Category: Aging

Growth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold & Co : 1924

Seller ID: 717

1924 BRILLIANT LITTLE MONOGRAPH ON THE BIOLOGY OF GROWTH ACROSS THE ANIMAL AND PLANT KINGDOMS, AND THE FACTORS THAT REGULATE IT. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue coth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photomicrographs of plant growth, viii, 120 pp, 33 text figures, 7 black & white plates, very good. GAVIN R. de BEER (1899 - 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, 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 ev...
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Euthanasy; or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

By: Mountford, William

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, W.M. Crosby and J.P. Nichols : 1849

Seller ID: 1072

END OF LIFE CONSIDERATIONS BY ENGLISH UNITARIAN PREACHER WHO MOVED TO BOSTON IN 1850, A YEAR AFTER PUBLISHING THIS BOOK IN 1849. 7 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, gilt ruled borders to covers, spine with raised bands, gilt leather title label, aeg, inscription to front flyleaf, Mrs. Washburn, with the respects of N. J. Allen and E. A. H. Allen, Bridgewater, Aug. 15th, 1849. xii, 466 pp. Front joint starting, faint water stain bottom corner of front endpapers and text pages, scattered light foxing, overall very good minus. WILLIAM MOUNTFORD (1816 1885) was an English Unitarian pre...
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The Biology of Death, Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in December 1920

By: Pearl R;

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Co. : 1922

Seller ID: 120

1922 FIRST EDITION BIOLOGY OF DEATH BY RAYMOND PEARL, JOHNS HOPKINS PIONEER IN THE STUDY OF AGING. 8 inches tall, 275 pages, original red cloth binding, many figures, graphs, tables, and photographic plates. Light wear to corners and ends of spine, bookplate of previous owner on front paste-down, signature on front free endpaper, very good. In custom archival mylar cover. EDITOR'S ANNOUNCEMENT. 'Biology, which not long ago was purely descriptive and speculative, lias begun to adopt the methods of the exact sciences, recognizing that for permanent progress not only experiments are required but ...
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Category: Aging

Growth

Euthanasy; or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

The Biology of Death, Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in December 1920