Search Results: Titles starting with F from Natural History Books

London: Zoological Society, 1937.. Two smudges to front wrap, ownership stamp on inside front wrap, text pages are uncut and un-opened, a tight, very good copy.. Pp. 140 + 1 full page photo-plate, 38 text-figures. Original printed blue wraps, lg 4to. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 23, part 3.

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1980. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. xvii, 271; numerous tables. Original printed and pictorial orange stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 4to. This work provides a detailed guide with keys to the decapod crustaceans that move predominantly by swimming - the shrimps and pawns. Sixteen different families of shrimps and pawns are covered in this worldwide treatment. This is FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, volume 1. This volume is from the research library of ichthyologist Wayne N. Witzell with his circular blindstamp on the title page and abstract page.

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1980. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. xvii, 271; numerous tables. Original printed and pictorial orange stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 4to. This work provides a detailed guide with keys to the decapod crustaceans that move predominantly by swimming - the shrimps and pawns. Sixteen different families of shrimps and pawns are covered in this worldwide treatment. This is FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, volume 1. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985. First edition.. Some bump to bottom inner corner; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. vi, 208; 28 full page color plates from paintings with 104 individual fish illustrated, 100+ distribution maps, many other halftone text-figures. Original printed and pictorial orange and white stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 4to. An excellent guide to the fishes of the family Lutjanidae with many beautiful color images from paintings. This is FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, volume 6. This volume is from the research library of ichthyologist Wayne N. Witzell with his circular blindstamp on the front wrapper and title page.

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. vi, 208; 28 full page color plates from paintings with 104 individual fish illustrated, 100+ distribution maps, many other halftone text-figures. Original printed and pictorial orange and white stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 4to. An excellent guide to the fishes of the family Lutjanidae with many beautiful color images from paintings. This is FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, volume 6. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985. First edition.. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. x, 303; 300+ individual text figures of fine stipple halftone images of various species as well as 300+ distribution maps. Original printed and pictorial orange and white stiff wrappers, lg 4to. No owner ships marks and no signs of use.

London: Lovell, Reeve, and Co., 1909. . Near fine copy.. Publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt decorations, thick lg 8vo.

Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1951.. Name stamp of Reading Public Museum and ink number on front wrap, no other marks; a bright, very good copy.. Pp. 74. Original printed wraps, 8vo. Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club volume 23, part 4, no. 22.

London: W. Bulmer, 1796-1800. First edition.. Light edge wear to morocco; a very bright and clean copy in fine condition.. Pp. xxxvii, (4), B2, 4-280; (6), B2, 4-340; with 52 woodcut vignettes in the text by John and Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit, and Luke Clennell. Publisher's original black morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment and with elaborate gilt floral decorations in the other compartments, front and rear covers with gilt border decorations, decorated board edges and gilt-turns, marbled endpapers, all page edges in gilt, lg 8vo (9 3/8 x 7 5/8 inches). This is the rare first edition in a fine binding. Armorial bookplate of John Croft Deverell on the pastedown.

Hanoi: Xunhasaba, 1979. First edition.. Discoloration to the top edge of wrappers, a very good copy.. Pp. 128, 6 maps. Publisher’s green and white printed pictorial wrappers, lettered in white and black on cover and spine, sm 8vo. From the series: Vietnamese Studies No. 54, 14th year. This volume details the battles between the US and the South Vietnamese Liberation Armed Forces (L.A.F.) between 1965 and 1968. Text is in English. No ownership marks.

Hanoi: Editions en Langues Etrangères, 1984. First edition.. Pages darkened from age, some pages uncut, very good copy.. Pp.76, numerous text-figures, folding map. Publisher’s white printed pictorial wrappers, lettered in black and red on cover, sm 8vo. Text is in French. This is a guidebook for foreign visitors to Hanoi. No ownership marks.

New York: Arco Publishing Co. 1974. First American edition.. A near fine copy in a slightly worn but very good dust jacket.. Pp. 160; 4 full page color plates, 100+ black-and-white photos. Publisher's original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, pictorial dust jacket, sm 4to. Presents a guide for beginning falconers. The front blank endpaper bears the name and address of a former owner.

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.

Rodeo, NM: ECO Herpetological Publishing, 2012. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. x, 106; 81 color photos of lizards and their habitats, 8 color distribution maps, 18 black-and-white photos. Color pictorial stiff wrappers, 8vo. The family Xenosauridae is a monophyletic of viviparous that are found in coastal southern Mexico and in Guatemala. The text is presented in Spanish and in English. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1825. First edition.. Some light scattered foxing to the text, mostly marginal, attractively bound in recent calf; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. x, 11-318, (2, list of subscribers + errata). Recent tan full calf leather with five raised bands on the spine, with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, antique marbled endpapers, 8vo. Casey Wood (pg. 377) calls this volume "an early and important work." This is one of the first descriptions of the mammals of North America published in the US; some new species are described. Only a few hundred copies were published; 86 subscribers are listed at the end of the volume among them are: J. R. Barton, John Bell, Charles Bonaparte, J. E. Dekay, D. Hosack, Joseph Parrish and others. Rare work.

Rio de Janeiro: Papelaria Macedo, 1915. First edition.. Front wrapper is a bit soiled and edge worn, rear wrapper is missing, paper on spine is chipped at the bottom, text and plates are bright and clean; overall a good solid copy.. Pp. 680+; 33 black-and-white photos and line-drawings. Original green front printed wrapper, spine is based in brown paper, thick 4to. Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, volume 17. According to Bashford Dean, Bibliography of Fishes (p. 343): "This section forms a bulky volume which is without continuous pagination, the plates are un-numbered , and there is no index. Numerous genera and species are considered, belonging to 20 orders of teleosts." From the library of ichthyologist Ernest Lachner with his name stamp on the front wrapper, title page and outer page edge. This is a large and heavy volume - extra postage will be required for international shipping.

Moscow: Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Zoological Institute, 1981. First edition.. One outer corner with small bump, a few ink annotations on the front wrapper; a very good copy.. Pp. 123, (6); 14 black-and-white photo-plates, some text-figures and maps. Original gray printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, volume 101. The text is in Russian with abstracts in English for most contributions; there is also a second title page and table of contents in English.

Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1972. First edition.. Bump to top outer corner of fascicle 1, light fold to rear wrapper of fascicle 1; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. x, 917; 19 full page black-and-white photo-plates or halftones, 471 text-figures (line-drawings). Publisher’s original printed gray wrappers lettered in black on spine and front cover, lg 8vo. Part 1, volume 1, fascicle I and fascicle II. In English -- translated from the original German. Originally published in 1921/1923 in Berlin by Verlag von R. Friedlander and Sohn. From the series Zoologische Station zu Neapel. Former owner’s signatures on both front wrappers and on the title page of fascicle 1.

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1974. First edition.. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. 146; 10 plates (maps and black-and-white photos). Original printed wrappers, lg 8vo. From: Fieldiana Anthropology volume 63, no. 3. Palegawra Cave has been an emblematic site of the Epipalaeolithic (Zarzian) cultural horizon in the NW Zagros of Southwest Asia ever since its first exploration in 1951 by Bruce Howe and Robert Braidwood in the context of the Iraq-Jarmo project. This monograph presents the fauna excavated from Palegawra Cave. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1998. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in fine condition in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. xvi, 196; 179 black-and-white text-figures (line-drawings). Publisher's original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, sm 4to. This volume presents the testudines of the Indian region - it provides descriptions of characters and the systematic accounts of 23 genera and 51 species of testudines. It also includes coverage of two genera and three species of Crocodilians. No ownership marks and no signs off use.