Beebe william 1877 1962 (18 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. This is a 1936 printing. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages absent any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 240 pp. illus. map. 22 cm. Subjects; Zaca (Yacht). Animals Mexico. Central America. Marine animals. Scientific expeditions. Zoology. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: New.

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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.

orig. wrappers. 24x17cm, 100 pp., FOUR ITEMS. This is a collection of 4 offprints, each separately bound in original wrappers. Includes: 1) [Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station No. 44] "Systematic Notes on Bermudian and West Indian Tunas of the Genera Parathunnus and Neothunnus" [1936, pagination runs 177-194 +7 photoplates];2) [Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station No. 45] "Food of the Bermuda and West Indian Tunas of the Genera Parathunnus and Neothunnus"[1936, paghinmation runs 195-205 + 3 photoplates]; 3) [Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station No. 61] "Preliminary List of Bermuda Deep- sea Fish" [1937, pagination runs 197-208]; 4) [Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station No. 69/70] "Deep-seas Fishes of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions: Family Serrivomeridae, Part II: Genus Platuronides" / " Deep-seas Fishes of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions: Family Nemichthyidae" [1937, pagination runs 331-383]. Minor wear. Rubberstamps to covers. VG. 10pp photoplates (illustrator). …

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: Herbert Massey's bookplate. Physical description: 2 volumes. Subjects: Pheasants. Pheasants - Behavior. 2 Kg. …

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 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.…

Zustand: Very good. Very good. - William Beebe's autograph penned on a 3 inch high by 5 inch wide index card. The edges of the card are slightly darkened. Very good.William Beebe [1877-1962] was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer and author. He is best remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, his deep dives in the Bathysphere and his prolific scientific writing for academic and popular audiences. On joining the newly opened New York Zoological Park, he quickly distinguished himself by his skill in designing habitats for the zoo's birds and soon by his research expeditions, including a round-the-world trip to document pheasant populations. With his 1930s dives in the Bathysphere he became the first biologist to observe deep-sea animals in their native environment. He later traveled to the tropics and began to study the behavior of insects. He was a major advocate of conservation and is regarded as one of the founders of the field of ecology.…

Eigenhändige Empfehlung mit Unterschrift "With pleasure I send my autograph WILLIAM BEEBE" , auf eigenhändigem Fanbrief an ihn in deutscher Sprache, Frankfurt/Main, 11.6.1932 BEILAGE : Eigenhändiger Briefumschlag mit gedrucktem Absender "New York Zoological Society, Dept. Of Tropical Research" New York 1932.…