Search Results
Your Search Criteria
|
|
| Search Within These Results: | |
- 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: $269.11
- 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
- Subject: zoology, sea lions, anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 805627
- 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: $390.96
- 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
- Subject: history of science, zoology, sea lions, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 803484
- The Morphology of the Skull.
- ISBN: NA Price: $222.95
- 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
- Subject: zoology, comparative anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 805643
- The Works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with Notes. Edited by James F. Palmer. (with the Plates volume)
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,785.95
- 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.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 807437
- The Cat. An introduction to the study of Backboned Animals especially Mammals. With 200 illustrations.
- ISBN: NA Price: $38.00
- Publisher: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, Date Published: 1881
- Description: first American edition; xxiii, [1], 557 pp., frontispiece, illustrations in text; library and private ownership markings, original cloth chipped at extremities of spine, text browned with one early leaf detached and tattered, complete but reading copy only; mostly but not entirely on the anatomy of the domestic cat. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: zoology, anatomy, cat, cats, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 851868
- Primates. Comparative Anatomy and Taxonomy. (8 volumes)
- ISBN: NA Price: $769.24
- 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
- Subject: history of science, zoology, primates, comparative anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 705537
- The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. (Volumes 1-4)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,251.81
- Publisher: London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper (later by Longman, etc.) Date Published: 1836
- Description: the complete main work in 4 volumes but lacks the Supplementary Volume; first edition; small. thick quarto, total of over 4000 pages with numerous small illustrations in text; library and private ownership markings including Chester Royal Infirmary book plates on front covers of original cloth, spines worn with tears and chipping, blocks sound but needs rebacking, general age toning to text, good only; contributors include Marshall Hall, Sir Richard Quaim, Richard Grainger, Richard Owen, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Thomas Bell, Sir James Paget, Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, et al.. Volumes Included: 4
- Subject: history of science, zoology, anatomy, MLL Big Sets Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 705569
- Recherches sur le systeme vasculaire dans la sanguine de l'Hippopotome.
- ISBN: NA Price: $131.32
- Publisher: Paris: Imprimerie de Mallet-Bachelier, Date Published: 1860
- Description: quarto, 4 pp.; the unprinted paper wrappers tattered and a modern owner has added a pen note that it was reprintred "Compte rendu l'Acad. de Sci. ... 1860" but there is no confirmation of this in the text, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, zoology, Hippopotamus, anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 849477
- Recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des mammiferes (incomplete copy)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,985.65
- 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
- Subject: zoology, mammals, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 812621
- Recherches sur l'osteologie et la myologie des batraciens a leurs differens ages; presentee a l'Academie royale des sciences ... par Ant. Duges.
- ISBN: NA Price: $250.00
- Publisher: Paris/Londres: J.-B. Bailliere, Date Published: 1834
- Description: Extrait des Memoires des savans etrangers; large quarto (leaves 27 cm. tall), [2] (half title), v, [1], 7-116, [6] (table, errata) pp., 20 plates (I-VI, VI bis, VII, VII bis, VIII-XVII, Pl. Additionnelle); book plate of a private owner, later cloth with original paper sides bound in (imprint on front cover dated 1835), light age staining throughout including the plates; a good+, untrimmed copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, amphibians, anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 858687
- Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy Contained in the Museum of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. Second Edition. (Volumes 1-3)
- ISBN: NA Price: $590.67
- Publisher: London: Royal College of Surgeons of England, Date Published: 1900
- Description: Volume 1 through 3, all published, the Second Edition was never completed; all tall octavo and illustrated, the second and third volumes are very worn at spines with joints split, the third has a "Presented by the Council of the Royal College ..." hand stamp at head of title, modern private book plates, good; inserted loose is a short handwritten and signed letter on Royal College of Surgeons stationery dated 10 April 1907 from R. H. Burne of the Royal College of Surgeons Museum to "Dear Beddard", undoubtedly Frank Evers Beddard, Prosector of the Zoological Society of London, who else would you ask about the eye flaps of a Megalophrys then inquire about getting a Laughing Jackass (presumably the bird) and the foot of an ostrich (the full grown specimen would "take up too much bottle space"). Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Hunterian Museum, comparative anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 858719
- Recherches sur l'anatomie de l'hippopotame par Louis-Pierre Gratiolet. Publiees par les soins du Docteur Edmond Alix.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,368.85
- Publisher: Paris: Victor Masson et fils, Date Published: 1867
- Description: first edition; large quarto (leaves 28 cm. tall x 22 cm.), vii, [1], 405, [2] pp., 12 double page lithograph plates; most text leaves have light damp staining in lower margin and/or hinge, plates have a damp stain in lower hinge, darker on the last three, a sound but good+ only copy in modern cloth with a private book plate and the tattered original paper sides bound in at end. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, zoology, Hippopotamus amphibius, Nile Hippopotamus, anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 849476
- The Natural History of Animals (Class Mammalia - Animals which Suckle their Young). Translated and Edited with Additions by George G. Chisholm.
- ISBN: NA Price: $176.31
- 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.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 799786
- Monograph of the Okapi by Sir E. Ray Lankester. Atlas (of 48 Plates) compiled with the assistance of W. G. Ridewood. (all published)
- ISBN: NA Price: $332.98
- Publisher: London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, Date Published: 1910
- Description: the plates volume only, all published, "the necessity for publishing the text is less great that it was when the work was originally projected" (two years earlier); first edition; folio (leaves 31 cm. tall), viii pp., 48 plates, the first two of them color; private book plate partially peeled off and front hinge cracked at title, still a very good copy in blue original cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: zoology, mammals, Africa, Congo, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 799788
- On the Anatomy of the Lemuroidea. (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 7, Number 1)
- ISBN: NA Price: $306.57
- 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.
- Request a photo for this item.
- 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: $850.08
- 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
- Subject: history of science, zoology, walruses, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 803485
- Notes on the Anatomy of the Nubian Giraffe. (from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,093.32
- 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
- Subject: history of science, zoology, giraffes, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 805629
- Alberti v. Haller ... primae lineae physiologiae, in usum praelectionum academicarum, ad editionem tertio auctam & emendatam expressae. Accedit rerum index.
- ISBN: NA Price: $128.70
- Publisher: Edinburgi: Sumptibus G. Drummond nec non Kincaid & Bell Date Published: 1767
- Description: [12] (beginning with half title), 538 pp., the only illustration is the title vignette; library and private ownership markings, calf binding worn with front cover almost deatched, paper not fragile but age toned and block breaking into two segments, good- only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science and medicine, human anatomy, physiology, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 803443
- 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: $262.12
- 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
- Subject: history of science, zoology, orangutans, great apes, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 805559
- Lecons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparee de l'homme et des animaux, faites a la Faculte de sciences de Paris. (Volumes 1-13)
- ISBN: NA Price: $658.99
- Publisher: Paris: Victor Masson, Date Published: 1857
- Description: Volumes 1 through 13 only (of 14); almost uniformly bound in red quarter leather with paper covered board sides (the first volume is visually very close but has no raised bands and no border on spine title); bindings rubbed with a few short peel marks, book plates of a modern private owner, hand stamp of a different owner on title of first volume and hand stamp of a library on tile of last (but no other library markings), a few light damp stains at text margins and one volume has red pencil marginalia in one section, sound and good+ copies. Volumes Included: 13
- Subject: history of science and medicine, comparative anatomy and physiology, MLL Big Sets Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 705375
