WANG JING AI.

Spatial-Temporal Pattern [Patterns] of Natural Disasters in China. = Zhonggou zi ran zai hai shi kong ge ju.

Beijing, China. Ke xue chu ban she. Sciencep(dot)com. 2006, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 7-03-018105-0.). Soft cover. ISBN: The book is 298 pages long plus map section. Glossy paperbound binding. Unread-looking copy, light scuffs and a crease to cover, otherwise unmarked. In Chinese only, except for the contents pages which is offered in both languages. Illustrated with charts and small maps. Very Good.

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Book number: FF26

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: 7030181050

ALDRICH, J.M.

Notes on Francis Walker's types of North American Flies of the Family Tachinide

Washington, DC. Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. 1931, 1st Edition. Soft cover. In Original Wraps. Ex-library with light stamps. 16 pages. Dampstain at corner. Good.

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Book number: UU19

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: America, Flies, Natural History, Entomology,Bugs, Insects

BLAKEY, RON; RANNEY, WAYNE

Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau

Grand Canyon Association. 2008, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9781934656037). Soft cover. Larger format glossy paper binding. Friendly gift inscription to a couple from coauthor WAYNE RANNEY on the title page, still a clean, unmarked and well kept copy. Near Fine. Inscribed by Author(s).

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Book number: YY04

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: 9781934656037

BRIAN J. OLSON (EDITOR); DAVE BLOOM (PROJECT MANAGER)

San Luis Rey on Display: Geoscience of Northern San Diego County, California

Sunbelt Publications. 2013, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780916251369). Soft cover. 174 double-column pages. Folding map at rear. Some of the photos are in color. Except for minor scuffing on the back cover, the book is about as-new, probably unread, and with no markings and no spine creases. SDAG 2013 Field Trip Guidebook. Fine.

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Book number: WW19

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: 9780916251369

BOSCHMA, H. [HILDEBRANDT].

Collected Papers by H. Boschma 1921-29 [Notably on Coral]

Various publishers. Collected at The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California. 1921, 1st Edition. Hardcover. 27 reports, reprints, and offprints by Dr. Boschma, collected by T. Wayland Vaughan, the second director of the Scripps Institution. Several inscribed from Boschma to Vaughan. These were gathered, donated to the SIO library, bound in a sturdy buckram book with moderate institutional stamps and hand-typed contents pages, held and then [inexplicably] withdrawn. Unique and impossible to duplicate collection, mostly in English. Dr Boschma was a renowned coral authority and some of the reports are on related topics. Titles include: On Budding and coalexcence of buds in 'Fungia fungites and 'Fungia actiniformia', Experimental Budding in 'Fungia fungites', On the Food of Madreporaria, er die Bildung der jungen Kolonien von 'Goniopora stokesi' durch ungeschlechliche Fortpflanzung, Papers from Dr. Th. Mortinsin's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXVIII -Madreporaria, On Different growth-forms of 'Merulina laxa' Dana, The Nature of the Association between Anthozoa and Zooxanthellae, On the Color Changes in the Skin of the Lizard 'Ptychozon homalocephalum', On the Food of the Reef-Corals, On Sacculina punctata - a new species from Japan, On the Septal Arrangement in Fungid Corals, etc. Very Good.

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Book number: T002

Catalogue: Natural History

BOTOSANEANU, L. - NEGREA, A. - NEGREA, ST. - DECOU, A. - DECOU, V. - BLEAHU, M. , ETC.

Recherches sur les Grottes du Banat et d'Olténie (Roumaine. 1959-1962)

Paris. Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. 1967, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, Publisher's cloth binding is unworn. 396 pages many map drawings of the caves, a lot of which fold out. Quite modest ex-library stamps, none in the text areas (confined to the endpapers, top edge, and spine sticker ghost. A never circulated and probably unread copy. French language. This scarce title would certainly be a cornerstone of the library of anyone with a serious interest in Romanian caves. Very Good.

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Book number: MM19

Catalogue: Natural History

CHILTON, CHARLES.

A Collection of 61 Biological - Zoological scholarly offprints by Charles Chilton.

New Zealand. 1906-1926. 1926, 1st Edition. Hardcover. |A good portion of Charles Chilton's life work, gathered in one book. 61 collected offprints from the pioneering New Zealand zoologist - biologist. Collected by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, USA in their early days and bound in one custom book, that remained in their collection until recently, and has their light stamps. About half of the estimated 130 articles Chilton wrote in his interesting life, several stamped 'with the author's complements.' Illustrated plates in some. The topics dealing with Crustacea, Gammarid, Stomatopoda, Elasmopus, Preatoicus, Amphipoda, Isopoda, etc. Published from 1906-1926 and printed in: Notes from the Leyden Museum, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (one of which is Chilton's Presidential Address of 1914), Records of the Canterbury Museum, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum, Linnean Society's Journal, The Journal of Zoological Research, Journal of Proceedings of the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, Royal Society of Tasmania Papers and Proceedings, The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, Philippine Journal of Science, Records of the Indian Museum, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Ent. Society, Commonwealth of Australia Department of Trade and Customs, Royal Society of South Australia, Records of the Canterbury Museum, Royal Society of South Australia, and the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural. Circa 1930s buckram binding is sturdy and unworn, with a hand-typed table of contents bound in. This is, of course a unique collection, impossible to duplicate. Very Good.

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Book number: I016

Catalogue: Natural History

HAWAIIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. J.C. BRIDWELL, J.F. ILLINGWORTH,, ET AL

Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. 2 Issues, Volume 3, No. 2 and No. 4 July, 1915 and May, 1917.

1915, 1917. Hawaiian Entomological Society, Honolulu, Hawaii. 1915, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Quite scarce periodical. 2 issues in side stapled paper wraps binding, some illustrations. Good with archive tape reinforced spines, pages 55-140, 259-368. Fruitfly parasites in Kona, New Hawaiian Moths, Preliminary List of the Hymenopterous Parasites of Lepidoptera in Hawaii, Economic Aspects of Our Predaceous Ant, Types of Some Recent Hawaiian Lepidoptera, New Delphacidae, Regeneration in Cockroaches, etc. Good.

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Book number: PP25

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Hawaii, Hawaiian, Entomology, Insects, Delphacidae

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE.

Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China Earthquake-February 3, 1996: EERI Learning From Earthquakes Reconnaissance Report.

Oakland, CA. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. 1998. Soft cover. Stiff paper covers magazine-type binding. 32 pages. Photographs of the buildings and damage. Previous owner's namestamp on title page, clean and unmarked otherwise. Very Good.

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Book number: Z003

Catalogue: Natural History

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE.

Post-Earthquake Investigation Field Guide: Learning from Earthquakes.

Oakland, California. EERI - Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. 1996, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Ring binding in vinyl binder. A clean, and unmarked copy. Writing would be typical in a book like this as there are many spaces for collecting information. ''Provides revised guidelines for data collection in each of the disciplines from the geosciences, to engineering, to the social and political sciences''. Obviously, the time to order this is before, not after the quake. Near Fine.

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Book number: V009

Catalogue: Natural History

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN

Gravity Map of Kyoto District Bouguer Anomalies) 1:200,000

Geological Survey of Japan, AIST. 2014. No Binding. Large folding map in original envelope, text is bilingual Japanese/English. A clean and unmarked copy with no signs of usage. Fine.

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Book number: v006

Catalogue: Natural History

KARAESMEN, ERHAN.

Öncesiyle Sonrasiyla Deprem.

Antilim Üniversitesi [Turkey]. 2002, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Trade paperbound. 451 pages. Near new and unread condition. Turkish language scholarly study of earthquakes and damage, many illustrations, including details of destruction to buildings of local architecture. Scarce title. Near Fine.

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Book number: Z001

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Seismology, Earthquakes, Structural, Design, Architecture, Turkey, Turkish

RIVIER, LAURENT - CROZIER, ALAN (EDITORS).

Principles and Practice of Plant Hormone Analysis, Volume 1 + 2.

Academic Press. 1987, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1 and 2. 401 pages + indexes. Glossy binding is sound and unworn, with a touch of sunfade. These are presumably unread publisher's archive copies with no markings on the interior pages. There is one light rubberstamp on the top edge of the textblocks. Still a nice and matched pair. Very Good.

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Book number: M015

Catalogue: Natural History

WATABE, MAKOTO (CHAIRMAN). THE ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTE OF JAPAN (AIJ), WORKING GROUP FOR THE ENGLISH EDITION.

Preliminary Reconnaissance Report of the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu Earthquake (English Edition).

Toyko. The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), Working Group for the English Edition. - Earthquake Engineering Center, University of California. 1995, 1st Edition. Soft cover with dust jacket. 216 pages. Paper binding with dust jacket in Japanese style. Many color photos of the damage to buildings, bridges, and other structures. Visual edgewear to dust jacket. previous owner's name light on endpaper, still a nice copy otherwise of this uncommon book. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: J007

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Kobe, Japan, Architecture, Huogo Prefecture, Chuo Ward, Tomishima, Shizuki, Ground Motion, Research, Engineering, History

XIAO XIAOMING, AND OTHERS, EDITOR.

Panoramic China: SHANDONG, Home of Mount Taishan.

Beijing, China: Foreign Languages Press. 2006, 1st Edition. Soft cover. |Unused, unread, and unmarked copy. Pictorial paper self-flaps binding. In English. Color photographs throughout. Chapters include: Towering Mount Taishan, Mount Taishan: The Country's Watch Guard, The Universe in Miniature, Mount Taishan and Taoism, Mount Taishan Deities, Mount Taishan and Buddhism, Mount Taishan and Confucianism, Rock Inscriptions on Mount Taishan. One light corner bump. 225 pages. Near Fine.

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Book number: Y006

Catalogue: Natural History