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Subject: military history
The Christopher Happoldt journal: His European tour with the Rev. John Bachman (June-December, 1838) (Contributions from the Charleston Museum)
Happoldt, Christopher
/ Charleston Museum 1960
214 pp., hardcover, handstamp to front free endpaper, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: bck history medicine
Item #: 1328025
$15.00
Oceanic Birds of South America. A Study of Species of the Related Coasts and Seas, Including the American Quadrant of Antarctica, Based Upon the...in the American Museum of Natural History. Two Volumes
Robert Cushman Murphy, Francis L. Jaques
/ The Macmillan Company 1936
2 vols., 1245 pp., plates; original gilt stamped green cloth (hardcovers), fine in very good glassine dust jackets and a corner-worn slipcase. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history birds bzc
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Item #: 1328380
$80.00
Dio Cassius: Roman History, Volume VIII, Books 61-70 (Loeb Classical Library No. 176)
Dio Cassius, Foster, Herbert B., Cary, Earnest
/ Harvard University Press 2005
2005 printing; 496 pp., Hardcover, fine in a lightly worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0674991958
Subject/Keywords: tpf roman history
Item #: 1328335
$17.45
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life. New edition, from the sixth English edition, with additinos and corrections
Charles Darwin
/ NY: D. Appleton 1883
xxi, 458 pp., original gilt and black stamped decorated maroon cloth (hardcover), spine frayed, corners worn, book plate to the front paste down, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: evolution history of science bck
Item #: 1328113
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$400.00
From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics
John Lyon, Phillip R. Sloan
/ University of Notre Dame Press 2016
422 pp., hardcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0268009554
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
Item #: 1327996
$23.00
Has History Any Meaning: A Critique of Popper's Philosophy of History
Wilkins, Burleigh Taylor
/ Cornell Univ Press 1978
251 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, else very good in rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0801411874
Subject/Keywords: bck philosophy history
Item #: 1327995
$18.00
The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes. Edited by F. E. Beddard. With a preface by P. L. Sclater
William Alexander Forbes
/ London: R. H. Porter 1885
first edition; xiii, [1], 496 pp., frontis., color plates; contemporary gilt stamped full green leather, a.e.g., spine and corners worn, front and rear blanks foxed, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history birds ornithology bck
Item #: 1328106
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$225.00
Cathedrals of Science. The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums During the Late Nineteenth Century
Sheets-Pyenson, Susan
/ McGill-Queen's University Press 1988
178 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0773506551
Subject/Keywords: history of science bck
Item #: 1328097
$20.00
Joseph Grinnell's Philosophy of Nature. Selected writings of a western naturalist
Joseph Grinnell
/ University of California Press 1943
237 pp., hardcover, book plate and a hand stamp to the front paste down, else very good in an edge-worn, darkened dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
Item #: 1328081
$75.00
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
Warner, John Harley
/ Blast Books 2009
208 pp., Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0922233349
Subject/Keywords: photography history of medicine bck
Item #: 1328069
$14.00
Concession to the Improbable: An Unconventional Autobiography
Simpson, George Gaylord
/ Yale University Press 1978
291 pp., hardcover, dust jacket, ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0300021437
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
Item #: 1328073
$18.92
William Beebe: An Annotated Bibliography
Berra, Tim M.
/ Shoe String Pr Inc 1977
157 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to title page, else very good in rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0208016082
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
Item #: 1327982
$9.00
The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods Volume 2: Mammals
Benton, Michael J., editor
/ Oxford University Press 1988
340 pp., hardcover, edges foxed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0198577125
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
Item #: 1328053
$28.00
A life of invertebrates
Russell-Hunter, W. D
/ Macmillan 1979
650 pp., HARDCOVER, hand stamp to the bottom edge, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, else very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0024046205
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
Item #: 1327935
$23.00
The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod. Edited, with a biographical memoir of the author, by W. A. Forbes. In Memoriam
Alfred Henry Garrod
/ London: R. H. Porter 1881
first edition; xxv, 537 pp., frontis., plates, some of which are in color; rebound in mid-20th century blue cloth (hardcover), small hand stamp to the front free endpaper, foxing to early and late leaves, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history fauna bck
Item #: 1327934
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$150.00
Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History
Wang, Q. Edward
/ Cambridge University Press 2015
210 pp., hardcover, new. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1107023963
Subject/Keywords: vnh food history chopsticks
Item #: 1327416
$20.00
Natural history and the American mind, (Columbia studies in American culture)
W. M . Smallwood
/ Columbia University Press 1941
first edition; 445 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
Item #: 1327929
$18.00
Acoustic Communication in Birds, Volume 1: Production, Perception & Design Features of Sounds
Donald Kroodsma, Edward A. Miller, Henri Ouellet, editors
/ Academic Press 1983
360 pp., Hardcover, top edge foxed, else fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0124268013
Subject/Keywords: birds natural history bck
Item #: 1327942
$32.00
Acoustic Communication in Birds, Volume 2: Song Learning & Its Consequences
Donald Kroodsma, Edward H. Miller, Henri Ouellet, editors
/ Academic Press 1983
392 pp., Hardcover, top edge foxed, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0124268021
Subject/Keywords: birds natural history bck
Item #: 1327943
$28.00
Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, butterflies, and history
Miriam Rothschild
/ Balaban Publishers 1983
398 pp., Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 086689019X
Subject/Keywords: natural history lepidoptery birds bck
Item #: 1328052
$23.52