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Medical Contributions to the Study of Evolution

By: Adami, John George

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Duckworth and Co.: 1918

Seller ID: 465

1918 MONOGRAPH BY EMINENT BRITISH PATHOLOGIST REVEALING THAT ADAPTATION IN DISEASE CAN ELUCIDATE THE STUDY OF EVOLUTION. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, i-xviii, 372 pp, 7 plates, 20 figures in text. Light sunning of spine, light browning to margins of pages, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good (no dust jacket), in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS. Part I. Adaptation and Disease: The contribution of medical research to the study of evolution (being the Croonian lectures delivered to the Royal College of Physicians, London, June 1917). In...
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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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Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz with a Sketch of his Life and Work

By: Agassiz, Alexander

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Boughton Mifflin Co.: 1913

Seller ID: 454

1913 BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS OF NOTED HARVARD MARINE BIOLOGIST, EDITED BY HIS SON. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine, 2 folding maps in separate pockets to front and back paste-down, i-vii, 454 pp, portrait frontis of Agassiz with tissue guard, 17 black & white photographic illustrations. corners bumped and worn, cover edges worn, text and maps unmarked, good+, in custom archival mylar cover. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1835 - 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in NeuchÃ¢...
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Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom

By: Arthur, Wallace

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Hill and Wang: 2006

Seller ID: 505

LEADER IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (EVO-DEVO) ASKS HOW COMPLEX LIFE EMERGED. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, 255 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. WALLACE ARTHUR (born 1952) is an evolutionary biologist and science writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was one of the founding editors of the journal Evolution & Development, serving as an editor for nearly 20 years.
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Image for Thought and Things. A Study of the Devleopment and Meaning of Thought or Genetic Logic. Vol. I Functional Logic, or Genetic Theory of Knowledge; Vol. II Experimental Logic, or Genetic Theory of Thought; Vol. III Interest and Art, Being Real Logic. I. Genetic Epistemology

Thought and Things. A Study of the Devleopment and Meaning of Thought or Genetic Logic. Vol. I Functional Logic, or Genetic Theory of Knowledge; Vol. II Experimental Logic, or Genetic Theory of Thought; Vol. III Interest and Art, Being Real Logic. I. Genetic Epistemology

By: Baldwin, James Mark

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London (Vol. I); New York (Vols II and III), Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim. (Vol. I); The Macmillan Co. (Vols II and III): 1906-1911

Seller ID: 911

1906-1911 FIRST EDITIONS: BALDWIN'S MAGNUM OPUS ON PHILOSOPHY OF THE MIND-BODY QUESTION. Three volumes, hardcover publisher's red cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1906, xiv, 273 pp; Vol. II, New York, Macmillan, 1908, xv, 436 pp; Vol. III, New York, Macmillan, 1911, xiv, 273 pp. Covers clean, spines bright, top edge soiled, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, bindings tight, text unmarked, very good. JAMES MARK BALDWIN (1861 - 1934) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervis...
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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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a Symposium on Continental Drift Oranized for the Royal Society

By: Blackett, P.M.S., Bullard, Edward and Runcorn, S.K.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, The Royal Society: 1965

Seller ID: 661

1965 MAGNIFICENT LARGE ILLUSTRATED PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM ON CONTINENTAL DRIFT CHAIRED BY NOBEL LAUREATE, COPY OF PROMINENT ICHTHYOLOGIST. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's maroon cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, illustrated bookplate of Neal R. Foster to front paste-down, vi, 323 pp, index a1-a6, many illustrations, including color fold-out maps. Binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good in very good dust jacket. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: During the 30 years from 1920 to 1950, continental drift appeared to a few geologists and geophysicists as the obvious explan...
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The Evolution of Man

By: Bolsche, Wilhelm

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Charles H. Kerr & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 478

1905 SCARCE TREATISE ON EVOLUTION BY GERMAN SOCIALIST, PUBLISHED BY RADICAL AMERICAN PUBLISHER. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's sky blue cloth binding, blindstamped cover series title Library of Science for the Workers and embossed title and author to cover and spine, floral design endpapers, age-toning to edges, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. WILHELM BOLSCHE (1861 - 1939) was a German author, editor and publicist. Bolsche studied from 1883 to 1885 in Bonn and moved 1885 to Berlin. Although most of his work covers natural history topics, Boel...
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Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist

By: Bonner, John Tyler

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 501

UNIQUE VIEW OF EVOLUTION BY PIONEER OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 9 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 209 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. JOHN TYLER BONNER (born 1920) is professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He is a pioneer in the use of cellular slime molds to understand evolution and development over a career of 40 years and is one of the world's leading experts on cellular slime moulds. The establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology (evo-devo) owes a great debt to the work of Bonner...
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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 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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Darwin

By: Bradford, Gamaliel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1926

Seller ID: 449

1926 BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD, DEAN OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHERS. 9 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookplate to front paste-down, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, laid in newspaper clippings of author Gamaliel Bradford, frontis portrait of Darwin, 6 plates, 315 pages. Surface wear to covers, spine darkened, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, in custom archival mylar cover, very good-. CONTENTS: The Observer; The Thinker; The Discoverer; The Loser; The Lover; The Destroyer; The Scientific Spirit. GAMALIEL BRADFORD (1863 - 19...
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The Power of Place: Charles Darwin

By: Browne, Janet

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 492

VOLUME 2 OF JANET BROWNE'S DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN EXPLORES THE YEARS FOLLOWING PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, salmon paper-covered boards, cloth spine with gilt title, 591 pp, very good in very good dust jacket. JANET BROWNE trained as a biologist, took her Ph.D. in history of science, and has served as associate editor of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. She is the author of several books and many scholarly papers. She is professor in the history of biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London an...
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The Serengeti Rules. The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters

By: Carroll, S.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press: 2016

Seller ID: 520

A PERSUASIVE PLEA FOR RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ECOLOGY BY A LEADER IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, lime green paper covered boards, charcoal paper covered spine, gilt title, 263 pp, illustrations, fine in fine dust jacket. REVIEWED in Nature 3 March 2016: Can biology become as predictive as the physical sciences? And could it guide us in feeding the planet and reversing ecosystem degradation, climate change and species extinction? These are the overarching questions that organize evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll's The Serengeti Ru!es, a compelling...
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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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Individuality in Organisms

By: Child, C.M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1915

Seller ID: 483

1915 PIONEERING MONOGRAPH ON EXPERIMENTAL REGENERATION AND EVOLUTION. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to cover, physician bookplate to front paste-down, bookseller's label bottom of front free endpaper, embossed stamp of Dr. George B. Wilbur, South Dennis, Massachusetts, half title, i-x, 213 pp, 102 figures in text. Spine faded, light foxing to endpapers, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. FROM PREFACE: The present book deals primarily with the problem of the nature of the unity and order in the organism, the constan...
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Paley's Natural Theology, Revised to Harmonize with Modern Science

By: Clark FLG;

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, The Christian Evidence Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: 1875

Seller ID: 229

PALEY'S NATURAL THEOLOGY - FAMOUS CREATIONIST BIOLOGY TEXT REVISED WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS BY PROMINENT BRITISH SURGEON. 7 inches tall harcover, xv, 565 pages, original blindstamped red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, many fine wood engravings throughout the text. Covers darkened, spine faded, spine ends frayed, unmarked and overall very good. WILLIAM PALEY (1743 - 1805) was an English clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. He is best known for his natural theology exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology or Evidenc...
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Dynamics in Metazoan Evolution: The Origin of the Coelom and Segments

By: Clark, Robert B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1964

Seller ID: 451

THE FIRST MAJOR ACCOUNT OF ANIMAL EVOLUTION BASED ON FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 313 pp, over 100 figures, very good in good jacket. Cited by Wainwright in Axis and Circumference (1988), The first major account of animal evolution based on functional morphology is that of Clark (1964). ROBERT BERNARD CLARK (1923 - 2013) was appointed to the Chair of Zoology at Newcastle University in 1966, a post he held until his retirement in October 1989. His long and distinguished...
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A Faithless World, reprinted by permission form The Contemporary Review; with additions and a preface

By: Cobbe, Frances Power

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Williams and Norgate: 1885

Seller ID: 1047

1885 CONDEMNATION OF LOSS OF RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE (INCLUDING DARWINISM) BY PROMINENT BRITISH ANTIVIVISECTIONIST, INSCRIBED TO COLLEAGUE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, Author's inscription front flyleaf, "For Benjamin Bryan, With her very kind regards from his Friend & Colleague Frances Power Cobbe, June, 1885", institutional library handstamps to title page and last page, 41 pp, list of recent works by the author. Wear to cover edges, small library call numbers lower corner of cover, front flyleaf detached, hinges cracked but...
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The Direction of Human Evolution

By: Conklin, Edwin Grant

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1921

Seller ID: 442

LECTURES BY E.G. CONKLIN, DELIVERED IN NORTH CAROLINA IN 1920, CONTRAST EVOLUTION, SCIENCE AND RELIGION 5 YEARS BEFORE SCOPES TRIAL. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis of busts of 3 prehistoric men, covers and spine darkened, light foxing/soiling to first and last pages, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good minus. EDWIN GRANT CONKLIN (1863 - 1952) was professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan (1891-94) and professor of zoology at Northwestern University (1894-96), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1908), and Princeton University (1...
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Category: Evolution