Claremont, California: Scripps College [Anderson, Ritchie & Simon: The Ward Ritchie Press], 1962. Original wraps. Octavo size, 12 pp. Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was a marine biologist and conservationist best known for her book "Silent Spring", a study of the negative effects of pesticides on the environment and an unsparing criticism... More about Of Man and the Stream of Time
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, folio size, 280 pp., signed by Jacques Cousteau. Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) was a pioneer in the study of marine life, strongly advocating conservation through his scientific research, books, and films; his work is widely renowned, merging... More about Whales
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. Crowder, William. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 469 pp. Written in 1931 by noted marine biologist William Crowder, this detailed guide to representative species of nearly all types of invertebrate animals of the North American Atlantic coast includes 571 species. This guidebook is... More about Between The Tides
San Diego: South Moulton Company, 1923. Hardcover. Students' Edition, three volumes (complete), quarto size, 2177 total pp. A comprehensive resource of California's diverse bird population for both academics and amateurs, this book by prominent ornithologist William Leon Dawson (1873-1928) details the myriad species of birds in the state, and is... More about The Birds of California; A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and...
[Government Publication / National Government Publication], [1884]. Elliott, Henry Wood. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 190 pp. Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930) was an American watercolor painter, author, and environmentalist whose work was mainly focused around Alaska; this "Report", his field notes and observations upon the Seal Island of Alaska, was... More about Report on the Seal Islands of Alaska
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Nash, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 276 pp., signed by John Nash, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. A collection of letters written by naturalist Gilbert White (1720-1793), this volume details the plant and animal life in the... More about The Natural History of Selborne
New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 540 pp., signed by Stephen Jay Gould. The fifth volume in a series of essays, begun in 1974 in the pages of "Natural History" under the rubric "This View of Life." Professor Gould wrote "this... More about Bully for Brontosaurus, Reflections in Natural History
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1924. Hardcover. Quarto size, 770 pp. Joseph Grinnell (1877 - 1939) was a field biologist and zoologist; he extensively studied the fauna of California, and is credited with introducing a method of recording precise field observations knows as the "Grinnell System"; he was the... More about Animal Life in the Yosemite, An Account of the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians in a...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Peterson, Roger Tory. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 336 pp., with signature of Clarence Cottam. Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) was an imminent naturalist and ornithologist, as well as a talented artist, who first published "A Field Guide to Birds" in 1934, considered the first modern... More about A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 2000 copies, quarto size, two volumes (complete), 225 pp., inscribed by author. "The Farallones" is a collection of poems by Milton S. Ray (1881-1946), an engineer and industrialist native to San Francisco; his success in business gave him time... More about The Farallones, The Painted World, and Other Poems of California
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Company, 1912. Cardboard covers. Duodecimo size, [95] pp., inscribed by Tiffany Blake (dedicatee). Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921), humourist, poet, and columnist, writes this ode to the American wilderness, discerning not only the beauty and inspiration found in walking through the woods, but also that which... More about The Pipesmoke Carry
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 314 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often for the works of well-known authors such as Charles... More about Nature for Its Own Sake; First Studies in Natural Appearances