Category: Geology

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

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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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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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] (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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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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Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. Volume I. Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia

By: Hatcher, J. B. and Scott, William B.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Princeton University : 1903

Seller ID: 1102

FOLIO VOLUME NARRATIVE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXPEDITIONS TO PATAGONIA, 1896-1899, BY J B HATCHER, FUNDED BY J P MORGAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. 13 inchs tall folio volume, printed paper binding, photographic frontis with tissue guard, xvi, 314 pp, 50 figures on heavy paper with tissue guards, color double-page map of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia: The Plains, The Mountains, The Rivers of Patagonia, The Lakes of Southern Patagonia; The Coast of Patagonia; Climate; The Native Indian Tribes, Settlement...
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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: $350.00

Publisher: London, Asher & Co. : 1873

Seller ID: 559

1873 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF HISTORIC ERUPTION OF MT. VESUVIUS IN 1872 BY ITALIAN AND IRISH VULCANOLOGISTS. 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 p...
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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 natural...
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Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Volumes VII to XII (12 issues)

By: Venable, Francis P. and Wilson, H.V.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Raleigh, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina

Seller ID: 1023

1890s LOT OF NORTH CAROLINA SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ISSUES CONTAINING EARLY PAPERS OF FRANCIS VENABLE, CHEMIST WHO ISOLATED ZIRCONIUM. Lot of 12 issues of Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. Includes Jan-June 1890 with 56 pages, July-Dec 1890 with about 70 pages, Jan-Jun 1981 with 27 pages, July-Dec 1891 with about 100 pages, Jan-June 1892 with 49 pages, July-Dec 1892 with about 58 pages, Jan-June 1893 with 43 pages, July-Dec 1893 with about about 50 pages, Jan-June 1894 with 31 pages, July-Dec 1894 with about 65 pages, Jan-June 1895 with 41 pages, July-Dec 1895 with 55 pages. Covers...
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Category: Geology