Search Results: Natural History from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

2021 hardcover as pictured. This is a beautiful book in very nice condition. A collection of essays and images reflecting on the relationship between birds and humans. With many full color illustrations. Binding is firm. Pictorial covers show minimal shelf wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt, Mabel Osgood Wright, John Muir, Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey. This copy appears unread. Jacket, as shown with this listing, has minor shelf wear. Binding is firm, colored endpapers, head and tail bands. Would be listed as new but for the shelfwear. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

Published 1834: New York: D. Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln and Albany: Carroll & Cook Printers to the Assembly. Ex-library book without the usual stamping and cards. XII (12) pages front matter, 484pp text pages including index and list of plates and 72 four-color plates. Embossed Cloth cover as shown with this listing has gilt stamping on front board and spine. Cloth fraying at head of spine. Text mottled and foxed with some cockling. Binding intact however, pages in the front matter are very loose. Given the color plates a rare copy. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR bottom shelf under N)

Published 1843: New York: D. Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. Albany: Carroll & Cook Printers to the Assembly. XIII (8pp) front matter, text 572pp including index and list of plates and 89 black & white plates (with one foldout plate). Embossed Cloth cover as shown with this listing has gilt stamping on front board and spine. The spine is damaged with the cloth fraying away at the head and tail (see photo). The text is tanned and mottled. Binding is intact. This is an ex-library book but no stamps of cards. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR UNDER N)

A volume from the Natural History of New York, published in 1842. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, markings and cards. Dark brown Buckram cover as shown with this listing is rubbed, bumped and chipped. Blind embossing on front and back cover, gilt stamping on front board and spine. Binding is intact, text is mottled, tanned and cockled and shows signs of water damage. Previous owner (donator to the library) signature on front free endpaper. 24pp front matter, 540pp text and 8 single black & white plates. This copy is well used but for it's age is in acceptable condition. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR b/s)

1996 soft cover as pictured. This book has significant water staining and waviness to the last 100 or so pages but remains very readable. A comprehensive dictionary of New Englands fauna including birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles with a short description and range for each species. Binding intact. Cover soiled, stained and chipped. Text appears clean and unmarked except as noted above. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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1908 hardcover as pictured. Binding is intact though one page of ads at rear has come loose. This volume appears to have been rebound. Green buckram boards show light shelf wear. Gold stamping on spine. Text is tanned but appears clean and unmarked. An extensive study of North American Trees with hundreds of illustrations and photographs and an extensive index. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

Three nicely done volumes of classic nature writing by John Burroughs. Bindings are intact. Teal cloth boards are lightly soiled and show some edge wear. Gilet top edges. Front hinges gently cracked in volumes 1 and 15. Pencil notations on FFEPs and a few pages in each volume. Texts are lightly tanned. A few pages have been discolored by newspaper left between pages. Each volume includes 5 or 6 beautiful tissue guarded illustrations. Volume 1 contains a frontispiece portrait of Burroughs as a young man and Volume 15 of Burroughs in old age. No dust jackets. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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