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Rails of the World Signed Limited Edition by S. Dillon Ripley and J. Fenwick Lansdowne Notes Boston: David R. Godine (1977). **OVERSIZED** Folio 36x26cm. xx + 406pp. Limited edition number 149 of 400 copies signed by Ripley and Lansdowne on the colophon page; includes a signed original lithograph by Lansdowne laid in at the rear. Original red... (read more) Your price: $275.00 Rare Books - Hardcover 
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A Beginners Manual of Falconry by Steven G. Herman and E. W. Jameson Jr. and Hans J. Peeters Notes Davis, CA: The California Hawking Club, (1965). Pamphlet, 18 x 26 cm, 19pp. 1st edition. Brown paper wrapper decorated in red and black. Wrapper is rubbed with a few light smudges; name in ink on the inside of the front wrapper. Very Good condition... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Pamphlet
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Keeping a Family Cow: A Complete Guide to Raising Cows and Producing Dairy Products for Home Use by Joann Sills Grohman Notes New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1981). Octavo 14 x 21 cm. viii 199pp. First printing of the revised edition. Original green paper over boards spine gilt. In an unclipped dust jacket. Occasional black & white illustrations. ISBN: 0-684-16867-7. Light... (read more) Your price: $85.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Birds of Newfoundland, Signed 1st Edition by Harold S. Peters and Thomas D. Burleigh Notes Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1951. First edition tan pictorial cloth stamped in green maps in green on endpapers 17 x 23.5cm. illustrated in color & black & white by Roger Tory Peterson; 431pp. Light bumping & soiling to boards slightly cocked spine... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Biology of Bats 3 Volumes by William A. Wimsatt Notes New York: Academic Press, 1970-7. 3 volumes. Octavo, 16 x 23.5 cm. First editions. Original black cloth, spines stamped in copper, front boards stamped in blind. All in unclipped dust jackets. Numerous illustrations. Bindings rubbed, corners bumped. The... (read more) Your price: $500.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Index To Stakes Winners 1865-1967, 2 Volumes by Clio D. Hogan Notes Solvang: Flag Is Up Farms no date. 2 volumes. Quarto 22.5 x 28.5 cm. iv 316pp; iv 317-701pp. Original quarter brown cloth tan cloth over boards spines stamped in gilt. No dust jackets. Exteriors lightly rubbed and soiled. Near fine condition. INDY... (read more) Your price: $125.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Les Poissons D'Eau Douce Du Canada by A N Montpetit Notes Montreal C O Beauchemin & Fils 1897. Rebound in red cloth title in gilt on spine. Library blind stamp on title page receiving stamp at bottom of preface page dampstaining throughout affecting text and plates. 12 color plates. Text in French. G+ NA... (read more) Your price: $125.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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The Irish Wolfhound Guide by Alfred W. DeQuoy Notes Dublin: Cahill & Co. Limited 1973. Octavo 16x24cm. ix i 443pp. Original green cloth spine gilt. No dust jacket. Occasional illustrations in black & white one folding chart. Cloth soiled and rubbed with a small area of wear at the tail of the lower joint.... (read more) Your price: $125.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology from the Earliest Times to the End of 1918 Arranged Under Counties by W.H. Mullens and H. Kirke Swann and F.C.R. Jourdain Notes London: Witherby & Co. 1920. Octavo 16 x 22 cm. viii 558pp. First edition. Bound in full blue cloth spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. A record of printed books published articles notes and records relating to local avifauna. Cloth rubbed corners... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Tibet and Its Birds by Charles Vaurie Notes London: H. F. & G. Witherby Limited, (1972). Octavo, 24.5 x 16.5 cm. xv 407 pp. Original red cloth-covered boards. Spine stamped in black and gilt. Top edge gilt. Pale blue endpapers. Illustrated in color and black & white. In a price-clipped dustjacket.... (read more) Your price: $115.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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The Birds of Minnesota Signed by Thomas S. Roberts Notes Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press 1932. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page of vol. 2.Green cloth with gilt lettering to the face and spine. No dust jackets. Both volumes profusely illustrated with cuts and figures as well... (read more) Your price: $175.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Lathams Falconry: or The Faulcon's Lure, and Cure: in Two Books [with] Lathams New and Second Booke of Faulconry by Symon Latham Notes Monterey: Bate and Slice Society 1957. Octavo 15 x 21.5 cm. xxvii 147pp;xxii 148pp. Limited edition number 6 of 250 copies signed by the business manager of the Bate and Slice Society S. Kent Carnie on the limitation page. Original brown leatherette... (read more) Your price: $700.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Forty Years with Dogs by Edwin Hautenville Richardson Notes Philadelphia: David McKay Company no date (circa 1920). Thick octavo in format gilt stamped purple cloth photo as frontispiece; 288pp. 16 x 23cm. Text contains an additional 41 black & white photographs. Bookplate on front pastedown spine sunned with a... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Hawk for the Bush by J. G. Mavrogordato Notes Newton, MA: Charles T. Branford Company, (1961). Small quarto, 19 x 25.5 cm, 144pp. 1st US edition. Original tan cloth decorated and lettered in green; with eight illustration plates by G. E. Lodge in color and black-and-white. Foxing to the endpapers... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Desert Hawking II, Signed by Harry McElroy Notes No place: Harry C. McElroy (1977). Quarto 22 x 28.5 cm. viii 188pp. Signed and dated (1983) by the author on the front free endpaper. Original green cloth front board and spine stamped in gilt. In an unclipped dust jacket. Black & white photographic... (read more) Your price: $600.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Pirates and Predators: The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds by Colonel R. Meinertzhagen Notes Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1959. 4to v 230pp. Orange cloth with gilt title to spine; gilt illustration and title to front board. 26 black and white plates and 18 color plates. Dust jacket jacket price clipped and lightly soiled at rear very minor creasing... (read more) Your price: $220.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Dogs: Their History and Development, 2 Volumes by Edward C. Ash Notes Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [no date]. 2 volumes, quarto, 23 x 29 cm, 778pp. Brown paper over boards with beige cloth backstrips and brown leather spine labels stamped in gilt. Boards rubbed and soiled; corners bumped. Ownership stamps to paste... (read more) Your price: $250.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language by John Wilkins Notes London: Printed for Sa Gellibrand and for John Martin Printer to the Royal Society 1668. Folio 29.8x18.2cm. 20 454 blank 158pp. First printing bound in 18th Century half-leather and marbled paper over boards bound by Gresswell of Tauton. Spine label in... (read more) Your price: $2100.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Les Insectes: Morphologie, Reproduction, Embryogenie by L. Felix Henneguy Notes Paris: Masson et Cie Editeurs 1904. Tall octavo 7 x 11 . Half calf with snakeskin boards. Corners bumped; edges joints & spine rubbed. xviii 804pp. Occasional foxing; inked names to half title page. 4 color plates & numerous text drawings throughout... (read more) Your price: $125.00 Rare Books - Leather
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Early Maps & Charts of the East Coast of North America by Robert Putman Notes Guernsey: Mercbook International Ltd. 1985 Elephant folio (560x755mm) 12 facsimile color maps in 1/2 brown morocco and linen portfolio paper title label on cover cloth ribbon ties. Some scratching to leather coffee stains to cover lacking 32 page booklet.... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Portfolio
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