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Zoological Society of London. Proceedings. 1830-1855, 1862-1889, 1897-1917 (first half), 1918, 1920-1926, 1929-1965
Zoological Society of London
/ Zoological Society of London 1830
120 volumes; a total of 1786 color plates (lacking one color plate from 1891), except for two plates in the 1865 volume which are damaged at the fore edge margin, images unaffected, the totality of the plates are clean and bright; bound in either contemporary full brown cloth or contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards. A few cloth covers lost, some hinges split, library markings to the spines of the cloth volumes, hand stamp to each title page, book plates to the front paste downs and/or front free endpapers, however most volumes are internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 120
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history fauna birds mammals insects bzx
Item #: 1228719
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$187,308.00
Life Histories of North American Birds. With Special Reference to their Breeding Habits and Eggs. With Twelve Lithographic Plates
Charles Bendire
/ GPO 1892
first edition; small folio, viii, 446 pp., 12 color egg plates; rebound in mid-20th century brown cloth, covers worn, lacks the title page, however internally clean with bright plates. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history birds eggs ornithology bzx
Item #: 1222675
$41.92
Class Insecta. With supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon. Volume the First and Second. The Animal Kingdom Volume the Fourteenth & Fifteenth
Baron Georges Cuvier
/ London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co 1832
2 vols., viii, 570, 6 (ads) + 796 pp., 140 plates; bound in late 19th century plain green cloth, covers rubbed, light to moderate foxing to the plates, book plates to the front paste down of each volume, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: entomology insects bzx
Item #: 1194687
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$165.21
The Class Mammalia. With specific descriptions by Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, and Edward Pidgeon. Volume the fourth. The Animal Kingdom volume the fourth
Baron Georges Cuvier
/ London: Geo. B. Whittaker 1827
498 pp., b&w plates; late 19th century plain green cloth, book plate to the front paste down, small hand stamp to the series title page, an occaional light bit of foxing to the plates, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bzx
Item #: 1183242
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$246.18
The Classes Annelida, Crustacea, and Arachnida. With supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon. The Animal Kingdom volume the thirteenth
Baron Georges Cuvier
/ London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co. 1833
540 pp., b&w plates; late 19th century plain green cloth, covers rubbed, book plate to the front paste down, minor foxing to some early plates, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bzx
Item #: 1183241
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$196.70
The Class Reptilia. With scientific descriptions by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon. The Animal Kingdom volume the ninth
Baron Georges Cuvier
/ London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. 1831
481, 110 pp., 55 plates; bound in late 19th century plain green cloth, covers lightly rubbed, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: reptiles bzx
Item #: 1183036
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$239.48
The Class Pisces. With supplementary additions by Edward Griffith and Charles Hamilton Smith. The Animal Kingdom volume the tenth
Baron Georges Cuvier
/ London: Whittaker & Co. 1834
680 pp., 63 plats; bound in late 19th century plain green cloth, book plate to the front paste down, light to moderate foxing to the plates, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fish bzx
Item #: 1183035
$84.67
The Class Aves. With specific descriptions by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon. Volume the third. The Animal Kingdom volume the eighth
Baron Georges Cuvier
/ London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. 1829
[ii], 690 pp., 69 b&w plates; late 19th century plain green cloth, covers rubbed, book plate to the front paste down, occasional foxing to early leaves, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: ornithology birds bzx
Item #: 1183033
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$216.71
The Fossil Remains of the Animal Kingdom. The Animal Kingdom Supplementary Volume on the Fossils
Edward Pidgeon. Baron Georges Cuvier
/ London: Whittaker & Co. 1836
544 pp., 49 plates, some of which are folding, folding chart; late 19th century plain green cloth, covers rubbed, book plate to the front paste down, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fossils paleontology bzx
Item #: 1183037
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$197.14
A Monograph of the Pheasants. In Four Volumes
William Beebe
/ London: Witherby and Co. 1918
1918-1922, limited to 600 numbered sets; 4 vols., folio, xlix, 198 + xv, 269 + xvi, 204 + xv, 242 pp., all colored plates, photogravures and maps present; original gilt stamped maroon cloth, book plates neatly removed from two of the volumes, spines rubbed, else very good; internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 4
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: ornithology pheasants birds office bzx
Item #: 1183024
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$3,442.95
A Journey to Ashango-Land: And further penetration into equatorial Africa. With map and illustrations
Du Chaillu, Paul B.
/ London: John Murray 1867
first edition; xxiv, 501, 32 (ads) pp., frontis., plates, folding map; original gilt stamped illustrated maroon cloth, ex library, covers worn and now lacking most of the spine covering, albeit internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: anthropology africa travel exploration bzx
Item #: 1183020
$40.17
1987 International Zoo Yearbook. Volume 27
P. J. S. Olney, editor
/ Zoological Society of London 1988
ix, 501 pp., hardcover, very good in a lightly worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0800242564
Subject/Keywords: Zoo Zoology bzx
Item #: 1168052
$64.31
Second Annual Report of the American Bison Society, 1908-1909. Object: The Permanent Preservation and Increase of the American Bison
American Bison Society
/ American Bison Society 1909
85 pp., frontis., original paper wrappers, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: zoology natural history bison bzx
Item #: 1104843
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$134.74
Scientific Results of the Cruises of the Yachts "Eagle" and "Ara", 1921-1928, William K. Vanderbilt, Commanding. Crustacea: Stomatopoda and Brachyura. Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Volume II
Boone, Lee
/ Privately Printed 1930
228 pp., Hardcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: marine bzx
Item #: 988103
$19.75
Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, etc., etc. With an Introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Volume I. Photographs and Other Illustrations by the Authors
William Beebe, G. Inness Hartley, Paul G. Howes
/ The New York Zoological Society 1917
first edition; 504 pp., color plates, b&w illustrations within the text; original gilt stamped illustrated green cloth, fore edge slightly dusty, else very good; no subsequent volume issued. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: South America Natural History Travel Exploration Geography zoology bzx burt gar
Item #: 979923
$19.24
Methods of Assessment of Fish Resources and Forecasting Catches= "Metody Otsenki Zapasov I Prognozirovaniya Ulovov Ryb".
T F Dementʹeva, K A Zemskaya
/ Jerusalem, Israel: Program for Scientific Translations 1969
326 pp., Paperback, hand stamp to front cover, minor wear to spine and cover, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Oceanography, BZX
Item #: 955907
$29.17
Les Dinophycees (Pyrrhophyta, Dinoflagellata) De La Guyane, Des Antilles Francaises Et Des Aires Marines Adjacentes
Gerard Paulmier, Institut Oceanographique, Musee oceanographique de Monaco
/ Paris: Institut oceanographique de Paris 2004
269 pp., Paperback, minor wear to cover, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 2726002277
Subject/Keywords: Marine , BZX
Item #: 955896
$84.18
Les Dinophycees (Pyrrhophyta, Dinoflagellata) De La Guyane, Des Antilles Francaises Et Des Aires Marines Adjacentes
Gerard Paulmier, Institut Oceanographique, Musee Oceanographique de Monaco
/ Paris: Institut Oceanographique de Paris 2004
269 pp., Paperback, slight wear to cover, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 2726002277
Subject/Keywords: Oceanography, BZX
Item #: 955881
$47.74
Travaux En Vue Du Developpement De La Peche Dans Le Bassin Inferieur De L'ogooue.
G Loubens
/ Nogent-sur-Marne 1965
151 pp., Paperback, spine taped, minor soiling to front cover, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Zoology, BZX
Item #: 955877
$27.16
Les Poissons Du Lac Tumba Et De La Region D'ikela; Etude Systematique Et Ecologique.
Hubert Matthes
/ Tervuren, Musee royal de l'Afrique centrale 1964
204 pp., Paperback, stain to inner margin of front cover, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Zoology, BZX
Item #: 955875
$42.51