First Edition. A survey of ants, bees, and wasps by the leading expert on social insects at the time. The book is based on a series of lectures Wheeler gave in Paris, and the text was first published in French. This is its first publication in English. At the time.....
Price: $300
First Edition. Winner of the Natural Book Award and a modern classic of nature writing. 464 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to one of the great book collectors of the 20th century. "For.....
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First Edition. A paper on a proposed species of early, extinct hominin, which most now place in Australopithecus. This work was completed shortly before Broom's death in 1952. The final paper was prepared by his regular collaborator, John Talbom Robinson. Robinson and Broom discovered the nearly complete fossil skull of.....
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First Edition. An important monograph on early human relatives, Australopithecus, which earned Broom the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. This book includes two related papers. Part I: The Occurrence and General Structure of the South African Ape-men by Broom and Part II: The Endocranial Casts of.....
Price: $400
![Sterkfontein Ape-man Plesianthropus [cover title]. R. Broom, J. T. Robinson, G. W. H. Schepers,...](/pictures/thumb/307954.jpg?v=1621547550)
First Edition. A follow-up work on Plesianthropus transvaalensis (now classified as Australopithecus africanus), including the famous "Mrs. Ples" skull, by the men who discovered them in 1936. The book includes two separate papers published as Transvaal Museum Memoir No. 4. Part I: Further Evidence of the Structure of the Sterkfontein.....
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First Edition. A survey of the state of the philosophy of biology in the late 1980s. Ruse "is correct in perceiving that evolutionary biology in particular has the greatest bearing of any science on ethics and epistemology"—Edward O. Wilson, on the back cover. 155 pages. First edition (first printing, wrappers issue).....
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First Edition. An offprint of this descriptive monograph on the Siphonophorae order of Hydrozoans. Issued without illustrations. Reprinted from Jenaischen Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft XXII. Band. 46 pages. First edition (first printing). Spine worn, else good to very good in original pink wrappers. This copy was presented to Karl Brandt, the marine.....
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First Edition. This paper is one of those remarkable feats of species identification. Wheeler, one of the leading experts in myrmecology (a term Wheeler coined), or the science of ants, examined 9527 specimens of ants preserved in amber. He identified 21 new genera and 40 new species. 66 figures of drawings.....
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A critically-acclaimed, technical history of the microscope from its invention to the late 20th century. 360 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Clean inside.
Price: $200
First Edition. A popular work exploring the microscopic organisms in the freshwater ponds of London. The book was first published in 1861 and went through many editions in the 19th century. xx, 197 pages, plus 12 duo-tone lithographic plates. First edition (first printing). Endpapers replaced, else a near fine copy.
Price: $75
First Edition. A classic. With 47 half-tone plates and 247 in-text illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy with some wear to the corners. Small previous owner's name on the front free endpaper.
Price: $100
An early edition of one of the most popular books on microscopes in the 19th century. Illustrated with in-text engravings. xii, 506 pages. I have not located a copy with a date; the dating is based on the date in the preface. There is another, similar 1859 edition, also not dated.....
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Third Edition. An early edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. This third edition indicates that 7000 copies had been sold. With hand-colored plates. 106 pages. 8 black-and-white plates. 32 pages of publisher ads. A very good copy in purple and pink cloth, with a......
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First Edition. Graham, a historian of science, was an expert on science in Russia. 177 pages. First edition (first printing, wrappers issue). A near fine paperback copy (it was also issued in hardcover). Inscribed by Graham to the evolutionary theorist and historian of science, Stephen Jay Gould: "To Steve, in.....
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Third Edition. Third edition, slightly expanded from the first edition. Illustrated with 154 figures. 151 pages. Part II (not present here) was devoted to advance microscopy. First edition (first printing). Light shelfwear, thus very good in green cloth. No dust jacket.
Price: $20
Second Edition. Second edition. A manual on preparing organic materials for viewing under a microscope. 214 pages. A very good hardcover; no dust jacket.
Price: $20
First Edition. Illustrated with 131 figures; with a price-list for the equipment mentioned in the text. 144 pages, First edition (first printing). Light shelfwear, thus very good in green cloth. No dust jacket.
Price: $25
First Edition. A short biography of the pioneer of the microscope, written for a young adult audience. 128 pages. First edition (first printing). Probably an American import; with a price-clipped dust jacket and copyright statements on the copyright page inked out. A very good or better copy in a like.....
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First Edition. 96 pages. Vol. 47 in the Microscope Series. First edition. A very good to near fine hardcover; no jacket, perhaps as issued.
Price: $25
First Edition. Illustrated with drawings and engravings. 264 pages. First edition (first printing; no additional printings noted). A very good to near fine hardcover; no dust jacket.
Price: $40
First Edition. A popular introduction to fossils in German, by one of the founders of paleobiology. 643 pages, with more than 500 illustrations in the text. First edition. A very good copy bound in marbled paper-covered boards with a cloth spine; original wrappers not preserved. Inscribed by Abel to Eduard Uhlenhuth.....
Price: $40
![Darwin's Notebooks of Transmutation of Species [6 volumes, complete]. Gavin de Beer](/pictures/thumb/307969.jpg?v=1621371755)
First Edition. Six volumes of the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series in which Darwin's notebook is transcribed, with one volume of corrigenda and another on the pages removed by Darwin. All volumes very good or better in stapled wrappers (pamphlet form).
Price: $60
First Edition. 196 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $30
First Edition. 25 papers. 555 pages. Published in honor of Warren G. Kinzey. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy (no jacket, probably as issued). Stamped "review copy" on front free endpaper.
Price: $125
First Edition. 18 papers. 424 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover (no jacket, probably as issued). Stamped "review copy" at the front.
Price: $100
