges starting, early armorial bookplate of the Oswalds of Dunnikier, Fife to front pastedown. Light toning to text, somewhat heavier in places, light foxing to a few laves, light soiling and faint spotting to title page, a tear near the gutter carefully repaired. A very handsome copy. $3,000. * Published the same year as William Bradford's compilation, this was the fourth codification of New York laws,…
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The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State. Volume 2 only (of 3).
by Dawson, William Leon
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Birds of California - Volume Two of Four - Description of Species Nos. 103 - 201
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San Diego, California: South Moulton Company, 1923. Booklovers' Edition . Hard Back. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8" X 11. Begins with Page 523 and ends with Page 1034. Black boards with gold spine and front lettering. This is Volume Two of Four. This is a Booklover's Edition limited to 1000 copies Copy no. is not filled in. Books were sold only by Subscription. A complete Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found In The State. Illustrated by 16 Photogravures, 32 Full-page Duotone Plates and More Than 1100 Half-tone Cuts of Birds In Life, Nests, Eggs, and Favorite Haunts, from Photographs. Together with 44 Drawings in the Text and a series of 48 Full-page Color Plates.
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The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State. (3 volumes complete).
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The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State. Three volumes
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South Moulton Company, 1923. Hardcover. Spines sunned, shelf wear with corners worn through to the boards, but still a very good clean & sound, attractive set. Size: 8.25"x11", one-quarter brown leather over brown cloth covered boards. Illustrated by More Than 100 Half-tone Cuts of Birds in Life, Nests, Eggs, and Favorite Haunts, from Photographs, Together with 44 Drawings in the Text and a Series of 15 Full-page Color Plates. Students' Edition Complete in Three Volumes.
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The Birds of California
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The Birds of California by William Leon Dawson, from 1923. 4 Volume Set. De Luxe edition, signed by the author. Set is ex-library and ex-libris. Former library book set, with stamps from Coleman College and Fransciscan Fathers California on copyright pages. Stamped Property of Coleman College on page edges. All volumes are liberally stamped Stolen Ex Libris D. B. Tracy, particularly on illustrations. Cover corners are worn and cover is scuffed, as might be expected from a library set. End papers are faded, particularly around edges. Text is very readable and illustrations are in great condition. Minimal aging on pages themselves. A couple of pages may be torn, at the binding; see image for example. Please contact me with questions about this set.
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THE BIRDS OF CALIFORNIA (4 VOLS.)
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CALIFORNIA, SOUTH MOULTON COMPANY, 1923. FORMAT DE LUX, ONE OF 539 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. COMPLETE IN FOUR OCTAVO VOLS. GREEN BUCKRAM, A FINE SET. WITH 260 COLOUR, HALFTONE OR PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES WITH CAPTIONED TISSUE-GUARDS, HALFTONE ILLUS. THROUGHOUT THE TEXT. A TYPESCRIPT SLIP TIPPED IN VOLUME 1 READING ' ALL MISSING PLATES INSERTED AFTER BINDING', SUPERSEDING THE PUBLISHER'S SMALL STAMPED NOTICE 'THIS VOLUME IS LACKING A FEW OF THE EXTRA INSERTED PLATES, AND IS SOLD AS IS'. THE COLOUR PLATES ARE BY MAJOR ALLAN BROOKS. PLEASE NOTE THAT EACH VOLUME WEIGHS NEARLY 4.5 Kg, SO POSTAGE AT COST.
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North American Birdfeeder Handbook
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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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Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers: Order Paseriformes, Bulletin 203
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Old original printing of United States National Museum, `1953, 734 pp, rough page ends, strong binding. There are a very few notations by owner and salutation. This was later printed in 2 volumes. No photos, printed by Unite tates Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. orig. price $4.50.
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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
by Lack, David
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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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The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36
by Montgomery, R.A
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Montgomery, R.A: 1986 Bantam-Skylark: The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36. Softcover. Illustrated by Leslie Morrill. Number line CW 098765432. Used. VG condition. 50 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Series. Keywords: Choose Your Own Adventure, Bantam-Skylark, Adventure, Series, Collectible. ISBN9780553154498
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On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America
by Michael Forsberg
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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
by Elliot McClure
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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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