Benson, Lyman and Thornber, J. J.

The Cacti of Arizona

Tucson: University of Arizona, 1940. First edition. Pp. 134, 52 plates. Publisher’s printed brown wrappers, lettered in black on the cover, 8vo. From the series: University of Arizona Bulletin Biological Science Bulletin no. 5. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his name stamp on the titlepage. Light wear to wrappers, bump to lower corner, a very good copy..

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Book number: 9193

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Bentham, T.

An Illustrated Catalogue of Asiatic Horns and Antlers.

Calcutta: Trustees of the Indian Museum, 1908. First edition. Pp. 96, (2, ads); 46 full page black-and-white photo-plates of horns and antlers, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publisher's original printed gray wrappers, lg 8vo. A catalogue of the collection of horns and antlers of Asiatic ungulates in the mammal gallery of the Indian Museum, based on 450 specimens. Uncommon work. No ownership marks. Faint bump to bottom outer corner; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 6201

Catalogue: Hunting and Big Game

Berger, Karl (editor)

Mykologisches Worterbuch in 8 Sprachen -- Mycological Dictionary in 8 Languages

Jena, Germany: VEB Gustave Fisher, 1980. First edition. Pp. 432; 138 text-figures. Publisher's original textured tan cloth, lettered in brown on the spine and front cover, original orange printed dust jacket, lg 8vo. This is a dictionary of mycological terms in 8 languages (German, English, French, Spanish, Latin, Czech, Polish, and Russian) which aids in translating foreign papers in this specialized field. The work presents 3,200 mycological terms in eight languages. Signature of James A. Weber on the front endpaper. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with a few repaired tears..

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Book number: 8888

Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi

Berlepsch, H. von

Revision der Tanagriden.

Berlin: Internationalen Ornithologen-KongreB, 1910. Pp. 159. Original printed wraps, lg 8vo. Bericht uber den V. Internationalen Ornithologen-KongreB. Very good..

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Book number: 1580

Catalogue: Ornithology

Keywords: Ornithology Birds Tanagriden Berlepsch Natural Sciences Natural Science

Bernstein, Irwin S. and Smith, Euclid O. (editors)

Primate Ecology and Human Origins: Ecological Influences on Social Organization

New York: Garland STPM Press, 1979. First edition. Pp. xvii, 362; some bivariate plots and graphs. Publisher's original dark brown cloth, lettered in white on the spine, original white pictorial dust jacket, lettered in brown on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. This work presents 14 chapters by noted authorities in the field. It is based on the proceedings of a conference held at the European Conference Center of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in Burg Wartenstein, Austria, in August 1977. From the series: Garland Series in Ethology. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy in a near fine dust jacket..

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Book number: 7345

Catalogue: Mammalogy

Berry, S. Stillman

A Review of the Cephalopods of Western North America

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1912. First edition. Pp. 269-336; 25 full page black-and-white plates (fine halftones, photographs, line-drawings). Later yellow cloth, lettered in black on the spine, sm 4to. This work presents the cephalopods of the western shore of North America between the Bering Strait on the north and the Coronado Islands on the south. This includes the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. There are great illustrations of octopi. Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries for 1910, volume 30, document no. 761. No ownership marks. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 7898

Catalogue: Aquatic Invertebrates

Berthelet, Arlette and Chavaillon, Jean

The Use of Tools by Human and Non-human Primates.

Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1993. First edition. Pp. xvii, 424; numerous text-figures and maps. Publisher's dark blue cloth, spine with red cloth panel lettered in gilt, front cover is lettered in gilt and in red and with blind-stamped seal of Oxford near the bottom edge, original vinyl dust protector, lg 8vo. No ownership marks. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 4696

Catalogue: Archaeology + History

Keywords: ISBN 0-19-852263-0

Bertram, James G.

The Harvest of the Sea: A Contribution to the Natural and Economic History of the British Food Fishes

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866. First edition. Pp. xv, 519; frontispiece woodcut plate of Wick Harbor; 50 text-figures (all from woodcuts). Publisher's original forest green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with three panel lines at the head and foot of the spine, lg 8vo. The chapters cover the following topics: fish life and growth, fish commerce, fish culture, anglers' fishes, natural and economic history of the salmon, natural and economic history of the Herring, white-fish fisheries, natural and economic history of the oyster, our shell-fish fisheries and the fisher folk. No ownership marks and only a few signs of use. Light edge wear to outer joints, small corner (1 inch square) missing from the bottom outer corner of the front free endpaper; overall, a tight, bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 7760

Catalogue: Ichthyology

Besairie, Henri

Recherches Géologiques a Madagascar (première suite): La Géologie du Nord-Ouest, text + plates (mostly ammonites).

Tananarive: Imprimerie Moderne de L'emyrne, 1936. First edition Pp. 259, 1 map, 1 foldout chart; pp. (4), 34 full page plates of ammonites, 2 large folding charts. Early green cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine and on the front cover, 4to. Memoires de l'Academie Malgache, fascicule XXI. Bound with two other monographs on the ammonites of Madagascar: 1) Treat, V.-C. - Paléontologie de Madagascar XIX. - Le Permo-Trias Marin (pp. 60, 6 full-page photo-plates) Annales de Paléontologie, Paris, volume XXII, 1933. 2) Astre, G. - La Faune Permienne de Grès a Productus d'Ankitokazo dans le Nord de Madagascar (pp. 94, 10 full page photo-plates, 1 very large folding color geology map), Annales Géologiques du Service des Mines, Tananarive, fascicule 4, 1934. All three monographs are bound together in one thick volume entitled: Permian of Madagascar: Treat-1933, Astre-1934, Besaire-1936. From the library of paleontologist A.K. Miller. A rare collection of the Permian ammonite faunas of Madagascar. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 2976

Catalogue: Geology and Paleoenvironments

Keywords: Palenotology geology

Betten, H.L.

Upland Game Shooting (limited first edition of 124 numbered copies each signed by the author)

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1940. First edition. Pp. 450; with 10 mounted color plates after paintings plus numerous text drawings by Lynn Bogue Hunt; sewn-in bookmark. Full burgundy morocco, with gilt vignette of a shooting scene on the front cover bordered by gilt panel lines, spine with three raised bands, lettered in gilt in three compartments and with game bird flying in the other compartment, marbled endpapers, lg 8vo. This deluxe edition was limited to 124 numbered copies, each signed by the author, this is copy no. 106. ""The deluxe edition of this title is one of the most splendid sporting books ever produced"" (Biscotti - A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985). No ownership marks. Crack to outer front leather hinge professionally repaired, a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 9771

Catalogue: Hunting and Big Game

Bewick, Thomas and Middleton, R. Hunter

Thomas Bewick, ten working drawing reproductions shown with impressions of the corresponding engravings.

Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1972. Limited edition. Pp. (10) booklet + 10 folder-maps each with two images, housed in a folding hard portfolio case backed in one-quarter tan cloth, with red-paper title label on spine, over patterned charcoal paper-covered boards, housed in a paper-covered dark gray patterned hard slipcase rimmed in red at the opening of the case, oblong 8vo (8 x 6 3/4 inches). This edition was limited to 160 copies, each signed by the printer, R. Hunter Middleton on the last page of the printed introductory booklet. The text is printed in black and red. Nine of the mats contain an impression from the original wood block, along with a reproduction of Bewick's drawing for that block. This was to have been the case for the 10th mat but Middleton notes on the introduction: ""With the exception of the Harrier Dog [plate 10], all of the engravings were printed from Bewick's original blocks. Unfortunately, it was necessary to print this subject from a photoengraving reproduces from the Memorial Edition since the original block was not available to the Press."" No ownership marks but from the private library of R. Hunter Middleton who owned the Cherryburn Press. A touch of wear to the outer corners only of the slipcase, contents are bright as new; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 5891

Catalogue: Thomas Bewick

Bhatti, H.K.

THE INTEGUMENT AND DERMAL SKELETON OF SILUROIDEA.

London: Zoological Society, 1938. Pp. 102, 11 full pg plates. Orig. blue wraps, sm folio. Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 24, pt. 1. Library stamp of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia on the inside front wrap, otherwise a bright, near fine copy..

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Book number: 0492

Catalogue: Ichthyology

Keywords: Ichthyology Fishes Anatomy Natural Sciences Natural Science

Bigelow, Howard E. and Thiers, Harry D. (editors)

Studies on Higher Fungi: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Dr. Alexander H. Smith on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

Vaduz, Germany: J. Cramer, 1975. First edition. Pp. vi, 372; 76 full page plates (2 are tipped-in color plates from watercolors, numerous black-and-white photo-plates, some are line-drawings and others are halftone plates. Publisher's original gray stiff printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Beihefte Nova Hedwigia, heft 51. This volume is a collection of 26 papers on fungi and related topics by Alexander H. Smith's colleagues and friends. This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith. A tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8687

Catalogue: Mushrooms and Fungi

Binford, Lewis R.

Debating Archaeology

New York: Academic Press, 1989. First edition. Pp. xv, 534; numerous black-and-white photos, maps, plan-views, line-drawings. Publisher's original brown and gray cloth, lettered in white on the spine and in brown on the front cover, lg 8vo. No dust jacket issued. The late Lewis Binford was a theoretical archaeologist who enjoyed critiquing the work of other archaeologists. He was very interested in site formation and he often deconstructed and debated the conclusions of others. This book presents 29 chapters by Binford where he presents his debates about various sites and various topics. This is a classic work. Small signature of former owner on the front endpaper. No signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 7538

Catalogue: Archaeology + History

Binney, W.G. and Bland, Thomas

XVIII. Notes on the Lingual Dentition of Mollusca.

New York: William Wood and Company, 1870. First edition. Pp. 15; 12 text-figures. Original yellow printed wrappers, 8vo. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, volume 9, no. 9. The entire issue no. 9 if offered in original yellow wrappers; it contains 4 other articles including two others on Mollusca. Old signature on the front wrappers. Some chipping to the wrappers on the rear wrappers, occasional light soiling to the wrappers; a very good copy..

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Book number: 4994

Catalogue: Aquatic Invertebrates

Keywords: Aquatic invertebrates Mollusca mollusks lingual dentition anatomy Binney Bland