Search Results: NATURAL HISTORY from Monroe Bridge Books

Grass Valley, California: Comstock Bonanza Press, 2009 xvi, 576pp, bound in stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight, PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT. Signed by the Author on the title page. A picture of the region once called "The Northern Mines", being Grass Valley in California, a boom town of one of the richest gold mine areas in California. Creases to the front cover, edge wear, Interior in Very Good Condition. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

Bruxelles: Hayez, Imprimeur Des Academies Royales, 1911 1911-1912. [8], 286pp, [2], with lay-over tissue identifying the personages inthe group photograph; [4], 515pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in sturdy green cloth [library binding, not buckram], with binding and hinges tight, plates throughout. Text is in English, French and German. Ex-library, with "withdrawn" stamp on label inside covers, no spine labels, perforation on title pages. ENTOMOLOGY.

Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1963 Text is in English. xx, 933pp, [1], printed on fine glossy paper, bound in black cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. The Dust Jacket is in a protective mylar cover, and has been previously reinforced with tape, previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. OVERSIZED.

London: Griffith and Farran, 1891 Fifth Edition, Circa 1891. Frontis-piece [lacks tissue guard], viii, 312pp, 30pp, with an additional 4 plates, bound in original green, illustrated cloth, with the gilt still bright. This book was stored with a brown paper cover over it, which allows the book covers to be in Very Good+ Condition, but the paper covers were pasted onto the inside portion of the book covers, leaving a residue and portions of the paper. Church library bookplate inside cover [only library marking], hinges cracked, lacks back free endpaper, interior foxing.

Concord, N.H.: Society For the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 1936 [14], 195pp, bound in tan paper, with binding tight, illustrations and folding maps throughout, with the tipped in map on the inside of the back cover present. No tears to any of the maps, all in Fine Condition. Covers show slight darkening, with edge wear/tear. Interior in Very Good Condition, with NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS NOR MARKINGS. HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE DUBLIN / JAFFREY AREA OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Pretoria, South Africa: Transvaal Museum, 1984 511-533pp, December 1984, staple bound, printed on fine glossy paper, showing a few bumps. From the personal collection of Lorna Marshall (1898-2002], a well known anthropologist that lived among the !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert, and author of several books based on her studies.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1909 INSCRIBED "Mr. Geo D. Howell / With regards of / the Author / Henry C. McCook / Nov. 21 / AD 1909 / Brookcamp, Devon" in bold ink on the front free endpaper. From the personal collection of Prof. A. M. Stuart, Dept. of Zoology, UMASS, Amherst, Mass. - with his signature "A.M. Stuart, Amherst 1973". xvii, [3], 321pp, bound in green cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1929 Signed A. M. Stuart, Glasgow, 1963, who went on to become Professor A. M. Stuart, Department of Zoology at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, MA. xix, [1], 377pp, with 6 plates, bound in green cloth, binding and hinges tight.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1878 251pp, bound in decorative gold cloth, gilt on spine still very bright, binding and hinges tight. Frontis-piece has the tissue guard intact, 3 interior plates, and text illustrations scattered throughout. New endpapers, occasional pencil marking.

Pitlochry, Scotland: L. MacKay, 1965 39pp, bound in green cloth, with 26 photographic plates, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Spine lightly sunned.

Esslingen J. F. Schreiber / Paris J. Bonhoure & Cie. IN FAIR CONDITION. COMPLETE with 53 chromolithographic plates, as called for. 53 planches coloriees en chromolithographie, contenant plus de 600 dessins, accompagnees d'un texte explicatif. [4], 74pp, 53 double page plates, bound in original illustrated paper over boards, with cloth backstrip. Covers show darkening, edge/corner wear, lacking most of backstrip, foxing (mostly on prelims), inner joint nearly split. COLORS STILL BRIGHT. FLOWER & PLANT ILLUSTRATIONS.

Lancaster, PA: The American Ornithologist's Union, 1940 467-616pp, [[9], bound in illustrated stiff paper covers, with the binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. With PLates 8, 9 & 10. Contents include **Mating Performance of the Sage Grouse **Social Nesting Habits of Guira Guira **Light and Molt in Weaver Finches **Factors Affecting Length of Incubation **Sarcocystis in Birds **Anting By the Song Sparrow **Wintering of the Greater Snow Geese **A Collection of Seventeenth-Century Drawings **Canadian Status of the Long-Tailed Chickadee **New Birds From Southern Mexico **Oriental Forms of Picus Canus, and more. Back cover shows a partial corner tear, front cover shows light staining.

Santa Barbara, Calif.: Capra Press, 1992 viii, 86pp, [2], bound in glossy stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. SIGNED by the Author on a mounted bookplate.. Includes directions in the back on how to build a bat house. ILLUSTRATED.

Edinburgh: Challenger Office, 1910 INSCRIBED "Prof R. A. Daly / From / Sir John Murray / 29th March 1911" on the half title page. Volume I only [of 6 volumes]. lviii, 785pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in original 3/4 leather and cloth, with binding and hinges tight. Includes 15 plates, 2 folding maps [in fine condition], and numerous other illustrations and maps. Four raised bands on spine, with small chip to upper spine edge, front gutter starting. Includes the signature of A. M. Stuart [Prof. Alastair M. Stuart, Dept. of Zoology, UMASS, Amherst, Massachusetts].

New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 2007 [8], 259pp, [1], hard cover, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped.

Boston: Ginn & Company Publishers / The Anthenaeum Press, 1901 xi, [1], 332pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in gilt illustrated cloth, with gilt still bright, top edges gilt, binding and hinges tight. Complete with 12 plates, as called. INSCRIBED "To W. D. Vincent / As you go afield on my / trail through these pages, take / with you the Indian greeting, / Tanamakoon ! / Wm J Long / Stamford, Conn. / 1925". Includes the bookplate of W. D. Vincent. William D. Vincent (1866-1935) was a collector of books and bookplates, an amateur historian, with focus on the Pacific NW. From Spokane, Washington, he was President of the Old National Bank of Spokane 1920-1933. ALSO INCLUDES TWO LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR, tipped-in. Letter 1: Is on the Author's letterhead and is handwritten, dated 11 November 1925, mentioning he would be glad to sign the book. Letter 2: Also on the Author's letterhead and handwritten, dated 24 November 1925, mentions the meaning of the Inscribed Indian… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Good Condition, protected in a mylar cover. A naturalists life on the island of Shona, a coastal island in the Scottish Highlands. 249pp, bound in half cloth and paper over boards, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, NOR INSCRIPTIONS. Dust jacket mis-folded, light foxing to outer page edges.

New York: Academic Press, 1969 1969, 1970. xiii, [1], 598pp; xiv, [2], 643pp, printed on fine glossy paper, uniformly bound in green cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. The dust jacket for volume 1 shows some taping, both dust jackets show edge wear/tear, both now housed in protective mylar covers. Previous ownership: Signature and stamp of A. M. Stuart of Glasgow, "Dr. A.M. Stuart, Division of Entomology, Canberra City, Australia" who went on to become Professor at the Department of Zoology at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, MA.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: D. Appleton & Company, 1920 x, 428pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in 3/4 red leather and cloth, with the binding and hinges tight. Previous owner, with his name in gilt on the lower spine area, was Edward Schroeder (1914-2010) Oregon's 8th State Forester, serving from 1965 to 1979, being responsible for the replanting of the Tillamook Burn, a 500 sq mile area in the Oregon Coast Range, that had been decimated by wildfires. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT.

Harrisburg, PA: D. Appleton & Company Printed on fine glossy paper, with a colour frontis-piece in each issue, with an additional colour plate in the 1918 edition. Covers show wear and soiling.