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FALL OF THE SPARROW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. Hardcover first edition - A rather droll - but still serious - examination of the extinction of some species and the threat of extinction faced by others. Illustrated with cartoons by Richard Taylor. Introductory chapter by Stanley Edgar Hyman. Index of species. 158 pp.
Condition: Very good in yellow cloth (booksellers line on bottom edge), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 88204More details Price: $15.00 -
IN THE PRESENCE OF NATURE.
Edition: First printing.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of three eighteenth naturalists on what was then the American frontier - Jonathan Carver was a Yankee explorer of the interior; John Bartram was a Pennsylvania botanist,and Mark Catesby, who was called the 'colonial Audubon' was an English-born artist and naturalist. Introduction by Gene Wise. Includes a full-color plate opposite the title page and 23 black and white plates, mostly botanical, but also including birds, animals, reptiles, and more. Extensive notes. Index. xvii, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-870230204.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (some rubbing to the folds and wear to the ends of the spine).
Book ID: 60439More details Price: $30.00 -
A HANDBOOK TO THE FLORAL OF NATAL.
Edition: First edition.
Durban, Natal, South Africa: Bennett & Davis, Printers, 1907. dj. Hardcover first edition - A greatly revised and expanded work based on a pamphlet originally issued in 1888 by the Colonial Herbarium. Index. 202 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in light gray-green cloth covers with black lettering, no dj, as issued.
Book ID: 26601More details Price: $20.00
