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Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1894. First edition. Ffep inscribed: “Edward J. Nolan / with the good wishes of his friend / the Author / Chas. C. Abbott / March 22, 1894.” There is a two-page ALS from the author to Nolan tipped-in at the title page, dated Nov..... Read More Item Details for Travels in a Tree-Top Add to Wish List
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Boston: [October], 1913. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz with A Sketch of His Life and Work. Edited by G.R. Agassiz Add to Wish List
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Cambridge, Mass: June, 1865. Alexander, 1835-1910, American naturalist and industrialist was the son of Louis Agassiz. Read More Item Details for Manuscript receipt for $250, initialled by Agassiz, "for the quarterly Salary of the Agent" Add to Wish List
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1885. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Add to Wish List
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Neuchatel: Imprimerie de Henri Wolfrath, 1845. First separate edition. Read More Item Details for Notice sur la Géographie des Animaux...Extrait de la Revue Suisse, Aout 1845 Add to Wish List
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Osborne: 11August 1855. Phipps, as private secretary to Prince Albert, responds to the invitation of Gourlie and Anderson to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the Prince and the Queen will have just “arrived in the Highlands for a short period of rest..... Read More Item Details for ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson Add to Wish List
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New York: Orange Judd, 41 Park Row, 1865. Nice copy of a standard American work, first issued under this title in 1849 and in print through the end of the nineteenth century. Read More Item Details for The American Farm Book Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: E. G. Dorsey, Printer, Library Street, 1838. Read More Item Details for Observations relative to Lymphatic Hearts (in reptiles) Add to Wish List
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London: The Tryon Gallery, in association with George Rainbird, 1971. First Edition, No. 354 of 550 numbered copies. Axel Amuchastegui was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1921. He was self-taught and developed his own technique using Chinese inks and brushes. His work appeared in a number of publications including Pajaros..... Read More Item Details for Some Birds and Mammals of North America Add to Wish List
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New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. Anderson, Alexander. First American edition. The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved (usually in reverse) from the original Bewick edition. Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was America’s first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies the fourth..... Read More Item Details for A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of T. Bewick, by A. Anderson. With an Appendix, containing some American Animals not hitherto described Add to Wish List
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New York: Crown Publishers, [1951]. Doahanos, Steven. First edition. Read More Item Details for Natures Ways. How Nature takes care of its own Add to Wish List
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Washington, D.C: 1856. First edition. Read More Item Details for Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean … Geological Report, by … Geologist of the Expedition Add to Wish List
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Bruxelles: F. Parent, 1859. Read More Item Details for Hand-colored Lithograph: "Duchesse d'Olenbourg" from ANNALES DE POMOLOGIE, with French text on separate leaf Add to Wish List
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[Paris: Diderot & D'alambert, nd. c. 1751-1780]. Read More Item Details for Fleuriste Artificiel contenant huit planches, dont une double Add to Wish List
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New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1917. First edition. Read More Item Details for Audubon the Naturalist. A History of His Life and Times Add to Wish List
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London: Published by George B. Whittaker; and George Smith, Liverpool, [1828]. An Audubon rarity: the journal of his first journey to the upper Mississippi River. In 1810, Audubon moved to Henderson, Kentucky to establish himself in the merchant business with his partner Jean Ferdinand Rozier. In December of that year..... Read More Item Details for Journey up the Mississippi [pp. 104-27, in:] The Winter Wreath, A Collection of Original Contributions in Prose and Verse [For MDCCCXXIX] Add to Wish List
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New York & Philadelphia: J. J. Audubon and [vols. I–V] J. B. Chevalier, 1839–40–44. First octavo edition. First octavo edition of Audubon's “Great National Work,” the first complete edition and the first American edition; the original double-elephant folio was published in Edinburgh and London between 1827 and 1838. A very..... Read More Item Details for The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: 1831-1834-1835-1838-1849 [i.e. 1839]. First edition. Audubon's text, designed to accompany the elephant folio first edition of The Birds of America, provides descriptions of the birds described therein, as well as his account of travels and adventures in the American hinterland, including experiences in Florida, along the Mississippi, and in..... Read More Item Details for Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America Add to Wish List
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Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, [1922]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Recherches Zoologiques dans les Provinces Centrales de l'Inde et dans les regions occidentales de l'Himalaya Add to Wish List
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New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. First edition. Mrs. Badger was an illustrator with an intuitive feeling for the decorative, as she amply demonstrates in this book, a companion to her Wild Flowers published in 1859, although here focused on the greenhouse and garden. "Contains 16 very beautiful full..... Read More Item Details for Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature Add to Wish List
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London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies. Read More Item Details for Indian Pigeons and Doves Add to Wish List
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[np]: Daniel Moreau Barringer, 1916. First edition. Flyleaf inscribed by Barringer' Son to his son Dick in 1956. Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860 - 1929) is best known for being the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on Earth, the Barringer Meteorite Crater, or Meteor Crater, in..... Read More Item Details for Some Rules of Conduct for my Children and their Children Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: Published by Robert Pearsall Smith, No.17 & 19 Minor Street, 1854-1858. Vol. 1. has 12 coloured plates and 2 full-page black and white plates Vol. 2. 12 colour plates (one folding) and 4 full-page black and white plates Vol. 3. 11 hand-coloured plates (one folding) Vol. 4 12 hand-coloured..... Read More Item Details for The Horticulturalist and Journal of Rural Art & Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy &c Add to Wish List
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Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, (1973). Second printing. Inscribed with drawings on the half-title by Beard to Don and Iris Hunt and extra-illustrated with an 1975 Christmas card on the front endpaper, two inscribed photographs on the half-title (one with dried insect), black-and-white photo of same elderly male subject..... Read More Item Details for Eyelids of Morning. The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men … Add to Wish List
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London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Beebe's text was been called "perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace..... Read More Item Details for A Monograph of the Pheasants Add to Wish List
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