Search Results: Authors starting with J from Natural History Books

Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, Center of Asian Studies, 1997. First edition.. A fine copy.. Pp. xi, 550, (8, ad); numerous black-and-white photos, maps, line-drawings and geological charts. Publisher’s original printed stiff red wrappers, lettered in white on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. In the series: Centre of Asian Studies Occasional Papers and Monographs no. 124. Contains 41 chapters by noted authorities in the field. The chapters are divided into seven sections: Loess as an Environmental Indicator; Glaciers; Coastal Environments and Coastal Environments; Rivers Oceans and Seas; Paleoclimate; Paleobotany; Primate and Human Evolution and its Environmental Context. The papers were presented at a conference held in Hong Kong in January 1995. Small signature of former owner on title page.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 2002. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine just jacket.. Pp. xiv, 331; numerous black-and-white photos, text-figures and maps. Publisher's original gray cloth, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, gilt seal of the California Academy of Sciences on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology, Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, no. 27. This volume contains 11 chapters by noted authorities in the field on the peopling of the Americas. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Basel: S. Karger, 1993. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. (4), 132; 24 black-and-white photos, maps, charts and graphs, 29 tables. Publisher's original pictorial wrappers, sm 4to. From the journal series, Folio Primatologica. Presents 11 chapters on the morphology, classification, behavior and evolution of colobine and macaque monkeys. Small signature of former owner on the inside front page. No signs of use.

Boston: Society of Natural History, 1927. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 132; 75 text-figures (fine line-drawings). Extract (no wrappers), 4to. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume 8, no. 4. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1912. First edition. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 491, 76 full page plates (photos, line-drawings, half-tones). Publisher's dark blue pebble cloth with red spine label that is gilt-lettered, lg 4to. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume 7. A monographic treatment of invertebrates including echinoids, echinoderms, star fish, spiny urchins from Paleozoic times up to the present. Mildly ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with their bookplate on the front endpaper, name stamp on the rear endpaper and a white call number on the spine, no other library marks and no signs of use.

Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2004. First edition.. Light sunning to top edge of spine, a near fine copy.. Pp. x, 294, 37 text-figures, 10 color plates. Publisher’s speckled light green paper over quarter brown paper, lettered in silver on spine, pictorial dustjacket, sm 8vo. This volume documents the search for the last remaining birds of the endangered ivory-billed woodpecker including background information on ornithology and conservation. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper. Neat underlining on pages 39, 40, 76, 106, and 247.

Parisiis: Apud Ludovicum Billaine, 1776. First edition.. Old repairs to the outer margins of the half-title and title pages with no effect to the text, some text-browning and spotting to the last few pages, a few old pencil marks in the margins of the text; a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. xiv (half-title, title, dedication, preface, eimio viro), 1-108 (includes text + epistola + breviaria capitum); 3 folding text-figures bound in at page 76.  Old stiff pale-pink paper wrappers, 12mo (18.6 x 11.6 cm).  This is Oliger Jacobaeus' dissertation on frog anatomy and ontogeny.  This is the first book published that is devoted exclusively to frogs.  The text is in Latin and Ancient Greek.  From the private research collection of Cornell University herpetologist Kraig Adler with his small bookplate on the verso of the half-title page.  Very small circular stamp at the base of the title page (not intelligible).  Rare work seldom offered.

Paris: Bordas, 1990. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket in a fine card slipcase.. Pp. 189, (2, index); 300+ photographs (most are in color). Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gray on the spine and with vignette of Angkor motif on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, in original cardboard decorated slipcase, folio (13 x 10 inches). A detailed overview of the Cambodian monuments of Angkor with excellent photos. The preface is by Federico Mayor, director general of UNESCO. The photographs are by L. Ionesco and J. G. Nafilyan. The work was written with the assistance of architect Rene Dumont. The text is in French. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1947.. Name stamp of Reading Public Museum and ink number on front wrap, no other marks; a bright, near fine copy.. Pp. 93. Original printed wraps, 8vo. Covers Fishes by J. Dandy, Amphibians and Reptiles by B. Lloyd, Birds by H. Hayward, Mammals by B. Lloyd, Fossil Vertebrates by K. Oakley, Early man in Hertfordshire by P. Evans. Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club volume 22, part 5, no. 33.

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 28. Image depicts a Numida cristata.

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 3. Image depicts a Meleagris ocellata.

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 24. Image depicts a Tragopan satyrus.

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 8. Image depicts an Argus giganteus.

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 3. Image depicts a Meleagris ocellata.

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 1. Image depicts a Meleagris gallopavo commonly known as the wild turkey.

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 2. Image depicts Meleagris gallopavo (female and young).

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1854-1855. Second edition.. Faint crease to the other corner of the first section of text, the text and color plates are bright and clean as is the original cloth binding; a near fine copy.. Pp. 229; 35 total plates (1 frontispiece engraved portrait of Peter Camper, 1 hand-colored title vignette of the Stag or Red Deer, 33 fine hand-colored lithographs of deer, antelopes, camels, giraffes and other ruminants) + pp. 264; 33 total plates (1 frontispiece engraved portrait of the John Hunter, 1 engraved title page vignette of the American Bison, 31 fine hand-colored lithographs of goats, sheep, oxen, musk ox and other ruminants). Original publisher's ornately blind-stamped red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and with gilt symbol on the front cover, top page edge in gilt, sm 8vo. This is volume XXI and XXII in 'The Naturalist's Library' edited by William Jardine. This is the complete work on the ruminants of the world. The first edition of… Read More

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 22. Image depicts a Lophophorus impeyanus.

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number XII. Image depicts a Gallus sonnerati (female).

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1834. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches long. From: W. Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume III: The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds, 1834 plate number 20. Image depicts a Euplocomus ignites (female).