The Museum of Natural History Div IV: Birds (continued) by Dallas, William S

New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?

London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.

1785 Buffon Natural History SCIENCE Color Illustrated Evolution Microbiology 5v

"Virtually all the well-known writers of the Enlightenment were 'Buffonians'"
― Ernst Mayer

The monumental work by Comte de Buffon, "Histoire Naturelle," was fascinating 18th-century collection of articles and encyclopedia entries on material sciences, physics, chemistry, technology, as well as the history of animals. Buffon wrote the volumes with the intent of addressing all-natural history, but after realizing the grandeur of the work, he focused on the individual orders of living things. The DSB mentions that
"Buffon's order is formed by a philosophical bias rather than by science."
This beautiful five-volume German example features 17 impressive hand-colored engravings depicting the development of humankind and the human form!
Item number: #11178
Price: $795
BUFFON, Georges Louis Lecrec
Herrn von Buffons allgemeine Naturgeschichte
Troppau : Joseph Georg Trassler, 1785.

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1838 Jardine BIRDS Ornithology Ireland & Britain Illustrated Falcons Owls Merlin
Sir William Jardine was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist most known for his extensive series of books on natural history, 'The Naturalist's Library'.
Item number: #13233
Price: $499
JARDINE, Sir William
The naturalist's library: Ornithology… FLYCATCHERS
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; S. Highley, London, 1838.

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33 hand-colored engraved plates
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· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~7in X 5in (18cm x 13cm)
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .

New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?

London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.

Raccolta unica di 62 pubblicazioni ed estratti di botanica appartenuti al celebre botanico Rodolfo PichiSermolli (Florence 1912-2005). Rodolfo Pichi Sermolli fu un grande botanico specializzato nelle felci Pterodofite. Viaggiò per tutto il mondo in cerca di campioni da utilizzare per il suo erbario: in Africa (Libia, Lagon Tana in Etiopia) Messico, Hawai, Nuova Zelanda, Polinesia ecc… Le più prestigiose istituzioni come il British Museum o il Smithsonian Institution di Washington cercarono di acquistare l'erbario ma lui decise di donarlo all'Università di Firenze. Le pubblicazioni sono per la gran parte studi di botanica, talvolta con descrizione dinuove scoperte di specie e riguardano numerose parti del mondo : Guinea, Mozambico, Canada, North America, Colombia, Quebec, Extremadura in Spain, Africa, Europe etc… Tutti i pezzi riportano ex libris di Sermolli con un numero consecutivo (le pubblicazioni numerate 5350, 5351, 5367, 5369, 5375, 5395 risultano… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First. Near Fine. Geographical Distribution of Animals, with twenty engraved plates and seven colored maps (5 in Vol 1 and 2 in Vol 2) This is an exceptional set of this seminal work in scientific evolution Light pencil notations in margins on at least one plate London: Macmillan and Co, 1876 First Edition Two octavo volumes Original full green cloth with gilt titles and designs in excellent, sound condition, after a professionally done reinforcement of hinges for both volumes, (since these are heavy books), but all of the original binding and brown endpapers are preserved Corners are slightly bumped Slight foxing on first few and last few pages of each volume, but otherwise text is undamaged throughout Mostly unopened Near fine Provenance: Estate of Russell Johanson, Ravenna Rare Books, Seattle, Wa Ink ownership signature on FFEP's of WA Herdman, (Sir William Abbott Herdman (1858-1924) and eminent Scottish marine zoologist and oceanographer in his own right and… Read More

(Persian) Falconry.Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri. A Persian Treatise on Falconry, translated by D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott, 1st edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1908, One of 500 copies.Description: halftone illustrations in the text, original publisher's green pictorial cloth with gilt reproduction of ancient Persian ms. with falconer on horseback, gilt-lettered spine, one minor worm hole through bottom margin first few pages, 8vo 25.5 x 17 cm. Kept in, and comes with, non adhesive transparent dust jacket. See pics for overall condition.Blanc front and end papers, half title page, frontispiece with clean protective tissue, title page, dedication page in English and one in Farsi, xxiv and 195 pp and illustrated with 25 illustrations of Persian paintings, animals, and original ms. Quaritch printer's device to last leaf (see pics).Notes: - Wood; p. 519; Zimmer p. 623. One of 500 copies only. The author was a grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar (1772-1834) and a respected authority on… Read More