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- Researches upon the Anatomy of Pinnipedia. Part II: Descriptive Anatomy of the Sea-lion (Otaria jubata). (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 7, Part 8, Article 16)
- ISBN: NA Price: $383.10
- Publisher: London: Zoological Society of London, Date Published: 1872
- Description: first edition; large quarto, [70] pp., 7 plates with one of them folding and one double page, most deal with musculature (Murie was especially interested in the animal's manner of locomotion); age staining and age speckling on early text leaves and most of the plates but never dark, extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
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- Researches Upon the Anatomy of the Pinnipedia. (Part III.) Descriptive Anatomy of the Sea-lion (Otaria jubata) (from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London)
- ISBN: NA Price: $263.70
- Publisher: London: Date Published: 1874
- Description: Part 3 only; first edition; small folio, 100 pp., 8 plates with one of them double page and some partially color; library and private ownership markings, general light age toning, last plate dark at one corner with no images touched, later cloth soiled but sound, overall good+. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 805627
- On the Anatomy of the Lemuroidea. (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 7, Number 1)
- ISBN: NA Price: $297.42
- Publisher: London: Zoological Society of London, Date Published: 1869
- Description: folio, 113 pp., 6 plates with one of them double page; extraction roughness at spine and only the detached back cover remains from paper wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, zoology, lemurs, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 799792
- Researches upon the Anatomy of Pinnipedia. Part I. On the Walrus (Trichechus rosmarus, Linn.) (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 7, Part 6, Article 11)
- ISBN: NA Price: $824.83
- Publisher: London: Zoological Society of London, Date Published: 1871
- Description: first edition; large quarto, [54] pp., 5 plates; light age staining on plates and first text leaf, extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 803485
- Notes on the Anatomy of the Nubian Giraffe. (from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,082.17
- Publisher: London: Date Published: 1838
- Description: fisrt edition; small folio, [32] pp., 6 plates; general age toning, later half calf with book plate of Dr. Noble Suydam Rustem Maluf, whose interests included the study of giraffe kidneys, overall very good. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 805629
- Observations sur deux orang-outans adultes morts a Paris par MM. A. Milne-Edwards, J. Deniker, R. Boulart, E. de Pousargues, F. Delisle. Extrait des Nouvelles archives du Museum d'Histoire naturelle ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $240.73
- Publisher: Paris: G. Masson Date Published: 1895
- Description: first separate edition; large quarto, [89] pp., 5 lithograph plates including color portraits of the subjects, Maurice and Max from the zoo in the Bois de Boulougne, illustrations in text; title clipped at fore edge with no letters touched, light general age toning to plates, quarter leather binding very rubbed at spine with front cover becoming detached but block sound. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 805559
- The Works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with Notes. Edited by James F. Palmer. (with the Plates volume)
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,703.20
- Publisher: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Date Published: 1835
- Description: first collected edition; text complete in 4 volumes octavo, with portrait (silhouette bust) and a folding facsimile of a letter in first volume + the Plates volume, quarto, 27, [1] pp., frontispiece adapted from the Joshua Reynolds portrait, 61 plates with some folding (Numbered I-XXVI, XXVI*, XXVII-LX), the text volumes in later half cloth and the plates in full cloth but the spines and corners matching; sides darkened and dulled, private book plates, a group of leaves in the fourth volume detached but all present, general age toning and all the pictorial matter has age spotting or age staining, the long plate of the electric eel tattered and soiled at outside margin but image not touched, good. Volumes Included: 5
- Subject: history of science and medicine, human anatomy, zoology, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 807437
- The Development of the Monotremata. Part I. The Histology of the Oviduct during Gestation. By Catherine Hill. Part II. The Structure of the Egg-shell, by J. P. Hill.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.81
- Publisher: London: Zoological Society of London, Date Published: 1933
- Description: large quarto, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 21, Part 5, Pages 413-476, 10 plates; extraction roughness at spine and the back cover of paper wrappers becoming detached, an old receipt tipped in at end, good+. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 799741
- A Text-Book of Zoology.
- ISBN: NA Price: $78.70
- Publisher: London: Macmillan, Date Published: 1910
- Description: first edition; 2 volumes, xxxix, [1], 839 pp. + xx, 728 pp., both volumes have an errata slip and numerous small illustrations in text; private ownership markings, original cloth dulled and rubbed with fraying at extremities, hinges weak, good only. Volumes Included: 2
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- Item Number: 841284
- Handbuch der Zoologie.
- ISBN: NA Price: $330.62
- Publisher: Wien: Druck und Verlag von Carl Gerold's Sohn, Date Published: 1877
- Description: first edition. complete in 4 volumes, all profusely illustrrated; I. Protozoa, Coelenterata, Echinodermata und Vermes. II. Arthropoda. III. Mollusca, Vertebrata anallantoidica, IV. Vertebrata allantoidica: Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia.; later half leather rubbed with some joints split and one head frayed, text blocks sound with only light general age toning, modern private book plate and signatures of an earlier owner, overall good+. Volumes Included: 4
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- Item Number: 858669
- Sexual Dimorphism in the Animal Kingdom. A Theory of the Evolution of Secondary Sexual Characters.
- ISBN: NA Price: $61.08
- Publisher: London: Adam and Charles Black, Date Published: 1900
- Description: first edition; xi, [1], 317, [1], [6] (ads) pp., a few illustrations in text; book plate of a private owner, green original cloth rubbed at extremities and hinges cracked, still near very good. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 858698
- The Natural History of Animals (Class Mammalia - Animals which Suckle their Young). Translated and Edited with Additions by George G. Chisholm.
- ISBN: NA Price: $171.06
- Publisher: London (etc.): Blackie & Son, Date Published: 1889
- Description: Subscriber's Edition; 2 volumes, folio (leaves slightly shorter than 34 cm.), xii, 254 pp. + xi, {1], 240 pp., each volume has a frontispiece, 40 other plates, numerous illustrations in text, blue pictorial cloth with all edges gilt; bindings darkened and rubbed with fraying at extremities, modern private book plate and two armorial of George Granville Camppbell (the first simpler with basic Clan Campbell arms and motto with monogram below), clean interior but good+ only. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: natural history, zoology, mammals, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 799786
- On the Intestinal Tract of Mammals. (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Volume 17, Part 5)
- ISBN: NA Price: $24.93
- Publisher: London: Zoological Society of London, Date Published: 1905
- Description: London: Zoological Society of London, 1905; first edition; large quarto, [100] pp., 50 illustrations in text; later cloth lettered "Prosectorium" (the author did much of his research at the Society's Prosectorium), private book plate, light general age toning, sound and near very good. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 799780
- On the Anatomy of the Female Organs of the Proboscidea. (Transactions of the Zoological Society, Volume 11, Part 4, Number 2, April 1881)
- ISBN: NA Price: $136.83
- Publisher: London: Zoological Society of London Date Published: 1881
- Description: first edition; large quarto, [20] pp., 2 plates; the plates have large but light damp stains, extraction roughness at spine and lacks paper wrappers, good only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 803481
- American Hydroids. Part II. The Sertularidae, with Forty-one Plates. (Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Special Bulletin.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $40.00
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1904
- Description: first edition; folio, ii (title leaf), 325 pp. including the plates, errata slip; lacks paper wrappers, first few leaves slightly margin frayed but text mostly unopened. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, zoology, CSG Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 693387
- The Morphology of the Skull.
- ISBN: NA Price: $218.47
- Publisher: London: Macmillan, Date Published: 1877
- Description: first edition; small octavo, xv, [1], 368 pp., small illustrations in text; red flexible cloth, darkened and rubbed with hinges weak, light general age toning to text, book plate and signatures of previous owners, good; dogfish, frog, snake, fowl, pig, etc.. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 805643
- Recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des mammiferes (incomplete copy)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,926.09
- Publisher: Paris: Masson, Date Published: 1868
- Description: large quarto (leaves slightly taller than 30 cm.), incomplete, lacks the title, has only pages 1-168 of the text (lacks the end of the Faune mammalogique de la Chine section and all text after this point, has the Classe de mammmiferies chart at the end of first article, has only 19 color and 8 tinted lithograph plates (a complete copy would have 105 plates) but including the five plates that go with the second article Observations sur l'hippoptame de Liberia; later marbled paper covered board sides with leather spine and tips, private book plate, light age spotting and age staining to some plates, usually in the margins, a few library hand stamps with none on the image sides of plates. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 812621
- Arbeiten aus dem Zoologischen Institute der Universitat Wien und der Zoologischen Station in Triest. (Volumes 1-20)
- ISBN: NA Price: $998.57
- Publisher: Wien: Alfred Holder Date Published: 1878
- Description: Volumes 1 through 20, all published; various later bindings and some need replacement, numerous plates with many double page, some with large but usually light damp stains, text age toned and some leaves tattered, appears complete but not guaranteed, reading set. Volumes Included: 20
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- Item Number: 626436
- On Mammalian Descent: The Hunterian Lectures of 1884. Being Nine Lectures delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons during February, 1884. With Addenda and Illustrations.
- ISBN: NA Price: $63.30
- Publisher: London: Charles Griffin & Company, Date Published: 1885
- Description: London: Charles Griffin & Company, 1885; first edition, xii, 229, [1], [38] (ads) pp., illustrations in text; private owner and library markings and book plates, front hinge cracked, a good+ copy in original cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, zoology, mammals, evolution, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 841330
- Primates. Comparative Anatomy and Taxonomy. (8 volumes)
- ISBN: NA Price: $761.55
- Publisher: Edinburgh: At the University Press (imprint varies), Date Published: 1953
- Description: Volumes 1 through 8, all published, a final volume was projected but never issued; all first editions (Volume 8 was issued before Volume 7), quarto, very well illustrated after photographs and line drawings by Hill's wife Yvonne, includes distribution maps; 1. Strepsirhini. 2. Haplorhini: Tarsioidea. 3. Pithecoidea: Platyrrhini (Families Hapalidae and Callimiconidae). 4. Cebidae. Part A. 5. Cebidae. Part B. 6. Catarrhini, Cercopithecoidea, Cercopithecinae. 7. Cynopithecinae: Cercocebus, Macaca, Cynopithecus. 8. Cynopithecinae: Papio, Mandrillus, Theropithecus.; book plate of a private owner in each volume but very good+ in jackets and original cloth; an enormous undertaking thoroughly treating not only living but all known extinct primates (at one time the author was drawn into the Yeti controversy but cryptozoological primates are for obvious reasons excluded, as are humans). Volumes Included: 8
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- Item Number: 705537
