Category: Genetics

George Beadle. An Uncommon Farmer. The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century

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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Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology

By: Cairns, John, Stent, Gunther S. and Watson, James D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology : 1966

Seller ID: 873

1966 - 60TH BIRTHDAY FESTSCHRIFT FOR MAX DELBRUCK WITH ESSAYS BY THE LUMINARIES OF EARLY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 10 inches tall hardcover, charcoal coth covers, red cloth spine with gilt title, previous owner name to front paste-down and flyleaf, frontis portrait of Max Delbruck, x, 340 pp, Contributors include: Anderson, T.F., Beadle, G.W., Benzer, S., Cairns, J., Delbruck, M., Doermann, A.H., Dulbecco, R., Edgar, R.S., Ellis, E.L., Hayes, W., Hershey, A.D., Hotchkiss, R.D., Jerne, N.K., Kaiser, A.D., Kalckar, H.M., Kellenberger, E., Kozloff, L.M., Luria, S.E., Lwoff, A., Maaloe, O., Meselson, M.,...
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The Serengeti Rules. The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters

By: Carroll, S.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press : 2016

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...
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Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men

By: Conklin, Edwin Grant

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1915

Seller ID: 1233

EMERGING QUESTIONS ON GENETICS, EUGENICS, AND SOCIETY IN MONOGRAPH BY LEADING BIOLOGIST E. G. CONKLIN, INSCRIBED TO MRS. CONEY AND SOLD AT LEGENDARY NEW YORK BOOKSHOP OWNED BY WOMEN. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookseller's label, The Sunwise Turn, Inc., 2 E 31st St NY bottom of back paste down. Inscribed front free endpaper, My dear Mrw. Coney, You are a brave woman to have tackled such a book as this. I assure you that the first 429 pages are the worst. hoping that you will enjoy the rest of it, I am Cordially your friend, E. G. Conk...
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The Evolution of Genetic Systems

By: Darlington, C.D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books, Inc. : 1958

Seller ID: 509

AN EARLY PRODUCT OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS: THE INTERACTION OF HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, decorative color endpapers depicting chromosome crossover, very good in good dust jacket with edge tears, in mylar protective cover. CYRIL DEAN DARLINGTON (1903 - 1981) was an English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover, its role in inheritance, and therefore its importance to evolution. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford from 1953 to 1971. In his later y...
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Streams of Culture

By: de Beer, Gavin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, J.B. Lippincott Co. : 1969

Seller ID: 498

WIDE-RANGING ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY BY EMINENT 20TH CENTURY EVOLUTIONIST. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt red label to spine, 237 pp, very good in good+ price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear. GAVIN DE BEER (1899 - 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book Embryos and Ancestors. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and a winner of the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.
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A transplantation experiment with Zoarces viviparus L.

By: Ege, Vilhelm

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, H. Hagerup : 1942

Seller ID: 1013

1942 DETALIED STUDY OF VIVIPAROUS EELS BY NOTED DANISH ICHTHYOLOGIST REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENT OVER HEREDITY IN ADAPTATION-SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. 9 1/2 inches tall monograph, pink printed paper covers, glued spine binding, pp 271 - 384, inscribed top of cover, Hr. Dr. phil. Anton Fr. Bruun venligst fra [compliments of] Vilh. Ege, handstamp of Anton Fr. Bruun and Aquatic Research Institute to cover, very good. VILHELM EGE (1887 - 1962) played a leading role in ichthyology during the last half-century, particularly in the elucidation of the bathypelagic fish fauna. In 1908, he ass...
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Cystic Diseases of the Kidney

By: Gardner, Kenneth D. Jr.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons : 1976

Seller ID: 934

FIRST PRINTING OF AN EARLY TEXT ON CYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE, LONG BEFORE ITS TRANSFORMATION BY GENOMICS. 10 1/2 inches tall color printed hardcover, institutional handstamp to front flyleaf, ix, 255 pp, many figures, light wear to spine ends, tape residue to back paste-down, very good. KENNETH D. GARDNER, JR. (born 1929) was a nephrologist and dean at the University of New Mexico.
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The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination

By: Goldschmidt, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London and New York, Methuen & Co., Ltd., George H. Doran Co. : 1923

Seller ID: 565

1923 MONOGRAPH BY BRILLIANT GENETICIST AT THE TIME OF FORMULATION OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS OF GENETICS AND EVOLUTION. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 259 pp, over 100 figures (including fold-out plates). Covers lightly soiled, corners and spine ends bumped, endpapers darkened, page margins darkened, unmarked. Very good-. REVIEW BY JULIAN HUXLEY IN NATURE [Vol. 112, pp 927-930, 29 Dec. 1923] "The earlier rigid belief that sex-determination was entirely a matter of the chromosome-constitution must the...
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Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902

By: Goto, S., Pratt, H.S., Locy, W.A., Reighard, J., Kofoid, C.A., Davenport, C.B., Davenport, G.C., Bancroft, F.W., Eigenmann, C.H., Johnson, H.P., Linville, H.R., Ritter, W.E., Strong, R.M., Eastman, C.R., Neal, H.V., Jennings, H.S., Floyd, R., Yerkes, R.M

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Co. : 1903

Seller ID: 906

1903 SCARCE FESTSCHRIFT WITH 25 ORIGINAL PAPERS ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES IN HONOR OF EDWARD LAURENS MARK, DIRECTOR OF HARVARD'S ZOOLOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 12 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photogravure portrait of Mark with tissue guard, perforated library stamp to title page, xiii, 513 pp, 36 plates,some in color. Covers soiled, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. Large format festschrift in honor of Edward Laurens Mark (1847 ...
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Divergent Evolution Through Cumulative Segregation

By: Gulick, John T.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution : 1892

Seller ID: 437

1891 FIRST DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS EVOLUTIONARY GENETIC DRIFT. 8 1/2 inches tall paper extracted from Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1891, pages 269-336 (68 pages) in archival mylar binder. Read December 15, 1887. from the Journal of Zoology of the Linnean Society, September 1888, Vol. XX, pp. 189-274. JOHN THOMAS GULICK (1832 - 1923) was an American missionary and naturalist from Hawaii. He performed some of the first modern evolutionary studies, starting with a collection of Hawaiian land snails. In 1872, Gulick was the first to propose the theory that ...
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Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

By: Huxley, Julian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper and Brothers : 1942

Seller ID: 435

PIVOTAL FORMULATION OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, beige cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 645 pages. Corners bumped, residue of library label bottom of spine, library handstamp verso of title page, library pocket back endpaper, text pages clean and unmarked, no jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. Good+. SIR JULIAN HUXLEY (1887- 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was...
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The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics

By: Kammerer P;

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright : 1924

Seller ID: 228

1924 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION ACCOUNT OF EXPERIMENTS IN EPIGENETICS BY PAUL KAMMERER, 'ENIGMATIC AND TRAGIC FIGURE IN THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY. The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics: 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original red blindstamped cloth binding, gilt title to spine, deckled edges. 414 pages, 43 illustrations, including color and folding plates. DEDICATION: 'To Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. Professor, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London; the Highly Meritorious Disciple of the Doctrine that Acquired Characteristics are hereditary , and an Indefatigable Champ...
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Refiguring Life. Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology

By: Keller, Evelyn Fox

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press : 1995

Seller ID: 526

A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND ITS RELATION TO SOCIETY. 7 3/4 inches hardcover, green paper-covered boards, black cloth spine 134 pp, very good in very good dust jacket. FROM JACKET: Refiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence. Keller continues with an exploration of the border traffic between biology and physics, focusing on the question of life and the law of increasing entropy. In a final section she traces the impact of new metaphors, born of the computer revolution...
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The Theory of the Gene. Enlarged and Revised Edition

By: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1932

Seller ID: 1377

LANDMARK SIGNED TH MORGAN MONOGRAPH WITH A MAP OF WOODS HOLE BY PREVIOUS OWNER LOCATING THE MORGAN HOME AND THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 9 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, partially removed book plate of NSR Maluf front paste-down. Signed by Morgan on title page, dated August 20th, 1935. Ink note on rear end-paper by previous owner: "Once I begin something I must get it done--T.H. Morgan (Aug. 1938) in attempting to bring down the freight elevator at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass." Also ink map drawing of Woods Hole showing streets, Eel P...
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What is Darwinism?

By: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton : 1929

Seller ID: 488

1929 SCARCE LITTLE BOOK ON DARWINISM BY NOBEL LAUREATE T. H. MORGAN, A KEY FIGURE IN THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding with red printed logo to cover, red printed title to spine, 78 pp, publisher's advertisement. Spine sunned, bottom end of spine frayed, tiny hole punched in corner of back endpaper, all pages crisp and unmarked, very good, no dust jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN (1866 - 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology o...
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Neanderthal Man. In Search of Lost Genomes

By: Paabo, Svante

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books : 2014

Seller ID: 514

GENOMICS OF OUR CLOSE RELATIVES, THE NEANDERTHALS, BY LEADING EVOLUTIONIST RECIPIENT OF NOBEL PRIZE 2022. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan paper-covered boards, blue paper-covered spine, gilt title, 275 pp, illustrated, fine in fine dust jacket. REVIEWED BY HENRY GEE in Nature 6 Feb 2014: The study of human origins and evolution currently stands on a cusp. For decades we have had to make do with bones and stones, thin gruel from which to craft a narrative. Now we can extract DNA from fossils. Not just in bits and pieces, each as enigmatic as a broken tooth or a chipped stone flake, but entire ...
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Genes & Genomes

By: Singer, Maxine and Berg, Paul

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Mill Valley, CA, University Science Books : 1991

Seller ID: 1392

1991 MAGNUM OPUS OF BIOCHEMIST PAUL BERG, FATHER OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND NOBEL LAUREATE--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 11 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "For Peter, wIthout whose intelligence, help and friendship this book would not have been published. All the best, Paul." i-xviii, 929 pp, illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good jacket with edge tears in protective mylar sleeve. PAUL BERG (1926-2023)was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemis...
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Principles of Embryology

By: Waddington, C.H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd : 1956

Seller ID: 788

ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON EMBRYOLOGY BY CONRAD WADDINGTON, THE ORIGINATOR OF THE TERM EPIGENETICS--BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, cover blindstamped, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, x, 510 pp, 186 figures, no dust jacket, very good. CONRAD HAL WADDINGTON (1905 - 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary developmental biology. He took up a Lecturership in Zoology and was a F...
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Houses for Science. A PIctorial History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory with Landmarks in Twentieth Century Genetics, a series of essays by James D. Watson

By: Watson, E.L. and Watson, J.D.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Plainview, NY, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press : 1991

Seller ID: 360

SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF LAVISH ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY BY WIFE OF JAMES WATSON WITH HIS ESSAYS ON HISTORY OF GENETICS AND DNA. 11 x 11 inch hardcover, beige cloth binding, cover blindstamped, spine gilt, illustrated with many color and black & white photographs, Inscribed and signed in ink on title page For Mike Coe,/ Best Wishes!/ Liz Watson/ Planting Fields, 1 June 1992. Very good in very good dust jacket. ELIZABETH L. WATSON , a Radcliffe College graduate, holds a certificate in the practical training ourse of the New York School of Interior Design and a mast...
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Category: Genetics