Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Natural History Books

Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1969. First edition. One corner with a small bump, a near fine copy.. Pp. 309-364; 29 text-figures (line-drawings, charts, black-and-white photos). Original orange printed wrapper, lg. 8vo. This is an original offprint from: Journal of Morphology, volume 128, no. 3. It is a detailed review of the hand anatomy of the Great Apes exclusive of the gibbon and siamang. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Glasgow: Jackson, Son and Company, 1964. First edition.. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. xv, 276; 8 full page black-and-white photo-plates, 120 text-figures (line-drawings of artifacts and maps). Publisher's original pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, sm 4to. The work covers the archaeology of this coastal West African country. The volume is divided into nine chapters - 1: The Chronological Frame; 2: Pluvial Sequence in Africa; 3: Raised Beaches; 4: West African River-Terraces; 5: Soil-Profiles and Lateralization; 6: Tentative Scheme of Absolute Chronology; 7: Paleolithic Industries; 8: The Mesolithic; and 9: The Neolithic. Signature of former owner, archaeologist Richard Osborne, on the front endpaper.