Affairs of The Heart by Charles van Sandwyk - 2007: According to Peaceable Creatures

Publisher's binding of Art Nouveau design. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, stories accompanied by b/w plate reproductions. Gift inscription dated 1894! See photos. Harper Brothers logo on back cover in silver with green shields. Gilt title on cover and on spine.

London: Wilson and Spence and R. Christopher & T. Jennett, 1803. 1803 EARLY ENGLISH CHILDREN'S NATURAL HISTORY WITH 95 COPPER PLATES CONTAINING 300 ANIMALS PICTURED AFTER ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 leather binding with gilt rules and marble paper covered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt red leather label, new endpapers, 210 pp, 300 animals illustrated on 95 copper plates, including folding plate of whaling in Greenland (reinforced with paper backing). Browning to title page and page edges, overall good+ in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS BOREMAN (1730–1743) was one of the earliest English children's book publishers particularly dealing with animals. His bookshops were located around London. Boreman published along with Richard Ware and Thomas Game from the 1730s. His Three Hundred Animals was the first, published ca 1730 and written for children. He published approximately a dozen titles. Many of his books were based on… Read More

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1905. 1st. Hardcover. very good/no dj as issued. The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands, Section II. the Deep-Sea Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands; Section III. the Commercial Fisheries" -- Government Printing Office, 1905. (extracted from the Bullettin of the US Fishing Comission.) List of Illustrations: 8 pages, Text and 81 Illustrations on 138 pages (pagination from 575-713), 11" x 8" 35 plates are full-page with 1 or 2 illustrations printed only on recto. Plus 46 illustrations in the tex.Very good detailed printing quality. Solid blue hardcover binding. with gilt title and publication year on the spine. Spine a bit rubbed. Ex-Libris of Robert Hoyt (1929) in inside front cover. === Very rare, especially in this quality. Ships from Hawaii. ==.

New York: Unpublished, 1919. William Joseph Schaldach (1896-1982) was a writer on art and outdoor sporting, editor for Field and Stream, and most notably an important American wildlife artist. The original watercolor offered here is one of his earliest works, probably done while he was studying at the Art Students League under John Sloan and George Bridgman. In addition to his signature ("W. J. Schaldach '19") at the lower right of the image, there also is included a piece of craft paper with the following written in pencil by the artist: "Central American Boa-Constrictor Study from live specimen. March 1919--W. J. Schaldach." The image is 3 inches by 7 1/4 inches and is matted 10 1/8" X 13" and shrink-wrapped. The watercolor study is clean and bright.. SIGNED. Original. Single Sheet. Near Fine. Illus. by W. J. Schaldach. 3" X 7 1/4". Fine Art Print.

London: H. G. Bohn , 1859. Handsomely bound in full polished calf, intricate gilt back , marbled end papers and edges, stamp-signed "Huches & Kemp Binders Oxford" bottom edge verso front end page. Very Good Plus, front board top 1" slight fading, boards lightly rubbed and soiled, moderate foxining at first few end pages front and rear but clean of foxing internally. Presentation inscription front end page dated 1865 gifting the book to a fellow Etonian on leaving the school. New Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Partially Re-Written. . Uncommon in commerce in contemporary fine binding. . New Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1950. 6th printing, Inscribed by Author with drawing of Pima symbol of coyote track. Inscription reads "Dear Billie Wolfe - I wouldn't want to be a coyote, there are too many of the Damned human race. If I were a coyote trotting around the south plains I would stop under your window and sing you a coyote song - Frank Dobie 1958". Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Albany, NY: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and lighlty soiled, pages toned and some light finger soiling.. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Annual reports by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and black and white illustrations by Hy S. Watson. Blue cloth boards with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front boards. 24 color plates of fish, possibly by Denton, of Sea Herring, Kingfish, Rock Bass, Cod, Flat Fish, Rose Fish, Burbot, Maskalonge, Channel Bass, Calico Bass, Crappie, Yellow Mackerel, Pollack, Spotted Catfish, Flounder, Pompano, Short Pompano, Haddock, Gold Fish, Fresh-Water Drum, Hake, Whiting, Halibut, Spade Fish. Color plate of Partridge by W. S. Gillette and color plate of Beaver by Ernest Thompson Seton. Two folding maps of Adirondack areas. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 419 pages .

Publisher's binding of Art Nouveau design. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, stories accompanied by b/w plate reproductions. Gift inscription dated 1894! See photos. Harper Brothers logo on back cover in silver with green shields. Gilt title on cover and on spine.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. Essays and excerpts from Leopold's journals, put together by his son; includes canoe/deer hunting trips to Canada & Mexico, a plea for less anatomy & more practical field studies for students of biology, et cetera, including powerful material written before & while Leopold was developing his theory of the 'land ethic'. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, corners slightly bumped; jacket shows light rubbing, a few chips, two short tears 'mended' internally with now-browned tape; $3.00 price intact; gift note on free endsheet. Text clean; xiii, blank, 173 pages; elegant illustrations within the text by Charles W. Schwartz.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Charles W. Schwartz. 5¾" by 8½".

HOLLING, Holling Clancy. Minn of the Mississippi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. 4to, 86pp. Yellow cloth pictorially stamped in green. Pictorial endpapers; 20 full-page color illustrations and b&w illustrations on all other pages. Spine ends and corners rubbed, else an internally clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (spine ends a bit worn, slight creasing to top, general wear to folds and edges).
First edition. 1952 Newbery Honor Book! The captivating tale of a snapping turtle as it journeys from its birthplace near the headwaters of the Mississippi, down the rivers and out into the Gulf of Mexico. Lushly illustrated with stunning full-color illustrations, the text is also accompanied by many pen-and-ink drawings and explanatory captions that fully immerse the reader into this fascinating journey.