BIRDS
BIRDS
Into the Woods 
Abbott, Henry. Camps and trails. New York: Pr. for the author, 1918. 12mo (15.1 cm, 5.9"). 64 pp.; illus.
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The work is illustrated with a number of mounted black-and-white photographs.
Each book in the series was published by the author as a very limited edition and distributed to his friends as a Christmas gift; the present copy is 
inscribed by Abbott: “Wishing you peacetime Christmas cheer.”
This is the original first, 1918 edition, not a modern reprint.
• Publisher's bark-patterned paper–covered boards, front cover with printed title; extremities chipped (most notably spine head). Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription as above; pages clean. (26848)
“My
Style of
Drawing
Birds”
Audubon, John James. My style of drawing birds by John James Audubon.... Ardsley, NY: Pub. By the Overland Press for the Haydn Foundation, 1979. Tall 8vo. 26 pp., [2] ff., illus., facsims. 
• New. Attractive.
A Celebrated Study of Nicaragua's Natural History Belt, Thomas. The naturalist in Nicaragua: A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests. With observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms. London: John Murray, 1874. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., xvi, 401, [1] pp.; 3 plts., 1 fold. col. map.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • NSTC 00522718; Palau 26647; Jackson, Guide to the Literature of Botany, 368. Publisher's blue cloth, covers framed in black-stamped designs, front cover with central gilt-stamped alligator vignette; binding slightly shaken, spine sunned, corners and spine extremities rubbed, sewing just starting to loosen. Two leaves with outer margins lightly waterstained; map edges lightly foxed. A nice clean copy. (24406)
Two
LARGE
Volumes — 106
Color
Plates
Eaton, Elon Howard. Birds of New York. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910. Large 4to. 2 vols. I: 501 pp., 42 plts. II: 719 pp., 64 plts.
This publication is Memoir 12 of the New York State Museum. The plates are photomechanicals in full color.
American Primer — American Woodcuts M'Carty's American primer. Being a selection of words the most easy of pronunciation. Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis (stereotyped by J. Howe), (copyright 1828). 12mo (14.3 cm, 5.6"). 36 pp.; illus.
12 half-page wood engravings of animals and birds done by Gilbert.
• Shoemaker 33941; Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 714. Publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers, split and chipped along spine, otherwise crisp and clean. Pages with light age-toning and offsetting. (24569)
The Wonder ofBIRDS Rennie, James. Natural history of birds. Their architecture, habits, and faculties. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. 12mo. 308 pp., illus.
Click the images for enlargements. “With numerous [in-text wood] engravings” — definitely, charming.
• See: Wood 553; Freeman 3166. Publisher's tan cloth printed with publishing information on front cover and ads for various Harper Library series on the back. Strip of cloth tape at top of spine and slightly onto the covers; ex–social club library, with 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A nice, clean little book. (26731)
Birds of PASutton, George Miksch. [cover title] A year's program for bird protection in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Pa.: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Board of Game Commissioners, [1925–1929?]. 8vo. 50 pp.; illus.
• Pamphlet on bird life in Pennsylvania. Illustrated with black and white photographs by several ornithologists and drawings by the author. Bulletin no. 9. Scarce: OCLC records only three holdings of this item (at Yale, Bloomsburg University, Pa., and Cincinnati Public Library).
• Original wrappers, illustrated in color on the front with the figure of a cardinal. Front and back wrappers lightly soiled, front wrapper with short tear at bottom edge. Internally clean. (13961)
Recipes
& Wine
Suggestions:Willard, John. Game is good eating. Helena, MT: State
Publishing Co., © 1958. 8vo. [6], 106 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's textured brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green, front cover with vignette of deer in pot, dustwrapper chipped at corners, upper edges, and spine extremities with spine lightly sunned. Front fly-leaf with inked owner's name. Pages clean. (26903)
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