Natural History from Bee Creek Books

Stratford-Upon-Avon, United Kingdom: Horizon Handmade Books, 1982. "Of all that has been written about the English rural scene, the essays and novels of Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) are among the best loved." Printed in a standard edition on Glastonbury Antique Laid paper, and also in a hand bound limited edition printed on Van Gelder Mould Made paper. Both editions are letterpress… Read more about this item

United States: American West Publishing Company, 1969. With a foreword by Wallace Stegner. B/W and color photographs throughout. Endpapers are topography map of the Grand Canyon. 310 pp. with index. Orange covers with gilt title on spine and gilt image of a driftwood horse on front. Missing DJ. Light wear to cover corners and edges, spine ends are bent… Read more about this item

St. Louis: St. Louis Public Schools, 1908. "The purpose of Nature Study in the elementary grades is to awaken in the child a love for the beautiful in nature, to cultivate his powers of observation and to stimulate in him a desire for investigation." Table listing of one lesson per week for each grade from first to eighth, with suggestions… Read more about this item

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1898. Illustrated by 180 pictures from photographs by Cherry Kearton. 368 pp. Four pages of advertisements at conclusion of text. Olive cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, and image of author rappeling down cliff in gilt on front. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, significant rubbing/scuffing on back cover, fading… Read more about this item

New York: J. C. Derby, 1855. 359 pp. Brown cloth covers with blindstamped image on front and back, and gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners and edges are rubbed to boards, joints are broken and exposed, spine ends are broken and partially removed. Broken hinges and spine. Light foxing/browning throughout interior. Book in Good condition.. Cloth. Good. Size:… Read more about this item

Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration, 1959. A Research Study. Wildlife Bulletin. No. 6, 1959. Large fold-out map in back: Water Developments for Wildlife. Green paper covers. Small tears at spine ends, otherwise covers are VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+.. Softcover. Very Good. Illus. by Foldout Map, Photographs. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Desert.

Boston: Press of A. A. Kingman, 1871. From the proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. XIV, Oct. 18, 1871. 7 pp. Plate depicting early stages of ascidian. Ex. museum with stamp and reference information on front cover. Covers have dirt smudges, slightly bent corners. Grammar edit on both front cover and front… Read more about this item

New York: American Museum Natural History, 1916. In the Foreword written by Henry Fairfield Osborn, " The life and writing of Joel Asaph Allen have exerted so great an influence on the progress of ornithology and mammalogy in America that all who have the interests of these branches of science at heart, both in this country and abroad, will welcome… Read more about this item

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1982. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Volume 173, Article 3. 336 pp. 33 tables, and 50 illustrations. Exterior has light wear to edges, corners are bent. Interior is tight, clean and Near Fine.. Softcover. Very Good+. Illus. by Figures (drawings),Photographs, Maps, Tables. Size: Approx. 7 " x 10 ".… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, 1924. Geological Survey of Alabama. Museum Paper No.7. Alabam Museum of Natural History. Miscellanous Publications No. 12. 33 pages. 2 Plates. ex.mus. stamp on front cover and title page. mildly creased left corner, otherwise Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+.. Wraps. Good. Illus. by Plates. Zoology.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. 322 pp. including Index. Soiling to covers/spine. Corners bumped /rubbed. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Wear/rubbing to spine ends.Gilted top edge. Overall covers are Good. ex-mus. bookplate on front endpaper and ex.mus. stamp and numbers on title page.Tissue guard protecting frontis illustration. Nature sketches on every page. printed on heavy paper.… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City: The Ralton Co., 1958. Day-by-day description of the flora and fauna of the Wasatch mountains in Utah. Third in a series of similar seasonal books. 98 pp. Yellow soft covers have dirt smudges on both sides, and very large crease to top corner of back cover. Interior is tight and clean. Book… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. Adopted 1905. As in force November, 1912. Synopsis includes: Science (general); Mathematies; Astronomy- Geodesy; Physics; Chemistry- Crystallography; Geology- Mineralogy, Petrology, Paleontology; Natural History-Microscopy, General biology; Botany-Ecology; Zoology; Human Anatomy; Physiology-Experimental Psychology; and Bacteriology. 196 pp. includes Index. Brown paper covers. ex.mus.numbers and faint stamp. Mildly soiled covers.Faint watermark along the upper spine joint,… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. "Rather than turn what follows into one of those endless rambling travelogues fraught with human interest, private misapprehensions, and succinct domestic wit, I have intentionally reduced any personal narrative to a staccato sprinkling of comings and goings. It was the jungle and the animals in it that we went to see and which… Read more about this item

1894. Read before the Michigan Academy of Science, December 27, 1894. "Barring a few scattering descriptions by European naturalists of such species as were brought home by the early travellers in this country, the history of North American conchology may be said to have begun where Thomas Say, in 1817, wrote the article on "Conchology" for the first American edition… Read more about this item

New York: American Museum Natural History, 1927. New School Service Series Number Two. "In the Palisade Interstate Park, near its Bear Mountain Headquarters, there is now a Trailside Museum from which radiate about one mile and a half of Nature Trails." 28 pp. plus a map drawing of Bear Mountain Nature Trails and Museum. Tan covers are Very Good+. Interior… Read more about this item

1951. spine and cover edges faded, otherwise exterior is Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. . Paper Cover. Very Good-. Illus. by Illustrated by Susan T. Richert . Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Anthropology.

Syracuse, NY: C.W. Bardeen, 1895. 46 pp. Red cloth covers with white embossed title on front. Cover corners are bumped, top/bottom of spine is bent, title is nearly removed. Ex. museum stamp and identification numbers on front freepaper. Page edges are browning. Interior is tight and clean. Book is in VG condition.. Second Edition.… Read more about this item

Boston: S. E. Cassino & Co., 1883. A monthly journal of Notes and News in all departments of Science. 3 issues: Dec.15,1883 (Vol. 11, No.2); Jan.15, 1884 (Vol.II, No. 3) and Oct.15,1884 (Vol.II, No.12). Articles include: A NEW MICROSCOPE SLIDE CABINET, RESEARCHES ON BACTERIA, MICROSCOPY, SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS IN EASTERN UNITED STATES, BATS, CALIFORNIA SPIDERS, BIRDS, CRUSTACEA, ROCK SECTIONS, WINES,… Read more about this item

New Haven, Conn: Bingham Oceanography Laboratory Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University. 414 pp. Stiff grey wraps. Slightly soiled. ex-mus. stamp on cover, otherwise exterior is Very Good to VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. . Wraps. Very Good to Very Good+. Illus. by Figures (line drawings), Tables, Graphs, Charts, Maps. Size: Approx. 6… Read more about this item