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Darwin
Michael Joseph 1991 xxi, 808, 91 b/w illus. . HB. Minor spotting to top edge. Gift inscription to endpaper. Vg in d/w.. . [978071813430]
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Keywords: Darwin
Huxley: The Devil's Disciple
Michael Joseph 1994 xvii, 475, 38 b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w.. T.H. Huxley (1825-1895) - "Darwin's bulldog" - led a far more fascinating and outgoing life than the reclusive Darwin. He did battle with God and Gladstone, sat on royal commissions and campaigned for elementary education. He carried Darwin's fight to the public and outraged the old order with his talk of the material basis of life. It was a life lived at high speed and to the full, embracing all the Victorian hopes and fears. Desperately trying to scratch a living in his young days, he suffered mental collapses as he failed to bring his fiancee over from Sydney (he raised the cash after four years). The author of this book uses the life of Huxley to illustrate and illuminate the second - and far more turbulent - half of the 19th century.. [9780718136413]
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Keywords: Darwin; Evolution
Huxley: The Devil's Disciple
Michael Joseph 1994 xvii, 475, 38 b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w. Neat ink annotation to endpaper.. T.H. Huxley (1825-1895) - "Darwin's bulldog" - led a far more fascinating and outgoing life than the reclusive Darwin. He did battle with God and Gladstone, sat on royal commissions and campaigned for elementary education. He carried Darwin's fight to the public and outraged the old order with his talk of the material basis of life. It was a life lived at high speed and to the full, embracing all the Victorian hopes and fears. Desperately trying to scratch a living in his young days, he suffered mental collapses as he failed to bring his fiancee over from Sydney (he raised the cash after four years). The author of this book uses the life of Huxley to illustrate and illuminate the second - and far more turbulent - half of the 19th century.. [9780718136413]
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Keywords: Darwin; Evolution
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Traveller and Plant Collector
Antique Collectors' Club 1999 286, col + b/w illus, endpaper maps. . HB. From the library of Prof. J. Green, (1928-2016), Professor of Zoology at Queen Mary College, University of London with his name to endpaper. Vg in d/w (spine a little faded).. Sir Joseph Hooker is remembered as an eminent Victorian botanist and one of Charles Darwin's closest collaborators. Many gardeners and lovers of rhododendrons know of his plant collecting expedition in the Himalayas, but few are aware of his participation in Sir James Clark Ross' epic voyage to Antarctica in 1839-43, of his visits to Syria and Lebanon in 1860, to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco in 1871, and to the Rockies and California in 1877. At some risk to his own safety and health (he came close to drowning in the Antarctic Ocean and was imprisoned by the Rajah of Sikkim), he discovered many new species of plants and introduced a number of attractive flowers into British gardens.When Hooker encountered European species growing in the southern hemisphere he naturally wondered how they got there. He shared his theories on plant distribution and other topics of mutual interest with Darwin to whom he also sent scientific data acquired during his travels.He was a competent surveyor who produced the first map of Sikkim which the British Army used for several decades. He was also an amateur artist who obsessively sketched landscape, flora, and occasionally people and their buildings. A selection of these accomplished drawings are featured in Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker which also includes illustrations by other artists of plants seen or collected by Hooker. Many of them are reproduced in colour.Extracts from his letters home and his published Himalayan Journals testify to his narrative skills, his constant curiosity and careful observation which combined to make him an outstanding scientific traveller.. [9781851493050]
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Keywords: History of Natural History; Plant Collecting
The Writings of Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Privately published 1879 28, . . HB. Cloth. Ex-lib: spine chipped. Wrapper repaired.. Dimmock's Special Bibliography No. 3.
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Keywords: Bibliography; C3230; Entomology; Fossil insects; Scudder
The Joseph Banks Bibliography of Natural History. Catalogus Bibliothecae Historico-Naturalis Josephi Banks. Vol. 1-5
Thoemmes Press 2003 [4], vii, 309, [14]; [4], xx, 578, [30]; [4], xxiii, 656, [38]; [4], ix, 390, [26]; [4], [ii], 514, . . HB. 5 vols, 8vo, bds, minor fading. Vg.. Vol. 1: Scriptores Generales; Vol. 2: Zoologi; Vol. 3: Botanici; Vol. 4: Mineralogi; Vol. 5: Supplementum et Index Auctorum. Text Latin. Reprinted from the rare 1796-1800 edition. Lists some 28,000 books held in the library of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820).. [9781843710257]
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Keywords: Bibliography; Joseph Banks
Charles Waterton: A Biography
Lutterworth Press 1996 xi, 254, text illus. . HB. Vg in d/w (light creasing to head of d/w spine). Owner's name to endpaper.. Biography of the remarkable naturalist, who travelled extensively in South America and founded the world's first nature reserve in the grounds of his home at Walton Hall.. [9780718829247]
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Keywords: Biography; Travel & Exploration
The Journal of Peter Good: Gardener on Matthew Flinders Voyage to Terra Australis 1801-03
BM(NH) 1981 213, b/w plates. . PB. In d/w, spine slightly faded. Vg.. Limited edition of 250 bound copies produced for the Australian market. (Bull. BM(NH) (Hist.) Vol. 9).. [9780908120451]
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Keywords: History of Science; Matthew Flinders
Grafton Elliot Smith: The Man and his Work
Sydney University Press 1974 x, 232, 6 b/w plates, text figs. . HB. Vg. From the library of Professor A.J.E. Cave. Cave worked with Elliot Smith as an undergraduate and was to have taken part in the commemoration, of which this book is a record, of the centenary of the birth of Elliot Smith. However, the preface records that Cave was taken ill shortly before the event, and was unable to travel to Sydney. Compliment slip from Sydney University Press loosely inserted.. Record of a commemoration and symposium held at the University of Sydney in 1972 in which distinguished scholars examined some of Elliot Smith's contributions to anatomy, anthropology and ethnology and the developments which followed. [9780424067902]
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Keywords: Anatomy; Anthropology; B7579; Biography; Ethnology; Evolution; Grafton Elliot Smith; Neurology
The non-descriptive Palaeontology of the Sowerbys' Mineral Conchology
BM(NH) 1975 10, 1 plate. . PB. Vg. Light spotting to left of front cover and stain to back cover.. Bull. BM(NH) (Hist.) 4(6): 389-399.
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Keywords: Fossil Shells; Palaeontology; Sowerby
The non-descriptive Palaeontology of the Sowerbys' Mineral Conchology
BM(NH) 1975 10, 1 plate. . PB. Vg.. Bull. BM(NH) (Hist.) 4(6): 389-399.
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Keywords: B2830; Fossil Shells; Palaeontology; Sowerby
<a>The Lady Blake Collection: Catalogue of Lady Edith Blake's Collection of Drawings of Jamaican Lepidoptera and Plants
Natural History Museum 1990 58, b/w plates & illus. . PB. Stapled, no wrapper. Vg.. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Hist. Ser.) 18(2): 145-202. Details the fascinatating life of Lady Edith Blake (1845-1926). Born at Newtown Anner, Clonmel, Ireland she became a noted botanical illustrator and writer..
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Keywords: Flora; Jamaica; West Indies; America; Lepdoptera
Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
Icon Books 2003 168, 15 b/w figs. . HB. Vg in d/w.. . [9781840464887]
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Bibliotheca Zoologica Fenniae
1909 xii, 361, . . HB. 8vo, cont. half-cloth, marbled boards. From an institutional library with a small shelf label to front board, two ink stamps only. Good.. Herausgegeben von Zoologen Finlands. Text German. A list of zoological literature of Finland from the earliest times up to 1901. Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 24(1)..
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Keywords: Bibliography; Finland; Northern Europe; Europe; Zoology
An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace
University of Chicago Press 2004 x, 382, 9 b/w photos. . HB. Fine in d/w.. . [9780226246130]
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Keywords: Alfred Russel Wallace
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