Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 193 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue cloth, no dust jacket. Lovely copy in excellent condition.
Softcover. NY, Routledge, 1st pbk, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 486 pages, b&w illustrations. Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.
Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 260 pages. No dust jacket. John Locke's untitled manuscript "Questions concerning the Law of Nature" (1664) was his only work focused on the subject of natural law, a circumstance that is especially surprising since his published writings touch on the subject frequently, if inconclusively. Containing a substantial critical apparatus, this new edition of Locke's manuscript is faithful to Locke's original intentions and to the format he chose for his discourse on the law of nature-a late-Scholastic quaestio disputata, the form through which in 1664 the young Locke debated questions with his students as moral censor of Christ Church.For this volume, Robert Horwitz provides an introduction summarizing the history of the manuscript and analyzing Locke's role in the development of thinking on natural law. Jenny Strauss Clay offers a superb critical edition of the Latin text, for which she has supplemented the Latin text of Manuscript B, written by an amanuensis, with Manuscript A, a first draft in Locke's own hand. Diskin Clay's precise English translation-with the Latin presented on facing pages-is accompanied by annotations identifying Locke's references and allusions and explaining difficulties of translation.In the view of Horwitz, Clay, and Clay, Questions concerning the Law of Nature shows a tension between several opposing conceptions of natural law. In developing this view, the editors break with W. von Leyden, who prepared the first edition of the text and who interpreted Locke's understanding of natural law squarely within a Christian framework. The editors here present a fresh interpretation of Locke as a thinker who posed a series of subtle challenges to traditional natural law doctrine. That Locke was aware of the political danger of this challenge is evident from his refusal to publish the work during his lifetime and from the care he took to conceal these manuscripts among his possessions. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Charles Knight, 1st, 1844-45, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with red leather spine and corners. Two volumes bound in one, 244 pages & 254 pages. Gilt designs and lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts from the author's drawings. Mild wear to spine, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Carmel CA, Ventana Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 140 pages, 55 b&w plates. John Sexton's highly anticipated fourth book. invites the viewer into the contemplative landscapes and human-made environments, filled with viant luminosity. Seen through Sexton's eyes. his subjects are transformed into images of tranquility. wonder. and mystery. From the purity of a fresh snowfall in Yosemite Valley to the enigmatic rock forms of the Colorado Plateau. Sexton explores the subtle nuances of details rather than grand vistas. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Fort Worth TX, Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 111 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color images by both Ketchum and Porter. An essay by John Rohrbach illuminates the development of the two photographers and their lasting legacy in nature photography.
Softcover. Washington DC, Island Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 337 pages. Repeat photography is a scientific technique in which photographs are taken from the same vantage point over different points in time. This text explores the technical and geographic scope of this method through a series of essays by 35+ scholars. Topics include techniques for creation and analysis of repeat photographs, applications in the geosciences, population ecology, and ecosystem change. Thirty two pages of color photographs are included. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Albany NY, New York State Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1868-1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (approximately 400 pages, including 12 plates, 4 in color, featuring fungi and mushrooms). Half leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering, raised bands on spine. Light rubbing to boards otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. Albany NY, New York State Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1876-1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated (approximately 400 pages, including 13 b & w plates featuring fungi and mushrooms). Half leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering, raised bands on spine. Light rubbing to boards otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. Claremont, NH, Vt. State Legislature, 1st, 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large matching volumes, embossed brown cloth. Vol 1: 289 black & white woodcut illustrations, 558 pages. Light edgewear to covers, 1 x 1" chip to cloth at bottom of spine, internally clean, tight. Vol lI. Page 559-980. 76 woodcuts. Section following index in rear has all called-for maps, charts & views. 2 large color folding maps, color plates & charts (3 fold-out) and 20 lithographic scenic views of Vermont. Volume in excellent condition. This set includes a catalogue of nearly 3000 specimens of rock, 370 specimens of minerals and several hundred specimens of organic remains. These volumes still stand as the most comprehensive examination of Vermont's geology yet published. Lovely views of Vermont. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth lettered in gilt at the spine. Illustrated with eight photographic plates. 422 pages. Extended passages from Jefferies' work, with a general introduction in two parts: 'The English Genius' and 'To the Two Types of Jefferies Readers', introductions to each section, notes on the text, and the Epigraph. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Unpaginated. Color and black & white photography. British artist Long ( Walking in Circles ) takes nature treks--in England's Lake District, the Sahara, Japan, Nepal--and creates site-specific works along the way. He fashions a mud circle in the river Avon, traces a line of snow near a temple in Kyoto and erects a circle of stones on a Swiss mountainside. The spare, deeply meditative photographs that he took en route sometimes call to mind prehistoric British megalithic monuments or Native American earthworks, as if he wants to tune in on planetary patterns of energy. At other times Long simply records what he sees, providing dramatic vistas of Iceland's vast rolling hills, Bolivia's high plateau, Washington's forests and Mount Everest's calm majesty. His images, poetic captions and unobstrusive siteworks reflect an artist who is at once traveler, nature-lover and adventurer.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Gilt top edge. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Pencil marking to several pages and inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 402 pages, index, notes. A historical study of the development of the West and how, from the earliest days of development, elites of wealth and technological power have controlled the West's most precious resource: water. An analysis of the opening of the American West views the ecological reality of the area's aridity as the source of political control. Name on front fly leaf, light remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 402 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Worster presents a picture of a technological empire based on vast water projects, designed by engineers and controlled by a small managerial elite. This reality, he argues, considerably limited the West's fabled freedom, the claims of promoters, hack writers, and self-serving local historians notwithstanding . this is a major theoretical work, well-argued and generally well-written, a must for any bookshelf that seeks thoroughness in matters western. Chapter five "The Grapes of Wealth," is focused on irrigation in the Central Valley of California and the Central Valley Project. Donald Worster (born 1941) is a prize-winning American academic, one of the founders of, and leading figures in, the field of environmental history. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages with 164 tritone photographs. beautiful copy still in shrinkwrap. Like new. Turning Back: A photographic journal of Re-exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages with 164 tritone photographs. beautiful copy still in shrinkwrap. Like new. Turning Back: A photographic journal of Re-exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Hardcover. Individual photographers, Fraenkel Gallery/Matthew Marks Gallery. , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 234 pages; 164 duo-toned b&w plates; 9.75 x 12 inches. A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Beautiful copy still in shrinkwrap. Like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, gray/green cloth stamped with a black and white design. In a dust jacket with two chunks gone from spine. A naturalist ruminates on birds (mostly) and woodchucks in these essays on wildlife. B&w illustrations by R. Bruce Horsfall,Most of these pieces were previously published in magazines.
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Edgewear, rubbing and sticker residue to dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light sticker residue, small closed tears to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Madison, WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume dedicated to the rural art originating in Wisconsin. Discusses 30 different artists and contains illustrations (color and black/white) of their pieces. Good condition; cloth bound book shows some wear on the edges of the covers. No dust jacket. Commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the University of Wisconsin by means of the work of rural Wisconsin artists such as Ambrose G. Ammel, Joan Arend, John M. Black, WIlliam H. Boose, Frances Burt, Frank H. Engebretson, Francis D. Grady, Louis Grebetz, Rachel Gertrude Grimm, Lois Ireland, Arthur Johnson, and many more.
Softcover. UK, Dodo Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages. Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (1813- 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She was the daughter of the well known novelist James Fenimore Cooper. Her most famous work is Rural Hours (1850), a nature diary of Cooperstown, New York. Amongst her works are Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America, The Lumley Autograph, and Elinor Wyllys; or, The Young Folk of Longbridge (1846), a novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 307 pages. In all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion-dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man-made Salton Sea, California's largest lake and a vital stopping place for migratory waterfowl. Today the Salton Sea is in desperate environmental trouble. A second river also ends in the Salton Sea. It is a river of dreams, the remains of which may be seen in the failed real estate developments that sprawl beside the sea. As the ending point of both the real Colorado and this river of dreams, the Salton Sea has become emblematic of much of the history of the American West. Its troubling story is masterfully told here in William deBuys's narrative and Joan Myers's austerely beautiful photographs. Mild wear, ereasure to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.