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Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz with a Sketch of his Life and Work

By: Agassiz, Alexander

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Boughton Mifflin Co.: 1913

Seller ID: 454

1913 BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS OF NOTED HARVARD MARINE BIOLOGIST, EDITED BY HIS SON. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine, 2 folding maps in separate pockets to front and back paste-down, i-vii, 454 pp, portrait frontis of Agassiz with tissue guard, 17 black & white photographic illustrations. corners bumped and worn, cover edges worn, text and maps unmarked, good+, in custom archival mylar cover. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1835 - 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in NeuchÃ¢...
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Darwin

By: Bradford, Gamaliel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1926

Seller ID: 449

1926 BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD, DEAN OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHERS. 9 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookplate to front paste-down, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, laid in newspaper clippings of author Gamaliel Bradford, frontis portrait of Darwin, 6 plates, 315 pages. Surface wear to covers, spine darkened, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, in custom archival mylar cover, very good-. CONTENTS: The Observer; The Thinker; The Discoverer; The Loser; The Lover; The Destroyer; The Scientific Spirit. GAMALIEL BRADFORD (1863 - 19...
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The Power of Place: Charles Darwin

By: Browne, Janet

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 492

VOLUME 2 OF JANET BROWNE'S DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN EXPLORES THE YEARS FOLLOWING PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, salmon paper-covered boards, cloth spine with gilt title, 591 pp, very good in very good dust jacket. JANET BROWNE trained as a biologist, took her Ph.D. in history of science, and has served as associate editor of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. She is the author of several books and many scholarly papers. She is professor in the history of biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London an...
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Charles Darwin's The Life of Erasmus Darwin

By: Darwin, Charles and King-Hele, Desmond

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 518

CHARLES DARWIN'S BIOGRAPHY OF HIS GRANDFATHER ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED (ABRIDGED BY HIS DAUGHTER) IN 1879, NOW UNABRIDGED, EDITED BY ERASMUS DARWIN. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis of Erasmus Darwin, 172 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. ERASMUS DARWIN (1731 - 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet. His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life. D...
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Margaret Mead

By: Fox, Renee C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Institute for Intercultural Studies: 1979

Seller ID: 1011

1979 ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHROPOLOGIST MARGARET MEAD WITH LETTER BY HER ANTRHOPOLOGIST DAUGHTER THE YEAR AFTER HER MOTHER'S DEATH. 11 inches tall offprint from The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, brown paper cover with gilt title, tissue flyleaves, 23 pp including bibliography of works, LAID IN TLS, typed letter with letterhead of Institute for Intercultural Studies, Inc. dated January 5, 1979, to friends of the Institute signed Mary Catherine Bateson, President and daughter of Margaret Mead. MARGARET MEAD (1901 - 1978) was an American cultural anthrop...
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H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism. A Study in Translation and Transformation

By: Gliboff, Sander

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA and London, The MIT Press: 2008

Seller ID: 496

FASCINATING STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF DARWIN'S TRANSLATOR, H.G. BONN, ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES IN GERMANY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, 259 pp, small handstamp top edge, very good in very good dust jacket. SANDER GLIBOFF received his B.S. in Biology from Cornell University in 1978 and his M.A. in Zoology from the University of North Carolina in 1981. He then moved to Vienna, Austria and tried his hand at laboratory work, statistics, technical translating, and software development, before returning to the U.S. to take up History of Science. He did further gra...
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Collected Writings Alfred F. Hess, with a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner

By: Hess, Alfred F. and Flexner, Abraham

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1936

Seller ID: 806

BIOGRAPHY AND COLLECTED PUBLICATIONS ON PEDIATRIC NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASE BY ALFRED HESS--COPY OF HENRY H DONALDSON, NEUROLOGIST OF THE WISTAR INSTITUTE. Two hardcover volumes 10 1/4 inches tall, green cloth binding, gilt title to spines, teg, Wistar Institute bookplate to front paste-downs, Wistar Library discard handstamp to title page, embossed library seal of Henry H. Donaldson to title page. Vol. I, frontis portrait of Alfred Hess with tissue guard, xxxi, 719 pp; Vol. II, ix, 734 pp, light wear to cover edges, bindings tight, text pages clean and unmarked, very good minus. ALFR...
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Louis Agassiz. Creator of American Science

By: Irmscher, Christoph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 2013

Seller ID: 534

BRILLIANT BIOGRAPHY OF LOUIS AGASSIZ, DARWIN'S ADVERSARY AND HARVARD'S CONTROVERSIAL FOUNDER OF ITS MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, ivory paper-covered boards, red paper covered spine with gilt title, 434 pp, illustrations, very good in very good dust jacket. JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ (1807 - 1873) was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history, with later American writings that have received criticism for their endorsement of scientific racism. Agassiz grew up in Switzerland, and studied ...
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Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection

By: Poulton, Edward B.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan and Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 485

1896 EARLY BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN BY CHAMPION OF NATURAL SELECTION WELL BEFORE ITS GENERAL ACCEPTANCE. 7 1/2 inches hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis photo of Darwin's statue at British Museum of Natural History, signature of previous owner, front endpaper (dated 1899), viii, 224 pp. Spine sunned, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tight, no other marks; very good, in custom archival mylar cover. SIR EDWARD B. POULTON (1856 - 1943) was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection through a period in w...
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Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology

By: Provine, William B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press: 1989

Seller ID: 541

THIS IS PERHAPS THE BEST BIOGRAPHY EVER WRITTEN OF A SCIENTIST--BENTLEY GLASS. 9 1/4 inches tall softcover, color printed laminated covers, 545 pages, fine. SEWALL WRIGHT (1889 - 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. He was a founder of population genetics alongside Ronald Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, which was a major step in the development of the modern synthesis combining genetics with evolution. He discovered the inbreeding coefficient and methods of computing it in pedigree animals. He extended this wo...
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. An intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution

By: Quammen, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, London, W.W. Norton: 2006

Seller ID: 511

THIS LITTLE BOOK REPRESENTS DARWIN FOR EVERYBODY 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, beige paper-covered boards, black paper-covered spine with gilt title, 304 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. DAVID QUAMMEN (born 1948) is an American science, nature and travel writer and the author of fifteen books. He has been awarded an Academy Award in Literature form the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award, most recently for a cover story in National Geographic entitled, Was Darwin Wrong?
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