Category: Environment

The biology of the Weddell and crabeater seals, with a study of the comparative behaviour of the Pinnipedia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, British Museum : 1940

Seller ID: 703

SIGNED BY AUTHOR--ANATOMY AND BEHAVIOR OF SEALS: ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF AN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN THE 1930s. 12 1/4 inches tall volume, orange printed paper covers, inscribed and signed by author top of cover, 139 pp, 42 figures, 10 photographic plates, corners curled, binding tight, text unmarked, good+. GEORGE COLIN LAWDER BERTRAM (1911 - 2001) Joined a three-man Cambridge Expedition to Scoresby Sound, East Greenland, transported there and back by Dr Jean-Baptiste Charcot in his ship Pourquoi-Pas?. This was followed by nine months studying coral reefs in the Red Sea, prior to accepting a pla...
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A transplantation experiment with Zoarces viviparus L.

By: Ege, Vilhelm

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, H. Hagerup : 1942

Seller ID: 1013

1942 DETALIED STUDY OF VIVIPAROUS EELS BY NOTED DANISH ICHTHYOLOGIST REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENT OVER HEREDITY IN ADAPTATION-SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. 9 1/2 inches tall monograph, pink printed paper covers, glued spine binding, pp 271 - 384, inscribed top of cover, Hr. Dr. phil. Anton Fr. Bruun venligst fra [compliments of] Vilh. Ege, handstamp of Anton Fr. Bruun and Aquatic Research Institute to cover, very good. VILHELM EGE (1887 - 1962) played a leading role in ichthyology during the last half-century, particularly in the elucidation of the bathypelagic fish fauna. In 1908, he ass...
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Bumblebee Economics

By: Heinrich, Bernd

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press : 1979

Seller ID: 870

CLASSIC FIELD STUDY OF BIOENERGETICS OF THE BUMBLEBEE AND ITS ABILITY TO REGULATE BODY TEMPERETURE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, orange cloth binding, gilt image of bumblebee to cover, viii, 245 pp, double-page color plate of bumblebees of North and Central America; near-fine in near-fine dust jacket. BERND HEINRICH (born 1940) is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing and biology. Heinrich has made major contributions to the study of insect physiology and behavior, as well as bird behavior. In ad...
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Memoirs of the Indian Museum. An Account of the Rats of Calcutta

By: Hossack, W.C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press : 1907

Seller ID: 710

1907 MONOGRAPH ON THE RATS OF CALCUTTA BY MEMBER OF THE PLAGUE DEPARTMENT DURING THE THIRD PLAGUE PANDEMIC--LARGE COLOR PLATES OF RATS. Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers; Vol. 1, text, errata slip, 80 pp; Vol. 2, 8 plates with descriptive text: 6 full-page color lithograps, 2 black & white (1 folding). Unmarked, apparently unread, covers darkened with edges chipped, backstrip partially perished, text page edges ate-toned, plates bright and clean. In cusotm mylar cover. WILLIAM CARDIFF HOSSACK, M.D. was a member of the Plague Department, Calcutta. THE THIRD PLAGUE PANDEMIC was a ...
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Studies of Mean Sea-Level. Report of the Committee on Shoreline Investigations. National Research Council

By: Johnson, Douglas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences : 1929

Seller ID: 1050

1929 PRESCIENT STUDY OF VARIATION OF MEAN SEA LEVEL SURROUNDING NEW YORK CITY BEFORE AWARENESS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 10 inches tall paperbound volume, handstamp of R. Harry Jr. to cover, 50 pp, 9 tables, 14 figures, including map of area used for New York City tide studies and map of Jamaica Bay tide stations. Sunning to cover edges, otherwise very good. DOUGLAS WILSON JOHNSON (1878 - 1944) was an American geographer and geomorphologist known for his contributions to the understanding of coastal processes and landforms. He was a descendant of a slave-holding American family of English roots. John...
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Image for Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Vol. 1 Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia, Vol. 2 Die Prosobranchia und Lamellibranchia neist Einem Supplement zu den Opisthobranchia

Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Vol. 1 Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia, Vol. 2 Die Prosobranchia und Lamellibranchia neist Einem Supplement zu den Opisthobranchia

By: Meyer, Heinrich Adolf and Mobius, Karl August

Price: $800.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann : 1865

Seller ID: 1223

1865, 1872 TWO FOLIO VOLUMES - LANDMARK STUDY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE ECOLOGY ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHS. Two folio volumes 14 inches tall, printed paper covered card covers, soiled and edge-worn, cloth spine. Vol. 1 with handstamp of the Bryant Walker Library, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, to cover, and bookplate of Bryant Walker with image of snail on cattail leaf to front paste-down, and hand-inscribed card listing contents of volume affixed to ffep. xxx, 87, [11], tinted lithographic map, color temperature graph, 18 hand colored lithographic plates, 6 uncolo...
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Collection of 36 offprints by legendary ecologist and Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley

By: Pearson, Oliver Payne

Price: $200.00

Publisher: : 1948 - 1989

Seller ID: 1019

1948 - 1989 COLLECTION OF OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT ECOLOGIST OLIVER PAYNE PEARSON, DIRECTOR OF MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY AT UC BERKELEY. Collection of 36 offprints, including 6 of the 7 cited as "seminal papers" by WZ Lidicker Jr and JL Patton in their obituary of Oliver Pearson (https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/oliverpaynepearson.html). The offprints are in very good condition with the exception of curled corners on a few, and are unmarked save for occasional underlining of Pearson's name under the title, and signature of J. M. Taylor on upper right corner of 5 ...
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A Preliminary Investigation: The Effect of Elevated Temperatuer on the American Oyster Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin)

By: Quick, J.A., Jr.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, Marine Research Laboratory : 1971

Seller ID: 708

1971 SYMPOSIUM ON INCREASED TEMPERATURE ON OYSTER POPULATIONS REVEALED IMPAIRED REPRODUCTION, AND TISSUE DAMAGE WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE. 10 1/2 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, xii, 190 pp, illustrations, tables, 5 color plates, faint institutional handstamp to cover, no other library marks, very good.
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Category: Environment