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Brazilian Adventure
by Peter Fleming
Brazilian Adventure is a book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett along with his son and another companion had disappeared while searching for the Lost City of Z in 1925. Fleming was working as literary editor for The Times when he answered a small ad asking for volunteers to join an expedition to find out what had happened to Fawcett. The story of Fleming's 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure.
The Crystal Desert
by David G Campbell
THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.
Natural Sciences Books & Ephemera
Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium Vol. 24, Part 3
by S. F. Blake
Good condition in wraps. plates.
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$6.00
Sightseers and Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Natural History
by Bown, Stephen R
Canada: Key Porter Books, 2002 « ightseers and Scholars provides portraits of the explorers and naturalists who sought to explore the New World in the pre-Darwinian Age. The late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and America saw the dawn of a golden age of science in which society energetically sought to quantify, categorize, and rationally explain the world. The accurate cataloguing of nature was one of the goals of the age, and most plants and animals known today were collected, classified,...
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CA$19.50
Sauvegarder et développer les populations de lièvres
by Pépin, Dominique
France: La maison rustique, 1981 Illustrations hors texte en n.& b., cartes et graphiques dans le texte, couverture illustrée. Biologie, écologie du lièvre, stratégies de développement, chasse. Bibliographie. Broché,in-8. Couverture souple. Très bon.
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CA$28.95
SCIENCE, A HISTORY
by GRIBBIN, JOHN
Corners very slightly bumped. Remainder line on lower edge. 647pp. Very occasional illustrations.
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R165.00
QUESTIONING the MILLENNIUM
by GOULD, STEPHEN JAY
A previous owner's name has been lifted off. B&w prints in text. Covered in plastic.
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R200.00
Birds of British Columbia: Upland Game Birds
by Guiguet, C.J
British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1970. Staple Bound. Fine. Frank L. Beebe. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Small format, 47 pages, with sections on Blue grouse, franklin grouse, ruffled grouse, willow ptarmigan, rock ptarmigan, White-tailed grouse, sage hen, euorpean grey partridge, chukar partridge, bob-white quail, california quail, mountain quail,...
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$19.32
EL VOLCAN DE FUEGO DE COLIMA
by MAURICIO BRETON GONZALEZ
NEW ~ This book documents the history of over five centuries of spectacular eruptions of the towering Volcan de Fuego, Colima, Mexico, with spectacular B&W and color photographs, maps, and illustrations. Bibliografia / bibliography. Glosario de terminos. 156 pp. Edition of only 100 hardcover copies, 1000 paperback. Solo 100 ejemplares con pasta rigida. RARE.
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$125.00
THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK : Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1916
by Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Tubergen, C.B
Albany: J. B. Lyon, 1917. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon, 1917, first printing. Large 4to. 9 3/4" x 12 1/4", b/w frontis+xiii+541pp., illustrated with 92 full page color plates, 1 map. A historical account of cultivated peaches, and extensive survey of varieties grown in New York. spotting to the cloth, binding bit shaken, gift inscription on flyleaf. Binding tight. Very good minus.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.
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$150.00
Nature Magazine; March 1952; Volume 45; No 3.
by American Nature Association
Washington, D.C.:: American Nature Association, 1952.. Paperbound: center-stapled format . BINDING/CONDITION: a paperbound periodical; mailing label on the rear cover, otherwise Good condition.. 4to (about 11.5 inches tall) . Description: The cover is a solid color with small vignette by Fredric Sweney. Articles include: Banding Our Ospreys by Mary Arny; The Cherrystone Juniper by Donald Culross Peattie; Karl Christofferson, Naturalist-Historian of Northern Michigan by Grace V Sharritt; and Winter...
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$12.50
Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes
by Roesel von Rosenhof, August Johann
(10), viii, 116, 48 engraved plates (24 handcolored each with an uncolored key plate), 1 colored, engraved frontis.
A very clean copy of the most well known and most desirable book on amphibians. Some plates trimed close effecting plate numbers on colored plates xiv, xix & xx, and uncolored plates xix, xx, xxi, xxii and a small portion of image (head of a dissectng pin) on both versions of plate xix. Faint dampstain on upper, inside corner of text pages 59-74 and a couple of the plates in this section.... Read more about this item
A very clean copy of the most well known and most desirable book on amphibians. Some plates trimed close effecting plate numbers on colored plates xiv, xix & xx, and uncolored plates xix, xx, xxi, xxii and a small portion of image (head of a dissectng pin) on both versions of plate xix. Faint dampstain on upper, inside corner of text pages 59-74 and a couple of the plates in this section.... Read more about this item
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$18500.00
The Dodo and its Kindred
by Hugh Edwin Strickland, Alexander Gordon Melville
Very good copy of the increasingly hard-to-find monograph on the extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus, and Rodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria.First edition of this finely illustrated classicComplete in two parts: Part I. History and External Characters of the Dodo, Solitaire and other Extinct Brevipennate Birds by H. E. Strickland, and Part II: Osteology of the Dodo and Solitaire by A.G. Melville. With two hand-coloured lithographs after the famous 17th-century paintings of the dodo by Roelandt...
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$5500.00
Outdoor Common Birds: Their Habits and General Characteristics
by STANNARD, Henry
Condition: V. Good+. Very attractive Green cloth cover with Gilt, Black and Red Birds (including Barn Owl Decoration and Lettering to Front & Spine. Binding & pages clean and tight and Illustrations in very good, clean condition. Very slight edge wear. Overall a very good copy now with protective removable sleeve. Frontispiece Illustration shows nests of Song Thrush and Goldfinch.[see photo] Birds covered include Kestrel, Shrike, Goldfinch, House Martin, Barn Owl, Sparrow Hawk and many more.
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A$100.00
Caterpillars and Their Moths
by Eliot, Ida Mitchell and Caroline Gray Soule
New York: Century Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth boards tight and straight, gilt lettering to spine quite diminished but decorated front panel nicely embellished. Bookplate front endpaper. Uncommon first edition copy of this early book on caterpillars and moths, illustrated throughout with photographic plates. ; MCN33198; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pp .
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$85.00
The World of Magnolias
by Callaway, Dorothy J
U.S.A.: Timber Press Inc., 1994 « Magnolias have a well-deserved reputation as "aristocrats" among landscape plants. Dorothy Callaway here provides an excellent guide to the species, cultivars, and hybrids, illustrated with more than 140 splendid color photographs. A reference of value to both layperson and enthusiast, The World of Magnolias documents magnolia history, culture, biology, taxonomy, propagation, breeding, and hybridizers. The only available book to encompass all the magnolia...
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CA$37.50
MARIPOSAS DE MEXICO
by BEUTELSPACHER BAIGTS, CARLOS ROMMEL
NEW ~ An entomological classic. In addition to an introduction and 128pp text with scientific descriptions of Mexican butterflies and maps of their locations by accomplished UNAM professor, the end section includes 20 color plates by Californian William H. Howe. First edition of 2000. In Spanish / espanol. Oversize. Some shelf wear of bottom corners. In stock. Usually ships in 3 days.
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$110.00
Fitzsimons’ Snakes of Southern Africa.
by Broadley, Donald G
Johannesburg. : Delta Books. , 1983. . Revised edition. . hardcover.. Very good, light edgewear to dust jacket. . 4to..
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$65.00
Regulation of Gene Expression 25 years On. Thirty Ninth Symposium of The Society for General Microbiology
by Booth, I.R. & Higgins, C.F. (Editors)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Stain to rear panel of dustjacket from price sticker. 309pages. This volume describes the regulatory mechanisms which operate at the level of gene expression. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$35.00
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia
by Menkhorst, Peter
Australia: Oxford University Press, 2001 « The only truly comprehensive guide to all 376 Australian mammals, including kangaroos, koala, bandicoots, dunnarts, bilbies, cuscuses, possums, wombats, bats, rodents, deer, seals, whales, and dolphins. The guide uses the classic field guide layout, including 4-color illustrations drawn by Australia's premier artist, Frank Knight, diagrams to help distinguish similar species, measurements, distribution maps, and accurate details of appearance,...
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CA$37.52
Journey Into Australia
by Cole-Adams, Peter
Some fading to spine of jacket. Charmingly illustrated account of travel in Australia in a campervan. Some fading to spine of jacket, very good book in very good condition. First edition. 256 pages.
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£20.00
Bartrams Vireo or Greenlet: Plate #242 from Birds of America
by Audubon, John J
1856. Second royal octavo edition. Very good +. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed...
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$145.00
Steep Trails
by Muir, John
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Later Edition/Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In green pictorial cloth with green illustrations and titling. Light edgewear to spine ends. Owner's name, date, address and ""yosemite - 43"" to top of ffep. A small rectangular stain to bottom of ffep where something was laid in place for a while, also tape stains(not scars) to top and bottom of endpapers - assuming where protected jacket rested. Bug hole to top inside of front hinge and rear hinge is...
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$150.00
The Flight of the Snow Geese.
by Bartlet, Des and Jen
New York:: Stein & Day, 1975.. Family Bookshelf Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good book with a Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (about 9 inches tall) . Description: Illustrated with b&w photographs, and includes two maps. The Bartletts followed the snow geese on their great migration across the Aleutians, from the Northwest territories of Canada, from Greenland to the icy shores of Hudson Bay, then south for more than 2500 miles to Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. They...
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$12.50
Powers of Nature
by Grosvenor, Gilbert (editor)
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society. Good in Good dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 197 pages; Book Tight, Dust Jacket lightly rubbed With Color Photographs Text is clean no markings seen; BX261 .
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$11.25
LIFE ON THE EDGE
by AL-KHALILI, JIM; JOHNJOE McFADDEN
Pages yellowing very slightly. b&w figures in text.
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R162.00
TEKTITES
by Barnes, Virgil E. & Barnes, Mildred A. (Editors)
Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, 2 small closed tears to top edge/front cover, 1 closed tear with creasing along top edge/rear cover else still bright, intact and whole. ARN 50.03
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$175.00
