Category: Evolution

Medical Contributions to the Study of Evolution

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men

By: Conklin, Edwin Grant

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1915

Seller ID: 1233

EMERGING QUESTIONS ON GENETICS, EUGENICS, AND SOCIETY IN MONOGRAPH BY LEADING BIOLOGIST E. G. CONKLIN, INSCRIBED TO MRS. CONEY AND SOLD AT LEGENDARY NEW YORK BOOKSHOP OWNED BY WOMEN. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookseller's label, The Sunwise Turn, Inc., 2 E 31st St NY bottom of back paste down. Inscribed front free endpaper, My dear Mrw. Coney, You are a brave woman to have tackled such a book as this. I assure you that the first 429 pages are the worst. hoping that you will enjoy the rest of it, I am Cordially your friend, E. G. Conk...
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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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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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The Doctrine of Evolution. Its Basis and Its Scope

By: Crampton, Henry E.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Collumbia University Press : 1911

Seller ID: 440

1907 LECTURES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BY HENRY CRAMPTON, COPY OF FELLOW EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST VERNON KELLOGG. 8 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, gilt emblem of Columbia University Press to cover, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed in pencil title page, VL Kellogg August 1911/ from [unreadable] Ed of Am. Naturalist, in custom archival mylar cover. Near fine. HENRY EDWARD CRAMPTON (1875 - 1956) was an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, who specialized in the study of land snails. Crampton made twelve separate expeditions over the course of his career to ...
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Studies on the Variation, Distribution, and Evolution of the Genus Partula. Vol. 1, The Species Inhabiting Tahiti, 1916; Vol. 2, The Species of the Mariana Islands, Guam and Saipan, 1925; Vol. 3, The Species Inhabiting Moorea, 1932

By: Crampton, Henry Edward

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Carnegie Institution of Washington : 1916, 1925, 1932

Seller ID: 767

EARLY 19TH CENTURY LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF LAND SNAILS REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF GENETICS OVER ADAPTATION. Three 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, Vol 1 bound in red buckram, gilt title to spine, with library call letters at bottom of spine, canceled institutional library bookplate and handstamp to front paste-down and title page, 311 pp, 19 plates including folding tinted maps, 15 color plates containing over 700 images of Partula. Minimal wear to covers, binding tight, occasional marginal note, pages crisp and clean. Vol. 2 with black cloth spine and marbled paper c...
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Category: Evolution