Wild Animals

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2003.. Edition of 10. 19 x 12", two section french fold cloth bound book with hand colored silkscreen prints. To capture this animal listed on Maine's Threatened and Endangered Species list, Goodale visited the zoo where there were three little Lynx kittens. To be sure she captured their actual size on the pages she made puppets. From these she created "stencils" of the kittens in different playful positions.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2007.. Edition of 8. 9" diameter paper discs printed on both sides; 12 leaves connected with black and white ribbon. Housed in 10 x 10 x 2.5" black cloth-covered box. The latest in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species series concerns the New England Cottontail. In 2007, the state of Maine added the New England Cottontail to its Endangered Species List. Goodale lists loss of contiguous habitat, highway deaths, and pollution as three major reasons for their decline. Rebecca Goodale: "It is a circle book, a little like an Alexander Calder mobile, discs that are printed 2 sided with imagery about a rare rabbit and all of its struggles with the human altered environment. This piece will be in an exhibit at the Portland (ME) Museum of Art this spring [of 2008].

Cedar Falls, Iowa:: Islam Aly,, 2017.. Edition of 40. One book, 5 x 8 x 1.75", with ten sections of four folios, plus 5 miniature books attached by leather wrappings, each 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.75", with five sections of three folios. Materials: laser-cut mold-made Johannot paper; laser-engraved wooden boards. Coptic binding with leather wrappings connected to five small books. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Islam Aly: "Fantastic Fauna is a bilingual book in English and Arabic, based on the tradition of having animal characteristics as caricatures of humans. The book was inspired from Ibn Al Mqufas's Kalila and Dimna, a ninth-century collection of animal fables, which came to Persia from India. Similar to George Orwell's political allegory Animal Farm, the stories are about people and politics. The animal characters were used to represent social inequality and oppression. "Fantastic Fauna shows animal images from medieval Islamic artwork that depict imaginary… Read More

1829 RARE 1ed Huish Animal Kingdom Illustrated Plates Lion Bears Tigers MonkeysRobert Huish's 'The Wonders of the Animal Kingdom' is a 19th-century illustrated work on rare and exotic animals. While the contents of the text are desirable, the real draw of this work is the exquisite illustrations. It is quite rare to find this work with all of the illustrations intact, as the plates are often extracted from the binding and sold individually. Note the attention to detail from H. Smith's illustrations. Published in 1829 London, this first edition work features 63 full-page engravings. An extremely rare and valuable work!Item number: #5225Price: $1500HUISH, RobertThe wonders of the animal kingdom. Exhibiting delineations of the most distinguished wild animals in the various menageries of this country.London, T. Kelly, 1829. First edition.Details: Collation: Complete with all pages[ii], 122, [2]Illustrated throughout – 63 EXQUISITE full-page platesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Leather; tight and secureSize:… Read More

Munich: J. F. Schreiber & Deutsche Hochbild-Gesellschaft, c. 1920s. Painted plaster anatomical relief display in wooden frame (240 x 302 mm). Printed paper label to the rear. Housed in the original box with the stamp of the publisher's archive and two handwritten labels - one giving the name of the display and the other reading "F21". Also with the original tissue-covered cotton insert to protect the relief. A few very minor scratches and spots to the frame. There is some wear to the box and the tissue covering for the cotton padding is torn. Excellent condition. Uncommon, early-20th century anatomical relief of the European frog species Rana esculenta (the common European water frog, or green frog). The publisher's archive copy, in excellent condition in the original box. This relief was one of a series produced for schools, Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere (Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates), designed by the German behavioural scientist and educational writer Bastian Schmid (1870-1944)… Read More

Munich: J. F. Schreiber & Deutsche Hochbild-Gesellschaft, c. 1920s. Painted plaster anatomical relief display in wooden frame (240 x 302 mm). Printed paper label to the rear. Housed in the original box with the stamp of the publisher's archive and two handwritten labels - one giving the name of the display and the other reading "F22". Also with the original tissue-covered cotton insert to protect the relief. Some minor spots and scuffs to the frame. Slight damage to the paper backing of the frame not affecting the its integrity. Some wear to the box. Excellent condition. Uncommon, early-20th century anatomical relief of the European lizard species Lacerta agilis (the sand lizard, here called the fence lizard). The publisher's archive copy, in excellent condition in the original box. This relief was one of a series produced for schools, Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere (Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates), designed by the German behavioural scientist and educational writer Bastian Schmid… Read More

Chicago: R.C. Herzog & H.B. Riemer, 1920. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. [1], 5 pp. Multigraphed tri fold sheets, with original staple removed and bound in contemporary half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to boards, bookplate on paste down, bookseller notation in pencil on title page, creasing to sheets, slightly rusted staple holes, a little wrinkling to terminals. A very scarce work on designing and treating duck decoys, published by the authors. Subtitled An Exposition of Important Discoveries in the Treatment of Decoys With Specifications of a Process, Which Prevents Excessive Reflection of Light By the Decoys in Clear Weather. No copies in OCLC Worldcat. [Phillips, p. 177.].

Etched playing board with rules of the game in lower margin of the sheet and publisher's number 221. Sheet-size 407 x 335 mm. Very rare and beautifully illustrated etched sheet for dice game; the centre field of the playing board depicts an outdoor scene with a dressage show of monkeys in various costumes with spectators behind wooden bars, in the corners more or less anthropomorphic images of four species of monkeys. 14 of the 30 fields showing monkeys in various costumes doing acrobatic stunts, and if you enter one of these fields you have to according to the rules restart from the beginning or pay a penalty. - Georg Nikolaus Renner (1803-1854) was an art dealer and publisher in Nuremberg since 1826. From 1837 Friedrich Schuster became his partner, from then on the company was called "Renner & Co" – therefore the present game must have been published before. An almost perfect copy of a finely illustrated example of a monkey theatre dice game, a subject which became very popular in the 19th century.

Rutland, Vermont:: Shattuck Studio,, 2020.. Edition of 4. 7.4" x 10" x 1" closed . Tunnel book with front flap that lies flat then opens to reveal a pop-up. Laid in envelope slipcase with grosgrain ribbon closure. Printed on BFK Rives, Epson Matte, Red River papers. Origami transparent and Lama Li papers. Signed and numbered by the artist. Carolyn Shattuck: "Once I saw a catamount on the edge of my property, I knew that a book was created. She was beautiful and moved effortlessly along the fringe wearing her tawny coat and long tail. "I researched the archives of The Vermont Historical Society and discovered a story of the last sighting of the catamount in 1881. "The catamount is listed as extinct by the United States Fish and Wildlife Department although there have been many reported sightings of this animal in Vermont over the last 100 years. "The purpose of this tunnel. pop-up book is to acknowledge the catamount, known historically as a… Read More

Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey , 1907. SCARCE in current commerce. xi, 453, (1) pages, with 21 plates, 16 of them color lithograph plates of fish, and 188 figures in text. E.M. Uzzell and Co., Raleigh, printers and binders. Very Good Plus, no jacket, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering., cloth a bit faded at bottom of spine, light rubbing to boards, interior clean, bright, and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Small 4to.

Flack, Marjorie. Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog. Copyright 1934, Doubleday & Company, Inc., First Edition. For Young Readers. Used. Good Condition/ Good- condition rare, unclipped $2.50 original dust jacket. . Garden City Park, New York, U.S.A. Beautifully illustrated. Please see our photos. The Story: "Tim Tadpole lived in a small pond at the edge of the wood. All around him the Peeper frogs sang, while the Great Bullfrog croaked and jumped. But Tim couldn't sing and he couldn't jump either. All he could do was to wriggle through the water until the day he made an exciting discovery!" RARE! We consider offers.

Ames Lake, Portland, Washington D.C.:: M Kimberly Press,, 1991.. Edition of 125. illustrated and bound by Mare Blocker, text by Mare Blocker and Katherine Dunn. Illustrations are color linoleum and magnesium cuts representing circus performers, one fold-out color lithograph of performing lions and tigers, and two die-cut pages in the 56 unnumbered pages. shape of animal heads. Book is numbered on the last three digits of the pink ticket on the colophon page. This book was published in an edition of one hundred and twenty-five copies for the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), selected by the NMWA Library Fellows as a winner for the 1991 Artists' Book . Case bound with brown and black cloth-covered boards with blue foil stamping on front cover. Hollow-back binding. Pages pamphlet bound with white thread. Illustrated endpapers.competition. SMOA: "Passionate about storytelling and its role in examining and archiving, this artist's book was inspired by circus route books popular in… Read More

Quarto (12 by 9 1/2 inches) San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Company, 1874. Original First Edition. 319 + v pages, hardcover, bound in original green pebble cloth, with title in gilt on spine, and gilt vignette of a seal on upper front cover; 27 lithographic plates drawn by the author, and printed by Britton and Rey, plus many other fine lithographs (a few drawn by another hand) of whaling equipment, seals, dolphins and porpoises. Neat nineteenth century inked gift inscription on front fly leaf; minor normal shelf wear (not affecting the overall content, or binding that are both in very good condition); index.

"This book is the classic work on whales and seals along the Pacific coast. Captain Scammon began his whaling career soon after his arrival in California in 1852. His carefully prepared work is the most comprehensive book on the subject, and he investigated all the then known species of Cetacea as well as the Pinnipedia. His text on the whale fishery takes up the last hundred plus pages of… Read More

Washington, D. C.: The National Geographic Association, 1967. Signed by Jane Goodall on a bookplate attached to the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. The first of a generation of women in Africa, initially without scientific training, who revolutionized our view of nature, conservation and the appropriate treatment of wild animals. Mentored by Louis Leakey, she began studying chimpanzees in Gombe in 1960. Her close studies of the Chimpanzees in the wild led to several major breakthroughs. Winner of the Kyoto Award 1n 1990, The Hubbard Medal in 1995, The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1997, Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2004, and The Templeton Prize in 2021. She studied at Cambridge in the mid 1960's and received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1966. She has been a vocal environmentalist since the beginning, and founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 and Roots and Shoots for the environmental education of children in 1991.

Minneapolis, Minnesota:: Lex Thompson,, 2017/2019.. Edition of 5. Two volumes in wooden slipcase with dovetailed design along edges and laser etched illustration on sides with an M on the spine. Texts cited from Mary Emma Thompson's 'On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection' (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1879). Volume 1 "A Catalog of Martha Maxwell's Menagerie of Mammal and Bird Specimens (as far as is possible) as taken account of" by Elliott Coues & Robert Ridgeway": 8.5 x 6 x 2"; 310 pages. Case bound in lime green book cloth, smyth sewn. Gold gilt edge with gilt line illustration and titles on front board. Hand marbled endsheet. Printed and bound by Conveyor Editions. Illustrated plates (hunted and cut from field guides) by Lex Thompson. Signed and numbered by Thompson. Volume 2 "A Catalog of Martha Maxwell's Menagerie of Mammal and Bird Specimens (as far… Read More