Category: Paleontology

Volume Jubilaire Victor van Straelen, Directeur de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 1925-1954

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Brussels, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique : 1954

Seller ID: 893

1954 TWO HUGE VOLUMES (15 LBS TOTAL) CONTAINING PAPERS ON PALEONTOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY BY 31 CONTRIBUTORS IN CELEBRATION OF RETIREMENT OF BELGIAN CONSERVATIONIST VICTOR VAN STRAELEN. Two folio volumes, 10 x 13 x 2 inches, card covers, printed title to covers and spines, Vol. I, frontis photograph of van Straelen at his desk, Preface, photographic plate,pp [1] - 640 pp; Vol. II, pp 641 - 1213, pages unopened, many plates with tissue guards, maps, large folding tables, no library or ownership marks, very good. No. 372 of edition limited to 450 copies. TEXT IN FRENCH. CONTENTS: Vol. I: Minerology, Pa...
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The Doctrine of Evolution. Its Basis and Its Scope

By: Crampton, Henry E.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Collumbia University Press : 1911

Seller ID: 440

1907 LECTURES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BY HENRY CRAMPTON, COPY OF FELLOW EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST VERNON KELLOGG. 8 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, gilt emblem of Columbia University Press to cover, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed in pencil title page, VL Kellogg August 1911/ from [unreadable] Ed of Am. Naturalist, in custom archival mylar cover. Near fine. HENRY EDWARD CRAMPTON (1875 - 1956) was an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, who specialized in the study of land snails. Crampton made twelve separate expeditions over the course of his career to ...
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Image for Faune du Calcaire Carbonifere de la Belgique. Premiere Partie. Poissons et Genre Nautile [Carboniferous Limestone Fauna of Belgium. Part One. Fish and Nautilus Genera]

Faune du Calcaire Carbonifere de la Belgique. Premiere Partie. Poissons et Genre Nautile [Carboniferous Limestone Fauna of Belgium. Part One. Fish and Nautilus Genera]

By: de Koninck, L.-G.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Brussels, F. Hayez, l'Academie Royale de Belgique : 1878

Seller ID: 896

1878 FINE LARGE ATLAS OF LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF BELGIAN FOSSIL FISH AND AMMONITES BY CHEMIST WHO BECAME AMATEUR PALEONTOLOGIST RECOGNIZED BY ACADEMIC SOCIETIES. Two folio volumes, 15 3/4 inches tall, printed card binding, printed paper spine, Vol. I, Text, 152 pp; Vol. II, Plates, 31 lithograph plates with facing descriptive text; covers soiled, wear to spine, small handstamp to covers, 1/2 inch number label to front cover of text volume, faint dampstain to corner of last plate, plates otherwise clean and bright, overall very good minus. LAURENT-GUILLAUME DE KONINCK (1809 - 1887) was a Belgian...
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Evolution Emerging: A Survey of Changing Patterns from Primeval Life to Man, A Collaborative Work of the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University

By: Gregory, WIlliam King

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1951

Seller ID: 690

50 YEARS IN THE MAKING, MASSIVE 2-VOLUME 1,749-PAGE ATLAS OF VERTEBRATE SKELETAL EVOLUTION BY LEGENDARY NEW YORK EVOLUTIONIST. Two 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover volumes (vol I, text, i-xxvi, 736 pp; vol II, illustrations, i-vii, 1013 pp of full-page (some double page and large folding plates) in slipcase. Navy blue cloth binding with gilt title to covers and spines, very good in good salmon paper-covered slipcase with printed title label. No markings in either volume. A unique and magnificent atlas of evolution documenting the contributions of two great New York institutions over the first half...
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Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. Volume I. Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia

By: Hatcher, J. B. and Scott, William B.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Princeton University : 1903

Seller ID: 1102

FOLIO VOLUME NARRATIVE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXPEDITIONS TO PATAGONIA, 1896-1899, BY J B HATCHER, FUNDED BY J P MORGAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. 13 inchs tall folio volume, printed paper binding, photographic frontis with tissue guard, xvi, 314 pp, 50 figures on heavy paper with tissue guards, color double-page map of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia: The Plains, The Mountains, The Rivers of Patagonia, The Lakes of Southern Patagonia; The Coast of Patagonia; Climate; The Native Indian Tribes, Settlement...
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De Corporibus Marinis Lapidescentibus quae Defossa Reperiuntur. Addita Dissertatione Fabii Columnae De Glossopetris, Editio Altera Emendator

By: Scilla, Agostino

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Rome, Joannis Zempel : 1759

Seller ID: 1394

1759 COMBINED WORKS OF RENAISSANCE PALEONTOLOGISTS SCILLA AND COLONNA ILLUSTRATED WITH 32 MAGNIFICANT PLATES. 19.5x26 cm hardcover, contemporary 3/4 leather with marbled boards, new leather spine with raised bands and gilt red leather title label; frontispiece showing allegorical struggle between truth and speculation with truth depicted by Mercury bearing an eye of reason on the chest, holding a fossil echinoid and pointing to many more specimens, title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette; 82 text pages, Index, 32 full-page copper plate engravings as follows: Frontis entitled...
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Image for Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Colorado with Descriptions of a Few Other Forms and a Systematic List of the Non-Rhynchophorous Tertiary Coleoptera of North America

Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Colorado with Descriptions of a Few Other Forms and a Systematic List of the Non-Rhynchophorous Tertiary Coleoptera of North America

By: Scudder SH;

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1900

Seller ID: 115

LARGE PLATES OF BEETLE FOSSILS FROM FLORISSANT, COLORADO, BY SCUDDER, NOTED AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGIST. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 148 pages, 3/4 pebbled red leather with marbled paper covers, spine with raised bands, gilt title, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, handstamp of Joel P. Heatwole on title page, 11 plates with facing descriptions. Corners, edges and spine ends worn, 1' chip to edge of front endpaper, text unmarked; overall very good. The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument located in Teller County, Colorado. The location is famous for the abundant an...
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