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[003197] . SCIENCE, September 4, 1885. Volume VI. No. 135. ill. Etchings. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good- Articles about/or by Famous Americans: In Letters to the Editor:R.P. WHITFIELD "An American Silurian scorpion"with illustration; CHAS. A. ASHBURNER "The geology of natural gas"; and R. W. SHUFELDT "Probable period of gestation in the 'horned-toad'. Other articles: " The Lick Observatory" with 5 illustrations; and "The Development of the Eye" with 2 illustrations. ex. mus. stamp on front cover. Covers detached. Front cover is Good to Good+. Back cover with tears and missing pieces, Good-. Crease down middle. Interior is tight, clean and VG. $45.00

[001958] . Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum: THE LITTORAL FAUNA OF KRUSADAI ISLAND IN THE GULF OF MANAAR. 1927. Paper Wraps. Good With appendices on the Vertebrates and Plants. By various authors. New Series-Natural History Section, Vol. I, No. I. ex-mus. $22.50

[003028] . FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Annual Report of Director to the Board of Trustees: Years 1906-1931., And 1966 Annual Report. ill. Plates. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1907. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Stiff Wraps. Natural History. Good 26 Reports covering years: 1906-1910,1912-1924,1926-1932, and 1966. Commences with report of the death of Marshall Field, founder of the Museum. Frontis. portrait of Field (Plate). Plate II: Mourning Design in Museum Rotunda Exposed for Thirty Days Following Mr. Field's Death. Each year's report gives Accessions in Departments of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Zoology. Numerous Plates in each Report. Stiff cover wraps-mildly soiled. Some with chips along edges or spine. A few with small pieces of paper spine missing, but still intact. ex.mus. stamp/numbers either on front or on title page. 1919 Report's front cover is detached. Overall exteriors are Good to Good +. Interiors are clean and Very Good. $450.00

[003044] . Chicago Natural History Museum Annual Reports. Years 1943, 1950, 1960 and 1964.. ill. Photographs, Figures(text drawings). Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Stiff Wraps. Natural History. Very Good- Covers slightly soiled. 1943 edition, previous owner's name on cover. 1960 & 1964 edition have ink writing on cover:"p.112-financial statement" and "see page 8". Otherwise covers are Very Good. No tears. Interiors are all clean, tight and in Very Good + condition. $40.00

[003104] . SCIENCE RECORD (Formerly Scientific and Literary Gossip), 3 Issues 1883-1884.. ill. Figures (line drawings). Boston: S. E. Cassino & Co., 1883. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 3/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good A monthly journal of Notes and News in all departments of Science. 3 issues: Dec.15,1883(Vol. 11, No.2); Jan.15, 1884(Vol.II, No. 3) and Oct.15,1884(Vol.II, No.12). Articles include: A NEW MICROSCOPE SLIDE CABINET, RESEARCHES ON BACTERIA, MICROSCOPY, SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS IN EASTERN UNITED STATES, BATS, CALIFORNIA SPIDERS, BIRDS, CRUSTACEA, ROCK SECTIONS, WINES, and HARMONY OF THE SPHERES. Jan.1884 issue pages mainly uncut. Illustrations, including publisher advertisements. Paper covers mildly soiled, string-tied. Oct.1884 issue's covers detached from text with tears, still intact. Overall exteriors are Good. Interiors are clean, tight and Very Good. $100.00

[003106] . THE NATURALIST. Feb. 1890. Vol.IV, No. 7.. ill. Etchings. Kansas City, Kansas: R.B. Trouslot & Co., 1890. Size: Approx. 9" X 12". Paper Wraps. Natural History. Very Good Articles: THOSE ELEPHANT PIPES AGAIN by Warren Watson; THE RESURRECTION FERN, by "Arkansaw Hoosier"; PALAEONTOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN AND NEAR KANSAS CITY, MO., by David H. Todd; THE ANTERIOR ARTS, by "Ictinus"; and THE PRE-HISTORIC MEN WITH LIEUTENANT FREDERICK SCHWATKA. Last 2 pages with "inducements to new subscribers with etchings of free "specimens" in exchange for a subscription to THE NATURALIST. They include "a fine Barnacle from the Atlantic, a Shark's Egg and an Egg of the Skate, or Two fine specimens of Resurection Plant, from Mexico, or a Mother of Pearl Shell, etc. A choice of 65 different items. Very good condition. No tears. Clean. On front page in article on ELEPHANT PIPES, appears to be a correction to text. a semi-colon is added, a "not" is crossed out, and the word "genuineness" is underlined. Otherwise the publication is VG+. 8 pages unpaginated. Laid in a yellow sheet for subscribing. $50.00

[003110] . AGASSIZ COMPANION,1886-1888,18 Issues. ill. Engravings. Wyandotte, Kansas: Will H. Plank, 1886. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Paper Wraps. Science. Good A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Natural Sciences, Philately and the Interests of the Agassiz Association. 18 issues. 1886: Vol.I, No. 1-4. 1887: Vol.II, No. 1-8, and No. 12. 1888: Vol.III, No. 1-2, No. 5, No. 7, No.11-12(one issue). Some Articles: Insects, Andes, Fauna of Lower Silurian in the vicinity of Lebanon, Ohio: Sea-weeds and Coral, Plant Movements, Fossil Hunt, Botany in Public Schools, Geology, Agassiz, His Life and Works (with portrait engraving), Rocks and Minerals of Maine. ex.-mus. stamp/numbers/or "Agassiz Association, Chapter 158" on front cover. Mild soiling. First issue, 2 1/2"x3", missing piece on front cover; one issue's back cover missing piece and several with paper label residue. All covers are intact. Paper wraps overall Good. Interiors are clean, tight and overall Very Good+. $320.00

[003189] . SCIENCE, August 14, 1885. Volume VI. No. 132. ill. Etching. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good+ Some articles include: "Official Scrutiny of the U.S. Coast-Survey"; "The British Museum of Natural History" by Frederick W. True with a full page illustration of the Main Facade of the Museum on Cromwell Road; "Immortality in modern thought" by Joseph Le Conte; "Vegetable Morphology a Century Ago-Goethe" by T.H. McBride; and "An Attempt to Photograph the Solar Corona Without an Eclipse" by Wm. H. Pickering. Also included Letters to the Editor and Notes and News. Famous Americans in publication: Frederick William True; and Joseph LeConte. Tiny chipping around side/bottom edge. Overall covers are Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG. $30.00

[003231] . SCIENCE, November 6, 1885. Volume VI. No. 144. ill. Foldout Map and Map Illustration. New York: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good+ With Science Supplement. Articles by Famous Americans: C. C. ABBOTT "Aestivation of mammals, what is it?" and in Science Supplement: H. M. PAUL "Temperature of the moon's surface". Other articles: "The Burman Dispute" with map illustration and laid in map of "FURTHER INDIA, Showing Regions involved by the Trouble in Upper Burma". Map is approximately 15"x20". Also "The Life of Gen. Emory Upton"," Doolittle's Practical Astronomy"; "Mexican ethnology", and Astronomical Notes. Covers slightly soiled. ex.mus. stamp on front. vertical crease, mildly seen throughout publication, very minor. Slight chipping at bottom edge, very slightly at top. Overall covers are Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Supplement's bottom edge mildly chipped otherwise in VG condition. Map in 2 parts,clean tear down middle otherwise VG. $45.00

[003383] . ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COLORADO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE YEAR 1923-1926. 4 Reports. ill. Photographs, Tables. Denver, Co: Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Stiff Covers. Natural History. Very Good 4 Annual Reports. 20-24 pp. in each report. Filled with full page photographs. Covers are mildly soiled otherwise all exterior are Very Good. Interiors are tight, clean and VG+. Laid in a newspaper article from ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, 1956 on the Denver Museum of Natural History with photograph of Dr. Alfred M. Bailey, Museum Director. $32.50

[003386] . BULLETIN OF THE BINGHAM OCEANOGRAPHIC COLLECTION:Vol. IX. 4 Bulletins . ill. Figures (line drawings), Tables, Graphs, Charts, Map. Bingham Oceanography Laboratory, Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Stiff Wraps. Oceanography. Very Good to Very Good+ Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University. 1944-1946. Art. 1-5. Art. 1: Tetrodon Poisoning by Warren H. Yudkin.1944. 18 pp.; Art. 2: Studies on the Marine Resources of Southern New England. I. An Analysis of the Fish Population of the Shore Zone, by Herbert E. Warfel and Daniel Merriman.1944. 91 pp.; Art. 3: Studies on the Marine Resources of Southern New England, III. The Possibility of the Utilization of the Starfish(Asterias Forbesi Desor). 1946. 58 pp.; and Art. 4 and 5 (in one bulletin): Studies on the Marine Resources of Southern New England. IV. The Biology and Economic Importance of the Ocean Pout, Macrozoarces Americanus (Bloch and Schneider) by Yngve H. Olsen and Daniel Merriman and V. Parasites and Diseases of the Ocean Pout, Macrozoarces Americanus by Ross F. Nigrelli.1946. 221 pp. plus 10 plates. Stiff grey wraps. Slightly soiled. otherwise exteriors are Very Good to VG+. Interiors are all tight, clean and VG+. $95.00

[003394] . BULLETIN OF THE BINGHAM OCEANOGRAPHIC COLLECTION:Vol. XIV. 2 Bulletins . ill. Figures (line drawings), Tables, Graphs, Charts, Maps. New Haven, Conn: Bingham Oceanography Laboratory, Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Stiff Wraps. Oceanography. Very Good to Very Good+ Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University. 1952-1954. Art. 1 and 3. Art. 1: The Striped Bass, Roccus saxatilis by Edward C. Raney, Ernest F. Tresselt, Edgar H. Hollis, and V.D. Vladykov and D. H. Wallace 1952. 177 pp.; and Art.3: The Character and Significance of Sound Production Among Fishes of the Western North Atlantic by Marie Poland Fish 1954. 109 pp. Stiff grey wraps. Slightly soiled. Article 1 bulletin with ex-mus. stamp on cover, otherwise exteriors are Very Good to VG+. Interiors are all tight, clean and VG+. $38.50

[003519] . SCIENCE, November 5, 1886. Volume VIII. No. 196. ill. Etchings. New York: The Science Company, 1886. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good+ With Science Supplement. Articles by Famous Americans: L. P.GRATACAP: An Archeological Fraud with 2 illustrations; and O. T. MASON: The Guadalajara Pottery with 14 illustrations. In Supplement: Cable Street-Railways with 10 illustrations and The physical basis of aesthetics. Covers slightly soiled. ex.mus. numberson front. light vertical crease, mildly seen throughout publication, very minor. Slight chipping at side edge. small yellow musuem label on front cover. Overall covers are Good to Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. pp.401-422. $55.00

[004470] . Autobiographical Notes and a Bibliography of the Scientific Publications of Joel Asaph Allen . New York: American Museum Natural History, 1916. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Paper Wraps. Autobiography. Good to Good- In the Foreword written by Henry Fairfield Osborn, " The life and writing of Joel Asaph Allen have exerted so great an influence on the progress of ornithology and mammalogy in America that all who have the interests of these branches of science at heart, both in this country and abroad, will welcome this biographical and bibliographical volume. It is issued as an expression of the appreciation of Doctor Allen's life work by the Trustees of The American Museum of Natural History and devoted colleagues on its Scientific Staff. The biographical sketch was especially desired in connection with the Bibliography because it sets forth so clearly the broad groundwork of travel, of field observation and of field record which has established a model of all modern American work on the birds and the mammals..." 215 pp. most uncut at top edge. Side edge untrimmed. Tears and chips mainly at front cover's side edge. Covers soiled with fading at front top edge. Top spine strip down 1/2" missing. Tear at spine joint, 1 1/2". Overall covers are Good to Good-. Covers intact. Frontis. engraving of Joel Asaph Allen. ex.mus. stamp on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. $85.00

[003178] . LLOYDIA: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE-43 Issues: 1940-1951. ill. Figures(plates), Photographs,. Menasha, WI: Lloyd Library and Museum, Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4". Paper Wraps. Biology. Very Good to Very Good+ 36 issues.1940-1947 Complete. 4 issues per year. 1948 and 1949: no issues; 1950:3 issues: (March, June, & Dec.); and 1951:1 issue (March). Last 3 issues have ex.-mus. stamp on front cover. Several covers mildly soiled otherwise all exteriors are VG+. Some soiling to side edges. No tears. 1940 Sept. issue, 4 pages loose, side edge lightly chipped, not on text/plates, otherwise all interiors are clean, tight, and in VG+ to Near Fine condition. $300.00

[004254] . Proceedings of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, Two Volumes:1901-02 . Manchester, N.H.: Nature Study Press, Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 3/4". Stiff Covers. New Hampshire. Good 2 Volumes: Vol. II, 1900 and Volume IV, 1902, Part 1. Publishing dates 1901 and 1902. VOL.II.1900 has Articles on Anisoptera in the Vicinity of Manchester, N.H.; The Testudinata of New Hampshire; William Makepeace Thackeray; and A Rock Rimmon Catch Containing Additional Species of Orthoptera Noted in the Vicinity of Manchester. 121 pp. VOL.IV 1902 Part I: A List of the Birds of New Hampshire pp.23-205. 222 pp. total including Index. ex.mus. stamp and numbers on front covers. 1900 volume with 3 3/4"x5 1/2" water stain on front cover going through to pp. 5 which is the first page of text. Pages effected are title page and Index. Otherwise interiors of both volumes are tight, clean and VG+. Some small tears to covers-at corner "tips" or at spine ends. Overall covers are Good. $30.00

[003671] Allison, Vernon C. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE DEPOSITS IN JACOB'S CAVERN. . ill. Figures(Photographs, Map, graphs). New York: American Museum Press, 1926. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Stiff Covers. Anthropology. Very Good Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XIX, Part VI. 24 illustrations of this Missouri cave including carvings on bones. Pages 293-335 . Exterior stiff covers are Very Good to Very Good +. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $20.00

[003030] American Museum of Natural History. Marion B. Carr, Editor. Junior Natural History Magazine.1960- June 1963 Last Issue. ill. Photographs, Drawings. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1960. Size: Approx. 7 " x 10 ". Paper Wraps. Natural History. Good+ or Better 36 issues. Final four years: 1960-63 ending with June 1963, the last issue. Some issues have small address label on front cover. Some have ex.mus. stamp on cover. all issues are Good+ or Better. $80.00

[003617] Anthony, John G.. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW FLUVIATILE SHELLS OF THE UNITED STATES. 1854. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Paper Wraps. Shells. Signed by Author. Good SIGNED: "Providence Athenaeum. from the Author" on the cover. From Annuls of the Lyceum of Natural History in New York, Vol. VI., p.80. April 1854. Providence Athenaeum Stamp on first page of text. "In June, 1853, the writer entered upon a pedestrian tour through the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, and part of Georgia, with the double purpose of renovating health, and of collecting the numerous and varied species of fluviatile shells with which our Western streams and rivers abound. The Journey was extended as far as Macon, in Georgia..." unpaginated. Gives 50 descriptions of shells. On the front endpaper, strip of paper glued with the explanation: "The plates are delayed, but will be furnished hereafter.". Some soiling to covers. Back cover detached. Exterior is Good to Good-. Vertical crease down the middle-shows more in the text than on covers. One reddish spot? on first page in side margin, otherwise interior is clean, tight, and VG+. $30.00

[002862] Braidwood, Robert J. PREHISTORIC MEN. ill. Illustrated by Susan T. Richert . 1951. Anthropology. Very Good- spine and cover edges faded, otherwise exterior is Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $10.00

[002477] Burroughs, John.. RIVERBY. 1894. First Edition. Natural History. Good covers mildly soiled with a couple of spots. spine ends rubbed. Exterior is Good. Front endp. three small letters and on blank page before title p., gift inscription name and "Christmas 1894". One tear 3/4" on free endp. otherwise Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $9.00

[003669] Carr, William H.. SIGNS ALONG THE TRAIL, The Museum and Nature Trails at Bear Mt., N.Y.. ill. Photographs By LeRoy Davies. New York: American Museum Natural History, 1927. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Stiff Covers. Natural History. Very Good+ New School Service Series Number Two. "In the Palisade Interstate Park, near its Bear Mountain Headquarters, there is now a Trailside Museum from which radiate about one mile and a half of Nature Trails." 28 pp. plus a map drawing of Bear Mountain Nature Trails and Museum. Tan covers are Very Good+. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good +. Filled with photographs. $30.00

[002649] Clayton, JM. ALL COLOR BOOK OF SEASHELLS. ill. Color Photographs. New York: Crescent Books, 1974. Seashells. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0 7064 0276 6. 100 color photographs. Bottom cover edge across and 2/16" up faded. Slight rubbing to spine base and bottom edge. Otherwise book's exterior and interior are VG+. DJ's inside front flap "wavy" as if from moisture? Doesn't go through to front or affect book. Otherwise DJ is VG+. $15.00

[001895] Cole, W.H.. Map and Guide to the Great Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio. ill. Photographs, Foldouts. 1925. Paper Wraps. Very Good+ $16.50

[004070] Gibson, Wm. Hamilton . Sharp Eyes, a Rambler's Calendar of Fifty-Two Weeks Among Insects, Birds, and Flowers . ill. By Author. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 ". Green Cloth. Natural History. Good 322 pp. including Index. Soiling to covers/spine. Corners bumped /rubbed. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Wear/rubbing to spine ends.Gilted top edge. Overall covers are Good. ex-mus. bookplate on front endpaper and ex.mus. stamp and numbers on title page.Tissue guard protecting frontis illustration. Nature sketches on every page. printed on heavy paper. pp.160-161 hinge breaking. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. $25.00

[003485] Goodrich, Calvin. The GENUS GYROTOMA. . ill. Plates. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, 1924. Paper Wraps. Zoology. Good Geological Survey of Alabama. Museum Paper No.7. Alabam Museum of Natural History. Miscellanous Publications No. 12. 33 pages. 2 Plates. ex.mus. stamp on front cover and title page. mildly creased left corner, otherwise Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $12.50

[002827] Gray, Asa. FOREST GEOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, .A Lecture.. Americal Journal of Science and Arts, Vol.XVI, 1878. Disbound. Forests. Good- From The Americal Journal of Science and Arts, Vol.XVI, 1878. Delivered before The Harvard University Natural History Society, April 18, 1878. "...It is the forests of the Northern temperate zone which we are to traverse....In speaking of our forests in their present condition, I mean not exactly as they are to-day, but as they were before civilized man had materially interfered with them". pp.85-94, pp.183-196. no covers. String-tied. Mildly soiled first page with "J.Duncan Putnam" signature. small piece paper residue 1/4"x3/16". Back page torn, barely attached and missing piece including text(on both sides) 3"x2 1/2". Also torn at top and bottom edges-but no text missing. Due to back page, listing exterior as Good-. Otherwise the pamphlet is Good+ or better. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $45.00

[002863] Greenman, Emerson F. . THE WOLF AND FURTON SITES, MACOMB COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 1939. Stiff Wraps. Anthropology. Good covers mildly soiled. repaired tear on spine. owner's name on front cover. interior is tight, clean and in VG+ condition. $12.00

[003673] Gregory, William K and Marcelle Roigneau. INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN ANATOMY Guide to Section I of the Hall of Natural History of Man . ill. Figures (drawings), Photographs. New York: American Museum Natural History, 1934. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4". Stiff Covers. Medicine. Good 82 pp. 26 illustrations. Pictorial covers. Mildly soiled. small tear at side edge. tear at spine's top edge with missing small piece.Exterior is Good to Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $20.00

[002730] Herman, Carlton M. Editor . California Fish and Game Vol. 33 October 1947. ill. Figures (line drawings), Color Fold-out Map, Photographs. 1947. Paper Wraps. Ichthyology. Very Good+ to Near Fine No. 4. $12.50

[004881] Library of Congress. CLASSIFICATION. Class Q SCIENCE. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. Size: Approx. 7 " x 10 ". Paper Wraps. Library of Congress. Good Adopted 1905. As in force November, 1912. Synopsis includes: Science (general); Mathematies; Astronomy- Geodesy; Physics; Chemistry- Crystallography; Geology- Mineralogy, Petrology, Paleontology; Natural History-Microscopy, General biology; Botany-Ecology; Zoology; Human Anatomy; Physiology-Experimental Psychology; and Bacteriology. 196 pp. includes Index. Brown paper covers. ex.mus.numbers and faint stamp. Mildly soiled covers.Faint watermark along the upper spine joint, 3" unto the top border, 2". Top border "mark" shows on title page only. Overall covers are Good. ex.mus. stamp on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $40.00

[003136] Lucas, Frederic A. NOTES ON THE PREPARATION OF ROUGH SKELETONS. ill. Figures(drawings). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891. Paper Wrap. Natural History. Good Part C of Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 39. 11pp. some pages uncut. ex-mus. stamp on front cover. covers faded. tears at spine barely attached. two pages at side protude and therefore are chipped, otherwise interior is clean, tight, and VG. $20.00

[003670] Lutz, Frank E.. NATURE TRAILS. An Experiment in Out-Door Education. ill. Photographs. New York: American Museum Natural History, 1926. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Stiff Covers. Natural History. Very Good Miscellaneous Publications No.21 of The American Museum of Natural History. Lutz was the Curator, Department of Insect Life. "Through the courtesy of Interstate Palisades Park and of Mr. W.A. Harriman, the entomological department of the American Museum of Natural History was granted the use of about forty acres of woodland and meadow in the Ramapo Mountains near Tuxedo, N.Y. , abourt forty miles from New York City. There...we devoted our first season to an experiment in teaching about nature...It is this experiment, the "Nature Trail", that is discussed in the following pages." 36 pp. Many photographs. Tan covers. Slightly soiled. Mildly sunned along edges/spine, otherwise Very Good +. Interior is tight, clean, and Very Good+ $30.00

[003879] Pickford, Grace E. & Bayard H. McConnaughy. The Octopus Bimaculatus Problem: A Study in Sibling Species . ill. Figures (drawings and graphs), Tables. New Haven, Conn: Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1949. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/4". Softcover. Octopus. Very Good+ to Near Fine Bulletin of The Bingham Oceanographic Collection. Volume XII, Article 4. 66 pp., 28 figures including many graphs. 13 tables. Exterior is VG+ to Near Fine as is the interior. $25.00

[003395] Riley, Gordon A., Shirley A.A. Conover, Georgiana B. Deevey, Robert J. Conover, Sarah B. Wheatland, Eugene Harris and Howard L.Sanders. BULLETIN OF THE BINGHAM OCEANOGRAPHIC COLLECTION: OCEANOGRAPHY OF LONG ISLAND SOUND, 1952-1954 Vol. XV. ill. Figures (line drawings), Tables, Graphs, Charts, Maps. New Haven, Conn: Bingham Oceanography Laboratory, Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Stiff Wraps. Oceanography. Very Good to Very Good+ Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University. 414 pp. Stiff grey wraps. Slightly soiled. ex-mus. stamp on cover, otherwise exterior is Very Good to VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $20.00

[004464] Romanes, George John. DARWIN AND AFTER DARWIN - An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions. Part I: The Darwinian Theory . ill. Figures (drawings). Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1901. Third Edition. Size: Approx. 5 " x 8 ". Blue Cloth. Natural History. Good to Good+ Chapters cover: Morphology, Embryology; Palaeontology; Geographical Distribution; Theory of Natural Selction; Evidences of the Theory of Natural Selection; Criticisms of the Theory of Natural Selection; and Theory of Sexual Selection. 460 pp. including Index. Several pages with Catalogue of Publications of the publisher. 125 illustrations. Frontis. engraving of Darwin. Blue cloth covers. Two tiny nicks?/rubs? on front cover. Spine ends rubbed. Mildly rubbed in several areas of spine joints. Overall covers are Good to Good+.Previous owner's name/address on front free endpaper. On blank page before title page, three lines of writing regarding author: " Romanes criticized by Davenport because of his belief in transmission of "acquired" characters." Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Many of the illustrations are exquisite. George John Romanes was a Canadian-born English naturalist and psychologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, $20.00

[000661] Roshevits, R. Yu.. GRASSES AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FODDER AND CEREAL GRASSES. ill. Figures. New Delhi: Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, 1980. 8vo. Stiff Wraps. Scientific. Very Good - / No Jacket. Translated from Russian. Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. This monograph on world grasses gives a detailed survey of the grass family which is quite important from the agricultural point of view as it includes all the important cereal and fodder grasses. Small tear at crease of spine's bottom edge & light rubbing at top o/w Very Good +. Interior is Near Fine. 635 pp. 169 figures. Includes Literature, Publications in Russian, Publications in Other Languages and Index. $18.00

[004847] Seton, Ernest Thompson. The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore. ill. Drawings By Author. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8". Olive Cloth. Natural History. Good "Woodcraft, I mean outdoor life in its broadest sense...Woodcraft is the first of all the sciences..." 590 pp. including Index. Broken down into 15 Sections. 500 drawings by the author. Olive green cloth covers. Spine faded and lettering faint. Spine ends bumped. Some rubbing "spots" silverfish? on front cover. One spot on back. Overall covers are Good. Hinge broken on title page. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 - October 23, 1946) was a Scoto-Canadian (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). $12.50

[003209] Shapley, Harlow, Samuel Rappaport and Helen Wright (eds). A TREASURY OF SCIENCE. ill. Line Drawings. New York: Harper and Row, 1963. Black Cloth. Science. Very Good to Very Good+ / Good. The Fifth Edition, newly revised and up-to-date, of the standard introduction to the world of science in the atomic age-with latest developments in medicine, evolution, and heredity, radio astronomy, plasma physics, rocketry and space exploration. Contributors include: Eve Cure; Charles Darwin; Albert Einstein; T.H. Huxley; Arthur C. Clarke; Benjamin Franklin; and many others. Book's spine slightly rubbed at ends, otherwise VG+. Interior is Near Fine. DJ is Good. 788 pp. $13.50

[002914] Smithsonian Annual Report. Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 51. ill. Plates, Figures, Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Green Cloth. Good Contents: CALIFORNIA LAND SHELLS by Paul Bartsch. HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERS by E. Bergroth..COCCINELLID LARVAE by Adam Boving. KOREAN SORCERRESS, by I.M. Casanowicz. FOSSIL INSECTS by T.D.A. Cockerell, NEW SPECIES OF FORAMINIFERA FROM PHILIPPINE ...by Joseph Cushman. INVERTEBRATE FAUNA OF FLINT RIVER, GEORGIA, and MOLLUSKS...by William Healey Dall. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA, MEXICO by Harrison.Dyar.JAPANESE MACROUROID FISHES, collected by ALBATROSS 1906 by Charles Henry Gilbert. NORTH AMERICAN CHALCIDOID by A.A. Girault.ROTATIORIAN GENERA LEPADELLA AND LOPHOCHARIS...by Harry L. Harring. EXTINCT MAMMALS...TEXAS by Oliver P. Hay. PARASITIC ISOPOD CRUSTACEANS by W.P.Hays. LOWER JURASSIC FLORA, ALASKA by F. H. Knowlton. RED SPIDERS by E.A. McGregor. MOLLUSKS FROM CHOCTAWHATCHEE MARL, by Wendell C. Mansfield. PHILIPPINE ELEGANT TITMOUSE...by Edgar Alexander Mearns. METEORIC STONE FROM FLORIDA, IRON METEORITE FROM COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE and METEORIC IRONS FROM GEORGIA by George Merrill. WEEVILS by W. Dwight Pierce. WHITE FLIES by A.L. Quaintance and A.C. Baker. NEW ALASKAN MOLLUSK by Victor Sterki. MUSCOID FLIES by Charles Townsend. FOSSIL PLANTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA and NOTES ON ALUNITE, PSILOMELANITE AND TITANITE by Edgar T. Wherry and NEW BRACHIOPODS...MAINE by Henry Shaler Williams. 675 pps. Index. Plates, Figures and Tables. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Front cover has small scratches ? (silverfish?). Water stains to spine and top gutter with waviness to touch. Doesn't go through to interior. Otherwise covers intact and Good. Ex-lib.bookplate on front endpaper with numbers.. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $45.00

[000940] Smithsonian Institution. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1866. ill. Figures,Woodcuts. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". 3/4 Leather. Smithsonian. Good+ House of Representatives. 39th Congress, 2d Session. Mis. Doc. No.83. Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution, for the Year 1866. Includes List of Meteorological Stations and Observers for Year 1866. Memoir of Hon. W.W. Seaton in Connection with The Smithsonian Institution..." Included in Appendix: "Memoir of Magendie" by M. Flourens; "On the Senses. 3.-The Sense of Taste", IV.-"The Sense of Hearing"and V.-The Sense of Sight. from the German periodical; "Lecture on the Results of Spectrum Analysis Applied to the Heavenly Bodies by Wm. Huggins; "On the External Appearance of the Sun's Disk" from the German periodical; "On Accidental or Subjective Colors. by the Abbe Moigno; "The Figures of Equilibrium of a Liquid Mass Withdrawn from the Action of Gravity.(Sixth Series) by J. Plateau.; "Report on the Transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva", by Doctor Goss;"Notes on the Tinneh or Chepewyan Indians of British and Russian America", " The American Migration" by Frederick Von Hellwald; "Indian Pottery" by Charles Rau; "Artificial Shell Deposits of the United States." by D. G. Brinton; "Pile-Work Antiquities of Olmutz.", "The Antiquities on the Banks of the Mississippi River and Lake Pepin" by Dr. L.C. Estes; " Collecting Land and Fresh-Water Shells" by Dr. James Lewis; "Meteorological Correspondence"; "Horary Variations of the Barometer." by Marshal Vaillant; "On the Formation of Ice at the Bottom of the Water" by M. Engelhardt; "The Earthquake in Eastern Mexico of the Second of January, 1866" by Dr. Charles Sartorius; and "Statistics Relative to Norwegian Mountains, Lakes, and the Snow-Line".469 pp. Index. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. All edges marbled plus marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Some cracking and scuffing of spine leather with minor chipping at top edge. Rubbing at leather corners. Mild foxing otherwise interior Very Good. $50.00

[001561] Taylor, J Mary Et Al. A Revision of the Genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean Region.. ill. Figures (drawings),Photographs, Maps, Tables. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1982. Softcover. Rats. Very Good+ 336 pp. 33 tables, and 50 illustrations. Exterior is Very Good+ to Near Fine. Interior is tight, clean and Near Fine. $25.00

[002650] Tweedie, Michael (Intro. by). COLOR TREASURY OF SEA SHELLS, How to Identify and Collect Them . ill. Color Photographs. Crescent Books, 1973. Seashells. Very Good small nick of side edge on front cover, and front top corner tip bumped, otherwise exterior is VG+. Interior is Fine. $15.00

[004230] Walker, Bryant. REVIEW OF OUR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF MICHIGAN. ill. Tables. 1894. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/4". Paper Wraps. Michigan. Very Good- Read before the Michigan Academy of Science, December 27, 1894. "Barring a few scattering descriptions by European naturalists of such species as were brought home by the early travellers in this country, the history of North American conchology may be said to have begun where Thomas Say, in 1817, wrote the article on "Conchology" for the first American edition of Nicholson's Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences." 27 pp. Includes Catalogue of the Mollusca of Michigan, Notes and Literature. Mildly soiled covers. Faint stamp "W. A. Bryan" on front cover. Otherwise covers are Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Dr. Bryant Walker of Detroit was one of the leading malacologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries $50.00

[002525] Weigall, Michael. THE CAT EMPIRE: The Secret Life Of Merlin . New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 1988. First American Edition. Cats. Near Fine ISBN: 0-399-51475-9. $10.50

[004334] Wright,J.T.. DESERT WILDLIFE . ill. Foldout Map, Photographs. Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration, 1959. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Softcover. Desert. Very Good A Research Study. Wildlife Bulletin. No. 6, 1959. Large fold-out map in back: Water Developments for Wildlife. Green paper covers. Small tears at spine ends, otherwise covers are VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $10.00

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