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Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, Witherby & Co.: 1911
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 600
1911 UNIQUE PUBLISHED ALBUM OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF OSPREYS BY DIRECTOR OF SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, deckle edges, 54 pp, 32 pages containing 42 original photographs mounted on gray card stock, with printed descriptions below each. Corners bumped, otherwise unmarked with tight binding, very good+ in custom archival mylar cover. CLINTON GILBERT ABBOTT (1881 – 1946) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and Director of the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1922 to 1946. Abbott sup... View more info
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Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1865
Edition: First edition
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... View more info
By: Agassiz, Elizabeth C. and Agassiz, Alexander
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1865
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 256
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES OF MASSACHUSETTS BY ELIZABETH AND ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 9 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, covers blindstamped, spine gilt title, brown endpapers, dedicated to Prof. L. Agassiz, over 180 fine wood engravings mostly by Alexander Agassiz, depicting marine invertebrates, including jellyfish, sea anemones and sea stars. Spine edges and corners rubbed, spine ends frayed, ink signature of previous owner to front endpaper, text very good and unmarked. This book was cited by Charles Darwin in his reading notebooks. ELIZABET... View more info
Price: $70.00
Publisher: London, The Ray Society: 1856
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 308
1856 FIRST EDITION STRIKING LARGE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF MINUTE MARINE INVERTEBRATES. Folio bound in original paper covered stiff flexible boards with title paper label to cover, black cloth spine, 11 engraved plates (10 hand-colored) engraved by Tuffen West after drawings by the author, and 17 wood engravings. viii, 119 pp. Boards worn with some bubbling, corners rubbed, institutional hand stamp to verso of first title page, and verso of last plate, occasional light marginal foxing to plates, which are extraordinarily fine. Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa), are a phylum of aquatic inve... View more info
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Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1947
Edition: First edition, second printing
Seller ID: 533
1947--AUTHORITATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE--THE STATE OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH AND OF MAN. Original green cloth boards, spine gilt, corners bumped, frontis we are part of a magnificent creation, 476 pp, 83 figures, including photographic plates and line drawings, cover and spine edges rubbed, lacking front endpaper, binding tight, pages unmarked, good+, no dust jacket. PREFACE: The various chapters in this book present, it is believed, an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the present state of our knowledge in a number of related fields, all of which are concerned, in the last... View more info
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Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1958
Edition: First edition
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... View more info
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... View more info
By: Bearman, David and Edsall, John T.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Boston and Philadelphia, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society: 1980
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 584
1980 REPORT ON ARCHIVAL SOURCES FOR HISTORY OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY HEADED BY PIONEER PROTEIN CHEMIST AND SCIENCE ACTIVIST. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, title to cover and spine, signed by Edsall on front free endpaper, xii, 338 pp, unmarked, very good. FROM PREFACE: The development of biochemistry and molecular biology is a central event in the intellectual history of our time. Its roots go back to Lavoisier and before, but its greatest development has occurred in the last fifty and especially the last thirty years. The demonstration of the biochemical basis... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Washington D.C., National Academy of Sciences: 1884
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 285
1884 FINE COPY OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL'S MONOGRAPH ON INHERITED DEAFNESS AND ITS EUGENIC MANAGEMENT. 11 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent burgundy cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, marbled edges, large fold-out graph. Fine. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847 – 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. In 1884, Bell published a paper Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race, in which he warned of a great calamit... View more info
By: Bell, F. Jeffrey
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, British Museum of Natural History: 1892
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 331
FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON STARFISH FROM BRITISH MUSEUM WITH COLOR AND UNCOLORED FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 9 inches tall hardcover in original brown pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of the British Museum to front paste-down, institutional handstamp to front free endpaper, small cancelled handstamp over embossed seal top of title page, and library handstamp verso of title page, library number to spine. 16 fine lithographed plates (2 color on black background). Good+. FRANCIS JEFFREY BELL (1854 - 1924), the eldest son of F. J. Bell of Calcutta, and a relation of Sir Charles ... View more info
By: Bird, W.R.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1989
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 490
MASSIVE 1,114-PAGE DOCUMENTATION CONTRASTING EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND ABRUPT APPEARANCE (CREATIONISM). Two volumes, 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's black cloth boards, gilt title to spines, xvi, 551 pp; xix, 563 pp; very good in very good dust jackets. FROM DUST JACKET: The Origin of Species Revisited is a comprehensive, thoroughly documented investigation of one of the great ongoing battles of this or any age: Darwin's theory of evolution versus the theory of creation and the theory of abrupt appearance. W. R. Bird, who argued the major case on the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court,... View more info
By: Boeke, Jan
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Amsterdam, Johannes Muller: 1916-1917
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 582
1916-1917 TWO MONOGRAPHS ON NERVE REGENERATION WITH 14 FINE FOLDING HELIOTYPE PLATES BY DUTCH MICROSCOPIST. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, paper labels to spine, Each section inscribed top of title page with the compliments of the author, institutional library hand stamp to title page, Spine faded, covers bowed, page margins darkened, unmarked, heliotype plates on heavy paper, text and plates unmarked, very good. INHALT I: I. Einleitung- Form und Gestalt der motorischen Nervenendigungen. Accessorische (sympathische) Innervation der quergestreiften Muskelfasern. Fragestellung... View more info
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Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1993
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 501
UNIQUE VIEW OF EVOLUTION BY PIONEER OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 9 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 209 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. JOHN TYLER BONNER (born 1920) is professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He is a pioneer in the use of cellular slime molds to understand evolution and development over a career of 40 years and is one of the world's leading experts on cellular slime moulds. The establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology (evo-devo) owes a great debt to the work of Bonner... View more info
By: Bowler, Peter J.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1992
Edition: First paperback edition
Seller ID: 539
WHEN IS A DARWINIAN NOT A DARWINIAN?--WHEN HE/SHE DOES NOT EMBRACE NATURAL SELECTION. A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE DARWIN INDUSTRY. 9 inches tall softcover, color printed laminated covers, 238 pp, some illustrations, fine. Concise and clearly written, The Non-Darwinian Revolution sets forth a convincing argument for a reappraisal of Darwin's importance not only for the history of science but for the history of ideas as well. Bowler finds no fault with Darwin's theory, only with the mistaken notion of its revolutionary effect on nineteenth-century thought. Examining the work of such figures as Owen,... View more info
By: Bradley, Richard
Price: $950.00
Publisher: London, Mears, W.: 1721
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 598
1721 REMARKABLE BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY WITH SPECTACULAR COPPER ENGRAVED PLATES AND SPECULATION OF MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO ANIMALS. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original full calf tooled covers, recently rebacked with raised bands, gilt decoration, gilt red leather label; new endpapers; title page in red and black type; dedication (2pp), names of subscribers (8pp including Sir Isaac Newton, President of the Royal Society, who ordered 6 copies), contents (3pp), directions to the bookbinder (plates are not bound in numerical order); 194 pp followed by 1 page of titles by R. Bradley printed for W.... View more info
By: Browne, D.J.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Boston, William Hyde & Co.: 1832
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 255
LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION EARLY MONOGRAPH ON AMERICAN TREES WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 inches tall hardcover, full calf leather binding, [i]-vii, [viii- List]. [9]- 408 pp., frontis forest scene with deer, 111 wood engravings of leaves throughout text. Dedicated to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Part I, Vegetable physiology; Part II, Dendrology; Part III, Arboriculture; Appendix list of woods and heat generated by combustion; Glossary, Index Latin, English, and provincial names. Cover edges rubbed, spine dulled, endpapers browned, residue from bookplate removed from front paste... View more info
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Publisher: London, H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd.: 1938
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 580
1938 COLLECTION OF PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ILLUSTRATED PAPERS ON PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAR. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, physician book plate to front paste-down, xi, 298 pp, 54 black & white figures. Light soiling to covers, corners bumped, spine darkened, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, very good. JOSEPH GRANDSON BYRNE, FROM THE PREFACE: The studies reported in this volume, were performed at Fordham University (Department of Biology), during a period extending over several years. They were originally intended for publication scientifi... View more info
By: Carpenter, G.D.H. and Ford, E.B.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1933
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 480
1933 FIRST EDITION SMALL BOOK ESTABLISHED THE FIELD OF ECOLOGICAL GENETICS, CONTRIBUTING TO THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 7 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, printed title to cover and spine, i-ix, 134 pp, edges of covers and spine sunned, endpapers darkened, binding tight, text unmarked, no dust jacket, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. G. D. HALE CARPENTER (1882 - 1953) was a British entomologist and physician. He worked first at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in Uganda, on tse-tse flies and sleeping sickness. His main work in zoology was on mimi... View more info
By: Carroll, S.B.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press: 2016
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 520
A PERSUASIVE PLEA FOR RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ECOLOGY BY A LEADER IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, lime green paper covered boards, charcoal paper covered spine, gilt title, 263 pp, illustrations, fine in fine dust jacket. REVIEWED in Nature 3 March 2016: Can biology become as predictive as the physical sciences? And could it guide us in feeding the planet and reversing ecosystem degradation, climate change and species extinction? These are the overarching questions that organize evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll's The Serengeti Ru!es, a compelling... View more info
By: Chalmers, T., Kidd, J., Whewell, W., Bell, C., Roget, P.M., Buckland, W., Kirby, W. and Prout, W.
Price: $1,000.00
Publisher: London, William Pickering: 1837
Edition: 5-Feb
Seller ID: 336
FINE BINDING, ILLUSTRATED 1830s EARLY EDITION COMPLETE 12 VOLUMES OF BRIDGEWATER TREATISES WRITTEN BY BRITISH SCIENTISTS IN RESPONSE TO GROWING SECULAR VIEW OF LIFE. 8 3/4 inches tall set of 8 works bound in 12, bound in full calf gilt with double gilt rules, spines with raised bands and twin black leather gilt labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Numerous plates, illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Abel Smith, Woodhall Park, front paste-down of each volume. Spines and boards rubbed, light foxing to endpapers, bindings tight, text clean and bright. Individual volumes: 1. Chalmers, T.: The Ada... View more info
