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Kruckenruder. Mit 72 Figuren im Text. (Sonderabdruck aus Baessler-Archiv, Band II, Helt 4)
Graebner, F.
/ Leipzig/Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1913
large quarto, [14] pp., illustrations in text; library markings, paper wrappers detached and chipped, wrinkling at fore edge, complete but good- only; a kruckenruder is crutch paddle and Graebner wants to point out the similarities between those found in Indonesia to those found in North and South America but others have pointed out that there are only so many ways to shape a paddle. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: paddles, seafaring, Indonesia, Americas, NHM
Item #: 709344
$5.85
Freiberger Siliciumtage 2003: Halbleitermaterialien, Prozesstechnologie und Diagnose
Hans J. Möller & Gerhard Roewer, eds.
/ Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg 2004
291 pp., softcover, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: nhm
Item #: 680477
$7.18
L'activite photoenzymatique. Essai de representation formalisee. Tome I
Cyrille Sironval
/ Academie Royale de Belgique 2008
Book One, 259 pp., Paperback, NEW!!. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 2803102498
Subject/Keywords: nhm
Item #: 680663
$5.16
Mundos Tribales. Una vision etnoarqueologia
Juan Salazar , Ines Domingo , Jose Ma Azkarraga , Helena Boner
/ Museu de Prehistoria de Valencia 2008
173 pp., Paperback, NEW!!. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 8477955239
Subject/Keywords: nhm archaeology anthropology
Item #: 680585
$21.08
The geomorphology of the Mbarara area: Sheet SA-36-1, (Geomorphological report)
John Charles Doornkamp
/ University of Nottingham (Department of Geography) 1970
78 pp., softcover, includes map in rear pocket, handstamp to title page, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0853580103
Subject/Keywords: geophysics geology nhm
Item #: 680535
$4.83
A catalogue of the aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) of sub-Saharan Africa (Plant Protection Research Institute Handbook No. 4)
I. M. Millar
/ Biosystematics Division, Plant Protection Research Institute 1994
First Edition, First Impression, 130 pp., Paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1868490122
Subject/Keywords: botany Africa nhm
Item #: 680306
$4.83
The Sottunga-Jurmo shear zone: structure and deformation history of a crustal-scale ductile shear zone in SW Finland
Taija Torvela
/ Abo Akademi University Press 2007
187 pp., folding plate; paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: nhm geology
Item #: 677712
$8.98
The Fridtjof Nansen Memorial Lectures 1990
Norske videnskaps-akademi.; Norway. Kgl. Utenriksdepartement.
/ 1990
92 pp., Paperback, spine worn and chipped at head, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: nhm
Item #: 679793
$9.24
The Elephant. Two volumes
Etsujiro Sunamoto
/ Osaka: F. Sunamoto Shoten 1931
2 volumes, 2169, 38 (English language bibliography), 102 (index) pp., plates, with the 16 page pamphlet entitled A Resume of "The Elephant" laid in; original gilt stamped grey suede; previous owner's name inked to front paste down, small embossment stamp to front free endpaper, else very good; the main work is in Japanese. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: nhm Elephant
Item #: 626911
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$169.35
Contemplations. Being Several Short Essays, Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings Selected From the Writings of Elbert Hubbard By Heloise Hawthorne,
Elbert Hubbard Contemplations
/ East Aurora: Roycrofters 1902
first edition, inscribed by Elbert Hubbard at the front free endpaper "To Mrs. Rice in loving token of her Little Journey to East Aurora, December 1902"; quarto, [iv], 120, [1] pp., printed in red and black with a pictorial title, portrait frontis., 8 leaves with 20 tipped illustrations after photographs; original boards & paper covered backstrip, worn, spine strengthened with clear tape, endpapers foxed, however internally clean. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Roycroft Press, Roycrofters nhm
Item #: 617335
$23.66
Readings in Biology. Variants A, B, C. Prepared by the Biology Staff
University of Chicago - Biology Staff
/ University of Chicago Press 1965
449 pp., Paperback, previous owner's handstamp to title page and bottom edge, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: nhm biology
Item #: 616023
$5.65
Metabolism and Biochemistry of Fishes (obmen veshchestv i biokhimiya ryb).
G.S., editor. KARZINKIN
/ Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, New Dehli 1977
552 pp., Paperback, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: nhm biology
Item #: 615555
$5.53
Una visita a los portales del continente blanco. Disertacion en la Asociacion Cultural de Conferencias de Rosario, 1950 - No. 6.
Castellanos, Alfredo.
/ Rosario (Argentina): 1951
small quarto, 86 pp. of text, small section of illustrations at end and additional illustrations in text; hand stamp of a private owner, light age toning to paper wrappers, sound and good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Antarctica, NHM
Item #: 611212
$15.48
Paleontologia y estratigrafia del Plioceno de Yepomera, Estado de Chihuahua. 1.a parte: Equidos, excepto Neohipparion. ...
Lance, John F.
/ Mexico, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1950
signed by Lance, paperback, 81 pp., previous owner's hand stamp to front cover and title page else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: paleontology, Mexico, Chihuahua, horses, NHM
Item #: 611211
$6.90
Genera and Subgenera of Voles and Lemmings. (United States Department of Agriculture. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. North American Fauna. No. 12)
Miller, Gerrit S., jr.
/ Washington: GPO, 1896
84 pp., 3 plates; general age toning and light extraction roughness at spine, now in self wrappers. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history, voles, lemmings, NHM
Item #: 611201
$5.26
Contributions to the Bacteriology of the Oyster: The Results of Experiments and Observations made while conducting an investigation directed and authorized by the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries of the state of Rhode Island
LESTER A. ROUND
/ PROVIDENCE: E. L. Freeman Co. 1914
88 pp., Paperback, spine chipped, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: nhm food production
Item #: 610591
$5.00
Materiales adicionales y reinterpretacion de "Aetosauroides scagliai" (De Ischigualasto, San Juan)
Casamiquela, Rodolfo M.
/ La Plata: 1967
[26] pp., 15 plates, reprinted from Revista del Museo de La Plata; library markings, paper wrappers faded at margins, good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: paleontology, NHM
Item #: 607559
$9.78
The Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands. Volume 3 (Botany and Geology). ...
Wolff, Torben, ed.
/ Copenhagen: Danish Science Press, 1960
Volume 3 only of the Scientific Results of the Danish Rennell Expedition, 1951, and the British Museum (Natural History) Expedition, 1953; 132 pp., plates after line drawings; library markings but else a very good copy in original paper wrappers. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Solomon Islands, Rennell Island, natural history, NHM
Item #: 607520
$24.00
Saggio e appunti intorno alla iscrizione etrusca della mummia.
Lattes, Elia.
/ Milano: Ulrico Hoepli 1893
folio (32.5 cm. tall), 388, [8] pp., issued as Memorie Reale Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lettere ... Vol. 19 (Ser. 3, Vol. 10), Fasc. 2; library hand stamps, only the badly chipped front cover remains from paper wrapper, text age toned with margin flaking, complete text but reading copy only. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: inscriptions, Etruscan, NHM
Item #: 607501
$11.17
A Review of the Fossil Ostreidae of North America, and a comparison of the fossil with the living forms. With appendices by Prof. Angelo Heilprin and Mr. John A. Ryder.
White, Charles A., et al.
/ Washington: GPO, 1884
tall quarto, [168] pp., 49 plates, submitted to the United States Geological Survey for the 1883 Annual Report, inscribed on front cover by Ryder who contributed Appendix II, "A Sketch of the Life-History of the Oyster"; library markings, paper wrappers dark and fragmentary, text age toned and flaking at margins with no loss but reading copy only. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fossil bivalvia, oysters, NHM
Item #: 607498
$10.54