Lizards: study in thermoregulation.
London: Edward Arnold, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, softcover. Studies in Biology number109.
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In search of reptiles and amphibians.
Leiden: E J Brill, 1987. Octavo, photographs, paperback, bookplate of David Mcphee.
Reptilia.
London: Zoological Society of London, 1955-1961. Octavo, wrappers, signature. Contains volumes 90, 91, 92 and 95.
Reptile and amphibian variants: colors, patterns, and scales.
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1995. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the first published work on the reptile and amphibian variations that occur naturally or through selective breeding. These animals with conspicuously altered colours and patterns are often quite beautiful. Profusely illustrated.
Reptiles.
London: Hutchinson, (1975. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, signature.
The life of reptiles.
New York: Universe Books, (1970. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, fine set in dustwrappers.
Variation in mammalian populations.
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26.
Body heat: temperature and life on earth.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans).
Hominoid evolution and climatic change in Europe, volume two: phylogeny of the Neogene hominoid primates of Eurasia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume explores hominoid evolution in Eurasia during the Miocene. What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? Whilst our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more...
Vie et moeurs des mammiferes: locomotion, alimentation, abri, protection, reproduction, migrations, vie sociale, ecologie.
Paris: Payot, 1951. Quarto, signature, illustrations, softcover, front wrapper missing. French.
The skeletal biology of earlier human populations.
London: Pergamon Press, 1968. Octavo, text illustrations, signature.
Geology and mineralogy, considered with reference to natural theology.
London: William Pickering, (1837. second edition). Octavo, 69 plates. Publisher's cloth with printed labels, some foxing throughout but a sound set. Published as part of the Bridgewater Treatises. The Earl of Bridgewater, a gentleman naturalist, commissioned eight Bridgewater Treatises upon his deathbed to explore "the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of...
The making of the fittest: DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution.
London: Quercus, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. DNA evidence not only solves crimes - if you know how to read it, it can also reveal the history of life on earth. This fast-paced book guides the general reader on a tour of the DNA record left by three billion years of...
Open-air studies in Australia.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1929. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate. Some foxing throughout, part of dustwrapper pasted on endpaper, lacks dustwrapper otherwise a very good copy.
Synopsis of animal classification.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, paperback.
A list of the names proposed for genera and subgenera of recent mammals from the publication of T. S. Palmer's 'Index Generum Mammalium' 1904 to the end of 1951.
London: British Museum, 1953. Octavo, binder's cloth, signature.
The lopsided ape.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Octavo, graphs, owner's signature, text illustrations, dustwrapper.
A world list of mammalian species.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1991. third edition). Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper.
The evolution of man and society.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. Octavo, dustwrapper.
The sciences were never at war.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1960. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Analysis of evolutionary processes: the adaptive dynamics approach and its applications.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Quantitative approaches to evolutionary biology traditionally consider evolutionary change in isolation from an important pressure in natural selection: the demography of coevolving populations. In this book, Fabio Dercole and Sergio Rinaldi have written the first comprehensive book on Adaptive Dynamics...
The making of a scientist.
New York: Macmillan, 1938. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper.
Dear Mr. Darwin: letters on the evolution of life and human nature.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. The imagined two-way correspondence between the author, Dover, and Darwin about the surprising findings of modern genetics and the evolution of biological novelties, from genes to organisms, is both erudite and entertaining. In the process, Dover presents a startingly original...
Human origins.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Octavo, photographs, signature, publisher's cloth.
The mammalian radiations: an analysis of trends in evolution, adaptation, and behaviour.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth.