Category: Reproduction

Growth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold & Co : 1924

Seller ID: 717

1924 BRILLIANT LITTLE MONOGRAPH ON THE BIOLOGY OF GROWTH ACROSS THE ANIMAL AND PLANT KINGDOMS, AND THE FACTORS THAT REGULATE IT. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue coth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photomicrographs of plant growth, viii, 120 pp, 33 text figures, 7 black & white plates, very good. GAVIN R. de BEER (1899 - 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, 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 ev...
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Image for On the existence of a hitherto unrecgnized dietary factor essential for reproduction [2 offprints: 1) Preliminary report in Science, Vol. LVI, pp 650-1, 1922 and 2) Expanded report in Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 81, pp 889-892, 1923]

On the existence of a hitherto unrecgnized dietary factor essential for reproduction [2 offprints: 1) Preliminary report in Science, Vol. LVI, pp 650-1, 1922 and 2) Expanded report in Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 81, pp 889-892, 1923]

By: Evans, Herbert M. and Bishop, K. Scott

Price: $150.00

Publisher: : 1922, 1923

Seller ID: 1030

1922, 1923 LANDMARK PAPERS ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF VITAMIN E, A DIETARY FACTOR ESSENTIAL FOR REPRODUCTION. Two offprints 10 inches tall, printed paper covers, staple-bound, 1) 4 pp; 2) 8 pp; previous owner inscribed Evans top cover of each offprint, otherwise unmarked, corners bumped, light soiling to covers, very good minus. GARRISON-MORTON No. 1055 noting both papers. HERBERT McLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) became associate professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins University, then moved to California in 1915 and was made professor of anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley, a position...
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Causes and Curative Treatment of Sterility, with a Preliminary Statement of the Physiology of Generation. With Colored Lithographs and Numerous Wood Cut Illustrations

By: Gardner AK

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, De Witt & Davenport : 1856

Seller ID: 24

1856 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON FEMALE STERILITY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PLATES BY NOTED PHILADELPHIA LITHOGRAPHER. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth boards, blindstamped design, bright gilt title to cover, viii, 170 pages. Spine dulled, spine ends lightly worn, only marks are handstamp of Cincinnati Academy of Medicine Library to title page and dedication page, which reads, 'NOT TO THE INVENTOR OF THE CLAMP SUTURE, THE CROWNING SURGICAL APPLIANCE OF THE AGE; NOR TO THE PHILANTHROPIC PROJECTOR OF THE WOMAN'S HOSPITAL, THE NOBLEST CHARITY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, BUT TO THE MAN...
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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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Opera Omnia

By: Graaf, Regner de

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Leiden, Io. Ant. Hugetan : 1678

Seller ID: 429

1678 COLLECTED WORKS OF NOTED DUTCH ANATOMIST AND PHYSIOLOGIST, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS OF MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments and gilt title to spine, expertly rebacked with original spine conserved, 8vo. xx, [4], 390pp. Engraved title, portrait, 41 copper plate engravings (most folding) of male and female genitourinary system, digestive system, clyster apparatus, and syringe. Includes images of ectopic human pregnancy and surgical preparation of a dog for physiologic study of digestive tr...
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Physiological Papers

By: Loeb, Jacques

Price: $400.00

Publisher: : 1903-1924

Seller ID: 993

COLLECTION OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY OFFPRINTS BY JACQUES LOEB, PIONEERING PHYSIOLOGIST WHO DEMONSTRATED EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT FERTILIZATION; 3 PAPERS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 44 offprints 9 1/2 - 10 1/2 inches tall, in self or printed wrappers, some with notations on covers, text unmarked and most very good, several with age-toning and edgewear. Many bear the initials "WBB" (William B. Brierley). Three inscribed by author: 1) Further observations on the production of parthenogenetic frogs, J. Gen. Physiol. (March 20, 1921), 1920-21, iii, 539-545; 2) The colloidal behavior of proteins, J. ...
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The Maturation of the Egg of the Mouse

By: Long, J. A. and Mark, E. L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington : 1911

Seller ID: 889

1911 DETAILED ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION OF INSTRUMENTATION CREATED TO REVEAL EARLY MOUSE EMBRYOGENESISS BY TRAINEE AND MENTOR AT HARVARD'S LEGENDARY ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 10 inches tall offprint, printed paper covers, iv, 72 pp, 6 plates, very good in custom archival mylar cover. JOSEPH ABRAHAM LONG (1879 - 1953) joined the zoology faculty of the University of California as an Instructor in 1908, immediately after the completion of his doctor's degree at Harvard University, and although he became an Emeritus Professor in 1949 he retained his laboratory in the Department of Zoology and continue...
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The Reproductive Behaviour of the Ten-Spined Stickleback

By: Morris, Desmond

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Leiden, E. J. Brill : 1958

Seller ID: 1066

1958 FIRST PUBLICATION BY NOTED SOCIOBIOLOGIST DESMOND MORRIS--HIS DOCTORAL THESIS FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper-covered boards, black pebbled cloth spine with gilt title, pp vi, 154, 50 illustrations in text, cover edges and corners worn, residual abrasions from removal of library stickers from bottom spine, back, and front paste-down; previous owner signature top of front paste-down, handstamp of Smithsonian Libraries top of table of contents and handstamp withdrawn Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Binding tight, browning to first and last pages, text unm...
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Image for On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia, together with On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Direct Agency of the Spermatozoon, together with Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum int the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo

On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia, together with On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Direct Agency of the Spermatozoon, together with Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum int the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo

By: Newport, George

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Royal Society of London : 1851-1854

Seller ID: 590

FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THE PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION OF THE VERTEBRATE EGG, AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS. 12 inches tall hardcover, recent 1/2 maroon cloth binding, marbled paper covers, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, list of sources of papers followed by bound extracts from 3 issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Vol 141, pp 169-242, Plate XIV (1851), Vol. 143, pp 233-290 (1853), Vol. 144, pp 229-244 (1854). Binding fine, text pages unmarked, plate margins darkened, small college library embossed stamp to bottom of plate, very ...
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Collection of 36 offprints by legendary ecologist and Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley

By: Pearson, Oliver Payne

Price: $200.00

Publisher: : 1948 - 1989

Seller ID: 1019

1948 - 1989 COLLECTION OF OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT ECOLOGIST OLIVER PAYNE PEARSON, DIRECTOR OF MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY AT UC BERKELEY. Collection of 36 offprints, including 6 of the 7 cited as "seminal papers" by WZ Lidicker Jr and JL Patton in their obituary of Oliver Pearson (https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/oliverpaynepearson.html). The offprints are in very good condition with the exception of curled corners on a few, and are unmarked save for occasional underlining of Pearson's name under the title, and signature of J. M. Taylor on upper right corner of 5 ...
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