Nature

Hardcover. University Park PA, Penn State University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages. Numerous color illustrations. An exploration of Bartram's writings and artwork; all sixty-eight Bartram drawings owned by the Natural History Museum are brought together for the first time. Works by other eighteenth and nineteenth century natural history artists are included. His love of nature led him to explore the environs of the American Southeast between 1773 and 1777. Here he collected plants and seeds, kept a journal of his observations of nature, and made drawings of the plants and animals he encountered. The completed drawings were sent to his patron in London, and these make up the bulk of the collection held at London's Natural History Museum. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. "It knocks me out, every day," she says.Pandemonium, the home and bird sanctuary that Raffin shares with some of the world's most remarkable birds, is a conservation organization dedicated to saving and breeding birds at the edge of extinction, with the goal of eventually releasing them into the wild. In The Birds of Pandemonium, she lets us into her world--and theirs. Birds fall in love, mourn, rejoice, and sacrifice; they have a sense of humor, invent, plot, and cope. They can teach us volumes about the interrelationships of humans and animals.

Hardcover. London, Constable, reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black on spine and front cover, 567 pages. Over 500 drawings by author, whose life work is the development or revival of Woodcraft, that is outdoor life in its greatest sense, as a school for manhood. He defends Indians and their traditions, as he sees them as a model for outdoor life. Clean copy.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press;, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 584 pages. The only field guide to cover all North American butterfly species, this monumental work is also a complete natural history, fully describing the biological and ecological world of butterflies in general. It is without question the most important book on butterflies in several decades, and the most complete treatment of a major butterfly faun ever published. The book is written at several levels of detail, most of it accessible to anyone, and employs the minimum of technical terms necessary for ensuring scientific accuracy. Extensive introductory material-a book in itself-stresses butterfly biology and ecology: structure, flight, metamorphosis, hibernation, physiology, roosting, migration, mating, egg laying, intelligence, social behavior, larval and adult foods, enemies, mimicry, variation, evolution, habitats, distribution, and conservation. The main text is arranged in phylogenetic sequence, and characteristics or behavior common to all members of a family, subfamily, or tribe are discussed at those levels. The skippers, a large group often excluded, are treated in full. Several unique features make identification easier and more certain than with any other field guide. First, every species (and many subspecies) of butterfly ever recorded north of Mexico (or in Bermuda or Hawaii) is treated at length and illustrated in color. Over 1,800 butterflies representing all 679 species (males, females, uppersides, undersides, subspecies, etc.) are illustrated on 42 full-page plats. Another 136 color photographs illustrate the various life forms in natural habitat: eggs, larvae, pupae, and the more familiar and more spectacular adults.

Hardcover. Silver City NM, High-Lonesome Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 219 pages, b&w illustrations. There is abundant information in this book about catfishing and other outdoor sports. But there is much more. There is insight into people met along the way on the author's journey around the country, into the author himself and his family, into our society in the nineties and its apparently weakening ties to all things natural. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The haunting cry of the loon has for centuries fascinated people living in or near wilderness in northern parts of the world. The loon's call, its ability to dive, and its distinctive black and white feather pattern appear again and again in the myths and legends of North American Indians. There is included a disc recording of common loon vocalizations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages; black and white illustrations. Discusses American birds of prey, such as eagle, hawk, osprey, and falcon, giving technical information as well as anecdotes of the author's experience with them. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Shelton CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 176 pages. SIGNED BY DOOLITTLE on the half-title page. Nicely illustrated with Doolittle's signature artwork, including black-and-white pencil sketches overlaid with detailed color paintings. At the end of the novel there is a fold-out poster illustration. This book will have the most appeal to those interested in Doolittle's dramatic illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Son's, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY CROWE on the front fly leaf. An account of three extensive journeys undertaken on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund, an international organization working for the protection and conservation of species all over the world. 301 pages with index, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK/Burlington VT, Ashgate Publishing, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages. First published in hardcover in 2008, this is the expanded Second Edition. It must be noted, no illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that has been price-clipped. Miniature studies of bird and animal life with lovely wood engravings by Brian Hope-Taylor. Translated from the Russian by W.L. Goodman. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 200 pages, large format. Profusley illustrated with color photographs of trees. Trees are vital- without them we simply wouldn't be here. Not only essential, they have been an inspiration throughout our history. In breathtaking photographs and stories we are taken on a journey from the boreal forest at the edge of the Arctic to the rainforests girdling the planet; from ancient bristlecones to fresh-leaved seedlings; from the charming and familiar to the scary and rare. An elegantly written and highly accessible text is complemented by an extraordinary collection of images created by some of the world's leading nature photographers.

Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 512 pages. Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of Audubon's last journey through the American West. Patterson's new edition of the journals--unknown to Audubon scholars and fans--offers a significantly different understanding of the very core of Audubon's life and work. Readers will be introduced to a more authentic Audubon, one who was concerned about the disappearance of America's wild animal species and yet also loved to hunt and display his prowess in the wilderness. This edition reveals that Audubon's famous late conversion to conservationism on this expedition was, in fact, a literary fiction. Maria Rebecca Audubon created this myth when she rewrote her grandfather's journals for publication to make him into a visionary conservationist. In reality the journals detail almost gratuitous hunting predations throughout the course of Audubon's last expedition.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ron Parker. A look at the bears of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains depicts them foraging for nuts and berries, readying a den for hibernation, and waking and sleeping with the rising and falling temperature during the long winter.

Hardcover. Boston, The Stratford Company, 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth with bright gilt lettering, 334 pages. An loving exploration of New Hampshire's country roads with personal anecdotes by the author, 16 b&w plates. Dust jacket with big chip to top of spine, book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. Columbus OH, Mushroom Publishing Co., 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 609 pages, profusely illustrated with 500 b&w photographs of various types accompanied by scholarly descriptions. Two pages with clear tape repair (now browning), previous owner's bookplate. This copy is notable for the full-color original paintings of various kinds of mushrooms done on the front and rear endpapers. Professionally done (or at the least, done by a very talented amateur) but not signed. Pictures available on request. Tan cloth cover with brown leather spine with gilt lettering and rules. In a cardboard slipcase which has a wraparound color illustration of ferns and mushrooms.

Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 655 pages. Black & white illustrations. Moderate fading to spine of red cloth covers. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 640 pages. Black & white illustrations. Moderate fading to spine of red cloth covers. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The seventh volume of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted presents the record of his last years of residence in New York City. It includes reports on the design of Riverside and Morningside parks and Tompkins Square in Manhattan, as well as his comprehensive plan for the street system and rapid transit routes of the Bronx. It records his continuing work on Central Park and presents his final retrospective statement, The Spoils of the Park. In addition, volume seven contains an annotated version of the journal in which Olmsted recorded instances of political maneuvering and patronage politics in the years before his dismissal from the New York parks department in 1878. Later documents chronicle the early stages of his planning of the Boston park system--the Back Bay Fens, Arnold Arboretum, and Riverway. Other major commissions, each with its own political complications, were the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, the completion of the new state capitol in Albany, the designing of a park on Mount Royal in Montreal, and construction of the park system of Buffalo, New York. The volume also presents Olmsted's commentary on issues of the times including federal Reconstruction policy and civil-service reform.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with beveled edges. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard and profusely illustrated throughout with 163 wood-engravings. The author of several other scientific works here gives a description of the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe in both a popular and scientific way. He gives a succinct history of the several polar expeditions, American and European. Covers with edge wear and fraying to spine, gilt blindstamped scene of dog sled on front cover, gilt kayak scene and lettering on spine faded. Interior of book very good, no markings.

Softcover. NY/London, Palgrave , 2nd Ed., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romanticism. Hitherto marginal figures are restored to prominence, and there is new material on William Wordsworth's radical years.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 216 pages. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth with green lettering and decoration. No dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. A memoir of a year in rural Pennsylvania. Clean copy.