Fitch, Asa

State of New York No. 151 in Assembly, April 3, 1855, Report of Asa Fitch, M.D. On the Noxious, Beneficial, and Other Insects of the State of New York

(Albany), No Publisher, 1855. Wraps. Octavo; pp. 180 with index; woodcuts; original printed string tied self wrappers; Very good. This is the First Report to the State. Dr. Asa Fitch (1809-1879) was a natural historian and entomologist. His early studies were of both natural history and medicine, which he studied at the newly formed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1854 he became the first professional entomologist of New York State Agricultural Society (commissioned by the State of New York). This made him the first occupational entomologist in the United States. His vast studies of many insects helped scientists to solve some of the problems of crop damage caused by insects. Many of his notebooks are now the property of the Smithsonian Institution. Fitch also discovered the Rodent Botfly Cuterebra emasculator in 1856. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 13025

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Fowler, Henry W.

Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum... With a Report of the Crustacea of New Jersey, 1911

Trenton, State oif New Jersey, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 650, (i), index, explanation of plates; illustrated with frontispiece portrait and one hundred fifty black and white plates; green cloth lettered in gilt; Binding shows some silverfish evidence, else tight and clean, internally near fine. Devoted chiefly to Henry W. Fowler's massive illustrated report on the crustacea of New Jersey. Water-fleas, fish-lice, barnacles, beach-fleas, pill-bugs, wood-lice, shrimps, prawns, lobsters, crawfishes and crabs. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 16344

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Crustacea

Francis, Robert C., Chair

The Bering Sea Ecosystem

Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto, navy pictorial wraps. 307pp. Illustrated with maps, charts and graphs in black and white. Very good with light wear. Research to determine how living resources in the Bering Sea Ecosystem have been and should be managed. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 13076

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; Bering Sea; Ecosystems; Polar Research; Geoscience; Environment; Food Web; Fisheries; Economy; Subsistence Culture; Indigenous People; Marine Ecosystems

George Willett

Birds of the Pacific Slope of Southern California

Hollywood, Cooper Ornithological Club, 1912. First edition. Original Wraps. George Willett. Birds of the Pacific Slope of Southern California. Hollywood: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1912. $95.00 First edition; octavo; pp. 122 with index; original gray printed wrappers; Cooper Ornithological Club, Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 7; very good, damp stain to fore-edge of book block; This copy inscribed on the front wrapper, "Robert Ridgeway Compliments G. Willett"; Ridgeway the noted Ornithologist and Artist is one of four individuals cited in the Acknowledgements as being of indispensable aide to the Author's project. Good + .

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Boeknummer: 12373

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; Birds; Southern California Birds; Ornithology; Cooper Ornithological Club Ornithology / Birds

(Greg, Mary)

Walter in the Woods

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1870. First edition. Original cloth. Duodecimo (7" x 4.5"), navy beveled and blind-stamped boards with center mounted illustration. Gilt decorated spine and cover. All edges gilt.160pp. With 70 engravings of trees and wildlife, full page, and within the text. Light edgewear. Last page is a little soiled and has a half-inch tear near the gutter. Two gift inscriptions on the front endpaper. Overall very good. The author of "Walter at the Sea-side, Mary Greg wrote a series of natural history themed books for young people. This work treats the southern forest of England, New Forest. The story describes the environs and inhabitants of this forest, primarily its trees, in a romantic and appealing fashion. Oaks, birches, elms, chestnuts, lime, conifers, plane trees, alders and "graveyard trees" notably the Cypress, and the mighty sequoia of California are featured in the tale. An enchanting and educational piece. Very good + .

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Boeknummer: 19445

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Natural History, Trees, English Forests, British Birds, Children's Children's Books

Grindon, Leo. H.

Life: Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1892. Sixth American edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4.75 x 7.5"), brown cloth, gilt. 578pp. with index. Grindon was a British botanist and educator who specialized in adult education. His plant collection was a large part of the Manchester Museum at its 1860 beginning. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 14323

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Biology; Manchester Museum

Gussow, H. T. and W. S. Odell

Mushrooms and Toadstools: An Account of the More Common Edible and Poisonous Fungi of Conada

Ottawa, Minister of Agriculture, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, dark green cloth with gilt mushroom motif on cover. 274pp. with index, list of genera and species, glossary and bibliography. Illustrated with 128 plates; 2 in color the others black and white photographs. Very good but for damage at the margin of page 129, and the two color plates have notes in ink in the margins, one more so than the other. Includes sections on culture and preparaton as food as well as stories of poisonings. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 13128

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; Mushrooms; Toadstools

Harts, William Wright

Harbour Improvement on the Pacific Coast of the United States

London, Institution Of Civil Engineers, 1911. First Separate Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 23, (i), colophon; With Folding Chart of Harbour Improvements at rear; original printed blue paper wrappers. Baker's Bay, Coos Bay and Point Hansenk. Harts was a major, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Uncommon. Near fine .

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Boeknummer: 16548

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Ephemera

Heacox, Cecil

The Compleat Brown Trout: A Special Centennial Edition

Clinton, Amwell Press, 1983. Special Limited edition. Hardcover in slipcase. Small quarto (7" x 10"), faux leather, gilt, in tan slipcase. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. 182 pp. with bibliography and index. Very good or better in a very good slipcase which is a little faded near the fore-edge on one side. Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is copy number 257. This Special Centennial Edition was done to commemorate the 100th anniversery of the introduction of the Brown Trout to America. The third title in the Angling Heritage Collection prepared for the National Sporting Fraternity Limited. Authorized and signed by the author and the president of the NSFL. Foreword by Ernest Schweibert. Illustrations by Wayne Trimm. This copy has a letter laid in from the recipient of the book from Ray Smith to whom the book was presented by Heacox. Smith has 5 page references in the index and the letter states his appreciation for the mentions. He may have written this copy for himself, or the book may have been Heacox's copy and he placed the letter from smith in it. Unknown. Very good + .

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Boeknummer: 19448

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Fishing; Fly Fishing; Brown Trout; Signed; Limited Edition Fly Fishing & Angling

Herbert, S.

The First Principles of Evolution

London, Adam And Charles Black, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv, 346, glossary, index, )ii), ad; illustrated with 90 plates and tables including one color plate; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Upper board with three water stains else tight and very good .

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Boeknummer: 17482

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Darwin; Evolution;

Herman Lundborg & J. Runnstrom

The Swedish Nation in Word and Picture - Together with Short Summaries of the Contributions Made by Swedes Within the Fields of Anthropology, Race-Biology, Genetics and Eugenics. A Jubilee Book Given out, with the Cooperation of Experts Commissioned by the Swedish Society for Race-Hygiene

Stockholm, Hasse W. Tullberg Co. Ltd, 1921. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto; pp; 128; illustrated, frontispiece, in text black and white photographs plus twenty full page black and white plates at rear; original printed cream paper wrappers. The author Dr. Lundborg was extremely negative towards the Jewish people, and strongly involved with the ideology of racial hygiene. In the beginning of the 20th century, the idea that eugenics could improve the biological basis of society was widely held by academics and lawmakers, particularly in northern Europe and the United States. In 1922 Sweden established a eugenic governmental agency, the State Institute of Racial Biology, of which Lundborg was appointed as the head. Under his leadership, the institute began gathering copious statistics and photographs to map the racial make-up of about 100,000 Swedish people. Light soiling to the wrappers, internally mostly uncut, very good .

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Boeknummer: 17174

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Eugenics; Race; Medical; Medicine;

Herschel, Alexander S.

Observations of the August Meteors in 1871 in "the Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society" New Series, Vol. 1 Number 1; January, 1872

London, Taylor & Francis, 1872. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 33-37; two woodcut charts; original printed blue wrappers. Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836 - 1907), was the first to observe a meteor spectrum. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 17429

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Meteors; Astronomy;

Herzog, Theodor Carl Julius

Die Bryophyten Meiner Zweiten Reise Durch Bolivia. (the Bryophytes, My Second Trip Through Bolivia)

Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1916. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto; pp; pp; 347, (16): illustrations, viii plates, folded map; original printed tan paper wrappers; previous owner's name on wrapper, "H. Bassler". Light soiling to the wrappers , 1.5" abrasion at head of spine, else very good, internally near fine. Uncommon; Theodor Carl (Karl) Julius Herzog (1880-1961) was a German bryologist and phytogeographer. He studied sciences at Freiburg and Zurich, obtaining his doctorate in 1903 from the University of Munich as a student of botanist Ludwig Radlkofer (1829-1927). Later, he attained his habilitation at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich under the sponsorship of Carl Joseph Schröter (1855-1939). From 1904 to 1912, he was engaged in a series of botanical excursions; Sardinia (1904 and 1906), Ceylon (1905 and 1908) and Bolivia (1907-08 and 1910-12). In 1920 he became an associate professor of botany at the University of Munich, later succeeding Wilhelm Detmer (1850-1930) at the University of Jena (1925),[2] where he remained until 1948. A leading authority of mosses, he also dealt with the systematics and phytogeography of flowering plants. The plant specific terms herzogiana and herzogii bear his name, two examples being: Frullania herzogiana and Luteolejeunea herzogii. Very good .

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Boeknummer: 15803

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Bolivia; Moss; Mosses;

Hindle, Brooke

The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America 1735-1789

Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1956. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. (1956). Octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 410pp. with index and bibliographical notes. Frontispiece and 22 black and white illustrations on 8 pages following page 194. Near very good in fair to good jacket. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture Williamsburg, Virginia. Demonstrates the interdependence of social change and scientific advance. Good +/good.

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Boeknummer: 13069

Catalogus: Science & Natural History

Trefwoorden: Science; Natural History; American Philosophical Society; John Bartram; Benjamin Franklin; David Rittenhouse; John Winthrop; Thomas Jefferson; Cadwallader Colden; Peter Kalm; Charles Thompson

Holmes, S. J.

Life and Evolution, an Introduction to General Biology

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; v, (i), 449, index, errata slip; illustrated with two hundred twenty-five black and white drawings and figures; blue cloth lettered in black in the original dust jacket. "A remarkably readable introduction to general biology". Emphasizes the "development of family and social life in animals, the principles of heredity and evolution, and the important bearing of animal existence upon the problems of human biology. Very good/very good.

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Boeknummer: 17994

Catalogus: Science & Natural History