San Diego, CA: San Diego Society of Natural History, 1933. Soft cover. Pages 259-272 with plates 16 and 17. A near fine copy. More
Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture/Government Printing Office/GPO, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. The scope of theis catalog is as follows: 1. The zoological group treated as the Order Diptera, or two-winged flies, which included the midges, gnats, and mosquitoes. Species known only as fossils are not included. 2. The..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office/US Department of Agriculture/Forest Service, 1908. First edition. Soft cover. Includes trees within the region covered by Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. 441 pages with maps, illustrations, many as foldouts, and index. Large piece missing from the rear cover, else a very good copy..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. George Miksch Sutton. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, folio. Forward by Enrique Beltrán. The text accompanying each painting gives the scientific name and pertinent lore about each bird. Additional plate of the Blue-Crowned Motmot laid in. Fine in a very good dust jacket..... More
Ottawa, Canada: Canada Department of Mines/F.A. Acland, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Covers all the birds known to occur in Canada from the Ontario-Manitoba boundary line to the Pacific coast. 380 pages with black and white sketches and color illustrated plates. Privately bound in blue cloth with lettering on the spine..... More
Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas/State Geological Survey of Kansas, 1945. Soft cover. Pages 19 through 84 with six photographic plates bound in. Bound in original tan thick paper cover printed in black. A near fine copy. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1923. First US edition. Hardcover. Illustrates biological ideas in reference to birds, biological concepts such as adaptation, struggle, sex, heredity, variation, selection, and behaviour. 436 pages with black and white illustration, photographic plates, bibliography and index. Bound in original green cloth with lettering on the spine..... More
Upsaliae [Sweden]: Apud Johan. Edman [25 Apr. MDCCLXXXIII], 1783. Hardcover. Approximate translation from the Latin; ENTOMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS A NEW SPECIES OF INSECTS, STRUCTURAL, IN ITS SECOND PART, EXPER. FACULT. MED. PRESIDENT CAROL. P. THUNBERG, AND THE RESPONSE, JOHN M. EKELUND. Pages 29 to 52 plus plate 2 only. From the..... More
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz [1904 & 1905], 1905. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, complete. Each volume a little over one thousand pages. Bound in original quarter leather over marbled boards, four raised bands and lettering in gilt. A very good, sound set. More
San Francisco: Howard & Pariser, Publishers, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Bound in original full calf with black leather title labels on the spine which has four raised bands. 337 pages with two page map, four color plates and fifteen black and white full page illustrations. Erratum sheet tipped in in..... More
Hollywood, CA: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1913. First edition. Soft cover. 114 pages with listing of birds and their description, plus index. Bound in original gray paper covers printed in black. Pages unopened. Covers mildly toned. Call number on the front cover, though no other library markings, labels or pockets were..... More
San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1953. First edition. Soft cover. The Coleoptera are not very numerous but they are found on all the islands and some are restriced to rather definite environments as the seacoast, the semiarid lowlands, or the moister highlands. Signature of J. Wyatt Durham on the..... More
France: National Museum of Natural History [about 1942]. Hardcover. Pages 257 through 392 with numerous insect illustrations. Pulled from the journal and privately bound in green buckram by Robert L. Usinger with his bookplate fixed to the front paste-down endpaper. Usinger (1912-1968) served on the faculty in the Department of..... More
Paris: Dentu, Imprimeur - Libraire, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Volume I: cxxx, 302 pages, plus six plates. Volume II: xxii, 438 pages with index, plus errata page to volume I. Each volume bound in half leather over marbled paper covered boards. From the library of Robert L. Usinger with his..... More
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO, 1900. Hardcover. 953 pages. Six sections by the authors listed above are titled; Brief Memorandum on the Geology of the Philippine Islands; A study of Bird Mountain, Vermont; Devonian Fossils from Southwestern Colorado: The Fauna of..... More
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO, 1900. Hardcover. 953 pages. Six sections by the authors listed above are titled; Brief Memorandum on the Geology of the Philippine Islands; A study of Bird Mountain, Vermont; Devonian Fossils from Southwestern Colorado: The Fauna of..... More
Albany, NY: New York State Museum / New York State Education Department, 1906. Soft cover. 186 pages tables, graphs, bibliography and index. Library call number on the front cover. No other library markings, pockets or labels were ever present. A very good plus copy. More
Boulder, CO/Washington DC: Westview Press/American Association for the Advancement of Science/AAAS, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of papers concerned with the ecology and occupation of mountain areas. Each of the contributing authors is an internationally recognized authority. 188 pages with graphs, maps, tables and references. A fine copy. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover. Originally published in German in Leipzig by Verlag von Max Weg in 1927 and translated by Judith Schaefer. In the 1920's Weigelt gathered observations about organic preservation in modern depositional environments in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. 188 pages..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover. Originally published in German in Leipzig by Verlag von Max Weg in 1927 and translated by Judith Schaefer. In the 1920's Weigelt gathered observations about organic preservation in modern depositional environments in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. 188 pages..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. A summary of knowledge as of 1927 of migration, with the various factors that affect it in its broader aspects, without entering upon precise statistics of movement for the many species involved. 217 pages. Bound in original blue cloth..... More
Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Publications, 1946. Soft cover. Pages 143 through 216, with six plates, eleven figures and large folded map in the rear pocket. Bound in the original blue stiff paper covers printed in black. Two library stamps to the front cover. No other library markings, plates or..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. Soft cover. Bound in original tan thick paper covers printed in black. Name on front cover. A very good plus copy. More
New York: Chautauqua Press, 1890. Second edition. Hardcover. Illustrations added plus a few textual changes. Bound in original green cloth with lettering in gilt. 329 pages with illustrations. Light wear at heal of spine and light bumping to lower corners. A very sound, very good copy. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1969. Soft cover. The first in a series of reports designed to review the Tertiary and Quaternary genera of fossil peccaries. Text figures 1-14, plates 41-51, tables 1-17. Bound in original blue stiff paper covers with lettering in black. A near fine, bright..... More
