Hardcover. London, John Van Voorst, 1st, 1857-59, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, matching maroon cloth covers with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Vol. I. Comprising the butterflies and stout-bodied moths. 338 pages. Vol. II. Comprising the slender-bodied and small moths. 480 pages. Small b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers, signed on title page.

Hardcover. London, Academic Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 624 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name written on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in green, gilt title on spine and front cover. A touch of foxing to edges, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight. In very good shape.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Cosmos Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. INITIALED BY AUTHOR on title page. 65 pages, b&w photographic plates. Blue boards w/ light soiling, fading. Light foxing to edges, front fly leaves and title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. Originally published in 1927, this book emphasizes the importance of the biological foundations of psychology, with perception being the bridge between nerve processes and consciousness. Parsons, an ophthalmic surgeon, views problems of perception as being both biological and psychological issues in the conscious and behavioural lives of an animal. Clean copy

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. Clean copy. mell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. Its topics range from the medieval concept of the "odour of sanctity", to the aromatherapies of South America, and from olfactory stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in the modern West to the role of smell in postmodernity. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Clean, bright copy with similar dust jacket. 243 plates, mainly in color, charts. Contains many little-known works of art from the First Fleet landing in New South Wales in 1788, and from the early years of settlement. Chronology, Bibliography. Size: 13 3/4" x 10".

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., Reprint, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 299 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. This is an abridged translation by Hugh S.R. Elliot and A.G. Thacker.Introduction by P. Chalmers Mitchell. Red cloth, gilt decorations to front and spine. Slight wear along edges and spine, light soiling to covers, faint foxing to top edge, front hinge cracked, else a very neat copy.

Hardcover. New York NY, Plenum Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, tables and diagrams throughout, with b&w photographs. Title printed in gilt on the spine, cloth bound. Minor foxing on upper edge near spine. Dust jacket has minimal edgewear and rubbing. Very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, VCH Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 337 pages; indexes, appendices, extensive chemical diagramming and tables, with some b&w photographs; bumped bottom corner, previous owner's signature on front endpaper; cover shows minimal wear; "fourteen articles by leading researchers constituting the first book devoted exclusively to the biological utilization of nickel" (from the cover). Very tight, clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 330 pages, illustrated throughout with maps, charts and photographs in b&w. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, white pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges of jacket, faint foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. Wash, D.C., Dept of Commerce, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 488 pages, 53 full page plates (30 are fine chromolithographs), 110 text-figures. Fold-out map. Sound, tight, clean. The work contains the following monographs: Evermann - The Golden Trout of the Southern High Sierras (3 chromolithograph plates of trout); Sumner - The Physiological Effects upon Fishes of changes in the density and salinity of water; MacFarland - Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and Vicinity (10 chromolithograph plates); Moore - Hirudinea and Oligochaeta in the Great Lakes (1 chromolithograph plate); The Fishes of Samoa: Description of the Species Found in the Archipelago, with a Provisional Check-List of the Fishes of Oceania (16 chromolithograph plates). The final monograph by David Starr Jordan on "The Fishes of Samoa"Several small holes to cloth along spine. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holy, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt butterfly on cover, 322 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. A reprint of the original 1881 edition. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 692 pages. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in biology. The Origin (as it is widely known) was literally only an abstract of the manuscript Darwin had originally intended to complete and publish as the formal presentation of his views on evolution. Compared with the Origin, his original long manuscript work on Natural Selection, which is presented here and made available for the first time in printed form, has more abundant examples and illustrations of Darwin's argument, plus an extensive citation of sources. Name on title page otherwise a clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with rubbing, short tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Leipzig, E.A. Seemann, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 132 pages of German text followed by 264 b&w plates. A catalog of nature studies by the artist, mostly botanical. Cclean copy.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 629 pages. b&w diagrams. Light smudges to fore edge; else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 700 pages, b&w illustrations. With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine. Tijs Goldschmidt, a Dutch biologist, has been working for several years along the shores of East Africa's Lake Victoria, a freshwater sea the size of Switzerland. There he has chronicled the changing fortunes of the genus Haplochromis, made up of perchlike fish that differentiate into new species faster than any other vertebrates. Their numbers, however, fell precipitously after the Dutch government funded a fishery industry that harvested 60 tons of these cichlids daily; this industry also introduced nonnative species of fish that threatened to destroy the indigenous fauna. Goldschmidt writes of the mechanics of extinction--a process he says many biologists are loath to describe, for there "is always the hope that somewhere, hidden away, unnoticed, several individuals are still thriving." 274 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 226 pages. Bound in leather with gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, textured endpapers, sewn in marker and embossed spine. No dust jacket as issued. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Hardcover. Middlesex UK, Country Life Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes in slipcase. Volume 1 - 414 pages plus section of black & white "Under-wing Plates". Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Volume 2 - 500 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Both volumes with brown cloth covers, gilt titles and decoration. A set that shows minimal wear to books and slipcase. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London UK, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 510 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial laminated boards, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges of spine. else a very neat, clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. BirdLife International, 1st, January 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 846 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Light edgewear to covers. Small marks on fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated in b&w and color, 264 pages. Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. In this book, Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about how perception normally works and why it sometimes fails. Although successive editions have incorporated new discoveries and ideas, this is the first time that Richard Gregory has completely revised and updated the text, adding more than thirty new illustrations. The phenomena of illusion continue to be a major theme in the book, in which the author makes a new attempt to provide a comprehensive classification system. There are also new sections on what babies see and how they learn to see, on motion perception, and tantalizing glimpses of the relationship between vision and consciousness and of the impact of new brain imaging techniques. In addition, the presentation of the text and illustrations has been improved by the larger format and new page design. The thousands of readers of the previous editions of Eye and Brain will find this new revised edition even more attractive and enthralling. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 590 pages. B&W photos, diagrams, and graphs throughout. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Rubbing to dust jacket with heavy edge wear and tears, large chips, Internally clean. Binding is structurally sound and well kept. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Amsterdam/New York, Elsevier, 2nd Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Volume 2 only. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Corners slightly bumped. Blue faux leather covers.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 605 pages, b&w and color diagrams and illustrations. Embossed red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. A study on heredity and genetics. Sir John Arthur Thomson (1861-1933), Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen, was a follower of August Weismann.Edge wear, light soiling to covers; spine faded. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Front hinge cracked. Else a nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pages. Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity, jewel-like color, and remarkably small size.This is the first book to profile all 338 known species, from the Saw-billed Hermit to the Scintillant Hummingbird.Every bird is shown life-size in glorious full-color photographs. Every species profile includes a flight map and key statistics, as well as information about behavior, plumage, and habitat.

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight fraying at corners of dust jacket and faded spine. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson, 2nd pr., 2008-09-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 243 pages, photos in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Uppsala Sweden, ACTA Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue paper wraps, SIGNED note from the author laid in. Unpaginated, a collection of papers on the subject. Very clean and bright copy. Light wear to covers.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 456 pages. The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of billions of neurons within a few pounds of matter generates the unfathomable complexity of the mind. This book is a conversational and accessible introduction to the brain. Beginning from basic elements of neuroscience, the acclaimed scientist Rafael Yuste guides readers through increasingly sophisticated topics, developing a unified framework for how the brain functions. He describes how the brain is organized and how it develops, how neurons operate and form neural circuits, and how these circuits function as neural networks to generate behavior and mental states. Yuste challenges the traditional view that the brain is an input-output machine that reacts reflexively to sensory stimuli. Instead, he argues, the purpose of the brain is to make a predictive model of the world in order to anticipate the future and choose successful courses of action. He gives readers insight into the workings of sensory and motor systems and the neurobiological basis of our perceptions, thoughts, emotions, memories, and consciousness. Peppered with anecdotes and illustrated with elegant drawings and diagrams, this succinct and cohesive book is accessible to readers without previous background in the subject. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five large folio volumes, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 2475 pages, b/w and colored illus. (including foldouts. Vol.1 is a biography of Malpighi; the remaining 4 volumes provide an extensive account of the development of embryology. In publisher's slipcase. All clean, excellent condition. NOTE: These are five large and heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Ellis Horwood, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages, like new condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 439 pages, illustrated with 108 black & white halftones. A critical study of this key figure and the works of his contemporaries-including Borelli, Swammerdam, Redi, and Ruysch-opens a wonderful window onto the scientific and medical worlds of the seventeenth century. A clean, bright copy lacking the dust jacket.

Softcover. London/Rome, John Libbey, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, clean and tight copy of volume 5. 775 pages, illustrated with b&w charts. Rubbing to wraps with crease on the front. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Orange Judd , reprint, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp decoration on front cover. Small portion of top dust jacket edge missing. Previous owners stamp on front paste down. Water stain to bottom and fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light foxing on text block, fore edge and top.

Hardcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 208 pages, color photos. The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends--from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula the sea witch in The Little Mermaid. Yet its true nature is more wondrous still. After decades of research, the authors reveal a sensitive, curious, and playful animal with remarkable intelligence, an ability to defend itself with camouflage and jet propulsion, an intricate nervous system, and advanced problem-solving abilities. In this beautifully photographed book, three leading marine biologists bring readers face to face with these amazingly complex animals that have fascinated scientists for decades. From the molluscan ancestry of today's octopus to its ingenious anatomy, amazing mating and predatory behaviors, and other-worldly relatives, the authors take readers through the astounding life cycle, uncovering the details of distinctive octopus personalities. With personal narratives, underwater research, stunning closeup photography, and thoughtful guidance for keeping octopuses in captivity, Octopus is the first comprehensive natural history of this smart denizen of the sea. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, American Anthropological Society, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mauve cloth with yellow title label on front cover and spine, 265 pages followed by a bibliography. A collectible true first edition of this title, NOT the Panurge Press edition published the next year. Limited to 1000 copies Bloch is sometimes called "the first sexologist" for his research into sexual practices and the publication thereof. This is a classic book from an historical and anthropological standpoint, in that it retraces the importance fragrances have had in social interactions. Groundbreaking for its time, despite some errors, the aromatic substances mentioned by Bloch are still as pervasive in the perfume trade as they were at the time of his book. An excellent primer! Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 501 pages, b&w illustrations. "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer-the wrong one-to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century. Clean copy.

Softcover. College Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front cover. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Darkening to spine paper, light surface rubbing to front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 193 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue cloth, no dust jacket. Lovely copy in excellent condition.

Softcover. NY, Routledge, 1st pbk, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 486 pages, b&w illustrations. Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.

Hardcover. Ottawa, NRC Research Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 677 pages. Very clean, bright, and tight copy. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 491 pages. Red boards with white printed illustration & white titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout, including figures, chart, tables & photographs. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with embossed ruling and gilt lettering and design. 491 pages, b&w illustrations, plus errata page and a 24-page publisher's catalogue bound in. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Scientific American Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages. Color illustrations and diagrams. A clear explanation of the current state of DNA genetics. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Academic Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. Reconstitutions of Transporters, Receptors, and Pathological States presents lectures about the reconstitutions of transporters, receptors, and pathological states. The book discusses the principles and strategies of the resolution and reconstitution of soluble pathways and membrane complexes; and lessons in the resolution and reconstitution after the natural structure of the membrane has been destroyed. The text then describes the analyses of reconstituted vesicles; the ATP synthetase of oxidative phosphorylation; and the pumps of plasma membranes. The ATP-driven ion pumps in organelles, microorganisms, and plants; the proton motive force generators, electron transport chains, and bacteriorhodopsin; and facilitated diffusion, symporters, and antiporters are also considered. The book further tackles plasma membrane receptors, as well as the reconstitutions of pathological states. Biochemists, molecular biologists, and cell biologists will find the book invaluable. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.