Concession to the Improbable: An Unconventional Autobiography

Simpson, George Gaylord / Yale University Press 1978
291 pp., hardcover, dust jacket, ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0300021437
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history

Item #: 1328073

$18.92

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William Beebe: An Annotated Bibliography

Berra, Tim M. / Shoe String Pr Inc 1977
157 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to title page, else very good in rubbed dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0208016082
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history

Item #: 1327982

$9.00

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The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods Volume 2: Mammals

Benton, Michael J., editor / Oxford University Press 1988
340 pp., hardcover, edges foxed, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0198577125
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck

Item #: 1328053

$28.00

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A life of invertebrates

Russell-Hunter, W. D / Macmillan 1979
650 pp., HARDCOVER, hand stamp to the bottom edge, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, else very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0024046205
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck

Item #: 1327935

$22.54

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The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod. Edited, with a biographical memoir of the author, by W. A. Forbes. In Memoriam

Alfred Henry Garrod / London: R. H. Porter 1881
first edition; xxv, 537 pp., frontis., plates, some of which are in color; rebound in mid-20th century blue cloth (hardcover), small hand stamp to the front free endpaper, foxing to early and late leaves, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history fauna bck

Item #: 1327934

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$150.00

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Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History

Wang, Q. Edward / Cambridge University Press 2015
210 pp., hardcover, new. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 1107023963
Subject/Keywords: vnh food history chopsticks

Item #: 1327416

$20.00

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Natural history and the American mind, (Columbia studies in American culture)

W. M . Smallwood / Columbia University Press 1941
first edition; 445 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck

Item #: 1327929

$18.00

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Acoustic Communication in Birds, Volume 1: Production, Perception & Design Features of Sounds

Donald Kroodsma, Edward A. Miller, Henri Ouellet, editors / Academic Press 1983
360 pp., Hardcover, top edge foxed, else fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0124268013
Subject/Keywords: birds natural history bck

Item #: 1327942

$32.00

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Acoustic Communication in Birds, Volume 2: Song Learning & Its Consequences

Donald Kroodsma, Edward H. Miller, Henri Ouellet, editors / Academic Press 1983
392 pp., Hardcover, top edge foxed, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0124268021
Subject/Keywords: birds natural history bck

Item #: 1327943

$27.44

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Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, butterflies, and history

Miriam Rothschild / Balaban Publishers 1983
398 pp., Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 086689019X
Subject/Keywords: natural history lepidoptery birds bck

Item #: 1328052

$23.52

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Altering Nature: Volume I: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates (Philosophy and Medicine, 97)

Lustig, B. A., Brody, B.A., McKenny, Gerald P. / Springer 2008
340 pp., hardcover, new. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 1402069200
Subject/Keywords: vnh philosophy medicine

Item #: 1326814

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$120.00

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Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Studies in selected pivotal ideas. 5 volumes

Philip P Wiener / Macmillan Pub Co 1973
5 vols., softcovers, previous owner's hand stamp to top and bottom page edges, front free endpapers, half-title pages and titles pages, else text clean & bindings tight in a fragmentary slipcase that is missing it's top panel. Volumes Included: 5

ISBN: 0684164183
Subject/Keywords: history office philosophy tpf

Item #: 1326990

$36.07

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Women's History and Ancient History

Pomeroy, Sarah B. / The University of North Carolina Press 1991
336 pp., paperback, a bookplate to verso of front cover else fine. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0807843105
Subject/Keywords: Women's History tpf

Item #: 1326919

$15.60

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The Lucubrations of Humphrey Ravelin, Esq. Late major in the ** Regiment of Infantry. Second edition

George Proctor / London: G. & W. B. Whittaker 1824
2nd edition; 332 pp., mid-19th century quarter leather & marbled boards, covers worn, spine rubbed clean of the gilt stamping, scant remnants of a book plate to the front paste down, previous owner's name to a front blank, two small hand stamps to the title page, a few marginal smudge marks, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: military history samn15

Item #: 1326676

$68.60

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History of the Rebellion in Ireland, in the Year 1798, &c.

James Gordon / Dublin: Printed by William Porter 1801
first edition; 302, 94, [10] (index), [1] (ad) pp., mid-19th century quarter leather & marbled boards, corners worn, now lacking most of the leather spine covering, old repairs and two small hand stamps to the title page, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: ireland irish history sam15

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Item #: 1326675

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$686.00

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The History of Ireland, from the earliest period to the present time, etc. In two volumes

Stephen Barlow / London: Sherwood, Neely, & Jones 1814
first edition; 2 vols., xvi, 476 + xii, 524 pp., folding map frontis., engraved half-title in the first volume, portrait frontis., engraved half-title, portrait plate of Grattan and folding plate of of Dublin Quays in the second volume; contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards, bindings dry, worn and chipped, small hand stamp to each title page, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 2

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: ireland irish history sam15

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Item #: 1326669

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$147.00

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Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians. Translated From the Greek. New Bio-bibliographical Glossary. Secret Doctrine Reference Series

Iamblichus, Thomas Taylor / Wizards Bookshelf 1984
400 pp., Hardcover, a bookplate to front free endpaper else fine. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0913510513
Subject/Keywords: ancient history drm

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Item #: 1326850

$20.08

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Histoire de la Vie Privée des François, depuis l'Origine de la Nation jusqu'à nos Jours. Nouvelle edition, avec des notes, corrections et additions, par J. B. B. de Roquefort (Trois Tomes)

Le Grand d'Aussy, J. B. B. de Roquefort / Paris: Simonet 1815
3 vols., vi, 448 + 431 + 481 pp., contemporary full leather, bindings dry, worn and lacking all of the leather spine coverings; remnants of book plates to the front paste downs, some light foxing, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 3

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: france french history sam15

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Item #: 1326660

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$343.00

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Tentamen; or, An Essay towards the History of Whittington, Some Time Lord Mayor of London

Theodore Hook / London: William Wright 1820
first edition; 76 pp., illustrated title page; original boards, covers worn and darkened, spine chipped, masonic book plate to the front paste down, old inked ownership markings to the front free endpaper, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: satire british history sam15

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Item #: 1326658

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$289.10

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Observations on the round towers of Ireland

Greg, Robert Hyde / Manchester: Printed for the author 1824
first edition; 42 pp., frontis. & 2 other plates; mid-19th century quarter leather & marbled boards, binding now dry, worn and chipped, two hand stamps to the title page, plates foxed, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: ireland irish history sam15

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Item #: 1325696

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$390.82

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