Beebe William Charles (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Monthly Magazine. Ex-library, but covers bound in, and otherwise intact, within a paper library cover. Monthly theme is "Religion in War Time". Includes Setsuko Koizumi's "Reminscences of Lafcadio Hearn". Good condition.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. PAPERBACK. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK.bit spine slant. ; white titles on MATTE black paper covers. ; 308pg pages; text in course for courses in scientific writing; selections which appeal toreaders of diverse levels of scientifiv training; ; supply of examples; logically progressing series of writing asignements; offer specimens of well written prose.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Complete copy of the "Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society", July-August 1939, Vol. XLII, No. 4. Contains the articles by Breder (On the Trail of the Tarpon, pp. 99-110, 21 photos) and Beebe (Slaying Scientific Dragons, pp. 118- 123, photos & figs.; on deep- sea fishes). No names or markings, good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Color Photographs Throughout (illustrator). 1st Edition. 171, 187 Pp. Two Volumes In Red Cloth, Gilt, Exhibit Format13 3/4 By 10 1/2 Inches, In Green Cloth Box, Gilt. First Printings, With Pre-Publication Prices Intact On The Dust Jackets. In The Publisher's Green Cloth Box Which Would Be Near Fine But Closed End Is Sunned And There Is A Partial Split At The Top Of The Narrow Closed End,

20,5 cm ; Leinen. Condition: Gut. 207 S. ; Mit 28 Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Hardcoverausgabe, Leineneinband, 207 Seiten mit Farbkopfschnitt. Leeres Vorsatzblatt mit Exlibris. Einband etwas angedunkelt und mit kleiner Stoßstelle. hw226B.

Condition: gut. XIX, 439 S., 65 Abb., 9 Taf., 2 Karten, 24 cm, goldgeprägter Leineneinband leicht berieben, gebräunt. Sprache: Englisch.

VOLUME II ONLY. i-xviii, 1-309 pages. Hardcover: H 26.75cm x L 19.5cm. Tan dust jacket toned and soiled with surface abrasions; chipping and tears at top margins. Green cloth; spine lightly faded in comparison to boards; gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Green top edge; slight foxing/toning to fore-edge and deckle bottom edge. Light toning to endpapers; interior leaves are mostly still bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 255 pages; Variant Title: Neunhundertdreiundzwanzig Meter unter dem Meeresspiegel. Description: 255 p. Plates (part col. ) ports. , diagrs. 24 cm. Subjects: Marine animals--Bermuda Islands. Deep diving. Dowsing. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 255 pages; Variant Title: Neunhundertdreiundzwanzig Meter unter dem Meeresspiegel. Description: 255 p. Plates (part col. ) ports. , diagrs. 24 cm. Subjects: Marine animals--Bermuda Islands. Deep diving. Dowsing. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. NOT ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover, clean text, sound binding. Missing dust cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. XIV, 499 p. : Ill.; without dust jacket English.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: Buono (Good). I ed. italiana: 1935 - XIII (ed. originale: Half Mile Down, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company 1934). Traduzione di Carlo Coardi. VIII/XXIV+384=408/rilegatura in mezza pelle bianca con titoli e disegni oro e con i piatti rifiniti in carta patinata illustrati a colori. Con 124 figure in nero f.t. e in b/n in tavole patinate f.t. e XII figure a colori in tavole patinate f.t. protette con acetato trasparente. Fogli di guardia con cartae in nero delle 26 discese della Batisfera nelle Bermuda). Stato buono (manca il cofanetto editoriale - leggera usura della copertina - fogli di guardia e pagine bruniti - usura degli acetati a protezione delle tavole a colori). Book.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 22.

AUF ENTDECKUNGSFAHRT MIT BEBE Abenteuer mit Tiefsee- Land- und Luftgetier, mit 28 Abbildungen. F.A. Brockhaus Leipzig, 1. Auflage 1936, ERSTAUSGABE, 207 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, Oln. 8°), 1 Bibl.-Stempel, sonst schön erhalten.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 48.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1912 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 12 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 24 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 174pp. Frontispiece plus 19 additional black and white photographs including several of a giant tortoise. Index. Green cloth with gilt emblem. Corners of boards are bumped. Small stamp on front free endpaper. Some scuffing and light soiling to covers. Foxing to title page & frontispiece.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 328. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1922 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume c.1 Language: English Pages: 328 Volume c.1.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 360. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1926 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 360.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, London, Witherby & Co, 1918-22, Folio 40.5 x 29.5 cm (16x11¾"), original maroon cloth gilt-lettered, top edges gilt. No. 197 of 600 copies. 4 volumes. Illustrated with 90 colour plates, 88 plates of photogravures (most with multiple images per plate) and 20 distribution maps. The colour plates are on heavy paper, after paintings by Thorburn, L.A. Fuertes, H. Jones, G.E. Lodge, and others "Perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace of its prose" (Mengel). Beebe's text is based not only upon his extensive expeditions through Asia, but also upon his study of the collections of the leading natural history museums around the world. This is a massive monograph on the delightful pheasant family, filled with beautiful colour plates after well-known bird artists and hundreds of photogravures of pheasant eggs, nests, breeding grounds, and general landscapes. Beebe was Curator of Birds of the New York Zoological Park. Nissen 84.

4 volumes, 4to (16 x 12 in.; 48.3 x 30.5 cm). Half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black, 90 colored lithograph or collotype plates after A. Thorburn, G. E. Lodge, H. Gronvold, L. A. Fuertes, Charles R. Knight, H. Jones, and E. Megargee and 87 photogravures (many with 2 images) all with captioned tissue guards, 20 distribution maps printed in red and black by Stanford's; some marginal toning, short marginal and closed tears to tissue guards, long tear to tissue guard for pl. 100 in vol. 1, pp.49-50 in vol. 1 loose, marginal stain on p. 168. Publisher's maroon cloth, upper covers and spines lettered gilt; top edges gilt; some rubbing to extremities, upper cover of vol. 4 scuffed. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 395 OF 600 COPIES. "Perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present [twentieth] century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains but also for the unusual grace of its prose" (Ellis/Mengel). Beebe's text is based on his own extensive expeditions through Asia, as well as his study of the collections of the leading natural history museums around the world. REFERENCES: Ayer/Zimmer 49; Copenhagen/Anker 31; Ellis/Mengel 203; McGill/Wood 228; Nissen IVB; 84; Nissen SVB 84; Tate, A Century of Bird Books 119.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 25 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.