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Positions françaises. Chronique de l'année 1939.

Duhamel, Georges. · 1940

€2.30 ($2.54 | £1.92 | ¥405)

Paris: Mercure de France, 1940 (8me éd.); 207pp., pap.

Serenade.

Slauerhoff, J. · 1942

€15.90 ($17.52 | £13.26 | ¥2,798)

's-Gravenhage, A.A.M. Stols, 1942 (3e druk); 40pp., inh.opg., kl.8vo, half linn.geb. Papier van voorplat licht besch., maar overigens goed ex. ¶ l v. Dijk 440a; deze druk verzorgd door K. Lekkerkerker; uitgeversteken in goud op voorplat.

Eldorado.

Slauerhoff, J. · 1942

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,199)

Bussum: C.A.J. van Dishoeck, 1942 (2e druk); 110pp., 8vo, half linn. geb. Randen omslag en papier wat gebruind. ¶ l reisgedichten en 1 toneelstukje, 'Dschengis' (1923).

Eugène Carrière. Essai critique.

Dubray, Jean-Paul. · 1931

€29.50 ($32.51 | £24.61 | ¥5,191)

Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1931, preface by Jean Royère; xiv+98+160pp., profusely illustrated in bl-wh., lge8vo, paper w. mounted ill. and or. cellophane dustwr. (partly torn). Good copy. ¶ l limited ed.; this is no. 31.

Early Middle English Literature.

Wilson, R.M. · 1951

€8.65 ($9.53 | £7.22 | ¥1,522)

London: Methuen & Co., 1951 (2nd ed.); ix+309pp., index, footnotes, 8vo, cloth w. dustjacket. Annot. in pencil in one chapter, otherwise in v. good condition. ¶ l volume 1 in Methuen's Old English Library: C Studies. The period dealt with extends from 1066 to 1300, covering th...

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Rheenen, Jan van. · 1958

€4.55 ($5.02 | £3.80 | ¥801)

Zuthpen: Thieme, 1958; 137(+6)pp., 109 zw-w foto's, register, kl8vo, geb.

Honden.

Dam, J.H. · 1961

€5.70 ($6.28 | £4.76 | ¥1,003)

Bussum: van Dishoeck (1961); 134pp., zw-w tek d. schrijver, register, kl8vo, gebroch.

Lehrbuch der Kinderheilkunde.

1930

€34.00 ($37.47 | £28.37 | ¥5,982)

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1930 (10th, improved ed.); x+790pp., index, 260 bl-wh and col. photogr., 8vo, cloth. W. a few underl. and first few pp. sl. foxed, but good copy. ¶ l 10 editions of this standard work in 20 years; German text.

Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Botanik.

Went, F.A.F.C. · 1933

€13.65 ($15.05 | £11.39 | ¥2,402)

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1933 (1st ed.); viii+422(+2)pp., 2 indexes, refs, 274 fig., 8vo, cloth. Small owner's entry on title, otherwise mint copy. ¶ l 'vom Verfasser aus dem Holländischen überstezt' (author was a well-known professor of botany at the University of Utrecht, the N...

The relevance of models for social anthropology.

Banton, Michael, ed. · 1965

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London: Tavistock, 1965; xl+238pp., refs, 8vo, paper. ¶ l A.S.A. Monographs no. 1. Are theoretical models useful in the explanation of particular areas of social organization? A.o. Marshall D. Sahlins' evolutionist answer in 'On the sociology of primitive exchange'.

Anthropological approaches to the study of regligion.

Banton, Michael, ed. · 1966

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London: Tavistock, 1966; xlii+176pp., refs, 8vo, paper. ¶ l A.S.A. Monographs no. 3. Could religion be seen as a product of the social structure? Answers by a.o. Clifford Geertz.

The sociobiology of ethnocentrism. Evolutionary dimensions of xenophobia, discrimination, racism and nationalism.

Reynolds, Vernon, Vincent S.E. Falger and Ian Vine, eds. · 1987

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

London/Sydney: Croom Helm, 1987; 8vo (22cm), xx+327pp., index, bibliogr., figures, tables, hardback w. dustwrs. V. good copy. Rare! ¶ l The first thematic book produced by the European Sociobiological Society (Oxford conference, 1985), focussed on in-group/out-group behaviour....

Signs of life. The language and meanings of DNA.

Pollack, Robert. · 1994

€6.85 ($7.55 | £5.71 | ¥1,205)

London: Viking, 1994; (iii+)212pp., index, bibliogr., 8vo, paper. ¶ l more or less easy reading introductory book on complicated theme.

Aggression and peacefulness in humans and other primates.

Silverberg, James, and J. Patrick Gray, eds. · 1992

€15.90 ($17.52 | £13.26 | ¥2,798)

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; xiii+310pp., index, refs, ills, 8vo, cloth w. dustwrs. ¶ l collection of excellent essays on the biological functionality of aggression correlated to differing ecological circumstances; an antidote to the Seville Statement on Violence.

'Kin selection, social structure, gene flow, and the evolution of chimpanzees.'

Morin, P.A., a.o. · 1994

€3.45 ($3.80 | £2.88 | ¥607)

Science, vol. 265, nr. 5176, 26 August 1994, pp. 1193-1201. ¶ l in same issue: 'Decoding chimp genes and lives' (Research news), pp. 1172-3, also on Morin's and Goodall's research and their discovery of a new subspecies.

Human nature and the new Europe.*

McGuire, Michael T., ed. · 1993

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Boulder: Westview Press, 1993; xiv+207pp., refs, fig., 8vo, cloth. ¶ l edited proceedings of a Gruter Intstitute for Law and Behavioral Research conference, held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 1991. Not a very coherent collection by a very diverse set of authors (a.o. Lionel T...

The behavior of communicating. An ethological approach.

Smith, W. John. · 1977

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977; ix+545pp., index, bibliogr., ills, graphs, tables, 8vo, paper. Excellent copy. ¶ l from classical motivational states of displaying animals via 'messages' and their forms to the evolution of display behaviour and, in the end, 'for...

The nature of the sexes. The sociobiology of sex differences and the 'battle of the sexes'.

Dennen, J.M.G. van der, ed. · 1992

€11.35 ($12.51 | £9.47 | ¥1,997)

Groningen: Origin Press, 1992; 292pp., bibliogr., ills, tables, 8vo, paper. ¶ l This is a collection of papers mainly presented at the European Sociobiological Society conference on sex differences in Oslo, 1990. For sale at a strongly reduced price!

Biological lectures and addresses.

Marshall, Arthur Milnes. · 1894

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,199)

London: David Nutt, 1894; viii+362+4pp., footnotes, 8vo, or.cloth. Uncut from p. 300 on. ¶ l author was professor of zoology in Owens College and St. John's College, Cambridge; on, a.o., 'The modern study of zoology', 'The theory of change of function', 'Inheritance', 'Animal ...

The psychology of sex.

Schwarz, Oswald. · 1956

€2.30 ($2.54 | £1.92 | ¥405)

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1956; 288pp., index, footnotes, sm.8vo, paper. ¶ l Pelican A194; 'the role of the sexual instinct in the lives of child and adult, and how the problems it raises may be faced and dealt with.'; clearly not a biologist's approach.