A lovely commercially produced (though likely in small quantities) album of colorful preserved marine algae specimens mounted on six leaves of cardstock and enclosed within thin sections of whale vertebrae. The algae samples are beautifully arranged and still have brilliant color. The bone front cover has a hollowed-out center lined.....

First Edition. Goodbye to a River, Graves' first book, is a beloved classic of environmental and conservation writing. Graves describes a three-week canoe trip down the Brazos River in Texas in 1957 to see the landscape before a series of dams were constructed on the waterway. This collection, assembled by.....

An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) image "made on the path leading from Hutchings's Upper House hotel to his residence a few hundred yards north of the hotel, north of present-day Sentinel Bridge," Naef and Hult-Lewis, p. 90. Watkins took this image between 1878 and 1881. It may have.....

An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) image of the Three Brothers mountains with the Merced River in the foreground. Watkins returned to this spot over and over and made many photographs from this vantage point. Watkins took this image between 1878 and 1881. It may have been printed by.....

First Edition. 303 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Houston on a page tipped in at the front of the book.

First Edition. The extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust through human action was an act of ecological destruction even greater than the better-known extinction of the passenger pigeon. In 1875, a swarm estimated at 12.5 trillion (!) insects spread over much of the Midwest and intruded into central Canada, devouring.....

A Junior Library Guild Selection! Adapted from Amy Stewart’s original New York Times bestseller, the young readers edition of Wicked Bugs is a creepy-cool guide to the worst of the worst insects, arachnids, and arthropods. Illustrated by Briony Morrow-Cribbs. Reading age: 8 to 12 years; Lexile measure: 1210L; Grade level.....

First Edition. xiii, 625 pages. Part 1 of 4, translated from the German. Original version first published in 1929. First edition in English. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

First Edition. A portrait of rich environmental and cultural heritage of the Amazon, told through oral histories, stories, and published accounts. The author is a Brazil expert at UC Berkeley and did extensive field work in South America. 332 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A......

First Edition. Descriptions of plants in the Southern province of Pakistan, with information on their use, organized by class and family. The author was curator of the Kurrachee Municipal Museum. Among the plants given full treatment are cannabis sativa ("The general effects of the resin are alleviation of pain, remarkable.....

First Edition. [1], 59-140, iii (index). With a large, folding map of Sikkum, printed in black. A report on a plant-gathering expedition. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers. Map near fine.

First Edition. Includes a chapter on hemp (cannabis sativa), about which the author writes, "The Hemp plant likewise secretes a resinous principle in its leaves, on which account these, as well as the churrus collected from off the young tops of the stem and flowers, is highly esteemed in Eastern.....

First Edition. 425 pages. An argument that the need for nitrogen is a strong motivating factor in the lives of animals, particularly herbivores. A widely cited work of ecology, with nearly a thousand citations in Google scholar. First edition (first printing). Corners bumped, else fine in illustrated boards (no dust.....