Search Results: Authors starting with V from Natural History Books

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1874-1883. First edition. A bright copy in fine condition in a very attractive binding.. Pp. 200, 17 full page plates - 15 are beautiful chromolithograph plates finished by hand and heightened with gum-arabic by Bocourt and lithographed by Mesnel (each plate has an accompanying page of descriptive text). Quarter red morocco with five raised bands, gilt-lettered on the spine over French marbled boards with matching French marbled endpapers (original gray printed wrappers are bound in place), folio (14.25 x 11 inches). This work was issued in parts from 1874 to 1915. Pages 1-40 with accompanying plates were released in 1874, pp. 41-120 with plates in 1878 and pp. 121-200 with plates in 1883. In 1915 Valliant died without completing the work. The final, unfinished part (not offered here) was then issued separately along with the final 3 plain lithographic plates. This work documents the exotic tropical fish of coastal and inland southern Mexico and Central America.… Read More

Quito, Ecuador: Fundacion Herpetologica Gustavo Orces, 2016. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. 652; 280 text-figures, most in color of snakes, habitats and color distribution maps, 137 color plates of snakes and habitats, 3 color photos of the authors (all photos by Peter Oxford). Color pictorial laminated boards, lettered in white on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. The text is in Spanish but there is a summary in English. This volume covers in detail 36 species of poisonous snakes from continental Ecuador. These include 18 species of Elapidae and 18 species of Viperidae. The analyses include both morphological and molecular details. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1897. First edition.. Small crease to half-title page only; a bright and clean copy in fine condition.. Pp. 236; numerous text-figures (un-numbered). Later wine red cloth (original tan printed wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, no. 5. The rare first edition of this important and early work on the reptiles of the western states. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1913. First edition.. Light wear to wrappers along the spine, minor water mark to the outer margin of the front wrapper and first section of the text, the text is bright and clean with many pages unopened; a very good copy.. Pp. 70, 4 plates (graphs). Original printed green wrappers, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the California of Sciences, volume 2, part 1: Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906, no. 9. No ownership marks.

Ithaca, NY: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1978. First edition.. Light sunning to wrappers, a near fine copy.. Pp. iv, 77-162, 556-561, 1004-1008, 10 plates, 1-fold-out plate. Light brown wrapper, lettered in black on cover and spine, 8vo. This volume contains three papers from the Proceeding of the California Academy of Sciences series 2, volume V, 1895-1896. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front wrapper.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1917. First edition.. Small crease to bottom edge of the wrappers and text; a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. 33-39. Brown plain wrappers over the original printed green wrappers, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth series, volume 7, no. 2 and no. 3. No ownership marks.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1914. First edition.. The original cloth is edge-worn along the outer joints and head and foot of the spine, there is an old wrinkle to the cloth on the bottom third of the spine, the front and rear free endpapers show some browning, the printed wrappers and text pages are clean; overall a good to very good copy.. Pp. 175 + 112 full page photo-plates. Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with 5 gilt panel lines and date at the base, (original printed pale green wrappers bound in place), lg 8vo. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, volume 2, part 1. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, no 10. From the library of herpetologist John C. Murphy with his circular blind stamp on the front wrapper. Rarely offered in the original publisher's cloth.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1914. First edition.. A very bright and clean copy in fine (as new) condition.. Pp. 175 + 112 full page photo-plates. Later full black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, volume 2, part 1. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, no 10. From the library of herpetologist Kraig Alder with small ink stamp on the front cover. The original printed wrappers are lacking; the volume shows no signs of use.

Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, (circa 1850-1852).. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (5), 1-258, (1, index); (8), 1-232; 35 hand-colored plates (2 engraved color frontispieces, 33 engraved color wood engravings). Publisher's original one-quarter calf leather over red textured cloth boards, spine with elaborate gilt decorations surrounding the volume title and number, all page edges with speckles, sm 4to (10 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 274 x 186 mm). The text by Nus and Meray are illustrated with fanciful-inspired and characterized butterflies by Amédée Varin. The beautiful hand-colored illustrations are like those seen in Grandville, Les Papillons. They show anthropomorphic depictions of butterflies in a precursor of Surrealism. No ownership marks and only a few signs of use.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. 289-320; 38 full page black-and-white plates (photos and halftones of coral). Later orange cloth, lettered in black on the front cover, sm 4to. Extract from U.S. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1900, volume 2. The corals in this well-illustrated work were collected around Porto Rico by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Fish Hawk" during an expedition there in 1898-1899. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America, 1994. First edition.. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.. Pp. iii, 371; numerous stratigraphic sections, maps and geological correlation charts. Publisher's original dark red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, sm 4to. Geological Society of America Memoir 184. Alexis du Toit's insights suggesting a Gondwanan Foreland Basin are still valid today given the enormous increase in supporting information from studies of the Panthalassan margin of Gondwanaland. This volume presents seven chapters on this topic by noted authorities in the field. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Jakarta, Indonesia: PT Intermasa, 1979. First edition in English.. A very good copy.. Pp. ix, 116; numerous line-drawings of mammals. Green stiff printed wrappers with drawing of elephant on the front cover, lg 8vo. A brief review of the principal mammals of Indonesia. No ownership marks and only a few signs of use.

Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1934. First edition. Small tape repair to wrapper at bottom of spine, a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. xii, 231, 32 maps and photos. Original yellow wrappers, printed in red and black, lg 8vo. No ownership marks.

Tervuren, Beligium: Musee Royal De L'Afrique Centrale, 1962.. One bottom corner bumped, light shelf wear to wrappers; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. ix, 255; 25 full page black-and-white plates of skulls, 7 full page line-drawings, 25 graphs, 9 text-figures. From the series: Musee Royal De L'Afrique Centrale, Annals, serie 8, Sciences Zoologiques, no. 105. A detailed anatomical study of the skulls of two African monkey genera, Colobus and Cercopithecus. The text is entirely in French. Small cancelled library stamp of the American Museum of Natural History on the front cover - no other library marks or any other ownership marks.

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1887. First edition.. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. 501-699; 44 full page plates (fine line-drawings). Later wine-red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1883, Article 16. The volume contains numerous illustrations of sea creatures (mostly invertebrates) collected by the "Steamer Albatross" off the northern coast of the United States in 1883. No ownership marks.

Frankfurt am Main: Chimaira, 2006. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. 326, (2, ads); 180 color photographs, color maps, and 23 weather charts. Color pictorial laminated boards, lettered in black, white, green and orange on the spine and front cover, illustrated endpapers (hardcover), lg 8vo. From the series: Chelonian Library #2. This book covers the researched data on the distribution, biology and ecology of Testudo hermanni. It also provides information on fossil records, habitat, diet, reproduction, life cycles, diseases and parasites, threats, conservation, and much more (from the publisher's blurb). No ownership marks.

Frankfurt am Main: Chimaira, 2006. First edition.. A fine (new) copy still shrink-wrapped.. Pp. 326, (2, ads); 180 color photographs, color maps, and 23 weather charts. Color pictorial laminated boards, lettered in black, white, green and orange on the spine and front cover, illustrated endpapers (hardcover), lg 8vo. From the series: Chelonian Library #2. This book covers the researched data on the distribution, biology and ecology of Testudo hermanni. It also provides information on fossil records, habitat, diet, reproduction, life cycles, diseases and parasites, threats, conservation, and much more (from the publisher's blurb). No ownership marks.

Hartford: State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1916, first edition. Ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with its bookplate on the front endpaper, ink-stamp on the rear endpaper and stamps on the title pages, almost no signs of use; a tight, near fine copy.. Pp. 824, 15 text-figures, 10 plates. Early red pebble cloth, lg 8vo. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Volume 5, Bulletin 22, Part 3.

Hanoi, Vietnam: Publishing House "Science and Technic", 1990. First edition.. Some wear to wrappers, a tight copy in very good condition.. Pp. 248; some text-figures. Original printed green and white wrappers, sm 4to. Contains 58 chapters on mammals, insects, plants, ecology, natural resources, etc. mostly of northern Vietnam published between 1986 and 1990. The text is in Vietnamese but each chapter has a summary in English. There is also an index in English to all 58 chapters at the end of the work. Scarce work. Inscribed by one of the authors on the title page.

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that shows sunning to the spine.. Pp. xxxiii, (3), 131, 91 color plates, 20 text-figures. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, green pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. Provides easy access to information on the composition and distribution of all species of amphibians and reptiles occurring in Middle America. No ownership marks.