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O Gadach bez Sensacji.
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O Gadach bez Sensacji.

by Marya ska, Teresa

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Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Geologiczne, Muzeum Ziemi pan Warszawa, 1970. Duodecimo. Original yellow wrappers printed in black with a black and white photo of fossilised dinosaur skin to the upper wrapper. Folding map. Diagrams and illustrations from black and white photographs throughout the text. Contemporary price sticker to the rear cover. Wrappers a little tanned and rubbed, tail of spine bumped. A very good copy. First edition, first impression. A rare copy of this charming, illustrated booklet on dinosaurs published by Warsaw's Museum of the Earth. WorldCat only locates one copy, at the National Library of Poland. The detailed edition statement records that this book was submitted for typesetting in October 1969 and approved for printing in March 1970, with the order number dated 1969, for a total of 5,200 copies. Though the date 1979 appears above the statement, this is a typo, likely for 1970 (many thanks to Philip Penka of Bernett Penka Rare Books for the translation). Author Teresa Marya ska… Read More
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Observations in Meteorology: Relating to Temperature, the Winds, Atmospheric Pressure, the...
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Observations in Meteorology: Relating to Temperature, the Winds, Atmospheric Pressure, the Aqueous Phenomena of the Atmosphere, Weather-Changes, etc., Being Chiefly the Results of a Meteorological Journal Kept for Nineteen Years at Swaffham Bulbeck in Cambridgeshire...

by Jenyns, Leonard

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London: John van Voorst, 1858. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, decorative roundels to spine and borders to boards clocked in blind, yellow coated endpapers. Single leaf of publisher's ads at rear. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, spine a little rolled, endpapers and half title tanned, occasional small spots to contents. An excellent copy, the cloth fresh. First edition of this significant contribution to 19th century meteorological records, uncommon in such nice condition. By the close of his career author Leonard Jenyns (later Blomefield, 1800-1893) was considered a "patriarch of natural history studies in Great Britain" (ODNB). Interested in science from a young age, Jenyns attended Cambridge, where he became a close friend and collaborator with J. S. Henslow. In 1823 Jenyns was ordained, and his first post was as curate of Swaffam Bulbeck, where he made the meteorological observations published in the present volume. Cambridge was nearby, and he maintained strong relations… Read More
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The Oldest Known North American Occurence of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the...
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The Oldest Known North American Occurence of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Liassic (Lower Jurassic) Fernie Group, Alberta, Canada." [Offprint from] Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 13, Number 1, pages 185-188.

by Nicholls, Elizabeth L.

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[Ottowa]: National Research Council, Canada, 1976. 4-page offprint. Wire-stitched, original blue wrappers printed in black. Illustrations from black and white photographs within the text. Shelf numbers in black ink to the upper wrapper. Corner of the upper wrapper creased, mild horizontal crease affecting wrappers and contents. Very good condition. The rare offprint of the first published paper by palaeontologist Elizaabeth L. Nicholls (1946-2004). Plesiosaurs were long-necked, marine reptiles that evolved during the Triassic period. They survived the mass extinction that led to the Jurassic, and flourished alongside the dinosaurs during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The partially articulated plesiosaur skeleton described in this paper was discovered in 1970, in the foothills of southwestern Alberta. Collected by a team from the University of Calgary in 1974, it was notable for being the earliest specimen yet recorded in North America, where plesiosaur fossils are more commonly found in later… Read More
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Olduvai Gorge. My Search for Early Man.
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Olduvai Gorge. My Search for Early Man.

by Leakey, Mary

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London: Collins, 1979. Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 6 double-sided plates from black and white photographs, line drawings throughout the text. A fine copy in the jacket. First edition, first impression and a fine copy, uncommon in such nice condition. Mary Leakey (1913-1996) was an accomplished archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who worked primarily on early humanoid fossils in Kenya and Tanzania with her husband and scientific partner Louis Leakey. "The site that will always be associated with Mary Leakey is Olduvai Gorge, a canyon in northern Tanzania containing rich collections of fossils and artefacts spanning about the last 2 million years. This became her second home, where she enjoyed fieldwork and research, accompanied by her pack of beloved dalmatian dogs, of which she was a well-known breeder. At Olduvai on 17 July 1959 she made one of the most famous fossil discoveries of all time, the skull of a 1.8 million-year-old early human relative whom… Read More
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On the Instincts and Habits of the Solitary Wasps. [Bound together with] Additional Observations...
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On the Instincts and Habits of the Solitary Wasps. [Bound together with] "Additional Observations on the Instincts and Habits of the Solitary Wasps" [in] Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society, vol. 1, no. 2, April 1900.

by Peckham, George W. & Elizabeth G.

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Madison, WI: the state of Wisconsin, 1898. Octavo. Contemporary library style binding of black half skiver, black cloth sides, spine gilt in compartments. 14 plates of which 2 are chromolithographs and the 12 are lithographs. Binding rubbed with wear at the corners, spine ends, and hinges, contents toned. A very good copy. First edition, first printing of both titles, the "Additional Observations" being a presentation copy inscribed, "Mr, Claus H. Shirum [?], compliments of the authors". Authors Elizabeth and George Peckham were entomologists and archnologists who together pioneered the study of jumping spiders; were early proponents of including behaviour in taxonomical analysis; and performed some of the first studies on sexual selection. Elizabeth was the first female science graduate of Vasser, one of Milwaukee's first librarians, and a suffragist. George obtained a medical degree but chose to teach high school, and in 1880 the Peckhams introduced the first biological laboratory course in an… Read More
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On the Morphology and Classification of the Brachiopod Suborder Chonetoidea. With Sixteen Plates...
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On the Morphology and Classification of the Brachiopod Suborder Chonetoidea. With Sixteen Plates and Twenty Four Figures in the Text.

by Muir-Wood, Helen

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London: printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, May, 1962. Large octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, borders of boards blocked in blind. 16 plates from photographs, diagrams within the text. First edition of this culminating work by one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric brachiopods, a large phylum of marine bivalves valuable for their role in understanding and dating geological strata. "Brachiopods are characteristic of shallow marine environments, and in some Palaeozoic rocks they are the main rock-forming component. Brachiopods are also particularly suitable for palaeoecological analyses. Influenced by such factors as water depth, salinity, oxygen levels and static lifestyle, the distribution patterns of fossil brachiopods provide a useful tool in deducing the position of ancient shorelines and the past distribution of land and sea. Through the rapid evolution of some brachiopod lineages, they can be useful for understanding the relative ages of rock… Read More
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The Organization and Cell-Lineage of the Ascidian Egg.
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The Organization and Cell-Lineage of the Ascidian Egg.

by Conklin, Edward Grant

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Philadelphia: Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1905. Folio. Blue cloth library binding, blue morocco title label to spine. 12 plates of which 5 are colour lithographs. Ownership signature of E. W. MacBride to the front free endpaper. Library call numbers to tail of spine in white, Imperial College Library bookplates, bar code ticket, and lending card to the front endpapers with withdrawn stamps, library ink stamps to both sides of the title leaf. Cloth scuffed and marked with some worn areas along the joints and at the ends of the spine, title page toned, occasional light spots and marks to contents. Very good condition. First edition, first printing of a foundational work in embryology. This copy from the library of marine biologist Ernest William MacBride, who donated it to Imperial College Library, from which it was officially withdrawn. Rare in commerce. Though he considered a religious career, Edward Grant Conklin's (1863-1952) "burning interest was in biology, and he decided to… Read More
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