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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

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..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 4842

Catalogue: Entomology

Keywords: Entomology insects bugs

Bryden, M.M. and Harrison, R. (editors)

Research on Dolphins

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1986. First edition Pp. xiv, 478, numerous photographs and diagrams. Publisher's dark blue cloth with red cloth spine panel, lettered in gilt on the spine, and lettered in gilt and in red on the front cover, lg 8vo. Presents 21 chapters by noted authorities; the volume is divided into three parts - Part I: Anatomy and physiology, Part II: Dolphins in captivity, and Part III: Dolphins in the oceans. From the library of Michael Newcomer with his blind-stamp on the front endpaper. Fine (new) copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 3177

Catalogue: Marine Mammals

Keywords: Marine mammals dolphins anatomy physiology Cetacea Delphinidae ISBN 0198576064

Buckland, Frank

Fish Hatching

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. First edition. Pp. xv, 268, 4 (ads); engraved frontispiece plate, 5 text-figures (from woodcuts). Publisher's original forest green pebble cloth, gilt lettered on the spine, blind-stamped border lines are present on the front and rear boards, 12mo. The Victorian naturalist Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826-1880) produced this important early work on raising young salmon and other species. When Buckland wrote this volume he was considering a leading authority on pisciculture. From the book's preface he states: ""The substance of this little book was delivered by myself, in the form of a Lecture, at the Royal Institution on the 17th April, 1863, and is a record of the observations which I have made during my experiments in Fish Hatching carried on during the winter months. From time to time I have reported progress in the columns of 'The Field,' and have now, by the permission of the Editor, been enabled to embody my notes in these pages. I have, however, added much information (though I continue to speak in the first person) derived from the experiences of others, kindly communicate to me; and also from closer subsequent investigation on my own part. I trust that those who read the book will find it useful, and that it will enable them to carry out Fish Hatching on their own account."" Small name stamp of Arthur L. Hoffman on the endpapers. No other ownership marks. The bottom inner rear board has a small area of pressure damage to the green cloth that is also visible on the rear pastedown, the text and plates are very bright and clean with no foxing or browning, the original cloth binding shows little to no wear; a tight copy in very good condition..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 7802

Catalogue: Ichthyology

Buettner-Janusch J. (editor)

The Relatives of Man: Modern Studies of the Relation of the Evolution of Nonhuman Primates to Human Evolution

New York: Academy of Sciences, 1962. First edition. Pp. 181-514; some text-figures (black-and-white photos, line drawings, graphs). Original tan stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, 8vo. From the series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume 102, article 2. This series of papers is the result of a conference on The Relatives of Man: Modern Studies of the Relation of the Evolution of Nonhuman Primates to Human Evolution held by the New York Academy of Sciences on April 27 and 28, 1962. No ownership marks and few signs of use. Top outer rear corner with small bump, a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 8561

Catalogue: Primate Evolution

Buffetaut, Eric

Ostéologie et affinitiés de Trematochampsa taqueti (Crocodylia, Mesosuchia) du Sénonien inférieur d'in Beceten (République du Niger)

Lyon: Géobios, 1976. First edition Pp. 56, 9 full page plates. Publisher's printed wrappers, 4to. Géobios, no. 9, fasc. 2. Inscribed by the author ""with compliments"" on the front wrapper. From the private library of H.D. Walley with his name stamp on the front wrapper. Near fine copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 3011

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Bulletin d'Archéologie Marocaine

Bulletin d'Archéologie Marocaine, Tome III (1958-1959).

Casablanca: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1960. First edition. Pp. 426; 250+ black-and-white and color photos, maps, line-drawings of stone artifacts, geological charts and tables (some are folding). Publisher's original printed tan wrappers, sm 4to. Bulletin d'Archéologie Marocaine, tome III (1958-1959). This thick volume describes the stone artifacts, human paleontological remains, fossil vertebrates and cave geology of middle Pleistocene human sites in Morocco. One of the featured sites is the cave of Rabat. The text is in French. No ownership marks. Some light soiling to the outer wrappers, the text and plates are clean; a tight copy in very good condition..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 6381

Catalogue: Archaeology + History

Bump, G. et al.

The Ruffed Grouse: Life History, Propagation and Management

Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Press, 1978. Reprint. Pp. xxxvi, 915, 4 plates by Everett, 127 sketches by Clayton B. Seagears and Fred Everett, 186 tables. Publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. This is a facsimile of the original edition published in Albany, New York in 1947. No ownership marks. A fine, as new, copy..

Natural History BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9739

Catalogue: Ornithology