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The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation (Cranbrook Institute of Science Bulletin No. 19, August, 1942) by Walls, Gordon Lynn - 1942
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Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Institute of Science, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 785pp; Tan buckram boards with gilt titling to spine, boards square with a few smudges, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Cranbrook Institute of Science Bulletin No. 19, August, 1942. Treatise on the vertebrate eye and its adaptive radiation. Illustrated with diagrams & photos.
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Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Volume 30.1 : Diptera: Nematocera
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THE PTEROPHORIDAE OF NORTH AMERICA
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Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co.. Very Good. 1898. Hardcover. X-Lib. Original not a reprint. Special Bulletin. Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agriculture College. Revised Edition of July 30, 1898. Library binder with paper covered boards, lightly age toned at edges. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with nine B/W plates. The species of moths are known by the common names of plume-moths and feather-wings. Library number on spine. Book-plate inside front cover. Spine ends lightly scuffed. ; Ex-Library; B/W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 84 pages .
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Why Do Animals Breathe? Physiological Problems and Iatromechanical Research in the Early Eighteenth Century
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Einleitung in die Entomologie: ober Elemente der Naturgeschichte der Insecten Band I & Band II (Introduction to Entomology: Upper Elements of the Natural History of Insects Volume 1 & Volume 2)
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Stuttgart, Germany: Cotta, 1824. First German Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 1186pp; Ex-Library (private, abbey) with library binding, only library markings are stamps blacked out on title pages, hand-written numbers on one page of each volume & rear pockets, Vol. 2 title page untrimmed & creased at bottom, minor foxing & toning to some pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. TEXT IN GERMAN. First two volumes of four-volume work on entomology. TEXT IN GERMAN.
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THE PTEROPHORIDAE OF NORTH AMERICA
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Why Do Animals Breathe? Physiological Problems and Iatromechanical Research in the Early Eighteenth Century
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Einleitung in die Entomologie: ober Elemente der Naturgeschichte der Insecten Band I & Band II (Introduction to Entomology: Upper Elements of the Natural History of Insects Volume 1 & Volume 2)
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The Elephant's Foot: Prevention and Care of Foot Conditions in Captive Asian and African Elephants
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The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation
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The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation (Classic Reprint)
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New York; Hafner Publishing Company; 1967.. Thick Med. 8vo; pp. [xviii], 785; illustrated frontispiece, text with 197 illustrations, 1 folding plate, bibliography, index, glossary, bound in original pink patterned cloth, title lettered in brown on spine, dustjacket, name on title page, very good copy.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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On Pourtalesia. A Genus of Echinoidea
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Stockholm: Kongl. Boktryckeriet, 1883. First edition. 1883 MONOGRAPH ON DEEP SEA URCHINS BY NOTED SWEDISH MARINE BIOLOGIST--ILLUSTRATED WITH 21 VERY FINE LITHOGRAPHS. 12 inches tall folio hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, green cloth spine with paper title label, institutional handstamps bottom of title page, contemporary ink signature top of front paste-down, 95 pp, many figures in text, 21 fine lithographed plates; wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. SVEN LUDVIG LOVEN (1809 - 1895) was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist. The Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences at both Kristineberg and Tjärnö are named in his honor. He was first Keeper then Director of the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. He was also Professor of Natural History at Stockholm University. He was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1881 and a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1885. The World Register of Marine Species…
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A Naturalist in the Guianas
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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2006. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Inscribed & signed by both authors on the title page. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Text unmarked. Jacket clean and bright. Laid-in tri-fold pamphlet from the Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxvi + 230 pages. Crossing stick bridges over swollen rivers and battling swarms of tsetse flies, Mark and Delia Owens found their way into one of the most startlingly beautiful, wild places on earth, the northern Luangwa Valley in Zambia. As they were setting up camp to launch their lion research, gunfire echoed off the cliffs nearby. Gangs of ivory poachers were not only shooting the elephants but also virtually enslaving local villagers. Against unimaginable odds, Mark and Delia stopped the poaching by helping the villagers find other work, start small businesses, and improve their health care and education. Living with wild creatures all around (lions sleeping…
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A Lot of Insects: Entomology in a Suburban Garden
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Green cloth board covers with green and yellow spine. Edge wear and corner bumps, no dust jacket. Previous owners stamps on inside covers. Soiling on page edges. Clean, tight pages and binding. Published by The Cornwall Press in 1941. First Edition/First Printing. Insects. Measures 8.5x5.75 with 304 pages. Good
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Last Tales
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Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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