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

By: N/A

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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a Symposium on Continental Drift Oranized for the Royal Society

By: Blackett, P.M.S., Bullard, Edward and Runcorn, S.K.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, The Royal Society: 1965

Seller ID: 661

1965 MAGNIFICENT LARGE ILLUSTRATED PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM ON CONTINENTAL DRIFT CHAIRED BY NOBEL LAUREATE, COPY OF PROMINENT ICHTHYOLOGIST. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's maroon cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, illustrated bookplate of Neal R. Foster to front paste-down, vi, 323 pp, index a1-a6, many illustrations, including color fold-out maps. Binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good in very good dust jacket. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: During the 30 years from 1920 to 1950, continental drift appeared to a few geologists and geophysicists as the obvious explan...
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Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72. Volume II. The Zoology and Geology

By: Blanford, W.T.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1876

Seller ID: 963

1872 SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON THE ZOOLOGY AND GEOLOGY OF PERSIA WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF ANIMALS BY BRITISH NATURALIST MEMBER OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to spine, ink signature of James C. Rogers, Oroomiah, Persia, with his handstamp top of title page; also handstamp, withdrawn Carroll College Library bottom of title page; viii, color folding map of Persia, 516 pp, 18 handcolored lithographs of mammals and birds by Keulemans, 10 black & white lithographs of reptiles by Ford, library bar code and pocket to back endpapers....
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The Bridgewater Treatises: On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation

By: Chalmers, T., Kidd, J., Whewell, W., Bell, C., Roget, P.M., Buckland, W., Kirby, W. and Prout, W.

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, William Pickering: 1837

Seller ID: 336

FINE BINDING, ILLUSTRATED 1830s EARLY EDITION COMPLETE 12 VOLUMES OF BRIDGEWATER TREATISES WRITTEN BY BRITISH SCIENTISTS IN RESPONSE TO GROWING SECULAR VIEW OF LIFE. 8 3/4 inches tall set of 8 works bound in 12, bound in full calf gilt with double gilt rules, spines with raised bands and twin black leather gilt labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Numerous plates, illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Abel Smith, Woodhall Park, front paste-down of each volume. Spines and boards rubbed, light foxing to endpapers, bindings tight, text clean and bright. Individual volumes: 1. Chalmers, T.: The Ada...
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Evolution of Life

By: Chapman, Henry C.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co.: 1873

Seller ID: 438

1873 REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATED OVERVIEW OF EVOLUTION PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN PHYSICIAN DURING DARWIN'S LIFETIME. 8 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, spine gilt, Fold-out map frontis showing diffusion of man across the globe, starting from paradise in the Indian Ocean, then to Africa, Asia, Australia, across Bering Straits to Americas. i-vii, 193 pp, 205 figures throughout text drawn from references listed on pp 183-186, double-page plate containing 24 profiles of primates and races of man. PREFACE. Since 1858, the year in which appeared Mr. Darwin's famous book, the literary as well as th...
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Image for Studies on the Variation, Distribution, and Evolution of the Genus Partula. Vol. 1, The Species Inhabiting Tahiti, 1916; Vol. 2, The Species of the Mariana Islands, Guam and Saipan, 1925; Vol. 3, The Species Inhabiting Moorea, 1932

Studies on the Variation, Distribution, and Evolution of the Genus Partula. Vol. 1, The Species Inhabiting Tahiti, 1916; Vol. 2, The Species of the Mariana Islands, Guam and Saipan, 1925; Vol. 3, The Species Inhabiting Moorea, 1932

By: Crampton, Henry Edward

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Carnegie Institution of Washington: 1916, 1925, 1932

Seller ID: 767

EARLY 19TH CENTURY LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF LAND SNAILS REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF GENETICS OVER ADAPTATION. Three 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, Vol 1 bound in red buckram, gilt title to spine, with library call letters at bottom of spine, canceled institutional library bookplate and handstamp to front paste-down and title page, 311 pp, 19 plates including folding tinted maps, 15 color plates containing over 700 images of Partula. Minimal wear to covers, binding tight, occasional marginal note, pages crisp and clean. Vol. 2 with black cloth spine and marbled paper c...
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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] [note: pages 113-120 of volume one were not printed), wear to cover edges, binding tight, scattered light foxng, very good. TEXT IN FRENCH. First edition of this important, controversial, and strangely prescient work, dedicated ...
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Image for Le Monde avant la Creation de l'Homme. Origines de la Terre, Origines de la Vie - Origines de l'Humanite [The World Before the Creation of Man. Origins of the Earth, Origins of Life - Origins of Humanity]

Le Monde avant la Creation de l'Homme. Origines de la Terre, Origines de la Vie - Origines de l'Humanite [The World Before the Creation of Man. Origins of the Earth, Origins of Life - Origins of Humanity]

By: Flammarion, Camille

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Paris, C. Marpon and E. Flammarion: 1886

Seller ID: 887

1886 REFLECTING DARWIN'S INFLUENCE, FIRST EDITION POPULAR HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ORIGINOF LIFE BY FRENCH ASTONOMER, WITH SENSATIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 11 inches tall hardcover, 1/2 leather binding with marbled boards, gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers, 847 pages, over 400 wood engravings, 9 color geologic maps, 5 color plates. Leather spine solid and bright, cover edges and corners worn, lacking frontis, title page in facsimile, light foxing throughout, good. CAMILLE FLAMMARION (1842 - 1925) was a French astronomer and author, and brother of Ernest Flammarion, founder of the Groupe Flammar...
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The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

By: Ghiselin, M.T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1969

Seller ID: 519

AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF DARWIN'S SCIENTIFIC METHOD, INCLUDING ALL OF HIS STUDIES THROUGH A LONG CAREER. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 287 pp, ex-library with number label to bottom of dust jacket, handstamp and card pocket on front endpaper, age-toning to margins of pages, edgewear, chips and soiling to dust jacket, good in good dustjacket. FROM THE JACKET FLAP: The author seeks to elucidate the reasons for Darwin's success through an analysis of his methodology. Unlike former works, which deemphasize the nonevolutionary aspects of his contribution, this...
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Genesis and Geology: A Study of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850

By: Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 458

LANDMARK HISTORY OF THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON RELIGION. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, near fine/good dust jacket. CHARLES COULSTON GILLISPIE (1918 - 2015) was an American historian of science. He attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1940 with a major in Chemistry and gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1949. He joined the Department of History at Princeton University, establishing the Program in History of Science at Princeton in the 1960s. He was president of the History of Science Society from 1965-66.
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Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle et des Phenomenes de la Nature, Volume V, comprising Mam to Nemop

By: Guerin-Meneville, F.E.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris, Bureau de Souscription: 1837

Seller ID: 297

3/4 LEATHER VOLUME FROM FRENCH DICTIONARY OF NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATED WITH MAGNIFICENT HAND-COLOR ENGRAVINGS. 12 inches tall hardcover, recent 1/2 leather binding, marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title, 640 pages + 80 steel engravings (73 fully hand-colored), The plates are striking and finely colored, with artistic arrangement of scenes, animals, plants, buildings and persons grouped according to name (inserted throughout text to illustrate birds, butterflies, land animals, marine life, plants, human malformations, and mining). French language. Introduction (translated from t...
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Genesis of the Arietidae

By: Hyatt, Alpheus

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1889

Seller ID: 750

1889 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON FOSSIL AMMONITES ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE HELIOGRAPH PLATES BY AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGIST ALPHEUS HYATT. 11 1/2 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, xi, 238 pp, 35 text figures, 6 large folding tables, 14 heliograph plates with facing descriptive text, cover lightly soiled with small chips to edges of front cover, spine ends rubbed, binding tight, text and plates clean and unmarked, a very good copy. In custom archival mylar cover. ALPHEUS HYATT (1838 - 1902), an American zoologist and paleontologist, co-founded the American Naturalist, serving as their editor fr...
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Louis Agassiz. Creator of American Science

By: Irmscher, Christoph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 2013

Seller ID: 534

BRILLIANT BIOGRAPHY OF LOUIS AGASSIZ, DARWIN'S ADVERSARY AND HARVARD'S CONTROVERSIAL FOUNDER OF ITS MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, ivory paper-covered boards, red paper covered spine with gilt title, 434 pp, illustrations, very good in very good dust jacket. JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ (1807 - 1873) was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history, with later American writings that have received criticism for their endorsement of scientific racism. Agassiz grew up in Switzerland, and studied ...
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L'Estuaire de la Seine. Memoires, notes et documents pour servir a l'etude de l'Estuaire de la Seine

By: Lennier, G.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Havre, Journal Le Havre: 1885

Seller ID: 759

1895 SCARCE MAGNIFICENT ATLAS WITH LARGE LITHOGRAPHIC SCENIC PLATES AND HISTORIC MAPS OF THE ESTUARY OF THE SEINE AND PORT OF LE HAVRE. Three volumes 14 - 15 inches tall, Vol. I, Geologic and Hydrographic Studies, printed paper covers, black cloth tape binding, 258 pp; Vol. II, Projects and Works, Navigation, Fishing, Fauna and Flora, Historic Documents, Bibliography, Description of 31 Plates in the Atlas, printed paper covers, 308 pp; Vol. III, Atlas with 32 plates (31 as listed in Vol. II plus Plate No. 19 bis (map of estuary 1863) and LAID IN 22 x 28 inch folding lithographic topography of...
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The Origin and Evolution of Life, On the Theory of Action, Reaction and Interaction of Energy; Hale Lectures of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, April, 1916

By: Osborn, Henry F.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1917

Seller ID: 439

FIRST EDITION EARLY 20TH CENTURY VIEW OF EVOLUTION BEFORE THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 9 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, physician owner bookplate to front paste-down, frontis of T. rex, i-xxxi, 322 pp, 136 illustrations, 2 tables (1 folding). Covers soiled, bottom spine edge frayed, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good-. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN (1857 - 1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenist, and the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years. He studied at Princeton University (1873 - 1877), obtaining a B.A. in ...
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Image for The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Professor Luigi Palmieri with notes and an Introductory Sketch of the Present State of Knowledge of Terrestrial Vulanicity, the Cosmical Nature and Relations of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Robert Mallet, with illustrations

The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Professor Luigi Palmieri with notes and an Introductory Sketch of the Present State of Knowledge of Terrestrial Vulanicity, the Cosmical Nature and Relations of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Robert Mallet, with illustrations

By: Palmieri, Luigi and Mallet, Robert

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Asher & Co.: 1873

Seller ID: 559

1873 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF HISTORIC ERUPTION OF MT. VESUVIUS IN 1872 BY ITALIAN AND IRISH VUCANOLOGISTS. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt image of Eruption of Vesuvius 1872 to cover, expertly rebacked with original gilt spine conserved, new endpapers, 148 pp, 8 plates (1 folding), binding tight, text and plates crisp and unmarked, very good. REVIEWED IN NATURE [Vol. 7, pp 259-261, 06 February 1873. The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by David Forbes]: "That, in these days of rapid intercourse, the re-appearance of volcanic phenomena on the large scale in any pa...
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Evolution. A Retrospect. The Revised Address Delivered Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Oxford, 1894

By: Salisbury, Robert Cecil

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Roxburghe Press: 1894

Seller ID: 481

1894 RARE FIRST EDITION ADDRESS OF BRITISH PRIME MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS CONTROVERSY OF DARWINISM AND LORD KELVIN'S CALCULATION OF THE AGE OF THE EARTH. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, mustard cloth binding, beveled edges, cover and spine with red lettering, 58 pp, 8 pp publisher's advertisements, title page and advertisements printed in green. Covers darkened, light edgewear, creases to title page, binding tight, Eric Korn's pencil notes verso of half-title: On the periodic table, on the ether, and more extensively on Nat. Sel, on which subject he is unconvincingly retrograde, text otherwise unmarke...
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Image for Darwin and Modern Science. Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species

Darwin and Modern Science. Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species

By: Seward, A.C., Hooker, J.D., Thomson, J.A., Weismann, A., de Vries, H., Bateson, W., Strasburger, E., Schwalbe, G., Haeckel, E., Frazer, J.G., Sedgwick, A., Scott, W.B., Klebs, G., Loeb, J., Poulton, E.B., Thiselton-Dyer, W., Gadow, H., Judd, J.W., Darwin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1909

Seller ID: 446

1909 COLLECTION OF 29 ESSAYS BY LUMINARIES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO CELEBRATE DARWIN CENTENNIAL, EDITED BY A. C. SEWARD. 9 inches tall hardcover, red buckram binding, frontis portrait of Darwin with tissue guard, 4 photographic plates with tissue guards. Institutional bookplate to front paste-down, library handstamps to rear paste-down and edges, ight wear to cover and spine edges, binding tight, pages clean. i-xvii, 595 pages. xiii-xvii: Epitome of Charles Darwin's Life (DATES OF THE PUBLICATION OF CHARLES DARWIN'S BOOKS AND OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN HIS LIFE). ALBERT CHARLES SEWARD (1863 ...
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Zoology of New-York, or the New-York Fauna; Part I. Mammalia. Prededed by General Introduction by William H. Seward, Governor of the State of New-York

By: Seward, William H. and de Kay, James E.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Albany, W. & A. White & J. Visscher: 1842

Seller ID: 305

1842 FIRST EDITION BEAUTIFUL COPY OF FIRST VOLUME OF NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK, CONTAINING GENERAL HISTORY OF NY BY GOVERNOR SEWELL AND 33 SUPERB LITHOGRAPHS OF MAMMALS. 9x12 inches hardcover in original black cloth binding with gilt emblem and blindstamped design to cover and spine, 178-page general introduction to the geography. history, and population of New York by Governor Seward, 8-page note on the penitentiary system of New York by Hohn L. O'Sullivan, 2 lithographic plates of the Croton Aqueduct, and 146-page report of the mammals of New York, followed by 33 fine lithographs of mammal...
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The Prairies

By: Shimek, B.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Iowa City, 1911

Seller ID: 391

1911 TREATISE ON THE PRAIRIES OF THE MIDWEST, INSCRIBED BY BOTANIST AND ECOLOGIST, PRESENTED TO NOTED PALEONTOLOGIST. 9 1/2 inches tall printed paper covered boards, offprint from The Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State Univesity of Iowa, textured paper tape to spine, Author's inscription to Professor S. W. Willioston top of cover, with handstamp of S.W. Williston/ University of Chicago. Text is folowed by bibliography spanning 1818 to 1910, 11 plates of photographs of the prairies, graphs, folding map, and errata. BOHUMIL SHIMEK (1861 – 1937) was an American natur...
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Category: Geology