Surface h a ed (4 risultati)

Paperback. First edition (no additional printings listed) . Original covers, staplebound booklet, 6x9 inches, index, pp 154-216, illustrated with black and white photographs (mounted birds) . Very good. Corners bumped, paper lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Description, habitat, food etc of birds in the families of larks, crows and sparrows, given by species. Zoology; endangered species; ecology; natural history; aviary; taxidermy. …

Paperback. First edition (no additional printings listed) . Original covers, staplebound booklet, 6x9 inches, 32 pp, illustrated with plates. Fair to good. Some numbers, two lines and a bank name (all in pencil) written on covers, some soil there, corners creased, approximately 2 to 3 inch tears at edges of fold, paper lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Consists of uses for chemical compounds such as Paris Green, Bordeaux Mixture, London Purple, caustic soda, whale oil and Ivory soap with insructions for making one's own formulas, with much emphasis on arsenic and lead, plus a few more benign methods such as tobacco sprays, traps, etc. Includes a list of specimens of insects, reptile, amphibians, birds and mammals sent to the Department, with name and town of the sender. Agriculture; insecticides; pesticides; chemicals; chemistry; formulary.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. First Edition. Photographs and diagrams; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; Vol II of the bound bi-monthly bulletins. In ribbed purple cloth with title lettering in gilt to cover and spine. The full six issues for 1912. Cloth boards have a shelf soil shadow along the edges and several short areas of rubbing or preadation. Contents clean with a few scattered pages bearing marginal annotation. Subjects include Beekeeping, Model Orchards, Grafting, Spraying Apparatus, Pests of Field, Garden and Trees, Truck Crops. Contents VG, binding G+.…

Cloth. Condizione: Good +. No Jacket. 450pp, illus., bound volumes of Vol. 4 (1-12), blue cloth w/ gilt lettering, stamp in fep 'Compliments of H. a. Surface, Economic Zoologist', binding is beginning to loosen (but still in good shape), slight foxing to eps, some wear & soiling to cover.