Briggs, J. C

Biogeography and Plate Tectonics

Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1987. First edition. Pp. xii, 204; 27 maps and other text-figures. Publisher's original gray laminated boards (hardcover), lettered in back on the spine and front cover, 8vo. From the series: Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, volume 10. This volume presents the biogeographic implications of plate tectonics and continental drift. The book is divided into an introduction and three parts: Introduction: the Development of the Science; Part I - The Northern Continents; Part II - The South Continents; and Part III - The Oceans. Name sticker of former owner on the front free endpaper. There is also some blue highlighting on 26 pages. Almost no signs of use. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 7533

Catalogue: Geology and Paleoenvironments

Britton, Nathaniel Lord

Descriptions of Cuban Plants New to Science

New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1920. First edition. Pp. 57-118. Extract with rear tan wrapper present, 8vo. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, volume 16, no. 2. No ownership marks. Rear wrapper chipped around edges, top outer corner of text is bumped, a very good copy..

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Book number: 8166

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Broadley, Donald G., Gans, Carl, and Visser, John

Studies of Amphisbaenians (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia): 6. The Genera Monopeltis and Dalophia in Southern Africa.

New York: American Museum, 1976. First edition Pp. 176; 140 text-figures, photos and maps. Original blue printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 157, article 5. From the library of herpetologist Kraig Adler with his name stamp on the front wrapper. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 3980

Catalogue: Herpetology - Salamanders

Keywords: Herpetology herpetofauna reptiles

Broadley, Donald G., Gans, Carl, and Visser, John

Studies of Amphisbaenians (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia): 6. The Genera Monopeltis and Dalophia in Southern Africa.

New York: American Museum, 1976. First edition Pp. 176; 140 text-figures, photos and maps. Original blue printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 157, article 5. From the library of herpetologist Richard Blaney with his name stamp on the front wrapper. Some light marginally sunning to wrappers; neat ink title on the spine; a bright and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 3981

Catalogue: Herpetology - Salamanders

Keywords: Herpetology herpetofauna reptiles

Brooks, W.K. and Herrick, F.H.

The Embryology and Metamorphosis of the Macroura.

Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1891. First edition Pp. 258 + 57 full plates (many in color). Ornately marbled wrappers with title and author labels on the front cover, marbled page edges 4to. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 5 (4th memoir). Superb color and half-tone plates of the adult, larval and egg stages of lobster and shrimp. Some browning to the outer edges of the text only, a bright and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 3355

Catalogue: Aquatic Invertebrates

Keywords: Aquatic invertebrates crustacea crustaceans macroura lobster shrimp

Broom, Robert

Article II. - Further evidence on the Structure of the Eosuchia + Article III. - On the Classification of the Reptilia

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1924. First edition. Pp. 39-76; 17 text-figures. Publisher's original printed gray wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 51, article II and III. Oval ink stamp of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, dated Sept. 23, 1924 on the front wrapper; no other ownership marks. Many page un-cut and un-opened. Small bump to bottom outer corner, light age-toning to text; a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8064

Catalogue: Paleontology

Broom, Robert and Robinson, J. T. + Schepers, G.W.H.

Further Evidence of the Sterkfontein Ape-Man Plesianthropus (Part 1) + The Brain Casts of the Recently Discovered Plesianthropus Skulls (Part 2)

Pretoria: The Transvaal Museum, 1950. First edition. Pp. 117; 8 full page plates (mostly black-and-white photos of fossil skulls and limb bones), 34 text-figures (anatomical diagrams of ""Plesianthropus"" fossils and drawings of endocranial casts). Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 4to. Transvaal Museum Memoir no. 4. Paleoanthropologist John Robinson joins Robert Broom in the description of additional early hominin fossils from Sterkfontein cave. Today, the hominin fossils from Sterkfontein are known as Australopithecus africanus and Australopithecus prometheus. No ownership marks and almost no signs of use. Cloth on spine a little sunned, endpapers show some browning; overall, a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8317

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Brothwell, D. R.

The Skeletal Biology of earlier Human Populations (Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology, volume 8).

London: Pergamon Press, 1968. First edition. Pp. viii, 288; numerous text-figures (black-and-white photos, line-drawings, maps, graphs). Publisher's original green cloth, lettered in black on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 8vo. Presents 13 chapters by noted authorities in the field on all aspects of skeletal biology. No ownership marks. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of soiling to the rear panel of the jacket..

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Book number: 6515

Catalogue: Human Variation

Brown, Alison Leadley

The African Clawed Toad, Xenopus laevis: A Guide for Laboratory Practical Work

London: Butterworths and Co., 1970. First edition. Pp. xv, 140, 31 text-figures. Publisher’s printed, pictorial green wrappers, wide 16mo. This book is a guide for the care and use of this popular classroom experimental animal. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his name stamp on the front and rear endpapers and half-title page. Neat underlining on 48 pages. A very good copy..

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Book number: 9049

Catalogue: Herpetology - Frogs and Toads

Brown, Lilian

Cleopatra Slept Here

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1951. First edition. Pp. 248, 22 text-figures. Publisher’s black cloth, lettered in yellow and orange on spine, orange illustration on front cover, 8vo. This volume details Lilian Brown’s expedition to Samos, the other Aegean Islands, and Greece with her husband paleontologist and fossil hunter Dr. Barnum Brown. No ownership marks. A near fine copy..

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Book number: 9080

Catalogue: Archaeology + History

Brown, Barnum

The Conrad Fissure, A Pleistocene Bone Deposit in Northern Arkansas: With descriptions of two new genera and twenty new species of Mammalia

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1908. First edition. Pp. (1), 157-208; 3 text-figures, 11 full page black-and-white photo-plates. Original gray printed wrappers, folio (14 x 11 inches). Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, volume IX, Part IV. No ownership marks and few signs of use (many pages are uncut and unopened). Wrappers lightly chipped on the spine, some borders of wrappers with light sunning; a tight copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 6405

Catalogue: Paleontology

Brown, L.A.

EARLY PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS AT TRANSYLVANIA COLLEGE (and Relics of the Medical Department).

Lexington, KY: Transylvania College Press, 1959. Pp. 117, 115 photos. Wraps, 8vo. A catalog of early scientific instruments with superb photos. Fine copy..

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Book number: 0662

Catalogue: General Natural History

Keywords: Early machines North America Natural Sciences Natural Science

Brown, Donald, Dawid, Igor, Crippa, Marco, Gross, Paul, Hallberg, Richard, et al.

Molecular Biology of Amphibian Development

New York: MSS Information Corporation, 1972. First edition. Pp. 261, numerous text-figures. Publisher’s blue cloth, red box with title in gilt on cover, lettered in gilt on spine. This volume contains 18 papers related to the molecular biology of amphibian development This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper. A near fine copy..

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Book number: 9231

Catalogue: Herpetology - Amphibians

Brown, Peter

Nouvelles Illustrations de Zoologie; New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript Birds, with a few Quadrupeds, Reptiles and Insects, in two complete volumes (one-hand-colored volume and one proof copy with monochrome plates)

London: B. White, 1776. First edition. Pp. (8), 1-136, 50 hand-colored lithograph plates + Pp. (8), 50 monochrome lithograph plates, pp. 1-136. Early 20th century full calf leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment on a red morocco title label and with elaborate gilt decorations in the other five compartments, base of spine of each volume has gilt-lettered date of publication, 1776, the word PROOF appears in gilt on the uncolored copy at the spine base, front and rear boards with gilt decorations around the borders and with central gilt motif, lg 4to (12 x 10 inches; 310 x 252 mm). The text of both volumes in simultaneously presented in parallel in French and in English. The page edges are deckled (untrimmed) in the monochrome proof copy. Zimmer (p. 102), states: ""Although the book was published in London, the French text and title is given precedence over the English text and title."" Brown's work, a kind of supplement to George Edward's A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, was based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall, Thomas Pennant, and others. Pennant himself wrote of the text and supplied many of the drawings belonging to Gideon Loten, the former Dutch governor of Ceylon, a significant contribution that he felt was not properly acknowledged by Brown in the preface of the work. Pennant had previously employed Brown for two of the plates in his British Zoology. A Dane by birth, Brown was also known as a flower painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1770 to 1791. Additionally, Peter Brown was the court painter to the Prince of Wales. All of the plates in the present volume were hand-colored by Peter Brown. Forty-two of the plates depict birds, five are of mammals, two are of insects and one is an amphibian (modified after description in Sale 5871, H. Bradley Martin, no. 57). See also Zimmer 101; Anker 72; Mengel 388; Fine Bird Books (1990), 82; Wood 264; Nissen IVB 151 and Nissen SVB 73. No ownership marks. Spines of both volumes lightly sunned, some soiling to a few page edges in the proof copy, the fine hand-colored plates are bright and clean and very well-colored, a tight and bright set in identical bindings in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8176

Catalogue: Fine and Rare

Brues, Charles T.

Philippine Phoridae from the Mount Apo Region in Mindanao.

Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1936. Pp. 103; 28 text-figures (line-drawings of wings). Original printed pale green wrappers, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 70, no. 9. The Phoridae are a family of small, hump-backed flies resembling fruit flies. Phorid flies can often be identified by their escape habit of running rapidly across a surface rather than taking to the wing (from Wiki). No ownership marks. A near fine copy..

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Book number: 4842

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects bugs