Category: Ornithology

The Birds of Eastern North America. Part I. Water Birds; Part II. Land Birds

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Chicago, Field Columbian Museum : 1899

Seller ID: 254

TWO-VOLUME ILLUSTRATED 1899 KEY TO FAMILIES AND SPECIES OF BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. Two 9 inches tall volumes in original printed paper covers, hundreds of black and white illustrations. Handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to front covers, edges of covers age-toned, otherwise unmarked and very good. Charles Barney Cory (1857 – 1921) was born in Boston. In February 1876, the nineteen year old Cory was elected a member of Nuttall Ornithological Club, America's first ornithological organization. It was here that he met the leading ornithologists of Massachusetts at the time, such as Wi...
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The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Willaim Alexander Forbes

By: Forbes, William Alexander and Beddard, F. E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, R. H. Porter : 1885

Seller ID: 808

COLLECTION OF 68 PAPERS BY NOTED BRITISH COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST, WITH 25 ENGRAVED PLATES (15 COLORED)--BIRDS AND MAMMALS. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title, new endpapers, frontis portrait engraving of Forbes, xv, 496 pp; wear to cover and spine edges, binding tight, text pages and plates crisp and clean, very good. CONTENTS: include 68 papers, 43 relating to ornithology, several on insects, and the remainder on mammals. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS includes W. T. Blanford, G. E. Dobson, A. Gunther, Prof. [T.H.] Huxley, Ray Lankester, J. L...
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Robert Ridgway with a Bibliography of His Published Writings

By: Harris, Harry

Price: $30.00

Publisher: American Ornithological Society : 1928

Seller ID: 601

ASSOCIATION COPY: BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NOTED ORNITHOLOGIST BY A COLLEAGUE, INSCRIBED TO DIRECTOR OF US NATIONAL MUSEUM. 10 1/2 inches tall offprint from The Condor, Vol. XXX, January 1928, printed brown paper covers, inscribed and signed on cover, "To Remington Kellogg with kindest regards, Harry Harris." 118 pp, including biography of Ridgway (1-70) and bibliography (70-118). Marginal ink notations throughout bibliography (presumably by Kellogg). Very good in custom archival mylar cover. HARRY HARRIS (1878-1954) was curator of the library of vertebrate zoology in the California Inst...
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Darwin's Finches

By: Lack, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambriddge University Press : 1947

Seller ID: 462

1947 LANDMARK MONOGRAPH STUDY OF DARWIN'S FINCHES AND THEIR EVOLUTION. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, handsamp of R. A. Paynter, Jr. to front free endpaper, color and B&W illustrations, unmarked. Very good, no jacket. DAVID LAMBERT LACK (1910 - 1973) was a British evolutionary biologist who made contributions to ornithology, ecology and ethology. His book on the finches of the Galapagos Islands was a landmark work. Lack's work in ornithology was almost entirely based on studies of the living bird. He was one of the pioneers of life-history studies in Britain, esp...
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Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds

By: Lack, David

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. : 1968

Seller ID: 461

ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF ADAPTATIONS OF BIRDS FOR BREEDING BY EXPERT ON DARWIN'S FINCHES. 10 inches tall mauve cloth binding, gilt title to spine, unmarked, very good in good price-clipped dust jacket with edge tears. From dust jacket: The primary aim of this book is an interpretation of the main adaptations of birds for breeding-whether a species lests solitarily or in colonies, whether it is monogamous or has several mates, the lumber of eggs that it lays, the relative size of its eggs, the rate of development of its eggs and young, and the age at which it first breeds. This book i...
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A Contribution Towards Our Knowledge of the Morphology of the Owls

By: Pycraft, W. P.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, The Linnean Society of London : 1898

Seller ID: 678

1898 SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON OWL ANATOMY WITH FINE COLLOTYPE AND LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 12 inches tall hardbound, recent blue paper covered boards, blue cloth spine, paper title label to cover, Part I--Pterylography, pp 223-2751 collotype and 5 lithographic plates; Part II--Osteology, pp 1-46, 2 lithographic plates, unmarked and very good. WILLIOAM PLANE PYCRAFT (1868 â€“ 1942) was an English osteologist and zoologist. He became a keen observer of all living things, but devoted himself specially to birds. After leaving school, he desired to follow natural history as a profession, and started as a pr...
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A Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds; an Address Delivered Before the Second International Ornitological Congress on the 18th of May, 1891

By: Sharpe, R. Bowdler

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Budapest, Office of the International Ornitological Congress : 1891

Seller ID: 262

1891 SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON ORNITHOLOGY BY CURATOR AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 10 inches tall hardcover 3/4 cloth, marbled boards, gilt label to spine. 12 plates (3 folding). Bookplate front paste-down of Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Presented by Col. H.W. Fielden, C.B.; inscribed H.W. Feilden from his friend the Author on title page; pencil signature of Gordon Sauer front free endpaper. Very good. RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE (1847 – 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history....
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

By: Weiner, Jonathan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1994

Seller ID: 515

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING ACCOUNT OF THE DEMONSTRATION OF EVOLUTION IN REAL TIME BY THE GALAPAGOS FINCHES. 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, blue paper-covered boards, gilt image of head of finch to cover, black cloth spine with gilt title, 332 pp, illustreated, ver good in very good dust jacket. JONATHAN WEINER (born 1953) is a writer of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science for his book The Beak of the ...
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Category: Ornithology