Search Results: Authors starting with C from Natural History Books

Warrington, Cheshire, UK: Nishikigoi International, 1997. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a near fine slipcase.. Pp. (10), 310; 450+ color photographs. Publisher's original full-black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, housed in the original color pictorial card slipcase, lg 4to. In this large and heavy volume, the author pays tribute to his love of beautiful koi. The work is the result of more than 15 years of caring for koi and taking Koi photos. There are amazing full page and double page photos of koi and koi ponds. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1944. First edition.. Light wear to wrappers, a very good copy.. Pp. 34; 2 full page photo-plates, 4 text-figures, 1 map. Original gray printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, no. 61. Name stamp of herpetologist E. O. Moll on the front wrapper; a few annotations in the text by Moll.

Ithaca NY: ESA Publications, 1950. First edition.. Small tear (1/4 inch) to lower margin of all pages, bumps to top and bottom outer corners; a good solid copy.. Pp. 31-54; 18 text-figures (black-and-white photos, charts and graphs). Original printed white wrappers, sm 4to (10.5 x 7.75 inches). From: Ecological Monographs, volume 20. Blind-stamp of herpetologist Edward O. Moll on the title page. Title page also has the small name size of Natural History Survey Library and a duplicate stamp.

London: Zoological Society, 1907.. Two long scratches on the back wrap, slight edge wear, a very good copy.. Pp. 58 + 9 full page lithographic plates. Original printed blue wraps, lg 4to. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 18, part 1.

London: Methuen & Co. LTD., 1958. First edition with minor corrections.. A near fine copy.. Pp. xix, 322, 115 text-figures. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. This volume is an introduction to parasitology divided into two parts, The Parasites and The Host and its Reactions. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown.

London (1956), 1962.. Some foxing at the beginning and end of the text, otherwise a very good copy in a new binding.. Pp. 322, 115 text-figures. New cloth, lg 8vo.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. xiv, 720; some black-and-white photos, graphs and charts. Color pictorial stiff wrappers, 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). Contains 44 chapters by noted authorities in the field on all aspects of aspects of primates. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Rodeo, NM: ECO Wear & Publishing, 2017. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. ix, 448; 2000+ color photos and maps, some black-and-white text-figures. Publisher’s original full black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and front cover and with decorative silver turtles on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket lettered in yellow on the spine and front cover, folio (12.75 x 9.5 inches; 32 x 24 cm). An illustrated guide to the diverse and complex freshwater turtles of Australia. Australia is home to a diverse freshwater turtle fauna including more than 25 species and an array of side-necked turtle subspecies. The biology and ecology of Australian freshwater turtles is complex, and a number of species are of particular conservation concern. Many affected species are found on Australia’s east coast, where the river systems are most heavily modified due to the pressures of development. Freshwater Turtles of Australia is a beautifully illustrated and… Read More

Singapore: Beaumont Publishing, 1998. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. 292, 600+ fine color photos, 60 fine black-and-white drawings, color distribution maps. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine with color pictorial endpapers, in magnificent color pictorial dust jacket, sm folio (12.75 x 9.75 inches). Illustrated throughout with truly stunning color photos. Certainly the best book on turtles of the decade. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Amsterdam: A. Asher, 1966. Reprint.. A very bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 160; 2 plates (line-drawings) - 1 is folding. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 8vo. The work was originally published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 16, Calcutta, 1847. This facsimile reprint faithfully reproduces this very rare monograph on Southeast Asian reptiles. Circular blind stamp of Edward O. Moll on the front endpaper and small name stamp. No other ownership marks and few signs of use.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xiv, 457, (1); frontispiece portrait of Muller in 1940, 31 black-and-white photographs, 23 text-figures. Publisher's original black cloth, spine is lettered in light blue, pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. H. J. Muller (1890-1967) is perhaps best known as a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who first showed that exposure to radiation will produce mutations. This first biography of Muller was written by one of his students, Elof Axel Carlson. Carlson traces the evolution of Muller's ideas, clearly and simply explains his considerable contribution to the history of genetics and explores the personal, social, and political circumstances that determined the direction of his work (from the front jacket flap). No ownership marks.

Washington: George W. Bowman, 1861.. Ex-library from Reading Public Museum with call number on spine, book on front endpaper and museum stamps on rear endpaper. Cloth has some varnish applied to the spine, a good sold copy in the original binding.. Pp. 151-283. Publisher's elaborately blind-stamped cloth, 8vo. In: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1860. Bound with three other un-related monographs. Signature of B. Harry Warren of Westchester, PA, 1883 on front wrap. Two even older signatures on the rear endpaper.

Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1973. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine jacket.. Pp. 303; frontispiece photo-plate, numerous black-and-white photos, graphs and diagrams. Publisher's original light orange cloth, lettered in black on the spine, black-and-white pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. Presents 18 chapters by notable authorities in the field from Japan and the USA. The topics covered include: theoretical contributions, dynamics of primate colonies, grooming, ontogenetic development, maternal regulation of infant behavior, and communicative and adaptive behavior. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger, 1969. First edition.. A fine (as new) set in a near fine slipcase.. Pp. xiv, 283, 83 text-figures, 24 tables; xiv, 223, 112 text-figures and photos, 29 tables; xiv, 203, 84 text-figures and photos, 19 tables. Publisher's original light gray cloth, lettered in dark yellow on the spine and front cover, in slipcase with bright yellow boards over gray cloth, lettered in black on the spine and front board, lg 8vo. Volume I: Behavior; Volume II: Recent Advances in Primatology and Volume III: Neurology, Physiology, and Infectious Diseases. Presents the hundreds of individual papers presented at Second International Congress of Primatology in Atlanta. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1960. First edition.. Small crease to top outer corner of the rear wrapper; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 48; 26 text-figures, 8 full page black-and-white photo-plates, 8 tables. Publisher's original blue printed wrappers, sm 4to. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 121, article 1. No ownership marks and few signs of use.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1950. First edition.. Light shelf wear; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 32; 6 text-figures, 22 full page black-and-white plates, 2 tables. Publisher's original blue printed wrappers, sm 4to. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 94, article 10. Originally from the herpetological library of Aaron Bauer with his small name stamp on the front wrapper. Later from the library of R. Van Gelder with his signature on the front wrapper. No signs of use.

New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1996. Sixth printing.. A near fine copy.. Pp. 698, numerous text-figures. Publisher’s black boards, lettered in silver on spine, embossed lettering on front cover, silver, pictorial dustjacket with black lettering, lg 4to. This volume cover the origin of vertebrates and the evolution of major groups of living and fossil vertebrates. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper. Light, neat underlining on pages 35 of the 698 pages.

Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1911. First edition.. Light foxing to the endpapers only; a tight copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 122; 14 full page plates (black-and-white photos, and folding line-drawings). Publisher’s original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and with blind-stamped border lines on the front and rear covers, lg 4to (12 x 9.5 inches). Published by the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Publication no. 145. Today, the taxonomic term ‘Cotylosauria’ is considered a synonym of the family Captorhinidae. The Captorhinidae are the earliest group of true reptiles from the Carboniferous through the Permian. This monograph describes the North American species of that group. Originally from the research collection of Stanford University herpetologist/ichthyologist George S. Myers with his name stamp/address on the front endpaper and on the verso of the title page. Later from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren C. Brown with… Read More

Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1907. First edition.. Light edge wear to cloth, a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 176, 73 text-figures, 35 full photo and half-tones plates, 6 are large folding. Publisher’s original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, front and rear boards with blind-stamped border lines, lg 4to. The pelycosaurs are a group of synapsids that had direct ancestral links to the Mammalia, having differentiated teeth and a developing hard palate. From the research collection of paleontologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper.

Washington: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1911. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 179, 56 text-figures, 32 full page plates, some are folding. Later one-half brown leather with the spine lettered in gilt, over cream-colored boards with tan endpapers, (original printed pale green Carnegie wrappers bound in place), lg 4to. Published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication no 146. Detailed study of Eryops, Diplocaulus and other primitive amphibians of the Permian. This work also includes two small chapters: ‘Description of Permian insects’ by E. H. Sellards and ‘Discussion of Fossil fishes’ by Louis Hussakof. Small rectangular name stamp of “Anatomy Department Library University of Cambridge” on the front wrapper and title page, no other library marks. Finally, from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper and on the title page.