Videnskab og natur

Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1989-1991

Hollowell, Tom, Lynn J Gillespie, VA Funk & Carol L Kelloff · 2003 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

Washington: Department of Systematic Biology-Botany/National Museum of.., 2003. Fine trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book), in original shrinkwrap.

Virunga: the Passion of Dian Fossey

Mowat, Farley · 1987 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Mowat was granted exclusive access to Fossey's diaries and journals for the purpose of writing this book.

By the Evidence: Memoirs, 1932-1951

Leakey, LSB · 1974 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, 1974. 1st printing of 1st edition., Light dust soiling along top edge otherwise a very good hard cover book/ Light edgewear & dust jacket spine slightly faded otherwise very good dust jacket., The second of the three volume autobiography.

Nimbus

Jablokov, Alexander · 1993 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY: AvoNova/Morrow, 1993. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

A Deeper Sea

Jablokov, Alexander · 1992 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY: AvoNova/Morrow, 1992. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

The Unreasoning Mask

Farmer, Philip Jose · 1981 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.50 (€4.99 | £4.16 | ¥878)

NY: Putnam, 1981. 1st printing of 1st edition., End papers & page edges lightly foxed (but not effecting the text or page margins) otherwise good+ hard cover book/ edgewear otherwise very good dust jacket.

Peter Scott: Observations of Wildlife

Scott, Peter With An Introduction By HRH The Duke Of Edinburgh · 1980 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., 112 pages including Epilogue, illustrated.

Science, Race and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895

Stephens, Lester D · 2000 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In the decades preceding the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South, parti...

Results of the Ussr-Usa Expedition in Marine Biology to the Seychelles Islands

Littler, Mark M & Diane S Littler Editors · 1992 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Washing: National Museum of Natural History/Smithsonian Institution, 1992. Light soiling on front cover otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Atoll Research Bulletin 365-378. The first Soviet-American expedition in...

Assured Survival: Putting Star Wars Defense in Perspective

Bova, Ben · 1984 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.50 (€4.99 | £4.16 | ¥878)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. 1st printing of 1st edition., Dust soiling along top edge otherwise very good+ in fine dust jacket.

Is the Temperature Rising? : the Uncertain Science of Global Warming

Philander, S George · 1998 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. 4th printing., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., An excellent, non-technical introduction to the Earth's climate & weather. The world's ecosystem is so large & complex that its understanding will always have uncertain...

American Empire: the Center Cannot Hold

Turtledove, Harry · 2003 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2003. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ light edgewear otherwise near fine dust jacket.

High Tech, High Touch

Naisbitt, John With Nana Naisbitt & Douglas Philips · 1999 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY: Broadway Books, 1999. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Previous owner's bookplate signed by author (John Naisbitt) affixed to front end paper, inlaid letter addressed to previous owner announcing publication of this book and th...

Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers With Commentary

Houck, Lynne D & Lee C Drickamer Editors · 1996 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Fine trade hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued., 842 pages. In original shrinkwrap.

Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa

Altmann, Stuart A · 1998 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In one of the most extensive studies of baboons, Altmann provides detailed information on their diet and also predicts survival & reproductive success based on ...

A Fragile Eden: Portraits of the Endemic Flowering Plants of the Granitic Seychelles

Wise, Rosemary With A Contribution By Malcolm Coe · 1998 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., An extensive gallery of the plant species of the Seychelles recorded by Wise when she accompanied the Oxford University Biological Expedition in 1985. Al...

Wake of the Whale

Brower, Kenneth & Photographs By Willaim R Curtsinger, An Introduction By Sidney Holt & Foreward By David R Brower · 0 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

San Francisco: Friends of the Earth. light dust soiling along top edge otherwise very good+ hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Curtsinger's photographs capture the whale and its environmental neighbors in its many oceanographic habitats.

Biology & Classification of Dwarf Mistletoes (Arceuthobium)

Hawksworth, Frank G & Delbert Wiens · 1972 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

Washington: Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1972. 1st printing of 1st edition., Ex library; Withdrawn stamps on pastedowns (inside covers) otherwise clean, unmarked hard cover copy/ no dust jacket, as issued.

The Acceleration of History

Piel, Gerald · 1972 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Knopf, 1972. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book/ small closed tears on front dust jacket panel otherwise near fine dust jacket., Piel along with two colleagues founded the new Scientific American in 1948 and in this set of essays discusses a wide rang...

The Choice

Myra, Harold Illustrated By Joseph E Develasco · 1980 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, 1980. 1st printing of 1st edition., Light foxing along page edges otherwise very good+ hard cover book/ slight dust soiling on dust jacket covers & a small chip in lower right corner of front panel otherwise very good+ dust jacket.