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Explanation and history of the artesian well of Grenelle. With the geological views of the Author, M. Azais.

Azaïs, [Pierre Hyacinthe] (1766-1845): · 1845 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

Boston: J.N. Banh, 40 Cornhill, 1845. 8vo, 20.8cm. Pp. 31. Plain wrs. Few tiny staple holes in inner margin, two small unobtrusive stamps on tirst page, very good otherwise. - "The famous Artesian Well of Grenelle in Paris, has been the source of much philosophical speculation…

The Tower Menagerie. The amazing 600-year history of the Royal Collection of wild and ferocious beasts kept at the Tower of London.

HAHN, Daniel.: · 2004 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, 2004. 8vo, 23.7cm. Pp. xxiii,[3], 260, 15 colour illustr. on 8 plates, several illustr. in text (all from historical sources), index. Hardbound, boards in pict. dust-jacket. Fine, as new.

The Calvinist Copernicans. The receiption of the new astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750. [History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands. Volume I.]

VERMEIJ, Rienk.: · 2002 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002. Large 8vo, 24.3cm. Pp. x,433, 10 illustr. in text, notes & refs., extensive bibliogr (pp. 377-425), name index. Hardbound, orig. printed boards. Fine, as new.

Sedimentary petrology, origin and mining history of the phosphate rocks of Klein Curaçao, Curaçao and Aruba, Netherlands West Indies. [Publ. Found. Sci. Res. Carib. Reg., 130.]

Stienstra, P., 1991.: · 1991 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,840)

Amsterdam: Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring van het Caraibisch Gebied, 1991. 8vo, 24cm. Pp. x,207, 35 photos and figs., 11 tables, bibliogr. Orig. pictorial laminated stiff wrappers. - Doctoral thesis, Utrecht University.

``The arid-land Katydids of the Noert American genus Neobarrettia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): their systematics and a reconstruction of their history. [Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 126.]

Cohn, Th.J., 1965.: · 1965 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

Ann Arbor 1965. 8vo, 25.2cm. Pp. 179, 1 coloured plate, 28 figs. and distrib. maps, tabs., refs. Paperbound (sewn), orig. printed wrappers. Fine.

The Late Quaternary history of the Kattegat Sea and the Swedish West Coast. Deglaciation, shoreline displacement, chronology, isostasy and eustasy. [Sver. Geol. Unders., Ser. C, 640.]

Mörner, N.-A., 1969.: · 1979 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

Stockholm 1979. 8vo, 23.7cm. Pp. [ii],487, 5 fold. maps and 5 fold. plates of diagrams and sections in pocket, 160 figs. in text. Paperbound, orig. printed wrappers. Very good.

Proceedings of the Symposium "Palefloristic and paleoclimatic changes in the Cretaceous and Tertiary", Prague, August 28th-September 1st, 1989. [IGCP Project No. 216; Global Biological Events in Earth History.]

Knobloch, E., & Kvacek, Z. (editors), 1990.: · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

Prague. 4to. Pp. 322, many photos, figs. and diagrs., refs. Orig. wrappers.

History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth. With an account of the Emperor's life after his abdication, by William H. Prescott.

ROBERTSON, William.: · 1857 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

London: George Routledge & Co., 1857. 8vo, 22cm. Vol. 1: pp. x,[2],612, engraved friontispiece portrait, 4 pp. of publishers'advertisements at end; vol. 2: pp. [iv],652, detailed index. Orig. blind-tooled and gilt-decorated and -lettered cloth, upper- and fore-edges uncut. Lit…

Le demi-graben de Baringo-Bogoria, Rift Gregory, Kenya. [...]. / The Baringo-Bogoria half-graben, Gregory Rift, Kenya. 30,000 years of hydrological and sedimentary history.

TIERCELIN, Jean-Jaques, & VINCENS, Annie (coord.), 1987.: · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

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Bull. Centres Rech. Explor.-Prod. Elf-Aquitaine, 11(2): pp. 249-540, numerous photos (incl. several in colour) on pls., maps, figs., diagrs., refs. Orig. laminated pictorial journal issue wrappers. Very good. - Contributions in French, captions to all illustrations in French …

Mes petis amis. Dessins de B. Sweets.

HENRI, Suzanne.: · 1924 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

Lille & Bruges: Desclée, De Brouwer, [n.d., c.1924]. 4to, 25.3cm. Pp. 112, 6 col. pls. and 10 drawings (incl. 2 full-page) by Bertha Sweets. Orig. pict. wrs. Covers a bit thumbed, some light foxing, good otherwise. - Some drawings dated 1923.

A memorial of George Brown Goode, together with a selection of his papers on museums and on the history of science in America. [Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst,. 1897.]

GOODE, George Brown.: · 1901 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

Washington 1901. 8vo, 22.5cm. Pp. xii,515, photogr. frontisp. portr., 109 portrait plates, notes & refs., bibliogr. of Goode, detailed index. Orig. cloth gilt.

The viscosity of synthetic and natural silicate melts and glasses at high temperatures and 1 Bar pressure and at higher pressures. An extended compilation of viscosity data in tabular and graphic form. [U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull.., 1764.]

Ryan, M.P., & Blevins, J.Y.K., 1987.: · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Washington. 4to, 27.5cm. Pp. viii,563, 13 figs. amd photos, numerous tables and full-page graphics throughout, bibl. Orig. wrs. Excellent copy, as new.

History of the reign of Charles the Fifth. With an account of the Emperor's life after his abdication. In two volumes.

PRESCOTT, William H.: · 1857 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

London: George Routlkedge & Co., 1857. 8vo, 22cm. Vol. 1: pp. x,[2],612,[4,adverts.], engr. frontisp. portr., notes & refs.; vol. 2: pp. [iv],652, notes & refs., index. Orig. blind-stamped cloth, backstrips with gilt lettering and decoration, upper and fore edges uncut. Little…

Walking about Moscow. Watercolours of XIX-the first quarter of XX centuries. Gravures of XVII-XIX centuries. From the Collection of the Museum of the History of Moscow.

: · 1996 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Moscow: Interbook Business, 1996. Oblong 4to, 30.5x24cm. Pp. 64, 45 fine full-page colour reproductions of engravings and watercolours, pict. end-papers. Hardbound, pict. boards. Fine new copy.

A popular history of British seaweeds, indluding their structure, fructification, specific characters, arrangement, and general distributionm with notiuces of some fresh-water algae. Third edition.

LANDSBOROUGH, Davis (1779-1854).: · 1857 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€130.00 ($143.28 | £108.45 | ¥22,881)

London: Lovell Reeve, 1857. 12mo, 16cm. Pp. xvi,400, many figures on 20 chromolithographed plates (incl. frontispiece), glossary, index. Recent full cloth, uncut, gilt-lettered title to backstrip. Fine. - Publisher's catalogue of 24 pages bound in front. A former owner has add…

Beschouwingen van de Werken der Natuur. Ten opzigte van de viervoetige Dieren, Vogels, Visschen [...]. Ter Betooginge van Gods Magt, Wysheid en Goedheid. Of Vervolg op [...] J. Ray, Gods Wysheid geopenbaard in de Werken der Scheppinge, enz.

Anon.: · 1768 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

Amsterdam: F. de Kruyff [...], 1768. 8vo, 22cm. Pp. [xviii],645,[13], contemp. quarter red sheepskin, backstrip with raised bands and lettering piece, boards lined with hand-marbled paper, uncut. Marbled paper renewed rather recently, faint waterstain on part of first few leav…

The history of the Niagara River. Extracted from the Sixth Annual Report of the Commission of the State Reservation at Niagara, for the Year 1889.

GILBERT, Grove Karl (1843-1918).: · 1890 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

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Albany: James B. Lyon, 1890. 8vo, 22.8cm. Pp. [ii],61-84, 8 plates of landscape line drawings. Paperbound, orig. printed wrappers. Minimal thumbing to front cover, good otherwise. - Classic paper on the Niagara River by the prominent American geologist viz. geomorphologis. Aut…

The chemistry of llife. Eight lectures on the history of biochemistry. By Robert Hill, Malcolm Dixon, E.F. Gale, Kendal Dixon, F.G. Young, Leslie J. Harris, Mikulás Teigh. Sir Rudolph Peters.

Needham, J. (editor), 1971.: · 1971 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

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Cambridge: At the University Press, 1971. 8vo, 21.6cm. Pp. xxx,214, several illus. (incl. portraits) on 16 plates, few figs., refs., name & subject index. Hardbound, orig. boards gilt with dust-jacket. Fine, like new. [gkt.int.1246]

Audubon.

Rourke, Constance.: · 1936 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1936]. 8vo. Pp.x,342, 12 col.pls. (incl.frontisp.), wood-engraved head- and tail pieces. Orig. cloth in slightly marked dust-jacket.

History of old Sheffield plate. Being an account of the origin, growth, and decay of the industry and of the antique silver and white or Britannica metal trade.

BRADBURY, Frederick: · 1968 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Sheffield: J.W. Northend Ltd., 1968. 4to, 28.8cm. Pp. xiv,539, frontisp., very numerous illus. throughout text, refs. & notes, index. Orig. gilt decorated blue cloth in printed dust-jacket in protective removable transparent plastic covers . Tear and wrinkle to jacket, fine co…