Treatise on Urban Water Systems edited with L. Scott Tucker et al.
Colorado State University, 1971. First. 836 pp.
Nature
Tiger at the Door
Vantage, 1958. 87 pp. autobiography of woman and her life in Singapore in the 1920's.
Ascent: Of the invention of mountain climbing and its practice
New York: Random House, 1965. First edition, first printing. 8vo. 124pp. Photographs. Original cloth; dust jacket.
Mountain Passages
Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. First edition. 8vo. 278pp. Photographs. Original cloth; dust jacket.
Origins and Development of the Prato Wool Trade
1963. 59 pp.
The Wonders of the Ocean; Containing an Account of the Color, Saltness, and Probable Depth of the Ocean; of its Mountains of Ice, Gulfs, Whirlpools, Currents, and Tides; and of its Coral and Other Formations and Productions, So Far as Known, Whether Animal, Mineral or Vegetable
Cazenovia, New York: Henry & Sweetlands, 1845. First edition. 12mo. 252 pp. Contemporary sheep, black morocco lettering pieces. Splits to joints, some wear to extremities; browned. The author was born in New Hampshire in 1788, graduated from Brown University in 1812, and was a bestselling author whose most notable work...
Les extravagantes
Paris: Éditions Xavier Barrel, 2014. 8vo. 173 pages. Color photographs. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. A collection of Blok's photographs of plants and flowers.
Water Resources of a Western New York Region: A Case Study of Water Resources and Use in the Genesee Valley and Western Lake Ontario Basin.
Syracuse University Press, 1960. 149 pp.
Breeding Your Own: How to Raise and Train Colts for Pleasure and Profit
Derrydale Press, 1939. one of 1250 numbered copies. 245 pp.
Cato the Censor on Farming
Columbia University Press, Records of Civilization, XVII, 1933.
The Loneliest Continent: The Story of Antarctic Discovery
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1964. First. 8vo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket.
The Corrosion of Fence Wire
US Dept of Agriculture, Farmer's Bulletin, 239, 1915. 31 pp.
Floods in Bangladesh : What Are the Solutions
International Society of Bangladesh, Concordia University, 1989. 56 pp.
Art of the Natural World: Resonances of Wild Nature in Chinese Sculptural Art
Boston: MFA Publications, 2001. 8vo. 157 pages. Color photographs and illustrations. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Prized for over a millennium by Chinese literati, scholars' rocks--stones sculpted by the elements into richly detailed miniature landscapes--have long been objects of contemplation, inspiration and ever-changing beauty. This succinct, elegantly designed volume offers...
Environmental Planning and Management: Regional Symposium on Environmental and Natural Resources Planning, Manila, 19-21 February 1986
Manila: Asian Development Bank, 1986.
Moving to Completion
np, 2012. 63.
The Tetons. Interpretations of a Mountain Landscape
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. 12mo. 77 pages. Folding map at end, photographic plates. Flexible cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, second printing, a presentation copy, inscribed by Fryxell on the title to a classmate from Augustana College. Fryxell was the leading expert on the Tetons, an...
Jellyfish: A Natural History
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 8vo. 224 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Jellyfish presents these aquarium favorites in all their extraordinary and captivating beauty. Fifty unique species, from stalked jellyfish to black sea nettles, are presented in stunning color photographs along with the most current...
Happy Hunting-Grounds. A Tribute to the Woods and Fields
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888. 4to. 202 pages. Frontispiece and illustrations in text by the author. Original decorated cloth, all edges gilt. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Gibson was a popular American writer and lecturer on natural history, and illustrated much of his own work, as here.
Eiger Direct
London: Collins, 1966. First edition. 8vo. 183pp. Photographs by Chris Bonington. Original cloth; dust jacket.
Conflicts in Water Resources Planning
Center for Research in Water Resources, Symposium, 5, 1972. First. 172 pp.
The Naturalist's Library Vol. XXXVII: Ichthyology, British Fishes Part II
London: Chatto & Windus. Hand- colored plates by Lizars - Carp, Pike, Trout Salmon, Herring, Pilchard, Cod, Haddock, etc. Tissue-protected engraving of Humboldt. teg.
Beyond Humanism
Willett, Clark, 1937.
Zen in the Art of Flower Arrangement
Newton Centre, MA: Charles T. Branford Company, 1958. 8vo. 124pp. Black-and-white illustrations. Original cloth; dust jacket. A very good copy in a bright jacket with small loss at foot of spine panel and some minor edgewear. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull. Suzuki, in...
Walking the Dead River
New York: Random House, 1973. First. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original printed dust jacket. In fine condition. Dust jacket blurb: "Nineteen essays about the New England wilderness (including walks in the Green and White Mountains, some history and prognostications, and a canoe trip in Maine); about assassinations, dogs, jury duty...