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SPRUNT, Alexander Jr. & CHAMBERLAIN, E. Burnham.
South Carolina Bird Life [At Head Of Title:] Contributions From The Charleston Museum: XI.
Columbia: University Of South Carolina Press, 1949..
8vo. pp. xx, [1], 585. 35 colour plates reproduced from paintings by Francis Lee Jacques, Roger Tory Peterson, Edward Von S. Dingle & John Henry Dick. Many b/w photographic illus. biblio. index. cloth. First Edition.
$103 USD Book Number: NRUutSPR38 Order / Enquire

SQUIRES, W. Austin.
The Birds of New Brunswick.Monograph Series No. 4.
Saint John: The New Brunswick Museum, 1952..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 164. 12 photographic illus. on 6 plates. 1 map. biblio. index. wrs.
$51 USD Book Number: NUIeSQUI71 Order / Enquire

STRATTON-PORTER, Gene.
The Moths Of Limberlost.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916..
8vo. pp. xiv, 369, [2]. 21 colour plates (incl. frontis.), 1 colour text illus., & numerous b/w text illus. (many full-page). A nice copy in original cloth. with worn & broken original box. First Edition.
$225 USD Book Number: elala5209 Order / Enquire

SURELL, Alexandre.
Étude Sur Les Torrents Des Hautes-Alpes.
Paris: Carilian-Goeury Et Vor. Dalmont, 1841..
4to. pp. xix, 283, [1]errata. with half-title. 6 folding lithographed plates. contemporary quarter roan (joints rubbed, some foxing, outer margins of several plates bit tatty). First Edition of this study of the torrential rivers of the Alps by engineer Alexandre Surell, with discussion of the causes of the formation and violence of torrents, flooding and other destructive effects, preventive measures and legislation, &c.
$599 USD Book Number: elala2989 Order / Enquire

SUTTON, George Miksch.
Portraits Of Mexican Birds Fifty Selected Paintings.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1975]..
Foreward by Enrique Beltran. folio. pp. xi, 106. profusely illus. in colour. bds. dw. (corners of dw. rubbed). First Edition.
$135 USD Book Number: alyssa264 Order / Enquire

TAPLIN, William.
The Gentleman's Stable Directory; Or, Modern System Of Farriery.
London: Printed for G.G. and J.Robinson; and G.Kearsley, 1796..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xvi, 504, [8]index; viii, 416. with half-title in Vol. II. engraved frontis. portrait in Vol. I. contemporary sprinkled calf (worn, covers detached, spine labels wanting, internally very good). Thirteenth Edition of Volume I; Fourth Edition of Volume II. The first volume deals mainly with equine diseases and injuries and their remedies and treatment, the second with breeding, breaking, shoeing, stabling, exercise, and rowelling. cfHuth p. 54.
$225 USD Book Number: elala603 Order / Enquire

TAVERNER, P.A.
Les Oiseaux de l'Est du Canada [At Head Of Title:] Canada Commission Géologique Mémoire 104 No. 3, Série Biologique.
Ottawa: Department Of Mines Geological Survey, 1922..
4to. pp. 1 p.l., iii, 308. 100 colour illus. on 25 double-sided plates incl. in the pagination. index. wrs. (extremities bit worn, hinges reinforced with cloth tape). Second Edition.
$77 USD Book Number: NVEsTAVE30 Order / Enquire

THOMPSON, Eloise Reid [Illustrations] & MINER, Edna Wolf [Botanical Descriptions].
Wildflower Portraits.
Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, [1964]..
4to. pp. xiii, [201], xv-xix. 100 full-page colour illus. index. cloth (fore-edges of leaves trifle cockled throughout, but slightly worse toward the back). dw. (back dampstained & cockled, extremities rubbed). First Edition.
$77 USD Book Number: NMIld& M65 Order / Enquire

THORBURN, Archibald [1860-1935].
A Naturalist's Sketch Book.
London...: Longmans, Green And Co., 1919..
folio. pp. viii, [72]. title in red & black. 60 plates of birds & animals (24 in colour & 36 in collotype) with tissue guards. contemporary half morocco, t.e.g. First Edition.
$850 USD Book Number: elala4865 Order / Enquire

THORNTON, Robert John.
Thornton's Temple of Flora With Plates Faithfully Reproduced from the Original Engravings and the work described by Geoffrey Grigson with Bibliographical Notes by Handasyde Buchanan.
London: Collins, 1951..
folio. pp. viii, 20. 36 full-page plates (12 coloured including frontis). tissue guards. original half morocco in slipcase, t.e.g. (slightly rubbed, extremities bit worn, some light foxing, tape remnants on front paste-down, slipcase damaged and lacking lower edge). Limited to 250 numbered copies, Signed by Grigson, Buchanan & Stern. Designed and produced for Collins by George M. Rainbird & Ruari McLean.
$1499 USD Book Number: NORorTHO4 Order / Enquire

TROWELL, Samuel [d. 1746].
A New Treatise Of Husbandry, Gardening, and other Curious Matters relating to Country Affairs.
London: Printed for James Hodges, 1739..
8vo. pp. viii, [1], 164. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary sprinkled calf (rubbed, head of spine chipped). First Edition. The author was Steward at the Inner Temple from 1708 to 1736. Trowell was well known for his skill at raising bulbous plants, notably tulips and hyacinths. A chapter on the subject is included here (pp. 114-30) in addition to others on grains, vegetables, flax, madder, saffron, hops, forest and fruit trees, herbs, shrubs, green house plants, and grape vines. In his preface, Trowell praises the virtues of Living's manure. Fussell II p. 13. Henrey II pp. 455-57 (incorrectly citing date 1738).
$749 USD Book Number: elala719 Order / Enquire

TURRILL, W.B.
British Plant Life [At Head Of Title:] The New Naturalist.
London: Collins, [1958]..
8vo. pp. xvii, 315. 36 double-sided plates (24 colour) & several distribution maps. biblio. glossary. index. cloth. dw. (extremities bit chipped & rubbed-minor cellotape repairs). Second Edition.
$51 USD Book Number: NRRitTUR71 Order / Enquire

TURTON, William [1762-1835].
A Conchological Dictionary Of The British Isles.
London: Printed For John Booth, 1819..
12mo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxvii, [3], 272, [4]ads. half-title wanting? 28 hand-coloured engraved plates. modern quarter calf. First Edition. Freeman 3776.
$519 USD Book Number: NRTCoTUR76 Order / Enquire

WALLACE, Alfred Russel [1823-1913].
Contributions To The Theory Of Natural Selection. A Series of Essays.
London: Macmillan And Co., 1871..
8vo. pp. xi, [1], 384, 42(ads), [1 leaf]. former owner's notes mounted at end. original cloth (joints cracked, repairs to spine ends, cloth discoloured). Second Edition, With Corrections And Additions. Casey Wood p. 617. Freeman 3862.
$300 USD Book Number: elala3092 Order / Enquire

WEEKS, Andrew Gray.
Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera With Descriptions.
Boston: Printed by The Cambridge University Press, 1905-11..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, 117; 9 p.l., [[ix]-xv, [1], 37. 2 engraved frontis. portraits, 66 coloured lithographs of butterflies, & 6 half-tone plates. original cloth-backed bds. (some staining to covers of Vol. I & lower portion of portrait waterstained). First Edition.
$384 USD Book Number: NEKluWEE74 Order / Enquire

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