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Volume Jubilaire Victor van Straelen, Directeur de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 1925-1954

By: N/A

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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The Home-Life of the Osprey

By: Abbott, Clinton G.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Witherby & Co.: 1911

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 â€“ 1946) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and Director of the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1922 to 1946. Abbott sup...
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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

MONOGRAPH 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 (1835...
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Seaside Studies in Natural History

By: Agassiz, Elizabeth C. and Agassiz, Alexander

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1865

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...
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Image for 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

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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A Monograph of the Fresh-Water Polyzoa, including all the known species, Both British and Foreign

By: Allman, George James

Price: $70.00

Publisher: London, The Ray Society: 1856

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...
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On a Specimen of Elephas Antiquus from Upnor

By: Andrews, Charles William and Cooper, Clive Forster

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Trustees of the British Museum: 1928

Seller ID: 846

FOLIO SIZE COLLECTION OF PLATES BY BRITISH PAELEONTOLOGISTS DESCRIBING A FOSSIL EXTINCT ELEPHANT SKELETON DISCOVERED IN ENGLAND BEFORE WORLD WAR I. 12 1/2 inches tall hardbound, brown cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, frontis photograph of elephant skeleton, viii, 25 pp, 7 plates with facing descriptive text, fine. CHARLES WILLIAM ANDREWS (1866 - 1924) as a British palaeontologist whose career as a vertebrate paleontologist, both as a curator and in the field, was spent in the services of the British Museum, Department of Geology. After 1900 his health began slowly to fa...
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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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The Evolution of Earth and Man

By: Baitsell, George Alfred, Schuchert, Charles, Woodruff, Lorande Loss, Lull, Richard Swann, Parker, George Howard, Angell, James Lowell, Maccurdy, George Grant, Keller, Albert Galloway, Huntington, Ellsworth, Conklin, Edwin Grant and Coe, Wesley Roswell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1947

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...
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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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Mothers, Babies, and Disease in Later Life

By: Barker, D.J.P.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, BMJ Publishing Group: 1994

Seller ID: 877

1994 FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH BY DAVID BARKER TRACING HIS PATH TO GENERATING THE BARKER HYPOTHESIS--THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, viii, 180 pp, illustrated, fine (no dust jacket as issued). DAVID JAMES PURSLOVE BARKER (1938 - 2013) was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that fetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life. Barker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society an...
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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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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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Mendel's Principles of Heredity

By: Bateson, W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1930

Seller ID: 863

A DEFENSE OF MENDEL'S DISCOVERY OF PARTICULATE INHERITANCE BY WILLIAM BATESON, WHO COINED THE TERM "GENETICS"--INCLUDES TRANSLATIONS OF MENDEL'S KEY PAPERS. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician previous owner bookplate to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Mendel with tissue guard, xiv, 413 pp, 38 figures (including color plates), appendixes (including translations of Mendel's paper on plant hybridization [1865] and paper on Hieracium hybridization [1869]). Near-fine in custom archival mylar cover. WILLIAM BATESON (1861 - 1926) was an English biol...
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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 goo...
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Archival Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. A Reference Guide and Report

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

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...
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Handbook of the Freshwater Fishes of India: GIving the Characteristic Peculiarities of All the Species at Present Known, and Intended as a Guide to Students and District Officers

By: Beavan, Reginald

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Kent, Reeve & Co.: 1877

Seller ID: 901

1869-1875 COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF FRESHWATER FISHES OF INDIA BY REGINALD BEAVAN, CAPTAIN IN BRITISH ARMY IN INDIA, FOR BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1877. Unique collection of 70+ original annotated pencil and pen & ink drawings on paper ( 4x6 to 12x19 inches) and 100+ annotated published lithographed illustrations mounted on individual sheets grouped by nomenclature. Some of the original drawings were subsequently published in a paper published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1872 (included) and in a book on freshwater fishes of India published in 1877 (1990 reprint inc...
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Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race

By: Bell, Alexander Graham

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., National Academy of Sciences: 1884

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...
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Catalogue of the British Echinoderms in the British Museum (Natural History)

By: Bell, F. Jeffrey

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, British Museum of Natural History: 1892

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 ...
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Category: Biology