Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Pemberley Natural History Books

Springer, 2008. xiii, 339, text figs. . PB + CD. As new.. Provides a unique introduction to the ecology and biology of Lake Taihu. CD in rear pocket.. [9781402085543]

New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. 304, . . HB. Vg in d/w. Name and ownership stamp to endpaper.. Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for how evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that "natural selection" among competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptations and species diversity. Twenty-one years passed between that epiphany and publication of <i>On the Origin of Species</i>. The human drama and scientific basis of Darwin's twenty-one-year delay constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution. This is a book for everyone who has ever wondered about who this man was and what he said. Drawing from Darwin's secret "transmutation" notebooks and his personal letters, the author has sketched a vivid life… Read More

London: Quaritch, 1903. 77, [19], . . PB. Orig. wrappers, slight wear, minor spotting; a few marginal pencil marks. Vg.. Catalogue No. 225 of rare books on Natural History offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch. The French botanist, Alexis Jordan (1814-1897) amassed one of the largest private botanical libraries in Europe..

1967. 216, 92 figs. . PB. Orig. wrappers, ink title to spine.. Pacific Insects Monograph 15..

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1967. 83, 1 plate, 12 figs. . HB. 8vo, qtr morocco, marbled boards, calf title piece, orig. wrappers retained. A fine copy. bookplate of coleopterist A.B. Drane.. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 121..

Entomological Society of Queensland, 1974. iv, 76, b/w illus. . PB. Wrappers. Vg.. Includes a chapter on the collectors, naturalists and taxonomists who laid the foundation of a biological survey of Queensland.. [9780959886214]

Paris: L. Le Charles, 1951. 327, 8 b/w plates, 117 text figs, 2 maps. . HB. Nicely bound in buckram, leather title piece, gt. Minor browning to pages. Vg.. Text French. Géographie Générale de la Guadaloupe et Dépendances, Pt. II-III - Géographie biologique: I. La Flore..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. 136, frontis, 108 text engravings. . HB. Vg in d/w (short tear to head of spine, in removable protective sleeve). Enclosed is a signed typescript letter from the author discussing the various sea bird colonies around Penzance (undated, circa 1956). Also with a small (105x126mm), unsigned watercolour drawing of a pair of redshanks (a little foxed) by an unknown artist.. Illustrated with wood engravings by the author. Hilda M. Quick (1895-1978) trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and specialised in wood engraving. She lived in Penzance and spent some time in Paris. She exhibited her work in London and Newlyn. This book which she wrote and illustrated, became a bestseller. In 1951 she moved to St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, where she spent the rest of her life..

London: BM(NH), 1980. 124, 2 plain plates, 19 figs, 23 maps. . PB. Vg. From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the London Natural History Society, with his name front wrapper.. Reprint, first published 1960. Bull BM(NH) Zoology Vol 6 (3): 105-226.. [9780000071491]

BM(NH), 1961. 124, 19 figs, 23 maps. . PB. Small tear to rear wrapper. Vg.. Bull BM(NH) Zoology Vol.6(3).

London: Linnean Society, 1949. 29, 2 b/w plates, text figs. . PB. Orig. wrappers. Ex-lib. Good. .

London: BM(NH), 1980. 124, 19 figs, 23 maps. . PB. Fine.. Reprint, first published 1960. Bull BM(NH) Zoology Vol 6 (3). [9780000071491]

London: Linnean Society, 1949. 29, 26 figs. . PB. Vg.. The Linnaean Society of London. Synopses of the British Fauna No. 8..

Chapman & Hall, 1997. 432, 49 text figs, 20 halftones. . HB. Vg. From Mike Fitton's library, with his name to end paper. Inscribed to him by the author.. 1st edition.. [9780412583506]

London: Blackie Academic & Professional, 1993. 323, text figs. 200x150mm. PB. Vg. Spine slightly faded. Author's inscription to Mike [Fitton].. . [9780751400205]

Basil Blackell, 1988. 78, b/w illus. . PB. Vg.. Provides keys to adult land invertebrates in the UK.. [9780631163787]

Edward Arnold, 1977. 84, line drawings. . PB. Vg.. . [9780713100914]

BM(NH), 1988. 171-229, . . PB. Vg.. <i>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology</i>, Vol. 56(4). [9780565060312]

Melbourne: Polding Press, 1980. x, 314, b/w photos, folding plate. . PB. Vg. Inscribed by author.. Concerns the history of Western Australia sketched around Joseph T. Reilly (1836-1915), founder of the Western Australia Catholic Record. With folding plate showing family tree.. [9780858842809]

BM(NH), 1974. 21, . . PB. . <i>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology</i>, Vol. 31(1)..