2005, ISBN: 9780691113647

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Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1987. Very Good Hardcover third edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover., Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1987, London / Paris / New York: Cassell & Company, Li… Mehr…

Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1987. Very Good Hardcover third edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover., Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1987, London / Paris / New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1890. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. No date, circa 1890. Volume 5 of a 6 volume set. Fore edge very faintly foxed, small sticker remnant on front endpaper. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of the spectroscope, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: An Eclipse of the Moon; Colour; A Piece of Black-Lead; Hot Ice: The Boundaries of the Liquid State of Matter; A Brown Sea-Weed; Sunset, Twilight, and Halos; Stone-Lilies and Feather-Stars; Voice; Crag and Tail; The Genesis of a Sword; How to Make a Chemical Analysis; A Piece of Chalk; The Legs and Feet of Insects; Coal-Tar; Weather-Signs and Weather-Changes; A Bar of Iron; A Seed; High Clouds and Moonshine; The Anatomy of Ants; A Lump of Sugar; Petroleum; The Earth's Treeless Regions; Weather Forecasts; The Planet Mercury; The Migration of Mammals and Fishes; Speaking Machines; Ants, and Their Ways of Life; How a Bird Flies; Voltaic Electricity; Heat as Motive Power; The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy; Structureless Animals; A Piece of Sulphur; Vortex Rings; The Ancient and Modern Animals of South America; A Mushroom; Rock-Making Rhizopods; The Distant Planets - Uranus and Neptune; What is Under London?; Hibernation of Mammals; How Waves of Light Are Measured; A Manure Heap; Warren de la Rue's Great Voltaic Battery; The Heart and the Blood; A Bee-Hive; Seeing by Telegraph; A Bar of Soap; How Molecules Are Measured; Breath and Breathing; A Coal-Field; How a Fish Swims; Fire-Damp and the Safety-Lamp; The Old Life of Europe; Is There Coal Under London?; An Iceberg; How an Animal Walks; A Clod of Earth; The Rise of the Organs of Sense; Scientific Deceptions; Birds' Nests; Water Fleas; Conclusion., Cassell & Company, Limited, 1890, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Squarish octavo, card covers. pp viii, 344. Colour and b&w illustrations, index. Fine copy. This is the first guide to dragonflies and damselflies of the south-central United States. The book covers 263 species, representing more than half of the North American fauna. The area of coverage significantly overlaps with other regions of the country making this book a useful aid in identifying the dragonflies and damselflies in any part of the United States, Canada, or northeastern Mexico. More photographs of damselflies in North America appear here than in any other previously published work. All 85 damselfly and 178 dragonfly species found in the region are distinguished by photographs, numerous line drawings, keys, and detailed descriptions to help with identifications. Features include: * Discussions of habitats, zoogeography, and seasonality * Details on dragonfly and damselfly life history and conservation * An introduction on studying and photographing dragonflies and damselflies * An entire section devoted to the external anatomy of dragonflies and damselflies * Species accounts organized by family into sections on size, regional and general distribution, flight season, identification, similar species, habitat and biology and ecology * Range maps for each species, as well as an extensive bibliography and a list of resources for further study. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.. First printing. Softcover., Princeton University Press, 2005<

ISBN: 9780691113647

This is the first guide to dragonflies and damselflies of the south-central United States. The book covers 263 species, representing more than half of the North American fauna. The area o… Mehr…

This is the first guide to dragonflies and damselflies of the south-central United States. The book covers 263 species, representing more than half of the North American fauna. The area of coverage significantly overlaps with other regions of the country making this book a useful aid in identifying the dragonflies and damselflies in any part of the United States, Canada, or northeastern Mexico. More photographs of damselflies in North America appear here than in any other previously published work. All 85 damselfly and 178 dragonfly species found in the region are distinguished by photographs, numerous line drawings, keys, and detailed descriptions to help with identifications. Features include: Discussions of habitats, zoogeography, and seasonality Details on dragonfly and damselfly life history and conservation An introduction on studying and photographing dragonflies and damselflies An entire section devoted to the external anatomy of dragonflies and damselflies Species accounts organized by family into sections on size, regional and general distribution, flight season, identification, similar species, habitat and biology and ecology Range maps for each species, as well as an extensive bibliography and a list of resources for further study Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<