Atwater, W. O.

Contributions to the Knowledge of the Chemical Composition and Nutritive Value of American Food Fishes and Invertebrates

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1885. First edition Pp. 431-499; 2 full page color charts, numerous other tables. Later wine red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1883, no. 15 (document 98). This work is written by a chemist so the text provides detailed information about the chemical and nutritive value of food fishes and many invertebrates. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (as new) copy..

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Book number: 7932

Catalogue: Ichthyology

Auboyer, Jeannine and Darbois, Dominique.

Angkor (Coleccion Fotoscop in four languages).

Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1971. First edition. Pp. 78, (1); 128 full-page photo-plates (in color and black-and-white), 1 plan-view map, 4 folding indexes (one for each languages). Coarse-leave white cloth, lettered in black on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, square lg 8vo (21 x 21 cm). The text is presented in Spanish, French, English, and German. Superb color and black-and-white photos of the monuments of Angkor in Cambodia. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..

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Book number: 6020

Catalogue: Asian Archaeology

Ault, Captain J.P.

OCEANOGRAPHY IV. THE WORK OF THE CARNEGIE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE SCIENTIFIC CRUISES. (Scientific Results of Cruise VII of the Carnegie during 1829-1929).

Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1946. Pp. 111, numerous maps - some full page, numerous photo-plates. Original printed wraps, 4to. Scientific Results of Cruise VII of the Carnegie during 1829-1929 under Captain J.P. Ault. Name stamps of Reading Public Museum on the front and rear wrappers, bookplate on inside wrap, no other library marks; bump to top outer corner, a very good copy..

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Book number: 1725

Catalogue: Ichthyology

Keywords: exploration Pacific Carnegie Cruise VII oceanology Natural Sciences Natural Science

Aung-Thwin, Michael

Irrigation in the Heartland of Burma: Foundations of the Pre-Colonial Burmese State

DeKalb, IL: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1990. First edition. Pp. 76, 9 maps. Publisher’s printed pictorial light brown wrappers, lettered in dark brown on cover and spine, sm 8vo. From the series: Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Monograph Series on Southeast Asia, Occasional Paper No. 15, 1990. This volume details the history of irrigation in the pre-colonial Burmese State. A near fine copy..

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Book number: 9342

Catalogue: Archaeology + History

Australian National Commission for UNESCO

Australian Aboriginal Culture

Canberra: Australian National Commission for UNESCO, 1974. Second edition Pp. (ii), 48; numerous black-and-white photos. Color pictorial wrappers, oblong small 8vo. A brief review of the aboriginal peoples of Australia. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A near fine copy..

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Book number: 9605

Catalogue: Ethnography and Other Areas

Azevedo, Antonio Carlos Pradel

Notas sobre Cobras Corais (Serpentes: Elapidae), III, IV, V, VI and VII

Porto Alegre, Brazil: Oficinas Graficas da Imprensa Oficial, 1961. First edition. Pp. 23; 7 figures (black-and-white photos). Original printed tan stiff wrappers, 8vo. From the series: Iheringia (Museu Rio-Grandense de Ciencias Naturais), ser. Zoologia, no. 18. No ownership marks. ""Dup"" written at top of the front wrapper, with date of August 12, 1966 on the bottom edge. The text is in Portuguese. Light tanning to the wrappers; a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8063

Catalogue: Herpetology - Snakes

Babcock, Harold L.

The Turtles of New England.

Boston: Society of Natural History, 1919. First edition. Pp. (2), 325-431; 16 full page plates (14 of which are fine chromolithographs finished by hand-coloring, 2 black-and-white photo plates). Recent one-half green goat-skin morocco leather with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in two panels on the spine, over light green English marbled boards, and with matching marbled endpapers with the original pale green printed wrappers bound in at the rear, lg 4to (12 x 9 3/4 inches). Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume 8, no. 3. A very rare work issued in a limited edition of only a few hundred copies subsidized by a grant from the Gurdon Saltonstall Fund. Most copies of the original printing were sold by subscription to libraries, museums, or government institutions. Very few copies were made available to the general public. From the private research library of Kraig Adler with his pencil annotation on the front endpaper, small number on the title page, and ink signature on the front wrapper. The original printed wrappers bound in at the rear show light browning, the blank side of the final color plate is soiled, the entire text and all fine color plates are very bright and clean; a near fine copy in a very attractive period one-half leather binding..

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Book number: 6351

Catalogue: Fine and Rare

Babcock, Harold L.

Turtles of New England.

Lawrence, KS: Center for North American Herpetology, 2007. Reprint. Pp. (3), 325-431; 14 full page color plates, 2 black-and-white photo plates (each plate has a descriptive leaf of text). Color pictorial stiff wrappers, 4to. This is Center for North American Herpetology Facsimile Reprint Series, number 9. This is a splendid reproduction of the rare title 'Turtles of New England' with excellent color plates. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 6687

Catalogue: Herpetology - Turtles and Tortoises

Bacon, Anne-Marie (editor)

Les sites de Tam Hang, Nam Lot et Tam Pà Ling au nord du Laos: Des gisements à vertébrés du Pléistocène aux origines des Hommes modernes

Paris: CNRS Editions, 2012. First edition. Pp. 149; 66 text-figures and maps (some full page and nearly all in color). Color pictorial stiff wrappers, sm 4to. An important new monograph on the archaeology and fossil record of three limestone caves in northern Laos. The findings from these sites have implications for the origin of modern Homo sapiens in Asia. The color diagrams in this monograph are very striking. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 9547

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Bacon, Anne-Marie (editor)

Les sites de Tam Hang, Nam Lot et Tam Pà Ling au nord du Laos: Des gisements à vertébrés du Pléistocène aux origines des Hommes modernes

Paris: CNRS Editions, 2012. First edition. Pp. 149; 66 text-figures and maps (some full page and nearly all in color). Color pictorial stiff wrappers, sm 4to. An important new monograph on the archaeology and fossil record of three limestone caves in northern Laos. The findings from these sites have implications for the origin of modern Homo sapiens in Asia. The color diagrams in this monograph are very striking. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 9587

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Baker, Paul T. and Weiner, J. S. (editors)

The Biology of Human Adaptability.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. First edition. Pp. viii, 541; some text-figures (maps, graphs). Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lg 8vo. Based on a Wenner Gren conference held in Austria in 1964. The conference brought together leading geneticists, physiologists and anthropologists from all parts of the world to discuss humans in their natural environments and their adaptive responses to them (from the jacket flap laid in at the front of the book). The 18 chapters in this work thoroughly cover the biological basis of human adaptability. From the library of Alan James Westcott with his signature on the front endpaper. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 6516

Catalogue: Human Variation

Baker, Frank C.

The Mollusca of the Chicago Area: The Pelecypoda

Chicago: Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1898. First edition Pp. 130, 27 photo-plates. Publisher's printed wrappers, lg 8vo. The Natural History Survey Bulletin, number 3, part 1. Spine professionally reinforced with black cloth tape. No ownership marks. Marginal tear to the first two pages repaired; a clean, very good copy..

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Book number: 3203

Catalogue: Aquatic Invertebrates

Keywords: Aquatic invertebrates mollusca pelecypoda Bivalvia bivalves

Ballowitz, E.

Die Entwickelungsgeschichte Der Kreuzotter (Pelias berus Merr.) (=The History of the Development of the Adder (Pelias berus Merr.), Part 1: Die Entwickelung Vom Auftreten Der Ersten Furche Bis Zum Schlusse Des Amnios (all published).

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903. First edition. Pp. vi, 195; 10 full page tinted lithographed plates each with a descriptive leaf of text, 59 text figures (line-drawings). Later wine-red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (original printed orange wrappers bound in place), folio (14 x 11.75 inches; 35.5 x 27 cm). This major monograph describes the ontogeny of the Adder, Pelias berus. Only part 1 of this monograph was published. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8376

Catalogue: Herpetology - Snakes

Bannerman, David A. and Bannerman, W. Mary

Birds of Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus: K. Rustem and Brother, 1989. Second edition. Pp. lxix, 384; 16 full page color plates from paintings by D. M. Reid-Henry and Roland Green, 15 halftone plates after paintings by Major Henry Jones, numerous text-figures, large color folding map at rear. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. This work covers 342 species and subspecies that inhabit the island; only a small portion of these species are permanent inhabitants. This edition is a new printing of the work published in 1989 for distribution in Cyprus. The original London first edition was published in 1958. No ownership marks. A tight and clean copy in near fine condition in a lightly rubbed but very good dust jacket..

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Book number: 7620

Catalogue: Ornithology

Barber, A. J. and Wiryosujono, S. (editors)

The Geology and Tectonics of Eastern Indonesia: Proceedings of the CCOP-IOC SEATAR Working Group Meeting Bandung, Indonesia, 9-14 July 1979

Bandung: The Geological Research and Development Centre, 1981. First edition. Pp. (vi), 415; numerous line-drawings and maps. Stiff brown printed wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, 4to. The Geological Research and Development Centre Special Publication no. 2. Contains 31 chapters on the geology and tectonics of eastern Indonesia by numerous noted authorities in the field. No ownership marks. Top and bottom outer corners with minor bumps; some sunning to spine, a tight copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8885

Catalogue: Paleontology and Geology