American Beetles

Howard, Leland O. The Insect Book. A popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, glies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and biblographies. The New Nature Library Vol. 4, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923

427 Seiten, OLeinen, Goldprägung, Gold-Kopfschnitt, Einband berieben, Vorsatz leicht angerissen, Buchblock stellenweise leicht aufgebrochen, erste Bildtafel mit Fleck, Papier gebräunt, zahlr. Farb- und SW-Abb.

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Editors: Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 55, Washington, DC Government Printing Office 1920 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Near-Fine

First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 660 p. Illustrated. Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum. Includes extensive illustrated articles on a variety of flora and fauna from around the globe, including land shells from the Philippine Islands; Miocene fossil plants from Northern Peru; Descriptive catalog of Ecclesiastical Art in the United States National Museum; bees; North American Ichneumon flies; Chitons from the Pacific Coast of America; Branchiobdellid worms; Ptinid beetles; parasitic hymenoptera; chalcid-flies; Hemiptera collected by the Yale Dominican Expedition of 1913; new restoration of Triceratops; adult taenioid cestodes of dogs and cats and other carnivores; exploration of a pit house village at Luna, New Mexico; half-beak Hemiramphus balao of Cuba; Atherine fishes; copepods of Honduras; slings in pre-Columbian America; undescribed meteoric stone from Kansas City, Missouri; white-collared kingfishers; birds collected by W. L. Abbott on Pulo Taya, Berhala Strait, Southeastern Sumatra; and Simalur Island, Western Sumatra; wrens; birds of Tamlean Islands, South China; races of Nicobar megapode; chalcid-slies; gall-wasps; African earthworms; parasitic copepods; and more. Only indication of ex-library status is bookplate from the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Near fine. First Edition No Jacket Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library; First Edition

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Editor: Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 54, Washington, DC Government Printing Office 1919 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Near-Fine

First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 653 p. Illustrated. Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum. Includes extensive illustrated articles on a variety of flora and fauna from around the globe, including new West Indian fossil land shell; marine shells from Panama; Land shells of the Apiphragmophora traskii group; Fossil plants from Bolivia & Eastern Andes; Fossil plants from the late Tertiary of Oklahoma; Chitons taken by the United States steamer Albatross in Northwest Pacific, 1906; isopods; multibrachiate ophiuran of the family Gorgonocephalidae from the Caribbean; North American fossibl beetles, cockroaches, and tsetse flies; Chrysodomus and other mollusks from the north Pacific; Nomenclature of mollusks of the family Turritidae; Altitudinal distribution of Entomos straca in Colorado; Lepidoptera of Mexico; African parasitic hymenoptera; Macruroid dish from Hawaiian Islands; skeleton of Stegasaurus stenops in the National Museum; fishes from the Yalu River, China; National Museum Hopi Indian collection; Calcareous sponges collected in 1906 aboard the Albatross in Northwest Pacific; Plainview, Texas meteorite; Virgin Islands mammals and reptiles; Java Sea island birds; leach petrel; flies of Guam and the Philippines; Strepsiptera; birds of northeastern Siberia; fishes of Owens River, California; Hawaiian lizards; fishes of Mohave River, California; bones of birds of St. Thomas and St. Croix; anatomy of Nyctibius; mimetite, thaumasite, and wavellite; nuculites from the Silurian formations of Washington County, Maine; and more. Only indication of ex-library status is bookplate from the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Near fine. First Edition No Jacket Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library; First Edition

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Editors: Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 59, Washington, DC Government Printing Office 1922 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Very Good

First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 685 p. Illustrated. Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution, then known as the United States National Museum. Includes extensive illustrated articles on a variety of flora and fauna from around the globe, including palm nuts from the Miocene of the Canal Zone; tertiary fossil plants of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela; sexual differences in the coloration of the spotted turtle; descriptive catalog of the collection of Buddhist art in the United States National Museum; a new species of ray from the Texas Coast; minnow; Eocene incests of Colorado and Wyoming; fossil fish scales from Peru; Foraminifera of Jamaica; Nearctic spider mites; crystallography and chemical composition of Creedite; fauna of the Arundel formation of Maryland; nematodes; pleistocene vertebrata; deep-sea fishes of Hawaii killed by lave flow from Mauna Loa; dragonfly naiads from Texas; myrmecophilous beetles; mineral composition of the Troup Meteorite; crustacea from Lake Valencia, Venezuela; barnacles of the San Juan Islands, Washington; neotropical sawflies; wasps; North American Clerid beetles; lepidoptera in the United States National Museum; crystollographic study of Datolite from Westfield, Massachusetts; Ferroanthophyllite, an orthorhombic iron amphibile from Idaho; Vivianite encrusting a fossil tusk from gold placers of Clearwater County, Idaho; Ludwigites from Idaho and Korea; wester fluvial fishes described by Charles Girard in 1856; new cretaceous Rudistid from the San Felipe formation of Mexico; mollusks from Cuba; the Troup Texas meteorite; Ichneumon-flies; fossil annelid genus Hamulus Morton; American gallflies; parasitic Cynipidae; parasitic copepods; semiparasitic copepods; predaceous beetles of the tribe Tillini; and more. Only indication of ex-library status is bookplate from the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Lettering on spine faded and corners bumped. Very good. First Edition No Jacket Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library; First Edition

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