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Treasures of the British Library
British Library 1988 272, col + b/w illus. 295x230mm. HB. Vg in d/w.. . [9780712301558]
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Darwin's Ornithological Notes
BM(NH) 1963 201-278, . . PB. Fine.. Bulletin British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series Vol. 2(7). Darwin's notes made during the Voyage of HMS Beagle, 1832-6.Freeman 1577..
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Keywords: Birds; Charles Darwin; Evolution
Letters to Mr Tegetmeier from J. Cossar Ewart and others to the Editor of 'The Field' at the turn of the nineteenth century
ZSGM Publications 2004 xii, 53, b/w photos. A4. PB. Vg.. The work introduces a fascinating collection of letters from James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933), Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and others, to William Bernhardt Tegetmeier (1816-1912), natural history editor of ‘The Field’. The correspondence discusses the breeding of horses and telegony (the idea that the first sire to mate with a female would leave ‘his mark’ on any future progeny). Many of the letters concern Ewart’s project to mate a zebra stallion (Matopo) with mares of several horse breeds to confirm or disprove telegony.. [9780953158836]
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Keywords: Equidae; Horses; Telegony; Zebra
Letters to Mr Tegetmeier from J. Cossar Ewart and others to the Editor of 'The Field' at the turn of the nineteenth century
ZSGM Publications 2004 xii, 53, b/w photos. A4. PB. Vg. Includes a review of this work by Juliet Clutton-Brock loosely inserted.. The work introduces a fascinating collection of letters from James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933), Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and others, to William Bernhardt Tegetmeier (1816-1912), natural history editor of ‘The Field’. The correspondence discusses the breeding of horses and telegony (the idea that the first sire to mate with a female would leave ‘his mark’ on any future progeny). Many of the letters concern Ewart’s project to mate a zebra stallion (Matopo) with mares of several horse breeds to confirm or disprove telegony.. [9780953158836]
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Keywords: Equidae; Horses; Telegony; Zebra
Asa Fitch and the Emergence of American Entomology
University of the State of New York 1988 viii, 120, b/w photos, text figs. 275x215mm. PB. Orig. card wrappers (275x215mm). Vg.. With an Entomological Bibliography and a Catalog of Taxonomic Names and Type Specimens. New York State Museum, Bull. No. 461.. [9781555570064]
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Keywords: History of Entomology; United States; North America; America
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
Penguin Books 2023 529, b/w photos + illus. . PB. NEW. . In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found one of the great intellectual and scientific dynasties of their age.The Huxley family through four generations profoundly shaped how we all see ourselves, as individuals and as a species, one among many. They worked as scientists, novelists, mystics, film-makers, poets and - perhaps above all - as public lecturers, educators and explainers.Their speciality was evolution in all its forms. But perhaps their greatest subject was themselves. Alison Bashford's engaging and original new book interweaves the Huxleys' momentous public achievements with their private triumphs and tragedies. The result is the history of a family, but also a history of humanity grappling with its place in nature. This book shows how much we owe - for better or worse - to the unceasing curiosity, self-absorption and enthusiasms of a small, strange group of men and women.'This is history with the engaging intimacy of a novel. Bashford brilliantly marries intellectual history with the story of four generations in a literary tour de force' Professor Jim Secord, author of Visions of Science'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era' John Gray, New Statesman 'The whole of British intellectual life seems accessible through some branch of this sprawling family tree' The Guardian. [9780141992228]
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Keywords: Biography; Evolution
Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt
Princeton University Press 2019 312, 192 col illus. 279x216mm. HB. NEW. . How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent age This pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. Insect Artifice explores the moment when the seismic forces of the Dutch Revolt wreaked havoc on the region's creative and intellectual community, compelling its members to seek solace in intimate exchanges of art and knowledge. At its center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant, miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman who turned to the study of nature in this era of political and spiritual upheaval. Presented here for the first time are more than eighty pages in color facsimile of Hoefnagel's encyclopedic masterwork, which showcase both the splendor and eccentricity of its meticulously painted animals, insects, and botanical specimens. Marisa Anne Bass unfolds the circumstances that drove the creation of the Four Elements by delving into Hoefnagel's writings and larger oeuvre, the works of his friends, and the rich world of classical learning and empirical inquiry in which he participated. Bass reveals how Hoefnagel and his colleagues engaged with natural philosophy as a means to reflect on their experiences of war and exile, and found refuge from the threats of iconoclasm and inquisition in the manuscript medium itself. This is a book about how destruction and violence can lead to cultural renewal, and about the transformation of Netherlandish identity on the eve of the Dutch Golden Age.. [9780691177151]
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Keywords: History of Art; History of Entomology; Insect Illustration; Insects; Entomology; RESconsign 2019-10
The Geological Researches of Dr Thomas Horsfield in Indonesia 1801-1819
BM(NH) 1982 41, 5 plates. . PB. Vg.. Bull. BM(NH) (Hist.) 10(3): 75-115..
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Keywords: Asia; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Java; History of Geology
The Geological Researches of Dr Thomas Horsfield in Indonesia 1801-1819
BM(NH) 1982 41, 5 plates. . PB. Vg.. Bull. BM(NH) (Hist.) 10(3): 75-115..
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Keywords: Asia; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Java; History of Geology
A Naturalist in the Amazon: The Journals & Writings of Henry Walter Bates
Natural History Museum MAR 2020 160, col illus. 227x174mm. HB. NEW. . This charming book revolves around the two journals Bates produced during his groundbreaking travels in the Amazon, and his classic work The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Alongside specially selected excerpts from his book are facsimile reproductions of the pages from his journals demonstrating his talents as an artist as well as a scientist. Bates, a trusted companion of Alfred Russel Wallace, travelled with him to the Amazon in 1848. There he became fascinated by close similarities in appearance between unrelated butterflies. He found that so-called tasty species - those that are sought after by predators - had evolved to look like toxic species to escape being attacked. This idea became known as Batesian mimicry. Bates spent a total of 11 years in the Amazon, exploring the vast network of largely unvisited major rivers and their tributaries, set in the world's largest area of tropical rain forest in South America. By the time he returned to England in 1859, still only 34 years old, Bates had collected, by his own estimate, some 712 species of mammals, reptiles, birds, fishes and molluscs, and about 14,000 species of insects, of which no less than 8,000 were previously unknown.. [9780565094621]
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Keywords: Amazon; Natural History; South America; America; Travel
The Book of Naturalists: An Anthology of the Best Natural History
Robert Hale 1944 xiv, 499, . . HB. Orig. cloth, rubbed, spine faded. Previous owner's name to endpaper. Vg.. .
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The Book of Naturalists: An Anthology of the Best Natural History
Robert Hale 1944 xiv, 499, . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, rubbed, spine faded. From the library of Prof. Jim Green (1928-2016), Professor of Zoology at Queen Mary College with his name to endpaper. Vg.. .
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Darwin's Notebooks on Transmutation of Species. Part I: First Notebook (July 1837 to February 1838)
BM(NH) 1960 47, text figs. . PB. Fine.. Bull. BM(NH) Hist. Vol.2(2).
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Keywords: Charles Darwin
Darwin's Notebooks on Transmutation of Species. Part II: Second Notebook (February to July 1838)
BM(NH) 1960 43, . . PB. Fine. Bull. BM(NH) Hist. Vol.2(3).
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Keywords: Charles Darwin
Darwin's Notebooks on Transmutation of Species. Parts 1-6
BM(NH) 1960-1967 , . . PB. Vg.. Parts 1-6 complete, Freeman 1574. Bulletin BM(NH) Historical Series. Vol.2 (2)-(6) and Vol.3 (5). Includes the Addenda and Corrigenda forming part 5 of the work as called for by Freeman..
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Keywords: B4779; Charles Darwin; Evolution; History of Science
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