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- 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: $45.75
- 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
- On the Intestinal Tract of Mammals. (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Volume 17, Part 5)
- ISBN: NA Price: $24.61
- 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
- Subject: history of science, zoology, mammals, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 799780
- The Natural History of Animals (Class Mammalia - Animals which Suckle their Young). Translated and Edited with Additions by George G. Chisholm.
- ISBN: NA Price: $164.04
- 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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- Recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des mammiferes (incomplete copy)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,901.37
- 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
- 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: $319.86
- 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.
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- Item Number: 799788
- Weddell Seal: Consummate Diver
- ISBN: 0521236576 Price: $5.00
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press Date Published: 1981
- Description: 176 pp., Hardcover, bookplate to front paste down, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Mammals, Animals, Biological Sciences, Science & Math, Zoology, Natural History mll Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 865164
- On the Anatomy of the Lemuroidea. (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 7, Number 1)
- ISBN: NA Price: $296.51
- 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: $797.70
- 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.
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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: $1,068.39
- 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.
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- Item Number: 805629
- The Evolution Theory. Translated with the author's co-operation by J. Arthur Thomson and Margaret R. Thomson.
- ISBN: NA Price: $268.26
- 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
- Current Mammalogy, Volume 2
- ISBN: 0306433044 Price: $5.00
- Publisher: Plenum Press Date Published: 1990
- Description: 596 pp., Hardcover, ex library, else text clean and binding tight. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Mammals, Animals, Biological Sciences, Science & Math, Biology, Zoology, Evolution Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 849330
- A Synopsis to the Mammals of North America and the Adjacent Seas. (Field Columbian Museum; Zoological Series, Vol. II.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $57.10
- Publisher: Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, Date Published: 1901
- Description: first edition; xv, [1], 471 pp., plates illustrations in text, loater half lether very worn with front cover almost detached but block sound, private book plate, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: zoology, mammals, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 858672
- A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere.
- ISBN: NA Price: $29.92
- Publisher: NY: The MacMillan Company, Date Published: 1929
- Description: reprints the 1913 edition; xiv, [2], 692 pp., frontispiece. numerous illustrations (what the title calls plates are full page text illustrations), original blue cloth with gold stamped vignette of a saber toothed tiger's head on front cover; private book plate, a sound and good+ copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: zoology, mammals, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 860231
- 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: $385.18
- 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.
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- Item Number: 803484
- 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: $238.34
- 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.
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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: $2,617.23
- 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
- Genera Mammalium. Insectivora, Galeopithecia. (Junta para Ampliacion de Estudios e Investigaciones CientÃficas. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $217.43
- Publisher: Madrid: Date Published: 1925
- Description: first edition; quarto, 232, [2] pp., 18 plates with the animal itself shown in color, skulls and other anatomical details after line drawings, all the plates but the last are for Insectivora; library hand stamps and markings, the Spanish style streaked tan leather rubbed with spine lightened, still a sound, good+ copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: natural history, zoology, mammals, insectivores, Galeopithecidae Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 849591
- Etudes sur l'embryologie des cheiropteres. Premiere partie. L'ovule, la gastrula, le blastoderme, et l'origine des annexes chez le murin. Avec 29 figures dans le texte et 5 planches hors texte en taille-douce.
- ISBN: NA Price: $149.52
- Publisher: Paris: Felix Alcan, Date Published: 1899
- Description: reprinted from Journal de l'anatomie et de la physiologie; Part 1 only; large quarto (leaves 29.5 cm. tall), [iv], 248 pp., 5 small folding plates on better paper, illustrations in text; paper wrappers soiled with a tear along lower front joint, general age toning to text with the half title darker, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: zoology, mammals, bats, embryology, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 849644
- 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: $31.70
- 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
- Subject: history of science, zoology, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 799741
- A Text-Book of Zoology.
- ISBN: NA Price: $84.95
- 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
