Islands of the Seals: The Pribilofs.
Anchorage: Alaska Geographic, Volume 9, No. 3, 1982. Octavo, oblong format, colour photographs. More
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Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone.
New York: Griffin Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of..... More
Alaska bird trails: adventures of an expedition By dog sled to the delta of the Yukon River at Hooper Bay.
Cleveland: Bird Research foundation, 1943. Quarto, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose: natural history in early America.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledging republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de..... More
Great plains: America's lingering wild.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Complementing Forsberg's images and firsthand accounts are essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart and acclaimed writer Dan O'Brien. Each section of the book begins with a thorough overview by Wishart, while O'Brien - a wildlife biologist..... More
Great Salt lake: a scientific, historical and economic overview.
Utah: Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, 1980. Quarto, publisher's cloth, text illustrations, colour photographs, folding maps in rear pocket, Professor Bill Williams' signature front free endpaper, good copy. More
America 1585: the complete drawings of John White.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Quarto, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The copy of Margaret Stones with her bookplate, a lengthy inscription from the author, and tipped in cards. A collection of White's drawings of life in the English colony of North Carolina is accompanied by a...... More
Denizens of the desert: a book of southwestern mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. Octavo, photographs, bookplate, publisher's cloth. More
Teton wildlife: observations by a naturalist.
Boulder: Associated University Press, 1982. Octavo, 128 pp., ills., softcover. More
A natural history of New York City: a personal report after fifty years of study and enjoyment of wildlife within the boundaries of greater New York.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Octavo, illustrations, signature. More
A field guide to the familiar: learning to observe the natural world.
Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. Designed both to encourage beginning naturalists and to challenge more experienced observers to look at the familiar in new ways, A Field Guide to the Familiar offers an introduction to common plants, animals, and natural phenomena. Beautiful drawings add..... More
Wildlife of Mexico: the game birds and mammals.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, tape marks, blemished dustwrapper. More
A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there.
New York: Oxford University Press, (1987. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766: his diary, manuscripts and collections.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Quarto, photographs, text mark on bottom edge, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Nature's everyday mysteries: a field guide to the world in your backyard
Shelburne: Chapters Publishing, 1993. Octavo, 152 pp., text illustrations, softcover. More
A field guide to animal tracks.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1975. second edition), Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Traveller's wildlife guide: Alaska.
Northampton: Interlink Publishing, 2007. Octavo, colour photographs and illustrations, softcover. Alaska has both vast wilderness tracts and a modern transportation system, making ecotravelling in the state easy as well as exciting. From the broad expanses of tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the rich seabird colonies of the..... More
The Washington Biologists' Field Club: its members and its history (1900-2006).
Washington DC: Washington Biologists' Field Club, 2007. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Coming through the swamp: the nature writings of Gene Stratton Porter.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1996. Octavo, paperback, photographs, map. More
American Museum of Natural History: 125 years of expedition and discovery.
New York: Harry N Abrams, 1995. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1913
Washington: United States National Museum, 1914. Octavo, Publisher's cloth, fine copy. More
Tinkering with Eden: a natural history of exotic species in America.
New York: Norton, 2001. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. More
Of scientists and salamanders.
San Francisco: W H Freeman, 1966. Octavo, photographs, signature, chipped dustwrapper. More
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