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By: (Green, Richard)
Price: $24.00
Publisher: London, Richard Green: 1989
Seller ID: 001121
Condition: Very Good
unpaginated. Man's best friend and his acquaintances, too. 52 paintings reproduced in full-page color; 38 dogs, remainder cats; two 2-panel gatefold plates. Last plate has margin clipped, not affecting the plate. Otherwise clean and tight, nearly unblemished. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston, Roberts Brothers: 1877
Seller ID: 005020
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
253 pages; 20 b&w illustrations by J. Veyrassat and Karl Bodmer, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Dogs, cats, horses, pigs, wolves, wild boar, cows, birds and more. An interesting dialogue, a mix of science, compassion and anecdote. The boards are attractively tooled with decoration and gilt titles. Text and illustrations are clean throughout; rear joint has been repaired; extremeties of the spine are worn; backstrip is brittle. View more info
By: Matthiessen, Peter and Mary Frank
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1991
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 000787
ISBN: 0-679-40021-4
Condition: Fine
225 pages. Author's account of The West Africa Wildlife Survey of 1978 and the Congo Basin Forest Elephant Survey of 1986 View more info
By: Michelet, Jules
Price: $85.00
Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons: 1868
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001597
Condition: Good
340 pages; 210 b&w illustrations by Giacomelli; translated to English from the original French. In its time described as "an exquisite specimen of book-making"; "grace of style, beauty of description, and suggestiveness of sentiment"; "no dry treatise of natural history". One of a trilogy that includes The Sea and The Insect, which Michelet accomplished with his wife. The author writes alluringly about several species of birds, their habitat, their habits. Hector Giacomelli's numerous illustrations from etchings are terrific. Text block very clean and tight; boards and ... View more info
By: Ward, Geoffrey C. with Diane Raines Ward
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins): 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000771
ISBN: 0-06-016795-5
Condition: Fine
174 pages. Dozens of contemporary color photographs and earlier black-and-whites. An overview of the effort to conserve the tiger population and the effort's leading individuals, the Tiger-Wallahs. The author has been a prominent screenwriter for PBS as well as a book author. View more info
