Mayr, Ernest (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [A Facsimile of the First Edition] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Tape on jacket. Pages unmarked. Related ephemera taped inside. ix, 502 p., 22 cm. "It is now fully recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 brought about a revolution in man's attitude toward life and his own place in the universe. This work is rightly regarded as one of the most important books ever published, and a knowledge of it should be part of the intellectual equipment of every educated person." - Harvard University Press.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with green and black cloth over boards, gold lettering along spine. Green, white, and tan DJ with black and tan lettering across covers and along spine. Corners are bumped. Closed tears, each roughly a quarter inch long, at top right and bottom left corners of front cover. Open tear, about the same size, across crown of spine. No lettering marred. "ON EN" written discreetly near foot of spine on both the jacket and book itself, referring to former owner Lincoln Brower's bibliographical organization program, Endnote. "LPB" [Lincoln P. Brower] and "ON EN" written on front free endpaper, also from Brower, a notable conservationist and butterfly researcher. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 1991. 195 pages. All clean and bright. Binding is neat and tight. We've got a wonderful bookcase or two of books from Lincoln Brower's collection listed here. Everything you know about Monarch Butterflies, you know because of Brower's work, both scientific and outreach. He was a great teacher, an important researcher, a torch-bearing conservationist, and a leading light in lepidoptery. We are extremely excited to offer his books. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it s a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Please email us with questions or to request photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Hardcover; 8vo; 336 pages. Beige cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering on brown label on spine. Gently rubbed corners. Prev. owner's name on fep and title page. Bright and clean pages. VG+/--. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, i-xiv, 797 pp, black and white figures. Green cloth, tiny indentation on the spine, ownership stamp on the front free end paper but a very good bright copy of the first edition.

Broché, grand in-8, 496 pages, bon état général, coins abimés, un nom sur verso du premier plat, (poids : 1,050 kg, épaisseur : 3,3 cm).

New York, Columbia University Press, second printing 1944, in-8°, 334 pp. Blue publisher's cloth (no dust jacket). Fine copy from the library of the French zoologist Maxime Lamotte (manuscript name on first fly leaf).