A collection of ten vintage American books on trapping, hunting, wild foods, medicinal plants, bee hunting, fur preparation, and related outdoor pursuits, primarily published by the A. R. Harding Publishing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Most of the Harding volumes date from the 1930s and 1940s and retain their illustrated pictorial.....
New York: A.O. Moore & Co., 1859. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. This is the 19th century, Agriculture classic "A treatise on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening adapted to North America; with a view to the Improvement of Country Residences" by A.J. Dowling with supplements by Henry Winthrop Sargent. The.....
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1949. Original Paintings by Francis Lee Jaques, Roger Tory Peterson, Edward Von S. Dingle, John Henry Dick. Hardcover with slipcase. This is a scientific book with illustrations detailing birds of South Carolina. It is a mid-20th century work with excellent illustrations. It is in.....
Harrisburg, PA: Edwin K. Meyers, State Printer, 1888. First Edition. Octavo (9.25 x 6 inches). Original dark green cloth, blind-ruled borders to boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated with fifty finely printed color lithographic plates depicting native species of Pennsylvania, including luminous studies of grebes, owls, and finches. Collation complete.....
![Item #1009 The Outermost House [Signed]. Henry Beston](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1009.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789847769)
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo. xv, 222 pp. [3], Publisher's original navy blue cloth with gilt-stamped lettering to upper cover and spine. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Louise Seaman with the homage.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. 252 pp. Original brown cloth, blind-stamped covers, gilt lettering to spine, brown coated endpapers. Spine lightly cocked, gilt dulled, corners rubbed, minor fray at crown and tail, boards faintly mottled; interior clean with mild toning. Ownership name “A.C. Robinson” inked on.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1881. Very Good. Dark green boards bound in cloth with gold gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Wear along the spine and the headband.This rare first edition of Thoreau’s Early Spring in Massachusetts offers a vivid, poetic glimpse into New England’s awakening landscape.....
New York and Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. First Holiday Edition. Two volumes. Octavo. 522 pp. Original dark olive-brown cloth with decorative gilt feather design to front panels and spines. Top edges gilt. Internally clean; illustrated with 30 photogravure plates (including frontispieces) from photographs. Tissue guards intact. Issued during.....
Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, 1975. 106 pp. 8vo. Original green printed wrappers. Moderate edge wear and surface scuffing; spine rubbed with light creasing. Binding sound. Interior clean with uniform toning.A concise anthropological study of Neanderthal evolution, issued as part of the Basic Concepts in Anthropology series. Illustrated throughout.A solid academic.....
Colum: Lutheran Book Concern, 1917. First Edition. 269 pp. 8vo. Original forest green cloth with gilt-stamped titles in a Gothic font. Binding tight with light shelf wear and a small, faint blemish to the front panel. Internal leaves show age-toning and moderate foxing throughout. A lyrical and deeply personal account.....
London: C. Rivington, 1741. Second Edition, Corrected. Octavo. Modern half dark green morocco over marbled boards. Spines expertly tooled in silver with raised bands and fleur-de-lis motifs. All edges marbled to match boards. Engraved frontispiece by B. Cole present. Significant damp-staining/tide marks to the inner margins of preliminaries. Foxing and general.....
Peking (Beijing): Academia Sinica, Institute of Botany, 1958. Folio in original printed paper wrappers with bilingual Chinese and English titles. Wrappers show expected wear with small edge tears, tape shadows, and minor creasing; corners softened. Text and plates printed on heavy cream stock, complete and clean throughout with only light.....
![Item #679 A Field Guide to Western Birds [Signed]. Roger Tory Peterson](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/679.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1777772470)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Limited Edition. Full leather with ornate gilt-stamped bird motifs and borders; all edges gilt; silk ribbon marker. Number 41 of 2000 copies. Signed by Roger Tory Peterson on the limitation page. An exceptional copy; binding is tight and unmarked, gilt edges are bright, and internal.....
Columbus: The Wheaton Publishing Co., 1903. Large octavo. Two volumes, continuously paginated through 671 pp., with preliminary matter. First edition. Publisher’s dark cloth, gilt-lettered and ruled to boards and spines. Introduction and analytical keys by Lynds Jones. Color plates and numerous photographic halftones. Cloth worn and unevenly discolored, with scattered.....
Seattle: The Occidental Publishing Co., 1909. Allan Brooks. Original Edition. Hardcover. Two volume original edition no. 162 of 350. Fading on cover with small splotches. Minor wear on interior pages. Internal text clean. Owners signature inside. 997 pages. Scientific description of birds of Washington with full art illustrations. Rare set.....
Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. Limited Edition. Full forest-green leather with gold ornamentation, three raised spine bands, all edges gilt, and silk moiré endpapers. An archival-quality copy. Thoreau’s foundational work of American literature, documenting his two-year experiment in simple living on the shores of Walden Pond. This edition captures the.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. 11 volumes, approx. 300–400 pp. each. Dark green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, top edges gilt. Moderate shelf wear, fraying along spines, fading to cloth, and toning to pages; overall sound and complete.The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, complete in eleven volumes: A......
New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1869. New Edition. Hardcover. This is a good condition, mid 19th century copy of the theology treatise "Nature and the Supernatural" by Horace Bushnell. Copy has blemishes and cuts on cover as well as along spine. Inside text has some stains and foxing. There.....
![Item #89 Birds [The Nature Library]. Neltje Blanchan](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/89.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749159080)
New York: WM. H. Wise & Co., 1930. Hardcover. This is a near very good condition copy of "Birds" by Neltje Blanchan, part of the Nature Library series. It contains full color illustrations and detailed writings on the lives of various bird species. Book is in near very good condition.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. 368pp. This is in fine condition, first edition first printing, of "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. Price unclipped on dust jacket. It's the classic work detailing environmental poisoning, from the famous nature journalist. The dust jacket is protected by mylar and is in very good.....
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1833. First edition. Marbled boards bound in leather. Calf binding. Some chipping along the spine. Wear along the boards. Foxing and light toning throughout. Frontispiece wrinkled but intact.Two-volume first edition of The Natural History of Humming-Birds by Sir William Jardine, from the renowned Naturalist's Library series. Features.....
Columbus, OH: The Wheaton Publishing Co., 1903. First Edition (Standard). Large octavo (10.5 x 7.5 inches), two volumes bound in publisher’s original blue buckram with gilt-ruled title panels to front boards and spines. Edges have a splatter pattern. Illustrated with 80 color plates in early photochromic process and more than.....