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Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions in Two Volumes. With: Later Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions. A Journal of the Travels in the Year 1838.
by E Robinson  Notes Boston; Crocker & Brewster; 1856. Three volumes. Contemporary brown blind stamped cloth, worn and shaken. The hinges to volume 1 are split. Some light foxing throughout; volume 3 is dampstained at head of text through the whole volume. Though the last...
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Rare Books: $95.00 Hardcover
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Recherches Zoologiques, Anatomiques, Physiologiques et Medicales sur les Oestrides en General, et Particulierment sur les Oestres qui Attaquent l'Homme, le Cheval, le Boeuf et le Mouton
by M. N. Joly Notes Lyon: Imprimerie de Barret, 1846. Quarto. Marbled boards with red cloth back, leather title label to spine. Rubbing to spine label. Original printed yellow front paper wrapper bound in. 149pp. 8 black & white plates. Foxing throughout; front wrapper torn,...
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Rare Books: $295.00 Hardcover
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The Butterflies of Great Britain with Their Transformations Delineated and Described
by J. O. Westwood Notes London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. Full brown cloth ruled in black. Colored engraved half title and 19 colored plates, as called for. 2 additional plates not colored. Corners bumped, matte endpapers split at front hinge. Bookplate and bookseller's...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Leather
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Natural History of Selborne
by Gilbert White Notes London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1902 Signed full leather binding by Donnelley. 552pp., 4p. of ads at rear. Spine sunned, edges rubbed, joints a bit worn, original green dye now faded to brown at extremities. Good condition. Gilbert White (1720-1795...
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Rare Books: $175.00 Hardcover
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Colored Plates of the Butterflies of the West Coast: 1ST Edition
by W G Wright Notes ...of the West Coast being Actual Photographs, Life-size and in all Their Natural Colors. San Bernadino, CA, Printed for the Author, 1907. Moisture damage to rear board leaving light tide marks not affecting text block. Very Good/NI RWrw...
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Rare Books: $1750.00 Leather
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Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, Accompanied with Descriptions of the Eggs, Nests, etc.: 2nd Edition
by William C. Hewitson Notes London: John Van Voorst, 1846 case west 1 Second edition, in two volumes, in 3/4 red morocco, black morocco labels on spines, stamped in gilt, gilt decorated compartments, gilt margind, all edges gilt. Marbled paper over boards, matching endpapers; 223pp....
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Rare Books: $300.00 Hardcover
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The Natural History of the African Elephant
by Sylvia K. Sikes Notes New York. American Elsevier Publishing Co. 1971. First American edition. 8vo. 397pp. 115 plates. 8 color plates. illustrated throughout with 54 figures. Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettered spine. Missing DJ. Pages are clean. Binding is good. Boards...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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The Life and Habits of Wild Animals
by Daniel Giraud Elliot Notes New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874. Folio, vi, 122pp followed by publishers advertisements. Publisher's cloth gilt, all edges gilt. Boards are edgeworn. Fraying to corners and head and tail of spine. 2 1/2" split in cloth to front joint at lower edge...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature, A Critical Edition, with English Translation
by David C Lindberg Notes Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. First UK edition, quarto, gilt stamped black cloth; 420pp. Slight softening of spine ends. A very good copy, without a dust jacket...
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Rare Books: $200.00 Leather
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Le Bombyx ou le Ver a Soie: Poeme, Accompagne d'Une Instrucition qui en est Tiree, & qui Contient en Abrege les Observations Necessiares, Tant sur le Murier que sur le Ver & la Soie
by Joseph du Fresne de Francheville Notes Berlin: Aux depens du l'Auteur, 1754. 12mo. Half calf with marbled paper boards; raised bands & gilt spine; marbled edges. Edges rubbed; boards scuffed; library label partially removed from spine. xvi, 228pp. Title page vignette, head & tail pieces...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Slipcase
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Royal Blood: Fifty Years of Classic Thoroughbreds
by Richard Stone Reeves and Jim Bolus Notes Lexington: The Blood-Horse, Inc., (1994). Quarto, 24x31cm. 287pp. Second printing. Original full blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Housed in the original matching blue cloth-covered slipcase stamped in gilt and with a color pictorial...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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Dollar Hen: 1st Edition
by Milo Hastings Notes Syracuse: Poultry Magazine, 1911. First edition, octavo in tan cloth stamped in brown. gutter split at title page, but holding. Cloth soiled, corners rubbed through, ownership name & label on front endpapers; front free endpaper w/small chip & closed...
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Rare Books: $175.00 Leather
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L'Art d'Elever les Vers a Soie, Pour Obtenir Constamment d'une Quantite Donnee de Feuilles de Murier la Plus Grande Quantite Possible de Cocons de Premiere Qualite...2nd Edition
by Vincenzo Dandolo Notes Lyon: Chez Bohaire, Libraire, 1825. Octavo. Quarter brown calf with marbled boards, gilt to spine; marbled endpapers. Corners bumped; joints splitting at spine ends & head of spine chipped; boards scuffed. xvi, 392pp. Two folding tables, & two folding...
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Rare Books: $450.00 Leather
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Farriery Improv'd: Or, a Compleat Treatise upon the Art of Farriery 4th Edition
by Henry Bracken Notes London: Printed for J. Clarke and J. Shuckburgh, 1742. Duodecimo, 10x16cm. viii + 363pp + [29pp]. Fourth edition. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper over boards, spine ruled in gilt. All edges sprinkled in red. Boards, joints, and spine rubbed...
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Rare Books: $450.00 Slipcase
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Some Birds and Mammals of North America Signed Limited Edition
by Axel Amuchastegui Notes London: The Tryon Gallery, (1971). Elephant folio, 54x36cm. Unpaginated. Limited edition, number 327 of 500 copies, signed by the artist on the limitation page. Original quarter dark blue morocco, marbled paper over boards, vellum corner tips. Morocco...
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Rare Books: $1400.00 Leather
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Arctic Zoology, 2nd Edition, 3 Volumes
by Thomas Pennant Notes London: Robert Faulder, 1792. Three quarto ((8x10in.) leather bound books skillfully rebacked with gilt tooling & red leather labels; all edges marbled. New endpapers. First folding map located in volume one with 2nd folding map located in volume 3. 2 t...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Hardcover
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Age and Growth of Fish
by Robert C. Summerfelt and Gordon E. Hall Notes Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987. Octavo, 158x234mm. xvi + 544pp. First edition. Original pictorial cloth over boards. Illustrations in black & white. Rubbed and lightly soiled. Name in ink to the front board as well as the front free endpaper...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Hardcover
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Weather Lore 1ST Edition
by Richard Inwards Notes L, Elliot Stock, 1893. First edition. Slightly rolled, spine ends bumped, folding chart partly detached but whole. Good/NI RWrw...
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Rare Books: $1000.00 Hardcover
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Lathams Falconry: Or The Faulcons Lure, and Cure [with] Lathams New and Second Booke of Faulconry, Limited Edition
by Symon Latham Notes Monterey: Bate and Slice Society, [1957]. Octavo, 150x215mm. Limited edition, number 19 of 250 copies. A facsimile reprint of both Lathams Falconry and Lathams New and Second Booke of Faulconry bound together. Original full faux leather stamped in gilt...
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Rare Books: $400.00 Leather
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Hummingbirds Signed Limited Edition
by Crawford H. Greenewalt Notes Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. Quarto, 235x299mm. [xvi] + 250pp + [xvii]-xxi. Limited edition, number 476 of 500 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page. Original full green leather gilt, pictorial paper label to the front...
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