Category: Anatomy

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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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 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

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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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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Image for Solenodon paradoxus, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, TOGETHER WITH Notes on Solenodon paradoxus Brandt, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York

Solenodon paradoxus, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, TOGETHER WITH Notes on Solenodon paradoxus Brandt, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York

By: Allen, Glover M. and Allen, Joel A.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge MA, New York, Museum of Comparative Zoology, American Museum of Natural History : 1910, 1908

Seller ID: 1319

1910 ANATOMY OF AN ENDANGERED VENOMOUS MAMMAL SPECIES FOUND ONLY ON THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE PLATES--BY CURATORS OF MAMMALS AT HARVARD'S MCZ. 12 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, red leather label with gilt title to spine, [1], 54 pp, 9 lithographed plates (3 colored). Cover edges worn, spine ends frayed, spine label worn, binding tight, page edges browned, text and plates clean, unmarked, very good minus. GLOVER MORRILL ALLEN (1879 - 1942) was an American zoologist who lectured at Harvard and was Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He trav...
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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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Renal Function. Transactions of the First Conference, October 20-21, 1949, New York, N.Y.

By: Bradley, Stanley E., Pitts, Robert F., Oliver, Jean, Binkley, Francis, Taggart, John V., Berliner, Robert and Wesson, Laurence G., Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation : 1950

Seller ID: 927

HISTORIC FIRST CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN KIDNEY PHYSIOLOGY WITH PAPERS BY LEADERS IN THE FIELD. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, previous owner signature front flyleaf and on table of contents, color frontis of fish kidney tubule with accumulated phenol red, 172 pp, illustrations; abrasions to top cover edges and spine, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tight, text pages unmarked, very good minus. STANLEY E. BRADLEY (1913 - 1999) was Bard Professor Emeritus of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University from 1959 to 1970. A native of South C...
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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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Sea-Lilies and Feather-Stars

By: Clark, Austin H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution : 1921

Seller ID: 1057

1921 MONOGRAPH ON CRINOIDS ILLUSTRATED WITH 16 FINE PLATES, BY NOTED SMITHSONIAN MARINE BIOLOGIST AND EVOLUTIONIST. 9 1/2 inches tall monograph, printed paper covers, 43 pp, 16 plates, cover edges chipped, unmarked and very good. AUSTIN HOBART CLARK (1880 - 1954) was an American marine biologist. In 1901, Clark organized a scientific expedition to Isla Margarita in Venezuela. From 1903 to 1905, he conducted research in the Antilles. From 1906 to 1907, he led a scientific team aboard the 1882 USS Albatross. In 1908, he took a post at the National Museum of Natural History, which he held until h...
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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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Image for On the Osteology and Myology of Didelphys Virginiana with an Appendix on the Brain, in Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. II, Part I, No. III

On the Osteology and Myology of Didelphys Virginiana with an Appendix on the Brain, in Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. II, Part I, No. III

By: Coues, Elliott and Wyman, Jeffries

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Boston Society of Natural History : 1872

Seller ID: 1318

ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON THE ANATOMY OF THE OPOSSUM BY LEADING 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ZOOLOGISTS. 12 inches tall red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of C. William Beebe on front and rear paste-downs, original printed paper covers bound in, text paginated pp 41-154, 36 wood engravings in the text, very good. ELLIOTT COUES (1842 - 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author. He graduated at Columbian University, (now, George Washington University) Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863. He served as a medical cad...
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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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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate I No 2. The head of the skeleton seen from below with several fetuses

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 976

1762 LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVING FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - UNDERSIDE OF THE SKULL AND SEVERAL FETAL SKELETONS. Original copper plate engraving on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), old water stain on corners, not affecting image, very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engraving (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowledge of ...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate I. The skeleton seen from the front, after Vesalius

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 972

1762 LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVING FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - STANDING SKELETON AS ORIGINALLY DEPICTED BY VESALIUS. Original copper plate engraving on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), inconspicuous 1/8 inch waterstain on third lumbar vertebra, light old water stains to corners, not affecting image, very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engraving (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FO...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate II No 2. The base of the skull & other details after Havers

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 981

1762 LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVING FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - THE BASE OF THE SKULL, THE TEETH, AND THE PATELLA. Original copper plate engraving on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engraving (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowledge of the human body, should appear with distinction in ...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate III. The skeleton seen from behind, after Vesalius

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 974

1762 LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVING FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - CROUCHING SKELETON AS ORIGINALLY DEPICTED BY VESALIUS. Original copper plate engraving on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engraving (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowledge of the human body, should appear with distinction...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate IV No 2. Hands and feet dissected; TOGETHER WITH Plate VI. The muscles of feet and hands, after Albinus & Courcelles

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 988

1762 TWO LARGE ENGRAVINGS FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - MUSCULOSKELETAL ANATOMY OF THE HANDS AND FEET. Two original copper plate engravings on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), tiny hole lower corner of Plate IV No 2, not affecting image, both very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engravings (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provide...
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Image for Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate VIII. The arteries, after Drake TOGETHER WITH Plate IX. Trunks of the vena cava with their branches dissected in the body of an adult, &c, after Philosophic Transactions

Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate VIII. The arteries, after Drake TOGETHER WITH Plate IX. Trunks of the vena cava with their branches dissected in the body of an adult, &c, after Philosophic Transactions

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 984

1762 TWO LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVINGS FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - THE ARTERIAL TREE AND THE VENOUS TREE. Two original copper plate engravings on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), light water stain to corner of Plate VIII, not affecting image, both very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engravings (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that prov...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate X. Neurology, after Vieussens and Eustachi

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 977

1762 LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVING FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND INNERVATION OF THE ORGANS. Original copper plate engraving on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engraving (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowledge of the human body, should appear with distinction in a...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate XI & XII. Arteries of the face, after Haller TOGETHER WITH Plate XI & XII continued

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 987

1762 TWO LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVINGS FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - THE ARTERIES OF THE FACE. Two original copper plate engravings on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), light old water stain corner of each plate, not affecting image, both very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engravings (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowled...
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Category: Anatomy