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Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay: Radiates

By: Agassiz EC;Agassiz A;

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1865

Seller ID: 200

1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to 'Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz'. 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text. Spine ends frayed, spine dulled, 1/4 inch chip to bottom corner of free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and overall very good. The 1871 edition is cited by Darwin in his reading notebook. Alexander's father, Louis, had become a passionate ant...
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Image for Academicarum Annotationum. Liber Primus. Continet anatomica, physiologica, zoographica, phytographica; Liber Secundus Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica; Liber Tertius, Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica, zoographica; Liber Quartus Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica

Academicarum Annotationum. Liber Primus. Continet anatomica, physiologica, zoographica, phytographica; Liber Secundus Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica; Liber Tertius, Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica, zoographica; Liber Quartus Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica

By: Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Leiden, Verbeek: 1754

Seller ID: 845

28 EXQUISITE COPPER PLATES OF ANATOMIC DETAILS BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS, ENGRAVED BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, JAN WANDELAAR IN 1754. 10 inches tall hardcover, 1/2 leather binding, brown speckled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title to spine, containing 4 books. 2 leaves, Book I, 96, 99-104 pp, 1 leaf, 7 plates; Book II, 114 pp, 7 plates; 1Book III, 120 pp, 7 plates; Book IV, 118 pp, 7 plates, colophon. Covers heavily worn, spine edges cracked, hinges holding, binding tight, pages age-toned, light foxing to first and last pages, plates crisp and clean, very...
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The Laws of Health

By: Alcott WA;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, John P. Jewett and Co.: 1857

Seller ID: 124

1857 PRE-CIVIL WAR BOOK ON HYGIENE FOR FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS: HOW TO STAY HEALTHY. 8 inches tall hardcover, x, 424 pages, original brown cloth binding, blindstamped design on covers, gilt title on spine, pencil signature and inscription of 'E. C. Gaines, Bethel, Mi, Sept 1858 / Phyllis bought this'. Minimal chipping top of spine, scattered light foxing, small stain to edge of later pages, otherwise unmarked and very good. CONTENTS: Growth and Renovation; Muscular Motion; Rest and Sleep; Digestion and Nutrition; The Circulation of the Blood; Breathing and Ventilation; The Laws of the Skin and of...
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The biology of the Weddell and crabeater seals, with a study of the comparative behaviour of the Pinnipedia

By: Bertram, G.C.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, British Museum: 1940

Seller ID: 703

SIGNED BY AUTHOR--ANATOMY AND BEHAVIOR OF SEALS: ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF AN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN THE 1930s. 12 1/4 inches tall volume, orange printed paper covers, inscribed and signed by author top of cover, 139 pp, 42 figures, 10 photographic plates, corners curled, binding tight, text unmarked, good+. GEORGE COLIN LAWDER BERTRAM (1911 - 2001) Joined a three-man Cambridge Expedition to Scoresby Sound, East Greenland, transported there and back by Dr Jean-Baptiste Charcot in his ship Pourquoi-Pas?. This was followed by nine months studying coral reefs in the Red Sea, prior to accepting a pla...
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Image for Myographia Nova: or, a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection, together with an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the Heart and its Use; as also of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Parts of which the Sanguinary Mass is Made and Framed. Written by the late Learned Dr. Lower

Myographia Nova: or, a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection, together with an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the Heart and its Use; as also of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Parts of which the Sanguinary Mass is Made and Framed. Written by the late Learned Dr. Lower

By: Browne J

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Medicina Rara Ltd.: 1697

Seller ID: 49

SUMPTUOUS DELUXE FOLIO FULL LEATHER BINDING OF FINE PRINTING FACSIMILE OF RARE 17TH CENTURY MUSCLE ANATOMY. 8 x 12 1/2 inches tall full leather binding, gilt border to cover, spine with raised bands, gilt title, top edge gilt, 109 pages, 37 plates, fine condition. In ivory paper covered slipcase lightly soiled with crayon mark on one side. Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., plates made from the original 1697 London edition. The paper is permanent, natural Curtis Rag, bearing the watermark of Medicina Rara. 300 copies bound in full leather numbered in roman numerals (deluxe binding) of which this is ...
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The Bridgewater Treatises: On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation

By: Chalmers, T., Kidd, J., Whewell, W., Bell, C., Roget, P.M., Buckland, W., Kirby, W. and Prout, W.

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, William Pickering: 1837

Seller ID: 336

FINE BINDING, ILLUSTRATED 1830s EARLY EDITION COMPLETE 12 VOLUMES OF BRIDGEWATER TREATISES WRITTEN BY BRITISH SCIENTISTS IN RESPONSE TO GROWING SECULAR VIEW OF LIFE. 8 3/4 inches tall set of 8 works bound in 12, bound in full calf gilt with double gilt rules, spines with raised bands and twin black leather gilt labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Numerous plates, illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Abel Smith, Woodhall Park, front paste-down of each volume. Spines and boards rubbed, light foxing to endpapers, bindings tight, text clean and bright. Individual volumes: 1. Chalmers, T.: The Ada...
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The Cerebral Circulation

By: Cobb, Stanley; Penfield, Wilder Graves; Campbell, A. Colin P.; Finesinger, Jacob E.; Finley, Knox H.; Forbes, Henry S.; Gibbs, Erna Leonhardt; Lennox, William Gordon; Nason, Gladys I.; Pool, J. Lawrence; Putnam, Tracey Jackson; Talbott, John H.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: 1928-1937

Seller ID: 666

1928-1937 SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY--COLLECTION OF 52 OFFPRINTS ON THE CEREBRAL CIRCULATION BY LUMINARIES OF THE NEW MONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE. Two hardcover volumes 10 inches tall, red buckram binding, gilt titles to spines, each with bookplate "A Gift to the Fellows Library, Montreal Neurological Institute, from Dr. Wilder Penfield" with handstamp, no longer the property of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital Library; vol. I with signed inscription on front endpaper, To Wilder Penfield/ from Stanley Cobb/ with hopes for another 20 & more cooperation! with handstamp of Wilder...
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A History of Comparative Anatomy from Aristotle to the Eighteenth Century

By: Cole, F.J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd.: 1944

Seller ID: 736

1944 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK HISTORY OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY WITH 200 ILLUSTRATIONS. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 524 pp, 200 figures; corners bumped, gilt title bright, binding tight, front hinge starting, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. GARRISON-MORTON No. 356. FRANCIS JOSEPH COLE (1872 -bio 1959) was a lecturer in zoology at the University of Liverpool from 1897 until 1906, when he became Professor of Zoology at the University of Reading, the first holder of the post. He then began sett...
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Thyroid and Thymus, with 96 illustrations and 33 plates in color

By: Crotti, Andre

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger: 1918

Seller ID: 772

FIRST EDITION OF COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED EARLY 20TH CENTURY MONOGRAPH ON THYROID DISEASE. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black cloth with marbled boards, spine recently recased with black cloth, marbled endpapers, xiv, 567 pp, 96 illustrations in text and 33 color plates. cover edges, corners and covers worn, hinges starting, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, good+. ANDRE CROTTI (1873 - 1958) was born in Argentina, and earned his MD in Switzerland, He then moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he established a practice specializing in thyroid surgery. He served leadership roles in White C...
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The Giant Panda. A Morphological Study of Evolutionary Mechanisms

By: Davis, D. Dwight

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago, Chicago Natural History Museum: 1964

Seller ID: 307

FIRST EDITION OF THE GIANT PANDA'S BIBLE-PROBABLY THE GREATEST WORK OF MODERN EVOLUTIONARY COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 12 inches tall folio monograph, original printed heavy paper covers, 159 superb illustrations, some colored. Cover edges lightly age-toned, top edge soiled, rippling to lower corner of last pages, overall very good. In custom archival mylar cover. Extraordinary anatomical illustrations, detailing the structure and function of the radial sesmoid bone to strip bamboo (pp 98, 138, 180). Cited by SJ Gould in The Panda's Thumb, 1980: Fortunately, the giant panda has its bible, a monograph...
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Encyclopedie: Anatomy Plates and Descriptive text

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alermbert, Jean

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson: 1762 - 1772

Seller ID: 817

1762 FIRST EDITION COMPLETE FOLIO PLATES OF ANATOMY SECTION OF DIDEROT'S FAMOUS ENCYCLOPEDIE--PUBLICATION SENSATION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. 17 inches tall folio hardcover, blue paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, 21 pages of letterpress description of the plates; 33 copper plate engravings: ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF DESCRIPTION OF THE ANATOMY PLATES: â€œAnatomy, comprising thirty-three plates. Notice. Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowledge of the human body, should appear with distinction in a Dictionary of the Sciences. It is primarily through the plates that it may be unde...
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Image for Recherches sur l'Osteologie et la Myologie des Batraciens a Leurs Differens Ages; presentees a l'Academie Royale des Sciences, en reponse a la question suivante: Determiner a l'aide d'observations, et demontrer, par des preparations anatomiques et des dessins exats, les modifications que presentent, dnas leur squelette et dans leurs muscles, les reptiles Batraciens, tels que les Grenouilles et les Salamandres, en passant de l'etate de larve a celui d'animal parfait. [Research on Osteology and Myology of Batrachians at different ages; presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences in response to the following question: Determine with the aid of observations, and show, by anatomic preparations and exact drawings, the modifications that are revealed, in their skeletons and muscles, the Baatachian reptiles, such as frogs and salamanders, in passing from the larval state to that of the adult animal].

Recherches sur l'Osteologie et la Myologie des Batraciens a Leurs Differens Ages; presentees a l'Academie Royale des Sciences, en reponse a la question suivante: Determiner a l'aide d'observations, et demontrer, par des preparations anatomiques et des dessins exats, les modifications que presentent, dnas leur squelette et dans leurs muscles, les reptiles Batraciens, tels que les Grenouilles et les Salamandres, en passant de l'etate de larve a celui d'animal parfait. [Research on Osteology and Myology of Batrachians at different ages; presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences in response to the following question: Determine with the aid of observations, and show, by anatomic preparations and exact drawings, the modifications that are revealed, in their skeletons and muscles, the Baatachian reptiles, such as frogs and salamanders, in passing from the larval state to that of the adult animal].

By: Duges, Antoine

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Paris, Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences: 1834

Seller ID: 880

1834 MONOGRAPH BY FRENCH OBSTETRICIAN ON ANATOMY OF FROGS, TADPOLES, AND SALAMANDERS, ILLUSTRATED BY 20 FINE LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. 11 1/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 black cloth binding, marbled paper covers, leather label with gilt title to spine, gilt red label to spine, v, 216 pages with wide margins uncut, 20 lithographic plates; binding tight, light foxing to first pages, remainder of text and plates crisp and clean, very good. TEXT IN FRENCH. ANTOINE LOUIS DUGES (1797 - 1838) was a French obstetrician and naturalist born in the Ardennes. He studied medicine in Paris and began work a...
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Essays in Biology in Honor of Herbert M. Evans

By: Evans, Herbert M., Fahrquhar, Samuel T., Leake, Chauncey D., Lyons, William R., Simpson, Miriam E., Allen, F.M., Althausen, T.L., Alvarez, W.C., Anderson, E.N., Purkinje, J.E., Bensley, R.R., Cole, H.H., Goss, H., de Graaf, R., Coward, K.H., Crowe, S.J.,

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of Calofornia Press: 1943

Seller ID: 798

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF 3 EMINENT BIBLIOPHILES OF SCIENCE IN THE BERKELEY CIRCLE: FESTSCHRIFT FOR HERBERT EVANS, COPY OF CHARLES SINGER AND MELVIN EDWARD JAHN. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of Dr. Charles Singer and Melvin Edward Jahn to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Herbert M. Evans, xxvii, 684 pp, many illustrations, plate with facing descriptive text; corners bumped, edges soiled, binding tight, very good in very good dust jacket. HERBERT McLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist. In 1908, he obtained hi...
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Die Electrischen Fische. Nach Neuen Untersuchungen Anatomisch-Zoologisch Dargestellt. Vol. I Malopterurus electricus; Vol. II Die Torpedineen

By: Fritsch, Gustav

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Veit & Comp.: 1887 1890

Seller ID: 714

1887-1890 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ELECTRIC FISH: TWO FOLIO VOLUMES WITH 32 LARGE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY PIONEERING NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST GUSTAV FRITSCH2 volumes, 19 inches tall hardcover printed boards, cloth spine binding, Vol. I, vii, 90 pp, 4 wood engravings, 12 lithographic plates; Vol. II, vi, 146 pp, 30 wood engravings, 20 lithographic plates. Corners bumped, dampstains to 3 covers, wear to cover edges, pages mostly unopened & uncut, text and plates unmarked and fine. In custom archival mylar covers. GUSTAV THEODOR FRITSCH (1838 - 1927) was a German anatomist, anthropologist, traveller and physiol...
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Image for Oceanic Ichthyology, A Treatise on the Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, based chiefly upon the Collections Made by the Steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the Northwestern Atlantic with an Atlas Containing 417 Figures

Oceanic Ichthyology, A Treatise on the Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, based chiefly upon the Collections Made by the Steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the Northwestern Atlantic with an Atlas Containing 417 Figures

By: Goode, George Brown and Tarleton, H. Bean

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Government Printing Office: 1895

Seller ID: 753

1895 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK ATLAS OF DEEP SEA AND PELAGIC FISHES OF THE WORLD BY TWO OF AMERICA'S PREMIER ICHTHYOLOGISTS. Two volumes 13 inches tall, printed paper covers, Vol. I, 1 1/2 inches thick Text xxxv, 26, 553 pp with several text-figures; Vol. II, Plates, xxiii, 25 pp, 123 plates containing 417 figures.m. Cover edges and paper covering spine chipped, signature of JV Miller 1933 to cover of each volume, text and plates crisp and unmarked, very good. GEORGE BROWN GOODE (1851 - 1896), was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very i...
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Image for Physiologie de l'Espece. Histoire de la Generation de l'Homme, precedee de l'Etude Comparative de Cette Fonction dans les Division Principales du Regne Animal

Physiologie de l'Espece. Histoire de la Generation de l'Homme, precedee de l'Etude Comparative de Cette Fonction dans les Division Principales du Regne Animal

By: Grimaud de Caux, G. Martin Saint-Ange, G.J.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Paris, Victor Masson: 1847

Seller ID: 197

1847 LARGE FRENCH ATLAS OF COMPARATIVE REPRODUCTION WITH SCARCE HAND COLORED PLATES. 8 x 11 inch hardcover, 438 pages, xv plate descriptions, new hand-marbled paper-covered boards, original red leather spine with raised bands, gilt title and decoration, all edges gilt, 12 pairs of facing plates in duplicate, separated by tissue guards, drawn by Martin Saint-Ange: one set by Acarie Baron, lithographed by Bernard and Frey, the second set stipple engraved by Annedouche, printed by N. Remond, and hand-colored (lithographed Plate XII not bound in this copy--only the color engraving). TEXT IN FRENCH...
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Vom Urtier zum Menschen [From the Primordial Animal to man. An illustrated atlas for pedigree and history of the people].

By: Guenther, K.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt: 1909

Seller ID: 347

1909 GERMAN FOLIO VOLUMES DEDICATED TO CHARLES DARWIN ON HIS 100TH ANNIVERSARY: COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY IN 90 DRAMATIC LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES (17 WITH COLOR). Two volumes, folio, 13 3/4 inches tall color printed yellow cloth covered boards, soiled with edges waterstained; text and plates largely unaffected, but some pages loose. 73 black and white and 17 color lithographed plates of comparative embryology, anatomy, and anthropology (some with tissue guards with printed legends to figures in table; Plates 47 & 48 form a folding illustrated table). Plates are dramatic and printed on h...
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Luschka's Joint

By: Hall, Michael C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1965

Seller ID: 869

1965 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON ONTOGENY, PHYLOGENY, AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE CERVICAL SPINE AND RELEVANCE TO HUMAN DISEASE. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, xi, 141 pp, 126 figures, marginal stains top and bottom endpaper edges (from dust jacket sleeve), very good in very good dust jacket. PREFACE: Clinical experience of treating patients with cervical arthritis led to an interest in the pathological changes in this area of the spine. It became evident that the published knowledge of the orthopaedic and neu...
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A Textbook of Human Embryology

By: Harrison, R.G.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Oxford, Blackwell: 1959

Seller ID: 891

1959 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON HUMAN EMBRYOLOGY DESIGNED TO CONNECT EARLY DEVELOPMENT WITH ADULT ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 10 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xi, 244 pp, 144 figures, very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket with small edge-tears. ROSS GRANVILLE HARRISON (1870 - 1959) was an American biologist and anatomist credited as the first to successfully grow artificial tissue culture. His work also contributed to the understanding of embryonic development. he entered Johns Hopkins University in 1886, receiving his BA degree in 1889 at the age of ni...
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The Vagi in Medicine and Surgery

By: Holt, George W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1968

Seller ID: 852

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE VAGUS NERVES IN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DISORDERS. 10 inches tall hardcover, sky blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xv, 92 pp, illustrations; residue from stickers on cover, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, no other library marks, very good.
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Category: Anatomy