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![Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76...Zoology, Vol. XXV [Sponges]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/210/675/1591675210.0.m.jpg)
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Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76...Zoology, Vol. XXV [Sponges]
by Thomson, Sir C. Wyville; Murray, John (editors); Sollas, W.J.
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- 1888
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London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Volume XXV only. 12.75" x 10.5" x 2.75", pp clxvi, 458 pp, with folding map and 44 colored plates of sea sponges. Original green cloth, gilt spine titles. Hinges cracked but holding, some pages unopened, otherwise a very nice copy. Oversized; shipping cost will be… Read more about this item Item Price
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![The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects [First Series, Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/901/929/1574929901.0.m.jpg)
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The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects [First Series, Two Volumes]
by Meehan, Thomas
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- 1878
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Boston: L. Prang & Company, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes, comprising the complete first series Volume I: ix, 192; Volume II: v, 200, with at total of 96 chromolithograph plates (48 in each volume). 10.5" x 7", bound in full leather with decoration stamped in blind and gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, all edges… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Natural History of Baja California
by Barco, Miguel del; Tiscareño, Froylan; Leon-Portilla, Miguel (Introduction)
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- 1980
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£52.43
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. 298 pp, with illustrations, map endpapers. Tiny bit of rubbing to corners, else as new. Baja California Travel Series #43. Jesuit Miguel del Barco spent more than 30 years living in Baja California. In addition to its natural history content, this work also provides considerable ethnographic and linguistic information. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
by Roget, Peter Mark
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- 1834
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£161.32
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London: William Pickering, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in contemporary full leather, with matching gift inscriptions dated 1836 on the front free endpaper of each volume. A very good, clean set with some scuffing and bumping to the boards. " Roget (of thesaurus fame), describes "in a manner designed to appeal to a wide audience… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface
by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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- First American Edition
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- 1876
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£403.30
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes in original brown cloth decorated in gilt, pp xxi, 503; viii, 607, with 2 pp. ads at rear of the second volume; 7 color lithographs maps (1 folding, 2 double-page) and 20 plates. Ex-library, with no external markings beyond slight evidence of labels removed from… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, During the Year 1819. With Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines
by Nuttall, Thomas
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- 1821
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Philadelphia: Thos. H. Palmer, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 296 pp, with facsimile folding map (retaining a small section of the original) and five original acquatint plates, bound in modern green cloth with red leather spine label. Title page has a repaired tear, plates are trimmed close at the outer margin, with a small loss to the sky… Read more about this item Item Price
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Erasmus Darwin
by Krause, Ernst; Darwin, Charles (Preliminary Notice)
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- 1880
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£120.99
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title on spine: The Life of Erasmus Darwin. 8vo, pp. iv, 216 + publisher's ads, bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt and black. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf; paper over front hinge is cracked and hinge is slightly wobbly, otherwise clean and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Birds of the Islands off the Coast of Southern California (Pacific Coast Avifauna Number 12)
by Howell, Alfred Brazier
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- 1917
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£40.33
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Hollywood, CA: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 127 pp, with one map, index. Text and original wrappers bound into an attractive later binding of three-quarter red leather and red cloth, with blue marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Henry E. Childs, Jr. on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked, clean and sound, with some scuffing to the leather.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States
by M'Mahon, Bernard
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- 1806
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£766.27
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Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp v, [1],648 + index, with one folding table, in original full calf with red spine label. Leather scuffed, corner torn from table, with small loss of text, otherwise sound and clean. Bookplate of Benjamin Lincoln Lear (1792-1832, attorney and godson of George Washington) on front pastedown, three… Read more about this item Item Price
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Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava
by Hornaday, William T.
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- 1908
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£88.73
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New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp xix, 366, + 4 (ads). Extensively illustrated with photographs (some colored), 2 maps. Red cloth w/gilt lettering, top edge gilt, mounted illustration of bighorn sheep. Most of rear free endpaper lacking, lower corners bumped, otherwise sound and clean. Account of a botanical/zoological expedition and hunting trip… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ravens in Winter
by Heinrich, Bernd
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- First Edition
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- 1989
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£24.20
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New York: Summit Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. 379 pp, indexed and illustrated. Fine copy in fine dust jacket protected by a new mylar cover. A well written and engaging study of raven behavior in the woods of Maine. Publisher's description: "Why do ravens, generally understood to be solitary creatures, share food between each other… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Bird in the Bush
by Young, E. Hilton; Scott, Peter (Illustrator)
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- 1936
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London: Country Life Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 146 pp. Moderate general wear to boards (scuffing, minor stains), internally clean and sound. No dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated, with color frontispiece and line drawings in the text. Item Price
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Cooper Ornithological Club, Pacific Coast Avifauna Number 7, Birds of the Pacific Slope of Southern California
by Willett, George
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- 1912
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Hollywood, CA: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1912. Softcover. Very Good. 122 pp, with index, in original wrappers. Handling wear, some chipping to wrappers; text clean. A meticulously researched list of known and hypothetical list of birds of the Pacific Slope of Southern California. Item Price
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Harriman Alaska Series Volume XIV, Part 1 (text) and Part 2 (plates). Monograph of the Shallow-water Starfishes of the North Pacific Coast from the Arctic Ocean to California
by Verrill, Addison Emery
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- 1914
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£100.82
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Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1914. Hardcover. Very good. Part 1: 408 pp, indexed; Part 2: 110 plates, each with brief explanatory text. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Both volumes have some faint evidence of liquid splash on boards, but still present well and are in excellent condition internally. Some pages unopened in text volume. During the summer of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Harriman Alaska Series Volumes VIII and IX: Insects
by Ashmead, William H.; Banks, Nathan, Caudell, A.N., et al.
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- 1910
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Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910. Hardcover. Very good. Volume VIII: pp ix, 238, indexed, with color frontispiece and 16 other plates, as well as figures and line drawings in the text; Volume IX: pp ix, 284, indexed, with photogravure frontispiece and three plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Volume XIII has a small area of dampstaining on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Popular California Flora, or a Manual of Botany for Beginners, Containing Descriptions of Exogenous Plants Growing in Central California, and Westward to the Ocean
by Rattan, Volney
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- 1879
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£60.50
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San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 106 pp, in publisher's dark red pebbled cloth. Corners bumped and rubbed, otherwise a very nice copy, unmarked and sound. Contains "brief descriptions of over five hundred species of plants known to grow in the region bounded on the west by the coast line from Monterey Bay to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Celebrated American Caverns, Especially Mammoth, Wyandot, and Luray Together with Historical, Scientific, and Descriptive Notices of Caves and Grottoes in Other Lands
by Hovey, Horace C.
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- 1882
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£161.32
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Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp xii, 228 + ads, with illustrations, folding maps of Mammoth and Wyandot. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped, minor soiling on back cover, original owner's inscription ("D.W. Garrigues, Bot. 12/4/85 at Luray Caverns, Luray VA") on front pastedown, map of Mammoth Cave… Read more about this item Item Price
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Congaree Swamp: Greatest Unprotected Forest on the Continent
by Dennis, John; Campbell, Bob; Culler, John; Soucie, Gary; Janiskee, Robert; Cely, John; Pough, Richard, et al.
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- 1975
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[Columbia, South Carolina]: Southern Carolina Environmental Coalition, 1975. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 11 inches, 144 pp, in original wrappers. Ownership signature on first page, "Congaree Swamp" handwritten on the spine, else fine. A collection of articles compiled to explain the importance of South Carolina's old-growth, bottomland forest and to advocate for its protection. The first section of… Read more about this item Item Price
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First and Second Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of the State of New-York
by Fitch, Asa
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- 1856
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£32.26
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Albany, NY: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1856. Hardcover. Very good. 336 pp, with 4 plates, index. Original cloth boards show moderate general wear; endpapers foxed, ownership markings on flyleaf, text clean and binding sound. Fitch was a natural historian and entomologist whose extensive studies helped scientists to solve some of the problems of crop damage… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Catalog of Recent Mollusca from All Parts of the World
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St. Petersburg, FL: Walter F. Webb. Softcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. 157 pp, with illustrations, indices, in original wrappers. Handling wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound, but for a few penciled annotations. A nicely illustrated sales catalog of sea shells, divided into three sections: East Coast Marine Shells, West Coast Marine Shells, and Foreign Marine Shells. Undated,… Read more about this item Item Price
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