Osborne Henry Fairfield (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1919. Moderate general wear. 545 pages. 6308.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Upper Palaeolithic Artists & Charles R. Knight, Erwin S. Christman and Others (illustrator). First Edition. Illustrated, includes fold-out map. Red cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering and gilt designs. Heavy wear to the boards, edges frayed, interior hinges taped, age toning to the dusty pages, lengthy inscription on front end page. Uncommon as the 1915 First Edition. Osborn (1857-1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist. Osborn was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and studied at Princeton University. He was professor of comparative anatomy from 1883 to 1890 at Princeton. In 1891 he was hired jointly by Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, New York. He became professor of biology at Columbia University, becoming professor of zoology in 1896. At the museum he succeeded Morris K. Jesup as president in 1908, serving until 1933, during which time he accumulated one of the finest fossil collections in the world. He assembled a great team of fossil hunters and preparators, which included Roy Chapman Andrews, one of the prototypes of Indiana Jones, and Charles R. Knight, who made murals of dinosaurs in their habitats and sculptures of the living creatures. He was mentored by the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, whom he met on a fossil-hunting expedition in Wyoming . The articulate Fairfield Osborne joined the US Geological Survey in 1900 and became senior vertebrate paleontologist in 1924. He led many fossil-hunting expeditions into the American Southwest, starting with his first to Colorado and Wyoming in 1877, when he met Cope. He described and named Ornitholestes in 1903, Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905, the Pentaceratops in 1923, and the Velociraptor in 1924.

Gilt Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Charles R. Knight (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1916 2nd edition. in fine in the original gilt red cloth, gilt still bright, tight. rare thus 2nd issue of the 1st edition identical to the 1st of 1915. Upper Palaeolithic Artists & Charles R. Knight, Erwin S. Christman and Others (illustrator). . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated, includes fold-out map. Red cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering & designs. Osborn (1857-1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist. Osborn was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and studied at Princeton University. He was professor of comparative anatomy from 1883 to 1890 at Princeton. In 1891 he was hired jointly by Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, New York. He became professor of biology at Columbia University, becoming professor of zoology in 1896. At the museum he succeeded Morris K. Jesup as president in 1908, serving until 1933, during which time he accumulated one of the finest fossil collections in the world. He assembled a great team of fossil hunters and preparators, which included Roy Chapman Andrews, one of the prototypes of Indiana Jones, and Charles R. Knight, who made murals of dinosaurs in their habitats and sculptures of the living creatures. He was mentored by the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, whom he met on a fossil-hunting expedition in Wyoming . The articulate Fairfield Osborne joined the US Geological Survey in 1900 and became senior vertebrate paleontologist in 1924. He led many fossil-hunting expeditions into the American Southwest, starting with his first to Colorado and Wyoming in 1877, when he met Cope. He described and named Ornitholestes in 1903, Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905, the Pentaceratops in 1923, and the Velociraptor in 1924 Size: 8vo.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. 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. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1936 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. Pages: 608 Language: English Pages: 608.

Tapa Blanda. Condition: Bien. FOTOS: No dude en pedir mas imagenes. Es de segunda mano, como se ve en la foto, puede preguntar mas detalle del ejemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Two volume complete set. U.S. Geological Survey. Monograph 55. 701 pages + 894 pages with hundreds of plates, many of them fold-outs. Brown hardcover boards with gilt lettering. Bindings are tight. Boards with light wear and light shellac applied to shine up the spines; pages dusty with light age toning; previous owner's full page inscription on inside end pages. Uncommon as a set and important source reference. Osborn (1857-1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist. He was professor of comparative anatomy from 1883 to 1890 at Princeton. In 1891 he was hired jointly by Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, At the museum he succeeded Morris K. Jesup as president in 1908, serving until 1933, during which time he accumulated one of the finest fossil collections in the world. The articulate Osborne led many fossil-hunting expeditions into the American Southwest, starting with his first to Colorado and Wyoming in 1877. He described and named Ornitholestes in 1903, Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905, the Pentaceratops in 1923, and the Velociraptor in 1924.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean Stated First Printing (1928) in unclipped original dust jacket. Hardcover book with color patterned paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, red lettering and small red dragon decoration on spine. No bumping, fading or fraying. Tiny spots of wear at two corner tips. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks; red top stained upper page edges. With an Introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History. Frontispiece illustration of the Persian hero Gushtap Killing the Dragon; additional b&w illustrations throughout. 203 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped, has light general soiling, chipping to spine ends, short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The dragon is the earliest known mythological creature. In the Western World it has been largely identified with St. George and has figured romantically in legend, literature, sculpture and painting in all times and all countries. Mr. Ingersoll has searched its origin and traced its development to achieve this book whose strict and comprehensive marshaling of facts will recommend itself to the scholar, while the clear writing style will appeal to any interested reader.