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By: (Green, Richard)
Price: $24.00
Publisher: London, Richard Green: 1989
Seller ID: 001121
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
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
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
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, thei... 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
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
