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Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Firmin Didot, 1824. Exotic. Very Good +. 4 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches. 18 pages, 4 feps at front and rear. Title page with small owner's stamp of "Mr [Henri] Milne Edwards," the noted 19th Century zoologist (1800-1885). All page edges uncut. A little light foxing and the old endpapers are lightly soiled. Bound by John Field (with binder's ticket) in modern full yellow water buffalo with blind rolled borders and red spine label with gilt title and new endpapers. Provenance: Henri Milne Edwards, Library of Henry and Virginia Walton Harry and Virginia Walton were lifelong residents of Covington, Virginia, a small town in the Allegheny Mountains. Harry was a graduate of Lynchburg College, and Virginia was a graduate of the Lynchburg General School of Nursing. Although largely unknown to the general public, the Waltons' reputation as collectors was widely respected in bibliophile and academic circles, and items from their collection were exhibited at numerous…
Read More ORANGUTAN LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS. Observations sur Deux Orang-Outans Adultes Morts a Paris. Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 3eme Serie, Tome VII. by Milne-Edwards, Alphonse, Deniker, Joseph, Boulart, R., de Pousargues, Eugene and Delisle, Fernand - 1895
by Milne-Edwards, Alphonse, Deniker, Joseph, Boulart, R., de Pousargues, Eugene and Delisle, Fernand
ORANGUTAN LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS. Observations sur Deux Orang-Outans Adultes Morts a Paris. Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 3eme Serie, Tome VII.
by Milne-Edwards, Alphonse, Deniker, Joseph, Boulart, R., de Pousargues, Eugene and Delisle, Fernand
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SCARCE EARLY MONOGRAPH ON ANATOMY OF THE ORANGUTAN WITH SUPERB LITHOGRAPHS OF BELOVED RESIDENTS OF PARIS ZOO.
24x32 cm folio hardcover, 3/4 leather binding, spine with gilt compartments and gilt title, marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, bookplate of academic physician to front paste-down, pp. 32-118, 5 full page lithographic plates, 2 are color portraits of two orangutans represented also in text-figures. Corners bumped, title page has abrasions from removal of inscriptions and 3x6 cm repaired area to right edge not affecting text, top 1-2 cn corner of 2 rear endpapers missing. Text and plates unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. This important early monograph on the orangutan documents the internal and external anatomy of two primates from the zoological garden in the Bois de Boulogne. In addition to the fine lithographic plates, there are superb drawings in the text of Maurice and Max in life at the zoo, all by museum illustrator Adolphe Millot.
ALPHONSE MILNE-EDWARDS (1835 - 1900) a French zoologist, obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father at the Jardin des Plantes in 1876. He became the director the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1891, devoting himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration. He was a member of the Société Philomathique de Paris, French Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Zoological Society of London.
ADOLPHE PHILIPPE MILLOT (1857–1921) was a French painter, lithographer and entomologist who was the senior illustrator at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. He was a member of the Salon des Artistes Francaise.
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Reglements Interieurs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences
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KEEPSAKE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. DESCRIPTION DES OISEAUX suivie d'un expos� de l'art de les pr�parer et de les conserver.
by Comte, Achille text by Buffon illustrated by Victor Adam
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Paris: Bazouge-Pigoreau /Tyas London, 1838. Hardcover. Very Good-. Hand coloured plates heightened with gum (38 with 154 birds shown in groups from 2-6 per plate) by Victor Adam +uncoloured frontis portrait of Buffon +pretty hand coloured engraved titlepage by Pauquet /Rouget sc. all with tissue guards.. Small quarto plum roan spine extra gilt compartments & faux bands with cloth sides (tips a bit worn/rebacked with old spine relaid/cloth rubbed). Portrait Frontis +hand coloured titlepage +printed titlepage +Portrait +xxiii [1]p blank +312pp. Text pages with some foxing, more so to first & last pages. Plates mostly clean & white but a few have pale edge foxing. Two tissue guards torn, one at p17 lost. The plates are all beautifully hand coloured and heightened with gum.
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Cellulare Untersuchungen an Nematoden-Eiern by Meyer, Oscar Theodor Boveri
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Jena: Erlangung der Doktorwurde in der Philosophie, 1895, pp. 1-20, 1895. Pamphlet. Collectible; Very Good. First edition. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Wu?rzburg, Univ., Diss., 1895. With Theodor Boveri's ownership initial in Kaiser Wilhelm Institut stamp. Some splitting at the spine else Very good. From Theodor Boveri's library.
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Die Wendung der Dyaden beim Reifen der Tiereier als Stutze fur die Bivalenz der Chromosomen nach der numerischen. Reduktion by Lotsy, J. P. Johannes Paulus Lotsy Theodor Boveri
by Lotsy, J. P. Johannes Paulus Lotsy Theodor Boveri
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Flora . 1904 . p . 65?86, 1904. Pamphlet. Collectible; Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Johannes Paulus Lotsy Dutch botanist 1867-1931. "Johannes Paulus Lotsy (April 11, 1867 - November 17, 1931) was a Dutch botanist, specializing in evolution and heredity. Lotsy was born in Dordrecht and died in Voorburg." Wikipedia. With Theodor Boveri's initial of ownership in the Kaiser Wilhelm Stamp front cover. Boveri's indication of author, title and year on front cover in his hand. Scarce offprint. First edition. Antiquarian science. Botany. * Staples little rusty, else very good.
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A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses - 2 Volumes
by William Gibson
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London: A Millar, 1754 Wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse. The cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner, from many years practice and experience. With the cheapest and most efficacious remedies. (the transport breakdown manual of its day) Written by William Gibson, Surgeon, in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square. Volume One 388pp. Volume Two 428pp plus index. 32 copper plates. Armorial ex libris plate to front pastedown. Marbled end papers. Recently rebacked.
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Reglements Interieurs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences
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Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Firmin Didot, 1824. Exotic. Very Good +. 4 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches. 18 pages, 4 feps at front and rear. Title page with small owner's stamp of "Mr [Henri] Milne Edwards," the noted 19th Century zoologist (1800-1885). All page edges uncut. A little light foxing and the old endpapers are lightly soiled. Bound by John Field (with binder's ticket) in modern full yellow water buffalo with blind rolled borders and red spine label with gilt title and new endpapers. Provenance: Henri Milne Edwards, Library of Henry and Virginia Walton Harry and Virginia Walton were lifelong residents of Covington, Virginia, a small town in the Allegheny Mountains. Harry was a graduate of Lynchburg College, and Virginia was a graduate of the Lynchburg General School of Nursing. Although largely unknown to the general public, the Waltons' reputation as collectors was widely respected in bibliophile and academic circles, and items from their collection were exhibited at numerous…
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KEEPSAKE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. DESCRIPTION DES OISEAUX suivie d'un expos� de l'art de les pr�parer et de les conserver.
by Comte, Achille text by Buffon illustrated by Victor Adam
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Paris: Bazouge-Pigoreau /Tyas London, 1838. Hardcover. Very Good-. Hand coloured plates heightened with gum (38 with 154 birds shown in groups from 2-6 per plate) by Victor Adam +uncoloured frontis portrait of Buffon +pretty hand coloured engraved titlepage by Pauquet /Rouget sc. all with tissue guards.. Small quarto plum roan spine extra gilt compartments & faux bands with cloth sides (tips a bit worn/rebacked with old spine relaid/cloth rubbed). Portrait Frontis +hand coloured titlepage +printed titlepage +Portrait +xxiii [1]p blank +312pp. Text pages with some foxing, more so to first & last pages. Plates mostly clean & white but a few have pale edge foxing. Two tissue guards torn, one at p17 lost. The plates are all beautifully hand coloured and heightened with gum.
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Cellulare Untersuchungen an Nematoden-Eiern by Meyer, Oscar Theodor Boveri
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Jena: Erlangung der Doktorwurde in der Philosophie, 1895, pp. 1-20, 1895. Pamphlet. Collectible; Very Good. First edition. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Wu?rzburg, Univ., Diss., 1895. With Theodor Boveri's ownership initial in Kaiser Wilhelm Institut stamp. Some splitting at the spine else Very good. From Theodor Boveri's library.
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Die Wendung der Dyaden beim Reifen der Tiereier als Stutze fur die Bivalenz der Chromosomen nach der numerischen. Reduktion by Lotsy, J. P. Johannes Paulus Lotsy Theodor Boveri
by Lotsy, J. P. Johannes Paulus Lotsy Theodor Boveri
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Flora . 1904 . p . 65?86, 1904. Pamphlet. Collectible; Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Johannes Paulus Lotsy Dutch botanist 1867-1931. "Johannes Paulus Lotsy (April 11, 1867 - November 17, 1931) was a Dutch botanist, specializing in evolution and heredity. Lotsy was born in Dordrecht and died in Voorburg." Wikipedia. With Theodor Boveri's initial of ownership in the Kaiser Wilhelm Stamp front cover. Boveri's indication of author, title and year on front cover in his hand. Scarce offprint. First edition. Antiquarian science. Botany. * Staples little rusty, else very good.
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A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses - 2 Volumes
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London: A Millar, 1754 Wherein what is necessary to the knowledge of a horse. The cure of his diseases, and other matters relating to that subject, are fully discussed, in a plain and easy manner, from many years practice and experience. With the cheapest and most efficacious remedies. (the transport breakdown manual of its day) Written by William Gibson, Surgeon, in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square. Volume One 388pp. Volume Two 428pp plus index. 32 copper plates. Armorial ex libris plate to front pastedown. Marbled end papers. Recently rebacked.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
by Authors: Mark Owens; Delia Owens; Alexandra Fuller (foreward)
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2006. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Inscribed & signed by both authors on the title page. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Text unmarked. Jacket clean and bright. Laid-in tri-fold pamphlet from the Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxvi + 230 pages. Crossing stick bridges over swollen rivers and battling swarms of tsetse flies, Mark and Delia Owens found their way into one of the most startlingly beautiful, wild places on earth, the northern Luangwa Valley in Zambia. As they were setting up camp to launch their lion research, gunfire echoed off the cliffs nearby. Gangs of ivory poachers were not only shooting the elephants but also virtually enslaving local villagers. Against unimaginable odds, Mark and Delia stopped the poaching by helping the villagers find other work, start small businesses, and improve their health care and education. Living with wild creatures all around (lions sleeping…
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A Lot of Insects: Entomology in a Suburban Garden
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Green cloth board covers with green and yellow spine. Edge wear and corner bumps, no dust jacket. Previous owners stamps on inside covers. Soiling on page edges. Clean, tight pages and binding. Published by The Cornwall Press in 1941. First Edition/First Printing. Insects. Measures 8.5x5.75 with 304 pages. Good
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Last Tales
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Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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Coniglicoltura Pratica
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Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1911. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Very good, with only a little wear to extremities. 12 colour plates, and 67 sketches and photos. 268 pages of text, and 69 pages of index and adverts. Pictorial cover still bright..
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.
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