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The Natural History of Insects
London John Murray 1829 Hard Cover Good No Jacket 16mo
313 pp, 351 pp. Two volumes bound together, Vol I publ. 1829, Vol II publ. 1835. Half-leather, marbled boards. Leather is chipped and worn. Gilt over bands and edging leather. Title on backstrip is "History of Insects" with no author or publisher. No author on title page. Marbled endpapers and all edges are marbled. Foxing to first and last few pages. Pencilled notes and inked names to front flyleaf. Interior clean bar one or two tidy inked notations and a few splotches. Small chips to a few page edges. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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50.00 AUD
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Anderson, Jan The Days of the Dinosaurs
Melbourne Thomas Nelson Australia 1985 0170067130 / 9780170067133 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Quarto Graeme Base
50 pp. A little unobtrusive scuffing to illustrated boards. Small bump and short tear to back cover near base of spine. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "Shows how scientists, using fossil evidence, piece together information about these animals that roamed the Earth for 130 million years."
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60.00 AUD
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Blackmore, Susan The Meme Machine
Oxford Oxford University Press 2000 019286212X / 9780192862129 Reprint Paperback Very Good Octavo
xviii, 264 pp. Very light general and edgewear to illustrated wraps. Spine square and uncreased. Faint yellowing to edges of text block. Internally as new.
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18.00 AUD
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Brady, Irene A Mouse Named Mus
London Macdonald 1973 0356045293 / 9780356045290 First British Hard Cover Very Good Good Small Quarto Irene Brady
93 pp. Light general and edgewear, including a few stains and scratches and a little abrasion to rear panel, to unclipped dustjacket. Some foxing to first and last few pages. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. "Although in A Mouse Named Mus Irene Brady conveys a wealth of fascinating information about a wide variety of American wildlife, the reader's interest in Mus's story is never allowed to flag for a moment. Here, in fact, is a welcome addition to the handful of animal stories which allow one to see life in all its wonder through another creature's eyes. On every page the author's splendidly exact and action-filled drawings add to the delight of a quite exceptional book."
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Campbell, Jeremy The Liar's Tale: A History of Falsehood
New York W W Norton 2001 0393025594 / 9780393025590 First Hard Cover Fine Fine Octavo
362 pp. "Campbell's seamless integration of art, literature and philosophy shows how the 19th century's focus on individuality, imagination, and irony eventually began to privilege artifice and fraud over nature and simplicity. Ultimately, this laid the foundation for the 20th century's philosophical and cultural apotheosis of lying, exemplified by figures such as Freud, Wittgenstein, and Derrida -- all of whom made deception and ambiguity a main thematic component of their thought."
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Darwin, Charles On Natural Selection (Penguin Great Ideas)
Penguin 2004 0141018968 / 9780141018966 First Thus Paperback Near Fine 12 mo
116 pp. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Light scuffing to back cover. Internally as new. Extracts from "The Origin of Species". The book is small and light; within Australia postage will be lowered to $3.00 upon receipt of order.
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Darwin, Charles (Abridged & Introduced By Richard E. Leakey The Illustrated Origin of Species
London Faber and Faber 1986 0571145868 / 9780571145867 Reprint Paperback Good Octavo
240pp. Numerous colour and b&w illustrations, photos and maps/diagrams. "...encompasses both Darwin's final thoughts on the question of evolution and his elegant refutations of the many vigorous arguments put up against it." Internally unmarked, light yellowing to page edges. Wraps with some fading towards spine, as well as some light general and edgewear, mostly at corners.
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Davies, Merryl Wyn Darwin and Fundamentalism (Postmodern Encounters series)
Cambridge Icon Books 2000 1840461772 / 9781840461770 Paperback Fine 12 mo
80 pp. As new. "Should we dismiss creation science as an irrelevant myth? Has evolution itself been turned into a new 'fundamentalist' theology, a useful ploy to police orthodoxy in science? Is religious bigotry mtched by scientific bigotry, bad religion by bad science?" The book is small and light; within Australia postage will be lowered to $3.00 upon receipt of order.
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Dover, Gabriel A. Dear Mr. Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature
London Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) 2001 0753811278 / 9780753811276 Reprint Paperback Very Good Small Octavo
268 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "From junk DNA and selfish genes to the position of the individual organism at evolution's centre-stage, Dear Mr Darwin illuminates some of the most complex theories of contemporary biology and Dovwer's own original view of evolution in a uniquely compelling and readable way."
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Geddes, Professor Patrick, and J. Arthur Thomson The Evolution of Sex
London Walter Scott Cloth Good No Jacket 12 mo
No date, c.1900 (books from 1889 cited in preface). Part of 'The Contemporary Science Series.' With 104 Illustrations. Boards quite worn and rubbed, especially to edges, corners, and top/bottom of spine. Solid binding. Page edges are somewhat worn, but pages themselves are quite bright, with only occasional and minor foxing at the margins. Detailed b/w drawings throughout.
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Goodall, Alan The Wandering Gorillas
London Collins 1979 0002162652 / 9780002162654 First Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Octavo
253 pp. Extremely light edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. Faint dust foxing to upper edge of text block. A little scuffing to lower edge of text block. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. A little musty. Black-and-white maps. Colour plates. Index. "The first study to compare two populations of gorillas which have become habituated to man."
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Gucwa, David, and James Ehmann To Whom It May Concern: An Investigation of the Art of Elephants
New York W.W. Norton & Company 1985 0393022404 / 9780393022407 First Edition Cloth Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
269 pp. Dust jacket, now protected in removable clear plastic sleeve, is not clipped but has some soiling, discolouration and edgewear. Green cloth boards square and unbumped, but a little faded around the edges. Some faint splotches to edges of text block. Internally clean and solidly bound. Illustrated with b/w drawings and photos.
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