Paleornithological Research 2013: Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution

Ursula B. Gohlich; Andreas Kroh / Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 2013
306 pp., hardcover, fine. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 3902421827
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history

Item #: 1327338

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$100.00

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La philosophie de l'histoire. Les Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire 59/The Philosophy of History. The Complete Works of Voltaire 59. Second Edition

Voltaire / Institut et musee Voltaire; University of Toronto Press 1969
Text in French and English, Second revised edition, 334 pp., hardcover, embossment stamp to title page, else very good in chipped dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0802016073
Subject/Keywords: tpf philosophy history

Item #: 1327336

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$100.00

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Ben Franklin Stilled the Waters. An informal history of pouring oil on water, with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general

Tanford, Charles / Duke University Press 1989
227 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to the front paste down, slight spine slant, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0822308762
Subject/Keywords: history of science bck

Item #: 1328434

$39.00

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The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)

Will Durant, Ariel Durant / Simon and Schuster 1960
1960s Simon and Schuster printings; 11 volume set (complete), 9766 pp.; uniformly bound in original MAROON CLOTH (hardcovers), a few spines faded or lightly rubbed, a few minor internal ownership markings, else a very good set; vols. 9-11 have rubbed dust jackets, the balance of the set lack the jackets. Volumes Included: 11

ISBN: 1567310230
Subject/Keywords: history office

Item #: 1328431

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$395.00

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The Natural History of the Frilled Shark, Chlamydoselachus Anguineus. The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume, Archaic Fishes Article V

Gudger, Eugene W., Smith, Bertram G. / The American Musuem of Natural History 1933
pp. 245-319 + 5 plates with accompanying text, original paper wrappers, hand stamp to the front cover, light stain to the top corner margin, text and plates unaffected, else good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history sharks bck

Item #: 1328439

$35.00

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Trail of an Artist-Naturalist: The Autobiography of Ernest Thompson Seton (Biologists and Their World)

Seton, Ernest Thompson / Arno Press 1978
412 pp., hardcover, top edge foxed, slight spine slant, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 040510734X
Subject/Keywords: biology natural history bck

Item #: 1328419

$26.00

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Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920―2020

Collopy, Peter Sachs, Bohn-Spector, Claudia, Decemvirale, John Vincent, de Chadarevian, Soraya, Hawthorne, Christopher, Jacobson, Brian R., Rosson, Lois, Shabtay, Talia / Getty Publications 2024
320 pp., hardcover, fine. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 160606942X
Subject/Keywords: fbf art caltech history

Item #: 1328496

$48.00

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Hawaii, A Natural History: Geology, Climate, Native Flora and Fauna Above the Shoreline

Carlquist, Sherwin / The Natural History Press 1970
x, 463 pp., Hardcover, very good in a worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history flora fauna Hawaii bck

Item #: 1328420

$23.00

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From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again: A Journey in Final Causality, Species, and Evolution

Etienne Gilson, John Lyon / University of Notre Dame Press 2016
230 pp., hardcover, very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0268009678
Subject/Keywords: bck evolution natural history

Item #: 1328473

$20.00

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The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History

Freedberg, David / University of Chicago Press 2002
528 pp., hardcover, very good in very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0226261476
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history

Item #: 1328461

$44.00

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The Natural History of Madagascar

Goodman, Steven M., Benstead, Jonathan P., Schutz, Harald, Goodman, Steven M., Benstead, Jonathan P. / University of Chicago Press 2004
1728 pp., hardcover, faint age toning to edges, else very good in very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0226303063
Subject/Keywords: bck biology natural history ecology madagascar

Item #: 1328458

$20.00

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The Christopher Happoldt journal: His European tour with the Rev. John Bachman (June-December, 1838) (Contributions from the Charleston Museum)

Happoldt, Christopher / Charleston Museum 1960
214 pp., hardcover, handstamp to front free endpaper, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: bck history medicine

Item #: 1328025

$15.00

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Oceanic Birds of South America. A Study of Species of the Related Coasts and Seas, Including the American Quadrant of Antarctica, Based Upon the...in the American Museum of Natural History. Two Volumes

Robert Cushman Murphy, Francis L. Jaques / The Macmillan Company 1936
2 vols., 1245 pp., plates; original gilt stamped green cloth (hardcovers), fine in very good glassine dust jackets and a corner-worn slipcase. Volumes Included: 2

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history birds bzc

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Item #: 1328380

$80.00

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Dio Cassius: Roman History, Volume VIII, Books 61-70 (Loeb Classical Library No. 176)

Dio Cassius, Foster, Herbert B., Cary, Earnest / Harvard University Press 2005
2005 printing; 496 pp., Hardcover, fine in a lightly worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0674991958
Subject/Keywords: tpf roman history

Item #: 1328335

$17.36

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life. New edition, from the sixth English edition, with additinos and corrections

Charles Darwin / NY: D. Appleton 1883
xxi, 458 pp., original gilt and black stamped decorated maroon cloth (hardcover), spine frayed, corners worn, book plate to the front paste down, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: evolution history of science bck

Item #: 1328113

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$392.00

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From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics

John Lyon, Phillip R. Sloan / University of Notre Dame Press 2016
422 pp., hardcover, very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0268009554
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history

Item #: 1327996

$23.00

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The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes. Edited by F. E. Beddard. With a preface by P. L. Sclater

William Alexander Forbes / London: R. H. Porter 1885
first edition; xiii, [1], 496 pp., frontis., color plates; contemporary gilt stamped full green leather, a.e.g., spine and corners worn, front and rear blanks foxed, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history birds ornithology bck

Item #: 1328106

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$225.00

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Cathedrals of Science. The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums During the Late Nineteenth Century

Sheets-Pyenson, Susan / McGill-Queen's University Press 1988
178 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0773506551
Subject/Keywords: history of science bck

Item #: 1328097

$20.00

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Joseph Grinnell's Philosophy of Nature. Selected writings of a western naturalist

Joseph Grinnell / University of California Press 1943
237 pp., hardcover, book plate and a hand stamp to the front paste down, else very good in an edge-worn, darkened dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck

Item #: 1328081

$73.50

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Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930

Warner, John Harley / Blast Books 2009
208 pp., Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0922233349
Subject/Keywords: photography history of medicine bck

Item #: 1328069

$14.00

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