Hardcover. London, Phoenix House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 191 pages with 64 photographs, one in color (as the frontis.) and a plan drawn by Jo Mayo. Author tells his 14 year effort to build a nature sanctuary and how he succeeded. Clean copy.
Hardcover. White Plains NY, Peter Pauper Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Simler. From New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book artist Isabelle Simler, a picture book (and nature guide!) to linger over. Look closely as a spider -- both a collector and an artist -- skillfully crafts a masterpiece from all that falls into her path. Patient and observant, she appreciates all the wonders that make up her landscape -- from ferns and feathers to bugs and butterflies. Readers will come back again and again to the luscious and intricate illustrations, soaking up all of Simler's delicate details. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1s, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Light green cloth, lettered and bordered in gilt, top text block edge in gilt. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates by Clifton Johnson. Light shelf wear, bookplate on inside front cover with black marking. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in 1908. Memoir of the author, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest white hunters, trusted lieutenant of Cecil Rhodes, friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and the model for H. Rider Haggard's Alan Quartermain. The turn of the century big game hunter shares his observations on protective coloration, lions, hyenas, cheetahs, tse-tse flies, rhinoceros, giraffes, and unusual hunting experiences. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Fleming H. Revell, 10th pr., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Black & white frontis photograph of Muir (repeated on dust jacket). 11 other plates plus map. Dust jacket worn, chipped (about half of spine missing).
Hardcover. Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large volume in a slipcase, 736 pages. This stunning volume delves into the extraordinary illustrated notebooks of Alexander von Humboldt's journeys through the Americas, which reveal the graphic musings of an intrepid explorer, a writer and philosopher, and the father of the environmental movement. On occasion of the 250th anniversary of Humboldt's birth, the drawings from these diaries are now available in a large format, slip-cased edition. Structured thematically, the 450 illustrations have been painstakingly reproduced, complete with handwritten notes, ink stains and water spots. Humboldt drew everything he saw--Incan ruins, electric eels, the transit of Mercury, silver mines, and ocean currents. In addition to being remarkably well preserved, these drawings offer tremendous insight into Humboldt's prescient observations. Featuring commentary by a renowned expert on Humboldt's work, this breathtaking volume will bring to life one of history's most accomplished thinkers. Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Color photos by Alfred A. Cohen. A Sonoran Desert nature primer told by a small Papago girl (note that Tohono O?odham is now the proper name for these native Americans). Unusual book in that full color photographs are used throughout, rather than illustrations.
Hardcover. Reno ; Las Vegas, University of Nevada Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, 69 BW and color plates, 36 figures. Essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Dave Hickey, and Thomas W. Southall. Includes work by John Pfhal, Terry Evans, Mark Klett and many others, with brief photographer biographies.Clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelf-wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott & Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Profusely illust. with sketches and pictures by Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts. A Woodcraft Series. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with narrow portion of top missing, Large chunk gone from top and bottom back cover. Same two-color illustration on book cover and dust jacket front.
Hardcover. Chicago,IL, Rand, McNally & Company Publishers, Early reprint, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations including full color frontispiece (see image). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with navy blue illustration. Soil and light chipping and fraying to spine and bottom edge, as well as top of front cover board (see image). Tanning to pages and boards from age. Very early reprint.
Hardcover. NY, D. Van Nostrand, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt lettering, 285 pages. Gertsch, who was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, was the key authority of his day on spiders and identified over 1,000 spiders and close allies, including the brown recluse. This book is part of the New Illustrated Naturalist series curated by William Beebe, Robert Cushman Murphy, and Fairfield Osborn. Illustrated with color and b&w photos of spiders. Gutter cracked at title page, name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt stamping, 184 pages, illustrated with 4 b&w plates with tissue guards. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. San Diedo CA, Silver Dolphin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Children and parents will love this cleverly crafted interactive adventure. Kids get to turn flaps to reveal pop-up surprises on every page; which ends with an entire pop-up scene. When Winnie Wolf Cub finds a feather in the forest, she is determined to find its owner as well. She meets a lot of new friends in her search, but no one with a black and white feather. Will she ever find its owner? Lift the flaps that appear throughout this pop-up adventure and see! Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. 55 B&w illustrations and 21 plates in full color. Debates the relationship between art, science and religion by exploring the 19th century landscape painters fascination with geology. Scarce. Pictorial boards, black cloth spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new. In original shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, H.W. Fisher & Company, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth on boards with gilt lettering and border ruling around front, gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square. Story about a man from Philadelphia who buys an island in Rangely Lake in western Maine and builds a summer house. Great information about Maine, it's people, the flora and fauna of the area, and history too. Seems to be a blend of fiction and memoir. Color frontis, 15 b&w plates. Small water stain to first 10 pages, in the top of outer margin, not affecting plates or text. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 90 full color plates. In this vivid and engaging book, Arpad Kovacs explores the social, symbolic, scientific, and aesthetic approaches to a subject that has been of continuous interest to photographers across the centuries.
Hardcover. NY, Fraenkel Gallery/Hasselblad Foundation, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 1stpages. The master photographer best known for his extensive, insightful documentation of "the American social landscape"--from jazz musicians to factory hands to New York pedestrians and office workers zoning out at their keyboards--has recently been spending more time looking at the literal, natural landscape. His monumental 2005 MoMA retrospective showed, for the first time, a new series of landscapes made in the American West, while for Olives and Apples, he has looked back over the last decade's work and culled a forest, tree by tree. His docile subjects, apple trees photographed in New York State and olive trees photographed in France, Italy and Spain from 1997-2004, are presented in circumstances ranging from sunny, leafy summer health to glittering winter ice-storm glory. Some of the most striking compositions are shot from just inside the reach of a tree's furthest twigs, so that expanding branching limbs fill the frame, stretching out around the viewer.
Hardcover. Boston, William White & Co, 3rd, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Black boards with embossed pictorial border, gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, light rubbing to covers, top third of outside of front hinge cracked, mild edgewear, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Newport VT, J. M. Currier, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages, a collection of scientific papers dated Oct. 1870 through July 1874. Bound in black cloth with black leather spine and corners, gilt lettering and rules on spine. Subjects include geology, Pawnee Indians, flora and fauna, birds of Vermont, etc. Small water stain to top edge margin of center pages, otherwise very good. Pencil inscription inside front cover reads: "Compliments of Dr. Currier, 1892". Previous owner's bookplate.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Clean, bright copy with similar dust jacket. 243 plates, mainly in color, charts. Contains many little-known works of art from the First Fleet landing in New South Wales in 1788, and from the early years of settlement. Chronology, Bibliography. Size: 13 3/4" x 10".
Hardcover. North Clarendon, VT, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color photographs throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Lippincott , 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrated by Reinhard Michl. Describes the animal life at a secluded pond during spring and summer days.