Category: History

A Century of Darwin

By: Barnett, S.A., De Beer, G., LeGros Clark, W.E., Crowson, R.A., Dobzhansky, Theodosius, Hammond, John, Heslop-Harrison, J., MacRae, D.G., Michie, Donald, Raphael, D. Daiches, Romer, A.S., Maynard Smith, J., Thoday, J.M., Waddington, C.H. and Yonge, C.M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1958

Seller ID: 517

1958 LUMINARIES OF MID-CENTURY BIOLOGY ASSESS THE IMPACT OF DARWIN'S THEORY AFTER 100 YEARS. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of Thomas Munro, Cleveland Museum of Art, to front paste-down, 376 pp, illustrations, a few pencil annotations, otherwise very good in very good- dust jacket with edgewear, SAMUEL ANTHONY BARNETT (1915-2003) was Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University of Glasgow. PROVENANCE: THOMAS MUNRO (1897 - 1974) was an American philosopher of art and professor of art history at Western Reserve University. He served as Curator of Educa...
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Eugenics. Galton and After

By: Blacker, C.P.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. : 1952

Seller ID: 472

1952 FIRST EDITION POSTWAR HISTORY OF EUGENICS BY GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE EUGENICS SOCIETY. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 13.5x22 cm blue cloth boards, fine in fine dust jacket protected by mylar cover. CARLOS PATON BLACKER (1895 - 1975) was an eminent war hero, psychiatrist and eugenicist who worked with R.A. Fisher and Lionel Penrose. Blacker was educated at Eton and Oxford where he attained distinction in biology under the tutelage of Julian Huxley. From 1931 to 1952, Blacker was secretary of the Eugenics Society and he gave it a new focus on bi...
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The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society

By: Bowler, Peter J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press : 1989

Seller ID: 528

BOWLER'S MASTERFUL ACCOUNT OF THE IMPACT OF THE REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL'S PAPER ON THE BIRTH OF MOLECULAR GENETICS. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 207 pp, handstamp of Leigh M. Van Valen to front paste-down, otherwise unmarked. Fine in fine dust jacket. PETER J. BOWLER (born 8 October 1944) is a historian of biology who has written extensively on the history of evolutionary thought, the history of the environmental sciences, and on the history of genetics. CITED BY G. L. MILLER (1992): A good general and nontechnical survey of the important changes that ha...
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The Non-Darwinian Evolution

By: Bowler, Peter J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press : 1992

Seller ID: 539

WHEN IS A DARWINIAN NOT A DARWINIAN?--WHEN HE/SHE DOES NOT EMBRACE NATURAL SELECTION. A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE DARWIN INDUSTRY. 9 inches tall softcover, color printed laminated covers, 238 pp, some illustrations, fine. Concise and clearly written, The Non-Darwinian Revolution sets forth a convincing argument for a reappraisal of Darwin's importance not only for the history of science but for the history of ideas as well. Bowler finds no fault with Darwin's theory, only with the mistaken notion of its revolutionary effect on nineteenth-century thought. Examining the work of such figures as Owen,...
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The Mallinckrodt Classics of Radiology, Volumes I and II

By: Curie, Marie, Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad and Klickstein, Herbert S.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: St. Louis, Mallinkrodt Chemical Works : 1966

Seller ID: 278

HISTORY OF RADIOLOGY: SCARCE BIBLIOGRAPHIES BY HISTORIAN HERBERT KLICKSTEIN WITH FACSIMILIES OF KEY PUBLICATIONS BY ROENTGEN AND CURIE. Two glossy paper-covered slipcases: Volume 1 10 1/4 inches tall containing Herbert S. Klickstein: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen. On a New Kind of Rays. A bibliographical study, printed paper bound volume, 119 pages, illustrated; and folder containing facsimile reprints of Röntgen's three papers on X-rays in German (1895-97), and facsimile reprints of their original English translations (1896-99); Volume 2 9 3/4 inches tall containing Herbert S. Klickstein: Marie Sklo...
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Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859

By: Darwin, Charles and Burkhardt, Frederick

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1996

Seller ID: 525

DARWIN'S CORRESPONDENCE IN THE YEARS PRECEDING PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding with embossed signatuer of Charles Darwin to cover, gilt title to spine, Darwin family tree printed on front endpapers, map showing voyage of the Beagle on rear endpapers, frontis portrait of Darwin, 249 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. FREDERICK BURKHARDT (1913 - 2007) was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication ...
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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

By: Darwin, Charles, Burkhardt, Frederick, Evans, Samantha and Pearn, Alison M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 2008

Seller ID: 516

DARWIN'S CORRESPONDENCE IN THE 10 YEARS FOLLOWING PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 9 inches tall, brown cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Darwin family tree to front endpapers, 308 pp, very good, no dust jacket. FREDERICK BURKHARDT (1913 - 2007) was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
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Streams of Culture

By: de Beer, Gavin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, J.B. Lippincott Co. : 1969

Seller ID: 498

WIDE-RANGING ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY BY EMINENT 20TH CENTURY EVOLUTIONIST. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt red label to spine, 237 pp, very good in good+ price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear. GAVIN DE BEER (1899 - 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book Embryos and Ancestors. He was 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 evolution.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

By: Dennett, Daniel C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1995

Seller ID: 468

DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA--DANIEL DENNETT'S SURPASSINGLY BRILLIANT BOOK (PER RICHARD DAWKINS). 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black paper-covered boards, gilt title to spine, fine in fine dust jacket in protective mylar cover. DANIEL C. DENNETT (born 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett describes himself as an autodidactâ€”or, more properly, the beneficiary of hundreds of hours of ...
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The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

By: Ghiselin, M.T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press : 1969

Seller ID: 519

AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF DARWIN'S SCIENTIFIC METHOD, INCLUDING ALL OF HIS STUDIES THROUGH A LONG CAREER. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 287 pp, ex-library with number label to bottom of dust jacket, handstamp and card pocket on front endpaper, age-toning to margins of pages, edgewear, chips and soiling to dust jacket, good in good dustjacket. FROM THE JACKET FLAP: The author seeks to elucidate the reasons for Darwin's success through an analysis of his methodology. Unlike former works, which deemphasize the nonevolutionary aspects of his contribution, this...
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Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity; Darwin's Early and Unpublished Notebooks, transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett

By: Gruber, Howard E., Darwin, Charles and Barrett, Paul H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Wildwood House : 1974

Seller ID: 530

DARWIN'S CREATIVITY ANALYZED: HIS COMMENTS ON COMPARATIVE HUMAN AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND ON HIS CONTEMPORARY THINKERS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 495 pp, illustrated, very good in very good dust jacket. HOWARD E. GRUBER (1922 - 2005), an American psychologist, was a pioneer of the psychological study of creativity. A native of Brooklyn, Gruber graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in psychology, earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and went on to a distinguished academic career. He worked with Jean Piaget in Geneva and later co-founded th...
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Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

By: Herschel, John Frederick William

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and John Taylor : 1831

Seller ID: 1235

1831 EARLY PRINTING OF HERSCHEL'S LANDMARK GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION THAT STRONGLY INFLUENCED DARWIN IN CRAFTING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 11x18 cm red cloth boards, paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Jas. R. Holcome, Jes. Coll. Oxford, laid-in list of Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library , Vol 1, and Advertisement future volumes; 12 pp publisher's advertisements, vii, 372 pp, [1], 12 pp publisher's advertisements dated January 1831. Cover edges faded, edges worn, corners bumped, spine faded. unopened, text clean and unmarked, very good minus. SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1792 - 18...
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Evolution in Action

By: Huxley, Julian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1953

Seller ID: 487

JULIAN HUXLEY'S LECTURES ON EVOLUTION DELIVERED AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 1951. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, ix, 160 pp, 9 illustrations, no dust jacket. Spine sunned, corners bumped, unmarked, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. SIR JULIAN HUXLEY (1887 - 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935-1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the...
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The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and inheritance

By: Mayr, Ernst

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press : 1982

Seller ID: 493

LANDMARK OVERVIEW OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY BY ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 974 pp, very good in very good dust jacket with small edge tears. Garrison-Morton 258.12. Cited by GL Miller (1992): A massive work of more than nine hundred pages by an influential evolutionary biologist. Mayr presents a provocative and opinionated examination of the historical development of ideas that are influential in biology today. This volume deals primarily with the origins and aspects of evolutionary theory, while a...
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The Development of Darwin's Theory. Natural History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859

By: Ospovat, Dov

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Cambridge University Press : 1995

Seller ID: 540

A MASTERPIECE OF DARWINIAN SCHOLARSHIP, OSPOVAT CHARTS DARWIN'S THOUGHTS AND FORMULATIONS IN THE YEARS LEADING TO PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 9 inches tall paperback, color printed laminated covers, 301 pp, fine. DOV OSPOVAT (1947-1980) was associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His book on the development of Charles Darwin's theory sets standards for scholarship in Darwin studies and will surely be the point of departure of future researches on the genesis of the Origin. What his book has done-and admirably so-is to put into sharp relief the contrast ...
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The Harveian Oration delivered at the Royal College of physicians, October 18th, 1886

By: Pavy, Frederick W.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, J. & A. Churchill : 1886

Seller ID: 629

1886 HARVEIAN LECTURE TO ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS BY FREDERICK PAVY, PIONEER INVESTIGATOR OF DIABETES. 7 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue pebbled cloth binding, gilt title and ruling to cover, institutional bookplate to front paste-down, ink inscription top of title page, With Dr. Pavy's compts. institutional library handstamp to verso of title page, 51 pp, very good in custom archival mylar cover. THE HARVEIAN ORATION is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made...
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Transactions of the First Pan-American Medical Congress, held in the City of Washington, D.C., U.S.A., September 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1893. In Two Parts

By: Reed CAL

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office : 1895

Seller ID: 54

TWO MASSIVE VOLUMES--ILLUSTRATED PROCEEDINGS OF HISTORIC PAN-AMERICAN MEDICAL CONGRESS AT DAWN OF THE RISE IN AMERICAN MEDICINE. Two 9 1/2 inches tall thick hardcover volumes, vol. 1, vi, 1-1145; vol. 2, 1146-2250 pages, original dark navy cloth covers, faded gilt titles to spines. Light surface wear, small spot to lower corner of both covers, corners bumped, text unmarked; 1 loose signature, otherwise very good. CONTENTS: Invitation issued by the President of the United States, Department of State, Washington, October, 1892: 'Sir, The American Medical Association, which is the great national ...
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The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species

By: Reznick, David N. and Darwin, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press : 2010

Seller ID: 529

A NEW GUIDE TO THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, INTERPRETING ITS 19TH CENTURY CONTEXT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY READER. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 432 pp, illustrated, fine in fine dust jacket. DAVID N. REZNICK (born 1952) is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside. Hi is a Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Prize.
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A History of Science, Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

By: Sarton, George

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press : 1952

Seller ID: 964

1952 FIRST EDITION HISTORY OF SCIENCE BY THE FOUNDER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE--SIGNED ANNOTATED COPY OF CARLTON COON, CONTROVERSIAL RACIALIST HARVARD ANTHROPOLOGIST. 10 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature of C S Coon and handstamp REJECTED TOZZER LIBRARY to front flylear, xvii, 646 pp, illustrations, pencil underlinings and marginal annotations; corners bumped, abrasions bottom of spine, very good. GEORGE SARTON (1884 - 1956) was a Belgian-born American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history...
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The Development of Modern Medicine, An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved

By: Shryock, Richard Harrison

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1947

Seller ID: 719

LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN ITS SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, blindstamped with staff of Asclepius to front cover, gilt title to spine, top edge stained red, xv, 457 pp, xv, black & white illustrations, corners bumped, spine faded, previous owner signature front endpaper, very good minus, no dust jacket. GARRISON-MORTON No. 6433. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1936, revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese. SHRYOCK, RICHARD HARRISON (1893 - 1972). Shryock was one of the...
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Category: History