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The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life Considered in their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations

By: Acton, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, Son & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: 715

1895 MONOGRAPH ON THE DANGERS OF MASTURBATION FROM CHILDHOOD TO OLD AGE--8TH EDTION OF A BOOK FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1857. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's black cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, small bookplate to front paste-down, xii, 263 pp, 2 wood engravings. Light wear to covers, front hinge wear, binding tight, pages clean, very good minus. First published in 1857, the book went through 8 editions (the present volume), with reprints into the 21st century. WILLIAM ACTON (1813â€“1875) was a British medical doctor and book writer. He was known for his books on m...
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The Transsexual Phenomenon. A scientific report on transsexualism and sex conversion in the human male and female

By: Benjamin, Harry

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, The Julian Press, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 744

1966 VERY SCARCE FIRST SCIENTIFIC VOLUME EVER PUBLISHED DEALING WITH CHANGE OF SEX THROUGH HORMONES AND SURGICAL TREATMENT. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding with color embossed symbols to cover, gilt title to spine, black & white photographs; unmarked, very good in very good jacket with chipped spine ends. CONTENTS: transvestism, transsexualism, homosexuality; the transvestite in older and newer aspects; the male transsexual; the etiology of transsexualism; nonsurgical management of transsexualism; conversion operation; fifty-one male transsexuals and the results of their opera...
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Curiosities of Erotic Physiology

By: Davenport J

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, The Panurge Press: 1930

Seller ID: 53

SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LIMITED EDITION SEXUAL PHYSIOLOGY BOOK, AN ANTIDOTE TO 'DRY TECHNICAL TREATISES'. 8 3/4 inches hardcover, 200 pages, original decorative orange cloth binding with bright gilt title and art deco to cover and back, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, bookplate of Wade T. Kline to front paste-down, #518 of edition limited to 600, 'all of which, except ten copies for the editors of the Panurge Press, are intended for private circualtion among adult collectors of literary curiosities'. No illustrations. Corners slightly bumped, spine darkened, light soiling to first and las...
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Sexual Mutilations. A Human Tragedy. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations, held August 9-11, 1996, in Lausanne, Switzerland

By: Denniston, George C. and Milos, Marilyn Fayre

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York and London, Plenum Press: 1997

Seller ID: 410

1997 PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SEXUAL MUTILATIONS SIGNED BY EDITOR AND INSCRIBED TO ASHLEY MONTAGU, WITH HIS SIGNATURE. 10 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated boards, no jacket as published, xiv, 237 pages, black and white illustrations. Signed on front paste-down by Ashley Montagu; Inscribed on front free endpaper by editor, Marilyn Fayre Milos: 28 May 1997/ To Ashley Montagu, With thanks for being the first person to publically honor my work in defense of infants & children. In return, we honor your life and work with the Ashley Montagu resolution to end the genita...
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The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination

By: Goldschmidt, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London and New York, Methuen & Co., Ltd., George H. Doran Co.: 1923

Seller ID: 565

1923 MONOGRAPH BY BRILLIANT GENETICIST AT THE TIME OF FORMULATION OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS OF GENETICS AND EVOLUTION. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 259 pp, over 100 figures (including fold-out plates). Covers lightly soiled, corners and spine ends bumped, endpapers darkened, page margins darkened, unmarked. Very good-. REVIEW BY JULIAN HUXLEY IN NATURE [Vol. 112, pp 927-930, 29 Dec. 1923] "The earlier rigid belief that sex-determination was entirely a matter of the chromosome-constitution must the...
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The Science of Life; or, Self-Preservation. A Medical Treatise on Nervous and Physical Debility, Spermatorrhoea, Impotence, and Sterility, with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Diseases of the Generative Organs

By: Hayes, Albert H.

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Boston, Peabody Medical Institute: 1881

Seller ID: 302

1881 BEAUTIFULLY BOUND SEXUAL PHYSIOLOGY BOOK FOR MEN, WARNING OF THE DANGERS OF MASTURBATION. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, highly decorative gilt cover and spine, all edges gilt, laid in folding facsimile of author's qualification certificates and tipped in copy of a fancy medallion honoring the author for his discovery of new remedial agencies, in the treatment of nervous affections. Facing title page: Particular Notice: The readers of this book are hereby cautioned that a spurious wort bearing the title Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, is advertised in the Dominion by irresponsible p...
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Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy

By: Hunter, John

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, G. Nicol and J. Johnson: 1792

Seller ID: 773

1792 COLLECTION OF ANATOMIC AND EXPERIMENTAL PAPERS BY EMINENT SCOTTISH SURGEON, JOHN HUNTER, WITH FINE COPPER PLATES BY JAN VAN RYMSDYK. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather with pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, [ii], title, dedication to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, ii (contents), 277 pp (including index), has all 19 plates after drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk and William Bell (including the two plates numbered as 2, the first is a key to the second); spine rubbed with peel marks at one corner but sound, new endpapers with private book plate on front pastedo...
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Heredity and Sex

By: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1913

Seller ID: 865

1913 FIRST EDITION OF T.H. MORGAN'S FIRST BOOK OF EXPERIMENTS ON DROSOPHILA, WHICH LED TO GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERIES IN GENETICS AND THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1933. 8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt emblem of Columbia University Press to cover, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, signature of H. F. Roberts, $1.58 to front flyleaf, ix, 282 pp, 121 figures, publisher's advertisements, light wear to cover edges, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: Two lines of research have developed with surprising rapidity in recent years. The study of the cell has furnished ...
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Studies in Spermatogenesis, Part II: a comparative study of the heterochromosomes in cerain species of coleoptera, hemiptera and lepidoptera, with especial reference to Sex Determination

By: Stevens, Nettie M.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution: 1906

Seller ID: 316

RARE FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK STUDY OF SEX DETERMINATION BY PIONEER FEMALE AMERICAN GENETICIST. Part II only: 10 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth boards, gilt title to cover, corners bumped, vg, ex-library, stamp of Scripps Institution for Biological Research title page. Pages 33-72, plates 8-15 containing 293 figures of chromosomes. Also included: 9 inches tall facsimile of Parts I and II in color printed paper covers, fine. NETTIE MARIA STEVENS (1861 - 1912) was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basi...
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