Catalogue 90 - Women in Sciences and Arts
42 items found
Bergquist, P. R.
The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part I, II, III.
Wellington, New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, 1968-1980. Three parts in three. Large 4to (28.0 x .21.5 cm). Full colour (1) and b/w (1) frontispieces; 233 pp. [105; 85; 43]; 37 text figures [30; 3; 4], 51 plates [14; 20; 17]. Original uniform printed softcovers.
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Boone, [P.] L.
Scientific results of the World cruises of the yachts "Ara" 1928-1929, and "Alva" 1931-1932, "Alva" Mediterranean cruise 1933, and "Alva" South American cruise 1935, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Crustacea: Anomura, Macrura, Euphausiacea, Isopoda, Amphipoda, and Echinodermata: Asteroidea and Echinoidea.
Huntington, NY, Privately Published, 1935. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). 264 pp.; 96 plates. Original dark green buckram with gilt title on the spines and front boards.
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Boone, [P.] L.
Scientific results of the World cruises of the yachts "Ara" 1928-1929, and "Alva" 1931-1932, "Alva" Mediterranean cruise 1933, and "Alva" South American cruise 1935, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Marine algae, Coelenterata, Annelida, Echinodermata, Crustacea, Mollusca.
Huntington, NY, Privately Published, 1938. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). 372 pp.; 152 plates. Original dark green buckram with gilt title on the spine and front boards.
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Camus, A. A. and E. G. Camus
Notes de Botanique Publiées de 1910 à 1927, de 1912 à 1928, 1927-1934, 1924 à 1936 [Spine titles].
France, various publishers, 1910-1936. 410 papers in four thick volumes (112; 117; 73; 108). 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm to 25.5 x 17.5 cm). Ca. 4000 pp. in all; numerous illustrations. Contemporary half calf or half linen over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles.
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Curie, Pierre. Marie Curie Sklodowska, a.o.
A fine collection of 41 extracts by "the Curies" all from the Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences.
Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1881-1934. Various sizes. In a modern, blue box (29.6 x 23.3 x 4.2 cm) with printed label on the top board.
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Delaunay, S.
Simultané. [by Sonia Delaunay].
Bielefeld, Bielefelder Spielkarten GmbH, 1964. 16 pp. booklet, partly printed in colour (12.6 x 9.0 cm) and 110 playing cards (9.2 x 6.0 cm) [two French decks with differently coloured backs in blue, black and white, combined with, respectively, red or green, each consisting of 52 standard cards and three jokers] in original transparent plastic box (13.2 x 9.8 cm).
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Elles, G. L. and E. M. R. Wood
A Monograph of British Graptolites. [AND] A Synoptic Supplement to "A monograph of British Graptolites by Miss G. L. Elles and Miss E. M. R. Wood".
London, Palaeontographical Society, 1901-1918, 1971. In three volumes. Thick 8vo (27.1 x 21.3 cm). Text volume: Title page, 719 pp. ([e]-m, clxxi, 539); 359 text illustrations; Atlas volume: Title page, 52 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves; Supplement: Title page, 130 pp. Uniform red buckram with black title on the spines.
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Fauché, B.
Histoire naturelle, botanique.
[France, unpublished, ca. 1850]. Folio (39.8 x 28.8 cm). Title page with polychrome title and vignette, heightened with gold; 15 tissue-guarded plates with watercolour images of fungi (1) and flowering plants with explanatory text leaves in fine calligraphy. Original full embossed and pebbled black calf; gilt-stippled board edges and fine gilt inner dentelles. Iridescent endpapers. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title; front board with gilt initials "B. F." (= Berthe Fauché); rear board with gilt vignette "Maison des Oiseaux". All edges gilt.
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Fey, A.
Les peuplements sessiles de l'infralittoral rocheux de l'Archipel de Glénan: Hydraires et bryozoaires.
Paris, Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris, 1967. Folio (27.0 x 20.8 cm). Over 300 pp.; numerous text figures and tables. Blind quarter cloth over stiff, printed wrappers.
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Forbes, F. B. and W. B. Hemsley
Enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Formosa, Hainan, the Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the island of Hongkong, together with their distribution and synonymy.
London, The Linnean Society, Longmans, Green and Co., Williams and Norgate, 1886-1905. Twenty issues in 20, forming three parts. 8vo (22.2 x 14.4 cm). 1812 pp. ([ii], 521; 592; 686, xi); 24 lithographed plates [14; 10; 0], the first being a large, folded, duotone map. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Hammer, M.
Investigations on the oribatid fauna of the Andes Mountains. I. The Argentine and Bolivia. II Peru. III. Chile. IV. Patagonia. [Complete].
København, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1958-1962. Large 8vo (27.0 x 21.0 cm). 419 pp. [129; 157; 96; 37] pp., 118 [34; 43; 30; 11] plates. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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