Recent Arrivals from Natural History Books

Blaine, WA: Handcock House Publishers, 1993. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. 184; 250+ color photos. Publisher’s original green cloth, color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers, 4to. A thorough review of the world’s pheasants with excellent color photographs. Inscribed on the half title page: “To ICF, compliments of… Read more about this item

St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xxvi, 211; 15 full page color plates, 15 black-and-white photo plates, 30 text-figures. Publisher’s original tan cloth, lettered in green on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket lettered in green, lg 8vo. The table of contents includes… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: The American Ornithologists' Union, 1985. First edition.. A bright copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 1,041; 8 color plates (including the frontis plate), numerous other text-figures. Publisher’s original light blue cloth, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. The volume contains 63 chapters by noted authorities in Neotropical ornithology. … Read more about this item

Boise, ID: The Peregrine Fund, 2003. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. (6), 394; 495 images in color or black-and-white, other text-figures. Publisher’s original dark blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 4to (12 x 9 ¾ inches). Documents the recovery of Peregrine Falcon populations… Read more about this item

London: Academic Press, 1992. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. (iv), 385; 50 full-page color plates by Alan Harris and David Quinn, 50 partly colored distribution maps, 34 color photographs in the introductory sections. Documents the 50 species of stocks, ibises and spoonbills of the world with a full-page color plate… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1984. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in fine condition in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. 288, 64 full page color plates from color paintings by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, 60 distribution maps. Color pictorial laminated boards (hardbound), color pictorial dust jacket, 8vo. This volume on herons and… Read more about this item

Lyon, France: Muséum D’Histoire Naturelle de Lyon, 1887. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 44; 8 full page lithographed plates (some tinted and some hand-colored). One-half black cloth over marbled boards, with original printed front wrapper attached to the front cover, folio (14.25 x 11 inches). Archives du Muséum D’Histoire… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. 144; 58 full page color plates from illustrations by Gould, Hart, Keulemans and Hayman, 2 black-and-white plates, 85 maps in two colors. Publisher’s original light brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. … Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. 504; 104 fine copy plates by numerous artists. Color pictorial laminated boards (hardbound), color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo (9.5 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches). Presents the first comprehensive guide to the avifauna of Southeast Asia documenting 1251 bird species. … Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First edition.. A bright copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 431, 32 color plates by Roger Tory Peterson, 40 text-figures. Publisher’s original beige pictorial cloth, lettered in green on the front cover and the spine, lg 8vo. Documents 153 species in full color; many of these are regular visitors to the… Read more about this item

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1978. Third printing.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. xviii, 220; 32 pages of color photographs by Eliot Porter, 12 color plates (field sketches) by George Miksch Sutton, 126 distribution maps. Publisher’s original dark blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 4to.… Read more about this item

Paris: Académie des Sciences, 1834. First edition.. Light edge wear to leather at the top and bottom of the spine and to the board edges; a very good copy.. Pp. 216, (1); 20 engraved plates. Contemporary one-quarter red calf over green cloth-covered boards, sm 4to (26 x 21 cm). Antoine Louis Dugès (1794-1838) was a French… Read more about this item

Lavenham, Suffolk, UK: The Wildlife Art Gallery, 1995. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. 192; numerous color photographs and fine color illustrations from paintings by 58 international artists. Publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered in gray on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust, oblong 4to (12 x 11 inches).… Read more about this item

Government Printing Office, Washington, 1972. First edition.. A fine copy.. Pp. xii, x, 750, 422 text-figures and photos (some partly colored). Publisher’s original gray cloth, lettered in black on the spines and front covers, sm folio. United States Department of Agriculture Handbook no. 362. This two-volume set presents a detailed reference to the anatomy of… Read more about this item

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1973. First edition.. A very good copy in a good dust jacket that has curls to the top and bottom jacket edge.. Pp. xv, 248, 30 color plates (25 by A.E. Gilbert, 4 by G.M. Sutton and 1 by D. Reid-Henry), 41 black-and-white line-drawings and photos, 15 distribution maps. … Read more about this item

Skibby, Denmark: Skibby-Books, 1973-1974. First edition.. Slight edge wear to wrappers; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 255; 18 color plates, 9 black-and-white plates, numerous maps + pp. 216; 36 full page color plates, numerous maps. Color pictorial stiff wrappers, 8vo. A complete set of this monographic study of the tanagers. … Read more about this item

Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Society of Natural History, 1965. First edition.. A tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. xix, 479, 38 text-photos and figures, one color folding map. Publisher’s original light brown pictorial cloth, lg 8vo. Inscribed by the author under his photo that is opposite the title page. Name stamp of the… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. xx, 281; color frontis plate from painting by G. M. Christman, 95 text-figures (black-and-white photos, line-drawings, graphs). Publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 8vo. A thorough review of California’s state… Read more about this item

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1969. First edition.. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.. Pp. xix, 303, 4 color plates by Sutton, 80+ black-and-white photos. Publisher’s original light tan cloth, lettered in green on the spine and with an illustration of Stoddard’s signature on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo.… Read more about this item

Ames: Iowa State University Press 1969. First edition.. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. xix, 306; numerous text-figures (line-drawings). Publisher’s original tan cloth with a drawing of a Coturnix Quail on the front cover, lettered in black on the spine, lg 8vo. Coturnix is a genus of five extant species and five to eight known extinct… Read more about this item