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Mothers, Babies, and Disease in Later Life

By: Barker, D.J.P.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, BMJ Publishing Group: 1994

Seller ID: 877

1994 FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH BY DAVID BARKER TRACING HIS PATH TO GENERATING THE BARKER HYPOTHESIS--THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, viii, 180 pp, illustrated, fine (no dust jacket as issued). DAVID JAMES PURSLOVE BARKER (1938 - 2013) was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that fetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life. Barker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society an...
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Mimicry

By: Carpenter, G.D.H. and Ford, E.B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1933

Seller ID: 480

1933 FIRST EDITION SMALL BOOK ESTABLISHED THE FIELD OF ECOLOGICAL GENETICS, CONTRIBUTING TO THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 7 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, printed title to cover and spine, i-ix, 134 pp, edges of covers and spine sunned, endpapers darkened, binding tight, text unmarked, no dust jacket, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. G. D. HALE CARPENTER (1882 - 1953) was a British entomologist and physician. He worked first at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in Uganda, on tse-tse flies and sleeping sickness. His main work in zoology was on mimi...
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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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Silent Spring

By: Carson, Rachel

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.; Riverside Press, Cambridge: 1962

Seller ID: 139

EXCELLENT FIRST PRINTING OF SILENT SPRING, RACHEL CARSON'S EPIC BOOK THAT LAUNCHED ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT. 8 3/4 inches hardcover, x, 368 pages, original dark green binding, gilt title on cover and spine, stated first printing, illustrations throughout, unmarked, tight text block, in non price-clipped dust jacket with small edge tears and corner wear. Very good/very good. LISTED IN ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOKS: 100 best and most influential written in English since 1923, the beginning of TIME magazine: 'When Rachel Carson's Silent Springwas published in 1962, there was no Environmental Prot...
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The Edge of the Sea

By: Carson, Rachel

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1955

Seller ID: 366

FIRST PRINTING OF RACHEL CARSON'S BOOK DESCRIBING THE EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN ATLANTIC COAST. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, image of crab lower corner of cover, black & white illustrations throughout, edges of pages and covers darkened, text unmarked, jacket edges worn, in mylar cover. very good minus. RACHEL LOUISE CARSON (1907 – 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U...
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Traite physique et Historique de l'Aurore Boreale

By: de Mairan, Jean Jacques d'Ortous

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier: 1735

Seller ID: 388

EARLY TREATISE ON AUROR BOREALIS BY FRENCH GEOPHYSICIST, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS. 7 inches tall volume bound in original card covers with faded handwritten title to spine, pages uncut, title page lacking (provided in facsimile), text and 30 figures contained in 17 fine folding copper plate engravings complete (plates not bound in sequence). Light soiling to covers, bookplate of previous owner to front paste-down, ink inscription top of front paste-down. JEAN-JACQUES D'ORTOUS DE MAIRAN (1678 – 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in ...
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Image for On the Influence of Atmosphere and Locality; Change of Air and Climate; Seasons; Food; Clothing; Bathing; Exercise; Sleep; Corporeal, and Intellectual Pursuits, &c, &c. on Human Health; constituting Elements of Hygiene

On the Influence of Atmosphere and Locality; Change of Air and Climate; Seasons; Food; Clothing; Bathing; Exercise; Sleep; Corporeal, and Intellectual Pursuits, &c, &c. on Human Health; constituting Elements of Hygiene

By: Dunglison, Robley

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Blanchard: 1835

Seller ID: 282

FIRST EDITION EARLY AMERICAN MANUAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH BY ROBLEY DUNGLISON, PHYSICIAN TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, SIGNED IN 1835 BY DR WM A BAYNHAM WHO EARNED MD AT UVA AT AGE 21. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, expertly rebacked with black leather label, gilt title, ink signature of Wm. A. Baynham, 1835, to front free endpaper, pencil signatures of A. N. Baynham M.D., A.H. Garnett (?) to rear free endpaper, scattered marginal contemporary ink notes throughout. Overall very good. FROM Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, edited by S.X. Radbill, Trans. Am.Philos. Soc. 53:72-74,...
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The Acute Radiation Syndrome: A Study of Nine Cases and a Review of the Problem

By: Hempelmann, Louis H., Hermann, Lisco and Hoffman, Joseph G.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: American College of Physicians: Annals of Internal Medicine: 1952

Seller ID: 322

SCARCE EARLY MONOGRAPH ON ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME, INCLUDING 24 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF LESIONS, BY DIRECTOR OF HEALTH GROUP AT LOS ALAMOS. Original brown printed paper covers, signature of Wilbur K Smith to cover, fine; many B&W photographs, photomicrographs, and 24 color photographs at rear. FOREWORD: The cases of acute radiation syndrome reported in this monograph are among the few instances of such injuries that have occurred on the Atomic Energy Program since its inception. The study of the illness of these individuals and the efforts made to aid them add much to our knowledge of acute radi...
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A collection of offprints on the biology and classification of fishes

By: Jordan, David Starr

Price: $300.00

Publisher: 1896 - 1926

Seller ID: 1021

1896 - 1926 COLLECTION OF 49 OFFPRINTS ON FISHES OF THE WORLD BY DAVID STARR JORDAN, FOUNDER OF AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERISTY. 49 offprints 9 1/2 - 11 inches tall, in self or printed wrappers, some with notations on covers, several with age-toning and edgewear, text unmarked, very good. Covers bear the handstamp of Herman Adair Fehlmann or Ernest A. Cachner, both curators at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington. The collection is housed in an archival document box with metal reinforced corners. THE COLLECTION INCLUDES: 1) The history of ichthyol...
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Effect of oil pollution on marine and wild life

By: Lane, F.W., Bauer, A. D., Fisher, H. F. and Harding, P. N.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1925

Seller ID: 1018

1925 EARLY STUDY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF COASTAL OIL POLLUTION IN AMERICA: ALREADY A PROBLEM 100 YEARS AGO. 9 inches tall offprint from the Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1925, printed paper covers, handstamp dated Nov 31 1945, Library of R. Harry, Jr, to cover, stapled binding, pp 171-181, very good. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: puring the latter part of 1922 and the early part of 1923 the Bureau of Mines, then in the Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the American Petroleum Institute and the American Steamship Owners Association, conducted an investigation of...
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The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods and the Occident Ants of the American Plains

By: McCook, Henry C.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co.: 1882

Seller ID: 814

1882 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON HONEY ANTS AND OCCIDENT ANTS BY CLERGYMAN HENRY McCOOK, INSCRIBED BY HIS BROTHER, CIVIL WAR GENERAL, TO PRESIDENT CHESTER ARTHUR. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed verso 2nd front endpaper,His Excellency/ Chester A. Arthur/ Compliments of / A. G. McCook (Anson George McCook, author's brother), 188 pp, 13 tinted lithographic plates; spine ends frayed, residual from removal of bookplate front paste-down, binding tight, text and plates crist and clean, very good. From the PREFACE: The wide interest which ...
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Gundriss der Luftfahrtmedizin [Compendium of Aviation Medicine]

By: Ruff, Siegfried Strughold, Hubertus

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag: 1939

Seller ID: 630

Condition: very good

3 VOLUMES: 1939 RARE INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY FIRST EDITION OF THE HISTORY OF GERMAN AVIATION MEDICINE RECORDED BY LEADING PHYSICIANS IN THE LUFTWAFFE DURING WORLD WAR II, INCLUDING HUBERTUS STRUGHOLD, “FATHER OF AMERICAN SPACE MEDICINE” First edition, Siegfried Ruff & Hubertus Strughold, Gundriss der Luftfahrtmedizin, Leipzig, 1939; TOGETHER WITH Compendium of Aviation Medicine, typescript English translation, 1942, AND the second German edition, 1944. 1. Ruff, Siegfried and Strughold, Hubertus, foreword by Hippke, Erich. Grundriss des Luftfahrtmedizin. Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag, ...
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The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States

By: Van Hise CR;

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 113

SCARCE 1910 FIRST EDITION SEMINAL BOOK BY CHARLES VAN HISE: EARLY WARNINGS OF CARBON EMISSION AND GLOBAL WARMING. 8 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 413 pages, original blue cloth binding, gilt title on cover and spine, 16 photographic plates, 20 maps and charts. Spots on edge of front cover, spine title bright, pencil signature of previous owners front endpaper, dated 1910; text very good. PREFACE: 'This book contains the substance of twenty lectures given at the University of Wisconsin. The lectures have been revised, but the general form in which they were given is retained. Many papers have bee...
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Observations of Insects of Northamptonshire with Watercolor, Pen & Ink, and Pencil Illustrations

By: Wallis, Eustace Frederic and Wallis, Bruce Wakeman

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: 1887 - 1938

Seller ID: 794

1887 - 1938 UNIQUE FIELD NOTEBOOK WITH DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, DOZENS OF ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS OF MOTH CATERPILLARS AND DRAWINGS OF MINUTE INSECTS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover bound in 3/4 leather with pebbled cloth boards, gilt title Observations to cover, title Vol. IV to spine, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, index with alphebetized tabs, 402 numbered ruled pages. CONTENTS: field notebook with handwritted notes dated from June 30, 1887 to 1938, illustrated with original watercolors, pen & ink, and pencil drawings of insects. Front endpaper with autograph names Eustace Frederic Wallis & Bruc...
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