Abbatius, Baldus Angelus

De admirabili Viperae natura et de mirificis ejusdem facultatibus (second edition)

Noriberdae, (Nuremberg): Rufus & Sebastiani Heusler, 1603. Second edition. Pp. (xvi), 133, (10), engraved title page, 4 engraved woodcuts (3 are anatomical diagrams).  Later one-quarter brown leather over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, square 8vo.  Baldus Angelus Abbatius was an Italian physician and naturalist who lived in the later 16th century.  Abbatius was a physician in Pesaro, Italy and his book on vipers contains anatomical descriptions, information on snakebite and on the use of snakes and their venom in medicine.  This volume was the first book published devoted exclusively to snakes.  The first edition was published in 1589; this second edition was printed in 1603.  See BM(NH), p.1. Small round stamp of the University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg on the title with discarded stamp on verso of the title page.  A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 8930

Catalogue: Fine and Rare

Adamian, Martin S. and Klem, Daniel

Handbook of the Birds of Armenia

Yerevan, Armenia: American University of Armenia Corporation, 1999. First edition. Pp. (5), 649, numerous tables. Dark blue pictorial cloth with a white gull on the front cover, lettered in white on the spine and front cover, endpaper maps of Europe, Armenia and Asia, sm 4to. This volume documents all available data on birds occurring within the borders of the Republic of Armenia. Name stamp Ron Sauey Memorial Library on the top page edge. Ron Sauey is co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin. No other ownership marks to the text or cloth. Rare work seldom offered. A fine, as new, copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9707

Catalogue: Archaeology + History

Adams, Ansel

Ansel Adam, Images 1923-1974 (with foreword by Wallace Stegner)

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First edition, first printing. Pp. 127; with 115 extended range black-and-white photographic plates by Adams. One-quarter black cloth lettered in silver on the spine, over dark gray cloth-covered boards with interlocking initials of Adams (AA) lettered in silver on the front gray board, pictorial dust jacket lettered in black on the spine and front cover, in gray paper-covered hard slipcase with Adam’s initial on the front board, oblong lg folio (17.25 x 13.75 inches). The foreword by Wallace Stegner. The material used for the chronology and bibliography is based on Nancy Newhall's compilation from “The Eloquent Light,” 1963. This is a beautiful unused copy. The dust jacket is price-clipped. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket in an almost fine slipcase..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9639

Catalogue: Photography Books

Adams, John Quincy

The Duplicate Letters, the Fisheries and the Mississippi. Documents relating to Transactions at the Negotiation of Ghent. Collected by John Quincy Adams, one of the Commissioners of the United States at that Negotiation

Washington: Printed by Davis and Force (Franklin's Head), 1822. First edition. Pp. 256, (2, contents), (1, leaf of errata). Later full tan calf leather, spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in three compartments, front and rear covers tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, 8vo. This volume examines the role that John Quincy Adams played in the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812. There were numerous issues dealt with in this treaty among them was American access to the Mississippi River. This volume was compiled when Adams was Secretary of State, just two years before he was elected President. Old oval blind-stamp of the Library Company, R. B., Philadelphia, on the final page of the text (p. 256). Very small sticker of 'International Bookfinders,' Inc. at the base of page 3. No other ownership marks. The top edge of the title page has some professional paper repairs as does the contents page and errata page at the end of the volume, light age-toning to some text pages, a few marginal pencil annotations, a tight and clean copy in very good condition in an attractive period binding..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 8030

Catalogue: Ichthyology

Adams, H.G. and H.B.

THE SMALLER BRITISH BIRDS: With Descriptions of their Nests, Eggs, Habits etc., etc., etc.

London: Gibbings and Company, 1894. Second edition. Pp. iv, 252, 16 fine color plates of birds after A. F. Lydon + 16 color fine plates of bird eggs. Publisher's gilt-decorated and pictorial blue ribbed cloth, top edge gilt, royal 8vo. From the library of Major O.C.C. Nichols with his bookplate. Inscription dated 1895 on the front blank endpaper. Some edge-wear to cloth, a tight, very good copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 1457

Catalogue: Ornithology

Keywords: Ornithology Birds Britain United Kingdom UK Nests Eggs Habits Chromlithographic plates Natural Sciences Natural Science

Aelianus, Claudius

De Natura Animalium libri XVII. Cum animadversionibus Conradi Gessneri, et Danielis Wilhelmi Trilleri: curante Abrahamo Gronovio, Qui et suas Adnotationes adjecit, 2 volumes complete in a clamshell box

London: G. Bowyer for Soc. for Encouragement of Learning, sold by J. Whiston, etc., 1744. First edition. Pp. xiv, xxvii, (36), 603, (1); (605)-1128, (86), with engraved title- and end- vignette, and with woodcut ornaments. There is Greek and Latin parallel text throughout. Contemporary brown morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in one compartment, housed in clamshell box covered in green cloth and with brown morocco title/author label on spine lettered in gilt, 4to. This work by Claudius Aelianus (Aelian) was one of the major attempts to classify animals before Linnaeus. There is a section on herpetology. The work was originally written in Greek and later translated into Latin by Gesner. This London edition is based on the first critical edition by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) and contains commentaries by D. W. Triller (1694-1775). The editor was the Dutch physician Abraham Gronovius (1695-1775). At least 20 editions were published between 1744 and 1760, this being the earliest edition. Old bookplate of Collegium St. Petri Acad. Cantabria with decorative motif on the front endpaper. Some edge-wear and rubbing to the head and foot of the spine, the text is very bright and clean in a recent clamshell box, a clean very good copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9440

Catalogue: Fine and Rare

Agassiz, Louis

Monographies d'Echinodermes Vivans et Fossiles, Livraison 1-3

Neuchatel: privately printed by the author, 1838-1842. First edition. Pp. x, 88, (1), viii, 52, 2, 2, 20, iv, 151, (1), iv, 94, 29; with 54 full page lithographed plates (17 plates are hand-colored or partly hand-colored). Recent polished one-quarter black morocco leather, spine with five raised bands bordered with gilt panel lines, over English marbled boards with blue-green endpapers, the three original color-tinted printed wrappers are bound in place, 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches). This large work includes Premiere Monographie: ""Anatomie du Genre Echinus"" by G. Valentin at the beginning and Quatrieme Monographie: ""Des Dysaster"" by E. Desor at the end. This is the classic early work on the living and fossil echinoderms by Louis Agassiz that was printed privately. Few copies have survived. Based on other collations of this work, it would seem the copy offered lacks one part. See also Nissen ZBI, 47. No ownership marks. An old marginal tear to one color printed wrapper has been repaired, there is scattered foxing, mostly marginal, to some text pages and one plate, the remaining full page plates are bright and clean; a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 7393

Catalogue: Fine and Rare

Agassiz, Louis

Report on Deep-Sea Dredgings in the Gulf Stream during the third Cruise of the U.S. Steamer Bibb, addressed to Professor Benjamin Peirce, Superintendent U.S. Coast Guard Survey

Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1869. First edition. Pp. 363-386. Original pale green printed wrappers, 8vo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, no. 13. Small blind stamp of Donald J. Zinn on the front wrapper. Small bookplate sticker with no name on the front wrapper. Some curling to the top edge of the front wrapper, light edge-wear; a tight copy in very good condition..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 8183

Catalogue: Oceanography

Agassiz, Louis

Sketch of the Natural Provinces of the Animal World and their Relation to the Different Types of Man.

Philadephia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1854. First edition. Pp. (i), lviii-lxxviii, 1 quadruple-page foldout hand-colored chart, 1 hand-colored map. Self-wrappers, bound in early one-quarter green cloth over gray boards with the title neatly lettered on the front board, lg 8vo. Small blind stamp of Donald J. Zinn on the title page. An early work on zoogeography by Agassiz than links different living human groups to different continents. Rare. Some old cellotype on the internal joints of two facing sets of pages, faint water mark on the lower margin of the text; overall a good solid copy in an attractive binding..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 5157

Catalogue: Louis Agassiz

Keywords: Great naturalists Louis Agassiz zoogeography biogeography Donald J. Zinn

Agusti, Jorge; Rook, Lorenzo; de Bonis, Louis; Koufos, George D. and Andrews, Peter (editors)

Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe Volume 1: The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe + Volume 2: Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia (two volume set)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2001. First edition. Pp. xv, (i), 512; xi, (i), 372; numerous black-and-white photos, line-drawings, maps, geological diagrams, and cladograms. Publisher’s original cream-color cloth, lettered in blue and green on the spine, pictorial dust jacket, lettered in white and yellow on the spine and in blue on the front cover, lg 8vo. This two-volume set presents fossil ape evolution and terrestrial mammal evolution with a focus on climate change in the Miocene of Europe and Asia. Forty chapters by noted authorities in the field provides a thorough interdisciplinary coverage of the topic. Small signature of former owner on front endpaper on volume 2. No other ownership marks. A fine (new) copy in fine dust jackets..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9089

Catalogue: Primate Evolution

Akazawa, T. and Szathmary, E.J.E. (editors).

Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. First edition. Pp. xiv, 389, numerous text-figures, diagrams and maps. Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. Contains 24 chapters by noted authorities in the field mostly dealing with the origin and diversity of mongoloid peoples. No ownership marks. A fine (new) copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 4063

Catalogue: Human Variation

Keywords: Archaeology archeology evolutionary biology prehistoric mongoloid dispersal mongoloid peoples human evolution human variation Akazawa Szathmary ISBN 019-852318-1

Al-Rawa, Abdul Hakim A.

The Development of the Weberian Apparatus and the Swim Bladder in the Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque)

Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma, 1966. First edition. Pp. 80; 21 full page plates (black-and-white photos and halftones), each with an onion skin tissue guard caption. Full black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 4o. This is the original Ph.D. dissertation that is signed by all five committee members on the title page; Carl D. Riggs was the Committee Chair. This copy is warmly inscribed by the author to Richard A. Goff, one of the other committee members. A fine (new) copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 7800

Catalogue: Ichthyology

Albrecht, Gene H.

Craniofacial Morphology of the Sulawesi Macaques: Multivariate Approaches to Biological Problems

Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger, 1978. First edition. Pp. viii, 151; 62 text-figures (morphometric diagrams, maps, charts, graphs), 16 tables. Publisher's original stiff yellow wrappers, lettered in black, 8vo. Contributions to Primatology, volume 13. This detailed analysis was undertaken to test biological hypotheses derived from previous studies of the external morphology of the macaque monkeys of Sulawesi in southern Indonesia. The present study makes the additional step of including non- Sulawesi macaques to establish the broad framework of genetic variation (from the rear cover blurb). Small signature of former owner on the half-title page. Small bump to top outer corner; a bright and clean copy in very good condition..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 8327

Catalogue: Mammalogy

Allen, G. R. (editor)

FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 6 - Snappers of the World: An annotated and illustrated catalogue of Lutjanid species known to date

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985. First edition. Pp. vi, 208; 28 full page color plates from paintings with 104 individual fish illustrated, 100+ distribution maps, many other halftone text-figures. Original printed and pictorial orange and white stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 4to. An excellent guide to the fishes of the family Lutjanidae with many beautiful color images from paintings. This is FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, volume 6. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 7786

Catalogue: Ichthyology

Allen, G. R. (editor)

FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 6 - Snappers of the World: An annotated and illustrated catalogue of Lutjanid species known to date

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985. First edition. Pp. vi, 208; 28 full page color plates from paintings with 104 individual fish illustrated, 100+ distribution maps, many other halftone text-figures. Original printed and pictorial orange and white stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 4to. An excellent guide to the fishes of the family Lutjanidae with many beautiful color images from paintings. This is FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, volume 6. This volume is from the research library of ichthyologist Wayne N. Witzell with his circular blindstamp on the front wrapper and title page. Some bump to bottom inner corner; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 7787

Catalogue: Ichthyology