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1895003009Washington: Smithsonian Institution 1895. pp. 337-487 ills. b&w plates. Species descriptions with variations distribution habits. Coral snake mimicry pit viper poison apparatus rattles; Poisons: methods of investigation accounts of poisoning antidotes treatment elimination of poison by the system preventative inoculation extermination of poisonous snakes. Paper covers tattered chipped; pages uncut. Original Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Smithsonian Institution Paperback
1889019503Oxford at The Clarendon Press 1889. Illustrated with many wood engravings throughout five of which have been neatly partially coloured by a previous owner and with two folding coloured litho plates at the rear one plates is almost detached octavo pp xvi 449 very clean internally stoutly bound in a simple unsophisticated black leather. With the signature stamp of the marine biologist Dr Ivor Griffiths on the half-title and title page. Translations of Foreign Biological memoirs Volume II. First English edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Oxford at The Clarendon Press Hardcover
1875055542Salem MA: Peabody Academy of Science 1875. Title continues: Preserving and Transporting Specimens of Natural History prepared for the use of the smithsonian Institution 1859. Irregularly paginated in parts bw ills. Half-leather marbled boards with leather spine and corners. Top of spine chipped otherwise minor rubbing to covers small prev owner stamp to front endpaper page edges evenly toned. A sammelband of 3 volumes of American Naturalist the first two Michigan State Fisheries reports Wallaces Monthly June 1878 on horse racing; and Directions for Collecting etc Specimens of Natural Hisotry for the Smithsonian. A very interesting 19th century miscellany. Periodical. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Peabody Academy of Science Hardcover
1895020567Edinburgh: David Douglas 1895. Two volumes. Illustrated large ocyavo pp xxii ii 306; 309 publisher's catalogue 18 pages a folding map at the rear in good condition slight age-toning to the page margins slight adhesion damage to the front endpapers of the second volume otherwise very good internally green cloth very slightly worn the spines very slightly faded the upper cover of volume two is rather marked and blotched. The Oates Library copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates and his blind-stamp on the front endpapers also the blind-stamp of Durrant House Bournemouth and the small Bibliotheca Oatesiana stamp on the half titles and the last page. The first volume also has the earlier armorial bookplte of R.D. Jackson. First Edition. Cloth. Good. David Douglas Hardcover
1886024132Washington: The Smithsonian Institution 1886. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. Folio. From Smithsonian Contributions to knowledge vol. XXVI dated 1890; pp ix 1 186; 5 chromolithographic plates. Modern blue cloth binding fine. Contents clean and tight pages crisp discreet contemporary Geological Society of London stamps to the reverse of the plates and general title otherwise unmarked. A fine tight copy. The Smithsonian Institution Hardcover
1891023337Edinburgh: David Douglas 1891. Illustrated a double-page coloured map large octavo pp xxiv 314 top edge gilt the fore-edge lightly untrimmed very clean internally a decorated title page a 16-page publisher's catalogue at the rear original green cloth slightly faded a small private shelf number on the spine the spine frayed at the base lacking a small piece at the top a small split to the top of the upper spine. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the half-title. First Edition. Cloth. Good. David Douglas Hardcover
188842799London Harrison and Sons 1888. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 471-480 a. 4 lithographed plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the two new finds of dinosaurs from Lord Howe's Island New South Wales. They belongs to the Megalania a word coined by Owen himself.Megalania Great roamer is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard.It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhibited Southern Australia during the Pleistocene and appears to have disappeared around 40.ooo years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania. </em> unknown
1893036558Sydney: L. Bruck 1893. vi 85pp frontis portrait. Contemporary original brown cloth titled in gilt. Ex-museum library with several oval stamps throughout has cancelled stamp on front free endpaper faded spine label some minor surface abrasion to cloth. Some foxing to endpapers and preliminary blanks. Scarce Australian publication on snake venom its action and antidote. Includes historical overview and case studies. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. L. Bruck Hardcover
1831022888Ave Maria Lane London: Whittaker Treacher & Co 1831. With specific descriptions by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeib. Large thick octavo pp 2 481 i 110 with 48 fine hand coloured lithograph plates and 7 plain plates slight offsetting from plates on to text the last plate and its opposing page have a dark small stain to their lower margins otherwise everything is stunningly clean internally recently bound in half green leather and marbled boards very good. Bound at the rear is the 110pp Synopsis of Species by J.E. Gray. First Edition thus. Half-Leather. Very Good. Whittaker, Treacher & Co Hardcover