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Subject: History of Science
The Prairie Ground Squirrels or Spermophiles of the Mississippi Valley. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 4
Vernon Bailey. William T. Hornaday
/ Washington: GPO 1893
first edition, inscribed by the author to William T. Hornaday, with Hornaday's hand stamp to the title page; 69 (text) pp., color frontis. & two other color plates, 4 maps on two plates, original green cloth (hardcover), rub mark to the spine, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: prairie dogs natural history
Item #: 1328829
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$99.99
Ernest Thompson Seton: Man in Nature and the Progressive Era, 1880-1915
Wadland, John H.
/ Ayer Co Pub 1978
528 pp., hardcover, spine slanted, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0405107366
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
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Item #: 1328786
$40.00
Island Life or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. Third and revised edition
Alfred Russel Wallace
/ London: Macmillan 1902
xx, 563 pp., color frontis.; original gilt stamped green cloth (hardcover), hand stamps to the front free endpaper and back of the frontis., old inked signature to the top margin of the title page, slight spine slant, edges rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: evolution biology natural history bck
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Item #: 1328755
$50.00
The Ants
Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson
/ Harvard University Press 1990
first edition, first printing; 732 pp., Hardcover, fine in a slightly faded dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0674040759
Subject/Keywords: entomology ants natural history bck
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Item #: 1328773
$89.00
Paleornithological Research 2013: Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution
Ursula B. Gohlich; Andreas Kroh
/ Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 2013
306 pp., hardcover, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 3902421827
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
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Item #: 1327338
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$100.00
La philosophie de l'histoire. Les Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire 59/The Philosophy of History. The Complete Works of Voltaire 59. Second Edition
Voltaire
/ Institut et musee Voltaire; University of Toronto Press 1969
Text in French and English, Second revised edition, 334 pp., hardcover, embossment stamp to title page, else very good in chipped dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0802016073
Subject/Keywords: tpf philosophy history
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Item #: 1327336
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$100.00
Ben Franklin Stilled the Waters. An informal history of pouring oil on water, with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general
Tanford, Charles
/ Duke University Press 1989
227 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to the front paste down, slight spine slant, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0822308762
Subject/Keywords: history of science bck
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Item #: 1328434
$37.46
The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)
Will Durant, Ariel Durant
/ Simon and Schuster 1960
1960s Simon and Schuster printings; 11 volume set (complete), 9766 pp.; uniformly bound in original MAROON CLOTH (hardcovers), a few spines faded or lightly rubbed, a few minor internal ownership markings, else a very good set; vols. 9-11 have rubbed dust jackets, the balance of the set lack the jackets. Volumes
Included: 11
ISBN: 1567310230
Subject/Keywords: history office
Item #: 1328431
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$379.36
The Natural History of the Frilled Shark, Chlamydoselachus Anguineus. The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume, Archaic Fishes Article V
Gudger, Eugene W., Smith, Bertram G.
/ The American Musuem of Natural History 1933
pp. 245-319 + 5 plates with accompanying text, original paper wrappers, hand stamp to the front cover, light stain to the top corner margin, text and plates unaffected, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history sharks bck
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Item #: 1328439
$35.00
Trail of an Artist-Naturalist: The Autobiography of Ernest Thompson Seton (Biologists and Their World)
Seton, Ernest Thompson
/ Arno Press 1978
412 pp., hardcover, top edge foxed, slight spine slant, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 040510734X
Subject/Keywords: biology natural history bck
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Item #: 1328419
$25.48
Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920â2020
Collopy, Peter Sachs, Bohn-Spector, Claudia, Decemvirale, John Vincent, de Chadarevian, Soraya, Hawthorne, Christopher, Jacobson, Brian R., Rosson, Lois, Shabtay, Talia
/ Getty Publications 2024
320 pp., hardcover, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 160606942X
Subject/Keywords: fbf art caltech history
Item #: 1328496
$48.00
Hawaii, A Natural History: Geology, Climate, Native Flora and Fauna Above the Shoreline
Carlquist, Sherwin
/ The Natural History Press 1970
x, 463 pp., Hardcover, very good in a worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history flora fauna Hawaii bck
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Item #: 1328420
$22.54
From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again: A Journey in Final Causality, Species, and Evolution
Etienne Gilson, John Lyon
/ University of Notre Dame Press 2016
230 pp., hardcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0268009678
Subject/Keywords: bck evolution natural history
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Item #: 1328473
$20.00
The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
Freedberg, David
/ University of Chicago Press 2002
528 pp., hardcover, very good in very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0226261476
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
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Item #: 1328461
$41.41
The Natural History of Madagascar
Goodman, Steven M., Benstead, Jonathan P., Schutz, Harald, Goodman, Steven M., Benstead, Jonathan P.
/ University of Chicago Press 2004
1728 pp., hardcover, faint age toning to edges, else very good in very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0226303063
Subject/Keywords: bck biology natural history ecology madagascar
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Item #: 1328458
$20.00
The Christopher Happoldt journal: His European tour with the Rev. John Bachman (June-December, 1838) (Contributions from the Charleston Museum)
Happoldt, Christopher
/ Charleston Museum 1960
214 pp., hardcover, handstamp to front free endpaper, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: bck history medicine
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Item #: 1328025
$15.00
Reflections on Muscle
Andrew Huxley
/ Princeton University Press 1980
111 pp., Hardcover, bottom corner of pages soiled, text unaffected, else near very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0691082553
Subject/Keywords: physiology science biology bck
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Item #: 1328369
$24.00
Oceanic Birds of South America. A Study of Species of the Related Coasts and Seas, Including the American Quadrant of Antarctica, Based Upon the...in the American Museum of Natural History. Two Volumes
Robert Cushman Murphy, Francis L. Jaques
/ The Macmillan Company 1936
2 vols., 1245 pp., plates; original gilt stamped green cloth (hardcovers), fine in very good glassine dust jackets and a corner-worn slipcase. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history birds bzc
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Item #: 1328380
$78.40
Science and Hypothesis Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology (University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)
Larry Laudan
/ Reidel 1981
260 pp., paperback, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 9027713162
Subject/Keywords: philosophy science bck
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Item #: 1328121
$20.00
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life. New edition, from the sixth English edition, with additinos and corrections
Charles Darwin
/ NY: D. Appleton 1883
xxi, 458 pp., original gilt and black stamped decorated maroon cloth (hardcover), spine frayed, corners worn, book plate to the front paste down, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: evolution history of science bck
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Item #: 1328113
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$368.95