Kingdom of the Seashell
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
New York: Viking, 1985. Illustrations by John Lawrence. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. This charming diary will appeal to bird watchers, gardeners, walkers and anyone else who enjoys nature. Lawrence's drawings are exquisite.For a full year, Richard Adams (Watership Down) kept a......
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover Hardcover. The author captures not only Elsa's story, but the Adamson's love of Africa, the people, the animals, the land itself.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The moving and dramatic climax to the story of Elsa and her cubs.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961. First Edition with code b.10.61. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several.....
Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
New York: Atheneum, 1961. Illustrated by Berdine Ardrey. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. The first book in the author's Nature of Man series; the cause of considerable controversy in the social sciences in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It posited the hypothesis that man evolved on the.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A classic study on the science of bird songs. Armstrong studied every aspect of this fascinating phenomenon: structure, components, development, mimicry, territorial songs, song-flight, annual cycles, and the influence of the environment.
Little Brown & Co, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A tale of the intricacies of Biology. Based on the BBC Television program of the same name.
Honolulu: Worlds Wide Distributors, 1976. Very Good in Stapled Wraps. Rare photos from the uninhabited Islands of Hawaii.
New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1944. A Very Good Hardcover. Thomas Barbour was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1941. Soft cover.
Washington, DC: Washington Smithsonian Inst. 1946. A Very Good Soft cover.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Inst. 1938. Soft cover.
Yellowstone Park, Wyoming: The Yellowstone Library and Museum Association, 1956. Hardcover.
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing, 1906. A Very Good Hardcover. 52 essays arranged by month of the year and present familiar objects from unusual points of view. Bird's-eye glances and insect's-eye glances, at the nature of our woods and fields, reveal beauties which are wholly invisible from the.....
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons at the Knickerbocker Press, 1924. Photographs by John Tee-Van. First Edition - Third Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Naturalist and explorer William Beebe followed in Darwin's footsteps. Published after Beebe's 1923 expedition. Illustrated with 24 Colored Illustrations by Isabel Cooper and 83.....
USA: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. A comprehensive study, including the Leeward Islands the highly regarded reference encompasses all aspects of Hawaiian birdlife with an emphasis on habits, biological relationships with the environment, and the place of birds in.....
Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1988. A New Hardcover. Revised Edition. The standard work on the topic with the first edition issued in 1950. Maroon cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Issued without a dust jacket. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 415 pages with handsome pencil renderings of many of.....
New York: Hill and Wang, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
London / India: Staples and Staples Limited, / Bishen Singh Mehendra Pal Singh, 1994. Mrs. G. A. Wathen & Haldar Joo Walli. Hardcover.
New York: Villard / Random House, 1993. John James Audubon. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A companion volume to The New-York Historical Society's exhibition of the paintings of John James Audubon features full-color reproductions of all 470 original watercolors created for The Birds of America.
San Diego, CA: Laurel Glen Publishing, 1999. A New Unused Soft cover. The ultimate guide to trees and shrubs. This comprehensive A-Z listing identifies over 2,000 plants and includes a wealth of information on cultivation in all climate and soil conditions. Also includes a handy reference table and an index.....
London: W. Mears, 1718. Full leather in a slipcase. Full Title: New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-Trees, Flower-Gardens or Parterres; with a New Invention.....