A j van rossem (5 Ergebnisse)

Ingenaaid. Zustand: Enige gebruikssporen. 104 pp. Geïllustreerd met enkele tekeningen en een foto. Naam op titelpagina. Flauwe cirkelvormige afdruk op de voorkaft.

Original publisher's sewn red paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: [viij], 216pp., footnotes & references, general bibliography. Fine copy.

Gebonden. Zustand: Vrijwel als nieuw. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Stofomslag. 83 pp., Overwegend een kijkboek met z/w foto's en plattegronden vanwege verbouwing en herinrichting van het gebouw van het Ministerie van Economische Zaken door architect Hans Ruijssenaars. With a short Englishsummary. Size: 30 x 21 cm. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Softcover. Toned tan paper covers with black lettering to the front cover and spine. Dated 1938 on title page and front cover. Volume 23, Publication 406 of the Zoological Series of the Field Museum of Natural History. 609 pages, followed by a section of 24 black and white pictorial plates. Good condition. Binding is strong and square. Paper at the head of the spine is beginning to peel away. Overall light shelf rubbing. Covers are toned, with heavier toning to the spine. Some slight wear to edges of the covers, but no chips or tears. Pages toned but clean and free of marks. A previous owner's name stamped to the head of the cover and across the page edges- no other notes to be found. Many of the pages remain uncut. Overall good condition. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Thomas Lovejoy's name is not in this book. It will come with a card stating provenance, with a picture of Lovejoy.…

Zustand: Very Good. 24 cm; 609 pages, frontispiece plate of bobwhites after a painting by Allan Brooks. Maps and figures in text. Bound in original publisher's wraps. Inscribed on upper wrap to "Allen Brooks, with my very best regards. A.J. van Rossem, May 16, 1939." Pages unopened. Later bookplate of Ian McTaggart Cowan, the Canadian science television pioneer. Covers slightly toned, and curled at upper right corner. Laid in is an offprint of van Rossem's article, "A new race of sharp-shinned hawk from Mexico," reprinted from The Auk, vol 56 (1939) pp. 127-128, with color plate. Fine associations with the author's gift inscription to the artist, and the later bookplate of the Scottish-Canadian naturalist and TV presenter who helped popularize ecological studies. First edition, inscribed by Van Rossem to Allan Brooks.…