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London: Oxford University Press, 1951. 1st edition. Signed by both the author and illustrator. A useful guide in non-technical language for everyone from beginning birdwatchers to experienced birders and ornithologists. With 16 plates in color and b&w, a map, and 54 figures in the text. Green clothbound hardcover in dustwrapper with clear archival cover. xiv, 282 pp., appendices, glossary of bird names, index and notes. VG/VG with browning of the unclipped wrapper, bumping to lower page corners. Sound binding. Clean internally. Uncommon signed.
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The Birds of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore and Penang. An account of all the Malayan species, with a note of their occurrence in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java and a list of the birds of those islands
by Glenister, A.G.
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Birds of Clinton County
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Elizabethtown, NY: High Peaks Audubon Society, 1997. 2nd edition. A guide to the birds of Clinton County in northeastern New York state. A rich birding area that includes a portion of the vast Adirondack Park and is bounded by Lake Champlain and Vermont to the east and the Canadian border and Quebec to the north. With birding routes, maps, photos, and descriptions of all 284 species recorded in the county, from its beaches to the summit of Lyon Mountain at 3,836 feet. 139 pp., with taxonomic index, breeding status and dates, general index. Paperbound 8vo. Fine, unread condition.
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Flowers in Britain
by Brimble, L.S.F.
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London: Macmillan, 1944. 1st edition. A guide to the wild, ornamental, and economic flora of Britain. Written to accommodate everyone from the amateur gardener to the professional botanist. Numerous b&w photos and 18 color plates. x, 393 pp., with general index and index of botanical names. 8vo clothbound hardcover in color dust jacket. VG/VG with modest wear and tear to the jacket. Now protected by a clear archival cover. Sound, tight binding. A well-preserved gardening / horticulture book from wartime England. Laid-in 1977 postcard from Scotland (with the stamp cut off) addressed to Jean [Robertson] Elliot, a former poet laureate of Virginia.
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The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America (Signed)
by Franklin, H, Bruce
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Washington DC: Island Press/ Shearwater Books, (2007) 1st edition. Signed/inscribed by the author to a colleague at Rutgers University, where both were on the faculty. A non-fiction book about the menhaden, a fish crucial to the food chain of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and integral with American history from the time of the Pilgrims to the present day. An important work that helped spur federal action to stop overfishing of the menhaden to produce oil for products ranging from lipstick to fertilizer. (By the 1870s, menhaden replaced whales as a principal source of fish oil for commercial use.) 8vo clothbound hardcover in dust jacket. 265 pp., with notes and index. B&W photographs and illustrations. Fine/Fine. Appears to be unread. Jacket is protected by a clear archival cover.
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Natural Lives, Modern Times: People and Places of the Delaware River (SIGNED)
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NY: Crown Publishers, (1992). 1st edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Natural history and cultural study of the Delaware River (New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.) Told through observations, folklore, and portraits of people, past and present. Near Fine 8vo hardcover in dust jacket. vii, 390 pages. Illustrations, map, notes, index. Signed by Bruce Stutz on the colored front endpaper.
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Siberian Irises [Signed]
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Society of Siberian Irises, (1981.) Place of publication not stated. Signed and inscribed by the author on the brown front endpaper. Paperbound, 10 x 6.5 inches. 74 pp., index. Color plates and b&w drawings. VG with minor wear and marks to the cover. Text clean and unmarked. Uncommon signed. Dr. O. Currier McEwen was an internationally recognized authority on the hybridization irises. He was dean of New York University of Medicine and was instrumental in founding the NYU Medical Center. He died in 2003 at age 101.
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Split Rock Wildway: Scouting the Adirondack Park's Most Diverse Wildlife Corridor (SIGNED)
by Daviis, John
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[Essex, NY]: Essex Editions, (2017.) 1st edition. Signed by the author in black marker. A guide to the diverse wildlife of the hills and waterways that link Lake Champlain with the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. Illustrated by drawings, photos, and a double-page map. Like new with only slight edge wear. (Adirondack Park – Essex County – Ecology and Conservation.)
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Whale Song: The Story of Hawaii and the Whales (SIGNED)
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Honolulu: Beyond Words Publishing, (1989.) 2nd edition. Signed by co-author MacKinnon Simpson with a brief greeting: "With Warmest Aloha." VG in VG dust jacket with a clear archival cover. A well-illustrated book about whales and whaling. This edition contains four new chapters not in the 1986 1st edition. 148 pp. A large volume. 11.25 by 9 inches. ***This title had the distinction of being the first coffee-table book created with desktop publishing using Apple Macintosh computers. Book is accompanied by a 32-page booklet detailing the use of new technology of the 1980s. Booklet is VG with a small paperclip mark and a name written at the top of the front cover.
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