The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting by Crane, Eva - 2000

New York: Silk Publishing Co.. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. Volume 18, 1925. July to December (7-12). Clean brown cloth. Hard Binding with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled page edges & endpapers. Containing 6 magazines with covers, published on the 15th day of each month. Silk industry's technical authority. Text tight, clean & intact. Profusely illustrated with B/W photographs & drawings. #12 magazine with 3 mended edge tears. Internal markings only, "Smithsonian Institute, National Museum." Business; B&W Drawing & B/W Photo; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Belknap/ Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1969; First Edition; large 8vo, 733 pages; illustrated. Seminal anthropological study of the Tzotzil-speaking highland village of Zinacantan, covering geographic and cultural setting, material culture and economics, social structure, religious beliefs and rituals, etc. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket that has a single 1" closed edge tear. A very attractive copy.

Biblioteca Aportacion Historica, Mexico City, 1947; First Edition; #69 of 100 numbered copies; 8vo, 33 pages. First publication of an historic manuscript in the National Museum of Mexico describing the Nahua system of counting and the etymological roots of Nahuatl number words. Originally authored in mid 19th century by notable Mexican linguist Faustino Chimalpopoca, Nahuatl translator to the court of Maximillian and Carlota. Edited and published in a limited edition of only 100 copies by Vargas Rea. Very Good Plus, in printed wraps with an Aztec glyph emblazoned on the front. Rare.

New York: HarperCollins / Ecco Press, 2015. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

Black glossy paper wraps. French text. Minor wear to head of spine (see image), but otherwise a clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
9.5 x 11.75 in

97 - 127 Seiten. Die Monatsschrift "Esra" erstrebte, wie es in einer Ankündigung heißt, "die Verknüpfung des jüdischen Intellektuellen mit der Entwicklung und mit dem Geschehen seines Volkes". "Esra" verstand sich als Forum zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit den Leistungen des offiziellen Zionismus.

Die Zeitschrift stand der 'Jüdischen Renaissance' nahe und zielte darauf, vor allem den assimilierten Kreisen des Westjudentums genuin jüdische, vornehmlich osteuropäische Kulturtraditionen zu vermitteln.
http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodical/titleinfo/2828641

Maurizio Martino, Mansfield, CT, (1994); First Edition, Limited to 225 copies; Quarto, 11" x 8 3/4" (28.1 cm x 22.2 cm); red buckram; gold titles on a black field. Verbatim facsimile reprint of this scholarly work on botanical illustration first published at Stuttgart in 1951. Two volumes in one, 264 pages and 324 pages respectively, Volume I an exhaustive history of botanical book illustration, and Volume II a detailed bibliographical catalogue of 2,387 illustrated botanical works spanning more than four centuries, arranged in alphabetical order by author. Text in German. A unique and valuable reference. Fine. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.

London: Collins, 1979. Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 6 double-sided plates from black and white photographs, line drawings throughout the text. A fine copy in the jacket. First edition, first impression and a fine copy, uncommon in such nice condition. Mary Leakey (1913-1996) was an accomplished archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who worked primarily on early humanoid fossils in Kenya and Tanzania with her husband and scientific partner Louis Leakey. "The site that will always be associated with Mary Leakey is Olduvai Gorge, a canyon in northern Tanzania containing rich collections of fossils and artefacts spanning about the last 2 million years. This became her second home, where she enjoyed fieldwork and research, accompanied by her pack of beloved dalmatian dogs, of which she was a well-known breeder. At Olduvai on 17 July 1959 she made one of the most famous fossil discoveries of all time, the skull of a 1.8 million-year-old early human relative whom… Read More

New York: Harmony Books, 1996. Signed by Stephen Jay Gould. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 149pp; Minor staining to DJ, previous owner's name to FFEP, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Scarce vintage monograph on Manx phonology. University of Edinburgh Linguistic Survey of Scotland Monographs No. 2.