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The Mason-Wasps
by Fabre, J. Henri; [Fabre, Jean-Henri]
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- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, pages lightly toned.
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- First American Printing
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- 1919
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- Hardcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$30.00
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NY: Dodd, Mead and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, pages lightly toned.. 1919. First American Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine, vi, 318pp, index. Front boards also have blindstamped interlocking dragonfly pattern. Translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Index. Translator's note. Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Rock with a View: Hiking, Biking, and Skiing the Shawangunk Mountains
by Weinman, Steve
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- Used - Very Good
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- 20th anniversary edition
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- 2015
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- Softcover
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- 9781467551670
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- 1
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$15.00
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One Black Shoe Productions. Very Good. 2015. 20th anniversary edition. Softcover. 1467551678 . 26 scenic trails to climb in New York's Shawangunk Mountains. Photos, maps, illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 76 pages . Item Price
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Lives
by Eckstein, Gustav
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- Used - Very Good; Edges rubbed, pages toned.
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- Later Printing
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- 1932
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- Softcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$15.00
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NY: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.. Very Good; Edges rubbed, pages toned.. 1932. Later Printing. Softcover. A solid copy of the Armed Services Edition (738) of this collection of animal studies.; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 128 pages . Item Price
US$15.00
This is Our World
by Sears, Paul B.
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- Used - Very Good; Edges rubbed, pages toned.
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- Later Printing
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- 1945
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- Softcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$15.00
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NY: Editions for the Armed Services. Very Good; Edges rubbed, pages toned.. 1945. Later Printing. Softcover. Illustrations by the author. A solid copy of the Armed Services Edition (790) of this natural and cultural history study. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 288 pages . Item Price
US$15.00
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
by Warner, William W.
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- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper, jacket tattered, brown stain on front jacket panel and front
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- First Edition
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- 1976
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- Hardcover
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- 9780316923262
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper, jacket . tattered, brown stain on front jacket panel and front boards.. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0316923265 . Cloth-backed boards. Map endpapers, xiii, 304pp. Natural history classic about the Atlantic blue crab. Many illustrations. . Item Price
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Fishing the Dry Fly As a Living Insect: The Thinking Man's Guide to Trout Angling; an Unorthodox Method
by Wright, Leonard M.
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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- Third Printing
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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- 9780525217404
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- 1
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0525217401 . Brown cloth. Black and white illustrations, index. The author reexamines our traditional assumptions about trout - how they perceive, how they react, why they rise - and comes up with a new way to fish the dry fly, across and downstream with motion.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Any Luck? Trout Fishing
by Connett, Eugene V.
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- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Endpapers toned, owner name on front free endpaper, jacket chipped.
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- Later Printing
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- 1940
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- Hardcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$20.00
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NY: Garden City Publishing. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Endpapers toned, owner name on front free . endpaper, jacket chipped.. 1940. Later Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth with blue topstain, xvi, 231pp. Acknowledgements, black and white illustrations and photos. A collection of fishing advice and reminiscences. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Item Price
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon
by Corbett, Jim
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.
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- Book Club Edition; Fourth Printing
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- 1946
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- Hardcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1946. Book Club Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Introduction by Sir Maurice Hallett, preface by Lord Linlithgow. Glossary. Map endpapers. The adventurer and shikari (tiger hunter) author relates his experiences ridding the northern towns of India of man-eating tigers. Orange decorative cloth. xix, 235 pp. Book club… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Burgess Animal Book for Children
by Burgess, Thornton W.
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- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Homemade owner bookplate on front free endpaper, boards worn, front hinge cracked.
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- Later Printing
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- 1927
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- Hardcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$30.00
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Homemade owner bookplate on front free endpaper, . boards worn, front hinge cracked.. 1927. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green decorative cloth with color illustration of moose affixed to front boards. All color and black and white plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes present. Lively natural history descriptions of North American animals featured… Read more about this item Item Price
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Slave to a Pack of Wolves
by Smith, Gordon K.
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- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned.
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- Second Printing
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$250.00
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Chicago: Adams Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned.. 1978. Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The author raised many wolves and wolf-dog hybrids. A scarce title. Condensed version, iv, 222pp. Photos, illustrations. Laid in is a sheet of letterhead of Gordon Smith's Wolf Haven Kennels in Rowan, Iowa,… Read more about this item Item Price
US$250.00
Mammoths and Mastodons: Ice Age Elephants of New York
by Drumm, Judith
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- Used - Very Good; Covers lightly toned.
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- 1963
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- Softcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$15.00
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Albany, NY: New York State Education Department. Very Good; Covers lightly toned.. 1963. Softcover. Stapled illustrated light blue card covers. Educational Leaflet number 13, State Museum and Science Service. Illustrations, maps, photos. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 31 pages . Item Price
US$15.00
In Berkshire Fields
by Eaton, Walter Prichard
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- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, attractive bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, endpapers lightly foxed.
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- 1926
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- Hardcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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US$25.00
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Boston: W. A. Wilde Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, attractive bookplate on front . pastedown endpaper, endpapers lightly foxed.. 1926. Hardcover. xiii, 312pp. Numerous plates by Walter King Stone. Green cloth. Top edges gilt. Natural history observations in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Item Price
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Wilderness Wanderers: Adventures Among Wild Animals in Rocky Mountain Solitudes
by Chapman, Wendell; Chapman, Lucie
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- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, pages toned.
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- First Edition
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- 1937
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- Hardcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, pages toned.. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth with paste-on photo of buffalo on front boards. Many photos, index, xvi, 318pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Item Price
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The Living Forest: A World of Animals
by Poortvliet, Rien
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.
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- First English Edition
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
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- 9780810909113
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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NY: H. N. Abrams. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1979. First English Edition. Hardcover. 0810909111 . Most famous for his bestselling book about Gnomes, Dutch artist Poortvliet here concentrates on the birds and animals of the forest. 139 color illustrations. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages . Item Price
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The Parasitic Copepods of Indo-West Pacific Lizardfishes (Synodontidae)
by Cressey, Roger; Cressey, Hillary Boyle
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- Used - Good; Usual library stamps and markings.
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- 1979
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- Softcover
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. Good; Usual library stamps and markings.. 1979. Softcover. Many illustrations, photos, maps. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 296. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 71 pages . Item Price
US$20.00
Freshwater Isopods (Asellidae) of North America
by Williams, W. D.
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- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards splayed, owner name on front free endpaper.
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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US$25.00
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Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards splayed, owner name on front free . endpaper.. 1972. Hardcover. Maroon cloth binding. Many illustrations. References, index of scientific names. Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems Identification Manual 7. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 45 pages . Item Price
US$25.00
An Angler's Entomology
by Harris, J. R.
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- Used - Good in Good dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings, jacket worn.
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- Reprint
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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South Brunswick, England: A. S. Barnes. Good in Good dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings, jacket worn.. 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Jacket art by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Green cloth binding. xv, 268pp. Black and white photographs, color plates, charts, black and white illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. Fisherman and naturalist J. R. Harris describes and presents all the stages… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fossils
by Moody, Richard
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Printing
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- 1986
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- Softcover
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- 9780020633709
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US$10.00
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NY: Collier Books and Macmillan Publishing. Very Good. 1986. First Printing. Softcover. 002063370X . Black and white photos and illustrations, color photos and illustrations, foreword, diagrams, figures, bibliography, glossary, and index. 300 genera of fossils photographed and reproduced as 60 full-color plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages . Item Price
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Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons: A Journey to the Flora and Fauna of a Unique Island
by Durrell, Gerald
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.
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- First Edition; First Printing
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780671243722
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NY: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671243721 . Orange cloth binding. Many photos. The naturalist's account of the animals and plants of Mauritius. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages . Item Price
US$15.00
Natural History of Vermont
by Thompson, Zadock
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- Used - Very Good; Blank sticker on front cover, owner stamp on half title page.
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- Later Printing
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- 1972
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780804809832
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle. Very Good; Blank sticker on front cover, owner stamp on half title page.. 1972. Later Printing. Softcover. 0804809836 . xii, 286pp. Black and white illustrations, appendix, and index. Reprints the 1853 edition published by the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Item Price
US$10.00