![Offprint]: Zur Fauna Santorins [drop title]. [At head of title:] Separat-Abdruck aus dem. Norman Douglas.](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/327268.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656546228)
London / [Leipzig]: [Leipzig]: Zoollogischen Anzeigers, 1892. First edition. The first separately published work by Norman Douglas, an... Read More about Offprint]: Zur Fauna Santorins [drop title]. [At head of title:] Separat-Abdruck aus dem...
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London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintot at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates, [1718]. "The Second Edition, revis'd and finish'd." Best Edition. Read More about Of Gardens. A Latin Poem. In Four Books. English'd by Mr. Gardiner
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London: S. Smith & B. Walford, 1693. First edition. John Ray, born in Essex in 1627 as the son of a blacksmith, was one of the major early English parson-naturalists. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a major fellow and lecturer at Trinity College, where he also preached..... Read More about Synopsis Methodica Animalium Quadrupedum et Serpentini Generis …
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London: Printed for C. Davis … A. Millar, and J. Nourse, 1750. First English Edition. An important early work on artificial incubation, using manure beds (“hot-beds”) or a baker’s oven. Read More about The Art of Hatching and Bringing up Domestick Fowls, by means of artificial heat
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Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1734. "Réaumur’s greatest work in natural history ... He seemed fascinated about all with insect behavior, obviously admiring the industry, dilligence, ingenuity, organization, and skill of those small creatures ... Réaumur, in short, was a pioneer in applied entomological research ... His descriptions were minute and exacting..... Read More about Memoires pour servir a l'Historie des Insectes
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[Hobe Sound, Florida: Privately Printed for the author], 1988-2012. First edition. Complete Run. Angling diaries of Nathaniel P. Reed (1933-2018), banker, environmentalist, and assistant Interior secretary 1971-77 under Nixon and Ford. Reed was a key architect of the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act, helped preserve millions of acres..... Read More about NPR's Fishing Diary
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![Item #250268 Natural History. [Editor and translator: Philip Hofer]. Jules Renard](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/250268.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651433)
Cambridge., Mass: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1960. Number 29. Copies 1-50, with a series of preliminary trial proofs of the original lithographs ... Also a complete extra set of the original lithographs contained in the book, separately cased, and enclosed with the book in a...... Read More about Natural History. [Editor and translator: Philip Hofer
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Amsterdam: Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754. Second Edition. ONE OF ONLY 35 KNOWN EXTANT COPIES OF THE MAGNIFICENT SECOND EDITION OF RENARD'S FANTASTICAL COLLECTION OF ICHTHYOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS; THE FIRST BOOK WITH COLOR PLATES ON FISH. COMPLETE WITH 460 HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS ON 100 PLATES. A STUNNING COPY WITH VIVID COLOR..... Read More about Poissons Ecrevisses et Crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires
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London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803. First edition. Extraordinary Copy in Original Boards. Rejecting the formalism of his predecessor Lancelot Brown, Repton adopted a more natural and varied style of ornamentation which has been described as combining “artistical knowledge...with good taste and good sense.” Compiled chiefly from..... Read More about Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including Some Remarks on Grecian...
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London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803. First Edition. Rejecting the formalism of his predecessor Lancelot Brown, Repton adopted a more natural and varied style of ornamentation which has been described as combining “artistical knowledge...with good taste and good sense.” Compiled chiefly from the his Red Books --..... Read More about Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including Some Remarks on Grecian...
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Tours: Alfred mame et Fils, 1870. Nouvelle édition. John Gerard Heckscher's Copy. Read More about Pèches dans l'Amérique du Nord
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London: Curpotten Limited for Fine Sporting Interests Limited, 1979. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the artist. With Original Duck Sketches Signed by Rickman. Superb reproductions of works by one of Britain’s most celebrated sporting artists. A lavishly produced volume with a mounted leaf of original pencil sketches by..... Read More about A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches
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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1931. Rickman, Phillip. First edition, No. 112 of 125 copies numbered and signed by the author. Remarqued. Superb plates by the famous naturalist. Beneath the color frontispiece is a fine small, pencil drawing of a duck, initialed beneath by Rickman. Read More about A Bird Painter's Sketch Book
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[n.d.]. Rickman, Phillip. A graceful depiction by one of the premier British sporting artists of the interwar years. Read More about Duck at Water's Edge
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Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1977). First Trade edition. Read More about Rails of the World. A Monograph of the Family Ralidae...and a Chapter on Fossil Species by Storrs...
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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1936. Second edition. Read More about The Birds of Minnesota
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London: Martin Hopkinson, 1924. First Edition. Read More about The Old English Gardening Books
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New York: Orange Judd, 1884. First edition. Read More about Florida and the Game-Water Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States with a...
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London: R.Ackermann's, 101 Strand, March 4, 1799. Read More about Hand-colored Print: Cries of London "All a growing, Here's Flowers for your Gardens."
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Paris: Saugrain, 1740. Later edition. Written for new owners of country estates and for those who have developed an interest in improving the lands on their existing estates. Full of practical information, such as the ideal distances between sapling plantings for successful tree borders or fecund orchards. Various methods of..... Read More about Observations sur L'Agriculture et Le Jardinage
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Rochester, NY and later New York, New York: James Vicks, Jr, 1856-1866. First edition. Volumes 1-8 and Volumes 9 and 11. Read More about The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory
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[Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood and Sons], 1859. On the River Tweed. An act to alter the close times of the River Tweed and to extend the limits of the mouth of the river and all the associated regulations thereof. Read More about Victoriae Reginae. An Act to amend “The Tweed Fisheries Act 1857” and to alter the Annual...
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Great Britain: 1855-1872. The Author’s Revisions for the Second Edition. Falconry in the British Isles by Francis Henry Salvin (1817-1904), with plates by William Brodrick (1814-1888), is the most important work on the subject produced during the nineteenth century, and an essential standard work. The first edition was published in..... Read More about Heavily-corrected proofs for the second edition of Salvin's Falconry in the British Isles, with...
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. The Author's copy with her bookplate. Inscribed to “Miss Dunbridge from Her Friend Kate Sanborn Ap 12th, 1911.”¶ This unusual work looks at pets and animals in literature with chapters on cats and dogs. Read More about My Literary Zoo
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