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[NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCES]. Group of 12 Works on Natural ...

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[NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCES]. Group of 12 Works on Natural History, Fauna and Flora, and the Sciences. [V.p., ca. 19th?20th century]. Many with illustrated plates. Includes: WHITNEY, J.D. Geological Survey of California. Palaeontology, containing MEEK, F.B. Carboniferous and Jurassic Fossils. GABB, W.M. Triassic and Cretaceous Fossils. Sacramento: Legislature of California, 1864. Vol. 1. Illustrated with engraved plates. ? KNAPP, John Leonard. Journal of a Naturalist. London: John Murray, 1829. With plates and woodcuts. ? WOODWARD, Marcus. Gererd?s Herball. London: Gerald Howe, 1927. Printed R & R Clark, Ltd. Illustrated. Green leather with pictorial gilt flower design recto. ? Explorations and Surveys West of the Mississippi. 1853?55. Washington: Thomas H. Ford, 1860. Vol. XII, book II. Illustrated. ? WELCH, Paul S. and MCCARTNEY, Eugene S. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science Arts and Letters. A Key to the Snakes of the United States, Canada, and Lower California. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Illustrated. ? SILLIMAN, Benjamin. The American Journal of Science and Arts. New Haven: Hezekiah Howe, 1831. Vol. XX. With maps and illustrations. Dampstained. ? RUSCHENBERGER, W.S.W. Elements of Herpetology and of Ichthyology. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1845. With plates. Foxing and soiling. ? Catalogue of Scientific Instruments (in French). Paris, 1837. ? CHARMICHAEL, Robert D. The Theory of Relativity. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1913. ? TORREY, John and GRAY, Asa. Flora of North America. New York: G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1838. Vol. I, part I. Disbound. ? THOMAS, John F. Beyond Normal Cognition. Boston: Boston Society for Psychic Research, 1937. Includes typed and signed by the author. ? And others. Mostly 8vo, some 4to; leather and cloth bindings. VARIOUS EDITIONS. Condition varies. Worn with soiling, foxing, staining, rubbing, and ownership marks. Generally good or better.