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Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach

Harrison, K.; Smith, E. · 2008 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Ray Society London 621, b/w illus. 248x188mm. HB. Vg in d/w. Book review of present book from <i>The London Naturalist</i> (2008) pasted to front endpaper. From the library of Keith Hyatt (1932-2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the…

Kingfisher

Szabo, I. · 2019 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£14.95 (€17.92 | $19.75 | ¥3,155)

Reaktion Books 199, 100 illustrations, 90 in colour. 190x135mm. PB. NEW. . Kingfishers are a sight to behold. The dash and verve of this cosmopolitan bird has been admired for millennia, appearing in creation myths, imperial regalia and cultural iconography, and they were once v…

The Ecology and Evolution of Heliconius Butterflies: A Passion for Diversity

Jiggins, C. · 2017 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£117.50 (€140.86 | $155.26 | ¥24,796)

Oxford University Press 288, 30 col plates, text figs. 246x189mm. HB. NEW. . The Heliconius butterflies are one of the classic systems in evolutionary biology and have contributed hugely to our understanding of evolution over the last 150 years. Their dramatic radiation and rema…

Nietzsche

Hollingdale, R.J. · 2001 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$31.00 (€28.13 | £23.46 | ¥4,951)

Calgary Cambridge University Press pp. xii, 270. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread. As New Hollingdale's biography remains the single best account of the life and works for the student or nonspecialist. This classic biography of Nietzsche was f…

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Jacobs, Kate · 2008 · De Boekentuin Alkmaar

€12.90 ($14.22 | £10.76 | ¥2,271)

Berkley, Slappe kaft, 2008, paperback, 391 blz., gelezen, Samenvatting THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Once a week, an eclectic group of women comes together at a New York City yarn shop to work on their latest projects-and share the stories of their lives... At the center of W…

The naturalist in Nicaragua: a narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannajhs and forests. With observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms.

BELT, Thomas (1832-1878).: · 1874 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

London: Johnn Murray, 1874. 8vo, 18.7cm. Pp. xvi,403, frontispiece, 1 folding map, 26 wood-engraved figures in text, index. Original blue cloth, uncut, gilt embossed vignette to front cover, gilt lettering and decoration to backstrip. Backstrip a bit darkened and with trace of…

Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, March 1980 (Volume 31, No. 10)

Sweezy, Paul M, Harry Magdoff and Leo Huberman (eds.) with Bobbye Ortiz · 1980 · Books on the Web

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Monthly Review, 1980. Paper bound, 64pp. Tight and clean - near fine. Contents include: Cold War, Inflation, and Controls; Capital and Labor in South Africa: Preliminary Remarks on the Wiehahn Commission Report by Moeletsi Mbeki; The World Food Problem: Malthus, Marx, and …

Turning Back The Clock. Hot Wars and Media Populism

A. Mcewan, Umberto Eco · 2008 · Klondyke BV

€8.95 ($9.86 | £7.47 | ¥1,575)

Paperback; 2008; Vintage; 369pp.; Goed / zeer goed ex! Levering direct uit voorraad -- Conditie: Goed; After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco proposes, not so much that we resume a forward march,…

THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE DUKE OF LEEDS, THE BRIDGEWATER TRUST, READING CORPORATION, THE INNER TEMPLE, &C.

(Leeds). · 1888 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

HMSO 1888. 1st Ed. [iv] + 383pp. Browning, ex-libris Cefntilla Court, ink stamp to rear pastedown, original upper wrapper bound in, rebound in brown cloth with title by hand in black ink to spine, marked. Historical Manuscripts Commission. Eleventh Report, Appendix, Part VII.[…

BurnetÕs Travels: Or, a collection of letters to the Hon. Robert Boyle, Esq; containing an account of what seemÕd most remarkable in travelling throÕ Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, & in the years 1685, and 1686. To which is added, an appendix, containing some remarks on Switzerland and Italy. Communicated to the author by a person of quality. Together with a copious table of the contents of each letter. A new edition.

BURNET (Gilbert): · 1737 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 350.00 (€378.63 | $417.33 | £315.83 | ¥66,650)

London, Printed for and sold by Ward and Chandler, MDCCXXXVII, (London: Printed by J. Hughs near LincolnÕs-Inn Field), 1737, sm. in-8vo, XXIV + 264 p., hw. on first fly ÔSamuel H. Darwin Jun.Õ, full contemporary calf, red titlepiece on spine, some gilt filets, very good copy …

Seeing Further The Story Of Science & The Royal Society

Bill Bryson and Jon Turney · 2011 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

HarperPress 2011 Paperback, 501pp. HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniver…

List of the Geological Society of London. 1870-1899.

[Geological Society of London] · 1870 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

London, The Geological Society of London, 1870-1989. 30 yearly volumes in three. 8vo (21.2 x 14.0 cm). ca. 2400 pp. Uniform pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers. Speckled edges. = An uninterrupted run of the members ("fellows") list o…

Iconographia plantarum fossilum. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen fossiler Pflanzen.

Unger, F. [J. A. N.] · 1852 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

Wien, Kaiserliche Academie der Wissenschaften, 1852. Folio (38.5 x 27.5 cm). 56 pp.; 22 chromolithographed plates (one larger, folded). Disbound. = A richly illustrated work on fossil plants by the Austrian botanist, zoologist and palaeontologist Franz Joseph Andreas Nicolaus Un…

Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being outlines of the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland.

Moore, D. and A. G. More · 1866 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

Dublin, Hodges, Smith, 1866. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm) lvi,. 399, [ii] pp. Original embossed pictorial blue cloth. Gilt title on the spine; gilt floral border and vignette on the front board. Olive endpapers. = Rather rare Irish Flora, with an emphasis on phytogeography and habitats,…

Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher.

Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. [D.] · 1851 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

Breslau, Hamburg, Perthes-Besser und Mauke, 1851. 4to (29.5 x 22.7 cm). 74 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Interesting essay on the most important and oldest still existing scientific society in Germany. It published the famous Miscellanea Curiosa, Acta and Nova Acta Leopoldina…

ARGOSY Weekly: April, Apr. 6, 1940 ("The Devil's Doubloons")

Argosy (Thomas W. Duncan; Foster-Harris; Jack Byrne; Richard Wormser; William Byron Mowery; Borden Chase; Stookie Allen; Johnston McCulley) · 1940 · Books from the Crypt

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Good Frank A. Munsey Co. NY Vol. 298, No. 2. [Edited by George W. Post.] Cover by Rudolph Belarski for "When the Wind Blows" (novelet) by Thomas W. Duncan; "Justice Plays Too Rough" by Foster-Harris; "$1,000 Every Thursday" (pt. 3 of 5) by Jack Byrne; "Detour, Mr. Darwin" by Ric…

Fantastic Universe: September, Sept. 1954

FANTASTIC UNIVERSE (LESTER DEL REY; MEL HUNTER; WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT; FRANK BELKNAP LONG; ROGER DEE; MARCIA KAMIEN; EVELYN GOLDSTEIN; RICHARD E. SMITH; MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY; JOHN JAKES; RAY CUMMINGS) · 1954 · Books from the crypt

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, King-Size Publications. 1954. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 2, No. 2. Edited by Leo Margulies. Cover art by Schomburg. Includes "The Life Watch" by Lester Del del Rey; "Or Darwin, If You Prefer" by Mel Hunter; "The Woman Obsession" by William Campbell Gault; "The Cottage" …

The Future Is Now

NOLAN, WILLIAM F. (EDITOR)(ROBERT F. YOUNG; FRANK ANMAR; RICHARD C. MEREDITH; NORMAN CORWIN; ANTHONY BOUCHER; DENNIS ETCHISON; WILLIAM F. NOLAN; TOM PURDOM; TERRY DIXON; RAYMOND E. BANKS; RAY RUSSELL; RON GOULART) · 1970 · Books from the crypt

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

LA, Sherbourne Press, Inc. 1970, First Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, 1st printing (1970) Dj art is uncredited. Includes "Introduction"; "The Ogress" by Robert F. Young; "Jenny Among the Zeebs" by Frank Anmar; "Earthcoming" by Richard C. Meredith; "Belles Lettres, 2…

The extraterrestrial life debate, antiquity to 1915 : a source book

Crowe, Michael J. (ed.) · 2008 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Paperback. 554 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany …

History Today : June 2020 : Vol. 70 Issue 6

LAY, PAUL (EDITOR) · 2020 · Godley Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

London, History Today Ltd. 2020, First Edition. Soft Cover, 9.5 x 6.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Crossword not done. Very faint creasing to upper corners of covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 112pp. Periodical maga…