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Subject: history
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
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
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
Item #: 1328434
$39.00
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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$395.00
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
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
Item #: 1328419
$26.00
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
Item #: 1328420
$23.00
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
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
Item #: 1328461
$43.12
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
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
Item #: 1328025
$15.00
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
$80.00
Dio Cassius: Roman History, Volume VIII, Books 61-70 (Loeb Classical Library No. 176)
Dio Cassius, Foster, Herbert B., Cary, Earnest
/ Harvard University Press 2005
2005 printing; 496 pp., Hardcover, fine in a lightly worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0674991958
Subject/Keywords: tpf roman history
Item #: 1328335
$17.36
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
Item #: 1328113
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$384.16
From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics
John Lyon, Phillip R. Sloan
/ University of Notre Dame Press 2016
422 pp., hardcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0268009554
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
Item #: 1327996
$23.00
The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes. Edited by F. E. Beddard. With a preface by P. L. Sclater
William Alexander Forbes
/ London: R. H. Porter 1885
first edition; xiii, [1], 496 pp., frontis., color plates; contemporary gilt stamped full green leather, a.e.g., spine and corners worn, front and rear blanks foxed, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history birds ornithology bck
Item #: 1328106
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$225.00
Cathedrals of Science. The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums During the Late Nineteenth Century
Sheets-Pyenson, Susan
/ McGill-Queen's University Press 1988
178 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0773506551
Subject/Keywords: history of science bck
Item #: 1328097
$20.00
Joseph Grinnell's Philosophy of Nature. Selected writings of a western naturalist
Joseph Grinnell
/ University of California Press 1943
237 pp., hardcover, book plate and a hand stamp to the front paste down, else very good in an edge-worn, darkened dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
Item #: 1328081
$72.03
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
Warner, John Harley
/ Blast Books 2009
208 pp., Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0922233349
Subject/Keywords: photography history of medicine bck
Item #: 1328069
$14.00