Category: Paleontology

Etudes Critiques sur les Mollusques Fossiles

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Neuchatel, H. Wolfrath : 1842-1845

Seller ID: 1314

1845 LARGE ATLAS OF FOSSIL MOLLUSCS ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY SWISS PALEONTOLOGIST WHO BECAME EMINENT HARVARD PROFESSOR. 11 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with gilt-ruled marbled paper-covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title and gilt compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down, xxii, 1-141, [1], 143-287, 105 fine lithographed plates. Binding tight, wear to cover edges and corners, residue from library labels removed from bottom spine, handstamp of Earth Sciences Library to verso titl...
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The Early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces

By: Bassler, Ray S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1911

Seller ID: 942

1911 MONOGRAPH ON FOSSIL BRYOZOA--THE LAST MAJOR PHYLUM TO APPEAR IN THE FOSSIL RECORD--WITH HUNDREDS OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 1/2 inches hardcover, green cloth binding, printed paper title label to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, small handstamp to title page, xxi, 382 pp, 226 illustrations in text, folding map, 12 plates. Two 1/8 inch light stains top of cover, no external library marks, text and plates unmarked, very good. RAY S. BASSLER (1878 - 1961) earned his bachelor's degree in 1902 from the University of Cincinnati, and received master's degree in 1903 and Ph.D....
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Telliamed

By: de Maillet, Benoit

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Honore et Fils : 1748

Seller ID: 878

OVER 100 YEARS BEFORE DARWIN--FIRST EDITION BY A FRENCH DIPLOMAT OF A PHILOSOPHIC TREATISE PROPOSING THAT THE EARTH AND LIFE EVOLVED OVER DEEP TIME. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover octavo, full calf binding, spine with tooled gilt compartments, red leather gilt title label, edges red-stained, marbled endpapers, two volumes in one: pp. [1-10] i-cxix [2] 1-208 [2] [1-231 [1] (pages 113-120 of volume one were not printed, as always), wear to cover edges, binding tight, scattered light foxng, very good. TEXT IN FRENCH. First edition of this important, controversial, and strangely prescient work, dedic...
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Pamphlets on Zoology 1865-1888

By: Hyatt, Alpheus

Price: $500.00

Publisher: : 1865-1888

Seller ID: 1294

UNIQUE BOUND COLLECTION OF SIGNED OFFPRINTS BY ALPHEUS HYATT INSCRIBED TO HIS COLLEAGUE ALPHEUS PACKARD--BOTH LEADING NEO-LAMARCKIAN AMERICAN ZOOLOGISTS. 9 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards, expertly rebacked in black cloth with black leather label title gilt, bookplate of Bowdoin College Library--withdrawn to front paste-down (no other library marks), hand-lettered title page, wood engraving of Prof. Alpheus Hyatt cut out from journal affixed to verso of Emerson obituary. Contains 23 key offprints by Alpheus Hyatt collected and bound in chronol...
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Odontornithes: A Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America; with thirty-four plates and forty woodcuts

By: Marsh, Othniel Charles

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1880

Seller ID: 1266

LANDMARK ATLAS OF TOOTHED BIRD FOSSILS ILLUSTRATED WITH FOLDING LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY EMINENT AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGIST, ARDENT SUPPORTER OF DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, blindstamped rulings to covers, 3x5 inch leaflet affixed to half-title and title page indicating that the book was concurrently published by the Peabody Museum of Yale College. xv, 201pp, 40 wood engravings in text, 34 lithographic plates (some folding) with facing descriptive text. Light browning to pages, discoloration of cloth tape backing folds of plates, closed te...
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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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