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Hoover Dam: Reclamation, Managing Water in the West

By: Anonymous

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lower Colorado Region, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation: 2006

Seller ID: 004617

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

57 pages; b&w photographs. The story of the Dam: construction and bebfits. Clean and tight.
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The Restless Earth: A Report on the New Geology

By: Calder, Nigel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1972

Seller ID: 003649

ISBN: 0670595306

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

152 pages; numerous b&w and color illustrations and charts. The, then new, theory of plate tectonics, the movement of plates beneath the earth's continents and oceans causing change and disruption in the earth's surface. Clean throughout.
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William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape

By: Hales, Peter B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Temple University Press: 1988

Seller ID: 005268

ISBN: 0877224781

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Fine

356 pages; 193 reproduced photographs all b&w . A terrific historic document in text and photographs of the transformation of the West. Jackson, who worked for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, "was acclaimed in the nineteenth century as the world's most famous landscape photographer." Wide-open landscapes, individual Native Americans and their tented villages, railroads in the mountains, workmen along rivers. A terrific book. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Herons of the World

By: Hancock, James and Hugh Elliott; Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman (paintings by); Robert Gillmor (drawings by); Roger Tory Peterson (Foreword)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1978

Seller ID: 002785

ISBN: 0-06-011759-1

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

304 pages; full-page color plates of each of the 61 species that are fully described as to distribution, migration, habitat, appearance, and behavior. Introductory chapters deal with problems and features of the classification, distribution, and behavior of the heron family. "... the book a work of art as well as an authoritative monograph." Small remainder mark on the top edge.
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Alexander von Humboldt: Wissenschaftler, Weltbürger, Revolutionär

By: Krätz, Otto

Price: $60.00

Publisher: München, Callwey: 1997

Seller ID: 003425

ISBN: 3766712829

Binding: Decorated paper boards

Condition: Very Good

214 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. The life and many accomplishments of the naturalist, explorer, scientist, citizen. Clean throughout, no marks or tears, nearly fine.
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Scientific Research in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Leona, Marco (Edited by)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 2009

Seller ID: 003758

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

48 pages; numerous color illustrations. The Met Museum Bulletin, Summer 2009.
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Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves

By: McCamant, Kathryn and Charles Durrett

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Habitat Press / Ten Speed Press: 1988

Seller ID: 005202

ISBN: 0898153069

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

208 pages; numerous illustrations. The authors are credited with starting the cohousing movement in this country after observing its success in Denmark. Some ocassional highlighting. Otherwise, clean, tight binding.
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Oranges

By: McPhrr, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1983

Seller ID: 005230

ISBN: 0374512973

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

149 pages. A real page-turner, typical of McPhee. His research and his style of reportage makes one reflect on each glass of juice. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Stars and Planets - Exploring the Universe

By: Menzel, Donald H., Ph.D.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The University Society: 1931

Seller ID: 003170

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

121 pages; b&w illustrations; diagrams; charts, glossary, index. A good old astronomy primer. The spine is worn, some missing material at the tail.
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Amazonia: The Challenge of the Tropics

By: Passarinho, Jarbas G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Primor: 1971

Seller ID: 002384

Binding: Pictorial Paper Boards

Condition: Very Good

86 pages; numerous color photos. Essay in English; photo captions in English, French and Portugese. An introduction to this vast region, its strengths, needs and problems.
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John James Audubon: The Making of an American

By: Rhodes, Richard

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004

Seller ID: 003749

ISBN: 0375414126

Binding: quarter-cloth and paper boards

Condition: Very Good

516 pages. 16 pages of color illustrations; 85 b&w illustrations and 4 maps in text. An enjoyably readable biography filled with private anecdotes that fully illustrate the life of this great artist. Small red dot remainder mark on bottom edge; previous owner's name on a front endpaper. Otherwise, about fine condition.
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The Crime of Galileo

By: Santillana, Giorgio de

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press: 1955

Seller ID: 003829

Binding: quarter-cloth and paper boards

Condition: Very Good

340 pages. Galileo versus the Inquisition. Galileo revealed as a man with "an excess of gifts ... extraordinary literary capacity, his brilliant repartee, his eloquence and charm ....", while the telescope was the key to his success. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper.
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The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio

By: Smith, Cyril Stanley and Martha Teach Gnudi (Trnslated from the Italian by)

Price: $120.00

Publisher: New York, The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: 1942

Seller ID: 002969

Binding: Cloth boards on paper backing

Condition: Very Good

pp. xxvi; 476. "Ten books in which are fully treated not only every kind and sort of mineral but also all that is necessary for the practice of those things belonging to the arts of smelting or casting metals and all related subjects.." Frontispiece facsimile of first edition title page; woodcuts and decorative chapter headings. Faint damp line along the bottom edge of some pages; some leaves unopened.
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Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the "Birds of America"

By: Souder, William

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, North Point Press: 2004

Seller ID: 003748

ISBN: 0865476713

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

368 pages; b&w illustrations. The several faces of Audubon and the development and execution of his dynamic bird portraits. Clean throughout.
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Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment, and the Eclipse of Visual Education

By: Stafford, Barbara Maria

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press: 1994

Seller ID: 003260

ISBN: 0-262-19342-6

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

350 pages; 197 illustrations, all b&w. "... the replacement of an oral-visual culture in favor of a text-centered one." Clean throughout; a small bump at the base of the spine.
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The Illustrated MAINE WOODS with Photographs from the Gleason Collection

By: Thoreau, Henry D.; Joseph J. Moldenhauer ( Text edited by)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princetion, NJ, Princeton University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 004867

ISBN: 0691062781

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

pp. xxiii; 347. 48 illustrations. Appendix: Trees; Flowers and Shrubs; List of Plants. Index. Pages, including , photo illustrations are clean an brightboards are lfaded away from the spine especially the back board where there is also a stain along the bottom edge and tward the top (see the image).
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