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| 1794 |
Teale, Edwin Way |
A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm |
Dodd, Mead 1987, 1st ed thus, index, 250pp, vy fine |
8.50 |
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Edwin Way Teale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing, speaks lovingly of an old farm and the natural beauty around it. Originally published in 1974. |
| 1795 |
Teale, Edwin Way |
A Walk Through the Year |
Dodd, Mead 1987, 1st ed thus, index, 424pp, vy fine |
8.50 |
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A companion volume to Edwin Way Teale's, A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm. Originally published in 1978. |
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| 1735 |
Thoreau, Henry David |
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, et.al. |
Library of America 1985, 1st pr, dj ed, in mylar cover, 1114pp, couple vy minor stains along top pg edges (pgs themselves are clean), else fine |
14.50 |
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Includes the title work, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod. |
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| 1797 |
Tinbergen, Niko |
The Herring Gull's World:
A study of the social behavior of birds |
Lyons & Burford 1989, 1st pr, QP, 5¼" x 7¾", index, bibliog, 255pp, vy fine |
6.50 |
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Nobel Prize-winning Dutch naturalist Niko Tinbergen's classic study of the behavior of herring gulls on the sand dunes of Holland (The Netherlands) near Wassenaar and Terschelling. Originally published in 1960. |
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| 1865 |
Trefil, James |
Meditations at Sunset:
A Scientist Looks at the Sky (Illus) |
Scribners 1987, 1st ed, index, 208pp, some scuffing, & minor peeling on btm of dj, else fine+ |
7.50 |
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Essays by James Trefil on the puzzles and peculiarities of the atmosphere. "What makes sunsets and geraniums red - and the daytime sky and newborns' eyes blue? How did "bad clouds" cause Delta Flight 191 to crash, and why do we have Hurricane Annie but no Hurricane Zelda?" |
| 1864 |
Trefil, James |
A Scientist at the Seashore (Illus) |
Scribners 1984, 1st ed, RM, in mylar cover, index, 208pp, fine |
5.00 |
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"A visit to the shore inspires innumerable questions in the curious mind: Why is the ocean salty? Why do bubbles form on the water's surface? How do waves form, and why do they always arrive parallel to the shore? In [this book], Professor James Trefil explores these phenomena, and exercises his unique gift for explaining the complex scientific principles and theories behind them in a manner understandable and fascinating to nonscientific readers." |
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| 1799 |
Wallace, David Rains |
Bulow Hammock: Mind in a Forest |
Sierra Club 1988, 1st ed, bibliog, 170pp, dj spine sun faded, else vy fine |
7.50 |
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David Wallace's chronicles of his lifelong fascination with the wild beauty of Bulow Hammock, a subtropical woodland in Florida. |
| 1800 |
Wallace, David Rains |
The Dark Range:
A Naturalist's Night Notebook (Illus) |
Sierra Club 1978, QP, 1st pr, 8½ x 10½", bibliog, 131pp, vy fine |
4.50 |
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David Wallace has spent five years with his flashlight and, more important, his insight, and has come back to tell us how animals spend their secret nights. To our delight he has taken us into the dark range of animals' lives, and his pen has been dipped in the black magic of nocturnal happenings. Includes beautiful, detailed illustrations by Roger Bayless. |
| 1801 |
Wallace, David Rains |
Life in the Balance (Illus) |
HBJ 1987, 1st ed, RM, 8¼ x 10¼", index, 309pp, vy fine |
8.50 |
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This book provides a breathtaking, wide-angle description of the state of our environment -- of the species that are endangered because of humanity and of humanity's efforts to recover them. The result is a stunning argument for the interconnectedness of all life and irresistible manadate to save our natural heritage. Companion to the Audubon television specials. |
| 1802 |
Wallace, David Rains |
The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays |
Ohio State Univ 1986, appears as 1st ed, 203pp, vy fine |
4.50 |
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Wilderness is not a quality found only in back-country wilderness areas; it is all around us, "a fundamental condition of the biosphere." In these essays, covering such everyday topics as garden manure, tomato plant pests, cemetaries, puddles, native grasses, beaver psychology, and freeway horticulture, as well as more majestic ones like the Okefenokee swamp, Yellowstone backcountry, Alaskan seacoast, and Japanese mountain, David Rains Wallace evokes that wilderness and reveals it to us. |
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| 1804 |
Whalley, Joyce Irene |
The Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder |
Victoria & Albert Museum (UK) 1982, appears as 1st ed thus, 8 1/2" x 12" x 3/8", 48pp, vy fine |
11.50 |
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The Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder is the first encyclopaedia. Written by a compulsive reader and note-taker, Pliny's only surviving work is a compilation covering every aspect of the world as known to an intelligent Roman of the first century AD. 'The present work is intended... (to) display the illuminated initials to be found in the 15th-century Italian manuscript (of the work).' |
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| 1805 |
White, Gilbert |
The Essential Gilbert White of Selborne |
David Godine 1985, QP, 1st pr, 5¼ x 8½", 361pp, vy fine |
4.00 |
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"This is the first popular selection from White's writings ever to be published. It contains a choice of the best sections from a rare limited edition of 'The Writings of Gilbert White' produced to the highest standards in the 1930s, which has never been published". |
| 1806 |
White, Gilbert |
The Natural History of Selborne (Illus) |
Wordsworth (UK) 1989, reprint edition, appendices, index, 528pp, vy fine |
12.50 |
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Originally titled, "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in The county of Southampton," the Natural History of Selborne is a series of letters from Gilbert White to his friends Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington, in which he makes observations on the natural world around the parish of Selborne. (Selborne is located in the eastern corner of Hampshire, bordering on Sussex, about 50 miles SW of London.) Originally published in 1789. |
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| 1869 |
White, T. H. |
England Have My Bones |
Berkley Books 1986, QP, appears as 1st pr, 5¼" x 8¼", 306pp, vy sl toning at pg edges, else fine+ |
4.50 |
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A fine collection of essays from E. B. White, the author of The Once and Future King, and other fine classics. Covers rural life in 1930's England and Scotland from the leisured point of view; fishing, aviation, natural history and hunting. Originally published in 1936. |
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| 1808 |
Zwinger, Ann |
A Desert Country Near the Sea:
A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California (Illus) |
Harper & Row 1983, 1st ed, ep maps, appendices, bibliog, index, 399pp, fine+ |
12.50 |
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This book is prize-winning naturalist Ann Zwinger's personal guide to the flora, fauna, and history of a fascinating region. Drawings by author and over 40 photographs by her husband, Herman Zwinger. Includes: Notes, Chronology, Plants of the Cape Region, Birds of the Cape Region, Mammals of the Cape Region, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Cape Region. |
| 1807 |
Zwinger, Ann &
Teale, Edwin Way |
A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau's Rivers (Illus) |
Harper & Row 1982, 1st ed, ep maps, 243pp, several sm tears on dj edges esp on spine, else nr fine |
7.50 |
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Two distinguished naturalists, Ann Zwinger and Edwin Way Teale, explore the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord rivers in Massachusetts. History, flora and fauna, and Thoreau's journals complete this regional profile. |
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