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Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay: Radiates

By: Agassiz EC;Agassiz A;

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1865

Seller ID: 200

1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to 'Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz'. 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text. Spine ends frayed, spine dulled, 1/4 inch chip to bottom corner of free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and overall very good. The 1871 edition is cited by Darwin in his reading notebook. Alexander's father, Louis, had become a passionate ant...
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Seaside Studies in Natural History

By: Agassiz, Elizabeth C. and Agassiz, Alexander

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1865

Seller ID: 256

BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES OF MASSACHUSETTS BY ELIZABETH AND ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 9 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, covers blindstamped, spine gilt title, brown endpapers, dedicated to Prof. L. Agassiz, over 180 fine wood engravings mostly by Alexander Agassiz, depicting marine invertebrates, including jellyfish, sea anemones and sea stars. Spine edges and corners rubbed, spine ends frayed, ink signature of previous owner to front endpaper, text very good and unmarked. This book was cited by Charles Darwin in his reading notebooks. ELIZABET...
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A Monograph of the Fresh-Water Polyzoa, including all the known species, Both British and Foreign

By: Allman, George James

Price: $70.00

Publisher: London, The Ray Society: 1856

Seller ID: 308

1856 FIRST EDITION STRIKING LARGE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF MINUTE MARINE INVERTEBRATES. Folio bound in original paper covered stiff flexible boards with title paper label to cover, black cloth spine, 11 engraved plates (10 hand-colored) engraved by Tuffen West after drawings by the author, and 17 wood engravings. viii, 119 pp. Boards worn with some bubbling, corners rubbed, institutional hand stamp to verso of first title page, and verso of last plate, occasional light marginal foxing to plates, which are extraordinarily fine. Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa), are a phylum of aquatic inve...
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Catalogue of the British Echinoderms in the British Museum (Natural History)

By: Bell, F. Jeffrey

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, British Museum of Natural History: 1892

Seller ID: 331

FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON STARFISH FROM BRITISH MUSEUM WITH COLOR AND UNCOLORED FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 9 inches tall hardcover in original brown pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of the British Museum to front paste-down, institutional handstamp to front free endpaper, small cancelled handstamp over embossed seal top of title page, and library handstamp verso of title page, library number to spine. 16 fine lithographed plates (2 color on black background). Good+. FRANCIS JEFFREY BELL (1854 - 1924), the eldest son of F. J. Bell of Calcutta, and a relation of Sir Charles ...
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Image for The Medusae FROM Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U.S.M, Commanding

The Medusae FROM Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U.S.M, Commanding

By: Bigelow, Henry B.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1909

Seller ID: 751

FIRST EDITION LARGE ATLAS OF MEDUSAE BY NOTED HARVARD MARINE BIOLOGIST--INCLUDING HELIOTYPES, COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, AND FOLDING MAPS. 12 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, 235 pp, 12 heliotype plates, 33 lithographic plates (7 colored) with facing descriptive text, 3 folding color maps. Cover edges chipped, small institutional handstamp on front cover, paper on spine mostly perished, binding fragile. Text, plates and maps clean and unmarked. In custom archival mylar cover. HENRY BRYANT BIGELOW (1879 - 1967) was an American oceanographer and marine biologist. After graduating from Harvard i...
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Image for An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology; contained in his Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Sans Vertebres: being a literal translation of the descriptions of the Recent and Fossil Genera, accompanied by Twenty-Two Highly Finished Lithographic Plates: in which are given Instructive Views of the various Genera, and their Divisions, drawn from Nature, from characteristic and generally well known Species.

An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology; contained in his Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Sans Vertebres: being a literal translation of the descriptions of the Recent and Fossil Genera, accompanied by Twenty-Two Highly Finished Lithographic Plates: in which are given Instructive Views of the various Genera, and their Divisions, drawn from Nature, from characteristic and generally well known Species.

By: Crouch, Edmund A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green: 1827

Seller ID: 668

1827 TWENTY-TWO HIGHLY FINISHED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES WITH NEARLY 400 FIGURES OF SHELLS TO COMPLEMENT LAMARCK'S FAMOUS NATURAL HISTORY OF INVERTEBRATES (1801). 12 inches tall hardcover, paper-covered boards, illustrated title lithogaph to cover, brown cloth spine, institutional library bookplates to front paste-down, 4 pages of publisher's ads front and back, iv, errata slip, 47 pp, 22 lithogaphic plates. Covers soiled, spine worn, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, small hole in front endpaper, light foxing to first few pages, the text and plates crisp and unmarked. Desc...
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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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Havet Dets Opdagelse og Erobring [The Sea Its discovery and conquest]

By: Feddersen A;

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Det Nordiske Forlag: 1904

Seller ID: 153

1904 DANISH BOOK OF THE SEA WITH ART DECO COVER AND MANY DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 394 pages, cloth backed color art deco cover and spine, marbled edges, over 200 black and white figures in the text and 4 superb chomolithographs, 1 highlighted with silver, all with tissue guards, 3 with captioned tracings. TEXT IN DANISH. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, small dampstain to bottom edge of rear cover, small handstamp of institutional library to front free endpaper, no other library markings. Overall, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. ARTHUR FREDERICK FEDDERSEN (...
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Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters

By: Fisher, Walter Kenrick

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1911, 1928, 1930

Seller ID: 816

TWO MASSIVE VOLUMES CONTAIN 296 SUPERB PLATES OF PACIFIC STARFISH BY WALTER FISHER, DIRECTOR OF THE HOPKINS MARINE STATION ON THE MONTEREY PENINSULA. Two hardbound volumes 12 inches tall, 2 inches thick, red cloth binding, gilt titles to spines, Vol. I, Part I. Phanerozonia and Sinulosa, vi, 406 pp, 122 black & white plates, index pp 407 - 419; Vol. II (2 volumes combined with original paper covers bound in). Part 2. Forcipulata (Part), iv, 1-161 pp, 81 plates pp 162-242 descriptions, pp 243-245 index; Part 3. Forcipulata (Concluded), iv, 1-255 pp, 93 plates pp 256-348 descriptions, 349-355 in...
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Coral Reefs and Atolls. Being a Course of Lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute at Boston February 1930

By: Gardiner, J. Stanley

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd.: 1931

Seller ID: 330

ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON CORAL REEFS BY NOTED BRITISH CORAL BIOLOGIST. 9 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, corners rubbed, small institutional hand stamp to front endpaper, many text illustrations, photographic plates, folding maps. Very good. JOHN STANLEY GARDINER (1872–1946) was a British zoologist. Stanley attended Marlborough College from January 1885 until July 1890. While there his critical thinking was shaped by the science masters and where he was a great supporter of the school's Natural History Society. Stanley won an exhibition to Gonville a...
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The Sea-Side Book; being an introduction to the natural history of the British coasts, with a chapter on fish and fish diet by Mr. Yarrell

By: Harvey, W. H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst: 1857

Seller ID: 922

1857 LITTLE BOOK ON BRITISH COASTAL NATURAL HISTORY CHOICELY ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 80 WOOD ENGRAVINGS--COPY OF AMERICAN HOLLYWOOD PHOTOGRAPHER. 7 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature of Geo. Hurrell to front flyleaf, [xi], 224 pp, 80 wood engravings. Scattered foxing, very good. WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY (1811 - 1866) was an authority on algae and bryophytes (mosses), whose discovery in 1831 of the moss Hookeria laetevirens at Killarney, new to Ireland, led to a lifelong friendship with Sir William Jackson Hooker, who was then Regius Professor of Botany at Gla...
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Living Lights. A Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables

By: Holder, Charles Frederick

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1887

Seller ID: 606

1887 BEAUTIFULLY BOUND ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF MARINE BIOLUMINESCENCE WITH BOOKPLATE OF FAMOUS BIBLIOPHILE. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's decorative two-toned green cloth binding with title and gilt image of jellyfish emitting rays of light, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Frederick W. Skiff to front paste-down, handstamp of R. Harry, Jr. and bookseller's ticket bottom of front endpaper, frontis of diver illuminated by luminescent marine organisms, tissue guard, ix, 187 pp, 26 dramatic black & white plates, publisher's advertisements. Light wear to edges of spine, closed tear along fro...
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Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan

By: Kira, Tetsuaki

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Osaka, Hoikusha: 1955

Seller ID: 943

1955 SUMPTUOUS SMALL ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE SHELLS OF JAPAN. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title (in Japanese) to cover and spine, color photograph of shells to cover, pictorial endpapers, [x], 204 pp, hundreds of color photographs of shells on 68 pages, with names in Latin and Japanese, text in Japanese, separate English and Japanese indexes. Near fine in very good cardboard slipcase with title in Japanese and color photographs front and back.
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Biology of the Antarctic Seas Volumes I, II, III (complete)

By: Lee, Milton O., Llano, George A. and Schmitt, Waldo L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington DC, American Geophysical Union: 1964 - 1967

Seller ID: 908

1960S SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF BIOLOGY OF THE ANTARCTIC SEAS, PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION IN THE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH SERIES. Three volumes 10 3/4 inches tall, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Vol. I, ix, 109 [76] pp; Vol. II, xi, 278 pp; Vol. III, vii, 261 pp; many figures, tables [some folding], maps and plates (some color); light wear to covers, corners bumped, institutional handstamp to bottom edge, bindings tight, pocket and sign-out sheet front endpapers, no other library marks, texts clean and bright, very good. The Antarctic Research Series serves workin...
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Die Craspedoten Medusen der Siboga-Expedition (Monographie X) TOGETHER WITH Die Scyphomedusen der Siboga-Expedition (Monographie XI)

By: Maas, Otto

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Leiden, E. J. Brill: 1903, 1905

Seller ID: 752

TWO MONOGRAPHS ON INDONESIAN JELLYFISH WITH 24 LARGE COLOR LITHOGRAPHIC PLATESTwo 13 inches tall volumes, printed paper covers, Vol. X, 84 pp, 14 color lithographic plates; Vol. XI, 91 pp, 11 color lithographs, 1 photogravure. Covers darkened, pages lightly age-toned, text bright and unmarked, cover edges and spine ends chipped Vo. XI only, overall very good. Text in German. OTTO MAAS was professor of zoology at the University of Munich. The SIBOGA EXPEDEITION was a Dutch zoological and hydrographic expedition to Indonesia from March 1899 to February 1900.
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Medusae of the World. Volume III - The Scyphomedusae

By: Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., The Carnegie Institution: 1910

Seller ID: 586

1910 LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON THE BIOLOGY OF JELLYFISH WITH FINE COLOR PLATES--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 12 inches tall hardcover, recent green cloth binding, gilt black leather title to spine, new endpapers, inscribed and signed by author on title page, To the New York Aquarium from Alfred G. Mayer, iv, 237 pp [499-735], 101 [328-428] text figures, 19 color and 3 black & white plates. Binding fine, small handstamp of New York Aquarium bottom of title page (no other library marks), stain to top margins of pages (not affecting text or plate images), good+ in custom archival mylar cover. The...
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The Marine Invertebrates and Fishes of St. Andrews

By: McIntosh, William C.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, Adam and Charles Black, Taylor and Francis: 1875

Seller ID: 589

1875 RARE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MARINE LIFE OF ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND, BEAUTIFUL COLORED PLATES--AUTHOR'S PROOF COPY INSCRIBED TO A SCOTTISH PEER. 12 inches tall hardcover, blue pebbled cloth boards, gilt decorative cover and spine, author's inscription top of title page, "To the Most Noble/ the Marquis of Ailsa,/ with the humble respects of his/ most obedient servant--the author," and at the bottom of the page, "proof copy," 186 pp, wood engravings throughout text, 6 color and 3 uncolored lithographic plates. Covers bright, corners bumped, light foxing to first and last pages, author's ligh...
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British Zoophytes: An introduction to the Hydroida, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa found in Great Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands

By: Pennington, Arthur S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, L. Reeve & Co.: 1885

Seller ID: 904

1885 DECORATIVELY BOUND SMALL VOLUME WITH 25 FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF MARINE ANIMALS THAT RESEMBLE PLANTS. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, maroon cloth binding, cover blindstamped with gilt image of sea anemone, gilt title to spine, frontis of Plate I, xvi, 363 pp, lithographic plates II to XXIV with facing descriptive text, 16 pp publisher's advertisements. Covers and spine bright and clean, corners worn, small circular library label to spine, small institutional libray handstamp to front flyleaf, light scattered foxing, very good. A zoophyte is an animal that visually resembles a plant--the ...
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Image for Hydraires provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle (1886-1888); Fascicule XVIII, Resultats des Campagnes Sceintifiques Accomplis sur son Yacht par Albert 1er Prince Souverain de Monaco

Hydraires provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle (1886-1888); Fascicule XVIII, Resultats des Campagnes Sceintifiques Accomplis sur son Yacht par Albert 1er Prince Souverain de Monaco

By: Pictet, C. and Bedot, M.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Monaco, Imprimerie de Monaco: 1900

Seller ID: 592

LARGE FOLIO MONOGRAPH ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES COLLECTED IN 1886-1888, PRINTED BY ALBERT I, PRINCE OF MONACO, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHS, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Large folio, 11 x 14 inches tall printed transparent paper wraps over card covers which include the coat-of-arms of the Prince of Monaco. Gray tape binding, text printed on heavy rag paper, 55 pp, bibliographic index, 10 lithographed plates with tisue guards. Text in French. Cover edges with edge tears, light soiling, small institutional handstamp lower front cover, inscribed front free endpaper a Monsieur Alphonse Picket/ Hommage res...
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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: Marine biology