Scienza e natura

Footnotes on Nature.

Kieran, John, · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday, 1952. VG. A few men & many walks in the woods & fields of NY & New England esp summers on a Dutchess County farm in NY observing. the woods. Spine creased.

Speak to the Earth: pages from a farmwife's journal.

Peden, Rachel, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 1974. 1st ed ss. VG in G DJ. Rural virtues & a naturalist's philosophy of the family farm, almost a thing of the past. DJ sl soil. DJ spine sunned & chips at top of DJ spine.

Life in Forest and Jungle: The Many Worlds of Wildlife Series.

Perry, Richard, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Taplinger, (1976). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Fascinting & often ingenious adaptations made by creatures in forest & jungles from the S. American rain forests to northern. woods & froom gum forests of Australia to the African jungles. DJ sl edge wear.

Continuing the Good Life: half a century of homesteading.

Nearing, Helen and Scott, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Schocken Books, (1979). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. The great-grandparents of the back-to-the-land movement, the Nearings abandoned the city in 1932 for a rural life.. DJ price clipped & fading toward edges.

Nature Stories from the Vienna Woods.

Koenig, Lilli, introduction by Konrad Lorenz, · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Crowell, (1958). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Life stories of animals around Koenig's home in the deep woods near Vienna. DJ price clipped & chipped.

Dwellers of the Marsh Realm.

McKishnie, Archie P., · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Chicago, Donohue, (1937). VG. Paste down pictorial on green binding, owner inscription.

The Woodland Book.

Ransom, Elmer, · 1943 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Howell, Soskin, (1943). VG in G DJ. Intimate sketches, personal profiles of well loved common American birds & animals. DJ missing piece top corner, edge. wear, DJ back tanned.

Edges: backcountry lives in America today on the borderlands between the old ways and the new.

Raphael, Ray, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 1976. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. DJ price clipped.

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

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

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

You Are a Dog: life through the eyes of a man's best friends.

Bain, Terry, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harmond, (2004). 1st ed 4th ptg. VG in VG DJ. You may think you know what your dog is thinking but you don't. The vacuum wants to eat you, the sofa, the children. "You will. laugh. You will cry. You will lick dew from the grass.".

Seven Cats and the Art of Living.

Coudert, Jo, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Warner, (1996). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Jo's 7 cats share "Go Well", a small house in rural NJ, with her. Remainder mark.

Flowering Plants of Jamaica.

Adams, C. D., with contributions by G. R. Proctor, R. W. Read & others, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Mona Jamaica, Univ of West Indiex, (1972). VG. Red binding, gilt lettering spine. Owner notations bottom fore-edge, scratches on back cover.

Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Agriculture Handbook no. 249.

Little, Elbert L. Jr. & Frank H. Wadsworth, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Washington, D.C., USDA, Forest Service, 1964. VG. Gray binding, red flower on ft cover. Owner name ft endpaper, edge wear, tape remains back endpaper. 2 laid in articles. One on Tropical Fruits by Alice F. Smart (author of Fruit Trees for Florida Homes) dated Sept. 1970 (2 pag...

Explaining the Atom.

Hecht, Selig, · 1947 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Viking, 1947. 2nd ptg. VG in Fair DJ. Hecht has the genius to make the atom clear in ordinary terms. DJ torn & repaired, owner name ft endpaper.

Walkies: dog training & care the Woodhouse way.

Woodhouse, Barbara, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Summit Books, (1982). VG. Choosing your dog, caring & feeding, training, general behavior, hints for the dog show.

The Best Loved Trees of America: intimate close-ups of their year-round traits.

Lemmon, Robert S., · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, American Garden/Doubleday, 1952. VG. Tree appreciation of the age-old attachment of people for trees. Owner name ft endpaper, notations back endpaper. Tanning on few pages. Few laid in article notes about trees. Sl edge wear.

The Latchkey Dog: how the way you live shapes the behavior of the dog you love.

Andersen, Jodi, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Quill, (2000). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Get your house back in order while teaching your dog to be a useful, working member of your family.

Tall Blondes: a book about giraffes.

Sherr, Lynn, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, (1997). VG in VG DJ. A book devoted to the tallest, most elegant & probably least understood of the giant creatures thata inhabit this planet. With a devotee's passion & a reporter's curiosity, Sherr reveals the extraordinary world of the giraffe a...

The Book of the Toad: a natural and magical history of toad-human relations.

Degraaff, Robert M., · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Rochester, VT, Park Street Press, (1991). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Unexpected details regarding the life of the toad, from insect eater in gardens, a pharmaceutical ingredient in shamanic. hallucinogens, time-honored place in witchcrafts, its apotheosis in the stars as the conste...

The Warblers of North America.

Chapman, Frank M., · 1907 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Appleton, 1907. G ex-library. Royal blue binding, gilt lettering. Library markings.