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Item 41747Nomenclator, Avium Neotropicalium.
Price: $250
(London: 1873). First edition. "A synoptic list of the species of birds inhabiting America south of the United States, a total of 3565. The name and Neotropical distribution of each is given. The appendix (pp. 155-163) conjtains the original descriptions of 9 new genera and 31 new species" Ayer. Annotated..... Read More Item Details for Nomenclator, Avium Neotropicalium Add to Wish List
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Lear’s Parrots
Item 246902The Natural History of Parrots.
Price: $800
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars …, 1836. Lear, Edward. First edition. Lear’s Parrots. Read More Item Details for The Natural History of Parrots Add to Wish List
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Item 255821Singulares Sententiae, centum aliquot versibus ex Codd. Pall. & Frising. auctae & correctae, Studio & opera Jani Gruteri. Cum notis...
Price: $650
Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden]: Henrici Teering, 1727. Second edition. Aphorisms “faslely attributed to Seneca” (OCLC entry), and by the 1st century A. D. maxim writer, Publilius Syrius. The book was first published in Leiden in 1698. Read More Item Details for Singulares Sententiae, centum aliquot versibus ex Codd. Pall. & Frising. auctae & correctae, Studio & opera Jani Gruteri. Cum notis ejusdem recognitis & castigatis. Accedunt ejusdem Notae Postumae ut & nova versio graeca Josephi Scaligeri Jul Caes. F Add to Wish List
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Item 31884Lives of the Hunted, containing a True Account of the Doings of Five Quadrupeds & Three Birds and in Elucidation...
Price: $75
New York: Published by Charles Scribner's Sons [De Vinne Press], 1901. First impression. The animals covered in this work are the cock sparrow, the Kootenay Ram, the bear, teal, Kangaroo rat, coyote, chickadee and teal. Read More Item Details for Lives of the Hunted, containing a True Account of the Doings of Five Quadrupeds & Three Birds and in Elucidation of the Same Add to Wish List
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Item 312739Six Years in Seychelles, with Photographs from Original Drawings.
Price: $5,500
[London: Privately printed], 1885. Substantial and authoritative account of the Seychelles Archipelago, with original photographic plates recording drawings of botanical and zoological subjects, as well as views of the islands. The narrator describes climbing the Morne Seychellois, the principal mountain of the main island (2,975 feet). Uncommon. Read More Item Details for Six Years in Seychelles, with Photographs from Original Drawings Add to Wish List
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Presentation Copy
Item 366211The Black Bear of Pennsylvania (Ursus Americanus). Compiled by Henry W. Shoemaker. With Chapters by John C. French.
Price: $250
ALtoona: Times Tribune Company, 1921. First edition. Presentation Copy. Compendium of bear lore and accounts of black bears in Pennsylvania. The back wrapper bears a presentation, Compliments of H.W. Shoemaker, McElhatton, Pa. Uncommon. Read More Item Details for The Black Bear of Pennsylvania (Ursus Americanus). Compiled by Henry W. Shoemaker. With Chapters by John C. French Add to Wish List
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Item 228649A Manual containing Information Respecting the Growth of the Mulberry Tree, with Suitable Directions for the Culture of Silk. In...
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Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Babcock, 1831. First edition. Read More Item Details for A Manual containing Information Respecting the Growth of the Mulberry Tree, with Suitable Directions for the Culture of Silk. In Three Parts Add to Wish List
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Item 36136Eight Years Experience and Observation in the Culture of the Mulberry Tree, and in the care of the Silk Worm...
Price: $200
Northampton: Published by J.H. Butler, 1839. First edition. Read More Item Details for Eight Years Experience and Observation in the Culture of the Mulberry Tree, and in the care of the Silk Worm, with remarks adapted to the American System of Producing raw silk for Exportation Add to Wish List
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One of 295 Copies
Item 241690Great Flower Books, 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books.
Price: $1,250
London: William Collins, 1956. First edition, No. 16 of 295 copies numbered and signed by Sitwell and Blunt. One of 295 Copies. A beautiful book, especially in this deluxe state -- as well as the most thorough and comprehensive bibliography of flower books, describing over 750 books. Read More Item Details for Great Flower Books, 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books Add to Wish List
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Item 262728Fine Bird Books 1700-1900.
Price: $150
London and New York: Collins and Van Nostrand, 1953. First edition, one of 2000 copies (of 2295 total). Read More Item Details for Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 Add to Wish List
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Item 32210Fine Bird Books 1700-1900.
Price: $1,250
London and New York: Collins and Van Nostrand, 1953. First edition, Number 127 of 295 Copies. Read More Item Details for Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 Add to Wish List
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Item 211814Flowers from Field and Woodland.
Price: $200
New York: White, Stokes & Allen, 1888. Skelding, Susie Barstow. Read More Item Details for Flowers from Field and Woodland Add to Wish List
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Item 211813Flowers from the Dell and Bower. Poems Illustrated by Susie Skelding.
Price: $250
New York: White, Stokes & Allen, 1886. Skelding, Susie Barstow. First edition. Read More Item Details for Flowers from the Dell and Bower. Poems Illustrated by Susie Skelding Add to Wish List
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Item 222430Life of the Woodpecker.
Price: $250
Sanat Monica, California: Ibis Publishing Co, [1985]. First edition, Number 34 of 150 numbered copies, signed by the artist and author. Read More Item Details for Life of the Woodpecker Add to Wish List
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Item 314838An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are added...
Price: $150
New Brunswick: Published by J. Simpson and Co. and William and Whiting, New York, Printed by L. Deare, 1810. “Second Edition...Enlarged and Improved”. The most important Pre-Darwinian American essay for the genetic unity of mankind, rejecting the theory of separate creation of the different races. Smith’s Essay was first published..... Read More Item Details for An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are added, animadversions on certain remarks made on the first edition of this Essay, by Mr Charles White, in a series of Discourses delivered before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester in England. Also, strictures on Lord Kaims’ Discourse on the Original Diversity of Man and an Appendix Add to Wish List
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Item 211930The Birds of Burma.
Price: $400
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [1953]. Second (revised) edition. Read More Item Details for The Birds of Burma Add to Wish List
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INSCRIBED
Item 317393The Land-marks of Snake-Poison Literature being a Review of the more important researches into the nature of snake-poisons.
Price: $350
Calcutta: Printed and Published by D.M. Traill, 1885. First edition. INSCRIBED. The author has inscribeds the book on the title-page: "To the Rev. Father Laford/with the author's compliments." Read More Item Details for The Land-marks of Snake-Poison Literature being a Review of the more important researches into the nature of snake-poisons Add to Wish List
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Item 323805English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants.
Price: $1,500
London: Printed by Richard Taylor ... For the Proprietor, C.E. Sowerby, 1832-1839. Second edition. Read More Item Details for English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants Add to Wish List
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Henry Cabot Lodge's Copy
Item 57702Illustrations of Universal Progress; A Series of Discussions...with a Notice of Spencer's "New System of Philosophy."
Price: $150
New York: Appleton and Company, 1864. First American edition. Henry Cabot Lodge's Copy. Read More Item Details for Illustrations of Universal Progress; A Series of Discussions...with a Notice of Spencer's "New System of Philosophy." Add to Wish List
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Item 40657South Carolina Bird Life.
Price: $100
Columbia, S.C: Univerity of South Carolina Press, 1949. First edition. Read More Item Details for South Carolina Bird Life Add to Wish List
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Item 266788Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae pro Anno MDCCLXXVII. Pars posterior [Part II of two, only].
Price: $750
Petropoli [Saint Petersburg]: Typis Academiae scientiarum, 1780. Part two of the report on the year 1777 by the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences. Articles include Peter Simon PALLAS article on the giant anteater (Observationes circa Myrmecophagam Africanam, at pp. 223-231; Description du Bufle [i.e., Buffalo] à Queue de Cheval...pp..... Read More Item Details for Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae pro Anno MDCCLXXVII. Pars posterior [Part II of two, only] Add to Wish List
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Inscribed to a prominent animal rights activist
Item 314795My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories.
Price: $7,500
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1893. First edition. Inscribed to a prominent animal rights activist. Inscribed at length by Stanley on the title-page: "To the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who has done so much for the better treatment of animals. This book which posits so many African morals upon the same subject is..... Read More Item Details for My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories Add to Wish List
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