Scienza e natura

Half-Hours wit Great Scientists: the story of physics.

Fraser, Charles G., · 1948 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Toronto, Canada, Univ Toronto Press/Reinhold, 1948. VG. Inscribed by author. Science from early times to the 20th century. Brown binding, black lettering & gilt decoration spine. Owner stamp ft endpaper.

Wilderness Wife.

Angier, Bradford & Vena, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Radnor, PA, Chilton, (1976). 1st ed ss. VG in G DJ. How a city bred couple return to a log cabin in the Canadian wilderness to make their home for good. DJ rubbed.

Backtracking: the way of a naturalist.

Levin, Ted, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Chelsea, VT, Chelsea Green, (1987). VG PB. Consistently entertaining on subjects as diverse as the Batesian mimicry of red-backed salamanders to the ways freeways. have encouraged the return of Eastern coyotes. Nature writing that awakens the reader to the world around him, fa...

No Room in the Ark.

Moorehead, Alan, · 1959 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harper, (1959). BCE. VG in G DJ. Moorehead is a firm believer in the urgent importance of preserving the fast-dwindling numbers of wild game and writes. with genuine love and feeling for these animals. DJ edge wear, book slightly cocked. Copy no. 2 is lacking a DJ and is s...

The Mating Instinct.

Milne, Lorus & Margery, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Little Brown, (1954). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Males and females, how they tell each other apart and how they act after they've made a decision. DJ price clipped, owner. stamp and bookplate, DJ edge wear.

Ring of Bright Water.

Maxwell, Gavin, · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dutton, (1961). 7th ptg. G in G DJ. Maxwell gives an account of his life in a lonely cottage on the coast of Scotland, the animals who shared it with him, and his. his immediate neighbors. A latent Robinson Crusoe instinct drew him to the uninhabited, empty shell of a cott...

Westwind Woods.

Huggler, Thomas E., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Lansing, MI, Michigan United Conservation, (1978). G PB. Tipped in publisher promo. A story about a tract of wildland 8 miles square surrounded by civilization and marked for. destruction and covers a single year from early May to the following April. Each chapter introduces o...

America's Endangered Wildlife.

Laycock, George, · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Norton, (1969). G ex-library. The rate at which species and races have come to extinction has grown. Last blank page removed, library stamp on top fore-edge.

An Opossum Story.

Ross, Marie, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Vantage Press, (1988). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Polly the opossum lives in Virginia and gave birth to 19 opossums while separated from her husband. After the birth,. she was reunited with him.

The Watcher and the Red Deer.

Perry, Richard, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Newton Abbot, Devon, UK, David & Charles, (1971). 2nd imp. VG in VG DJ. First publishedin 1952, this classic did much to establish Perry's world-wide reputation as an observant sympathetic. naturalist and a brilliant writer. The story of the four seasons in the everyday life o...

The Nature of the Beast: a popular account of animal psychology from the point of view of a naturalist.

Noble, Ruth Crosby, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday Doran, 1945. 1st ed. VG. Based largely on scientific publications, lectures and notes of the late G. Kingsley Noble, Ph.D., American Museum Nat. History.

Is There a Doctor in the Zoo?.

Taylor, David, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1978). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Sequel to Zoo Vet. Taylor recalls the early and often hair- raising adventures as roving doctor to the world's rare and. exotic wild animals. Bizarre events and odd creatures, losing his clippers down a barlady's cleavage whi...

My Life in the Wild.

Tors, Ivan, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1979. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Tors is most famous for giving us Flipper but this is just a part of his career as an animal behaviorist, trainer, movie. writer and director, lecturer at the Univ of California in science, ecologist and adventurer in the w...

Operation White Lion.

McBride, Chris, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, St. Martins, (1981). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. McBride has discovered a new strain of white lions, not albinos, but normal healthy lions born in the African bush. country of Timbayali. This chronicles his heroic efforts to save the extraordinary creatures.

Operation White Lion.

McBride, Chris, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, St. Martins, (1981). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. McBride has discovered a new strain of white lions, not albinos, but normal healthy lions born in the African bush. country of Timbayali. This chronicles his heroic efforts to save the extraordinary creatures.

Animal Treasure.

Sanderson, Ivan T., · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Viking, 1937. 1st ptg. VG. Tan pictorial binding showing animals on a tree branch. Owner name ft endpaper.

The World of Natural History as revealed in The American Museum of Natural History.

Saunders, John Richard, · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Sheridan House, (1952). VG in VG DJ. Beautiful collections of the natural wonders of the world dramatically displayed. DJ price clipped.

Animals: selected from "Life Histories of Northern Animals", with paragraphs on classification from Stone & Cram.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, arranged by Robert M. McCurdy,, · 1926 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Doubleday Doran, (1926). VG. The Nature Library series. Mark on fore-edge.

A Treasury of English Wild Life.

Turner, W. J., edited by, preface by Geoffrey Grigson, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Chanticleer Press, nd (ca 1945). VG in VG DJ. Brilliantly written, full of curious information. DJ edge wear.

The Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom.

Director of the Zoological Society of London, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Hamlyn, (1971). 7th imp. VG. Owner name, few tape marks on back endpaper, ft flyleaf permanently glued to ft endpaper.