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Amazing Arachnids

Cowles, J. · 2018 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£28.50 (€34.16 | $37.65 | ¥6,012)

Princeton University Press 328, 750 colour photos. 254x203mm. HB. NEW. . The American Southwest is home to an extraordinary diversity of arachnids, from spitting spiders that squirt silk over their prey to scorpions that court one another with kissing and dancing. Amazing Arachn…

The Middle Passage

v. s. naipaul · 2001 · Klondyke BV

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Paperback; 2001; Picador UK; 256pp.; Picador ed. 2001, met niet meer dan de gebruikelijke leeftijdseigen vergeling. Geen leeslijntjes in de rug. -- Conditie: Goed; V.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in 1960, of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Mini…

Obsession with Butterflies

Sharman Apt Russell · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Random House 2005 Paperback, 288pp. The story of man's fascination with butterflies, as symbols, as objects of beauty, and of obsession. In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief. From Hindu mythology to Aztec sacrifices, butterflies have served as a metaphor for resur…

Darwin and Modern Science

Various [Ed. by Albert Charles Seward] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1909. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a series of commemorative essays celebrating the centenary of Darwin's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of his Origin of Species. The first edition of Darwin and Modern Science, a seri…

A Monograph of the Nymphidiina (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Nymphidiini): Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Biology, and Biogeography

Hall, J.P.W. · 2018 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

Entomological Society of Washington 990, 39 plates of col + b/w photos, 1048 illus, 73 distribution maps. . HB. NEW. . This extensive monograph provides a comprehensive phylogenetic revisions of the 26 butterfly genera (159 species) recognized in the riodinid subtribe Nymphidiin…

The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II

Ian Lloyd · 2022 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The History Press. First UK edition. Book. Mint condition. The History Press, 2022. First UK edition. Yellow hardback (white lettering to the spine) with Dj (very small nick on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. Illustrated with b/w photos. The book is new. 319p…

American Homes and Gardens Magazine, January (Jan. ) 1909, Volume VI, No. 1 - "Chesterwood," the Country Home of Daniel Chester French, N.A. , Glendale, Massachusetts

FERREE, B.; CAMEHL, A.; LOW, E.; CHAUNCEY, C.; WALKER, C.; BASTIN, S.; THURSTON, P.; ET AL · 1909 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$495.00 (€449.13 | £374.70 | ¥79,045)

New York: Munn & Company, 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Howe, Samuel. 40 pages plus xx pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: "Chesterwood," The Country Home of Daniel Chester French, N.A, Glendale, Massachusetts; A Curious Coll…

Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature

Greene, Harry W. · 1 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

University of California Press Berkeley xiv, 351, col photos throughout. . HB. Vg in d/w. Corner lightly bumped. Gift inscription to endpaper.. This is a book about some of nature's most alluring and forbidding creatures, written by a man with an abiding passion for snakes, as w…

Henri Michaux: Peintures

Pacquement, Alfred; Bellour, Raymond; Michaux, Henri · 1993 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$195.00 (€176.93 | £147.61 | ¥31,139)

Paris, Gallimard, 1993. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover in illustrated slipcase. Book bound in grey cloth with stamped titles in illustrated jacket. 319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. French text. In 1939, Henri Michaux, then forty years old, published a pamphlet entit…

Maclean's Magazine, 1 December (Dec. ), 1950 - Death of the Canadian Seaman's Union (C.S. U. )

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1950 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.66 | £223.31 | ¥47,108)

Canada: Maclean's Magazine, 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Features: Editorial - Housing's a Headache the Provinces Should Handle; Backstage in India - the split with India widens; The Masters at Margate - London Letter by Beverley Baxter; Everybody Boos the CBC, by Pierre Bert…

Aristophanes: The Birds and the Frogs

Aristophanes; Marshall MacGregor · 1927 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Edward Arnold & Co. 1927. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, lovely first edition of MacGregor's translation of Aristophanes' notable plays 'The Birds' and 'The Frogs.' A lovely copy of Aristophanes' notable plays 'The Birds&apos…

The Zoologist. A popular miscellany of natural history conducted by Edward Newman, F.L.S., Z.S., &c. Volumes 1-11.

The Zoologist [H. W. Bates] · 1843 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€1,250.00 ($1,377.66 | £1,042.85 | ¥219,996)

London, John van Voorst, 1843-1853. 11 volumes in 11. 8vo. (21.4 x 13.6 cm). 4156, cciv pp.; illustrations in the text. Contemporary uniform black half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title, volume year, and decorative lines. Speckled edges. = The English explorer and…

The Dean's December

Saul Bellow · 1982 · Verzamelaars kabinet

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Staat: Zeer goed. Uitgever: The alison press. Druk: 1. Dit boek is geschreven door Saul Bellow. Het gaat over een academische decaan in een existentiële crisis tijdens een wintermaand. Saul Bellow was een invloedrijke Canadees-Amerikaanse schrijver van Joods-Russische afkomst, d…

JHK planaxol chromatographic book.

Kocman, Jiri H. (b.1947). · 1970 · Fahrenheit 451

€3,750.00 ($4,133.00 | £3,128.54 | ¥659,988)

Brno, J.H. Kocman, 1970, (46) leaves (incl. wrappers) with (coloured) (ink)stains, cloth spine, 14 x 20 cm. = Extremely rare and important Czech artist's book. Frontwrapper with stamped title and address and autograph manuscript in black ballpoint: "Jiri H. Kocman 8.70" and "no…

Jonathan Meese.

Jonathan Meese · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€34.00 ($37.47 | £28.37 | ¥5,984)

, Tim Van Laere Books,, 2022 Hardcover, 156 pages / seiten, ENG / D, 255 x 205 mm, NEW, full of illustrations in colour / farbe. *new ISBN 9789464004168. Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970 in Tokyo) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist ba…