Search Results: Authors starting with A from Natural History Books

Noriberdae, (Nuremberg): Rufus & Sebastiani Heusler, 1603. Second edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (xvi), 133, (10), engraved title page, 4 engraved woodcuts (3 are anatomical diagrams).  Later one-quarter brown leather over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, square 8vo.  Baldus Angelus Abbatius was an Italian physician and naturalist who lived in the later 16th century.  Abbatius was a physician in Pesaro, Italy and his book on vipers contains anatomical descriptions, information on snakebite and on the use of snakes and their venom in medicine.  This volume was the first book published devoted exclusively to snakes.  The first edition was published in 1589; this second edition was printed in 1603.  See BM(NH), p.1. Small round stamp of the University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg on the title with discarded stamp on verso of the title page. 

Yerevan, Armenia: American University of Armenia Corporation, 1999. First edition.. A fine, as new, copy.. Pp. (5), 649, numerous tables. Dark blue pictorial cloth with a white gull on the front cover, lettered in white on the spine and front cover, endpaper maps of Europe, Armenia and Asia, sm 4to. This volume documents all available data on birds occurring within the borders of the Republic of Armenia. Name stamp Ron Sauey Memorial Library on the top page edge. Ron Sauey is co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin. No other ownership marks to the text or cloth. Rare work seldom offered.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First edition, first printing.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket in an almost fine slipcase.. Pp. 127; with 115 extended range black-and-white photographic plates by Adams. One-quarter black cloth lettered in silver on the spine, over dark gray cloth-covered boards with interlocking initials of Adams (AA) lettered in silver on the front gray board, pictorial dust jacket lettered in black on the spine and front cover, in gray paper-covered hard slipcase with Adam’s initial on the front board, oblong lg folio (17.25 x 13.75 inches). The foreword by Wallace Stegner. The material used for the chronology and bibliography is based on Nancy Newhall's compilation from “The Eloquent Light,” 1963. This is a beautiful unused copy. The dust jacket is price-clipped.

London: Gibbings and Company, 1894. Second edition.. Some edge-wear to cloth, a tight, very good copy.. Pp. iv, 252, 16 fine color plates of birds after A. F. Lydon + 16 color fine plates of bird eggs. Publisher's gilt-decorated and pictorial blue ribbed cloth, top edge gilt, royal 8vo. From the library of Major O.C.C. Nichols with his bookplate. Inscription dated 1895 on the front blank endpaper.

Washington: Printed by Davis and Force (Franklin's Head), 1822. First edition.. The top edge of the title page has some professional paper repairs as does the contents page and errata page at the end of the volume, light age-toning to some text pages, a few marginal pencil annotations, a tight and clean copy in very good condition in an attractive period binding.. Pp. 256, (2, contents), (1, leaf of errata). Later full tan calf leather, spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in three compartments, front and rear covers tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, 8vo. This volume examines the role that John Quincy Adams played in the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812. There were numerous issues dealt with in this treaty among them was American access to the Mississippi River. This volume was compiled when Adams was Secretary of State, just two years before he was elected President. Old oval blind-stamp of the Library Company, R. B., Philadelphia, on the final page… Read More

London: G. Bowyer for Soc. for Encouragement of Learning, sold by J. Whiston, etc., 1744. First edition.. Some edge-wear and rubbing to the head and foot of the spine, the text is very bright and clean in a recent clamshell box, a clean very good copy.. Pp. xiv, xxvii, (36), 603, (1); (605)-1128, (86), with engraved title- and end- vignette, and with woodcut ornaments. There is Greek and Latin parallel text throughout. Contemporary brown morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in one compartment, housed in clamshell box covered in green cloth and with brown morocco title/author label on spine lettered in gilt, 4to. This work by Claudius Aelianus (Aelian) was one of the major attempts to classify animals before Linnaeus. There is a section on herpetology. The work was originally written in Greek and later translated into Latin by Gesner. This London edition is based on the first critical edition by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) and contains commentaries by D. W. Triller (1694-1775).… Read More

Neuchatel: privately printed by the author, 1838-1842. First edition.. An old marginal tear to one color printed wrapper has been repaired, there is scattered foxing, mostly marginal, to some text pages and one plate, the remaining full page plates are bright and clean; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. x, 88, (1), viii, 52, 2, 2, 20, iv, 151, (1), iv, 94, 29; with 54 full page lithographed plates (17 plates are hand-colored or partly hand-colored). Recent polished one-quarter black morocco leather, spine with five raised bands bordered with gilt panel lines, over English marbled boards with blue-green endpapers, the three original color-tinted printed wrappers are bound in place, 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches). This large work includes Premiere Monographie: "Anatomie du Genre Echinus" by G. Valentin at the beginning and Quatrieme Monographie: "Des Dysaster" by E. Desor at the end. This is the classic early work on the living and fossil echinoderms by Louis Agassiz… Read More

Philadephia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1854. First edition.. Some old cellotype on the internal joints of two facing sets of pages, faint water mark on the lower margin of the text; overall a good solid copy in an attractive binding.. Pp. (i), lviii-lxxviii, 1 quadruple-page foldout hand-colored chart, 1 hand-colored map. Self-wrappers, bound in early one-quarter green cloth over gray boards with the title neatly lettered on the front board, lg 8vo. Small blind stamp of Donald J. Zinn on the title page. An early work on zoogeography by Agassiz than links different living human groups to different continents. Rare.

Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1869. First edition.. Some curling to the top edge of the front wrapper, light edge-wear; a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. 363-386. Original pale green printed wrappers, 8vo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, no. 13. Small blind stamp of Donald J. Zinn on the front wrapper. Small bookplate sticker with no name on the front wrapper.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2001. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in fine dust jackets.. Pp. xv, (i), 512; xi, (i), 372; numerous black-and-white photos, line-drawings, maps, geological diagrams, and cladograms. Publisher’s original cream-color cloth, lettered in blue and green on the spine, pictorial dust jacket, lettered in white and yellow on the spine and in blue on the front cover, lg 8vo. This two-volume set presents fossil ape evolution and terrestrial mammal evolution with a focus on climate change in the Miocene of Europe and Asia. Forty chapters by noted authorities in the field provides a thorough interdisciplinary coverage of the topic. Small signature of former owner on front endpaper on volume 2. No other ownership marks.

Tokyo: Asuka Shoubou, 1987. Second edition.. A fine (new) copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. 70, (1); 70 fine color photos of cranes and their habitats (many are full page). Cream-colored cloth, lettered in red on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. An important photographic study focusing on all aspects of the Japanese crane in Hokkaido, Japan. The volume also contains much on crane conservation. The text is in Japanese. The color photographs were taken by employees of Japan Airlines. No ownership marks.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. xiv, 389, numerous text-figures, diagrams and maps. Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. Contains 24 chapters by noted authorities in the field mostly dealing with the origin and diversity of mongoloid peoples. No ownership marks.

Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger, 1978. First edition.. Small bump to top outer corner; a bright and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. viii, 151; 62 text-figures (morphometric diagrams, maps, charts, graphs), 16 tables. Publisher's original stiff yellow wrappers, lettered in black, 8vo. Contributions to Primatology, volume 13. This detailed analysis was undertaken to test biological hypotheses derived from previous studies of the external morphology of the macaque monkeys of Sulawesi in southern Indonesia. The present study makes the additional step of including non- Sulawesi macaques to establish the broad framework of genetic variation (from the rear cover blurb). Small signature of former owner on the half-title page.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1913. First edition. An old crease to rear wrappers, one outer corner with slight bump; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 127, 8 full page photo-plates, 45 text-figures. Original printed gray wrappers, folio. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, new series, volume I, part 4. No ownership marks.

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1910. First edition.. The original printed wrappers show some light browning, the text and plates are bright and clean; a tight copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 53, (1); 9 full page plates (3 are color lithographs, 6 are fine line drawings), each plate is accompanied by a descriptive leaf. Later dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (original printed pale green wrappers are bound in at rear), lg 4to. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, volume 40, no. 1. Solenodon is a genus of venomous, nocturnal, burrowing, insectivorous mammals belonging to the family Solenodontidae. There are two living species, Solenodon paradoxus, from Haiti and Dominion Republic, and Solenodon cubanus from Cuba. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1916. First edition.. A fine copy with no signs of use.. Pp. 1, 107-322, 7 full-page halftones, photographic plates and line-drawings, 3 text-figures. Later pale green blank wrappers, 4to. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume 8, no. 2. This monograph documents six living species from the North Atlantic Ocean all of which range throughout New England waters. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985. First edition.. Some bump to bottom inner corner; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. vi, 208; 28 full page color plates from paintings with 104 individual fish illustrated, 100+ distribution maps, many other halftone text-figures. Original printed and pictorial orange and white stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 4to. An excellent guide to the fishes of the family Lutjanidae with many beautiful color images from paintings. This is FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, volume 6. This volume is from the research library of ichthyologist Wayne N. Witzell with his circular blindstamp on the front wrapper and title page.

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. vi, 208; 28 full page color plates from paintings with 104 individual fish illustrated, 100+ distribution maps, many other halftone text-figures. Original printed and pictorial orange and white stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 4to. An excellent guide to the fishes of the family Lutjanidae with many beautiful color images from paintings. This is FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, volume 6. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma, 1966. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. 80; 21 full page plates (black-and-white photos and halftones), each with an onion skin tissue guard caption. Full black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 4o. This is the original Ph.D. dissertation that is signed by all five committee members on the title page; Carl D. Riggs was the Committee Chair. This copy is warmly inscribed by the author to Richard A. Goff, one of the other committee members.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xiv, 242; 65 black-and-white photos and graphs, genealogy diagrams and graphs in the appendices. Publisher's original orange cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. This is the hardcover first edition of this classic work in primatology. In Baboon Mothers and Infants, the author applies her uniquely sophisticated techniques to the mother-infant relationship, its demography and ecology, within the natural setting. Signature of former owner on the front endpaper dated June 1981. No other ownership marks and few signs of use.