Animals River, First Edition (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. wire bound with glossy pages, very nice full color photos, 94 pages, like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Clean Tight And Square. Inscribed By Author On Ffp. No Other Markings. Little Toning To Pages With Very Good Hinges And Bump To Top Corner Of Boards. 1St Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

HARDCOVER. Dust Jacket Condition: slight fading, Very Good-. 1st edition. 132pp, color + b/w illustrations, octavo. cover wear, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good-.

Wrappers. Condition: Near fine. 1st ppbnd. ed. 207 pp. First paperbound edition; first printing. Binding tight; glossy pictorial wrappers with edge wear; no other condition issues inside or out; no highlighting, underlining or marginalia. Black and white photographs, maps, charts in this scholarly work on Amazon ecology. Size: 25 x 18 cm.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st. Dust Jacket: N/A. External Condition: Very good. The spine is very slightly faded. Minimal wear. Clean. Internal Condition: Microfiche 1-16 is present, 17-35 is missing. Excellent. Clean. Author/Editor: Lauwerier, R C G M. ISBN: 9012058244. Publisher: Nederlandse Oudheden 12. Year: 1988. Edition: 1st. Binding: Softcover. Illustrated: Yes, B&W. Language: English. Page Count: 227. Keywords: Roman, animals, natural history, Dutch Eastern River Area. The book for sale is the one in the photo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 109 pages; DJ is rubbed at edges, spine ends and corner tips. Several closed tears at DJ edges, with staining. Mylar cover. Red cloth with black lettering, book solid and tight. Illustrated by Clarence Ellsworth. Previous owner bookplate. Previous store stamp. Text block clean and unmarked. Pages tight and glossy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-viii, 499 pp, 41 maps including two which are folding, book plate of Reading University Library on the front paste down and withdrawn stamp on the reverse of the title page. Hardbound by the University with the original wrappers stuck down, hand titling to the spine, label on the front board and a neat marginal stamp on the two folding maps but a very good copy.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Antonio Wong Rengifo (born March 5, 1910 in Iquitos , Peru [ 1 ] ? 1965) was a Peruvian film director , photographer , screenwriter , and producer . He is considered the pioneer of Amazonian cinematography in Iquitos and the Loreto jungle. He stood out for being one of the most representative men of Amazonian culture, and for his multifaceted talent in his film language He was born in Iquitos , the son of two immigrants. His father was a Cantonese merchant who wanted his son to become a violin tuner , and his mother was a distinguished lady from Moyobamba . From a young age, he was interested in artistic activities, especially music and photography. Date is just an approximation Price is for all 9. . RARE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. edge wear on the boards. some usage markings. a few ownership plates. pages are intact and presentable. very good condition. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. complete with all plates. very little edge wear on boards. ownership stamps. book is in beautiful condition, very little usage, and has been incredibly well preserved. as if almost fine condition, considering the age (1901) .[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Original Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edit. 55 pages. 5 plates. Pencil markings on half-title. Original dark blue cloth. Most attractive contemporary bookplate.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this scarce work on river gardens by H. Noel Humphreys, with beautiful colour plates. The first edition of this scarce work.In the publisher's original gilt cloth, re-backed.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, a monochrome vignette to the title page, illuminated letters, vignettes and seven colour plates. Collated complete.This work was written by the British illustrator, naturalist and entomologist Henry Noel Humphreys and provides a descriptive study on river gardens, with guidance on cultivating fresh water plants for creating habitats and aquariums for aquatic life. In the publisher's original cloth, re-backed. Externally smart with fading to the spine, minor marks to the boards and slight bumping and rubbing to the extremities of the boards. Minor marks to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages with spotting and tape repairs to the verso's of the odd plate. Very Good. book.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. H Noel Humphreys (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very good copy in the original green decorative cloth binding with 20 fine hand coloured plates. Aeg. The binding has a gilt design, gilt titles and blind stamping to the front board, gilt design and titles to the spine and blind stamping to the back board. It has been rebacked and is sound and tight with wear to corners and a slightly dulled spine. There is some marking to the front board but overall the binding is sound and clean. New endpapers matching the original. This is the first publication of the combined volume - Ocean Gardens is a 2nd edition - enlarged and corrected by the author, and River Gardens is a 1st. Contents: hand coloured frontispiece with guard; title (old signature at the top); contents list 2pp; plate list; text pp 1-117 with 11 further hand coloured plates; frontispiece to River Gardens with guard; title; contents 2 pp; plate list; text pp 1-108 with 7 further hand coloured plates. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at the rear. The plates are tissue-guarded and text and plates are very clean.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; engraved frontispiece in each volume, 7 plates, folding map, engravings within the text, 32-page publisher's ads at rear of vol. I, Edmonds & Remnants ticket to rear pastedown of vol. I, contemporary blindstamp of J. & T. Spencer bookseller of Leicester to front free endpaper of vol. I, contemporary ownership signature to the front blank of volume Iresidue of printed material to front pastedown of vol. I, short closed tear in the margin of leaf EE in vol. II, some spotting to contents, primarily the early and late leaves of vol. I, contents lightly toned; original reddish-brown publisher's cloth, titles to spines and pictorial design to upper boards gilt, red endpapers, cloth rubbed with some wear at the corners and ends of spines, spines toned, some small marks and spots, endpapers of volume I partially darkened, rear hinge of volume II just starting, very good condition; 351 & 423pp. First edition of this 'major contribution to the knowledge and literature of Amazonia' by a significant colleague of Charles Darwin (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) was a self-taught naturalist and friend of Alfred Russell Wallace. In 1848, at Wallace's suggestion, the pair set out on a specimen collecting trip to the Amazon 'in the hope of contributing ideas to the debate about the origin of species' (ODNB). Wallace returned to Britain in 1852, but Bates stayed for eleven years and 'dispatched some 14,700 species back to England, 8000 of them new to science' (ODNB). On his return he began publishing a series of significant scientific papers, the most important of which described the phenomenon now known as Batesian mimicry, in which a species evolves to mimic another that is toxic or otherwise dangerous to predators. 'The phenomenon offered supporting evidence to the arguments on natural selection expounded by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species (1859). In a letter to Bates in November 1862, Darwin described the paper as one of the most "remarkable and admirable" he had ever read (Stecher, 36), and Bates became an advocate of Darwinian ideas, making early reference to them at meetings of the Entomological and Linnean societies. In 1860 the two men had begun a correspondence which lasted until Darwin's death in 1882. Darwin frequently asked Bates for information on the insects and other wildlife of Amazonia, and it was at his suggestion that Bates wrote an account of his travel experiences, Darwin recommending Bates to his own publisher, John Murray' (ODNB). The Naturalist on the River Amazons 'was an immediate success and has become a travel classic. It remained in print through the nineteenth century, in eight editions, and was also published in Russian, German, and Swedish in 1865, 1866, and 1872 respectively. It is a curiously structured book, part detailed diary, part general account of the region, and part precise description of particular fauna, but it provides a fascinating record of the natural environment and wildlife of Amazonia before the major impact of the rubber boom. There are also detailed descriptions of the way of life and customs of Amerindian groups Bates encountered on his travels. The book's enduring appeal lies in its elegant yet scientific pen-portraits of places, people, and wildlife, as in his description of the wings of the varied and beautiful butterflies he observed around Ega' (ODNB).

First Edition. [Amazon Travel and Natural History] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] x; 351 [3]; pp.[2] vi; 423 [3]. With 42 engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map to the rear of volume I. Contemporary dark brown half morocco for McClurg & Co., Chicago, Illinois, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and double-marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt, with double-marbled endpapers. Black ink ownership of Joshua Brown to title page of each volume. Some black ink notes also to final blank at the rear of volume I, and to the final page of volume II. Gently toned throughout. A paper repair to top margin of p.1/2 of volume I, otherwise internally clean. Spines rubbed and toned, with some re-colouring to cracked joints. All hinges firm. Very good. Bates' travels and cataloguing of new animal species with Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) in the Amazon basin between 1847 and 1859 are related in a narrative very favourably reviewed by Charles Darwin, whose theories of Natural Selection were strongly supported by the author. The book was re-issued in abridged second and third editions in subsequent years.

1st Ed. 2 vols. ix + 351pp. + 32pp. publ. catalogue. + vi + 423pp. 9 plates, 33 ills., folding map. Some light browning, bookplates, volume 2 with crudely taped hinges, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt ills. to upper boards, chipped spines with repair across tail of spine of vol. 2 with minor split to tail of upper joint, corners frayed. Moraes vol. 1. pp.77. Darwin 'It is a grand book, and, whether or not it sells, it will last.ODNB '. a major contribution to the knowledge and literature of Amazonia. Bates had spent longer on the Amazon than any of his European predecessors, and the book was an immediate success and has become a travel classic . it provides a fascinating record of the natural environment and wildlife of Amazonia before the major impact of the rubber boom. There are also detailed descriptions of the way of life and customs of Amerindian groups Bates encountered on his travels .' US$1106.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 351 pp.; 423 pp. First edition; first printing; Binding fine; text near fine, minor fading at edges; light damp stain title page vol. II. Vol. I: [iii]-viii; [1]-351; f.p., pristine folding map at rear, + 4 leaves of black and white plates, including 12 engravings; and [1]-32 pp. of Mr. Murray's adverts at the rear. Vol. II: [iii]-vi; [1]-423; fp.; + 3 leaves of plates including 20 engravings. 8vo bound in later maroon buckram rebacked with original cloth over new boards; gold lettering stamped upper cover and across the spine; marble endpapers; red and yellow headbands; fp; black and white plates; fold-out map. See additional images provided. 1250 copies; two frontispieces and plates illustrate Bates' adventures. Bates, a naturalist and amateur entomologist, accompanied Alfred Russel Wallace in their historic expedition to the Brazilian Amazon in 1847. Bates collected over 14,000 insects in 11 years, plus specimens of many animals and plants, many unknown, and sent them back to England. After a year they split up, Wallace staying three more years, Bates remaining a total of 11 years. Bates fascination with the rain forest and discovery of many species new to science made him one of the foremost naturalists of the 19th century. Quoting Borba 91, "The classification of all the insects Bates sent back to England occupied scientists for many years. It was Darwin who encouraged him to write this book, which today is a classic. In Darwin's words: 'Bates is only excelled by Humboldt in his description of the tropical forest.' ?Wallace, Bates, Darwin, and Spruce were the great English naturalists of the nineteenth century, and the founders and defenders of the theory of the origin of species, a theory originating from Bates' observations in Brazil. Size: 8vo. 0.0 antiquarian.

First edition of Bates's narrative of his travels in South America. The wood engravings, particularly the frontispiece in Volume I, are beautifully rendered from drawings by several leading natural history illustrators. It was described by Darwin as "the best work of natural history travels ever published in England" (Life and Letters, p. 381). Bates travelled with his friend and colleague Alfred Russel Wallace through the Amazon basin for two years, 1848-9, and remained behind when Wallace returned to England; he stayed for 11 years in total. Bates supported his own entomological collecting interests by supplying specimens for public and private collections, sending approximately 14,700 species back to England, 8,000 of which were new to science. He was encouraged to write his account by Darwin, with whom he frequently corresponded and who recommended Bates to his own publisher, John Murray. The resulting work became "an immediate success and travel classic" (ODNB). Jointly a personal diary, account of the region, guide to the customs of its inhabitants, and detailed analysis of native fauna, The Naturalist on the River Amazons "provides a fascinating record of the natural environment and wildlife of Amazonia before the major impact of the rubber boom. The book's enduring appeal lies in its elegant yet scientific pen-portraits of places, people, and wildlife" (ibid.). Borba de Moraes, p. 91; Sabin 3932a; Troelstra, Natural History Travel Narratives, pp. 55-6. Francis Darwin, ed., The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887. 2 vols, octavo. Wood-engraved frontispieces, 7 plates, folding map of the Amazons at rear of vol. I, title-page vignettes, 33 illustrations in text after E. W. Robinson, Joseph Wolf, Josiah Wood Whymper, and Johann Baptist Zwecker. With 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear dated January 1863. Original reddish brown vertical rib-and-diaper cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, Amazonian scene stamped in gilt to front covers, red coated endpapers, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants to rear pastedown of vol. I. Contemporary and 20th-century annotations to front free endpaper versos and upper margins of title pages. Joints and inner hinges repaired. Spines cocked, extremities bumped and rubbed, endpapers soiled, tissue guard in vol. II only, contents evenly toned and sporadically foxed: a very good copy.

First edition, with the publisher's presentation blind stamp to the title page of volume I. Bates's narrative of his travels in South America is "one of the finest scientific travel books of the 19th century" (DSB). Darwin described it as "the best work of natural history travels ever published in England" (Life and Letters, p. 381). Bates travelled with his friend and colleague Alfred Russel Wallace through the Amazon basin for two years, 1848-9, and remained behind when Wallace returned to England; he eventually stayed for 11 years in all. Bates supported his own entomological collecting interests by supplying specimens for public and private collections, sending approximately 14,700 species back to England, 8,000 of them new to science. He was encouraged to write his account by Darwin, with whom he frequently corresponded, and who recommended Bates to his own publisher, John Murray. The resulting work became "a major contribution to the knowledge and literature of Amazonia" and "an immediate success and travel classic" (ODNB), selling successfully throughout the 19th century and being translated into numerous languages. Jointly a personal diary, account of the region, guide to the customs of its inhabitants, and detailed analysis of native fauna, The Naturalist on the River Amazons "provides a fascinating record of the natural environment and wildlife of Amazonia before the major impact of the rubber boom. The book's enduring appeal lies in its elegant yet scientific pen-portraits of places, people, and wildlife" (ibid.). The wood engravings, particularly the frontispiece in volume I, are beautifully rendered from drawings by several leading natural history illustrators. Borba de Moraes, p. 91; Sabin 3932a; Troelstra, Natural History Travel Narratives, pp. 55-56. Francis Darwin, ed., The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887 2 vols, octavo (194 x 125 mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece in each vol., 7 plates, folding map of the Amazons at rear of vol. I, title-page vignettes, 33 illustrations within text after E. W. Robinson, Joseph Wolf, Josiah Wood Whymper, and Johann Baptist Zwecker. Contemporary green half calf, spine with five raised bands separating compartments tooled with floral motifs and ruled in gilt, green cloth sides, gilt supralibros to covers, likely of the Hamond family of West Acre, Norfolk, red marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, purple silk bookmarkers. Armorial bookplates on front pastedowns, probably of Philip Hamond (1813-1886); a handful of neat pencil annotations to contents. A touch of wear to extremities, particularly at corners and head of joints, gilt bright, bookmarker laid into vol. II, endleaves a little foxed, small stain to folding plate: a very good copy.

First edition. TRAVELS IN AMAZONIA AND SUPPORT FOR DARWIN. First edition of Bates?s wildly popular account of the years he spent in the Amazon region, during which he identified several thousand new species of insects and animals. He published it at the urging of Darwin, who wrote a lengthy appreciation of the book in the Natural History Review (vol. iii, 1863), and who considered it to be the best work of its kind. ?During the whole of his sojourn amid the Brazilian forests his speculations were approximating to the theory of natural selection, and upon the publication of the Origin of Species he became a staunch and thoroughgoing adherent of the Darwinian hypothesis? (DNB). ?In the autumn of 1847 Mr. A. R. Wallace, who has since acquired wide fame in connection with the Darwinian theory of Natural Selection, proposed to me a joint expedition to the river Amazons, for the purpose of exploring the Natural History of its banks; the plan being to make for ourselves a collection of objects, dispose of the duplicates in London to pay expenses, and gather facts, as Mr. Wallace expressed it in one of his letters, ?towards solving the problem of the origin of species,? a subject on which we had conversed and corresponded much together? (Bates, p. 3). Some scholars however, doubt that this quotation from Wallace is genuine. ??Wallace himself never claimed or confirmed that this was the inspiration or aim of his first expedition. Instead he gave the aims as ?to observe nature and make a living by collecting?? (Van Wyhe, p. 628). Nevertheless, Wallace later formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection in 1858, and Bates?s discoveries in Amazonia provided support to Darwin?s theory of natural selection. ?After returning to England, [Bates] read Darwin?s Origin?and put forward his famous idea of mimicry: poorly-defended butterflies could evolve to look like brightly-coloured, protected species avoided by predators. Starting with some initial, slightly deceptive resemblance, Bates argued this would be improved by natural selection to produce the remarkable similarities observed? (/the-society/history-of-science/henry-walter-bates). Bates (1825-92) was a self-taught English naturalist and explorer. He was born at Leicester, the eldest of four sons of a hosiery manufacturer. After leaving school he apprenticed with another hosier, and it seemed he would continue the family trade. He spent his free time in the careful observation and collection of insect life in the Leicestershire countryside and later around Burton upon Trent. In 1844 he met Wallace, then a master at Leicester collegiate school. They collected insects together and found a common interest in the writings of Darwin, and more unusually, in those of von Humboldt and Lyell. After Wallace returned to south Wales in 1846 they corresponded, and at Wallace's suggestion decided upon an expedition to the Amazon, to study the region's wildlife?collecting duplicate specimens for sale to defray their expenses?in the hope of contributing ideas to the debate about the origin of species. After rapid preparations at the British Museum and Kew Gardens, they sailed from Liverpool in the trading vessel Mischief on 26 April 1848, and arrived in Bel?m (then known as Par?) on 28 May. Their initial base was Bel?m, from where they collected locally, on the island of Maraj?, and on expeditions up the River Tocantins in 1848 and 1849; they separated in 1849. Wallace returned to England in 1852, but Bates was to remain in Amazonia for eleven years, collecting around bases at Bel?m, Ega (1850?51 and 1855?9), and Santar?m and Villa Nova (1851?5); along the Amazon; and on expeditions up the Tapajos (1852) and as far west as S?o Paulo on the Solim?es in 1857. He worked alone, using local river craft, and, after their introduction in 1853, steamboats. Although his main interest was in insects, particularly butterflies and beetles, he also collected animals, birds, reptiles, plants, shells, and Indian artifacts. These were sold by his London agent, Samuel Stevens, to museums and private collectors, but he also sought specific items for public and private collections. In total he dispatched some 14,700 species back to England, 8000 of them new to science. During 1858 Bates?s health deteriorated and he left the upper Amazon in February 1859 and spent two months in Bel?m before embarking for England on 2 June 1859. He settled in Leicester, describing himself in 1863 as a worsted hosier. However, he had begun to write up the collections he had made, and produced a series of major papers, published in the Transactions of the Linnean and Entomological societies, and the Annals and Magazine of Natural History between 1859 and 1862. The most significant was the ?Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley: Lepidoptera Heliconidae? (Transactions of the Linnean Society, 1862) which described resemblances between two families of butterflies, of which the similarity of one to the other served as protection against predators. Such protection, or mimicry, could be an aid to survival and thus to natural selection, and has come to be known as Batesian mimicry. The phenomenon offered supporting evidence to the arguments on natural selection expounded by Darwin in the Origin. In a letter to Bates in November 1862, Darwin described the paper as one of the most ?remarkable and admirable? he had ever read (Stecher, p. 36), and Bates became an advocate of Darwinian ideas, making early reference to them at meetings of the Entomological and Linnean societies. In 1860 the two men had begun a correspondence which lasted until Darwin?s death in 1882. Darwin frequently asked Bates for information on the insects and other wildlife of Amazonia, and it was at his suggestion that Bates wrote an account of his travel experiences, Darwin recommending Bates to his own publisher, John Murray. The Naturalist on the River Amazons was a major contribution to the knowledge and literature of Amazonia. Bate.