Search Results: Authors starting with K from Natural History Books

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1923. First edition.. Light browning to front wrapper and to half-title page; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xii, 304 pp., with 29 text illustrations of amphibians (fine line-drawings). Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, original printed pale green wrappers bound in place, lg 8vo. This is van Kampen's most important work. It documents the amphibians of the Dutch East Indies today known as the island nation of Indonesia. According to Adler (vol. 2, pg. 133) it was written as a companion to Nelly de Rooij's two volume set 'Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago' (1915-1917). Van Kampen's work covers 47 genera and 256 species of frogs and caecilians. From the research collection of Illinois State University herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper. Rare work.

St. Pétersbourg: Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1889. First edition.. Light edge wear to cloth on the spine, spine cloth is sunned, some age toning to the first section of the text, otherwise a very good copy.. Pp. (7), 104; 5 full page engraved lithographs, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Early purple half cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, over French marbled boards, 4to. Mémoirs de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, VII série, tome xxxvii, no. 2. The text is in German. From the research library of paleontologist William M. Furnish with his signature on the front endpaper.

St. Pétersbourg: Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1889. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (7), 104; 5 full page engraved lithographs, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Early dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (original printed front wrapper bound in place), 4to. Mémoirs de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, VII série, tome xxxvii, no. 2. From the research library of paleontologist Arthur K. Miller with his signature on the front endpaper.

Hartford, CT: State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1948. First edition.. Light wear to edges of outer wrappers with one small marginal tear repaired; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 871, (5, ads); 144 full page plates (fine line drawings, black-and-white photos and other diagrams). Original gray wrappers, lg 8vo. State of Connecticut Public Document no. 47 and State Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin no. 70. This is a first edition of this major work on the spiders of Connecticut. No ownership marks.

Den Haag: Uitgeverij Dr. W. Junk, 1959. First edition.. Light wear to covers, bump to top corner, overall a very good copy.. Pp. 640, numerous text-figures and black and white photographs. Publisher’s brown cloth, lettered in gilt on cover and spine, gilt publisher’s logo on cover, lg 8vo. From the series: Monographiae Biologicae, volume 8. This volume contains 38 chapters regarding the ecology, conservation, and biogeography of Australia. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper and his name stamp on front endpapers, rear endpapers, page 86, and page edges. Small bookseller sticker on front endpaper. Neat underling on 40 pages.

Bangkok, Thailand: WKT Publishing, 2006. Second edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. 228, (1, index); 500+ color photos of mammals, birds, butterflies and forest scenes. Publisher's original sky-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, gilt decoration of Thai royal seal above the title on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. A survey of the wildlife of Thailand with an emphasis on endangered species. Illustrated with remarkable color photographs all taken in the wild. No ownership marks.

New York: Wiley-Liss, 1991. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in fine (new) condition.. Pp. xiv, 389; numerous black-and-white micrographs and photos, graphs, diagrams. Publisher's original pictorial laminated red-patterned boards (hardcover), lettered in white, sm 4to. In 1963, a new distinct area of anthropological inquiry was established - the study of the teeth as a key to the biology and behavior of past and living populations. 'Advances in Dental Anthropology' chronicles the dynamic progress made in this area in the last 25 years. The volume covers a diverse range of topics, focusing on a variety of exciting research questions and investigative agendas of current interest to dental anthropologists. The topics covered include: microwear, morphological variation, odontometrics, intentional and unintentional modification, age estimation, pathology, enamel defects, occlusal variation, and growth and development (from the rear cover). No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1932. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. iv, 230, frontispiece photo-plate, 24 text-figures (line-drawings). Publisher's printed pale green wrappers, 8vo. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 160. No ownership marks. Date of issue stamped on the front wrapper.

Ithaca, New York: South Asia Program, Cornell University, 1986. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. iii, 89; 17 text-figures and photos, 3 line drawings. Original printed yellow wrappers, 4to. South Asia Occasional Papers and Theses no. 10. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publishing, 1984. First edition.. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. viii, 144; 10 text-figures and maps (line-drawings). Publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, blue and white dust jacket lettered in white and with illustrations of cave engravings on the front and rear panels, sm 4to. This edited volume presents 13 chapters by noted authorities in the field on the archaeology and paleoanthropology of southern Asia. No ownership marks.

Edinburgh: printed by Alex. Smellie for T. Cadel, W. Davies and W. Creech, 1802. First English edition.. Some scattered light foxing mostly to the rear (blank) side of some plates, offsetting from some plates to their facing text-pages and offsetting from the text pages to a few plates; a very bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xliii, 420; xxiv, 345; iv, 383; xii, 282; with 45 of 48 copper-engraved plates of crocodiles, serpents, lizards, turtles, etc. (volume I lacks plate 2 and volume IV lacks plates 1 and 2; these 3 plates were not removed - they were never bound-in by the publisher). Contemporary full green morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt on dark red morocco labels in two compartments and with elaborate gilt designs in the other four compartments, front and rear leather boards blind-stamped with elaborate diagonal line patterns, set off by gilt panel lines, all outer board edges decorated with gilt patterns, all page edges are marbled to match the… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.. Pp. xiv, 409, numerous color and black and white illustrations. Publisher’s brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, pictorial dustjacket, 4to. This book details the voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle from primary sources including Darwin’s diary, letters, and watercolors made by Conrad Martens. Embossed stamp of Jack A. Ward on the dedication page. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper.

New Delhi: Oxonian Press, 1980. Reprint.. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xii, 158; 47 text-figures and maps. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. Translated from the original 1974 work in Russian by R. K. Mishra. The work compares the equatorial countercurrents in the Indian, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. No ownership marks.

Kyoto: Fauna and Flora Research Society, Kyoto University, 1956. First edition.. Small crack to inner front joint professionally repaired, light edge-wear to cloth; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. x, iii, (i), 529, vii, vii (index); color frontispiece, 29 black-and-white photo-plates, 9 full page plates (line-drawings), some text-figures. Publisher's original turquoise-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, sm 4to. This is volume 2 of a 3 volume set that presents the Scientific Results of the Japan Expeditions to Nepal Himalaya in 1952-1953. Each volume was on a different subject. In 1951 Nepal opened its borders to scientific exploration. This Japanese expedition was one of several expeditions to explore Nepal in the early 1950s. Signature of E. W. Bellis on the front endpaper.

New York: Plenum Press, 1993. First edition.. The red spine only is faded to white making the title difficult to read, small piece cut from endpaper corner; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xv, 560; numerous charts, graphs, cladograms and maps. Publisher's original pictorial red laminated boards (hardcover), lg 8vo. From the Plenum series "Advances in Primatology." Contains 21 chapters by notable authorities in the field arranged in 4 thematic sections on species in evolutionary theory, speciation, and species recognition in the primate and human fossil record. No ownership marks.

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1954. First edition. Near fine copy.. Pp. 309-337; 2 full page photo-plates. Original tan printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology series, volume 2, no. 10. Signed on the front wrapper by Richard G. Van Gleder, Curator of Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. xxi, 336; numerous text-figures (line-drawings and photos). Publisher's original emerald-green cloth, lettered in turquoise on the spine, two-color decorated dust jacket, lettered in white, sm 4to. A detailed analysis of the role of chromosomes and the molecular genetic mechanisms involved in the process of speciation in plant and animal populations. Bookplate of the researcher who first owned this volume. No other ownership marks and no signs of use.

Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1911. First edition. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. iv, 436, (6, ads), 159 text-figures. Early gray cloth, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt (original decorated wrappers bound in), speckled page edges, lg 8vo. This book describes the interdependence of flowers and insects and adaptations that each have developed. This the personal copy of Harvard entomologist W.M. Wheeler with his signature on the title page and a few of his neat pencil annotations in margins of the text.

Tokyo: Yama-to-Keikoku Sha Co., 1970. First edition.. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. (2), 206, (2); 175+ color photos. Publisher's original color pictorial cloth, lettered in black on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, sm 8vo. A hardcover pocket guide to the wild birds of seen on the waterside and coastal areas of Japan. The 93 species covered are classified by habitat and with their Latin names and English common names listed. The text is primarily in Japanese. From the library of ornithologist Dorothy Hartshorne with her custom bookplate on the front endpaper.

Leiden: George Jacob Wishoff, 1753. First edition.. Page edges a bit darkened, some light foxing and browning to the text, a very good copy in an attractive binding.. Pp. (10), 177, (35), 44, 16, (2); 12 full-page folding copper-plate engravings.  Title page is lettered in red and black.  Publisher’s original full brown two-color leather in panels, rebacked with new leather spine with five raised bands and red leather spine label letter in gilt, marbled endpapers renewed, sm 4to (250 x 200 mm).  This work provides a detailed classification of shells and shell fossils, drawing on the work of other scientists, especially George Rumpf and Filippo Klein.  The volume also includes a section on the formation and coloring of shells followed by a commentary in Pliny's writings about shells.  See also BMNH II, p. 992 and Nissen ZBI 2211.  Discrete stamp of “Richard I. Johnson” to the title page.  Mr. Johnson (1925-2020) was a long time Research Associate… Read More