Science: Biology from The Owl at the Bridge

title continues: ...Nouvelle Edition corrigée et disposée dans un ordre plus méthodique, Augmentée d'une exposition des recherches ou des opinions de la Chambre, de Porta, de Camper, de Gall, sur la physionomie; d'une histoire anatomique et physiologique de la face; précédée d'une notice historique sur l'auteur, Par Moreau (de la Sarthe), Professeur à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris.… Read more about this item

New York Botanical Garden, 1941. Soft Cover. 28 p., illus.; 23 cm. "Reprinted from the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, May & June 1941." "Through identification of a large proportion of the plants, new light has been thrown on the tapestries, on the people of the day, and on their knowledge and culture." Paper; VG. Stock#28410.

Providence, Preston & Rounds, 1901. Hard Cover. Contents include Davenport, A Plumose Variety of the Ebony Spleenwort; Greenman, The Genus Senecio in New England; Robinson, The Identity of the Linnaean Gnaphalium Plantaginifolium; Fernald, Monarda Fistulosa and Its Allies; Sargent, Notes on Crataegus in the Champlain Valley; Bailey, Notes on the Flora of Rhode Island; Owen, Ferns of Mt. Toby,… Read more about this item

New York Botanical Garden, 1935. Periodical. Includes Small, Chronicle of the Cacti of Eastern North America; Coombs, South Africa, A Land of Many Flowers; McIntyre, Gypsy Moth Control in New York State; 1934 Annual Report; Walden, Our Vanishing Birds; Teuscher, Trees & Shrubs of the Orient; Small, Ferns of the Southeastern Flora; Griffith, Some Hints on Nature Photography; Merrill,… Read more about this item

N.Y., Lyons & Burford, c1992. A collection of essays on birds and nature. The catchy, and misleading, title is taken from the second essay, which is more about human psychology than ornithology. Hard Cover. x, 179 pages, 23.5 cm. Vg/dj vg. Stock#101751.

Providence, Preston & Rounds, 1906. Hard Cover. Contents include Ames, Habenaria Orbiculata and H. Macrophylla; Brainerd, Hybridism in the Genus Viola II & III; Harper, Further Remarks on the Coastal Plain Plants of New England, Their History and Distribution; Evans, Notes on New England Hepaticae IV; Fernald, Two Variations of Carex Glareosa; Andrews, Preliminary Lists of New England Plants… Read more about this item

An unique collection of early printed herbals, notable for quality and condition. The catalog contains a short introduction by Klebs, followed by a detailed bibliographical account of 74 printed herbals published before 1560, 32 of which are incunables. Klebs provides full author, title, plate count, and valuable annotations. Cross-referenced with Choulant, Pritzel, Essling, Hain, Han-Copinger, Pellechet, Proctor, Reichling, Copinger, Sudhoff,… Read more about this item

N. Y., C. M. Saxton [c. 1850]. Hard Cover. 107, 10, [2] p.; illus. This copy lacks frontispiece but has 12 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Ripley & Scribner, Ornithological Books at Yale, p. 44. From the Lunenburg, Mass. Town Library with bookplate and withdrawal stamps. The binding is stamped maroon cloth with gold vignette cover which is… Read more about this item

New York, Heritage Press [1957]. Hard Cover. xvi, 489 p. illus. 29 cm. Title continues: "under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. Engravings by Robert Gibbings. Introd. by Gavin de Beer." Cover title: The voyage of H. M. S. Beagle; the journal of Charles Darwin. "The second edition...published in 1845 ...has been selected for the present reprint." First… Read more about this item

N.Y., Harper and Row, 1983. Hard Cover. viii, 277 p. illus., 24 cm. The pace of evolutionary change, slowing down at times, at others speeding up, has challenged conventional Darwinian theory. Taylor argues that this does not disprove Evolution, but requires a broader expansion of the theory. Book Club Edition. Stock# 30,067. Vg/ dj vg.

Providence, Preston & Rounds, 1909. Hard Cover. Contents include Fernald, The Representatives of Potentilla Anserina in Eastern America; Forbes, Salix Subsericea a Distinct Species; Collins, New Species of Cladophora; Collins, Notes on Monostroma; Robinson & Fernald, Emendations of the Seventh Edition of Gray's Manual I; Lambert, Two New Species of Characium; Reports on the Flora of the Boston District… Read more about this item

Avec Texte par R. Siélain. 3e édition. "Bibliothèque de Poche du Naturaliste, I." Pocket book for identifying flowers; in French. Indexes; advertisements on flyleaves & endpapers. Hard Cover. 162 pages, 151 plates, indexes; 16 cm. Blue cloth flexible boards stamped in black, all edges red; spine faded, minor wear, ink owner name dated 1897, pages darkening; Good. stock#866/h.

New York Botanical Garden, 1948. Periodical. Includes Ahlgren & Anderson, Three Billion Bushels of Corn; Humm, Seaweeds for Decoration; Woodward, Elms of America-- What Is To Be Their Fate?; Platt, Flowers at the Edge of the Polar Ice Cap; Brass, Plant-Hunting in Nyasaland; MacDougall, Afoot in Mexico. A Visit to the Flower Mountain of Lachiguiri; von Hagen, Immortal Botanist.… Read more about this item

NY, Doubleday & McClure, 1901. 'Tenth Edition.'. Hard Cover. with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods about our Homes. With Introduction by John Burroughs and Fifty-Two Colored Plates. [Thirty-Eighth Thousand] [xii], 234 p., index. Contents include Bird Families; Habitats of Birds; Seasons of Birds; Birds Grouped According to Size; Descriptions… Read more about this item

Providence, Preston & Rounds, 1905. Hard Cover. Contents include Brainerd, Notes on New England Violets II & III; Leavitt, On Translocation of Characters in Plants; Preliminary Lists of New England Plants XVII; Ganong, On Balls of Vegetable Matter from Sandy Shores; Evans, Notes on New England Hepaticae III; Fernald & Knowlton, Draba Incana and Its Allies in NorthEastern America;… Read more about this item

New York Botanical Garden, 1947. Periodical. Twelve numbers paged consecutively, 300 p., photos, 23 cm. Includes Blackburn, The Botanical Garden at Nikko; Douglas, Jojoba-- an Oil-producing Plant of the Southwestern States; Fairchild, Exploring for Useful Plants; Pucher, Plants as Treasure Houses of Rare Chemicals; Nauss, My Garden of Slime Molds; Fosberg, Micronesian Mangroves; Hodge, Naranjillas or 'Little Oranges'… Read more about this item

Perth, 1954; reprint Martino 1994. Hard Cover. This painstaking work, of tremendous importance to ornithologists and bibliographers, includes biographies of authors and collectors. 8vo; xi, 116, 788 p., illus.; 23 cm.; Fine, new from publisher/ no dj. 28664x.

New York Botanical Garden, 1946, 1947, 1948. Periodical. "A Quarterly Review Published by The New York Botanical Garden." Includes Maguire, New Worlds To Conquer [botanical exploration in tropical South America]; Botany in War; photos from the Flower Show; Spruyt, DDT in the Home Garden; running series Did You Know that--?; Bromley, Care of the Smaller Evergreens; Keessen, Landscaping Your… Read more about this item

USDA, Washington, D.C., May 1952.. Hard Cover. Signed. Agricultural Monograph No. 11. 243 p., indexes, illus. incl. photos; 23.5 cm. 'This monograph... includes more than 50 species and varieties... From mid-October 1947 to January 10, 1948, the writer explored the mountains of south-central Mexico for indigenous species of tuberous solanums...' Bound in government-issue olive drab… Read more about this item

[London, J. Booth, 1819]. Hard Cover. 1 p. l., [v]-xxvii, [3], 272 pages, xxvii color plates; 16.5 cm. One hundred shells illustrated on 26 hand-colored plates. Turton's shell collection was acquired by the Smithsonian (see DNB). Plates listed at pp. 261-272. THIS COPY LACKS TITLE-PAGE AND FRONT COVER; rear cover present & book otherwise complete. NUC 605: 387 (NT… Read more about this item