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- Recherches sur l'histoire naturelle et l'anatomie des Limules par J. van der Hoeven. Avec sept planches.
- ISBN: NA Price: $349.84
- Publisher: Leyde: Chez S. & J. Luchtmans, Date Published: 1838
- Description: first edition; folio (leaves 40 cm. tall), [viii] (beginning with half title), 48 pp., 7 plates, original paper covered boards with later(?) paper tape at spine; binding darkened with lower outside corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked, general age toning, the plates have short tears and fraying at top margin and a light damp stain in lower margin but images not touched, good+ only but an untrimmed copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, marine biology, Limulus, Limuli, Horseshoe Crab, MLL Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 807469
- Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt and Lilljeborg. Edited by William Henry Flower.
- ISBN: NA Price: $80.24
- Publisher: London: Robert Hardwicke for the Ray Society, Date Published: 1866
- Description: first English translations of four articles published 1861-1862 viz. On the Greenland Right Whale ... by D. F. Eschright (with a short new appendix by Flower), On the Species of Orca inhabiting the Northern Sea ... by D. F. Eschright, On Pseudorca crassidens by J. Reinhart, and Synopsis of the Cretaceous Mammals of Scandinavia ... by W. Lilljeborg; folio (leaves 36.5 cm. tall), viii, [2], 312 pp., 6 plates; private book plate, original paper sides darkened with back cover stained and cloth spine split at back joint, text damp stained at margins, plates badly damp stained and some chipped at fore edge with no loss, good- only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, whales, marine biology, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 799784
- Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt and Lilljeborg. Edited by William Henry Flower.
- ISBN: NA Price: $79.44
- Publisher: London: Robert Hardwicke for the Ray Society, Date Published: 1866
- Description: first English translations of four articles published 1861-1862 viz. On the Greenland Right Whale ... by D. F. Eschright (with a short new appendix by Flower), On the Species of Orca inhabiting the Northern Sea ... by D. F. Eschright, On Pseudorca crassidens by J. Reinhart, and Synopsis of the Cretaceous Mammals of Scandinavia ... by W. Lilljeborg; folio (leaves slightly shorter than 36 cm.), viii, [2], 312 pp., 6 plates; private book plate, light general age toning to text with plates darker and one has plate number shaved, overall slant but still near very good in later cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, whales, marine biology, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 799756
- Contribution a l'etude l'appareil circulatoire des crustaces edriophthalmes marins.
- ISBN: NA Price: $148.50
- Publisher: Paris: Typographie A. Hennuyer, Date Published: 1881
- Description: first separate edition from Archives de zoologie experimentale et generale, faded inscription from author on title; 172, [3] (table, errata) pp., 12 lithograph plates with elements in color; private book plate and modern cloth, the retained paper sides soiled, chipped, and mounted on later sheets, age spotting hits plates and the first has a line of soiling down fore edge (they are larger that the text leaves and this section exposed), sound and entirely readable but good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, marine biology, crustaceans, circulation, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 858663
- The Evolution Theory. Translated with the author's co-operation by J. Arthur Thomson and Margaret R. Thomson.
- ISBN: NA Price: $273.73
- Publisher: London: Edward Arnold, Date Published: 1904
- Description: first edition in English; 2 volumes, tall octavo,xvi, 416, 8 (ads) pp., 3 color plates, illustrations in text with a few color + [vi], 495, [1], [2] (ads) pp., illustrations in text; general light age toning with the half titles browned but not fragile, two private book plates including that of N. C. Twining (president of Aurora College in Illinois), he has also added some penciling, usually minor but dense on one late blank where he was playing a word game and one at the end of the text to "whoever owns these vols after I'm through with them", "These two volumes , are tedious, yet, abounding in instruction beyond all expectations ..."; overall very good in maroon original cloth; based on lectures given at the University of Freiberg in Breisgau, the biologist's last major statement in support of Darwinism and how it complements his own germ plasm theory. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: history of science, evolution, Darwinism, evolutionary biology, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 854025
- The Wax Plug in the External Auditory Meatus of the Mysticeti. (National Institute of Oceanography. Discovery Reports, Volume 27, pp. 293-301, plates XIV-XVIII)
- ISBN: NA Price: $56.28
- Publisher: Cambridge: At the Universoty Press, Date Published: 1955
- Description: first edition; large quarto, [9] pp. of text, 5 plates with printed guards; extraction roughness at spine and only the detached front cover of paper wrappers remains; a whale's ear wax is significantly different than that of a human, in the baleen it is helpful in transmitting high frequency sounds. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: marine biology, whales, baleen whale, ear wax, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 799795
- Anatomie et physiologie comparees de la Pholade dactyle; structure, locomotion, tact, olfaction, gustation, vision, dermatoptique, photogenie, avec une theorie generale des sensations. (Annales de Universite de Lyon, Tome 2, Fascicule 2)
- ISBN: NA Price: $105.33
- Publisher: Paris: G. Masson Date Published: 1892
- Description: first edition; narrow quarto, [4] (half title, title), x, 167 pp., 15 plates, some single tint, with tissue guards most have printed key outlines, illustrations in text; private book plate, later quarter leather rubbed but sound, the tissue guards browned and a few have repairs or short tears, a good+ copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, marine biology, Pholadacea, Pholadoidea, piddocks, shipworms, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 858607
- The Electromotive Properties of the Electrical Organ of Torpedo Marmorata. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 178 B, Article 17)
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.65
- Publisher: London: Trubner and Co. for the Royal Society of London, Date Published: 1887
- Description: first edition; large quarto, [50] pp., library and private ownership markings but a sound copy in later cloth with origianl front paper cover bound in. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, marine biology, rays, marbled electric ray, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 799761
- The Ocean. (the Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, 203)
- ISBN: NA Price: $31.68
- Publisher: London (etc.): Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, Date Published: 1955
- Description: reprint of the 1949 edition; 16mo, [x], 238 pp., small illustrations in text; original cloth rubbed, private book plate, minor marginalia, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: oceanography, marine biology, popular science, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 847131
- The Gorgonacea of the Siboga Expedition. (IV: The Plexauridae; V: The Isidae; VI: The Gorgonellidae; VII: The Gorgonidae; VIII: The Scleraxonia)
- ISBN: NA Price: $29.98
- Publisher: Leyden: E. J. Brill Date Published: 1910
- Description: Parts 4 through 8 only, issued as Siboga-expeditie Monographie XIII b, folio (slightly shorter than 33 cm.), all parts have plates, text in English only; ex library, all here bound as one with the paper covers for all but the first part retained, good+ in later cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: marine biology, corals, BBW Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 700526
- Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. Vol. XXXIII, 1913. Hugh M. Smith, Commissioner.
- ISBN: NA Price: $76.63
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1915
- Description: Volume 33 only; quarto, [iv], 293 pp., 39 plates, illustrations in text; library markings, original cloth faded with hinges weak, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: fish, fisheries, marine biology Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 690607
- Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. Vol. XXXII, 1912. Hugh M. Smith, Cpmmissioner.
- ISBN: NA Price: $4.94
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1914
- Description: Volume 32 only; quarto, [iv], 614 pp., 116 plates, illustrations in text; library markings, original cloth soiled and smudged with hinges broken, occasional age staining, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: fish, fisheries, marine biology Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 690608
- The Foetal Growth Rates of Whales with Special Reference to the Fin whale, Balaenoptera Physalus Linn. ((National Institute of Oceanography. Discovery Reports, Volume 29, pp. 281-308)
- ISBN: NA Price: $25.48
- Publisher: Cambridge: At the University Press, Date Published: 1959
- Description: first edition; large quarto, [28] pp., 1 plate; extracation roughness at spine and only the detached front cover remains from paper wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: marine biology, whales, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 803479
- Some Aspects of Respiration in Blue and Fin Whales. (National Institute of Oceanography. Discovery Reports, Volume 7, pp. 363-406, plate XV)
- ISBN: NA Price: $17.82
- Publisher: Cambridge: At the University Press, Date Published: 1933
- Description: first edition; large quarto, [44] pp., 1 plate; extraction roughness at spine and only the deatched front cover of paper wrappers remains. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: marine biology, whales, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 803480
- Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth, Mylodon robustus, Owen With observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities and Probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in General.
- ISBN: NA Price: $150.13
- Publisher: London: Printed by R. and J. E. Taylor, Sold by John van Voorst, Date Published: 1842
- Description: first edition; inscribed to a library from "... the Council of the College [Royal College of Surgeons]"; small folio (leaves slightly taller than 31 cm.), 175 pp., 24 plates with the first four folding, each faced by a page of text except for the last which has three pages of explanatory text following it; private book plate, library hand stamps including one on title and one on the back of every plate (some with ink bleed into image side), original moire cloth faded and rubbed with spine covering gone and sides detached, the text block broken into two parts, early plates have light age staining, the first plate has a long tear (it opens in an unexpected manner) but could be repaired with minor loss, and an attempt has been made to strengthen the folds with tape at verso, working copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, sloths, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 799764
- Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S Beagle under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy R.N.
- ISBN: NA Price: $172.07
- Publisher: London: John Murray, Date Published: 1902
- Description: second printing of the 1901 edition; 521, [7] (ads) pp., frontispiece, plates; modern private book plate on blank, Royal College of Science prize certificate on front pastedown (Arthur Samuel Horne, biology, 1904-05, signed by Professor J. B. Farmer and Dean John W. Judd), endpapers dark and light general age toning to text, near very good in original cloth. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 803501
- Grundriss der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der hoheren Thiere. Fur Studierende und Arzte
- ISBN: NA Price: $145.34
- Publisher: Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, Date Published: 1880
- Description: first edition; xvi, 418 pp., 1 color plate, illustrations in text; library hand stamps and markings, quarter leather binding rubbed with chipping at head and tail of spine, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, embryology, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 803518
- The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. With illustrations.
- ISBN: NA Price: $994.24
- Publisher: London: John Murray, Date Published: 1877
- Description: first edition; viii, 352, 32 (ads dated March 1877, sometimes found dated January 1877 but there is no priority of issue) pp., a few illustrations in text, original cloth rubbed with the covering penetrated in a few small spots, modern book plate to the front paste down, else good. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 803574
- Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits. With Illustrations. (spine title: Vegetable Mould and Earth-Worms)
- ISBN: NA Price: $183.10
- Publisher: NY: D. Appleton & Company, Date Published: 1882
- Description: an early if not first American edition (not part of the International Scientific Series); vii, [1], 326 pp., illustrations in text; original brown cloth rubbed at extremities, book plate and signature of a previous owner on front endpapers, else sound and good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 803581
- The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter. Edited by his son, Francis Darwin.
- ISBN: NA Price: $97.66
- Publisher: London: John Murray, Date Published: 1888
- Description: Seventh Thousand Revised; 3 volumes, [x], 395, [2] pp. + [iv], 393, [2] pp. + iv, 418, [1] pp., each volume has a portrait frontispiece; green original cloth faded at spines, some hinges cracked, light general age toning to text, private book plate, unrelated gift inscription dated Christmas 1887, overall a good+ set. Volumes Included: 3
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- Item Number: 803598
