Books

Victorian Horse Stud Book and Antique Photo Set Isaac Sanderson of Willimantic Connecticut owned thouroughbred race horse Alcyo in 1890. He wrote this hard bound gilt edged studbook in fine hand. There are twelve pages of entries from 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893. Included in this rare 19th century horse breeders records are four amazing cabinet photographs of Alcyo including two by Photographer Townsend and one in rare Cyanotype blue sepia image and stud card.

My farm is situated one mile north of the city and contains 200 acres of land. Brood mares at stable $2.50 per week. Alcyo raced at Worcester and Haverhill Massachusetts as well as Norwalk, New Haven and Boston Mystic Park. She was a dark Bay 15-1 hands high. Tracable Victorian Horse race history.
Condition: Used
Publisher: Isaac Sanderson  

Wallace's Guide To The Adirondacks NY 1880 With Map E.R. Wallace descriptive guide to the Adirondacks and hand-book of travel.
Saratoga Springs, Schroon Lake, Lake Luzerne Lake George, Tupper Lake,
Saranac Lake, Lake Champlain, The Ausable Chasm, The Thousand Islands,
Massena Spring, Moose River, Black River and Trenton Falls.
Hard cover 8th edition self published Syracuse New York.
Upstate N.Y. tourist travel, hunting, fishing, camping and classic Victorian hotels detailed. A 19th century Zagat's.

Fine advertisements include Remington Arms Ilion Creedmoor rifle for glass ball shooting, Upper Adirondack Iron Works, Sprague’s Cedar Boats and Canoes,
Edward B. Conway Taxidermist, Smith and Wesson's revolvers,
Forest and Stream magazine, Rushton's Boats, Steven’s Breech-Loading rifles,
Winchester repeating rifle model 1973 described as, the Favorite Of the Adirondacks.

Wakley's Stage Line, the Wayside Hotel at Lake Luzerne, Trappers and fur buyers.
Two great ads for Charles F. Orvis of Manchester Vermont fishing gear with frogs and creel another with a large mouth bass rising to a fly fishing lure.
Many other fly rod ads. Adirondack Company railroad, Lefever shotguns, Delaware and Hudson Canal railroad and Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad Thousand Island House Alexandria bay.

Original COLOR removable map, Map Of New York Wilderness And The Adirondacks by W.W. Ely M.D..
Published by C.W. and C.B. Colton Company New York 1880, it is in fine condition and measures 32" x 28"

Many illustrations including the Summit of White Face Mountain, the grave of John Brown, bear roping, sportsmen, Mt. Marcy, Fouquete's Hotel Plattsburg, Panther hunting, portages, Empire Spring, Remington Armory, Fort William Henry, Steamboats.

This masterpiece has quite a history. Originally copyrighted in 1872 by Columbian Book Company, then E R Wallace in 1875 it sold out again and was produced by Forest and Stream Publishing Company from 1876.This immensely popular outdoorsman and travelers guide is in nice condition.

This antiquarian hardcover with gold leaf embossed title is from a time when the Adirondacks were a mystery to most Americans and traveled only by a select few. RARE!


North Fork Pets And Antiques specializes in rare antique Bird Cages, vintage pet and Veterinary collectibles and animal related antiquarian books and estate jewelry.
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Condition: Used
Size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 300 pages
Publisher: E.R. Wallace  

Casanova's Parrot Famous Peoples Pets Casanova’s Parrot, by Mark Bryant a book of world most famous people and their cherished companion animal pets.
Celebrity pets through out history, the author's categories include novelists, royalty, poets, politics and military, music and entertainment, belles-lettres, arts and fashion and my favorite miscellaneous, the hard to categorize.

From Beatrix Potter and her pet hedgehog, Mary Queen of Scots 22 Maltese dogs, Henry Ibsen pet scorpion, Audrey Hepburn yorkie, hundreds of influential folk and friends detailed.
Walt Disney mouse pet was NOT named Mickey, but Mortimer.
Picasso had an Afghan called Kasbec; Marilyn Monroe had a poodle named Mafia.
Mozart had a pet bird starling and Lucille Ball dog was named Junior.
President Woodrow Wilson had a ram named Ike and Teddy Roosevelt had a six toed cat named Slippers.
Who can forget Nixon’s dog Checkers, though few knew FBI G Man Herbert Hoover had a dog named Spee De Bozo.
Julius Caesar had a giraffe.
In new condition with dust jacket, published by Carroll and Graf West Avalon NY.

Condition: NEW
Size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 . Hard Cover 240 pages
Publisher: Carroll and Graf West Avalon NY
ISBN: 0-7867-1092-6  

Birdcage Book Leslie Garisto Bird Cages Birdcage book by Leslie Garisto.
Heavenly birdcages from royalty to contemporary and moderne design, in a fantastic pictorial, perfect for any interior designer.
Simon and Schuster with dustjacket, first ed 1992 Out of print.

North Fork Pets And Antiques, the World's Largest Antique Bird Cage Source.
Circa: 1992
Condition: Used
Size: 9 1/4 x 7 3/8 95 pg.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0-671-74445-3  

Seal Wars Janice Scott Henke OOP Seal Wars! An American Viewpoint by Janice Henke contains one of the most brutally honest factual explanations of the fur seal harvest.
Consider yourself enlightened?
Hear the seldom told REAL story of the Aboriginal Seal Hunt.
This soft cover book rationally explains from both a cultural anthropologist and Wildlife Rehabilitator point of view,
the necessity of maintaining both native people’s rights and the conservation of the fishery.
Conservation is defined as wise use.
Having met Mrs. Henke during our joint legislative work with the New York State Trappers Association,
I can assure you of her sincere love of both Native People’s rights in general and animals in particular.

Animal rights organizations rarely take in the social and economical impact banning this renewable harvest,
centuries in the making, yet this book tells the plain truth backed up with biological statistics and real world,
on the ice experience.
Factual information about the Humane Society, Greenpeace, Friends of Animals, Fund for Animals, Sea Shepard
and International Fund for Animal Welfare and the less then honorable marketing of the animal rights movement.
If you think you REALLY know about the seal harvest, I promise this treatise will certainly amaze.
Breakwater Press 1985
Several ex libris copies available.

Condition: Used
Size: 9" x 6" 215 pg.
Publisher: Breakwater Press
ISBN: 0-919519-63-6  

Our Farm Friends Linen 1916 Antique Large childrens book our Farm Friends M.A. Donohue and Company,
number 1146 mounted on textured Linen.
Illustrated by C.H.L.
Cows, Ducks, Geese, Dogs, Cats, Goats, Pigs, Rooster, Turkey, Donkey and Horse all brightly portrayed.
Condition: Used
Size: 12" x 9 3/4"
Publisher: M.A. Donohue and Company  

Roy Rogers Sure 'Nough Cowpoke 1952 Roy Rogers Trigger a Mountain Lion, Fawn and well you know the rest.
Whitman Publishing Tell A Tale book in fair condition.
Condition: Used
Size: 6 1/2" x 5 1/2" HC
Publisher: Whitman Publishing  

Huge Reptiles and Amphibians Tetra Press Coffee table sized book Reptiles and Amphibians.
Hard cover 1992 edited by Dr. Harold G. Cogger and Dr. Richard G. Zweifel.
Giant Herp book, 240 pages with incredible photos!
Condition: Used
Size: GIANT 13" x 10"
Publisher: Dr. Harold G. Cogger and Dr. Richard G. Zweifel
ISBN: 0-8317-2786-1  

Red Eyed Tree Frogs Walls Red Eyes and other Leaf Frogs by Jerry Walls.
Super amphibian photo book.
1996 SC 65 pages.
T.F.H. Tropical Fish Hobbyist.
Condition: Used
Size: 10" x 7"
Publisher: T.F.H. Tropical Fish Hobbyist
ISBN: 0-7938-2051-0  

Ball Python T.F.H John Coborn Great pet snake book!
Ball python care and keeping.
Soft cover 65 pages.
Tropical Fish Hobbyist Press.
Neat photos including albino and Piebald color morphs.
Condition: Used
Publisher: T.F.H. Tropical Fish Hobbyist
ISBN: 0-7938-0260-1  

Horses Book, Edward L. Chase The Big Book Of Horses by Edward L. Chase.
A Big Treasure book by Grosset and Dunlap publisher New York 1951
Condition: Used
Size: 13 1/4" x 9 1/4"
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap  

American Veteranian S.W. Cole 1849 Diseases Of Animals RX Early Victorian Veterinarian book American Veterinary Diseases of Domestic Animals by S.W. Cole was the editor of Boston Cultivator Arigultural department, Yankee farmer and Farmers Journal.

This antique hard cover book was published by Jonh P. Jewett and Company Boston

Species Cover Horses, Cattel, Sheep, Swane, Dogs, Bees, Turkeys, Ducks, Chickens, and all manner of husbandry.

288 pages with many detailed engravings

Two original herbal non drug RX prescriptions scropts on old paper detailing cure for wind stoppage. Cure included blood root, ginger, molasses, and fennugreek.
Circa: 1849
Condition: Used
Size: 6
Publisher: S.W. Cole and John P. Jewett Boston