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Bruxelles: Hayez, Imprimeur Des Academies Royales, 1911 1911-1912. [8], 286pp, [2], with lay-over tissue identifying the personages inthe group photograph; [4], 515pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in sturdy green cloth [library binding, not buckram], with binding and hinges tight, plates throughout. Text is in English, French and German. Ex-library, with "withdrawn" stamp on label inside covers, no spine labels, perforation on title pages. ENTOMOLOGY.

Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1963 Text is in English. xx, 933pp, [1], printed on fine glossy paper, bound in black cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. The Dust Jacket is in a protective mylar cover, and has been previously reinforced with tape, previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. OVERSIZED.

NY: The American Kennel Club, 1913 Title continues: Containing Airedale, Bedlington, Black and Tan, Bull, Dandie Dinmont, Fox, Irish, Scottish, Sealyham, Skye, Welsh and West Highland White Terriers. [4], iii, [1], 384pp, [26], bound in green cloth, lettering still crisp, floral endpapers, binding and hinges tight, occasional pencil marking, covers show bumped corners. A couple of articles are laid-in, one being on the Sale of the Porter Dogs.

London: Griffith and Farran, 1891 Fifth Edition, Circa 1891. Frontis-piece [lacks tissue guard], viii, 312pp, 30pp, with an additional 4 plates, bound in original green, illustrated cloth, with the gilt still bright. This book was stored with a brown paper cover over it, which allows the book covers to be in Very Good+ Condition, but the paper covers were pasted onto the inside portion of the book covers, leaving a residue and portions of the paper. Church library bookplate inside cover [only library marking], hinges cracked, lacks back free endpaper, interior foxing.

City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institute, 1956 Publication 4258. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 130 (Whole Volume). [4], 305pp, bound in brown cloth, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, NOR INSCRIPTIONS. Small penned ownership on the front free endpaper.

City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institute, 1956 Publication 4258. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 130 (Whole Volume). [4], 305pp, bound in stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Covers show edge wear, corner crease to back cover, INTERIOR IN NEW CONDITION.

City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institute, 1956 Publication 4258. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 130 (Whole Volume). [4], 305pp, bound in brown cloth, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, NOR INSCRIPTIONS. From the personal collection of Prof. A. M. Stuart, Dept. of Zoology, UMASS, Amherst, with his signature and ink stamp on free endpapers.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1929 Signed A. M. Stuart, Glasgow, 1963, who went on to become Professor A. M. Stuart, Department of Zoology at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, MA. xix, [1], 377pp, with 6 plates, bound in green cloth, binding and hinges tight.

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1976 This oversized hard cover is in FINE CONDITION. With Dust Jacket in Fine Condition protected in a mylar cover. Color photographs throughout.

Lancaster, PA: The American Ornithologist's Union, 1940 467-616pp, [[9], bound in illustrated stiff paper covers, with the binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. With PLates 8, 9 & 10. Contents include **Mating Performance of the Sage Grouse **Social Nesting Habits of Guira Guira **Light and Molt in Weaver Finches **Factors Affecting Length of Incubation **Sarcocystis in Birds **Anting By the Song Sparrow **Wintering of the Greater Snow Geese **A Collection of Seventeenth-Century Drawings **Canadian Status of the Long-Tailed Chickadee **New Birds From Southern Mexico **Oriental Forms of Picus Canus, and more. Back cover shows a partial corner tear, front cover shows light staining.

Boston: Ginn & Company Publishers / The Anthenaeum Press, 1901 xi, [1], 332pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in gilt illustrated cloth, with gilt still bright, top edges gilt, binding and hinges tight. Complete with 12 plates, as called. INSCRIBED "To W. D. Vincent / As you go afield on my / trail through these pages, take / with you the Indian greeting, / Tanamakoon ! / Wm J Long / Stamford, Conn. / 1925". Includes the bookplate of W. D. Vincent. William D. Vincent (1866-1935) was a collector of books and bookplates, an amateur historian, with focus on the Pacific NW. From Spokane, Washington, he was President of the Old National Bank of Spokane 1920-1933. ALSO INCLUDES TWO LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR, tipped-in. Letter 1: Is on the Author's letterhead and is handwritten, dated 11 November 1925, mentioning he would be glad to sign the book. Letter 2: Also on the Author's letterhead and handwritten, dated 24 November 1925, mentions the meaning of the Inscribed Indian… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Good Condition, protected in a mylar cover. A naturalists life on the island of Shona, a coastal island in the Scottish Highlands. 249pp, bound in half cloth and paper over boards, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, NOR INSCRIPTIONS. Dust jacket mis-folded, light foxing to outer page edges.

New York: The Century Co., 1909 Unpaginated, pribnted on fine glossy paper, bound in illustrated blue cloth, illustrated throughout. INSCRIBED "To Allen Vincent / with best wishes of / Ernest Thompson Seton / 15th *** / Planting Moon / 1923" with 2 drawings by the Author. Gift inscription in pencil on the title page. Covers edge darkened, rubbed, bumped upper corner and pages.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: D. Appleton & Company, 1920 x, 428pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in 3/4 red leather and cloth, with the binding and hinges tight. Previous owner, with his name in gilt on the lower spine area, was Edward Schroeder (1914-2010) Oregon's 8th State Forester, serving from 1965 to 1979, being responsible for the replanting of the Tillamook Burn, a 500 sq mile area in the Oregon Coast Range, that had been decimated by wildfires. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT.

Harrisburg, PA: D. Appleton & Company Printed on fine glossy paper, with a colour frontis-piece in each issue, with an additional colour plate in the 1918 edition. Covers show wear and soiling.

Philadelpha: Courage Books / Running Press, 1992 IN FINE CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket also in Fine Condition. 44pp, [3], printed on fine glossy paper, bound in illustrated paper over boards, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

Calton, Staffordshire, England: Published for the Scottish Ornithologists' Club By T & A D Poyser, 1986 382pp, bound in maroon cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. The Dust Jacket is in a protective mylar cover, and is price-clipped.

Victoria, Canada: British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1970 1970-1983. Includes #6 - Woodpeckers & Crows, #10 - Upland Game Birds, #18 - Owls, #22 - Chickadees, Thrushes, Kinglets, Pippits, Waxwings & Shrikes, #29 - Diving Birds and Tube-nosed Swimmers, #37 - Goatsuckers, Swifts, Hummingbirds & Swallows, #42 - Sparrows & Finches.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925 xxvi, 590pp, bound in half cloth, with binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. Covers show corner/edge wear, interior pages in Very Good Condition. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. From the personal collection of the Author and Anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908 Popular Edition. With a Coloured Frontispiece and Sixty Other Illustrations. xxxv, [1], 338pp, [2], printed on fine glossy paper, bound in illustrated red cloth with a mounted colour label [no chips], gilt decorated spine, binding and hinges tight. Upper corner of the spine shows a tear, discoloration to the covers, occasional interior thumb print, previous owner's early penned initials.