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Wellington, NZ: NZ Dept of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1965. Cream heavy card wraps with Red cloth spine (initials to front) pp 283 with 21 tables and 43 figural illus including many maps. Very tight and clean with presentation slip tipped in to ffep. Overweight #New Zealand History#. First Edition. Quarto Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
British Dragonflies (Odonata) by Lucas, W.J - 1900
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by Lucas, W.J
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London: L. Upcott Gill, 1900. Illustrated, (including 27 coloured plates), octavo, pp xiv, 356, (+ 16 page publisher's catalogue), a signature on the half-title, lacking the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, brown buckram with a fine art nouveau decoration in black and gilt, slightly rubbed, lower cover very slightly marked, one upper corner slightly bumped, a much better than average copy.. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good.
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Frederick A. Stokes. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers have some rubbing to edges w/tiny bit of fraying, top edge of rear cover has small bump, owner's name erased on FFEP, little bit of light soiling, page ends lightly toning, front interior hinge just starting to crack; 1 fold-out map in rear has small taped tear; green decorative cloth covers; The Story of Exploration; 341 pages .
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Boston: Hillard, Gray,little & Wilkins. Very Good. 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Tan paper covered boards, green cloth spine decorated with gilt. Text tight & intact. Illustrated with five fold out plates at rear of text. Translated from the French into English for the use of colleges & schools in the United States. Edited by John Farrar. Lightly soiled covers with minor corner wear. Light foxing. Prior owners signature. General Science, Philosophy; B&W Drawing Ills.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 346 pages .
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Aquatic Insects of California: With Keys to North American Genera and and California Species
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VERY NICE Oversize Hardback with DJ, 4th Printing, U of California Press, 1971. NOT Ex-Library. Dust Jacket Clean, very light edge wear, 2 very small tears, not price-clipped, now protected in clear Brodart cover. See photo of this copy above. Text Clean, no owner's marks, no underlining, no highlighting. No remainder mark. Binding Tight and Square. Blue Cloth Boards with Silver Gilt Lettering in Near Fine condition. Fast shipping from Smoke-Free home. Email Confirmation with Tracking Number.
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1702 Hand-colored single leaf, reverse blank. Sheet measures 13 by 10 inches (33 by 25 cm). From "Naauwkeurige Beschrijvinghe der Aardgewassen." Some minor age toning. Good.
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Smith, Elder and Co, 1892. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Natural History & Resources; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 1636. .
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by Thomas, J.J
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Albany NY: Luther Tucker & Son, 1872. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Cover with some dampstaining and edgewear, notably to spine ends. Spine cloth faded. Binding sound. Front cover with bright gold design of fruit filled basket. Interior clean and intact with some light dampstainig to top gutter area of some front pages. Otherwise a very nice copy. 326 pages.
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by Sherwood, Andrew & Platt, Franklin
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Harrisburg: Board of Commissioners. Very Good+. 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Report of Progress. GG. Clean black cloth has gilt title on spine. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Front and rear Pockets contain a color map each: Little Pine Creek Coal Basin Sheet 2, GG; Lycoming County , GG. Map illustrated frontispiece. Section diagrams. Geology ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages .
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The Amateur Poacher
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Boston: Roberts Brothers. Good; Boards worn at outer joints with some evidence of retouching, top . corner removed from front flyleaf, rear signature coming loose.. 1879. Hardcover. Three-quarter dark brown pebbled leather with marbled sides. Six spine compartments stamped in gilt and in blind, with raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. A collection of essays about natural history, hunting, Roma, ferreting, and other topics by the British Victorian author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages .
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1933 Whittlesey House first edition. Henry Rusby was a well know botanist and participant in numerous expeditions to the Amazon and other tropical climes.Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issue is light soil to the exterior edges of the text block. Overall, a clean and sold copy of a somewhat uncommon classic in the field.Please message me with any questions.
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London: L. Upcott Gill, 1900. xiv, 356, [4], 27 colour plates, 57 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. dec. cloth, orig. patterned end-papers; inner hinges neatly repaired. Minor rubbing/staining to rear board.. 1st edition. Imprint to spine 'Upcott-Gill'. This version has patterned end-papers incorporating the publisher's intials 'LUG' and 4-page publisher's catalogue to rear. Freeman 2352; Nissen ZBI 2583.
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London: L. Upcott Gill, 1900. xiv, 356 + 16 (Publisher's ads), 27 colour plates, 57 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. dec. cloth; patterned end-papers. A very good copy.. First edition. Imprint to spine 'Upcott-Gill'. This version has patterned end-papers incorporating the publisher's intials 'LUG'. There is also a 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear. There is a variant version with 'Bazaar Exchange & Mart' as the imprint on the spine, which has plain end-papers, and lacks the publisher's catalogue to rear. Both editions are otherwise identical.Freeman 2352; Nissen ZBI 2583.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Silence Of The North
by Olive A. Fredrickson with Ben East
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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by Bass, Rick
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Moab, Utah, United States
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
by Christie, Agatha
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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
by Peter Oikarinen
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Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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