Search Results: Titles starting with D from Natural History Books

London: Harrison ans Sons, 1915.. Slight soiling and marginal chipping to wrappers, otherwise a very good copy.. Pp. 26, 4 full page plates. Original printed wrappers, 4to. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Volume 206. Inscribed "with the authors compliments" on the front wrap. Single ink stamp of Carnegie Museum on the front wrap; the front wrap also stamped Ex Libris, John A. Dorr, Jr. Dorr was a paleontologist at the University of Michigan.

Sanibel Island, FL: Ralph Curtis Publishing, 1995. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in fine (new) condition in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. 192, numerous color photos, maps and text-figures. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket lettered in red and white, 8vo. Coverage in this work includes all of the venomous and potentially dangerous snakes of Africa including the spitting cobras, Puff Adder, Gabon Viper, Egyptian cobra, Black and Green Mambas and many others. More than 90 species are covered with nice color photos of many species. The volume also contains an entire chapter on snakebite and its treatment. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Cordoba, Argentina: Academia Nacional de Ciencias, 1958. First edition.. Vertical crease when the offprint was folded for shipping, otherwise a very good copy.. Pp. (16), 4 black-and-white photos. Original tan printed wrappers, lg 8vo. A tribute to Charles Darwin on 100th anniversary of the publication of the 'Origin of Species.' Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Miscelánea no. 36. Blind stamp of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on the front wrapper, no other ownership marks. Rare work.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. First edition.. Frontispiece tissue guard with some foxing, first few pages of frontis matter lightly foxed; a very tight and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xvi, 494, 2 (ads) + 37 text illustrations, one color folding map. Dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, original dark green endpapers, sm 8vo. Wallace first provides his explanation of natural selection here based on his work and on Darwin’s research. From the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the half title page. No other ownership marks.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. First edition.. A fine copy.. Pp. xvi, 492; some text-figures. Original tan pictorial wrappers, lettered in red and black, lg 8vo. The author excerpts, collects, and discusses the most illuminating and scientifically significant writings on the finches of the Galapagos to teach the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory and provide a historical record of scientific debate. No ownership marks and no signs of work.

Berlin: Schropp, 1895. First edition.. Some fainting cracking to the 19the century leather on the spine, light rubbing to the outer leather joints, the text is bright, clean and unused; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. (6), 459. Original one-quarter brown leather, spine is lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines, over black and white patterned marbled boards, lg 8vo. This is the text volume only - a volume of plates was also published. This work also appeared in: Abhandlungen der Kgl. Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt, neue folge, heft 16 (= Proceedings of the Royal Prussian Geological Institute, new series, no. 16). Small name stamp of Paul Kessler on the title page. Later from the research library of paleontologist Arthur K. Miller with his signature on the front endpaper.

Palermo: Salernus V.G., 1646. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition in a very attractive binding.. Pp. 11. Early brown full antique calf, spine with gilt decorations, borders of front and rear covers with elaborate gilt designs, sm 8vo. This very rare work is the first study of the fangs of vipers. From the private research collection of Cornell University herpetologist Kraig Adler with his small bookplate on the front attached endpaper. Receipt from bookseller in Italy for 1,500 Euro dated 10/13/2008 to Kraig Alder is tipped in at rear.

Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt and Soner, 1887. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition in a very attractive binding.. Pp. vii, 468; 177 black-and-white fine half-tone drawings. Publisher's original one-quarter red morocco, high-decorated in gilt on the spine, over the original blind-stamped and decorated red cloth with an attractive gilt snake on the front cover, lg 8vo (26 cm x 19 cm). The text is in Swedish. No ownership marks.

London: G. Bowyer for Soc. for Encouragement of Learning, sold by J. Whiston, etc., 1744. First edition.. Some edge-wear and rubbing to the head and foot of the spine, the text is very bright and clean in a recent clamshell box, a clean very good copy.. Pp. xiv, xxvii, (36), 603, (1); (605)-1128, (86), with engraved title- and end- vignette, and with woodcut ornaments. There is Greek and Latin parallel text throughout. Contemporary brown morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in one compartment, housed in clamshell box covered in green cloth and with brown morocco title/author label on spine lettered in gilt, 4to. This work by Claudius Aelianus (Aelian) was one of the major attempts to classify animals before Linnaeus. There is a section on herpetology. The work was originally written in Greek and later translated into Latin by Gesner. This London edition is based on the first critical edition by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) and contains commentaries by D. W. Triller (1694-1775).… Read More

Parisiis: Apud Ludovicum Billaine, 1776. First edition.. Old repairs to the outer margins of the half-title and title pages with no effect to the text, some text-browning and spotting to the last few pages, a few old pencil marks in the margins of the text; a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. xiv (half-title, title, dedication, preface, eimio viro), 1-108 (includes text + epistola + breviaria capitum); 3 folding text-figures bound in at page 76.  Old stiff pale-pink paper wrappers, 12mo (18.6 x 11.6 cm).  This is Oliger Jacobaeus' dissertation on frog anatomy and ontogeny.  This is the first book published that is devoted exclusively to frogs.  The text is in Latin and Ancient Greek.  From the private research collection of Cornell University herpetologist Kraig Adler with his small bookplate on the verso of the half-title page.  Very small circular stamp at the base of the title page (not intelligible).  Rare work seldom offered.

Noriberdae, (Nuremberg): Rufus & Sebastiani Heusler, 1603. Second edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (xvi), 133, (10), engraved title page, 4 engraved woodcuts (3 are anatomical diagrams).  Later one-quarter brown leather over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, square 8vo.  Baldus Angelus Abbatius was an Italian physician and naturalist who lived in the later 16th century.  Abbatius was a physician in Pesaro, Italy and his book on vipers contains anatomical descriptions, information on snakebite and on the use of snakes and their venom in medicine.  This volume was the first book published devoted exclusively to snakes.  The first edition was published in 1589; this second edition was printed in 1603.  See BM(NH), p.1. Small round stamp of the University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg on the title with discarded stamp on verso of the title page. 

Alcala de Henares, Spain: ex officina Joannis Graciani, apud viduam, 1595. First edition.. A few pages with light marginal staining, some age spots to the vellum, some pages with light browning; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. [12] 375 [4] ff, 122 [24] ff, title page in red and black with woodcut gryphon device. Contemporary limp vellum, title is lettered in black on the spine, 4to. There are some large historiated initials and many small ornamental initials in the text. First edition of this scholarly study of the reptiles which are mentioned in the Bible and in the Holy Land in general; a second edition appeared in Lyon in 1620. This is an important treatise which was made use of by Samuel Bochart in the Hierozoicon, a similarly erudite examination of the animals that appear in the scriptures. Bustamente’s work focuses particularly of various species of snakes and describes the antidotes that can be given in the case of poisonous ones, but there is also discussion of… Read More

New York: Academic Press, 1989. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. xv, 534; numerous black-and-white photos, maps, plan-views, line-drawings. Publisher's original brown and gray cloth, lettered in white on the spine and in brown on the front cover, lg 8vo. No dust jacket issued. The late Lewis Binford was a theoretical archaeologist who enjoyed critiquing the work of other archaeologists. He was very interested in site formation and he often deconstructed and debated the conclusions of others. This book presents 29 chapters by Binford where he presents his debates about various sites and various topics. This is a classic work. Small signature of former owner on the front endpaper. No signs of use.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (4), 72; 18 text-figures (all line-drawings). Original cream-colored wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, volume 88. From the library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward D. Mitchell with his circular name-stamp and date received on the front wrapper. No other ownership marks.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1971. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. x, 350; numerous black-and-white photos, line-drawings of teeth (some high-lighted in color), graphs. Publisher's original dark red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, two color printed dust jacket, lg 8vo. This is the first hardcover edition. The seventeen papers published in this volume were presented at the Second International Symposium on Dental Morphology held at Royal Holloway College in England in 1968. The volume is divided into three sections: Part 1: Ontogeny, Part 2: Phylogeny and Part 3: Morphology. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1943.. Fine copy.. Pp. 75, 4 photo-plates, 73 text-figs, 3 tables, 4 maps. Printed wraps, 8vo. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 81, art. 3.

Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1908. First edition.. A large margin copy with the page edges uncut but opened, some fraying to the top outer corner of the text and there are a few small marginal tears; a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. (8), 67; 13 full-page plates (black-and-white photographs, radiographs, line-drawings, geological sections, maps), each with a descriptive leaf of text. Plain tan wrappers, folio (13.5 x 10.75 inches; 344 x 275 mm). Otto Schoetensack (1850 - 1912) was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, born of financial means. During an archeological dig, he oversaw the worker Daniel Hartmann who found the lower jaw of a hominin, the oldest human fossil then known, which Schoetensack later described formally as Homo heidelbergensis (after Wiki). Later in 1998, paleoanthropologist G. Philip Rightmire used the nomen Homo heidelbergensis to link together archaic human cranial remains known from Europe, East Africa and South Africa under the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1888. Second edition, 23rd thousand. A few slight wrinkles to the outer corners of three pages in the frontis matter, the binding is bright and clean with no signs of wear, a near fine copy.. Pp. xvi, 693; 18 text-figures (woodcuts). Publisher’s original forest green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and with ornate gilt decorations at the top and bottom of the spine, the front and rear cloth-covered boards have blind-stamped border decorations, brown clay-coated endpapers, 8vo. This is Freeman 966, which is the second revised and augmented edition, the 23rd thousand. Darwin tackled the question of human evolution and natural selection in this work. It was a topic he avoided in previous works. There is a full-page annotation on the front free endpaper by John Macdonald, dated April 1889, that criticizes Darwin’s writings in favor of the account presented in Genesis. No other ownership marks.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. First edition.. A tight copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 161-208. Extract without wrappers, lg 8vo. Report of the United States Fisheries Commission for 1902. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Bruxelles: F. Hayrz, Imprimeur de l'Academie Royal de Belgique, 1880, 1882, 1885, 1886. First Edition.. A fine (as new) set with no signs of use.. Pp. (4), 1-82, (1); (4), 1-90; (4), 1-40; (4), 1-139. Publisher's original gray printed stiff boards, lg folio (15 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches; 40 x 28.2 cm). Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Annals tome IV, VII, IX and XIII. This work contains four of the five text volumes for this massive monograph on the fossil marine mammals found in the Tertiary beds of the D'Anvers region of Belgium that leads into the North Sea. The contents of the parts offered here include: Part II: Ceteaces. Genres - Balaena et Balaeontus, (1880); Part III: Ceteaces. (Balenopteres.) Genres - Megaptera, Balaeonptera, Burtinopsis et Erpetocetus (1882); Part IV: Ceteaces. Genre - Plesiocetus (1885) and Part V: Ceteaces. Genres - Amphicetus, Heterocetus, Mesocetus, Idiocetus et Isocetus (1886). Only Part I: Ceteaces. Pinnipedes, ou Amphitheriens (1877) is… Read More