Hardcover. London , Hurst And Blackett , reprint, 1900 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Previous owners book plate on front paste down. Foxing to end papers and paste downs. Previous prices written in pencil on front pastedown. Binding lose. All pages clean and legible.
Hardcover. New York , Harry Abrams, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 472 pages, 327 illustrations, including 107 full color plates. Published in conjunction with the exhibition honoring the 250th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth. Assembles more than 150 of the objects acquired by Jefferson - the first time they had been seen together since the contents of Monticello were dispersed at his death. Detailed appendices, bibliography. In a bright dust jacket, remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Middlesex UK, Country Life Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes in slipcase. Volume 1 - 414 pages plus section of black & white "Under-wing Plates". Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Volume 2 - 500 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Both volumes with brown cloth covers, gilt titles and decoration. A set that shows minimal wear to books and slipcase. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st trade, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a lightly worn slipcase. First trade edition limited to 3000 copies. 278 pages with 58 color plates plus many drawings by Karl Karalus, text by Allan Eckert. Clean copy.
Softcover. Greendale WI, Reiman Publications, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 252 pages, an amazing collection of vintage and antique photos of horses in harnesses. Working horses get their respect in this softcover book covering nearly every category of horse drawn carriage, cart, wagon. Logging to fire to coal to breweries. Also includes many images of harnesses, hitching posts, sleighs. Shows men and women who cared for working horses, from farms to cities. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1st, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with blind stamping to front and rear and gilt to spine. Illustrated with 13 b&w plates, 247 pages plus publisher's ads. Ex-lib from museum library, light residue, stamping to endpapers, internally clean. 1/4" tear to top of cloth spine, gilt lettering bright on spine.
Hardcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 336 pages, color illustrations. Long considered an icon of the wild, wolves capture our imagination and spark controversy. Humans are the adult wolf's only true natural predator; its return to the old-growth forests and wild coastlines of the Pacific Northwest renews age-old questions about the value of wildlands and wildlife. As the vivid stories unfold in this riveting and timely book, wolves emerge as smart, complex players uniquely adapted to the vast interdependent ecosystem of this stunning region. Observing them at close range, David Moskowitz explores how they live, hunt, and communicate, tracing their biology and ecology through firsthand encounters in the wildlands of the Northwest. In the process he challenges assumptions about their role and the impact of even well-meaning human interventions.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1stUS, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Gould, Hart, Keulmans and Hayman, 2 b&w plates, maps and photographs. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. BirdLife International, 1st, January 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 846 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Light edgewear to covers. Small marks on fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Unfortunate musty smell, else in flawless condition.
Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated, approx. 200 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a nice, bright copy. In this first collection of his work, more than 120 of Theodore Cross's photograpic bird portraits are magnificently reproduced in full color.
Hardcover. Middlebury, VMSBA, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages. Features black & white illustrations. Leather covers, with some rubbing to edges. Spine strip missing. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadephia, Delaware Valley Orthithology club, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Two volumes complete. Hardcovers in green cloth, two frontispieces in full color with tissue guards, prolifically illustrated throughout and SIGNED by all contributors. Illustrated by Earl L. Pool; Richard Bishop; Conrad Roland; J. Fletcher Street; Herbert Brown. Moderate wear on cover boards. Inscribed by Stone. One of 1400 numbered sets.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 250 pages, photos, notes, bibliography. An influential ornithologist, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History; expert on the birds of Central and South America, New York City and Massachusetts, Griscom was influential in the shift to modern "binocular" birding and mentored a generation of notable ornithologists. Draws on Griscom's writings and those of his contemporaries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages, with full-page color illustrations by Robert Verity Clem. Dust jacket edge wear and crease, price clipped, and minor foxing on top edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large, oblong format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, pictorial onlay to front. With original paintings by Anthony Rhodes and photos by Piers Cavendish. This is a celebration of the Peregrine. With the specially commissioned photographs of Piers Cavendish and the paintings and drawings of Anthony Rhodes this book describes the distribution and habitat of the peregrine across the world, its life-cycle, relationship with man and its potency as a cultural icon in many countries. Printed in four-colour throughout on art paper the book will examine the global distribution of the various species, the different names given to the peregrine by different countries and cultures. From there the book will focus on historical references to the peregrine, its links with the monarchy and its various cultural significance across the world, in art and literature, myth and fable. The rest of the book comprises a naturalistic description of the peregrine in the wild, its annual - and life-cycle, its interaction with man, the captive breeding of peregrines and their place in falconry. The final chapter will anticipate the future of the peregrine. Bright, clean copy. No slipcase.
Hardcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 208 pages, color photos. The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends--from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula the sea witch in The Little Mermaid. Yet its true nature is more wondrous still. After decades of research, the authors reveal a sensitive, curious, and playful animal with remarkable intelligence, an ability to defend itself with camouflage and jet propulsion, an intricate nervous system, and advanced problem-solving abilities. In this beautifully photographed book, three leading marine biologists bring readers face to face with these amazingly complex animals that have fascinated scientists for decades. From the molluscan ancestry of today's octopus to its ingenious anatomy, amazing mating and predatory behaviors, and other-worldly relatives, the authors take readers through the astounding life cycle, uncovering the details of distinctive octopus personalities. With personal narratives, underwater research, stunning closeup photography, and thoughtful guidance for keeping octopuses in captivity, Octopus is the first comprehensive natural history of this smart denizen of the sea. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Fleming H. Revell, 1st US, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green pictorial cloth with tail of a whale on upper board, titled in gilt on spine & upper board. 430 pages illustrated in b&w by Charles Livingston Bull & Theodore Carreras. This is the American edition of "Creatures of the Sea" published in the UK. "His vivid and glowing pictures of the wonderful and varied life of the Deep Sea possess a human and lifelike quality often absent from the elaborate descriptions of severer scientific and technical treatises." Slight wear, flecking to cloth, hinges tender else good plus copy. Previous owner's embossed stamp on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, Richard Bentley, 4th Ed., 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt border design on covers, raised bands on spine with gilt decorations. 319 pages, all edges gilt. The contents are as follows: A Hunt in a Horse-Pond; Rats; The Cobra Di Capello; Fish and Fishing; My Monkey Jacko. Three b&w plates. There is a water stain to the first five pages including the frontis and title page, mostly on the edges. The rest of the pages are bright and clean. A bookplate has been removed fro the inside front cover, leaving tan residue.
Hardcover. London, Henry G. Bohn, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with blindstamped decorative borders, gilt decoration to front cover, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated title page, b&w frontispiece portrait, Memoir of Francois Peron. 30 hand-colored plates with tissue guards of amphibious carnivores such as walruses, seals, manatees, and the sea serpent-as seen off the British Isles. Exceptional condition.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 347 pages, with illustrations. Minor cover and spine edge wear. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Gilt top edge and decorated cover and spine. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson, 2nd pr., 2008-09-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 243 pages, photos in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 360 pages, illustrated throughout by author. Brown cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Light sun-fade to rear cover/spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gold lettering on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY ECKSTEIN on front fly leaf: "to Emilia Johnson with friendly regards/Gustav Eckstein/March 1943". Spine lettering with mild fading, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, McClure, Phillips & Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth with gilt tiles on front cover and spine, 287 pages. Illustrated in black and white, color frontispiece. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Gray cloth-covered boards and color pictorial dust jacket in near new condition. "Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns." Profusely illustrated in b/w. Includes a variety of color charts depicting the occurrence of 86 species of nonpasserines, from loons through waterfowl.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 330 pages, illustrated throughout with maps, charts and photographs in b&w. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, white pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges of jacket, faint foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Villard Books, Random House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Color pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover set. Two Volumes, Vol. 1: the land birds, 473 pages, and Vol. 2: game and water birds, 431 pages. Minor spine edge fray and corner wear. Volume 1 has one inch tear along spine and loose pages in front. Otherwise, both volumes have clean pages and are in good condition.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 353 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and two tiny closed tears to pictorial dust jacket and faint foxing to edges of textblock. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing , 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering, paste-down photo front cover. Top edge gilt, 284 pages, b&w photo plates. A charming Victorian book about the felines in our lives. One plate loose, front hinge tender. Overall, a clean, bright copy. Copyright page states 3rd thousand.
Hardcover. Bostom, Small Maynard & Co., 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in bright gilt. Essays on nature, originally published in the Boston Transcriot in rhe early 1900s. B&w drawings by Charles Copeland. Top edge gilt. An exceptional copy of a scarce title.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 224 pages, b&w illustrations. An engaging chronicle of how the author and the great horned owl 'Bubo' came to know one another over three summers spent in the Maine woods--and of how Bubo eventually grew into an independent hunter. Clean copy.
Softcover. 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 283 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear to edges, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Academic Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 562 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Foxing to top page block. Previous owner's name written on front fly leaf. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, David McKay, 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations/engravings throughout. Gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. Edges dyed. covers bound in forest green fabric. Some fraying to top and bottom of spine, as well as other age wear to covers. Still intact, binding still tight but gutter split at back page, page still attached. In good condition for its age.
Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight fraying at corners of dust jacket and faded spine. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishers, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 513 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges, closed tear on front and crease on rear dust jacket. Previous owner's name written on front fly leaf. Light foxing to top edge page block.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 329 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Elsevier Science, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages. Hardcover no with dust jacket. Minor soiling to boards. An otherwise unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 536 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, photographs by Pierre Tairaz. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Describes the life of herring gulls and great black-backed gulls on Smuttynose Island, one of the two largest gull rookeries along the New England coast. B & w photographs by Sweet. 63 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, England, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1st Edition, 1902, With 48 illustrations. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge.Green cloth bound cover boards, gilt title and design on front cover and spine. Spine has fading and fraying at top and bottom. Front cover board has fading to top. Cover boards having shipping at edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Frank H. Dunton, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, gilt title on spine faded, unpaginated, floral decorated end papers. Light edgewear, clean tight copy.
Record # 411710
Price: $80.00
Rare & Out-of-Print Animal & Wildlife Books
This category brings together used and rare books on animals and the natural world, from field naturalists' classics to first-hand accounts of life among wildlife. Highlights include George B. Schaller's The Year of the Gorilla, C.W. Anderson's Horses Are Folks, and Susanne Hart's Life with Daktari: Two Vets in East Africa.
You will also come across African safari memoirs such as Myles Turner's My Serengeti Years, illustrated regional guides like Clive Briffett's The Birds of Singapore, and Elizabeth Wood's Corals of the World. Editions range from vintage hardcovers to scarcer out-of-print printings, and condition and availability vary across our used and rare stock.
 "Tenants of an Old Farm: Leaves From the Note-Book of a Naturalist by: McCook, Henry C.")
 "Stable Management And Exercise: A Book For Horse-Owners & Students by: Hayes, M. H.")
 "Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, The by: Stein, Susan R.")
 "Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World - A Detailed Two-Volume Work on Diurnal Birds of Prey by: Brown, Leslie/Dean Amadon")
 "The Owls of North America, North of Mexico: All the Species and Subspecies Illustrated in Color and Fully Described by: Eckert, Allan W.; Karalus, Karl E.")
 "Horses in Harness: A Pictorial Recollection of the Horse-Drawn Decades by: Charles Philip Fox")
 "Handbook Of The Freshwater Fishes Of India by: Beavan, Captain R.")
 "Wolves in the Land of Salmon by: David Moskowitz")
 "Birds of Paradise, The by: Everett, Michael")
 "Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Conservation by: Stattersfield, A.J.")
 "Bats of America by: Barbour, Roger W. & Wayne H. Davis")
 "Birds of the Sea, Shore, and Tundra by: Cross, Theodore")
 "Register of the Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders' Association - Volume 3 Only by: James, Samuel")
 "Bird Studies at Old Cape May: An Ornithology of Coastal New Jersey (SIGNED BY ALL) by: Stone, Witmer")
 "Dean of the Birdwatchers: A Biography of Ludlow Griscom by: William E. Davis, Jr.")
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 "Bird Watching by: Selous, Edmund")
 "Jungle Jack: My Wild Life (SIGNED COPY) by: Hanna, Jack")
 "Lives of the Hunted by: Seton-Thompson, Ernest")
 "Canary: The History of a Family (SIGNED COPY) by: Eckstein, Gustav")
 "The Horse in America; a Practical Treatise on the Various Types Common in the United States with Something of Their History and Varying Characteristics by: Speed, Joh")
 "Birds of British Columbia: Volume 1 Nonpasserines: Introduction and Loons Through Waterfowl by: Campbell, R. Wayne, Neil K. Dawe, Ian McTaggart-Cowan, John M. Cooper,")
 "Bison: Mating and Conservation in Small Populations by: Cunningham, Carol and Joel Berger")
 "The Watercolors for the Birds of America by: Audubon, John James")
 "Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada, A: Based on Nuttall's Manual by: Chamberlain, Montague")
 "Field Guide to Birds of the USSR, A : Including Eastern Europe and Central Asia by: Flint, V. E. and others")
 "Pointers Past and Present by: Robertshaw, Cicely A.")
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 "Woodland Paths by: Winthrop Packard")
 "One Man's Owl by: Heinrich, Bernd")
 "Field Guide to the Birds of Peru, A by: Clements, James F.")
 "Chemical Defenses of Arthropods by: Blum, Murray S.")
 "Methods in the Art of Taxidermy: With 90 Full Page Illustrations by: Doyle, Oliver")
 "Insects and Disease by: Snow, Keith R.")
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 "Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi by: Fanshawe, John")
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 "Latin American Insects and Entomology by: Hogue, Charles L.")
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 "The Gulls of Smuttynose Island by: Scott, Jack Denton/Ozzie Sweet")
 "Tupolev Too Far, A (SIGNED COPY) by: Aldiss, Brian")
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 "Dunton's Turf Register: All 2:30 Performers up to 1891, Trotters and Pacers, and Full Pedigrees of their Sires and Dams by: Dunton, Frank H.")