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A collection of offprints on experimental embryology

By: N/A

Price: $800.00

Publisher: 1909 - 1939

Seller ID: 1022

1909 - 1939 COLLECTION OF 124 OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT AMERICAN AND BRITISH BIOLOGISTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY. 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 offprints span a ...
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Collection of 70 offprints on trematodes

By: N/A

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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Image for Studies on the relationship between the histogenesis of the gonads and the differentiation of the blood cells in the chick embryos; TOGETHER WITH Reversible differentiation between the erythrocytes and the bone marrow elements under normal and starved conditions; TOGETHER WITH On the differentiation and de-differentiation from erythrocytes into ovairan elements, and on the re-differentiation from yolk material into erythrocytes in chickens and rabbits

Studies on the relationship between the histogenesis of the gonads and the differentiation of the blood cells in the chick embryos; TOGETHER WITH Reversible differentiation between the erythrocytes and the bone marrow elements under normal and starved conditions; TOGETHER WITH On the differentiation and de-differentiation from erythrocytes into ovairan elements, and on the re-differentiation from yolk material into erythrocytes in chickens and rabbits

By: Chishima, Kikuo

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Okajumas Folia Anatomica Japonica; Research Bulletin of the Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University: 1952, 1953

Seller ID: 1009

1952-1953 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS ON ERYTHROCYTE DIFFERENTIATION BY KIKUO CHISHIMA, FOLLOWER OF SOVIET PSEUDOSCIENTISTS OF THE STALIN ERA--SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Three offprints 10 inches tall with printed paper wrappers, staple bound, each paper with author's autograph statement, "Your criticism on my paper would be appreciated": 1) Studies on the relationship between the histogenesis of the gonads and the differentiation of the blood cells in the chick embryos, Okajumas Folia Anatomica Japonica, signed by author on cover, pages 150-186, 12 figures, 8 plates; 2) Reversible differentiation bet...
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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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Living Organisms: An Account of Their Origin & Evolution

By: Goodrich, Edwin S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1924

Seller ID: 484

1924 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON STATE-OF-THE-ART OF EVOLUTION IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Darwin, with tissue guard, 200 pp, 60 illustrations. Very good in very good- dust jacket in mylar cover. EDWIN STEPHEN GOODRICH (1868 - 1946), was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and evolution. He held the Linacre Chair of Zoology in the University of Oxford from 1921 to 1946. He served as editor of the Quarterly Journ...
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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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The Scientific Basis of Evolution

By: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton and Co., Inc.: 1932

Seller ID: 450

1932 LECTURES ON EVOLUTION BY T. H. MORGAN, NOBEL LAUREATE IN 1933. 8 1/4 inches tall red buckram binding, gilt title to spine, new endpapers, perforated library stamp to title page, 286 pp., numerous text figures, binding tight, pages unmarked except marginal tics in list of references. Good+ in custom archival mylar cover. Cited in Gilbert & Epel 2009: Thomas Hunt Morgan, renounced embryology and wrote an article entitled The Rise of Genetics and a book entitled The Scientific Basis of Evolution in which he contrasted the new genetics with the old-fashioned embryology. â€¦ Moreover, Morg...
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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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Image for The development of rat embryos in tissue culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. December, 1934. TOGETHER WITH 15 additional offprints

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: $150.00

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,...
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Nephrons and Kidneys: A Quantitative Study of Developmental and Evolutionary Mammalian Renal Architectonics

By: Oliver, Jean

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Evanston, London, Hoeber Medical Division, Harper and Row: 1968

Seller ID: 609

SPECTACULAR FOLIO ATLAS OF HUMAN KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT WITH MOSAIC PHOTOMICROGRAPHS OF MICRODISSECTED NEPHRONS. 18 inches tall folio hardcover, publisher's black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis plate of developing nephrons, x, 117 pp, 27 plates (with overlaid tracings applied to first 21 plates), and 25 text figures, fine in custom archival mylar cover. REVIEW BY G.H. FETTERMAN in Annals of Internal Medicine, September 1968: This book will not fit on the average shelf, but then. it is not an average hook. It is beautifully written and superbly illustrated. In it Dr. Oliver f...
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Category: Development