Search Results: Natural History Reference Works from Natural History Books

Stockholm and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1903-1940. First edition.. A bright and clean set in near fine condition.. Pp. 6000+, 850+ plates (color drawings, black-and white photos and halftones) and text-figures. Early blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. Arkiv for Zoologi was a scientific journal in zoology published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1903 to 1974. The first 19 volumes and volume 32 are offered here. The articles in this journal appear in English, French or German. Small white call number on spine, no other library marks, bookplates or stamps. This set shows no signs of use. Airmail postage is required for shipping to Europe.

Cincinnati, OH: Lloyd Library, 1914-1918. First edition.. A tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 124-797; (4), 1-340, (2). Later dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. The Lloyd Library was devoted mainly to botany and pharmacy. This work presents the complete catalog of botanical books and pamphlets up to 1918. Name stamp of K.M. Wiegand on the front wrapper of each part; small withdrawn stamp of the Albert R. Mann Library on the title page of each part; no other ownership marks and no signs of use.

Rouen, France: Imprimerie Lecerf, 1932-1938. First edition.. The wrappers are chipped and some pieces are missing, there are archival tape repairs to tears on the edges of some wrappers, the rear wrapper of volume 68/69 is missing, the text of volume 72/73 shows some light browning to the text - the remainder of the text and fine full page plates are all bright and clean; overall a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. 598; 286; 533; 401; 1 color plate of a crocus, numerous full page black-and-white plates of trees and other botanical specimens. Publisher's original tan printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin de la Société des Amis des Sciences naturelles de Rouen (VII serie), volumes 66-73. This journal presents publications on the natural history of the Ronen region. The eight volumes presented here appear in four thick volumes as issued by the publisher. There are numerous articles on the botany and floras of the region as well as some articles on entomological themes. One… Read More

Paris: Pour une Formation personnalisee, 1976. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (8), 122; numerous line-drawings. Original printed stiff wrappers, 8vo. Describes how to develop a teaching method based on behavioral analysis. Name stamp with address of the senior author, Le Xuan, on the front free endpaper.

Zurich: L'Art Ancien S.A., 1940. First edition. Some uniform light tanning to text, no signs of use; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 722, 4 full page plates, numerous text-figures. Publisher's original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. This presents an annotated bibliography of early books on medicine, natural sciences and alchemy - 1988 titles are listed. Most books included are from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. All annotations are in English though the books are primarily European in origin and in Latin, German and French. No ownership marks.

Pittsburgh: The Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie Institution of Technology, 1964-1965. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. vi, 1-221, (1); vi, 304, (1); 106 text-figures and photos. Original printed green wrappers, lettered in gilt (volume 1) and original green cloth, lettered in gilt (volume 2), sm 4to. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Cambridge, MA: Martino, 1994.. Fine copy.. Pp. xix, 643, b/w frontis plate. Two-tone cloth, 4to. This reprint edition was limited to 250 copies.

New York: Springer, 1980-2012. First edition.. A fine (new) set.. Pp. 13,000+; numerous illustrations (black-and-white photos, maps, line-drawings, graphs, charts).  Color pictorial stiff wrappers, lg 8vo.  Includes volume 1, no. 1; vol. 3, no. 2; and volume 10, no. 1 to volume 20, no. 4 (excluding volume 11, no. 3 and volume 13, no. 3). A nearly complete run of this well-known journal from volume 25, no. 6 to volume 33, no. 6.  It lacks just one part (no. 4) from volume 31.  It does have Supplement 1 in volume 27 which is an additional or seventh part to volume 27.  This supplement, in 750 pages, presents the program and abstracts for the Twenty-First Congress of the International Primatological Society convened at the Imperial Resort Beach hotel in Entebbe, Uganda in 2006.  There are a total of 114 separate parts in this partial run of this influential journal.  Extra postage will be required to ship this set as it weighs over 60 pounds (media mail postage in… Read More

Berkeley: University of California, 1918-1926. First edition.. No signs of use, a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (2), 437; 1 color plate by Allan Brooks, 11 full page black-and-white photo-plates, numerous text-figures. Early red cloth, with black spine label lettered in gilt, lg 8vo. This volume contains 18 papers and monographs on birds and mammals. The two longest monographs are "Revision of the avian genus Passerella, with special reference to the distribution and migration of the races in California" by Harry Swarth (150 pages, 1 color plate, 3 black-and-white plates, 30 text-figures, 1920, no. 4) and "Changes During Growth in the Skull of the Rodent Otospermophilus grammurus Beecheyi" by Raymond Hall (50 pages, 43 text-figures, 1926, no. 14). Mildly ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with white call number on the spine, bookplate of Reading Museum on the front endpaper and Museum stamp on series title page and on rear endpaper.

Berkeley: University of California, 1941-1943. First edition.. Small stain on the spine, a bright and clean copy in very good fine condition.. Pp. (2), 401; 1 color plate by Allan Brooks, 20 full page black-and-white photo-plates, numerous text-figures. Early red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, (original printed gray wrappers in place), lg 8vo. This volume contains seven monographs and papers, four are on birds, two are on mammals and one is on reptiles. The two longest monographs are "The White-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) of the Pacific Seaboard: Environment and Annual Cycle" by Barbara Blanchard (178 pages, 20 photo-plates, 30 text-figures, 1941, no. 1) and "Distribution and Variation of the Horned Larks (Otocoris alpestris) of Western North America by William H. Behle (112 pages, 13 text-figures, 1942, no. 1). Mildly ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with white call number on the spine, bookplate of Reading Museum on the front endpaper and Museum… Read More