Storia naturale

How to be Your Dog's Best Friend: a training manual for dog owners.

Monks of New Skete, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, (1978). 16th ptg. G in G DJ. Rises above the usual cookbooks' texts of how to train a dog by providiing a wealth of insights to help the owner/trainer. understand, appreciate, and respect a canine companion. The monks reveal their lives are filled with wo...

Honey from Stone: a naturalist's search for God.

Raymo, Chet, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

St. Paul, MN, Hungry Mind Press, (1989). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Raymo is in love with the universe & uses the language of science to make up the words for their love songs.essays. brimming with mysticism." "a reverie, an entrancing meditation, on stones and stars and mossy ruins.".

Burglar in the Treetops.

Heinhold, George, · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Holt, (1952). 1st ed. G. Heinhold has good humor and a wryly observing eye about many common wild animals of the U.S. A trapline for the wily mink,. a snowshoe hare, a red fox evades the pack, the black bear buffoon of the brushlands, a skunk, muskrat, squirrel, deer, porc...

A Child's Book of Flowers.

Daly, Kathleen N., · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Doubleday, (1976). VG in G DJ. A small child's guide to some of the common flowers of the countrysde. A wonderful book to introduce children to the. beautiful flowers in nature. Color drawings are exquisite.

Entering the Stone: on caves and feeling through the dark.

Hurd, Barbara, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Ranges from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. Natural history of some of the most unusual places on earth.

Atlantic Wildflowers.

Griffin, Diane, Wayne Barrett, Anne MacKay, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Toronto, Oxford Univ Press, 1984. VG in G DJ. 129 species of flowering plants found throughout the region in a variety of habitats from seashore to woodland, from garden. gate to mountain top. DJ few chips.

Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.

Blaschka, Leopold and Rudolph, Harvard University, · 1943 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ., 1943. Fair. Glass models of plants from two workers in glass who were naturalists as well as models for their artistic expression and. abilities and scientific interpretation. Scribbling on blank backs of pages.

The Wind Birds.

Matthiessen, Peter, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$83.00 (€75.31 | £62.82 | ¥13,254)

NY, Viking Studio Books, (1973). 1st ed thus. VG in VG DJ. The restlessness of the shorebirds, their kinship with the distance and swift seasons, the wistful signal of their voices. down the long coastlines of the world make them the most affecting of wild creatures. An excess...

The Bird Book: bird neighbors and birds that hunt and are hunted.

Blanchan, Neltje, · 1932 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Garden City, Doubleday Doran, 1932. G ex-library. Library markings. Nice sturdy copy in olive green binding, gilt lettering on spine.

Bird Homes: the nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern U.S..

Dugmore, A. Radclyffe, · 1904 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Doubleday, Page, 1904. G ex-library. With hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds. Gilt lettering on title box (edge wear) on spine. Edge wear, library markings, soil on binding.

Natural History for the Use of Schools and Families.

Hooker, Worthington, M.D., · 1886 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harper & Bros, 1886. Early ptg. G. "There are many good books on Zoology, or Natural History.but none are properly adapted to instruction in schools." from. preface by author Hooker. Professor of the Theory and Practice of medicine in Yale College, Hooker was the author of...

Cape Cod.

Thoreau, Henry David, introduction by Henry Beston, · 1951 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Bramhall House, (1951). VG in G DJ. Included in this edition is the text of Thoreau's Journal account of his 4th & last visit in June, 1857. Here the perceptive reader may relish a particularly Thoreauvian excursion. DJ edge wear, fore-edge tanning spots.

Wildlife Notes.

Fergus, Churck, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Harrisburg, PA, Pennsylvanis Game Commission, nd. VG lg sz PB.

Learning to Talk Bear so bears can listen.

Cheek, Roland, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Columbia Falls, Montana, Skyline Pub, (1997). 3rd ptg. VG PB. A treasure for anyone wishing to understand what make bears, particularly grizzies, tick. A tale of high adventure with. understanding stemming from new grizzly research, a story that walks where the bears walk, abo...

Touch of Wildness: a Maine woods journal.

Dietz, Lew, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Camden, Maine, Down East, (1970). VG PB. Dietz explores Maine's coasts, woods and streams.

The Flowers Grown and Shown at Monticello.

Woltz, Dawn Daniel, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Charlottesville, VA, Michie Co, (1977). VG in VG DJ. Author Woltz tries to design each bouquet at Monticello so that it conforms to Jefferson's philosophy of using native materials. suits his sense of room decor and expresses his love of flowers and their lavish use to add bea...

A Manual for Northern Woodsmen.

Cary, Austin, · 1919 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Cambridge, Harvard Univ Press, 1919. Revised ed. G. Wrap around canvas cover (soiled), owner names.

The Elements of Botany for beginners and for schools.

Gray, Asa, · 1887 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, American Book Co, (1887). Revised. G. Green binding. Owner name front endpapere, worn place along bottom binding edge, damp stain to upper edge of binding.

The Forest: or, Rambles in the Woodland.

Taylor, Jefferys, · 1857 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Y, Carlton & Porter, 1857. Fair ex-library. Brown embossed binding, gilt lettering on spine, library markings, edge wear. Damp stain at book bottom on beginning. and ending pages. Descriptions of various plants and trees in conversations.

Mortimer Moonman's Moose Mucker Manual.

Tivey, Richard Herbert, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

N. Barnstead, NH, Tivey Associates, (1994). Enlarged ed. VG PB. One of the most thrilling sights in many parts of the great outdoors of the N. American continent is that of the moose. They are the biggest and least social of the deer family with up to a height of 9 feet, a bod...