Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard, Annie - 1974

London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and have silverfish damage, one inch . split to head of spine, front hinge cracked, penciled prices on verso of . front free endpaper, pages toned and a few pages soiled and foxed.. 1888. Second Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Later printing (eighteenth thousand). Dark green blindstamped cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Brown coated endpapers. X, 519pp, + 32pp list of publisher’s titles dated February, 1888 plus [1]pp pink leaf printed on recto only with list of additional Darwin titles inserted between pp.6-7 of publisher’s ads. Engraved vignettes throughout text. Includes Darwin’s two-page preface dated June, 1845 and his one-page post-script dated Feb. 1st, 1860. Handsome photogravure and engraved owner bookplate on front pastedown of F. E. Dinshaw featuring portrait of woman in sari surrounded by acanthus leaf roundel. Dinshaw was a prominent Mumbai businessman in pre-partition India. Separate printed… Read More

Albany, NY: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked.. 1902. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1901 by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, including some color plates, by Oliver Kemp, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Hy S. Watson, and others. Green cloth boards with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front boards. Includes sections about the Adirondack Park, arboriculture, deer, wapiti, game fish, fish hatcheries, St. Lawrence Reservation, insect pests, moose, chestnut culture, and other topics. Eight color plates of fish species by Denton: Sea Bass, Red Snapper, Porgy, Hickory Shad, Tahoe Trout, Banded Pickerel, Mascalonge, and Long-Eared Sunfish. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 534 pages .

Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, hinges cracked, corners . bumped.. 1898. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1897 by the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commissioners of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, maps, one color folding map of catchment basins of some New York State rivers (has hole in center). Green decorated cloth boards. Includes sections about maple sugaring, game fish, fish hatcheries, fishways, wood-ducks, snipe, forestry, forest reservoirs, and other topics. Some beautiful color plates of fish species. Nine color plates by Sherman F. Denton of Cisco, White Bass, Silver Chub, Female Common Whitefish, Rocky Mountain Trout, Steelhead, Golden Shiner, Alewife, and Male Common Whitefish. Five color plates by J. H. Ridgway of birds: Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, Male Woodduck, Female Woodduck, and Wilson's Snipe. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 455 pages .

Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges and spine cracked, several pages loose, stamp on front pastedown endpaper and title page indicating . this volume was compliments of Assembly Member Edward W. Buckley. 1903. Hardcover. Annual reports covering the year 1902 and 1903by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, including some color bird plates, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Illustrated green cloth boards. Includes sections about reforestation, Adirondack summer business, fish hatcheries, game protection, shellfisheries, squirr3els, wild fowl of the St. Lawrence River, fishing in the Adirondacks, forestry in Europe, and more. Color fish plates by Denton include Albino Brook Trout, Channel Cat, Red Horse, Crappie, Goldfish, Carp, Blue-Gill, Moon-Eye, and Rock Bass. Includes large color folding map of Townships, 5, 6, 40 and 41 in Hamilton County. Map has seven inch closed tear. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12"… Read More

London: Rowland Ward. Very Good with no dust jacket; Covers rubbed and soiled, small owner name . stamp and bookseller label on front endpapers.. 1913. First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with beveled edges. xii, 105pp + 4pp publisher ad. Black and white frontispiece photo, black and white photos. A beautiful copy of this antiquarian natural history title. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

London: Macmillan and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Heel bumped, boards rubbed, newspaper . clipping about bacterial resistance to antibiotics laid in.. 1914. 1st English Language Edition. Hardcover. Translated and with an introduction by Hugh Elliot. Green ruled cloth. Titles stamped in gilt on spine. xci, 410 pp. + [2] pp. publisher’s ads. “Presentation copy” embossed on title page. “Sir F. Keeble, Hammels, Boars Hill, Oxford”, which indicates previous owner was Sir Frederick Keeble, the noted British botanist and professor. One of the most influential books in the history of evolutionary theory, this book was first published by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in Paris in 1809. It contravened Christian dogma about how plants and animals were divinely created in final fixed states and not transformed over time according to environmental factors. Lamarck also theorized that more complex forms of life derived from simpler ones. The 1809 first edition of this work is… Read More

London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and have silverfish damage, one inch . split to head of spine, front hinge cracked, penciled prices on verso of . front free endpaper, pages toned and a few pages soiled and foxed.. 1888. Second Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Later printing (eighteenth thousand). Dark green blindstamped cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Brown coated endpapers. X, 519pp, + 32pp list of publisher’s titles dated February, 1888 plus [1]pp pink leaf printed on recto only with list of additional Darwin titles inserted between pp.6-7 of publisher’s ads. Engraved vignettes throughout text. Includes Darwin’s two-page preface dated June, 1845 and his one-page post-script dated Feb. 1st, 1860. Handsome photogravure and engraved owner bookplate on front pastedown of F. E. Dinshaw featuring portrait of woman in sari surrounded by acanthus leaf roundel. Dinshaw was a prominent Mumbai businessman in pre-partition India. Separate printed… Read More

Albany, NY: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked.. 1902. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1901 by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, including some color plates, by Oliver Kemp, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Hy S. Watson, and others. Green cloth boards with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front boards. Includes sections about the Adirondack Park, arboriculture, deer, wapiti, game fish, fish hatcheries, St. Lawrence Reservation, insect pests, moose, chestnut culture, and other topics. Eight color plates of fish species by Denton: Sea Bass, Red Snapper, Porgy, Hickory Shad, Tahoe Trout, Banded Pickerel, Mascalonge, and Long-Eared Sunfish. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 534 pages .

Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, hinges cracked, corners . bumped.. 1898. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1897 by the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commissioners of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, maps, one color folding map of catchment basins of some New York State rivers (has hole in center). Green decorated cloth boards. Includes sections about maple sugaring, game fish, fish hatcheries, fishways, wood-ducks, snipe, forestry, forest reservoirs, and other topics. Some beautiful color plates of fish species. Nine color plates by Sherman F. Denton of Cisco, White Bass, Silver Chub, Female Common Whitefish, Rocky Mountain Trout, Steelhead, Golden Shiner, Alewife, and Male Common Whitefish. Five color plates by J. H. Ridgway of birds: Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, Male Woodduck, Female Woodduck, and Wilson's Snipe. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 455 pages .

Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges and spine cracked, several pages loose, stamp on front pastedown endpaper and title page indicating . this volume was compliments of Assembly Member Edward W. Buckley. 1903. Hardcover. Annual reports covering the year 1902 and 1903by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, including some color bird plates, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Illustrated green cloth boards. Includes sections about reforestation, Adirondack summer business, fish hatcheries, game protection, shellfisheries, squirr3els, wild fowl of the St. Lawrence River, fishing in the Adirondacks, forestry in Europe, and more. Color fish plates by Denton include Albino Brook Trout, Channel Cat, Red Horse, Crappie, Goldfish, Carp, Blue-Gill, Moon-Eye, and Rock Bass. Includes large color folding map of Townships, 5, 6, 40 and 41 in Hamilton County. Map has seven inch closed tear. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12"… Read More