Category: Natural History

Autobiographical Notes and a Bibliography of the Scientific Publications of Joel Asaph Allen

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, American Museum Natural History : 1916

Seller ID: 004470

Binding: Wraps

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 wit...
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BULLETIN OF THE BINGHAM OCEANOGRAPHIC COLLECTION:Vol. IX. 4 Bulletins

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Bingham Oceanography Laboratory

Seller ID: 003386

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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 Importa...
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FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Annual Report of Director to the Board of Trustees: Years 1906-1931., And 1966 Annual Report

Price: $415.00

Publisher: Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History : 1907

Seller ID: 003028

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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. 19...
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LLOYDIA: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE-39 Issues: 1940-1951

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Menasha, WI, Lloyd Library and Museum

Seller ID: 003178

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Very Good+

36 issues.1940-1943 and 1945-1947 Complete. 4 issues per year. 1944, 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.
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SCIENCE RECORD (Formerly Scientific and Literary Gossip), Three Issues 1883-1884.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Boston, S. E. Cassino & Co. : 1883

Seller ID: 003104

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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...
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SCIENCE, August 14, 1885. Volume VI. No. 132

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003189

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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 a...
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SCIENCE, November 5, 1886. Volume VIII. No. 196

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Science Company : 1886

Seller ID: 003519

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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.
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SCIENCE, September 4, 1885. Volume VI. No. 135

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1885

Seller ID: 003197

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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.
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THE NATURALIST. Feb. 1890. Vol.IV, No. 7.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Kansas City, Kansas, R.B. Trouslot & Co. : 1890

Seller ID: 003106

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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 Pe...
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THE ANTIQUITY OF THE DEPOSITS IN JACOB'S CAVERN

By: Allison, Vernon C

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, American Museum Press : 1926

Seller ID: 003671

Binding: Paper Cover

Condition: 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+.
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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW FLUVIATILE SHELLS OF THE UNITED STATES

By: Anthony, John G.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: : 1854

Seller ID: 003617

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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 sh...
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF A WASATCH AUTUMN

By: Barnes, Claude T.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Salt Lake City, The Ralton Co. : 1958

Seller ID: 005512

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

Day-by-day description of the flora and fauna of the Wasatch mountains in Utah. Third in a series of similar seasonal books. 98 pp. Yellow soft covers have dirt smudges on both sides, and very large crease to top corner of back cover. Interior is tight and clean. Book is in Good+ condition.
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THE NATURE OF NATURAL HISTORY

By: Bates, Marston

Price: $5.50

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1961

Seller ID: 005737

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

An introductory survey of the whole conceptual scheme of natural history, from the classification, distribution and interrelationship of living things to evolution and behaviorism. 309 pp. with index. Dust jacket in Poor condition with tears to edges, including one large tear at top front cover that has been taped. Front cover rubbed, corners bent, and price-clipped. Green cloth covers have minor stains to top edges, and spine edges are rubbed. Interior is tight and clean. Book in Good condition.
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STAR PAPERS; OR, EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE

By: Beecher, Henry Ward

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, J. C. Derby : 1855

Seller ID: 006199

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

359 pp. Brown cloth covers with blindstamped image on front and back, and gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners and edges are rubbed to boards, joints are broken and exposed, spine ends are broken and partially removed. Broken hinges and spine. Light foxing/browning throughout interior. Book in Good condition.
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PREHISTORIC MEN

By: Braidwood, Robert J

Price: $10.00

Publisher: : 1951

Seller ID: 002862

Binding: Paper Cover

Condition: Very Good-

spine and cover edges faded, otherwise exterior is Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+.
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CURIOSITIES OF NATURAL HISTORY

By: Buckland, Francis T.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, Rudd & Carleton : 1859

Seller ID: 005563

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

From the Fourth London Edition. 423 pp. Olive cloth covers with embossed design on front and back. Gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped, edges rubbed, fraying/tears to spine edges. Small hole in back spine edge. Previous owner's embossed stamp on freepaper, along with numbering on front freepaper and back inside cover. Dirt smudges on front pages. Sporadic foxing to interior. Interior is tight. Book in Good condition.
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TIME AND CHANGE

By: Burroughs, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1912

Seller ID: 005812

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

"The long road I have in mind is the long road of evolution..." 279 pages with index. Frontispiece photograph of Burroughs with tissue guard. Olive cloth covers with gilt signature on front and gilt title on spine. Cover covers are bumped and rubbed, particularly the lower front corner. Spine tips are bent and rubbed. Gilt top page edge. Many interior pages are uncut. Some light foxing to page edges and endpapers, but text is not affected. Interior is tight and clean. Book in VG condition.
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SIGNS ALONG THE TRAIL, The Museum and Nature Trails at Bear Mt., N.Y.

By: Carr, William H.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, American Museum Natural History : 1927

Seller ID: 003669

Binding: Paper Cover

Condition: 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.
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Chicago Natural History Museum Annual Reports. Years 1943, 1950, 1960 and 1964.

By: Chicago Natural History Museum

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chicago, Chicago Natural History Museum

Seller ID: 003044

Binding: Wraps

Condition: 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.
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ALL COLOR BOOK OF SEASHELLS

By: Clayton, JM

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Crescent Books : 1974

Seller ID: 002649

ISBN-13: 9780706402766

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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+.
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Category: Natural History