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LA FAUCONNERIE DE CHARLES D'ARCUSSIA DE CAPRE... seigneur d'Esparron, de Pallieres, et du Revest, en Prouence. Divisee en dix parties. Avec les portraicts au naturel de tous les oyseaux.
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THE MANNER OF RAISING, ORDERING AND IMPROVING FOREST AND FRUIT TREES. A LSO : A DISCOVERY OF SUBTERRANEAN TREASURE BY GABRIEL PLATTES.
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Oxford, printed by William Hall, for Amos Curteyne, 1665.. TITLE CONTINUED: Whereunto is annexed, observations upon SIR. FRANCIS BACONS NATURAL HISTORY as it concerns fruit-trees, fruits, and flowers. Also, directions for planting of wood for building, fuel, and other uses; whereby the value of lands may be much improved in a short time, with small cost and little labour. The third impression, revised, with additions, by Ra. Austen, practiser in the art of planting, 1665. 2 works bound together each with its own title page and pagination, as often found, dedicated to Robert Boyle. Small 8vo approximately 145 x 95 mm, 5¾ x 3¾ inches, a few woodcut headpieces and initials, pages: [48], 1-260, [10], 1-82, the vertically printed half title present, bound in full early calf, 2 gilt lettered labels and gilt decoration to spine, double gilt rules and blind decoration to edges of covers, marbled edges. Spine rubbed, hinges beginning to crack, covers still firmly attached, labels slighty…
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A DISCOVERY OF A NEW WORLD, OR A DISCOURSE Tending to prove, That 'tis Probable There may be another Habitable WORLD in the MOON.
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London, printed by John Dawson, and are to be sold by Lawrence Blaiklock at the signe of the sugar-loafe within Temple Barre, 1643.. TITLE CONTINUED: Containing most necessary and curious rules for the exact mustering both of horse-troopes, and foot-bands, with several formes of battailes described in figures. A work fit to be studied and meete for the knowledge of Captaines, Muster-Masters and all young souldiers and generous spirits that love Honourable Practise of Armes. Combines three books: The SOULDIERS ACCIDENCE and The SOULDIERS GRAMMAR Parts 1 & 2. A collected edition each having a separate title page but continuous pagination. THIRD EDITION, corrected and amended, 1643. INTERESTING PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SEE BELOW. LACKS 2 FOLDING PLATES. Small 4to, approximately 195 x 150 mm, 7¾ x 5¾ inches, general title page within woodcut border, folding leaf with woodcut illustrations, 2 full page woodcut illustrations, many troop formations in the text, some full page, some illustrated initials,…
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London, printed for Peter Parker at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1679.. TITLE CONTINUED: also, how to plant, make and keep vvoods, vvalks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. With several figures in copper-plates, proper for the same. Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, with rules how to divide woods or land, and how to measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry, shewing the use of that most excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; with many other rules, useful for most men. By Moses Cook, gardiner to that great encourager of planting, the Right Honourable, the Earl of Essex. Whereunto is now added, that ingenious treatise of Mr. Gabriel Plattes, viz. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure. SECOND EDITION IN TWO PARTS,1679. A reissue of the 1676 edition with a cancel title page and the addition of A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure: with its owne title page (viz). Of all…
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMMING-BIRDS.
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Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars, and Sterling and Kenney, 1833.. FIRST EDITION 1833, complete set, Naturalist's Library series. Small 8vo, approximately 180 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, portrait frontispiece to each volume of Linnaeus and Pennant, hand-coloured vignette on each engraved title page, and 64 hand-coloured plates with tissue guards engraved by W. H. Lizars, who was a painter and engraver as well as publisher, plus memoirs of Linnaeus and Welsh zoologist Thomas Pennant, original wrapper in front of first volume. Pages: Volume 1: [16], 147, plus 40 pages of adverts; Volume 2: [4], iv, [3], 1-166 including index, plus 46 pages of adverts, both title pages are duplicated in Volume 2, pagination of prelims in Volume I slightly erratic but collated and guaranteed complete, rebound in quarter green morocco over marbled sides, gilt title and decoratiolns to spines, new endpapers. Slight offsetting from portraits onto engraved titles, ink name (James Drummond) on both half-titles dated 1862, very occasional…
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Rouen, Francois Vaultier et Jacques Besongne, 1643.. Divided into 10 parts,1643. Text in French, small 4to, approximately 210 x 160 mm, 8½ x 6¼ inches, 12 full page engravings of hawks, and 2 woodcuts of L'Anatomie des oyseaux in the text, one folding plate of hawking implements, LACKING 4 PLATES OF IMPLEMENTS AT PAGE 296 as usual, which seem to be often missing, now supplied in facsimiles and tipped in at rear after final page (slightly smaller than the original pages), decorated intials and headpieces. Pages: LA FAUCONNERIE: [8], 1-334, pages 327-328 repeated, no duplication of text, [8]; LA FAUCONNERIE DU ROY: [12], 1- 51, [1]; DISCOURS DE CHASSE: [6], 55- 107, [1]; LETTRES DE PHILOIERAX: [10], 119-173, [1]. Bound in full 19th century panelled calf, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, gilt decoration and blind decoration to covers, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding lightly rubbed, upper hinge beginning to crack at head and tail, covers still firmly attached, top outer corner of…
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New York: Grove Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Helen Macdonald to special themed bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". ix, 261pp. A touch of shelfwear to bright dust jacket. Bound in full black paper over boards, with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in silver. A new, unread signed first edition of this collection of essays about the natural world by Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk. ABOUT VESPER FLIGHTS: From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. Helen Macdonald's bestselling debut H is for Hawk brought the astonishing story of…
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1968. First edition. ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF ADAPTATIONS OF BIRDS FOR BREEDING BY EXPERT ON DARWIN'S FINCHES. 10 inches tall mauve cloth binding, gilt title to spine, unmarked, very good in good price-clipped dust jacket with edge tears. From dust jacket: "The primary aim of this book is an interpretation of the main adaptations of birds for breeding-whether a species lests solitarily or in colonies, whether it is monogamous or has several mates, the lumber of eggs that it lays, the relative size of its eggs, the rate of development of its eggs and young, and the age at which it first breeds. This book is the first comprehensive survey of these points that has been made, so readers can see what is known, and what emains to be discovered, and hence may be stimulated to add to knowledge. However it is much more than a summary of the facts, for these various adaptations have been interpreted in terms of natural selection, and the author has suggested how each of…
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On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America
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Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million strong, flying in squadrons, these majestic creatures point northward to their Arctic and sub-Arctic breeding ranges. Theirs is an epic story of endurance through the ages. With 153 stunning color photographs, On Ancient Wings presents sandhill cranes in their wild but increasingly compromised habitats today. Over the course of five years, Michael Forsberg documented the tall gray birds in habitats ranging from the Alaskan tundra, to the arid High Plains, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards. With an eye for beauty and an uncommon persistence, the author documents the cranes' challenges to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world. Forsberg argues that humankind, for its own sake, should secure the cranes' place in the future.…
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Trade paperback with multiple illustrations, maps, photographs. 340 pages with indexOrnithology and how the banding yields info about birds as carriers of disease.
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£36.42