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London: John Murray, 1838. New edition.
1838 EARLY WORK ON ANIMAL AND PLANT ECOLOGY--EDITION LISTED IN DARWIN'S READING NOTEBOOKS.
Two 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, 3/4 brown calf, rubbed, marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, gilt leather label, xi + (1 blank) + 352pp, with engraved title and frontispiece, 5 engravings (of trees) in text; v + (1 blank) + 283 + (1) pp. Very good in custom archival mylar covers. The author seeks to kindle a warmth rather than hostility towards the animal kingdom. with some 260 short entries of anecdotes and observations on the habits and characteristics of animals, birds, fish, and their relationships with each other, also plants and phenomena in nature, and naturalists and country workers. Also described are features in the parks surrounding London - Hampton Court, Richmond, Bushy, Windsor Great Park. This edition is listed in Charles Darwin's reading notebooks.
EDWARD JESSE (1780-1858) was an English writer on natural history, who became clerk in a… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1947. First edition. ASSOCIATION COPY: BIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH LISTER PRESENTED BY SURGEON GENERAL LEROY BURNEY TO SENATOR JOSEPH LISTER HILL, CO-AUTHOR OF THE HILL-BURTON ACT. 8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, inscribed in ink on front flyleaf, "May 27, 1960. To Senator Lister Hill with the highest personal regards, Lee Burney, Surgeon General." Frontis photograph of Lister, 270 pp, photographic plates, corners worn, cover edges and endpapers browned, otherwise very good without jacket. RHODA TRUAX SILBERMAN (1901 – 2000), an American author. was a graduate of the Horace Mann School and Barnard College in New York. She wrote a number of biographies of historical physicians, the best known being The Doctors Warren of Boston, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1968. LEROY EDGAR BURNEY (1906 - 1998) was appointed the eighth Surgeon General of the United States (1956 to 1961). Burney was born in Burney, Indiana, a town founded by his great-grandfather. He began… Read More