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Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa;  With Accounts of the  Manners and Customs of the People by Du Chaillu, Paul B - 1861

Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People

by Du Chaillu, Paul B

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London: John Murray. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards moderately worn, foxing to . preliminary leaves, map is toned and worn at edges and has several tears.. 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Subtitle continued: And of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals. Half black leather titled in gilt on spine with marbled sides and matching endpapers. Marbled edges. Folding frontispiece engraving of a gorilla. Folding map of West Equatorial Africa bound in at rear. xviii, 479pp. Many engraved plates and smaller illustrations. The American author relates his travels through the western part of Africa comprising parts of the modern countries of Mali, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Gabon, and Sierra Leone in 1856-59. He was involved in various commercial ventures involving the killing of 2000 birds and 1000 quadrupeds and stuffing and sending their skeletons back to the United States. Lots of descriptions of flora, fauna, and peoples he encountered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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  • Date Published 1861
  • Keywords Western Africa, GORILLAS, 19th Century Travels, African Exploration

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London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. Good with no dust jacket; Boards scuffed, hinges cracked, pages toned and foxed, shaken. 1912. First Edition. Blue cloth stamped in blind and with two color center cameo of man in loincloth looking at house on stilts stamped on front boards. Titles in gilt on spine. xvi, 334pp. Bibliography, index, glossary. Folding map of the British Somaliland protectorate and adjacent lands at rear. Many illustrations and photo reproductions. The author spent ten years in the Colonial Medical Service in British Somaliland and describes the people, geography, wildlife, livestock, and other topics. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Albany, NY: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked.. 1902. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1901 by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, including some color plates, by Oliver Kemp, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Hy S. Watson, and others. Green cloth boards with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front boards. Includes sections about the Adirondack Park, arboriculture, deer, wapiti, game fish, fish hatcheries, St. Lawrence Reservation, insect pests, moose, chestnut culture, and other topics. Eight color plates of fish species by Denton: Sea Bass, Red Snapper, Porgy, Hickory Shad, Tahoe Trout, Banded Pickerel, Mascalonge, and Long-Eared Sunfish. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 534 pages .
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Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, hinges cracked, corners . bumped.. 1898. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1897 by the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commissioners of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, maps, one color folding map of catchment basins of some New York State rivers (has hole in center). Green decorated cloth boards. Includes sections about maple sugaring, game fish, fish hatcheries, fishways, wood-ducks, snipe, forestry, forest reservoirs, and other topics. Some beautiful color plates of fish species. Nine color plates by Sherman F. Denton of Cisco, White Bass, Silver Chub, Female Common Whitefish, Rocky Mountain Trout, Steelhead, Golden Shiner, Alewife, and Male Common Whitefish. Five color plates by J. H. Ridgway of birds: Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, Male Woodduck, Female Woodduck, and Wilson's Snipe. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 455 pages .
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Albany, NY: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and lighlty soiled, pages toned and some light finger soiling.. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Annual reports by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and black and white illustrations by Hy S. Watson. Blue cloth boards with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front boards. 24 color plates of fish, possibly by Denton, of Sea Herring, Kingfish, Rock Bass, Cod, Flat Fish, Rose Fish, Burbot, Maskalonge, Channel Bass, Calico Bass, Crappie, Yellow Mackerel, Pollack, Spotted Catfish, Flounder, Pompano, Short Pompano, Haddock, Gold Fish, Fresh-Water Drum, Hake, Whiting, Halibut, Spade Fish. Color plate of Partridge by W. S. Gillette and color plate of Beaver by Ernest Thompson Seton. Two folding maps of Adirondack areas. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 419 pages .
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Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges and spine cracked, several pages loose, stamp on front pastedown endpaper and title page indicating . this volume was compliments of Assembly Member Edward W. Buckley. 1903. Hardcover. Annual reports covering the year 1902 and 1903by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, including some color bird plates, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Illustrated green cloth boards. Includes sections about reforestation, Adirondack summer business, fish hatcheries, game protection, shellfisheries, squirr3els, wild fowl of the St. Lawrence River, fishing in the Adirondacks, forestry in Europe, and more. Color fish plates by Denton include Albino Brook Trout, Channel Cat, Red Horse, Crappie, Goldfish, Carp, Blue-Gill, Moon-Eye, and Rock Bass. Includes large color folding map of Townships, 5, 6, 40 and 41 in Hamilton County. Map has seven inch closed tear. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12"… Read More
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British Somaliland

British Somaliland

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London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. Good with no dust jacket; Boards scuffed, hinges cracked, pages toned and foxed, shaken. 1912. First Edition. Blue cloth stamped in blind and with two color center cameo of man in loincloth looking at house on stilts stamped on front boards. Titles in gilt on spine. xvi, 334pp. Bibliography, index, glossary. Folding map of the British Somaliland protectorate and adjacent lands at rear. Many illustrations and photo reproductions. The author spent ten years in the Colonial Medical Service in British Somaliland and describes the people, geography, wildlife, livestock, and other topics. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Seventh Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New  York
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Albany, NY: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked.. 1902. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1901 by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, including some color plates, by Oliver Kemp, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Hy S. Watson, and others. Green cloth boards with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front boards. Includes sections about the Adirondack Park, arboriculture, deer, wapiti, game fish, fish hatcheries, St. Lawrence Reservation, insect pests, moose, chestnut culture, and other topics. Eight color plates of fish species by Denton: Sea Bass, Red Snapper, Porgy, Hickory Shad, Tahoe Trout, Banded Pickerel, Mascalonge, and Long-Eared Sunfish. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 534 pages .
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Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, hinges cracked, corners . bumped.. 1898. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1897 by the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commissioners of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, maps, one color folding map of catchment basins of some New York State rivers (has hole in center). Green decorated cloth boards. Includes sections about maple sugaring, game fish, fish hatcheries, fishways, wood-ducks, snipe, forestry, forest reservoirs, and other topics. Some beautiful color plates of fish species. Nine color plates by Sherman F. Denton of Cisco, White Bass, Silver Chub, Female Common Whitefish, Rocky Mountain Trout, Steelhead, Golden Shiner, Alewife, and Male Common Whitefish. Five color plates by J. H. Ridgway of birds: Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, Male Woodduck, Female Woodduck, and Wilson's Snipe. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 455 pages .
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Albany, NY: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and lighlty soiled, pages toned and some light finger soiling.. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Annual reports by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and black and white illustrations by Hy S. Watson. Blue cloth boards with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front boards. 24 color plates of fish, possibly by Denton, of Sea Herring, Kingfish, Rock Bass, Cod, Flat Fish, Rose Fish, Burbot, Maskalonge, Channel Bass, Calico Bass, Crappie, Yellow Mackerel, Pollack, Spotted Catfish, Flounder, Pompano, Short Pompano, Haddock, Gold Fish, Fresh-Water Drum, Hake, Whiting, Halibut, Spade Fish. Color plate of Partridge by W. S. Gillette and color plate of Beaver by Ernest Thompson Seton. Two folding maps of Adirondack areas. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 419 pages .
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Eighth and Ninth Reports of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the  State of New York
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Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges and spine cracked, several pages loose, stamp on front pastedown endpaper and title page indicating . this volume was compliments of Assembly Member Edward W. Buckley. 1903. Hardcover. Annual reports covering the year 1902 and 1903by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations, including some color bird plates, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Illustrated green cloth boards. Includes sections about reforestation, Adirondack summer business, fish hatcheries, game protection, shellfisheries, squirr3els, wild fowl of the St. Lawrence River, fishing in the Adirondacks, forestry in Europe, and more. Color fish plates by Denton include Albino Brook Trout, Channel Cat, Red Horse, Crappie, Goldfish, Carp, Blue-Gill, Moon-Eye, and Rock Bass. Includes large color folding map of Townships, 5, 6, 40 and 41 in Hamilton County. Map has seven inch closed tear. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12"… Read More
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Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa: With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephants, Hippopotamus and Othe Animals.

by Du Chaillu, Paul B

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Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; With Accounts of the Manners and Customs Od the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Peopard, Elephant, Hippopatmus, and Other Animals

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Great Britain: Time-Life Books. Near Fine/No Jacket. 1987. First Thus. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0705415074 Hardback Hardcover. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus and Other Animals. loose folding maps illustrations, maps. Brown leather red and gilt decorated Leather-bound, all edges gilt. Beautifully-produced complete facsimile of the 1861 first edition of one of the most influential books of African exploration. Illustrated. 479 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .
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New York: Harper & Bros., 1871. 535pp.Two-page frontispiece (Gorilla). Purple Cloth, gilt lettering, 88 illustrations, including a foldout map of Equatorial Africa. Wear and tear to the covers, hinges reinforced. fraying to the spine edges.Foldout map is present but has a large tear which has been tape reinforced. "Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa; with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, the crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals." The author claimed to be the first to bring back Gorillas to America. . Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Thick Octavo.
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EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA; With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals

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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey

Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River

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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe

Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe

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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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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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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar

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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.
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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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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale

by Peter Oikarinen

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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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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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Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
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Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica

by Cathy de Moll

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ISBN 13
9780873519885
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0873519884
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015. Single volume, hardcover with dust jacket, xv [1], 282pp [6], illustrated with maps and b&w photos. First Edition, First Printing. Author signature and inscription on Author page. Previous owner gift inscription on front free endpaper. Near fine unread book. Dust jacket showing light signs of shelf wear. Foreword, cover photo and all expedition photos by Will Steger. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Reprinted from the sixth London edition with all additions and corrections

by Charles Darwin

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Reprint Edition
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Hardcover
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Salida, Colorado, United States
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New York: A.L. Burt, n.d.. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The covers are quarter bound leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The covers show rubbing which enhances the period appearance. Endpapers are marbled, gilt top edge, clean contents and a tight binding. This edition was part of the "Burt's Library of the World's Best Books" series and, unlike the typical A.L. Burt reprint, is bound in a high quality binding.
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Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 916: Uvularia Chinensis, Brown-Flowered Uvularia

Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 916: Uvularia Chinensis, Brown-Flowered Uvularia

by Curtis, William

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London: T. Curtis, 1806. Very good +. This is a hand colored copper plate engraving. The print measures 5.5 x 9.25 inches, with a plate mark of 4.5 x 7.75. It is a beautiful decorative antique print expertly colored and beautifully composed. This particular plate has been trimmed at the rough edge. Curtis' work was the first study of British flora, and artists contributing to the opus included James Sowerby, Sydenham Teak Edwards, Francis Sansom and William Kilburn. "The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, is an illustrated publication which began in 1787. The longest running botanical magazine, it is widely referred to by the subsequent name Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Each of the issues contains a description, in formal yet accessible language, and is renowned for featuring the work of two centuries of botanical illustrators. Many plants received their first publication on the pages, and the description given was enhanced by the keenly detailed illustrations. The first issue, in… Read More
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