Gambel William (2 results)
Language: English
- Hardcover
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. 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. Pages: 112. A perfect gift… for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1893 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. Language: English Pages: 112.
More imagesJournal of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Philadelphia. New Series. Vol. I. Part I.: Mr. Gambel on the birds of California; Miscellanea Zoologica; Prof. Owen on certain fossil bones; Mr. Tuomey on teh Zeuglodon; Fossil Genus Basilosaurus. First edition.
Gambel, William; Joseph Leidy; Prof. Ricahrd Owen; John Cassin; T. Bowen, lithographer; R.P. Smith, lithographer
Published by Philadelphia: The Academy, 1847
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Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. Folio. 27 x 36 cm. Original front wrap. 90pp. and 10 plates hors texte, incl. 2 color lithographs.Professor Richard Owen's work on fossil bones led him to coin the term Dinosauria in 1842, creating the formal group for extinct creatures like Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus based on anatomical similarit…ies. He recognized these reptiles shared a unique combination of features and established Dinosauria as a distinct subgroup of "saurian reptiles". Owen also used the fossil record to develop the concept of homologous structures and the "vertebral archetypThe journal began publication in 1817. Its first series, consisting of 8 volumes, ended in 1842. A second series began in 1847, and ceased publication in 1918 after 16 volumesFrom the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
