Category: Natural history

Coelenterata Offprints

Price: $300.00

Publisher: : 1858-1937

Seller ID: 356

COELENTERATA: BOUND IN 6 HARDCOVER VOLUMES: COLLECTION OF 71 OFFPRINTS BY 32 NOTABLE TURN-OF-CENTURY MARINE BIOLOGISTS, MANY PLATES AND SIGNED BY AUTHORS--FROM THE LIBRARY OF NOTED DANISH ZOOLOGIST INGMAR LIEBERKIND. 3 quarto and 3 octavo hardcover volumes, 3/4 blue cloth with marbled boards and gilt red leather spine labels, each front paste-down with decorative bookplate and handstamp of Ingvald Lieberkind (Danish writer and zoologist) and his signature on 1 front flyleaf and on a few offprint covers, containing 71 offprints, many with signed inscriptions on covers. 72 plates (some lithograp...
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The Natural History of Selbourne TOGETHER WITH The Natural History of Insects (2 volumes) TOGETHER WITH The Natural History of Birds, Their Architecture, Habits, and Faculties

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers : 1942-1944

Seller ID: 1390

1840s FOUR ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES FROM HARPER & BROTHERS FAMILY LIBRARY FOR CHILDREN: NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, INSECTS, AND BIRDS. Four hardcover volumes from Harper & Brothers Family Library 6 inches tall, brown pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, many wood engravings. 1) Selborne 1842, 335 pp; 2) & 3) Insects vols. 1 & 2 1843/1844, 292 pp, 308 pp; 4) Birds 1844, 308 pp. Spine ends frayed, spots to some covers, all bindings tight, text unmarked, very good minus, each in custom archival mylar cover. HARPER'S FAMILY LIBRARY, advertised as the cheapest series of popular works ever publi...
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Etudes Critiques sur les Mollusques Fossiles

By: Agassiz, Louis

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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A Hen Pidgeon from the Ninkcombar Islands near Pegu in India FROM A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

By: Albin, Eleazar

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Printed for the Author : 1737

Seller ID: 1085

1737 NICOBAR PIGEON, RELATIVE OF THE EXTINCT DODO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (173138) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life,...
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Muscovy Drake, FROM A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

By: Albin, Eleazar

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Printed for the Author : 1736

Seller ID: 1086

1736 MUSCOVY DRAKE, ADAPTED TO TROPICAL AND COLD CLIMATES, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (173138) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's ear...
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The Crown Bird from Mexico FROM A Natural History of Birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

By: Albin, Eleazar

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Printed for the Author : 1737

Seller ID: 1088

1737 THE TURACO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (173138) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-bo...
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The White China Pheasant, from A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

By: Albin, Eleazar

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Printed for the Author : 1737

Seller ID: 1087

1737 THE BLACK AND WHITE PHEASANT, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, small crease to lower right corner not affecting image; heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (173138) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736)....
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Glimpses of Nature, Science, and Art for the Young

By: Anderson, William

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis : No date (ca. 1850)

Seller ID: 1383

SCARCE LITTLE ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF WONDERS OF NATURE, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY--PRESENTATION BEHAVIOUR PRIZE TO MISS MARVER. 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, purple cloth binding, blindstamped covers with decorative gilt title to cover and spine, all edges gilt. Inscribed verso ffep: Behaviour Prize present to Miss Marver by the Misses Whytale/ Russell House Mids. 1868. i-vi, 250 pp, publisher's list of books. Frontis wood engraving of Davis Straits, also plate of a rainbow, Niagara Falls, and Menai Bridge, Wales. Spine ends frayed, corners bumped, pages clean and unmarked, very goo...
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The Natural History of the British Entomostraca

By: Baird, W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, The Ray Society : 1850

Seller ID: 872

1850 FINE MONOGRAPH ON TINY CRUSTACEANS INCLUDING DAPHNIA, THE WATER FLEA, ILLUSTRATED BY HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 9 inches tall hardcover, viii, 364 pp, 36 lithographic plates (14 partly hand-colored, as issued); bright gilt initials of Ray Society to blindstamped cover, expertly rebacked with original spine preserved, no library or ownership marks, binding tight, occasional light foxing, plates clean and bright, very good. WILLIAM BAIRD (1803 - 1872) was a Scottish physician and zoologist best known for his 1850 work, The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. He was a surgeon...
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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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Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature. Ichthyologie

By: Bonnaterre, Abbe Pierre Joseph

Price: $1,800.00

Publisher: Paris, Panckoucke : 1788

Seller ID: 1312

1788 ATLAS OF FISH WITH 102 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS BY FRENCH PRIEST-NATURALIST WHO DESCRIBED 25 NEW SPECIES OF FISH AND THE FIRST TO STUDY THE WILD CHILD OF AVEYRON. Two hardcover volumes 12 3/4 inches tall, recent green cloth covered boards with leather spines and gilt titles, new endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-down, pages uncut, Vol. I, lvi, 215 pp; Vol. II, 102 copper plate engravings numbered A, B, and 1 - 100. Bindings fine, Vol. I with light foxing to first pages, wormholes top corner of 5 leaves (pages 1-10) not affecting text; Vol. II with light browni...
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Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire et a l'Anatomie des Mollusques

By: Cuvier, Georges

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Paris, Deterville : 1817

Seller ID: 685

1817 LANDMARK TREATISE ON MOLLUSCS BY GEORGES CUVIER, LEADING FRENCH COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST--35 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVED PLATES. 10 inches tall hardcover, recent burgundy cloth binding, gilt title on black leather label to spine, new endpapers, viii, 496 pp, 35 plates. Binding fine, institutional handstamp to half title and title pages, scattered foxing, old water stain to lower corner of some pages, overall good+. Notably, the memoire on the barnacles is inserted between memoires XXI and XXII in the table of contents, but not listed therein. Prior to the publication in 1830 of John Vaughan T...
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Rare and Remarkable Animals of Scotland, Represented from Living Subjects: with Practical Observations on Their Nature

By: Dalyell, John Graham

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst : 1847

Seller ID: 1316

1847 MAGNIFICENT BIOLOGY OF MARINE LIFE OF SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 FINE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS AFTER PAINTINGS BY NOTED LOCAL ARTISTS. Two 11 inches tall hardcover volumes, recent 3/4 calf, spine with raised bands and gilt leather title labels, green moire cloth covered boards, bookplate of Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow front paste-down, handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to front free endpaper. Vol. I, xii, 270 pp, 53 colored engraved plates; Vol. II, [iv], 322 pp, [2], 56 colored engraved plates with tisue guards. Small abrasions to edges of spine and tips of corner...
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Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859

By: Darwin, Charles and Burkhardt, Frederick

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1996

Seller ID: 525

DARWIN'S CORRESPONDENCE IN THE YEARS PRECEDING PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding with embossed signatuer of Charles Darwin to cover, gilt title to spine, Darwin family tree printed on front endpapers, map showing voyage of the Beagle on rear endpapers, frontis portrait of Darwin, 249 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. FREDERICK BURKHARDT (1913 - 2007) was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication ...
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Atlantic Monthly Volume VI, 1860

By: Darwin, Charles and Gray, Asa

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields : 1860

Seller ID: 1296

1860 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY JULY-DECEMBER 1860--CONTAINS 3 REVIEWS OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES AND AN EDITORIAL PROMOTING LINCOLN'S CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT (BOTH MEN WERE BORN FEBRUARY 12, 1809). 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, and gilt title and initials of previous owner (Fr. A. Bryan). Edges marbled, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Fr. A. Bryan to front paste-down, iv, 764 pp; joints starting, binding tight, light foxing to endpapers, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. Darwin first wrote to Asa Gray in ...
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The Works of Charles Darwin. Volume 14. The fossil Lelpadidae, The fossil Balanidae

By: Darwin, Charles, Barrett, Paul H. and Freeman, R. B.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, New York University Press : 1988

Seller ID: 527

SCARCE--FINE FACSIMILE PRINTINGS OF DARWIN'S TWO MONOGRAPHS ON FOSSIL BARNACLES, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BEFORE THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 6 pp, i-vi, 93 pp, 5 plates, i-v, 48 pp, 2 plates. Fine, no dust jacket as issued, in custom archival mylar cover. Facsimile reprints of Darwin's two monographs on fossil barnacles originally published as A Monograph of the Fossil Lepadidae, or Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain [Vol. I], 1851; A Monograph of the Fossil Balanidae and Verrucidae of Great Britain [Vol. II], 1854; and Index ...
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Episodes of Insect Life by Acheta domestica [house cricket]

By: Domestica, Acheta [pseud of Budgen, L. M.]

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve : 1849, 1850, 1851

Seller ID: 1391

VICTORIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL CHRONICLES BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHS OF NATURAL AND HUMANIZED INSECT LIFE. Three hardcover volumes 8 inches tall, 3/4 black calf binding, marbled covered boards, spines with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decorated compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, personal library bookplate to front paste-down, hand-colored lithographed frontis, title page with vignette, and many hand-colored headpieces and uncolored illustrations throughout each volume. Vol. 1 (1st Series), xviii, 320 pp; Vol. 2 (2nd Series), xvi, 326 pp; Vol. 3 (3rd Seri...
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Image for Recherches sur l'Osteologie et la Myologie des Batraciens a Leurs Differens Ages; presentees a l'Academie Royale des Sciences, en reponse a la question suivante: Determiner a l'aide d'observations, et demontrer, par des preparations anatomiques et des dessins exats, les modifications que presentent, dnas leur squelette et dans leurs muscles, les reptiles Batraciens, tels que les Grenouilles et les Salamandres, en passant de l'etate de larve a celui d'animal parfait. [Research on Osteology and Myology of Batrachians at different ages; presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences in response to the following question: Determine with the aid of observations, and show, by anatomic preparations and exact drawings, the modifications that are revealed, in their skeletons and muscles, the Baatachian reptiles, such as frogs and salamanders, in passing from the larval state to that of the adult animal].

Recherches sur l'Osteologie et la Myologie des Batraciens a Leurs Differens Ages; presentees a l'Academie Royale des Sciences, en reponse a la question suivante: Determiner a l'aide d'observations, et demontrer, par des preparations anatomiques et des dessins exats, les modifications que presentent, dnas leur squelette et dans leurs muscles, les reptiles Batraciens, tels que les Grenouilles et les Salamandres, en passant de l'etate de larve a celui d'animal parfait. [Research on Osteology and Myology of Batrachians at different ages; presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences in response to the following question: Determine with the aid of observations, and show, by anatomic preparations and exact drawings, the modifications that are revealed, in their skeletons and muscles, the Baatachian reptiles, such as frogs and salamanders, in passing from the larval state to that of the adult animal].

By: Duges, Antoine

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Paris, Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences : 1834

Seller ID: 880

1834 MONOGRAPH BY FRENCH OBSTETRICIAN ON ANATOMY OF FROGS, TADPOLES, AND SALAMANDERS, ILLUSTRATED BY 20 FINE LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. 11 1/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 black cloth binding, marbled paper covers, leather label with gilt title to spine, gilt red label to spine, v, 216 pages with wide margins uncut, 20 lithographic plates; binding tight, light foxing to first pages, remainder of text and plates crisp and clean, very good. TEXT IN FRENCH. ANTOINE LOUIS DUGES (1797 - 1838) was a French obstetrician and naturalist born in the Ardennes. He studied medicine in Paris and began work a...
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Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters

By: Fisher, Walter Kenrick

Price: $150.00

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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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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Category: Natural history