Search Results: Authors starting with F from Natural History Books

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1868. First edition.. Many pages uncut and unopened, some uniform discoloration to the cloth front board of both volume 1 and volume 2, the plates are bright and clean, armorial bookplate on the front endpaper of each volume; a tight, bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (vol. I): lvi, 590; 34 engraved lithographic plates and maps, some text figures; Pp. (vol. II): xiii, (77), 675; 38 engraved lithographic plates, some text figures. Original publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, from and rear boards blind-stamped with border lines and with beveled edges, thick lg 8vo. This is the rare first edition of the collected paleontological works, both published and previously unpublished, of the Scottish geologist and botanist Hugh Falconer, whose extensive studies of India's Siwalik fossil mammals earned him and Proby Cautley the London Geological Society's prestigious Wollaston Medal. Falconer became interested in paleontology while… Read More

Nanking: Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, 1932. First edition.. Front wrapper with marginal sunning, light age-toning to the text, one corner bumped; a clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 111-122; 2 text-figures (fine line-drawings). Publisher's original gray printed wrappers, sm 4to. Sinensia: Contributions from the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, volume 2, no. 9. According to Adler (volume 2, p.175) this work "demonstrated the validity of Tylototriton (now Echinotriton) asperrimus and describes a new species, T. kweichowensis from the moderate elevations of in Kweichow province (now Guizhou) in southern China." The current common name of Echinotriton asperrimus is the Black Knobby Newt. Rare work.

Paris: Les Dossiers Histoire Archeologie, 1988. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Pp. 114, numerous color and black and white photographs. Publisher’s glossy, pictorial stiff wrappers, lettered in white and yellow on cover and black on spine, 4to. This issue covers Angkor. The text is in French. No ownership marks.

Paris: Les Dossiers d’Archeologie, 1997. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Pp. 91, numerous color photographs. Publisher’s glossy, pictorial stiff wrappers, lettered in white and yellow on cover and black on spine, 4to. This issue covers Angkor. The text is in French. No ownership marks.

Chengdu, China: Sichuan Forestry Publishing House, 2000. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in fine dust jacket with one corner with slight bump.. Pp. (16), 263; 500 color photographs of amphibians and their habitats. Publisher's original gray cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and the front cover, color pictorial and white dust jacket, sm 4to (185mm x 260mm). This monograph describes all 111 species of amphibians that are known to occur in Sichuan. These include 3 species new to science and an additional three species that have been introduced into Sichuan. The preface and the introduction are in English; the majority of the text is in Chinese with Latin names used throughout. There is an index to the Latin and common English names of species at the end of the volume. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Chengdu, China: Sichuan Forestry Publishing House, 2000. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in fine dust jacket with one corner with slight bump.. Pp. (16), 263; 500 color photographs of amphibians and their habitats. Publisher's original gray cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and the front cover, color pictorial and white dust jacket, sm 4to (185mm x 260mm). This monograph describes all 111 species of amphibians that are known to occur in Sichuan. These include 3 species new to science and an additional three species that have been introduced into Sichuan. The preface and the introduction are in English; the majority of the text is in Chinese with Latin names used throughout. There is an index to the Latin and common English names of species at the end of the volume. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Berlin: Rudolph Gaertner, 1869-1871.. Some browning to parts of the endpapers, some wear to leather on spine, a very good copy.. Pp. 106, 3 large folding plates; pp. 74, 1 folding plate; pp. 86. Early half leather over marbled boards, 8vo. Contains early papers on invertebrates and the avifauna of Pomerina.

Praha: Nakladatelstvi Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved, 1964. First edition.. A tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 115; 20 full page photo-plates, 57 text-figures, 1 folding map. Original printed gray wrappers, lg 4to. From the series: Rozpravy Ustredniho Ustavu Geologickeho Svazek no. 30. No ownership marks and few signs of use.

Eugene: University of Oregon, 1976. First edition.. Bottom outer corner with small bump; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp x, 153; 23 text-figures. Original stiff tan pictorial wrappers, with black-cloth back strip, 4to. University of Oregon Anthropological papers, no 10. Presents a multivariate analysis of the forelimb of all primates. Inscribed by the author to Jack on the title page.

Coimbra: Instituto Botanico Da Universidade de Coimbra, 1969-1970, 1976. First edition.. A fine (as new) set.. Pp. 1450+, numerous full page photo-plates and text-figures (line-drawings). Original printed cream-colored wrappers, 8vo. A science journal published in Coimbra, Portugal with many articles on botanical articles. The text is in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Name stamp of Reading Public Museum on the front wrapper of one volume, no other ownership marks and no signs of use.

Chandigarh: Botany Department, Panjab University, 1970. First edition.. Some wear to paper spine at the top and bottom, also some wear to the edges of the wrappers, overall very good.. Pp. (iii), 252; Original pale green wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, thick 4to. Discomycetes are a group of fungi in the class Ascomycetes in which the surface of the fruiting body is exposed during maturation of the spores (from Wiki). The front cover has a small rectangular stamp "National Fungus Collections, Received March 31, 1970." This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith.

Chandigarh: Botany Department, Panjab University, 1969. First edition.. Top rear outer corner is bumped extending into the volume for 45 pages, a clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. (iii), 191, xv. Original pale green wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, thick 4to. Discomycetes are a group of fungi in the class Ascomycetes in which the surface of the fruiting body is exposed during maturation of the spores (from Wiki). This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith.

Johannesburg, South Africa: Natural History Books, 1990. Limited edition.. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. . Pp. (15), (42), 21 full page color plates from paintings by C.G. Finch-Davies, each accompanied by a page of hand-written notes in facsimile, covering the period 28 March 1918 to 4 April 1920, pp. 21 (descriptions of birds), (10, index). One-half brown leather over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, housed in a beige cloth-covered and leather-tipped slipcase, as issued, sm 4to (7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches). This is the Collector’s edition limited to 200 numbered copies, this volume is no. 93 of the edition. The name of the original subscriber, Maude de Matteis, is neatly printed on the limitation page by the editor. Her name also appears in the printed list of subscribers for the Collector’s edition at the end of the volume.

Bangkok: SDI Publications, 1995. Limited edition reprint.. Spines of dust jackets lightly sunned, a tight, bright and clean copy in fine condition, in fine dust jackets and in a fine cloth-covered slipcase.. Pp. (Volume 1) 196; 50 black-and-white (duotone) photo-plates, 2 large fold-out plan views; (Volume 2) pp. 156; 136 black-and-white (duotone) photo-plates (2 are fold-out), 2 fold-out plan views; (Volume 3) pp. 144, 322 black-and-white (duotone) photo-plates (many foldout), 9 foldout plan views. Publisher's original black cloth, boldly lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, tan pictorial dust jackets, in black cloth-covered slipcase lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover and with gilt view of a gallery at Angkor Wat on the front cover, folio (14 x 10.25 x 4 inches). This work documents the temple complex at Angkor Wat, the largest stone monument in the world. This sumptuous work, originally published in 1929 in Memoires Archeologiques: Publies Par L'ecole francaise… Read More

Halle, Germany: H.W. Schmidt, 1867. First edition.. Small bumps to two outer corners before binding was put on, front wrapper (bound in at rear) is a little soiled and with one small stain, last two color plates show some old soiling along the bottom margin with no effect to the color images, text is bright and clean and recent calf binding is very attractive; a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. xxxix, (1), 290; 14 hand-colored lithographed plates drawn and lithographed by Otto Finsch (9 plates of birds and 5 plates of eggs). Recent one-half green calf leather, spine with five raised bands that is lettered in gilt in two compartments, over green French marbled boards with pale green endpapers (original printed front wrapper bound in at rear), lg 8vo (260 x 170 mm, 10 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches). This work presents the ornithology of Viti, Samoa and Tonga Islands in central Polynesia. Wood (341) observes "this monograph is of especial interest to students of Polynesian ornithology. Anker… Read More

Paris: Librairie des Science Naturelles, 1867. First edition. Pages mostly unopened, a near fine copy.. Pp. 40, 1 full page lithographic plate. Original printed pale green wrappers, folio. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Historie Naturelle de Paris, tome 3. The genus Ziphius is known as the beaked whale or goose-beaked whale. Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all the beaked whales.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903. First edition.. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. 987-1130; 49 full page plates (black-and-white photographs and halftone drawings). Later green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, sm 4to. Extracted from: Bulletin of the U.S. Fish Commission for 1903, Part III. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, no date, circa 1930s. Later edition.. Repairs to the corners of the card box, the volume is in fine condition.. Pp. 96; 12 tipped-in color plates by Willy Pogany, numerous un-numbered text-figures. Publisher’s original pale green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover and with a gilt peacock motif centered on the front cover, sm 4to (10 x 7 1/4 inches), housed in a dark green illustrated card box.

Ithaca: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1997. Reprint. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. vi, (8), 1-66, 22-23, (2), 105-128, (4, ads); some black-and-white photos, one large folding chart. Publisher's original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with Fitzinger's signature in gilt on the front cover, 4to. This volume provide facsimile reprints of two of Fitzinger's papers. An introduction by Robert Mertens provides a background to the life of Fitzinger and to his herpetological contributions. This volume is from the research library of herpetologist Kevin W. Marx with his signature on the front endpaper.

Paris: Éditions du Muséum, 1957. First edition. Some pages are unopened, a fine (as new) copy.. Pp. xii, 202, 2 frontis portraits, 42 text-figures, 18 full page plates at rear (5 are in color and 13 are fine black-and-white photos). Publisher's pale green printed wrappers, lg 4to (12.75 x 9.75 inches). Archives du Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle, septième serie, tome V. This monograph documents the gall crabs of the family Cryptochiridae. These are small brachyuran crabs that range throughout coastal Vietnam. The frontis matter also contains a memorial to Édouard Mérite by J. Berlioz.