Lankester Sir E Ray Edwin Ray (255 results)

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Cheap edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned, dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 220 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references and index. Subjects; Natural History. Collected papers of an author. 1 Kg. …

Cheap edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned, dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 220 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references and index. Subjects; Natural History. Collected papers of an author. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xii, 220 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. ; This volume is the first half of a new issue of the author's Diversions of a naturalist. ; LC: QH81; Dewey: 574.9 ; OCLC: 3906382 ; Contents : On a Norwegian Fiord -- Nature Reserves -- Far from the Madding Crowd -- The Great Grey Seal -- The Grouse and other Birds -- The Sand and Pebbles of the Seashore -- The Constituents of a Seabeach -- Quicksands and Fire Stones -- More as to the Barnacle and the Goose -- Sea Shells on the Seashore -- Sand Hoppers -- A Swiss Interlude -- Science and Dancing -- Courtship -- Courtship in Animals and Man -- Courtship and Display -- Courtship Instinct and Reason -- Index. ; a tear to spine, else G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; 60 illustrations ; xvii, 243 pp. ; frontispiece, illustrated. 20 cm. ; LCCN: 20-27475 ; OCLC: 2487759 ; "The present volume is.mainly a revision and reprint, with considerable additions, of articles published in daily or weekly journals [The Illustrated London News and The Daily Telegraph]" ; Red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: The earliest picture in the world -- Portraits of mammoths by men who saw them -- The art of prehistoric men -- Vesuvius in eruption -- Blue water -- The biggest beast -- What is meant by "A species"? -- More about species -- Species in the making -- Some specific characters -- Hybrids -- The cross-breeding of races -- Whee l animalcules -- More about wheel animacules -- Suspended animation -- The swastika -- The origin of the swastika -- The Tomoye and the swastika -- Coal -- Boring for oil -- The story of lime juice and scurvy -- Index. ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 3rd ed.; 2nd series ; 55 illustrations ; xiii, 423, [1] p. col. front., illustrated., plates., foldouts. tables ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 10-24460 ; OCLC: 2553638 ; "Collection of some of the papers . contributed to the Daily telegraph . 1908-1909." ; Blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: A day in the Oberland -- Switzerland in Early Summer -- Gletsch -- Glaciers -- The Problem of the Galloping Horse -- The Jewel in the Toads Head - - Fern seed -- Ferns the ancestors of flowers -- Elephants -- A strange extinct beast -- Vegetarians and their Teeth -- Food and Cookery -- Smells and Perfumes -- Kisses -- Laughter -- Fatherless Frogs -- Primitive beliefs about fatherless progeny -- The Pygmy Races of Men -- Prehistoric Petticoats -- New Years Day and the Calendar -- Eastertide Shamrocks and Spermaceti -- The Strange History of the Tadpoles of the sea -- Museums -- The Secret of a Terrible Disease -- Carriers of disease -- I mmunity and Curative Inoculations -- The Strange Story of Animal Life in New Zealand -- The Effacement of Nature by Man -- The Extinction of the Bison and of Whales -- More about Whales -- Misconceptions about Science -- Index ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; 38 illustrations ; xi, 246 p. ; illustrated ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 23-26434 ; OCLC: 2919134 ; "Most of the chapters were written originally for publication in daily and weekly journals and have been now to some extent re-written and illustrated by text figures for the present volume." ; Red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: The gorilla of Sloane Street -- Science and the farm -- The phagocytes, or eater-cells -- Some pond-snails -- Pond-snails and blood-red -- The pond-snail's flea -- The liver-fluke -- Progress -- Is nature cruel? -- The senses and sense-organs -- An eye at the back of the head -- Other eyes -- The paired eyes of man -- Wasps -- An unwarr anted fancy -- Spider-sense and cat-sense -- Two experiments -- The last of the alchemists -- Extreme old age -- Longevity -- Metchnikoff on old age -- Giants -- Morphology and monsters -- Morphology and monsters, continued -- Various kinds of monst ers -- Tobacco -- Cerebral inhibition -- Index. ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. 5th ed. ; 86 illustrations ; xiii, 423, [31] p. col. frontispiece., plates, foldouts, tab. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 10-24460 ; OCLC: 2553638 ; "Methuen's Colonial Library" ; "Collection of some of the papers . contributed to the Daily telegraph . 1908- 1909." ; Red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: Science and practice -- University training -- Darwin's theory -- Darwin's discoveries -- Darwin's theory unshaken -- Metchnikoff and Tolstoi -- The land of azure blue -- Fresh-water jelly-fishes -- The story of the common eel -- Modern horses and their ancestors -- A rival of the fabled upas tree -- Poisons and stings of plants and animals -- The dragon : A fancy or a fact -- Oysters - - Maternal care and molluscs -- The heart's beat -- Sleep -- The universal structure of living things -- Protoplasm, life and death -- Chemistry and protoplasm -- The simplest living things -- Tadpoles and frogs -- About the stars -- Comets -- About cholera -- Sea-breezes, mountain air and ozone -- Oxygen gas for athletes and others -- Sparrows, trout, and selective breeding -- The feeble-minded -- Death rates -- Gossamer -- The jumping bean -- Protective colouring in animals -- Hop blight -- Green flies, plant lice and parthenogenesis -- The deadly phylloxera -- Clothes moths -- Stone and wood borers -- Christmas fare -- The origin of opium -- The most ancient trees -- The cavemen's skulls -- More about the Neander Men. ; VG. Book. …

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt motif on front panel. Spine bands, panels and panel edges somewhat dust-dulled and worn. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: vii, [1], 195 p. Illus. , diagrs. 29 cm. Subjects: Zoology. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt motif on front panel. Spine bands, panels and panel edges somewhat dust-dulled and worn. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: vii, [1], 195 p. Illus. , diagrs. 29 cm. Subjects: Zoology. 1 Kg. …

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