Search Results: Animals/Natural History from Gotcha By The Books

Adelaide, 1974. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in rubbed wraps. 8vo. b&w illustrations A record of the history and pedigrees of Australian Stock Horses, including a brief history of Australian horses, the Australian Stock Horse Society, The Cecil Bloodline, The Saladin Bloodline, followed by an A-Z of bloodlines; includes bibliography; mild label ghost to title page, mild foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps rubbed, original cloth-tape spine rubbed and with worn patches.

Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, 1930. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. sm 8vo. Series of essays by Irish writer and naturalist RL Praeger, subjects including speleology, gardening, travel, geology; heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, scattered foxing in text, o.w. Good; boards rubbed, titling dulled to spine.

London: The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1949. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. sm 4to. colour and b&w illustrations Volume 7 of Bannerman's Birds of Tropical West Africa, illustrated with 14 full-page colour plates (all with tissue-guards) and 40 b&w text figures; former owner's name to front endpaper, bookshop label front pastedown, Very Good throughout; boards rubbed and scuffed, knocked to corners.

Ohio, 1983. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Guide to training racehorses, with chapters on the physiological basis of performance, the fit thoroughbred, the fit standardbred, the quarterhorse, injuries, case histories, and more; includes a substantial reading list; heavy foxing (and some edgewear) to front endpaper, lighter foxing to prelims and text block, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards a little sprung.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1890. hardbound. G-VG in rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w plates 1890 edition of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, with full-page b&w plate illustrations and text engravings; frontispiece plate with tissue-guard; text block foxed and with some stains, occasional foxing in text, o.w. G-VG throughout; wear to underside of boards (worn through cloth), front and rear board with worn patches.

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1941. 1st Edition. full leather . Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. fold-out map Detailed list of New Guinea birds, including with major sections on Non-Passerines, and Passeres; details of family, genus, range, etc; this copy bound in full grey leather with maroon title labels and gilt titling to spine; Very Good and clean throughout; leather with some very minor spotting.

Melbourne: Australian Native Bee Research Centre, 2002-2017. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Collection of 10 booklets from the Australian Native Bee Research Centre, on a variety of subjects relating to keeping Native Australian Bees, by Dr Anne Dollin and others including Dr Tim Heard, Russell and Janine Zebel, etc; b&w illustrations throughout - A4 format bound in blue buckram with gilt titling to front; the booklets are: Introduction to Australian Native Bees Third Edition, Nests of Australian Stingless Bees Third Edition, Behaviour of Australian Stingless Bees Third Edition, How to Recognise the Different Types of Australian Stingless Bees Third Edition, Keeping Australian Stingless Bees in a Log or Box Third Edition, Crop Pollination with Australian Stingless Bees, Tips on Stingless Beekeeping by Australian Beekeepers Volume 1, Tips on Stingless Beekeeping by Australian Beekeepers Volume 2, Boxing and Splitting Hives Second Edition, Tips on Stingless Beekeeping… Read More

1926. hardbound. Good-Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. colour plate Neville Cayley's description of The Scaly-Chested Finch, a new species at the time, being reprinted from 'The Emu' January 1926; full-page colour frontispiece plate and one page of text - this copy bound in green buckram with printed title label to spine, marbled endpapers, and with multiple blank pages following text; heavy tanning to title page and last page, scattered foxing, o.w. G-VG.

Donald R. Hoflin, 1979. 1st Edition. hardbound. Fair/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Scottish Deerhound Club of America Pedigree Book Volume II for the year 1979, in A-Z format (by owner) from Adair to Zeitlin; b&w photo illustrations of champion Scottish Deerhounds, with details of name, owner, breeder, and lineage; includes index (of dog names); prominent dampstain top corners of all pages throughout (all pages legible and with none stuck together), medium foxing to prelims, former owner's name to title page.

Colorado: Hoflin Publishing, 1980-1982. Numbered Limited Edition. hardbound. All volumes Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Very Scarce 3 volume set being Volumes 1-3 of The Scottish Deerhound Annual, for the years 1980, 1981, and 1982, all numbered limited editions: No. 307 of 377 copies, No. 159 of 300, and No. 224 of 324 respectively; references conformation rankings, obedience rankings, coursing, top producers, people, great Deerhounds of the past, the hunter; dogs featured include Ch. Maenad of Moray, Ch. Ardkinglas New Dawn, Glencrag Margery o'Beaufort; Ch. Fern Hill's Kelpie, Ch. Tartan of Dalmahoy, and many more; b&w illustrations throughout, including photo illustrations and drawings (some reproduced from old etchings etc); also including ads for many Deerhound breeders; each volume bound in blue buckram with gilt titling to front, vols 2 and 3 with colour illustration laid in; a very scarce set of the first three volumes of The Scottish Deerhound Annual - we don't know… Read More

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. landscape 4to. profusely illustrated Explores the history and culture of Coyote coursing, or hunting with greyhounds (and other sight hounds) launched from specially made pickup rigs; chapters include Animal Folklore and Coyote Coursing, The Aesthetics of Survival, Loomis Trade-N-Days; colour photo illustrations throughout by Scott Squire, as well as b&w historical photos and drawings; foreword by Stephen Bodio; First Printing (stated)

Perth: Hesperian Press, 1984. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Collection of essays relating to Australian/Australasian vertebrate fauna, its origins and evolutionary history, distribution past and present, etc; copiously illustrated in b&w and with some colour plates; background chapters, followed by sections on Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals, New Zealand/New Guinea and Lord Howe Island; medium foxing to endpapers, prelims, and text block, scattered foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: VERY HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING IF DESTINATION IS OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA.

Delaware: Delaware Museum of Natural History, 1982. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good tight and clean in Very Good dustwrapper/no dustwrapper. 4to. 101 colour plates Illustrated guide to Woodpeckers of the world; Part I Biology of the Woodpeckers: Family Picidae; Part II Species Accounts; the text is followed by 101 full-page colour plates by George Sandstrom; Delaware Museum of Natural History Monograph Series Number 4; faux wooden boards (actually vinyl), with gilt titling; small bookshop label, minor fading to gilt on spine, o.w. Very Good bright clean copy; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING FOR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS