Category: Cell biology

Worlds-Antiworlds. Antimatter in Cosmology

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Francisco, W. H. Freeman & Co. : 1966

Seller ID: 848

CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ON ANTIMATTER BY NOBEL LAUREATE HANNES ALFVEN - SIGNED WITH MARGINAL NOTES BY NOBEL LAUREATE MARSHALL NIRENBERG, TRANSLATOR OF THE GENETIC CODE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, signature of Marshall Nirenberg to front flyleaf, with handstamp of Section of Biochemical Genetics, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014; [vi], 103 pp, marginal notes in penciel on pages 12 and 12; very good in very good dust jacket with small edge tears. HANNES ALFVEN (1908 - 1995) was a Swedish electrical engin...
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A Treatise on Comparative Embryology

By: Balfour, Francis M.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. : 1880, 1885

Seller ID: 777

1880 LANDMARK 1200-PAGE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY BY BRILLIANT CONTEMPORARY OF DARWIN. Two hardcover volumes 9 1/4 inches tall, publisher's green cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt titles to spines, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, Vol. I, xi, errata slip, 492 pp, 275 wood engravings in text, bibliography xxii; Vol. II, xi, 792 pp, 429 wood engravings in text, bibliography xxiv, 2pp publisher's advertisements. Corners bumped, cover edges worn, page edges soiled, bindings tight, text unmarked, good+. FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR (1851 - 1882), a British biolog...
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The Harvey Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey Society of New York, Series 73

By: Bearn AG;Kandel ER;Brown MS;Snyder SH

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, San Francisco and London, Academic Press : 1979

Seller ID: 90

HISTORY OF THE HARVEY SOCIETY AND LANDMARK DISCOVERIES BY RECIPIENTS OF THE LASKER AWARD AND NOBEL PRIZE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 361 pages, red cloth binding, illustrated, corners bumped, university library bookplate to front paste-down, very good. THE HARVEY SOCIETY is a learned society based in New York City, Named after the British scientist William Harvey (1578-1657), its scope is 'the diffusion of knowledge of the medical sciences'. Since its founding in 1905, the society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leading biomedical researchers which it publishes in bo...
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Image for Selected Morphological Monographs. Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, and the Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger

Selected Morphological Monographs. Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, and the Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger

By: Brooks, W.K. and Wilson, E.B.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore : 1887

Seller ID: 768

1880s SCARCE COLLECTION OF 4 MONOGRAPHS BY WK BROOKS AND EB WILSON, LUMINARIES OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE EMBRYOLOGY--WITH 39 FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 11 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title and Johns Hopkins seal to cover, institutional library canceled bookplate to front paste-down, title page, followed by WILSON, E.B. The Development of Renilla, pp. 721-815, 16 plates (1883); and BROOKS, W.K. Lucifer: A Study in Morphology, pp. 55-137, 11 lithographic plates (1882); The Life-History of Hydromedusae, pp. 357-430, 8 plates (1886); and Report on the Stomatopoda, ...
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Image for Biological Bulletin, Volume I (Issue No. 1, October, 1899; No. 2, January, 1900; No. 3, May, 1900; No. 4, July, 1900; No. 5, August, 1900, No. 6, September, 1900); Volume II (Issue No. 1, October, 1900; No. 2, November, 1900; No. 3, December, 1900; No. 4, January, 1901; No. 5, February, 1901; No. 6, June, 1901; Also Abstracts of Papers presented at the meeetings of the American Morphological Society at Baltimore, December 27 and 28, 1900.

Biological Bulletin, Volume I (Issue No. 1, October, 1899; No. 2, January, 1900; No. 3, May, 1900; No. 4, July, 1900; No. 5, August, 1900, No. 6, September, 1900); Volume II (Issue No. 1, October, 1900; No. 2, November, 1900; No. 3, December, 1900; No. 4, January, 1901; No. 5, February, 1901; No. 6, June, 1901; Also Abstracts of Papers presented at the meeetings of the American Morphological Society at Baltimore, December 27 and 28, 1900.

By: Child, C. M., Conklin, Edwin Grant, Davenport, C.B., Morgan, T.H. and Wheeler, William Morton

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company : 1899-1901

Seller ID: 1378

1899 FIRST 2 VOLUMES OF THE BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN, BEGUN BY LEADERS OF THE FAMOUS MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT WOODS HOLE MASS, CONTAINS 4 PAPERS ON REGENERATION BY T H MORGAN. Ten inches tall hardcover, 2 volumes bound as one; black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, discard handstamp, embossed library stamp to second front flyleaf and title page, Vol I, i-v, 314 pp, Vol II, i-iii, errata slip, 365 pp, many line illustrations throughout, 6 plates. Binding tight, faint library numbers bottom of spine, handstamps to edges, text clean and un...
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A Text-Book of the Principles of Animal Histology

By: Dahlgren, Ulric and Kepner, William A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1908

Seller ID: 962

1908 CELLULAR ANATOMY ACROSS SPECIES ILLUSTRATED IN OVER 400 FINE PEN & INK DRAWINGS AND TEXT BY BIOLOGISTS FROM PRINCETON AND UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to spine, xiii, 515 pp, 415 text figures; small institutional library embossed stamp top of title page, library slip and pocket on back endpapers, text pages unmarked; good+. FROM THE PREFACE: This volume has been written to secure a work that covers the general field of histology and is not restricted in the main to human and mammalian forms. It is intended to be a work that teaches...
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Experimental Embryology

By: Jenkinson, J.W.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press : 1909

Seller ID: 918

1909 THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE TEXT ON EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY IN ENGLISH BY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS WHO DIED AT GALLIPOLI IN 1915. 9 inches tall hardcover, brown pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, viii, 341 pp, 167 illustrations. Corners worn, spine ends frayed, library call letters blacked out on spine, institutional library bookplate front paste-down, perforated library stamp to title page, library pocket to back paste-down, binding tight, pages unmarked, good+. FROM THE PREFACE: the Physiology of Development really dates from Roux's production of a half-embryo from a ha...
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Papers Written by Holders of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship 1894-1909: Embryology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

By: Kofoid, C.A., Gerould, J.H., Goto, S., Bancroft, F.W., Rand, H.W., Bigelow, M.A., Smallwood, W.M., Carpenter, F.W., Larrabee, A.P., Congdon, E.D. and Hargitt, G.T.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology : 1894-1909

Seller ID: 635

1894-1909 THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN CELL BIOLOGY: COLLECTION OF 14 ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS FROM HARVARD'S ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY INSCRIBED BY ITS DIRECTOR. Two hardcover volumes 10 inches tall, full black leather binding with raised bands, gilt title to covers and spines, gilt tooled leather interior borders with fine decorative paste-downs and free endpapers. Each volume contains 7 offprints retaining original wrappers, most published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, containing 71 lithographic plates, some folding and/or color. Volume I contains an engraved...
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The effect of cell division on the shape and size of hexagonal cells TOGETHER WITH 6 additional offprints

By: Lewis, Frederic Thomas

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Anatomical Record, National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Botany : 1926 - 1949

Seller ID: 1033

1926-1949 SEVEN OFFPRINTS ON CELL DIVISION AND CELL SHAPE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS BY LEGENDARY HARVARD MORPHOLOGIST FREDERIC T. LEWIS, INCLUDING A SIGNED COPY INSCRIBED TO NOTED MATHEMATICIAN. 1)The effect of cell division on the shape and size of hexagonal cell. Anat. Rec., 33: 331-355 (1936); 2) The correlation between cell division and the shapes and sizes of prismatic cells in the epidermis of Cucnmis. Anat. Rec, 38: 341-376 (1928); 3) A volumetric study of growth and cell division in two types of epitheium: ”the longitudinally prismatic epidermal cells of Tradescantia and the radially prism...
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The Maturation of the Egg of the Mouse

By: Long, J. A. and Mark, E. L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington : 1911

Seller ID: 889

1911 DETAILED ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION OF INSTRUMENTATION CREATED TO REVEAL EARLY MOUSE EMBRYOGENESISS BY TRAINEE AND MENTOR AT HARVARD'S LEGENDARY ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 10 inches tall offprint, printed paper covers, iv, 72 pp, 6 plates, very good in custom archival mylar cover. JOSEPH ABRAHAM LONG (1879 - 1953) joined the zoology faculty of the University of California as an Instructor in 1908, immediately after the completion of his doctor's degree at Harvard University, and although he became an Emeritus Professor in 1949 he retained his laboratory in the Department of Zoology and continue...
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Publications by Dr. Albert P. Mathews

By: Mathews, Albert P

Price: $150.00

Publisher: : 1893 - 1925

Seller ID: 694

BOUND COLLECTION OF 53 OFFPRINTS BY ALBERT MATHEWS, AMERICAN PIONEER PHYSICAL CHEMIST, FROM THE LIBRARY OF EMMETT CARMICHAEL, CHAIR OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT UAB 1927 - 1966. 10 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine with owner's name (Emmett B. Carmichael) bottom of spine, bookplate of Emmett B. Carmichael to front paste-down, typescript table of contents, 53 offprints with printed paper covers bound in, covers worn, contents unmarked, crisp, overall very good. Mathews is sole author of almost all papers, which span a wide range of disciplines including physiology, pharmacolo...
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The Harvey Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey Society of New York, Series 57

By: Monod J;Andrewes CH;Palade GE

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York and London, Academic Press : 1962

Seller ID: 82

KEY LECTURES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE AT THE DAWN OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BY WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 204 pages, red cloth binding, illustrated, corners bumped, university library bookplate to front paste-down, library pocket at rear, no external library markings, very good. THE HARVEY SOCIETY is a learned society based in New York City, Named after the British scientist William Harvey (1578-1657), its scope is 'the diffusion of knowledge of the medical sciences'. Since its founding in 1905, the society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leadin...
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Image for On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia, together with On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Direct Agency of the Spermatozoon, together with Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum int the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo

On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia, together with On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Direct Agency of the Spermatozoon, together with Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum int the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo

By: Newport, George

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Royal Society of London : 1851-1854

Seller ID: 590

FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THE PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION OF THE VERTEBRATE EGG, AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS. 12 inches tall hardcover, recent 1/2 maroon cloth binding, marbled paper covers, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, list of sources of papers followed by bound extracts from 3 issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Vol 141, pp 169-242, Plate XIV (1851), Vol. 143, pp 233-290 (1853), Vol. 144, pp 229-244 (1854). Binding fine, text pages unmarked, plate margins darkened, small college library embossed stamp to bottom of plate, very ...
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Human Embryology

By: Patten, Bradley M.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Blakiston Co. : 1946

Seller ID: 793

1946 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON HUMAN EMBRYOLOGY THAT WAS IN PRINT FOR 30 YEARS. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's black pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xv, 776, 446 figures (black & white and color), corners bumped, light wear to cover edges, slightly cocked, binding tight, handstamp of previous owner to front flyleaf, pages unmarked, very good minus. BRADLEY M. PATTEN (1889 - 1971) received his A. B. from Dartmouth in 1911 and M. A. and Ph.D. from Harvard in Physiology. He taught at Harvard University and in the Department of Anatomy at Western Reserve M...
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Principles of Embryology

By: Waddington, C.H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd : 1956

Seller ID: 788

ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON EMBRYOLOGY BY CONRAD WADDINGTON, THE ORIGINATOR OF THE TERM EPIGENETICS--BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, cover blindstamped, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, x, 510 pp, 186 figures, no dust jacket, very good. CONRAD HAL WADDINGTON (1905 - 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary developmental biology. He took up a Lecturership in Zoology and was a F...
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Category: Cell biology