Search Results: Authors starting with S from Natural History Books

Frankfurt am Main: Im Selbstverlag der Gesellschaft, 1884-1891. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (4), 531; 15 full page chromolithograph plates (1 ornate chromolithograph title page + 14 chromolithographs of butterflies and moths, designated I-XIV), frontispiece photogravure of the author at beginning of part 2). Recent one-half green morocco leather, spine with 5 raised bands, with red and black morocco title labels lettered in gilt, over English marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers, 4to (282 x 230 mm). This authoritative work is the earliest monographic treatment of the Lepidoptera of Madagascar. Part 1 covers Rhopalocera, Heterocera: Sphinges et Bombyces and Part 2 covers Heterocera: Noctuae, Geometrae and Microlepidoptera. Many species new to science are described here. Small rectangular stamp of Universitat Basel at the top margin of the title page, no other ownership marks and no signs of use. Very scarce.

Frankfurt am Main: Im Selbstverlag der Gesellschaft, 1884-1891. First edition.. Front wrapper to part 2 shows some light soiling, all of the other wrappers, text and fine color plates are bright and clean as is the fine binding on this work; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (4), 531; 15 full page chromolithograph plates (1 ornate chromolithograph title page + 14 chromolithographs of butterflies and moths, designated I-XIV), frontispiece photogravure of the author at beginning of part 2, original printed wrappers bound in place). Later one-half black morocco leather, spine with two dark-red morocco labels lettered in gilt for the title and date and with seven pairs of gilt panel lines, over original dark blue leather-covered boards patterned in the shape of scales from butterfly wings, original French blue-marbled endpapers, 4to (295 x 233 mm). This authoritative work is the earliest monographic treatment of the Lepidoptera of Madagascar. Part 1 covers Rhopalocera, Heterocera:… Read More

Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1932. First edition.. Light edge wear to wrappers especially along the spine, minor browning to the edges of the wrappers; a clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. (6), 19; 2 full page photo-plates, 17 text-figures. Publisher's original tan printed wrappers, folio. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica, new series, volume 20, memoir no. 2.

Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1931. First edition.. The front wrapper is missing but the half-title and title page are present, small marginal piece missing from the rear wrapper and from the outer margins of the last two plates, spine signatures are loose due to loss of paper backing; overall a good solid copy of part II of this rare monograph.. Pp. (5), 51-124, 9 full page black-and-white photo-plates of fossil plants, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publisher's original printed tan rear wrapper, folio. This is Part II only. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India - Paleontologia Indica, new series, volume 11. No ownership marks.

London: Kegan Paul International, 1996. First edition.. Faint mar to rear cloth, a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xvii, 110; 20 full page color plates, 19 text-figures (line-drawings and graphs). Publisher's original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 8vo. "Hunting with falcons for houbara bustards was an integral part of traditional life in the desert. Over the last few decades, this magnificent bird -- so well adapted to the desert environment -- has become an endangered species, due both to continued hunting and to the degradation of its habitat by domestic livestock. This book highlights the achievements of the National Wildlife Research Center of Saudi Arabia in securing the survival of the species through captive breeding, with the aim of reintroducing the houbara to the wild. The breeding program has proved to be the greatest source of information yet available on the bird, yielding important data not obtainable from wild… Read More

Paris: Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, no date. First edition. Some light foxing to a few pages, a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. 22, 2 full page lithograph plates. Extract without original wrappers, sm folio. Memoirs du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, volume 12, pp. 75-96. Presents the plant flora of southern Brazil.

Paris: Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1811. First edition. Tight, clean, near fine copy.. Pp. 63, 5 fine folding lithograph plates. Extract with backstrip but without original wrappers, sm 4to. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, volume 17, pp. 313-375. Covers the symmetry of the plant organs in the Polygaleae.

Tokyo: Koudansha, 1981.  First edition.. Fine copy in the original fine slipcase still in the publisher's pictorial shipping box.. Pp. 272, 48 full page fine color plates, 192 text-figures - 32 are in color.  Original blind-stamped orange cloth, in the original cloth-backed color pictorial slipcase (and in the publisher's shipping carton which also has a color pictorial title/author label), lg 4to.  Text in Japanese but with Latin names and some English phrases used throughout.  The volume has high manufacturing standards and is extremely scarce.  It is likely the most uncommon 20th century butterfly book - probably due to a print run of 500 or less copies.

Honolulu: East-West Center, 1965.. Some faint foxing to the endpapers and to the page edges, a clean, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xvi, 206, 92, 32 (index), 100 full-page color plates, 27 text-figures, 1 foldout map. Original gilt-decorated purple cloth, DJ, lg 8vo. Reviews 340 species of crabs found in Sagami Bay, a region known for its rich marine fauna. The fine color plates are based on watercolors painted by T. Sakai.

Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1985. First edition.. A fine copy.. Pp. 168, (2); numerous text-figures. Publisher’s original blue wrappers printed in white, 4to. A detailed, well-illustrated monograph in French on the evolutionary morphology of the head and neck in modern humans and the great apes with applications to fossil hominins. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publishing, 1989. First edition.. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.. Pp. xi, 114; 82 color photos, 1 folding maps, some other text-figures. Publisher's original dark blue cloth, color pictorial dust jacket lettered in white, 4to. This work covers the ecology, environment, flora, fauna, forestry and people of these islands in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. No ownership marks.

Maidenhead, UK: Thames Valley Press, 1973. Reprint.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. vi, 146, 24 full page color plates. Publisher's original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, top page edge in gilt, sm 4to. This volume reprints one of the leading works on falconry in the British Isles originally published in 1855. This is the first 20th century reprint of this rare work. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

New York: New York Zoological Society, 1912. First edition.. Light wear to the edges and spine of wrappers; overall the brochures are in very good condition.. Pp. unnumbered pages with color illustrations of animals the New York Zoological Park. Publisher's printed illustrated wrappers, 8 1/2 by 6 3/4 inches. New York Zoological Park is labelled Series Number Three. Vintage souvenir brochure of New York.

Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, 1929. First edition.. Light tanning and wear to the wrappers, a good solid copy.. Pp. 111; 5 plates (line-drawings). Publisher's original printed olive-green wrappers, lg 8vo. University of Oregon Publications volume 1, no. 1. Hepatica is a genus of herbaceous perennials in the buttercup family, native to central and northern Europe, Asia and eastern North America. Anthoceros is a genus of hornworts in the family Anthocerotaceae. The genus is global in its distribution. Its name means 'flower horn' and refers to the characteristic horn-shaped sporophytes that all hornworts produce. Faint signature in pencil on the front wrapper. No other ownership marks. Rare work seldom offered.

Dallas: Ottys Sanders, 1987. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Pp. vii, 110, 27 figures, 2 plates. Original off-white printed wrappers, lettered in black on front cover and spine, 4to. The volume describes the evolution and hybridization of toads indigenous to North America. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the title page.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1998.. A fine copy.. Pp. 78; 9 text-figures. Original printed white wrappers, lg 8vo. American Museum Novitates, no. 3250. This work presents a new model for hominid divergence based on a shift to open habitats. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Karlsfeld: Fauna-Verlag, 1989. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 160; 150 color photos. Color pictorial fabric-backed wrappers, sm 8vo. Documents the reptiles and amphibians of the Mediterranean region. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Hanoi: Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 1944. First edition.. Uniform browning to the text, slight wear to wrappers; overall a tight, very good copy of a rare work.. Pp. (2), 210; 11 text-figures. Later plain silver wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin du Service Géologique de l'Indochine Volume XXVII, fascicule unique. No ownership marks.

Wheeling, WV: American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, 1982. First edition.. A fine copy in a slightly edge worn but near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xiv, 355; some black-and-white photos. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. This work presents 32 chapters by noted authorities in the field on all aspects of zoo fundamentals including design and operations. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Boulder. CO: Geological Society of America, 1970. First edition.. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. 207-230; 3 text-figures (2 maps, 1 stratigraphic section), 6 tables, 1 long table in appendix). Original self-wrappers, 8vo. Geological Society of America Special Paper 124. The Villafranchian age is a period of geologic time (3.5-1.0 Ma) overlapping the end of the Pliocene and the beginning of the Pleistocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages. Named by Italian geologist Lorenzo Pareto for a sequence of terrestrial sediments studied near Villafranca d'Asti, a town near Turin, it succeeds the Ruscinian age. This paper provides the first radiometric (Potassium-Argon) dates for the Villafranchian Stage-Age. From the library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward D. Mitchell with his circular name-stamp and date received on the front wrapper. No other ownership marks. This rare paper is seldom offered for sale.