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Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science Collected, Arranged and Annotated by Sir William Osler and Bequeathed to McGill University

Osler, William · 1929 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Clarendon Press Oxford xxxv, 785, . . HB. 4to, orig. cloth, gilt title to spine. Withdrawn from an institutional library with small neat ink stamps to verso of title and final page only. Good. Interesting short reprint 'Osler at Oxford' by Charles Sherrington (<i>British Medic...

Bibliographia Brasiliana. Vol. I-II

Moraes, Rubens Borba de · 1958 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Colibris Editora Amsterdam & Rio De Janeiro xxi, 427; [1], 448, b/w illus (several full page). . HB. 2 vols, 8vo, orig. cloth. Withdrawn from an institutional library, with a few neat ink stamps. Good.. A bibliographical essay on rare books about Brazil published from 1504 to ...

The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. Vol. I-IV

Lowndes, William Thomas · 1834 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

William Pickering London xii, 530; [ii], 531-1054; [ii], 1055-1528; [ii], 1529-2002, . . HB. 4 vols, 8vo, later buckram, gilt title to spine. Withdrawn from an institutional library with a few ink stamps; shelf labels removed from spines. Good.. Containing an account of rare, ...

Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae. A General Catalogue of all Books, Tracts, and Memoirs on Zoology and Geology. Vol. I-IV

Agassiz, Louis; Strickland, H.E. · 1848 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Ray Society London xxiii, 506; [vi], 492; [iv], 658; [v], 604, 3, 18, . . HB. 4 vols, 8vo, later library half leather, scuffed, raised bands and gilt title to spines, top edges gilt; paper a little browned to margins; short tear to edge of a few pages at the start of Vol. II. ...

The Natural Sciences and American Scientists in the Revolutionary Era: A Bibliography

Harkányi, K. (Ed.) · 1990 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Greenwood Press xiv, 510, . . HB. 8vo, orig. boards. Withdrawn from an institutional library with a few ink stamps.. . [9780313265471]

A Bibliography of Sierra Leone: Preceded by an essay on the Origin, Character and Peoples of the Colony and Protectorate

Luke, H.C. · 1925 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Oxford University Press London [vi], 230, frontis, 3 b/w plates, folding map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Good ex-lib.: a few neat ink stamps, spine label, closed tear to bottom corner of a few leaves with no damage to text.. Second, enlarged edition. Part I, 'The Colony and Prote...

(1) Huxley and scientific agnosticism: the strange history of a failed rhetorical strategy; (2) Placing Nature: natural history collections and their owners in nineteenth-century provincial England; (3) Imagining Iceland: narratives of nature and history

Lightman, B.; Alberti, S.J.M.M.; Olsund, K. · 2002 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 64, text figs. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 35(3), No. 126: (1) By B. Lightman, pp. 271-289; (2) By Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, pp. 291-311; (3) By K. Olsund, pp. 313-334..

Psychoanalysing Robert Boyle

Hunter, M. (Ed.); Kahr, B.; Clay, J.; Figlio, K.; Cantor, G.; Higginson, I.; Smith, C. · 1999 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Cambridge University Press 124, b/w photos. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 32(3), No. 114 - Special issue..

'The ants were duly visited': Making sense of John Lubbock, scientific naturalism and the sense of social insects

Clark, J.F.M. · 1997 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 26, 5 text figs. . PB. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 30(2), No. 105: 151-176 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

Making and Circulating Hnowledge through Sir William Hamilton's <i>Campi Phlegraei</i>

Wood, K. · 2006 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 30, 8 text figs. . PB. 8vo, crease to front cover. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 39(1), No. 140: 67-96 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

Alfred Russel Wallace, Robert Owen and the theory of natural selection

Jones, G. · 2002 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 24, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 35(1), No. 124: 73-96 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

Mary Anning (1799-1847) of Lyme: 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew'

Torrens, H. · 1995 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 28, 5 text figs. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 28(3), No. 98: 257-284 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg (1795-1876): The man and his legacy

Williams, D.M.; Huxley, R. · 1998 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Academic Press London 88, Frontis, text figs. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrapppers. Vg.. Linnean Special Issue No. 1. Ehrenburg was one of the most important early micropalaeontologists..

Colin Patterson (1933-1998). A Celebration of his Life

Forey, P.L.; Gardiner, B.G.; Humphries, C.J. (Eds) · 2000 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Linnean Society London 96, portrait frontis, b/w photos. . PB. Vg.. An edited volume arising from addresses presented at the Linnean Society of London. <i>The Linnean Special Issue</i> No. 2. Subjects include systematics, palaeontology and ichthyology..

Fleeming Jenkin and <i>The Origin of Species</i>: A reassesment

Morris, S.W. · 1994 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 31, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 27(3), No. 94: 313-343 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

British women who contributed to research in the geological sciences in the nineteenth century

Creese, M.R.S.; Creese, T.M. · 1994 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 32, 1 text fig. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 27(1), No. 92: 23-54 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

Eleanor Ormerod (1828-1901) as an economic entomologist: 'pioneer of purity even more than Paris Green'

Clark, J.F. McDiarmid · 1992 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 22, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 25(4), No. 87: 431-452 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

Alfred Russel Wallace: Some notes on the Welsh Connection

Hughes, R. Elwyn · 1989 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 18, 3 text figs. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 22(4), No. 75: 401-418 (complete issue - includes other papers)..

From Lake Nyassa to Philadelphia: a geography of the Zambesi Expedition, 1858-64

Dritsas, L. · 2005 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 18, 1 text fig. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers, spine faded. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 38(1), No. 136: 35-52 (complete issue - includes other papers). With a focus on shells collected by John Kirk during David Livingston'...

Cataloguing power: delineating 'component naturalists' and the meaning of species in the British Museum

McOuat, G. · 2001 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Cambridge University Press 28, . . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Vg.. <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> Vol. 31(1), No. 40: 1-28 (complete issue - includes other papers). Examining the role and authority of the British Museum in the standards and discourse of naming...