Lankester E Ray Edwin Ray 1847 1929 (18 results)

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Cheap edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned, dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 220 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references and index. Subjects; Natural History. Collected papers of an author. 3 Kg.

Cheap edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned, dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 220 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references and index. Subjects; Natural History. Collected papers of an author. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Good copy only in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age, with some loss. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 61 pp. Subjects; Nature. Human beings. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Good copy only in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age, with some loss. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 61 pp. Subjects; Nature. Human beings. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt motif on front panel. Spine bands, panels and panel edges somewhat dust-dulled and worn. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: vii, [1], 195 p. Illus. , diagrs. 29 cm. Subjects: Zoology. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xii, 220 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. ; This volume is the first half of a new issue of the author's Diversions of a naturalist. ; LC: QH81; Dewey: 574.9 ; OCLC: 3906382 ; Contents : On a Norwegian Fiord -- Nature Reserves -- Far from the Madding Crowd -- The Great Grey Seal -- The Grouse and other Birds -- The Sand and Pebbles of the Seashore -- The Constituents of a Seabeach -- Quicksands and Fire Stones -- More as to the Barnacle and the Goose -- Sea Shells on the Seashore -- Sand Hoppers -- A Swiss Interlude -- Science and Dancing -- Courtship -- Courtship in Animals and Man -- Courtship and Display -- Courtship Instinct and Reason -- Index. ; a tear to spine, else G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; 60 illustrations ; xvii, 243 pp. ; frontispiece, illustrated. 20 cm. ; LCCN: 20-27475 ; OCLC: 2487759 ; "The present volume is.mainly a revision and reprint, with considerable additions, of articles published in daily or weekly journals [The Illustrated London News and The Daily Telegraph]" ; Red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: The earliest picture in the world -- Portraits of mammoths by men who saw them -- The art of prehistoric men -- Vesuvius in eruption -- Blue water -- The biggest beast -- What is meant by "A species"? -- More about species -- Species in the making -- Some specific characters -- Hybrids -- The cross-breeding of races -- Whee l animalcules -- More about wheel animacules -- Suspended animation -- The swastika -- The origin of the swastika -- The Tomoye and the swastika -- Coal -- Boring for oil -- The story of lime juice and scurvy -- Index. ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 3rd ed.; 2nd series ; 55 illustrations ; xiii, 423, [1] p. col. front., illustrated., plates., foldouts. tables ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 10-24460 ; OCLC: 2553638 ; "Collection of some of the papers . contributed to the Daily telegraph . 1908-1909." ; Blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: A day in the Oberland -- Switzerland in Early Summer -- Gletsch -- Glaciers -- The Problem of the Galloping Horse -- The Jewel in the Toads Head - - Fern seed -- Ferns the ancestors of flowers -- Elephants -- A strange extinct beast -- Vegetarians and their Teeth -- Food and Cookery -- Smells and Perfumes -- Kisses -- Laughter -- Fatherless Frogs -- Primitive beliefs about fatherless progeny -- The Pygmy Races of Men -- Prehistoric Petticoats -- New Years Day and the Calendar -- Eastertide Shamrocks and Spermaceti -- The Strange History of the Tadpoles of the sea -- Museums -- The Secret of a Terrible Disease -- Carriers of disease -- I mmunity and Curative Inoculations -- The Strange Story of Animal Life in New Zealand -- The Effacement of Nature by Man -- The Extinction of the Bison and of Whales -- More about Whales -- Misconceptions about Science -- Index ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; 38 illustrations ; xi, 246 p. ; illustrated ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 23-26434 ; OCLC: 2919134 ; "Most of the chapters were written originally for publication in daily and weekly journals and have been now to some extent re-written and illustrated by text figures for the present volume." ; Red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: The gorilla of Sloane Street -- Science and the farm -- The phagocytes, or eater-cells -- Some pond-snails -- Pond-snails and blood-red -- The pond-snail's flea -- The liver-fluke -- Progress -- Is nature cruel? -- The senses and sense-organs -- An eye at the back of the head -- Other eyes -- The paired eyes of man -- Wasps -- An unwarr anted fancy -- Spider-sense and cat-sense -- Two experiments -- The last of the alchemists -- Extreme old age -- Longevity -- Metchnikoff on old age -- Giants -- Morphology and monsters -- Morphology and monsters, continued -- Various kinds of monst ers -- Tobacco -- Cerebral inhibition -- Index. ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. 5th ed. ; 86 illustrations ; xiii, 423, [31] p. col. frontispiece., plates, foldouts, tab. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 10-24460 ; OCLC: 2553638 ; "Methuen's Colonial Library" ; "Collection of some of the papers . contributed to the Daily telegraph . 1908- 1909." ; Red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: Science and practice -- University training -- Darwin's theory -- Darwin's discoveries -- Darwin's theory unshaken -- Metchnikoff and Tolstoi -- The land of azure blue -- Fresh-water jelly-fishes -- The story of the common eel -- Modern horses and their ancestors -- A rival of the fabled upas tree -- Poisons and stings of plants and animals -- The dragon : A fancy or a fact -- Oysters - - Maternal care and molluscs -- The heart's beat -- Sleep -- The universal structure of living things -- Protoplasm, life and death -- Chemistry and protoplasm -- The simplest living things -- Tadpoles and frogs -- About the stars -- Comets -- About cholera -- Sea-breezes, mountain air and ozone -- Oxygen gas for athletes and others -- Sparrows, trout, and selective breeding -- The feeble-minded -- Death rates -- Gossamer -- The jumping bean -- Protective colouring in animals -- Hop blight -- Green flies, plant lice and parthenogenesis -- The deadly phylloxera -- Clothes moths -- Stone and wood borers -- Christmas fare -- The origin of opium -- The most ancient trees -- The cavemen's skulls -- More about the Neander Men. ; VG. Book.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt motif on front panel. Spine bands, panels and panel edges somewhat dust-dulled and worn. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: vii, [1], 195 p. Illus. , diagrs. 29 cm. Subjects: Zoology. 1 Kg.

3pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper with a thin strip of glue in gutter from previous mounting. Lankester complains that he has 'not received a copy of Mr. Sedgwick's translation of Claus' Handbook of Zoology'. He has 'a large number of students (annually over 60) at University College' to whom he would recommend the book if he had it. 'I should wish to be able to place it on the lecture table for them to see.' He claims that it is 'usual for publishers to enable teachers to do this kind of thing - by sending them copies of works likely to be recommended'. Since he uses the German edition of the book himself, he has 'no intention of purchasing a copy of the English translation', and asks them to 'send me a presentation copy to University College'. Accompanying the letter is a photographic portrait of Lankester, removed from a magazine and neatly attached to a paper mount. It is captioned 'The most prominent English scientist to-day'.