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Price: $500.00
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1865
Edition: First edition
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... View more info
By: Alcott WA;
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Boston, John P. Jewett and Co.: 1857
Edition: First edition
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... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Springfield IL, Charles C. Thomas: 1967
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 186
1967 UNIQUE COMPILATION OF RARE DISEASES WITH HISTORICAL CONTEXT BY MASTER CLINICIAN. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xxviii, 290 pages, green cloth binding, spine gilt, previous owner signature front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, very good/very good. FOREWORD: 'I can think of at least four reasons that rare conditions are, or should be, of interest to physicians. One reason these rare disorders can teach us much about the normal or about more common disorders. In the second place, these rare manifestations are sometimes valuable clues to the existence of grave internal disease. In a third place,... View more info
By: Browne J
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Medicina Rara Ltd.: 1697
Edition: Facsimile 1970
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 ... View more info
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
Edition: 5-Feb
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... View more info
By: Davis, D. Dwight
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Chicago, Chicago Natural History Museum: 1964
Edition: First edition
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... View more info
By: Grimaud de Caux, G. Martin Saint-Ange, G.J.
Price: $600.00
Publisher: Paris, Victor Masson: 1847
Edition: First edition
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... View more info
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By: Guenther, K.
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt: 1909
Edition: First edition
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... View more info
By: ibn Isa A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chicago, Northwestern University: 1936
Edition: First English translation by Casey A. Wood
Seller ID: 74
FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ARABIC OPHTHALMOLOGY TEXT FROM THE TENTH CENTURY, WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, xxxix, 232 pages, original black cloth spine with gilt title, gray paper covered boards with printed paper label to cover, fine printing on heavy paper with many text illustrations and plates of early depictions of eye anatomy and instruments used for medieval eye operations. Some spots to covers, corners worn, text very good. Protected by custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No. 5815 The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the mediev... View more info
By: Owen, Richard
Price: $250.00
Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Gree, and Longmans: 1855
Edition: Second edition
Seller ID: 546
SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON INVERTEBRATES BY ONE OF DARWIN'S FIERCEST CRITICS. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped, expertly rebacked with original spine conserved, bookplate and booksellers ticket to front paste-down, embossed stamp to title and dedication pages, Presented by the Publishers, viii, 689 pp, 235 wood engravings in text, errata, publisher's adverts. RICHARD OWEN (1804 - 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding natur... View more info
By: Pratt EH;
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York and Chicago, Fleming H. Revell Co.: 1921
Seller ID: 182
UNCONVENTIONAL ILLUSTRATED HUMAN ANATOMY TEXT BY HOMEOPATH ORIGINATOR OF 'ORIFICIAL SURGERY'. 8 inches tall hardcover, 233 pages, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, 14 black & white and color plates; no dust jacket, very good. PREFACE: 'The object of these impersonations has been threefold. First, to render the study of anatomy sufficiently simple and novel to be attractive, in hopes thatit may be popu-larized; second, to secure recognition, on the part of those who heretofore have been inclined to overlook them, of the existence of man's spiritual parts as essential elements ... View more info
By: Thorek, Max
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott Co.: 1924
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 249
1924 COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED MONGRAPH ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE TESTIS AND ITS DISEASES. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, Bookplate of academic urologist to front paste-down, 308 illustrations, overall very good. From the Introduction: Only too often, sad, though true it is, the laboratory worker does not take the trouble to check his results with data gained by the clinician, and the latter usually is too much engrossed at the bedside of patients and in his clinical work to permit of his spending much time in the laboratory or in the experimental room. To obviate such co... View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Boston, Otis, Broaders, and Co.: 1840
Seller ID: 198
1840 SUPERB ILLUSTRATED SINGLE-VOLUME AMERICAN BIRD BOOK WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY AUDUBON AND OTHERS. 5 x 8 x 2 inch hardcover, viii, 746 pages, original blindstamped brown cloth binding, expertly rebacked, conserving original decorative gilt spine title and design, new endpapers, charming engraved half title page with decorative wreath of birds. 25 steel engraved plates with tissue guards, Tightly bound, contemporary owners' signatures to top of title page, very light scattered foxing, overall very good. From the 'Advertisement' [Preface]: 'The want of an edition of Wilson's Ornithology, adapted... View more info
By: Wilson HV;
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1904
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 196
1904 HISTORIC ATLAS ON SPONGES WITH SPECTACULAR HELIOTYPE PLATES. 10 x 12 inch hardcover atlas, 164 pages, green cloth binding with gilt title to spine, 25 heliotype plates with tissue guards, color fold-out map at rear. Corners bumped, otherwise binding is very good, stains to bottom of first 3 leaves, which also have several small holes through top of pages, library stamp of Bureau of Fisheries--canceled and given to E.L. Goldsborough (American marine biologist). HELIOTYPE: a photomechanically produced plate for pictures or type made by exposing a gelatin film under a negative, hardening it ... View more info
