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1. A Guide to Eastern Hawk Watching
Heintzelman, Donald S

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976. Previous owners name on page edges and on title page. Label on title page from Audobon Book shop. Some scuffs to covers. Pages clean.. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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2. Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology


Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1877. April, 1877. Vol. II No. 2. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. [29]-52, [4] p.: illustrated rifle advertisements; 25 cm. (10 inches). Buff paper wrappers (paper covers) printed in black. Yellow leaf tipped in at front seeking increased "pecuniary support" for the bulletin. Four unpaginated pages following text include advertisements for Wm. Read & Sons, importers of and dealers in fine guns, and Brewster & Knowlton, naturalists and taxidermists, as well as for The American Naturalist and similar publications. The back cover also includes advertisements for Fox's patent breech-loader (also illustrated), manufactured by the American Arms Co., Boston; the Boston shooting suit; and duck decoys by G.W. Simmons & Son, Boston. Contents: Corrections of Nomenclature in the Genus Siurus by Elliott Coues; Notes on the Breeding of the Black Tern (Hydrochelidon lariformis) by T.S. Roberts; Two Undescribed Nests of Carlifornia Birds by William Brewster; A Contribution to the Biography of Wilson's Phalarope by E.W. Nelson; A Defence of His Catalogue of New England Birds by T.M. Brewer. In Very Good+ Condition: front fore-edge and both lower edges chipped; cover is slightly soiled. Pages are clean and tight. A scarce issue of this important 19th-century ornithological bulletin.. Very Good+.

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3. Penguins
Kaehler, Wolfgang

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989. 73 p.: color photographs; 29 cm. (11½ inches). Black paper over boards, with white titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Photographer Wolfgang Kaehler's beautiful images of penguins in their natural habitat. In Fine/Fine Condition.. First Edition. Fine/Fine.

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4. Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology July, 1877 Vol. II No. 3


Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club. University Press, Cambridge: Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. [53]-84, [6] p.: line drawings, tables; 25 cm. (10 inches). Buff paper wrappers (paperbound) printed in black. Six unpaginated pages following text include an advertisement for Wm. Read & Sons, importers of and dealers in fine guns. The back cover also includes advertisements for Fox's patent breech-loader (also illustrated), manufactured by the American Arms Co., Boston; the Boston shooting suit; and duck decoys by G.W. Simmons & Son, Boston. Contents: Description of a New Species of Humming-Bird from California by H.W. Henshaw -- The Birds of Guadalupe Island, Discussed with Reference to the Present Genesis of Species by Robert Ridgway -- An Undescribed Hybrid Between Two North American Grouse by William Brewster. In Good- Condition: wrappers are slightly soiled and separating at spine; back wrapper has one horizontal tear most of the way across. Pages are clean and tight. A scarce issue of this important 19th-century ornithological bulletin.. Good-.

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5. The Book of Birds : Common Birds of Town and Country and American Game Birds
Henshaw, Henry W

Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society. 1918. H Cloth. Good. Binding is intact. Pages are clean. Brown cloth boards with black printing on the front cover and spine. Two inch slit in the gutter on the front. Edgewear. Corners bumped. Former owner's name on FEP and gift inscription on title page, both in pencil. Beautifully illustrrated in Natural Colors with 250 paintings. With chapters included by other contributing authors. 195 pages. 0306N00100D20 Art, Animals

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