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Edinburgh, Scotland: W. H. Lizars, 1833. Ex-library. Marbled boards half-bound in dark green leather. Five raised bands on the spine with gilt lettering on red background, and gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 538 numbered pages. No illustrations. From Zimmer, as quoted in the Smithsonian Institution Library Catalog: "Although issued partly in connection with the volume of plates, under the same title (at the time of issue), text and plates were purchasable separately and the publishers ... express the hope, also voiced by the author in his preface to the present work, that the text will constitute an independent work of reference. Vol. I was issued originally in 1825 .... Vol. II [this volume] was prepared according to the arrangement proposed by Vigors and to make the two volumes uniform, Selby revised vol. I and reissued it in altered form with the first and only edition of vol. II". This is an ex-library copy, but the only library markings are a call number on…
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Moa sightings volumes 1, 2, and 3
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A three volume set describing moa sighting claims made in New Zealand. Each volume is in colour and has 448 pages , page size 240 x 170 mm. Book thickness 35 mm. Weight 4.14 kg for the three volumes.
Comment from the forward by Denis Dutton, Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand: "This invaluable book … provides a broad and systematic historical backdrop for individual claims to have sighted living moa. However misguided or illusory moa-sighting claims may be, Bruce Spittle has done an authentic service to scholarship."
The back cover blurb also notes: "Hunting pressure, habitat destruction, and introduced predators led to moa extinction by A.D. 1650 according to the previously held serial overkill model. In the currently accepted rapid "blitzkrieg" model, all the moas were gone by A.D. 1450, over 300 years before the first Europeans landed with Captain Cook in 1769. However a number of moa sighting claims have been made since 1769 and the author offers for consideration a staggered survival model in which moas lingered on until a later date in some remote, isolated areas. The available circumstantial evidence for a few moas remaining after 1769 is presented including reports suggesting survival in circa 1810 by Kawana Paipai, 1845 by Burr Osburn, 1863 by Patrick Caples, circa 1825–1875 by HJ Cuttance, and 1878 by Sir George Grey.
The author, Bruce Spittle, lives in Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Illustrations of British Ornithology. Vol. II. Water Birds
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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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Rocca San Casciano: Cappelli, 1895. This exquisite watercolour painting has a 19th Century wedding congratulation message adhered to it. The painting is signed, but we cannot decipher its creator's name. The wedding dedication is dated 1895, so the painting pre dates this. Blank verso. Size: 405 x 305 mm (16 x 12 inches) . Belle message de félicitations de mariage du 19ème siècle, sur une belle aquarelle originale de hirondelles de fenêtre. Le tableau est signé, mais nous ne pouvons pas déchiffrer le nom de son créateur. La dédicace du mariage est datée de 1895, donc la peinture est antérieure à celle-ci. Verso vierge. Taille : 405 x 305 mm
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Will Barnet: 27 Master Prints
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New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1982. Softcover. Oversized. 27 full-page prints. Very Good. Very faint age-toning to edges of pages. Owner signature on half-title page, else free of marks. Light soiling to cover with corners and spine edges rubbed. Overall, a clean, solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Young Eagle; or, Forest Fortunes
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Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1871. Red cloth with silver decoration and lettering. 212 pp. Small worn-through spots to the spine ends and corners. The spine is slanted and slightly sunned. The endpapers are toned. Otherwise fine in a tight binding with hinges intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son, 1912. Large slim octavo, pp xiv, 80, a little age-toned, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, folding map, cloth slightly dusty, spine slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. [With two short typed letters to the notable ornithologist Rev F.L. Blathwayt, signed by the author.] RARE [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. Signed letter from author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.
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Swifts in a Tower
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Moa Sightings. Volume One.
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Dunedin: Paua Press. New in New dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 0473153564 . Volume One only of three volumes. Pictorial papered boards, with dust wrappers. Page dimensions: 240 x 169mm. Numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Contents of this volume: What this book is about; Anon; John Boultbee; Burr Osborn; Paatu; John Watts-Russell; Patrick Caples; Arthur Thomson; Anon (Party of natives that spoke to George Grey); Kawana Paipai; James Cameron; Robert and Elizabeth Murrell; Robert Aitkin; Mr McDonald; Charles Port; J Turnbull Thomson; Anon (cousin of Nathaniel Bates); Anon (writer of letter to Geoffrey Orbell); Wattie Norman; Jules Berg; Cap. Alabaster; Alice MacKenzie; Daniel MacKenzie; Malcolm and Hugh MacKenzie; Robert Clark; George Pauley; Two Americans; Ebenezer Jessop and Thomas Cropp; Lieutenant Impey, Capt. Dashwood, and Captain Mitchell; Anonymous Prospectors. "It is a tantalizing possbility: that in some remote and inaccesible area of New Zealand moa had…
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Dunedin: Paua Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 0473153564 . Each volume signed by the author on the title page. Three volumes. Pictorial papered boards, with dust wrappers. Page dimensions: 240 x 169mm. A comprehensive study of moa sightings in New Zealand, from the pre-European period up until the alleged sighting by Paddy Freaney and companions of a moa in the Arthurs Pass area in 1993. Includes chapters on John Boultbee; Patrick Caples; J Turnbull Thomson; Jules Berg; Alice Mackenzie of Martins Bay; James Hector; and Geoffrey Orbell. Numerous colour and b&w illustrations. "It is a tantalizing possbility: that in some remote and inaccesible area of New Zealand moa had survived human depredation, living on into the nineteenth and perhaps even the twentieth century." - from the foreword by Dennis Dutton. "[A] number of moa sighting claims have been made since 1769 and the author offers for consideration a staggered survival model in which…
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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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 Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36
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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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