Search Results: Titles starting with M from Natural History Books

Near fine copy.. This print is in a black wooden frame - the image size is 31 inches wide by 22 inches high. This map is used in current public promotions of the Paris metro subway system. A very rare hand-colored map that seldom comes up for sale.

Berlin: Rudolph Gaertner, 1869-1871.. Some browning to parts of the endpapers, some wear to leather on spine, a very good copy.. Pp. 106, 3 large folding plates; pp. 74, 1 folding plate; pp. 86. Early half leather over marbled boards, 8vo. Contains early papers on invertebrates and the avifauna of Pomerina.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909.. Ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with a call number on the spine, bookplate on the front endpaper, name stamp on title page, no other library marks, a bright, clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xii, 258, 30 black-and-white plates. Early red pebble cloth with gilt-lettering, 8vo. United Station National Museum Bulletin no. 68.

Lucknow, UP: Superintendent, Government Printing Office, 1956.. A clean, very good copy in a mostly complete but slightly soiled and stained dust jacket.. Pp. (viii), 144, vi, 72 full page photo-plates on clay-coated paper - 28 are in color, 5 full page figures. Cloth, DJ, lg 8vo. A thorough review of the mangoes grown in India.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, 1st edition.. Top outer corners with slight bumps, some discoloration to cloth on rear board only, a clean, very good copy.. Pp. 659. Original gilt-decorated green publisher's cloth, 8vo. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, volume 12.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. xii, (1), 384; numerous black-and-white photos, line-drawings, graphs and maps. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. The first section starts with a section on the classification, distribution, and evolution of the living and fossil macaque monkeys. The next section concentrates on ecological and behavioral data recently obtained from specialized field studies. The volume contains 13 chapters by noted authorities in the field. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen Verlag, 1909-1954. First edition.. A bright and clean set that is in fine (new) condition.. Pp. complete text and 1,458 chromolithographed plates. Publisher’s original brown half-calf over green cloth boards, spines are lettered in gilt with numerous gilt panel lines and with a gilt lepidopterological vignette at the head of each spine, lg 4to (31.5 x 25.0 cm; 12 ½ x 9 ¾ inches). This is the complete, bound set of the rarer and more sought-after English edition of this important work on butterflies and moths. Its fine color plates were made using the process of 10-to 14-colour lithography producing exquisite color plates. The editor, Adalbert Seitz, had a plan to finish the work in 1912 but in reality, publication ceased in 1954, even then several volumes remained unfinished. Seitz died in 1938 but the publication of the work continued after his death. The Macrolepidoptera of the World was published in 16 volumes with four supplements and is composed… Read More

New York: Plenum Press, 1982. First edition.. A fine (new) copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xvi, 418, many text text-figures and some photos. Publisher's original brown cloth, spine is lettered in gilt, green pictorial dust jacket, lettered in white, lg 8vo. From the series: Monographs in Evolutionary Biology Series, volume 1, edited by Max Hecht et al. Based on a symposium which explored how sequence data from proteins and DNA are used in the studying phylogeny and evolution. The symposium was held at the Third International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology during the summer of 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Twenty notable contributors presented papers at this symposium. A major landmark study in the field of molecular evolutionary biology. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

London: Longman and Co., 1835-1841. First edition.. Near fine.. Hand-colored lithographic plate, approximately 10.25 inches wide by 14 inches long. From: Meyer, H.L., Illustrations of British Birds, lithographer H.L. Meyer. Image is taken from the Longman and Co. gilt-edge folio edition of Meyer's Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs which was published 1835-1841, see W.G. Hale.  Image is of an magpie egg and bittern egg.

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1949. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in fine (as new) condition.. Pp. 656, 3 maps. Publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with a grouse in gilt on the front cover, 8vo. Based largely on data gathered by Arthur Herbert Norton. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 102. Name stamp Ron Sauey Memorial Library on rear endpaper and the top page edge, plain pocket on the rear endpaper, no other ownership marks to the text or cloth binding. Ron Sauey was co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin. Scarce.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (10), 1-364; numerous text-figures (line-drawings, photos, cladograms and phylogenies). Publisher's original pictorial white cloth, lettered in black and gray, lg 8vo. This volume is based on two symposia held in Great Britain in the mid-1980s. This work includes 18 papers: R.D. Martin: Primates: A Definition; P.D. Gingerich: Plesiadapis and the Delineation of the Order Primates; L.C. Aiello: The Relationships of the Tarssiiformes: A Review of the Case for the Haplorhini; A.L. Rosenberger: Platyrrhines, Catarrhines and the Anthropoid Transition; P.M. Butler: Problems of Dental Evolution in the Higher Primates; P. Andrews: Molecular Evidence for Catarrhine Evolution; J.G. Fleagle: The Fossil Record of Early Catarrhine Evolution; M.J. Bishop and A.E. Friday: Molecular Sequences and Hominoid Phylogeny; M. Ruvolo and D. Pilbeam: Hominoid Evolution: Molecular and Palaeontological… Read More

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. First edition. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. i-xiv, 232. Publisher's cloth, printed pictorial dust jacket, 8vo. This work presents an ethnographic view of art-making at Wat Buddhapadipa, a Thai Buddhist temple in Wimbledon, England. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. First edition.. Faint foxing the page edges only; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. xvi, 268; 16 full-page black-and-white photo-plates. Publisher's original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. This volume traces the rise of the state in Southeast Asian over the last 2000 years. There is also a chapter on prehistory which links the earliest inhabitants of SE Asia to the state level societies that developed. This volume was originally published in French by the author in 1962. It was translated from the French by H .M. Wright. Name of former owner on the front endpaper.

New York: Plenum Press, 1980. First edition.. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket (with faint stain on the bottom front of the jacket).. Pp. xxiv, 364, numerous text-figures (line-drawings) and photos. Publisher's original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. "New data on the structure and cycles of the forest are presented, aiding interpretations of behaviors described. The behavior of gibbons, leaf monkeys, and macaques is summarized, and niche differentiation, positional behavior, and long-term changes in behavior are discussed together with a brief consideration of competitors" (from the jacket flap). No ownership marks.

Kuching, Sarawak: The Sarawak Museum, 1964. First edition.. One corner with small bump; a very good copy.. Pp. 341-511; 11 full page photo-plates. Original printed blue wrappers, lg 8vo. The Sarawak Museum Journal, volume 11, nos. 23-24 (new series). The entire volume 335 page issue of the journal is offered with a total of 27 other contributions. This is the original issue of this monograph which was later issued as a book. No ownership marks.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1983. First edition. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. 327-598; 117 text-figures (black-and-white photos, halftones, line-drawings, maps). Publisher's original blue printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 174, article 4. This volume defines the morphological boundaries and elucidates the contents of three Indo-Malayan murid genera, new genus Palawanomys (native to Palawan Island), Berylmys (native to Indochina) and new genus Sundamys (which includes the Giant Rat of Sumatra and is native to the Sunda Shelf). No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. First edition.. A fine copy.. Pp. xvi, 270, 4 color plates, numerous text-figures. Publisher’s black cloth, lettered in green on spine, black pictorial dustjacket lettered in green and white, 8vo. This volume examines the causes and solutions to the widespread appearance of deformed frogs. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper. Neat underlining on pages xi-xiii, 111, 112, 115, 116, 186, 187, and 199.

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, 1839-1852. Second edition.. A few tiny insect marks on the front and rear covers of volume XXV; very bright and clean set in near fine condition.. Pp. xiv, 336; 33 total plates (1 frontispiece engraved portrait of Peron, 1 engraved title page vignette of small boat surrounded by walruses, 3 monochrome lithographs of sea serpents and giant squid attacking a ship, 28 fine hand-colored lithographs of walruses, seals and whales) + pp. 264; 32 total plates (1 frontispiece engraved portrait of the naturalist Lacepede, 1 hand-colored title page vignette of a narwhal with a whaling ship in the background, 1 monochrome lithograph of whale anatomy, 1 un-numbered monochrome lithograph of the rhinoceros whale, 28 fine hand-colored lithographs of whales). 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 XXV and XXVI in 'The Naturalist's… Read More

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1945. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (6), 209-253, 8 full page half-tone plates. Original printed saddle-brown wrappers, 4to. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 34, part III. Describes the Oligocene mammals from the Duchesne River horizon in the Uinta Basin of Utah. From the library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward D. Mitchell with his signature on the front wrapper. No other ownership marks.