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Stanford University Press. Very Good. 1965. Softcover. 0804712239 . Trade paperback edition. 208 pp. "A perennial standard work... The best of all modern books on the California deserts." Westways. ; 8.47 X 5.33 X 0.53 inches .

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. Very Good. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. 1681 pages. Full color frontispiece. Illustrations and maps. Laid in is a memeographed half-sheet "Miscellaneous Corrections." Orignal red buckram. Neatly penned notes on the ffep with some very light pencil marginalia and studied drawings. A comprehensive reference manual, covering about 6,000 California plants, both native and naturalized.; 8vo .

Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. Near Fine. 1961. Softcover. Original brown paper wraps. 51 pages. Illustrated by the author. Frontispiece. Some of the pages have been opened roughly; there is minor wear along the lower edge - else fine. ; 8vo .

Wilderness Society. Good. N.D.. Softcover. Gray paper wraps with black and white photograph and lettering. (1980). Pp [32]. Illustrated with full and half page photographs. Heavy glossy paper. Scuff and wear on the edges and cover. The text and illustrations are bright and clear. Contents: A tribute to Ansel Adams: celebrating the American earth: a preface / by John Szarkowski --The meaning of the national parks / Ansel Adams --Ansel Adams: the role of the artist in the environmental movement / Robert Turnage --A wilderness vision: the Wilderness Society and the public lands -- .

Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. Very Good. 1905. Softcover. Brown paper wraps. No. 1417, From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Vol. XXIX. Pp 121-170. Worn edges, missing a 2x1" piece of the front, lower edge cover, as well as edge chips. Text is firmly bound, edge toned title page, no markings. ; 8vo .

Entomological Society of America. Very Good-. 1951. Reprint. Softcover. This is an article reprinted from Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol. 44, No. 3, Sept., 1951. Pages 327-361. Illustrated with 126 fig. Published without cover wraps, the front & back cover pages are split at the spine but remain intact. Some light soil else a clean copy. ; 8vo .

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. Pictorial cover. 197 pages. Edges and corners worn. In 1979, Dr. Roberts and Henry Lansfor published the Climate Mandate which discussed the climatic variation and its implication. ; 8vo .

Washington D.C: Smithsonian Institution. Near Fine. 1956. Softcover. Papers Wraps. iii, 78 pages. Intext figures. Published October 17, 1956. Minor edge wear else a fine copy. Robert Evans Snodgrass (1875-1962) Was an entomologist and artist who made important contributions to the fields of arthropod morphology, anatomy, evolution, and metamorphosis. ; 8vo .

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Good. First Edition. Quarto, 10 1/8" tall, 280 pages with intertextual color and b&w illustration, illustrated endpapers and illustrated beige cloth. Clean, neat hardcover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. Dust jacket with edge wear, with original price.; 8vo ; 280 pp pages .

Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0091002400 . Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st Edition. The dust jacket is edge worn.; 8vo ; 277 pp pages .

Cambrdge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 424pp. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. Light edgewear to the jacket. There are two marks in the text block, one 1" red line in the margin and one minute mark. Otherwise a clean, tight copy in the orignal uncliped jacket. "The central message of Edward O. Wilson's Diversity of Life is that Homo sapiens is in imminent danger of precipitating a biological disaster to rival anything in evolutionary history. Two decades ago he popularized the term 'sociobiology, ' and generated a small industry of speculation about the biological basis of human nature. (David Papineau New York Times Book Review). “[Wilson’s] passion for the beauty and mystery of nature, coupled with his adherence to scientific method and his unsurpassed professional standing, give the work the possibility of being the most important environmental book since Rachel… Leer más

Amsterdam, London, New York: Elsevier Publishing Company. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1972. Hardcover. Grey cloth. vi, 186pp. Illustrated with diagrams and maps. Includes one fold out map. FINE with penciled bookseller notes on the ffep. Originally issued as Upper Mantle scientific report no. 40, reprinted from Tectonophysics, v. 15 "Papers ... presented at a one day Upper Mantle Committee symposium on rifting in Africa, held on August 7, 1971 as part of the 15th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Moscow."; 8vo .

New York, Toronto: Bantam Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Pp xviii, 302. Index. Illustrated. Tightly bound copy, with single line marginalia scattered throughout text. Abstract: Peter Ward, on a journey that traverses continents and travels into the past, searches for the clues to these disastrous events. His reason is urgent and chilling, for Ward and many other prominent scientists have documented signs that a third mass extinction has already begun on our planet. Could its primary cause reach back just 100,000 years, when the earth felt the impact of another wandering, potentially destructive force, a new 'asteroid' called Homo sapiens?" "Ward's journey progresses from fossil hunting in Africa to following a dinosaur trail in Hell Creek, Montana, and finally to climbing high in the remote Caucasus Mountains of Soviet Georgia to see if its thick white limestone holds evidence of a long-ago planetary destruction. At each… Leer más

New York: Appleton Century Crofts. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0390430404 . Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG, Orange cloth binding, Top edges foxed, The dust jacket is slightly edge worn; 8vo ; 594 pp pages .

Pitsburg, PA: Carnegie-Mellon Univ.. Very Good. 1981. Softcover. 486 pp. Soiling to cover and edges. Binding tight, edges with some light wear. Contents: (Not including sub-headings) Preface by Cudder and James L. Reveal. Opening address J. Magnard Smith. Arctic Refugia and Evolution of Arctic Biota; Origin and Evolution of the North Pacific Marine Biota; Evolution of Reproductive Strategies; Evolutionary Epigenetics; Macromolecular Mechanisms in the Evolution of Eukaryotic Cells; Allozymes and Evolution; Comparative Study of the Genetic Material DNA; Evolution of Colonizing Species; The maintenance of Gene Pools; Palaeobiology of the Pacific Rim; The Second International congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology; List of Registered Participants...; Index to Authors. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0393099210 . Hardcover. Condition: NF/VG, Black cloth binding, The dust jacket is edge worn. ; 8vo ; 270 pp pages .

Washington D.C: Smithsonian Institution. Very Good. 1958. Softcover. Original brown paper wraps. 77 pages. Illustrated with intext figures. Worn ends and edges, partially detatched cover. ; 8vo .

Golden: Fulcrum, Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 155591022X . Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/VG. First Printing. (xxvii) 410 pages, map, color plates, b/w illustrations in text, list of illustations, bibliography, index, 8vo, red cloth. Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains led by Major Stephen H. Long (1784 - 1988) by order of the U.S. Secretary of War, and compiled by expedition botanist and geologist Edwin James (1797 - 1861). ; 8vo ; 410 pp pages .

[New York]: Tudor Publishing Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1921. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in green cloth boards with a beautiful gilt scarab cover design and spine lettering, minor rubs at the ends. Some age tone inside at the hinge of the frontcover, half and full title page. Jacket is lightly worn at the corners. Uncommon in the original illustrated cover box, now worn on the corners, bottom split at the side, remains moderately attractive and serviceable. In Fine unmarked in Fine jacket with Protective cover. Pp [14], 271. Frontispiece and 11 full color tipped in plates. Fabre's Bookof Insects is a retelling of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Jean-Henri Fabre's Souvenirs entomologique, a project that Matto considered his greatest achievement. Fabre's work is a series of texts on insects and arachnids. It talks about insects in real life, mythology and folklore. He influenced the later writings of Charles Darwin, who called Fabre "an… Leer más

Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. Near Fine. 1960. Softcover. Original brown paper wraps. iii, 61 pages. Illustrated with intext fig. Small coffee (?) drop stains on the front cover, minor edge wear else fine. ; 8vo .