Category: Biology

A collection of offprints on experimental embryology and regeneration

Price: $500.00

Publisher: : 1909 - 1939

Seller ID: 1022

1909 - 1939 COLLECTION OF 124 OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT AMERICAN AND BRITISH BIOLOGISTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY AND REGENERATION. Two hefty volumes, each 9 ½ inches tall, 3 inches thick, red buckram binding, gilt titles to spine, bookplates of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, typed table of contents. Vol. I contains 61 papers, Vol. II contains 63; there are many tables, figures, and plates. Light surface wear to covers, bindings tight, some covers signed by authors or recipient (N.S.R. Maluf), occasional marginal pencil notes, otherwise unmarked and very good. The o...
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Collection of 70 offprints on trematodes

Price: $150.00

Publisher: : 1923 - 1994

Seller ID: 1059

SPANNING THE 20TH CENTURY, 71 SCARCE OFFPRINTS ON THE BIOLOGY AND TAXONOMY OF TREMATODES PARASITIZING DIVERSE VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES. 71 offprints, 1 in Spanish, 4 in French, 66 in English; some with wrappers, some not (as issued), many illustrated, author or previous owner inscription or handstamp to several covers, otherwise unmarked and very good. The papers cover the biology of the trematodes, including anatomy, physiology, reproduction, embryology, metabolism, and life cycle. A number report descriptions of new species and other aspects of taxonomy. The variety of hosts includes fi...
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Volume Jubilaire Victor van Straelen, Directeur de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 1925-1954

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Brussels, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique : 1954

Seller ID: 893

1954 TWO HUGE VOLUMES (15 LBS TOTAL) CONTAINING PAPERS ON PALEONTOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY BY 31 CONTRIBUTORS IN CELEBRATION OF RETIREMENT OF BELGIAN CONSERVATIONIST VICTOR VAN STRAELEN. Two folio volumes, 10 x 13 x 2 inches, card covers, printed title to covers and spines, Vol. I, frontis photograph of van Straelen at his desk, Preface, photographic plate,pp [1] - 640 pp; Vol. II, pp 641 - 1213, pages unopened, many plates with tissue guards, maps, large folding tables, no library or ownership marks, very good. No. 372 of edition limited to 450 copies. TEXT IN FRENCH. CONTENTS: Vol. I: Minerology, Pa...
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Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay: Radiates

By: Agassiz EC;Agassiz A;

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields : 1865

Seller ID: 200

1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to 'Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz'. 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text. Spine ends frayed, spine dulled, 1/4 inch chip to bottom corner of free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and overall very good. The 1871 edition is cited by Darwin in his reading notebook. Alexander's father, Louis, had become a passionate ant...
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Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and Off the Galapagos Islands, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross During 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. The Panamic Deep Sea Echini

By: Agassiz, Alexander

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology : 1904

Seller ID: 898

2 FOLIO VOLUMES ON THE ANATOMY OF SEA URCHINS WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE PLATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, CURATOR OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers, Vol. I Text, 243 pp, 319 figures; Vol. II Atlas, 111 lithographic and heliotype plates (2 color), 1 color folding map; paper covers soiled, edges chipped, lacking back paper cover and lower corner of front cover and first 2 leaves of Vol. I, text pages and plates intact and clean, no library or ownership marks, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ...
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The development of Lepidosteus TOGETHER WITH 4 other offprints on embryology and comparative anatomy of fish from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College

By: Agassiz, Alexander, Nickerson, W. S., Eigenmann, C.H., Holbrook, A. T. and Ayers, H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: American Academy of Arts and Sciences : 1878

Seller ID: 1056

1878-1894 FIVE OFFPRINTS ON EMBRYOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF FISHES FROM THE HEYDAY OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY UNDER ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. Five offprintes 9 1/2 inches tall, in printed paper covers, darkened covers with handstamps and/or inscriptions of previous owners, some edges chipped, contents very good. No. 1 published in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Nos. 2-5 published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Nos. 2, 3, 5 contain laid-in printed leaflet, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass./ with ...
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Etudes Critiques sur les Mollusques Fossiles

By: Agassiz, Louis

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Neuchatel, H. Wolfrath : 1842-1845

Seller ID: 1314

1845 LARGE ATLAS OF FOSSIL MOLLUSCS ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY SWISS PALEONTOLOGIST WHO BECAME EMINENT HARVARD PROFESSOR. 11 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with gilt-ruled marbled paper-covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title and gilt compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down, xxii, 1-141, [1], 143-287, 105 fine lithographed plates. Binding tight, wear to cover edges and corners, residue from library labels removed from bottom spine, handstamp of Earth Sciences Library to verso titl...
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Academicarum Annotationum. Liber Primus. Continet anatomica, physiologica, zoographica, phytographica; Liber Secundus Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica; Liber Tertius, Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica, zoographica; Liber Quartus Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica

By: Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Leiden, Verbeek : 1754

Seller ID: 845

28 EXQUISITE COPPER PLATES OF ANATOMIC DETAILS BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS, ENGRAVED BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, JAN WANDELAAR IN 1754. 10 inches tall hardcover, 1/2 leather binding, brown speckled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title to spine, containing 4 books. 2 leaves, Book I, 96, 99-104 pp, 1 leaf, 7 plates; Book II, 114 pp, 7 plates; 1Book III, 120 pp, 7 plates; Book IV, 118 pp, 7 plates, colophon. Covers heavily worn, spine edges cracked, hinges holding, binding tight, pages age-toned, light foxing to first and last pages, plates crisp and clean, very...
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Image for Solenodon paradoxus, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, TOGETHER WITH Notes on Solenodon paradoxus Brandt, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York

Solenodon paradoxus, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, TOGETHER WITH Notes on Solenodon paradoxus Brandt, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York

By: Allen, Glover M. and Allen, Joel A.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge MA, New York, Museum of Comparative Zoology, American Museum of Natural History : 1910, 1908

Seller ID: 1319

1910 ANATOMY OF AN ENDANGERED VENOMOUS MAMMAL SPECIES FOUND ONLY ON THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE PLATES--BY CURATORS OF MAMMALS AT HARVARD'S MCZ. 12 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, red leather label with gilt title to spine, [1], 54 pp, 9 lithographed plates (3 colored). Cover edges worn, spine ends frayed, spine label worn, binding tight, page edges browned, text and plates clean, unmarked, very good minus. GLOVER MORRILL ALLEN (1879 - 1942) was an American zoologist who lectured at Harvard and was Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He trav...
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The Natural History of the British Entomostraca

By: Baird, W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, The Ray Society : 1850

Seller ID: 872

1850 FINE MONOGRAPH ON TINY CRUSTACEANS INCLUDING DAPHNIA, THE WATER FLEA, ILLUSTRATED BY HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 9 inches tall hardcover, viii, 364 pp, 36 lithographic plates (14 partly hand-colored, as issued); bright gilt initials of Ray Society to blindstamped cover, expertly rebacked with original spine preserved, no library or ownership marks, binding tight, occasional light foxing, plates clean and bright, very good. WILLIAM BAIRD (1803 - 1872) was a Scottish physician and zoologist best known for his 1850 work, The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. He was a surgeon...
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A Treatise on Comparative Embryology

By: Balfour, Francis M.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. : 1880, 1885

Seller ID: 777

1880 LANDMARK 1200-PAGE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY BY BRILLIANT CONTEMPORARY OF DARWIN. Two hardcover volumes 9 1/4 inches tall, publisher's green cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt titles to spines, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, Vol. I, xi, errata slip, 492 pp, 275 wood engravings in text, bibliography xxii; Vol. II, xi, 792 pp, 429 wood engravings in text, bibliography xxiv, 2pp publisher's advertisements. Corners bumped, cover edges worn, page edges soiled, bindings tight, text unmarked, good+. FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR (1851 - 1882), a British biolog...
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A Century of Darwin

By: Barnett, S.A., De Beer, G., LeGros Clark, W.E., Crowson, R.A., Dobzhansky, Theodosius, Hammond, John, Heslop-Harrison, J., MacRae, D.G., Michie, Donald, Raphael, D. Daiches, Romer, A.S., Maynard Smith, J., Thoday, J.M., Waddington, C.H. and Yonge, C.M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1958

Seller ID: 517

1958 LUMINARIES OF MID-CENTURY BIOLOGY ASSESS THE IMPACT OF DARWIN'S THEORY AFTER 100 YEARS. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of Thomas Munro, Cleveland Museum of Art, to front paste-down, 376 pp, illustrations, a few pencil annotations, otherwise very good in very good- dust jacket with edgewear, SAMUEL ANTHONY BARNETT (1915-2003) was Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University of Glasgow. PROVENANCE: THOMAS MUNRO (1897 - 1974) was an American philosopher of art and professor of art history at Western Reserve University. He served as Curator of Educa...
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The Early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces

By: Bassler, Ray S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1911

Seller ID: 942

1911 MONOGRAPH ON FOSSIL BRYOZOA--THE LAST MAJOR PHYLUM TO APPEAR IN THE FOSSIL RECORD--WITH HUNDREDS OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 1/2 inches hardcover, green cloth binding, printed paper title label to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, small handstamp to title page, xxi, 382 pp, 226 illustrations in text, folding map, 12 plates. Two 1/8 inch light stains top of cover, no external library marks, text and plates unmarked, very good. RAY S. BASSLER (1878 - 1961) earned his bachelor's degree in 1902 from the University of Cincinnati, and received master's degree in 1903 and Ph.D....
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Plasticity, Robustness, Development, and Evolution

By: Bateson, Patrick and Gluckman, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 2011

Seller ID: 542

A LUCID EXPOSITION OF THE TENSIONS BETWEEN ROBUSTNESS IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLASTICITY REQUIRED FOR ADAPTATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT. 9 inches tall softcover, color printed laminated covers, 156 pp, illustrations, fine. PATRICK BATESON (1938 - 2017) was an English biologist and science writer. Bateson was a professor of ethology at the University of Cambridge and president of the Zoological Society of London. PETER GLUCKMAN (born 1949) is a New Zealand paediatrician. He is currently the inaugural Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. He is the Professor of Paediatric and...
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Recherches Anatomiques et Physiologiques sur le Developpement du Foetus et en Particulier sur lEvolution Enbryonnaire des Oiseaux et des Batraciens

By: Baudrimont, A. and Martin-Saint-Ange, G.J.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie Nationale : 1850

Seller ID: 766

1850 FIRST EDITION OF PRIZEWINNING RESEARCH: THE DISCOVERY OF EMBRYONIC RESPIRATION, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COLOR ENGRAVINGS. 11 inches tall hardcover,offprint from Memoires presentees par divers savants a l'Academie des Sciences. recent gray cloth binding and endpapers, 224 pp (pagination 469 to 692), 14 fine color stipple-engraved plates by Martin de St-Ange and 4 monchrome plates by Baudrimont. Covers are very good, with abrasion of the surface fore edge both front and back, paste-down not affected. Binding tight, pages clean and crisp with minimal light marginal foxing to plates, very good....
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The Language of Life. An introduction to the science of genetics

By: Beadle, George W. and Beadle, Muriel

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Co., Inc. : 1966

Seller ID: 1275

1966 ILLUSTRATED LAY GUIDE TO GENETICS BY NOBEL LAUREATE GENETICIST GEORGE BEADLE AND HIS WIFE MURIEL BEADLE--SIGNED BY BOTH.9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gray cloth spine, inscribed on half-title page: Sincerely,/ George Beadle/ Muriel Beadle, x, [4], 242 pp, many illustrations in text, a few marginal pencil notes, very good in very good minus jacket with darkened edges, in Brodart protective cover. LAID IN: Newspaper review of the book by Noman Ross. GEORGE WELLS BEADLE (1903 - 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology o...
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George Beadle. An Uncommon Farmer. The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century

By: Berg, Paul and Singer, Maxine

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press : 2003

Seller ID: 1379

BIOGRAPHY OF NOBELIST GEORGE BEADLE (OF ONE GENE ONE ENZYME FAME) BY NOBELIST PAUL BERG, PIONEER OF RECOMBINANT DNA, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed to Dick Archer and signed by both authors on front free endpaper, i-ix, 383 pp, illustrated. Fine in very good jacket. LAID IN: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches folded program for the Beadle Symposium celebrating the centennial of his birth, at the Norman Davidson Lecture Hall, California Institute of Technology. Listed are an introduction by David Baltimore and lectures ...
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De l'Identification par les Signalements Anthropometriques. Conference faite le 22 novembre 1885 au Congres Penitatiiaire de Rome [On Identification by Anthropometric Characteristics. Conference on November 22, 1885, at the Penitentiary Congress of Rome]

By: Bertillon, Alphonse

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, G. Masson; Archives de l'Anthropologie Criminelle et des Sciences Penales : 1886

Seller ID: 925

1886 SCARCE PAPER ON BIOMETRICS IN CRIMINOLOGY BY LEGENDARY FRENCH POLICE OFFICER ALPHONSE BERTILLON, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 9 3/4 inches tall extract from the first volume of Archives de l'Anthropologie Criminelle bound in recent gray paper-covered boards, inscribed and signed on title page, "a Monsieur Pont/ Membre de l'Academie des sciences morales et polque/ Hommage de l'auteur/A Bertillon," 31 pages, 1 page summary of first issues of the journal with list of principal works of Mr. Alphonse Bertillon. Very good in recent fine binding. Text in French. ALPHONSE BERTILLON (1853 -...
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The biology of the Weddell and crabeater seals, with a study of the comparative behaviour of the Pinnipedia

By: Bertram, G.C.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, British Museum : 1940

Seller ID: 703

SIGNED BY AUTHOR--ANATOMY AND BEHAVIOR OF SEALS: ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF AN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN THE 1930s. 12 1/4 inches tall volume, orange printed paper covers, inscribed and signed by author top of cover, 139 pp, 42 figures, 10 photographic plates, corners curled, binding tight, text unmarked, good+. GEORGE COLIN LAWDER BERTRAM (1911 - 2001) Joined a three-man Cambridge Expedition to Scoresby Sound, East Greenland, transported there and back by Dr Jean-Baptiste Charcot in his ship Pourquoi-Pas?. This was followed by nine months studying coral reefs in the Red Sea, prior to accepting a pla...
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The Cultivation of Viruses and Rickettsiae in the Chick Embryo

By: Beveridge, W. I. B. and Burnet, F. M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, His Majesty's Stationary Service : 1946

Seller ID: 1010

1946 MANUAL FOR CULTIVATION OF VIRUSES AND RICKETTSIAE ON CHICK EGGS BY LEADERS OF INFLUENZA VIRUS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING NOBEL LAUREATE MACFARLANE BURNET. 9 1/2 inches tall monograph, olive green printed paper covers, signature of J.C.D. Hutchinson top of cover, 92 pp, text figures, 2 plates, darkening and light wear to cover edges, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. FROM THE PREFACE: As a result of the pioneer studies of Goodpasture in America and Burnet in Australia, the virus-worker can now effectively use the developing egg in a number of different ways: besides following th...
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Category: Biology