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Washington D C: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Various accounts of scientific field work of the Smithsonian Institution. More
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Washington D C: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1978. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Various accounts of scientific field work of the Smithsonian Institution. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Khartoum: Sudan Government Museum (Natural History), 1926-1931. Octavo, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. Part one: Struthionidae to Picidae. Part two: Alaudidae to Fringillidae. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1954. Small octavo, text illustrations, signature, printed stiff card covers. More
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1991. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. The chapters in the volume provide a general overview as well as addressing specific topics concerning the roles and functions of natural history museums. More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 51, 1997. Octavo, softcover. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1988. Quarto, wrappers, short tear at the bottom of the first page. More
Croydon: Australian Deer Research Foundation, 1994. Quarto, illustrations, sotfcover. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930. Octavo, signature, owner's stamp, publisher's cloth. More
Newcastle: T. and J. Hodgson, 1827. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, binder's cloth. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Quarto, 200 colour plates, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Every aspect of the Great Auk's natural - and unnatural - history is covered, with special chapters devoted to its life cycle and the years during which it dwindled to extinction. Other chapters concern..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, nine handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eight from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1987. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 123, Article 1, 1961. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
London: British Museum, 1874. Octavo, 30 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, a fine crisp copy. More
London: British Museum, 1874. Octavo, 30 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, spine badly split with pieces missing, ex-library, scarce. More
London: British Museum, 1850. Octavo, text illustrations. Original plain blue wrappers, detached and split. More
London: British Museum, 1850-1852. Octavo, 37 uncoloured lithographs. Early quarter cloth with blue papered boards, titles on spine, all contained in a handsome modern solander box, very scarce. Part one: Cetacea. Part two: Seals. Part three: Ungulata Furcipeda. More
London: British Museum, 1853. Duodecimo, publisher's plain blue wrappers. More
Adelaide: Publishers Limited, 1956. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, hinges slightly cracked, otherwsie a near fine copy (NOT AS PICTURED). Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1865. Octavo, 20 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. More
New York: Picador, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. An epic account of the extraordinary life and adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and environmental conservation and created the famed African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural History. Akeley risked death time and..... More
London: Printed by order of the trustees, 1916. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, bookplate, small library stamp on blank endpaper, a very good copy. Volume five: Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (huraxes), Proboscidae (elephants). More
London: British Museum, 1909. Octavo, uncoloured plates and text illustrations, lacks printed wrappers but tipped-in. More