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Jerusalem, Israel: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1972. "A critical discussion on systematics followed by detailed desciption of morphology, including thorough study of musculature that is not available elsewhere, theories of sound generation, patterns of distribution and migration, biology and behaviour, enemies and parasites studied in detail. Section on fishing gives historical data and current at time of publication." CONDITION Blue bds with crisp Gilt title (unworn apart from faintly buffed bottom cnrs) pp v 394 with 141 figural and photo illus, charts and large reference section. Original DJ has blind indent marks to front and very sl wear. Overweight. First English. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
"In Stirpes Aliquot Novas et Minus Cognitas Horti R. Academici. Praelectae D. II. Martii, A. MCCCLXXXII." In Commentationes Societatis Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis, vol. V. by MURRAY, Johan Anders (1748-1791) - 1783
by MURRAY, Johan Anders (1748-1791)
"In Stirpes Aliquot Novas et Minus Cognitas Horti R. Academici. Praelectae D. II. Martii, A. MCCCLXXXII." In Commentationes Societatis Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis, vol. V.
by MURRAY, Johan Anders (1748-1791)
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Gottingen:: Ioan. Christ Dieterich, 1783., 1783. 4to. xii, [xvi], 102, 64, 136, 54 pp. Title page vignette, 1 chapter head vignette, tailpieces, 5 engraved folding botanical plates, 3 engraved mathematical plates (1 folding); moderate foxing, early ex-library rubber stamps on plates. Later quarter tan calf, boards, gilt spine, brown leather spine label, new endleaves. A fine copy. Murray's work is an attempt at Linnean classification of rare and unusual plants in the genera lysimachus, veronica, scabiosa, and celosia. Murray, a Swede, was one of Linnaeus' favorite students. He took his medical degree at the University of Gottingen and was appointed professor of medicine there and inspector of the university's botanical garden. He translated many of Linnaeus' works and his teaching powerfully influenced the succeeding generation of botanists. See: Blake, NLM, 317; BM (Nat. Hist.), III, p. 1382. This volume also contains contributions on botany, physics, mathematics and ancient inscriptions by: Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804), Joh. Beckman, Heinrich August Wrisbert, Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner (1719-1800), Alb. L. Fr. Maister, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch, Christoph Meiners, and more. CONTAINS: Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner (1719-1800), De Dentibus Rotarum qui Iunguntur Paxillis Rotundis. [On wheel teeth joined by pins]. / [Egypt] Aegyptiaca Complexum. Interponitur Indicium de omni historia Aegyptiacam eius fontibus et vaussis et de modo ac ratione eam interpretandl. / Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812), De Fontibus et Auctoribus Historiarum Diodori et de eius auctoritate . . . [on Diodorus Siculus, the Greek historian, fl. first century BC] / [Herodotus] Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727-1799), De Herodoti ac Thucydidis Thracia. . . . Commentatio Geographica. Pars altera: De Thracia Australi, er eius quidem Orientali parte, seu Thracia posterioris aeui proprie dicta. / Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch (1726-1784), De Michaelis Glycae Aetate commentatio. / [Greek weaponry] Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812), Nova Armorum Inventa in Vetere Graecia quid ad rerum summam profecerint. Commentatio recitata . . . / Jo. Matthia Gesnero, Inscriptiones Aliquot Pocockianae illustratae . . . Commentatio I.
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The Sperm Whale
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The Phytologist : A Popular Botanical Miscellany, Volume the Fourth (bound with) Volume the Fourth, Continued; and Volume the Fourth, Concluded (Vol IV complete in 3 parts)
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London: John Van Voorst, 1851. Volume Four, complete (1851/1852/1853) in 3 parts bound together. These are the original first editions -- not cheaply-made modern reprints. The binding is Fair - Good condition because the green cloth covers are worn and no longer attached to the textblock. SEE PHOTOS. However the textblock could be easily recased with no sewing required since all pages are tightly bound together. Internal condition is Very Good with almost no foxing. Consists of VOLUME THE FOURTH (1851): pp. 1-392; VOLUME THE FOURTH, CONTINUED (1852): pp. 393-784; and VOLUME THE FOURTH, CONCLUDED (1853): pp. 785-1160.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair - Very Good condition. Thick 8vo. xxviii, 1,160pp.
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A naturalists wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883
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Harper & Brothers. New York. 1885. 8vo. xix, (1), 536, 4pp adverts. Coloured frontispiece of Mrs Forbes Honey Eater with tissue guard, 14 plates, numerous text illustrations including 1 map, 3 coloured folding maps, I coloured map, 1 monochrome map. Original pictorial cloth, gilt and black, slight wear to head of spine. Uniformly toned, a tight crisp copy. Orientalia booksellers plate, New York to rep. A nice copy.Henry O Forbes (1851-1932) Scottish explorer, zoologist and botanist. Travels and observations in The Cocos-Keeling Islands, Java, Sumatra, Moluccas and Timor-Laut, Buru, Timor etc
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Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe (Signed Easton Press Ed)
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Sketches of The Royal Society and Royal Society Club
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Unexplored Spain
by CHAPMAN, Abel and BUCK, Walter J
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London: Edward Arnold, 1910 pp xvi + 416 + ii + 22. Over 200 b & w illustrations. A survey of wild-life. Internally in near fine condition subject to moderate browning to endpapers.Binding sound subject to a little cracking between inside covers and endpapers.Cover quite bright with some markings and a little sunning to the spine.Corners a little bumped and slight wear to extremities of spine.
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Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde: Eine systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. I. Abt. 4. Band: Die palaearktischen Spanner (Tafeln)
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Text in German/Deutsch. Dark green linen-grain cloth over boards with dark brown morocco-grain cloth at fore corners and back; gilt spine titles; black end papers with cloth hinges. Lightly scuffed covers and spine; light colored spotty stains on covers; scraped at front cover lower fore corner with tears in cloth, boards exposed; tightly bound; clean interior; few interior plates with light foxing. Table of Contents with 25 color litho plates. Cf, OCLC #634343809. Folio.
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Histoire abregée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; Dans laquelle ces Animaux font rangés suivant un ordre méthodique, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].
by (Geoffroy, Étienne-Louis).
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Paris, Durand, 1762. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Two volumes. Crown quarto. xxvii, 523; 690. Plus 22 folding engraved plates (10 to 1st volume, 12 to the 2nd, bound at end). With large folding chart to volume I. HARDCOVER, uniformly bound in contemporary full mottled calf, worn and with defects, nevertheless strong. Wormholes throughout (how appropriate!), practically all meticulously restored by fine expert hand, remaining traces at few text leaves and plates; some old institutional stamps, some annotation in pencil. This is an authentic set in the original state and in first binding, which is no longer glamorous but still full of charm. Leaves are very clean, neat, ample margined and free of foxing, plates are in the first state. Withal, a lovely, unique item. ~ FIRST EDITION. Étienne-Louis Geoffroy (1725-1810), a French entomologist and pharmacist. His "Histoire abregée des insectes" went through at least four editions. Some, in the spirit of the period, were fashionably…
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Hydrology of Ice Caps in Volcanic Regions
by Björnsson, Helgi
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Reykjavik: Reykjavik Societas Scientarium Islandica, University of Iceland, 1988. First edition. Hard cover, issued without dust jacket. Published Reykjavik: Societas Scientarium Islandica, University of Iceland, 1988. 8vo., 139pp., illustrated with maps an b/w reproductions. Text in English. Fine. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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The Natural History of Insects, Compiled From Swammerdam, Brookes, Goldsmith, &c. Embellished With Copper Plates. Intended As A Companion To Buffon's Natural History
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Perth: R. Morison And Son, 1792. First edition. leather_bound. Modern blue morocco, red leather spine label. Very good. (IV) 210 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Twenty engraved plates. A unique collection, in text and images, of the entomology studies from the leading authorities at the time. Most notable of the entomologists, Jan Swammerdam, who pioneered the use of the microscope for use in anatomy drawing, and anatomical conclusions through the use of insects, animals and finally humans. He was the first to observe red blood cells with a microscope. Text clean, one or two leaves with minor stains, plates are bright and fresh.
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Jo. Andreae Murray Apparatus Medicaminum V6: Tam Simplicium Quam Praeparatorum Et Compositorum (1792) (Latin Edition)
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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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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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
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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?
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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar
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Winter - Notes from Montana
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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