Primates
From Gorilla Doctors to Bibliographia Primatologica, from Primate Behavior to Primate Societies, we can help you find the primates books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from Biblio.co.nz, and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
Subcategories in Primates
Top Sellers in Primates
Gorilla Doctors
by Pamela S Turner
Mountain gorillas are playful, curious, and protective of their families. They are also one of the most endangered species in the world. For years, mountain gorillas have faced the threat of death by poachers. Funds raised by “gorilla tourism”—bringing people into the forest to see gorillas—have helped protect them. This tourism is vital, but contact between gorillas and people brought a new threat to the gorillas: human disease. The Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project is a group of...
Read more about this item
Peterson Field Guide To Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition
by Lawrence M ; Burr, Brooks M Page
There are nearly 1,000 species of freshwater fishes in North America alone, and identifying them can sometimes be a daunting task. In fact, in just the twenty years since publication of the first edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, the number of species has risen by almost 150, including 19 marine invaders and 16 newly established nonnative species. This second edition incorporates all of these new species, plus all-new maps and a collection of new and revised plates. Some of the...
Read more about this item
Adaptation Of a Free-Ranging Rhesis Monkey Group To Division and Transplantation
by J and E Menzel Morrison
The Sign Of Babinski a Study Of the Evolution Of Cortical Dominance In Primates
by John F and Allen D Keller Fulton
Primates In Perspective
by Agustin Fuentes, Katherine MacKinnon, Simon Bearder, Rebecca Stumpf Christina Campbell
Primates Books & Ephemera
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes
by Turner, Pamela S
Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
NZ$10.33
The Dancing Chimpanzee : A Study of Primitive Music in Relation to the Vocalising and Rhythmic Action of Apes
by Williams, Leonard
London: Andre Deutsch. 1967. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations by Robert Wilson. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 104 pages. A study of the origins of primitive music. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
Item Price
NZ$20.03
Excuse My Tail; The Story of Peter the Rhesus Monkey
by Smythe, R. H
Country Life Limited; London., 1963. First impression. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Good in like dust jacket. 8vo. 8 3/4".. Illustrated by Edward Osmond.. Good in like dust jacket. DJ price-clipped with light wear. Neatly penned gift inscription to free front endpaper. Light toning to endpapers. 90pp.
Item Price
NZ$12.78
Love At Goon Park : Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
by Blum, Deborah
New York: Berkley Books. 2002. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 336 pages. In the early twentieth century, affection between parents and their children was discouraged. Psychologists thought it would create needy kids, and doctors thought it would spread infectious disease. It took a revolution in psychology to overturn these beliefs and prove that touch ensures emotional and intellectual health. In this book the author charts this profound cultural shift by tracing the...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$22.25
Vergleichend- und funktionell-anatomische Untersuchungen an der Vorderextremitat von Theropithecus gelada (Ruppell 1835): Ein Beitrag zur Systematik und Evolutionsmorphologie terrestrischer Cercopithecidae
by Maier, Wolfgang
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1971. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. 284; 21 text-figures (line-drawings of skeletal elements and muscle maps), 15 tables. Original printed stiff white wrappers lettered in black, lg 8vo. From the series: Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 527. This volume presents a comparative and functional-anatomical study on the forelimb of Theropithecus gelada (Ruppell 1835). It is a contribution to the systematics and...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$34.04
THE GENTLE GIANTS The Gorilla Story.
by Bourne, Geoffrey H. & Cohen, Maury
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 319 pages; Jacket with light rubbing and wear. The book otherwise well taken care of. .
Item Price
NZ$34.04
Gorillas
by Godwin, Sara
New York: Friedman/Fairfax Publishers. 1994. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Wraps. Illustrated with Colour photographs, principally by Gerry Ellis. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 128 pages. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.
Item Price
NZ$22.25
Goma, the baby gorilla: An account of the first gorilla born in Europe
by Lang, Ernst M
Victor Gollancz, London, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Dust jacket is price clipped, and slightly chipped at the head and tail of the spine. Internally clean, free of annotation. Introduction by Gerald Durrell, illustrated with 56 black-and-white photographs – mainly full-page. A first insight, for amateur and professional is a well-adjusted delight, into the growth and behaviour of this highly developed species of animal; a delightful book for everyone...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$16.71
The Anatomy of the Golden Monkey (Rhinopithecus)
by Ye, Zhizhang et al
Kunming, China: Yunnan Science and Technology Press, 1987. First edition.. Bump to bottom inner corner, some edgewear to wrappers; a clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. (10), 407; 176 text-figures (line-drawings), 1 color drawing of the face of Rhinopithecus, 14 black-and-white photos. Color pictorial green wrappers lettered in white, sm 4to. A detailed monograph of the anatomy of the genus Rhinopithecus. The text is in Chinese with some parts in English or Latin. Additional offprint entitled:...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$42.56
Positional behavior of Olive Baboons (Papio Anubis) and its relationship to maintenance and social activities
by Rose, M. D
Inuyama, Japan: Japan Monkey Centre, 1977. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Pp. 59-116; 13 text-figures (line-drawings). Original printed pale green wrappers, sm 4to. This is an original offprint from the journal Primates. It describes positional behavior in a troop of Olive Baboons in Kenya. Former owner’s name stamp is on the front wrapper.
Item Price
NZ$17.02
Primates The Amazing World of Lemurs, Monkeys, and Apes
by Sleeper, Barbara
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1997. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Wraps. Illustrated with Colour photographs by Art Wolfe. Previous owner's blindstamp to title page. Spine a little faded. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. . 1st thus. Softcover.
Item Price
NZ$20.03
Sex & Friendship in Baboons
by Smuts, Barbara Boardman
New York: Aldine Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0202020274 . Graphs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an inked "File" stamp and a previous owner's inked price on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Much of Smuts’ research concerns the development of...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$34.04
The Orang-utangs
by Kaplan, Gisela and Rogers, Lesley J
St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. 1999. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 185 pages. An intriguing insight into the life of one of our closest relatives by the noted Australian academic. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
Item Price
NZ$33.38
Captivity and Behavior. Primates in Breeding Colonies, Laboratories and Zoos
by Erwin, J.; Maple, Terry L. & Mitchell, G. [Editors]
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 286 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
Item Price
NZ$22.25
Catalogue of Primates in the British Museum (Natural History), Part )ne: Families Callitrichidae and Cebidae.
by Napier, Prudence Hero
London: British Museum (Natural History). 1976. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Small crease to lower edge of front cover. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xi, 121 pages. . 1st thus. Softcover.
Item Price
NZ$22.25
The Evolution of Primate Behavior 2nd Edition
by Jolly, Alison
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.. 1985. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Previous price stamped to front free endpaper and previous owner's blindstamp to title page. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvii,526pp. . 2nd Edition. Hardback.
Item Price
NZ$27.82
Socioecology and Psychology of Primates
by Tuttle, Russell, Editor
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1975. Previous owners bookplate and name stamped in book. . First Edition.. Cloth-Black. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book.
Item Price
NZ$25.53
Phylogeny of the Primates: A Multidisciplinary Approach
by Luckett, W. Patrick and Szalay, Frederick S. (editors)
New York: Plenum Press, 1975. First edition.. Light sunning to the spine of the dust jacket, a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xiv, 483; numerous text-figures (mostly line-drawings and graphs, some black-and-white photos). Publisher's original red cloth, lettered in black on the spine with images of primates printed in black on the front board, pictorial tan dust jacket lettered in red on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the Wenner-Gren Symposium #61 held in Burg...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$59.58
Aging in Nonhuman Primates (Primate Behavior and Development Series)
by Bowden, Douglas M
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. xxi, 393; numerous text-figures (black-and-white photos, line-drawings, charts, graphs). Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. This volume discusses both the biology and pathology of aging for major physiological systems such as nervous, immune, reproductive, cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal and digestive (from the...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$17.02
The Amphibia of the Indo-Australian Archipelago
by Kampen, P. N. van
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...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$297.88
The Primate Postcranial Skeleton: Studies in Adaptation and Evolution
by Strasser, Elizabeth and Dagosto, Marian (editor)
London: Academic Press, 1988. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. iii, 265; numerous text-figures (line-drawings, black-and-white photos, cladograms, graphs). Original printed yellow wrappers, lettered in brown on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. This volume is based on a symposium entitled "Evolution and Diversification of the Postcranium in Primates" which was held at the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$51.07
Cousins. Our Primate Relatives.
by Dunbar, Robin and Barrett, Louise
London: BBC Books. 2000. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 240 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
Item Price
NZ$22.25
The Amphibia of Southern Africa
by Poynton, J. C
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Natal Museum, 1962. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in fine condition.. Pp. 334, 123 text-figures (mostly black-and-white photos of frogs), 73 distribution maps. Early Light green cloth, lettered in black on the spine, original printed pale green wrappers bound in place, thick patterned endpapers, lg 8vo. Annals of the Natal Museum, volume 17. From the research collection of Illinois State University herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his name stamp on the...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$85.11
Snow Monkeys
by Iwago, Hideko (Text); Iwago, Mitsuaki (Photographs)
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1996. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Wrappers. Previous owner's blindstamp to Title Page. Wonderful colour photographs. 159 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Softcover.
Item Price
NZ$20.03
In the Shadow of Man
by Goodall, Jane van Lawick
Dell, 1972-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 0 Paperback - Chips - Binding weak at photos
Item Price
NZ$10.13
