Category: Development

A collection of offprints on experimental embryology and regeneration

Price: $500.00

Publisher: : 1909 - 1939

Seller ID: 1022

1909 - 1939 COLLECTION OF 124 OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT AMERICAN AND BRITISH BIOLOGISTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY AND REGENERATION. Two hefty volumes, each 9 ½ inches tall, 3 inches thick, red buckram binding, gilt titles to spine, bookplates of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, typed table of contents. Vol. I contains 61 papers, Vol. II contains 63; there are many tables, figures, and plates. Light surface wear to covers, bindings tight, some covers signed by authors or recipient (N.S.R. Maluf), occasional marginal pencil notes, otherwise unmarked and very good. The o...
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Collection of 70 offprints on trematodes

Price: $150.00

Publisher: : 1923 - 1994

Seller ID: 1059

SPANNING THE 20TH CENTURY, 71 SCARCE OFFPRINTS ON THE BIOLOGY AND TAXONOMY OF TREMATODES PARASITIZING DIVERSE VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES. 71 offprints, 1 in Spanish, 4 in French, 66 in English; some with wrappers, some not (as issued), many illustrated, author or previous owner inscription or handstamp to several covers, otherwise unmarked and very good. The papers cover the biology of the trematodes, including anatomy, physiology, reproduction, embryology, metabolism, and life cycle. A number report descriptions of new species and other aspects of taxonomy. The variety of hosts includes fi...
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The development of Lepidosteus TOGETHER WITH 4 other offprints on embryology and comparative anatomy of fish from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College

By: Agassiz, Alexander, Nickerson, W. S., Eigenmann, C.H., Holbrook, A. T. and Ayers, H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: American Academy of Arts and Sciences : 1878

Seller ID: 1056

1878-1894 FIVE OFFPRINTS ON EMBRYOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF FISHES FROM THE HEYDAY OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY UNDER ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. Five offprintes 9 1/2 inches tall, in printed paper covers, darkened covers with handstamps and/or inscriptions of previous owners, some edges chipped, contents very good. No. 1 published in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Nos. 2-5 published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Nos. 2, 3, 5 contain laid-in printed leaflet, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass./ with ...
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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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Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist

By: Bonner, John Tyler

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1993

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...
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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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Image for Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. I. Respiratory, electric and reconstitutional gradients (authored with L. H. Hyman) TOGETHER WITH Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. II. Differential susceptibility, penetration and oxidation-reduction in development and reconstitution TOGETHER WITH Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. III. Control and modification of polarity and symmetry in reconstitution by differential exposure

Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. I. Respiratory, electric and reconstitutional gradients (authored with L. H. Hyman) TOGETHER WITH Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. II. Differential susceptibility, penetration and oxidation-reduction in development and reconstitution TOGETHER WITH Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. III. Control and modification of polarity and symmetry in reconstitution by differential exposure

By: Child, C. M. and Hyman, L. H.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Vienna, Bratislava, Baltimore, Biologia Generalis, Emil Haim & Co. : 1926

Seller ID: 1012

1926 SCARCE EARLY ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED RESEARCH PAPERS ON INVERTEBRATE REGENERATION BY BRILLIANT CHICAGO ZOOLOGIST C.M. CHILD AND STUDENT L.H. HYMAN. Three offprints 9 1/2 inches tall, printed paper covers, stapled, cover edges chipped, pages age-toned, archival tape repair to spine of No. 1, otherwise all very good. 1) Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. I. Respiratory, electric and reconstitutional gradients, pp 355 - 374, 3 figures; 2) Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. II. Differential susceptibility, penetration and oxidation-reduction in development and r...
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Individuality in Organisms

By: Child, C.M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press : 1915

Seller ID: 483

1915 PIONEERING MONOGRAPH ON EXPERIMENTAL REGENERATION AND EVOLUTION. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to cover, physician bookplate to front paste-down, bookseller's label bottom of front free endpaper, embossed stamp of Dr. George B. Wilbur, South Dennis, Massachusetts, half title, i-x, 213 pp, 102 figures in text. Spine faded, light foxing to endpapers, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. FROM PREFACE: The present book deals primarily with the problem of the nature of the unity and order in the organism, the constan...
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Dynamics in Metazoan Evolution: The Origin of the Coelom and Segments

By: Clark, Robert B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press : 1964

Seller ID: 451

THE FIRST MAJOR ACCOUNT OF ANIMAL EVOLUTION BASED ON FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 313 pp, over 100 figures, very good in good jacket. Cited by Wainwright in Axis and Circumference (1988), The first major account of animal evolution based on functional morphology is that of Clark (1964). ROBERT BERNARD CLARK (1923 - 2013) was appointed to the Chair of Zoology at Newcastle University in 1966, a post he held until his retirement in October 1989. His long and distinguished...
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Growth

By: de Beer, G.R.

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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Human Figure Drewings of Mildly Handicapped Students. Learning Disabled, Mildly Mentally Retarded, Emotionally Disturbed, and Speech/Language Impaired

By: Jones, Carroll J.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas : 1992

Seller ID: 426

SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON INTERPRETATION OF HANDICAPPED CHILDEN'S HUMAN FIGURE DRAWINGS. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, 114 pages, 70 black & white illustrations. Covers clean and bright, text unmarked. Institutional library handstamp to edges, front and rear endpapers; library pocket rear endpaper. Very good-. FOREWORD: This is an unusual book. Not many authors have been successful in the attempt to compile children's drawings of people and present them in a way that has some psychological or educational use. .... Juxtaposed to normal dev...
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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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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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Image for Die regeneration der gonophore bei den hydroiden und anschliessende biologische beobachtungen [Regeneration of the gonophore in hydroids and subsequent biological observations].. Vol. I. Athecata; Vol. II. Thecata

Die regeneration der gonophore bei den hydroiden und anschliessende biologische beobachtungen [Regeneration of the gonophore in hydroids and subsequent biological observations].. Vol. I. Athecata; Vol. II. Thecata

By: Muller, Herbert C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Leipzig and Berlin, Wilhelm Engelmann : 1913-1914

Seller ID: 1015

1913-14 ILLUSTRATED EXPERIMENTS ON REGENERATION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN IN MARINE HYDROIDS PERFORMED AT THE ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF LEIPZIG--COPY OF RICHARD WOLTERECK. Two offprints 9 inches tall, printed green paper covers, signature of Prof. Dr. R. Woltreck and handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to cover, age-toning to covers, texts unmarked, both very good. Vol. I, pp 319-419, 23 text figures; Vol. II, pp 287-363, 15 text figures, 2 double-page plates. HERBERT C. MULLER was a member of the Zoological Institute of Leipzig. PROVENANCE: RICHARD WOLTERECK (1877 - 1944) extended the conce...
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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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The development of rat embryos in tissue culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. December, 1934. TOGETHER WITH 15 additional offprints

By: Nicholas, John Spangler

Price: $200.00

Publisher: : 1934 - 1947

Seller ID: 1044

1930s and 1940s COLLECTION OF LANDMARK PAPERS BY EMINENT YALE EMBRYOLOGIST AND LEADER OF AMERICAN WARTIME SCIENCE MANAGEMENT. 16 offprints, 13 in printed paper covers and 3 (publshed in Science) without covers, as issued, all in very good condition. JOHN SPANGLER NICHOLAS (1895 - 1963) enlisted in the Army Medical Corps in 1918. His most important governmental contribution was his assistance in shaping the World War II policies governing the utilization of the nationâ€™s scientific human resources (documented in 4 offprints in collection). Upon leaving the Army at the end of World War I, Nich...
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Forschung und Leben [Research and Life]

By: Spemann, Hans

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, J. Engelhorns Nachfolger - Adolf Spemann : 1943

Seller ID: 1258

ASSOCIATION COPY OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GERMAN NOBELIST HANS SPEMANN INSCRIBED BY NOTED FINNISH EMBRYOLOGIST TO EMINENT SOUTH AFRICAN EMBRYOLOGIST LEWIS WOLPERT. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, printed title to cover, tan cloth spine with gilt title, pencil note to front paste-down, Spemann was awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1935. Pres. copy to Lewis Wolpert. Inscribed in ink on half-title page: To Lewis Wolpert/ with warmest thanks for a superb meeting and great hospitality/ Lauri Saxen followed by, and Marketta Karkinen-Jaaskelainen. 344 pp, photo portrait plates...
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l'Origine des Glandes Annexes de l'Intestin Moyen chez les Vertebres

By: Weber, Jean-Amedee

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris, Masson et Cie. : 1903

Seller ID: 1049

1903 REMARKABLE STUDY IN COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY OF THE LIVER AND PANCREAS WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES AND A SET OF PHOTOGRAVURE CARDS FOR STEREOSCOPIC VIEWING--SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 10 inches tall volume with printed paper covers, inscribed and signed by the author on cover, 247 pp, 7 lithographic plates, some color, double-page or folding, of embryos of duck, slow worm (reptile), and bat; 4 photogravure plates each with 4 perforated cards for stereoscopic viewing. Covers with darkend and chipped edges, spine with creases, binding tight, text and plates unmarked; very good minus. CONTENTS: Proto...
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The Control of Growth and Form: A Study of the Epidermal Cell in an Insect

By: Wigglesworth, V.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ithaca, Cornell University Press : 1959

Seller ID: 716

1959 SUPERB ILLUSTRATED EARLY MONOGRAPH ON HORMONAL CONTROL OF GROWTH. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional handstamp to front endpaper, [10], 140 pp, black & white illustrations, very good. VINCENT BRIAN WIGGLESWORTH (1899 - 1994) was a British entomologist who made significant contributions to the field of insect physiology. In particular, he studied metamorphosis. His most significant contribution was the discovery that neurosecretory cells in the brain of the South American kissing bug, Rhodnius prolixus, secrete a crucial hormone...
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The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis

By: Wigglesworth, V.B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1954

Seller ID: 944

1954 VB WIGGLESWORTH--FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED CLASSIC MONOGRAPH ON EXPERIMENTAL INSECT PHYSIOLOGY. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, sky blue cloth binding, image of fly center cover, handstamp previous owner name to front paste-down, viii, 152, 45 illustrations, 4 plates. very good in very good price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. CITED BY SJ GOULD in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: "The most crucial experiments for heterochrony are those that mimic natural occurrences rather than produce developmental anomalies. Wigglesworth (1954, pp. 70-71) submitted fourth-stage larvae of Rhodnius to different ...
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Category: Development