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The Early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces

By: Bassler, Ray S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1911

Seller ID: 942

1911 MONOGRAPH ON FOSSIL BRYOZOA--THE LAST MAJOR PHYLUM TO APPEAR IN THE FOSSIL RECORD--WITH HUNDREDS OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 1/2 inches hardcover, green cloth binding, printed paper title label to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, small handstamp to title page, xxi, 382 pp, 226 illustrations in text, folding map, 12 plates. Two 1/8 inch light stains top of cover, no external library marks, text and plates unmarked, very good. RAY S. BASSLER (1878 - 1961) earned his bachelor's degree in 1902 from the University of Cincinnati, and received master's degree in 1903 and Ph.D....
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Plasticity, Robustness, Development, and Evolution

By: Bateson, Patrick and Gluckman, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2011

Seller ID: 542

A LUCID EXPOSITION OF THE TENSIONS BETWEEN ROBUSTNESS IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLASTICITY REQUIRED FOR ADAPTATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT. 9 inches tall softcover, color printed laminated covers, 156 pp, illustrations, fine. PATRICK BATESON (1938 - 2017) was an English biologist and science writer. Bateson was a professor of ethology at the University of Cambridge and president of the Zoological Society of London. PETER GLUCKMAN (born 1949) is a New Zealand paediatrician. He is currently the inaugural Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. He is the Professor of Paediatric and...
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The Origin of Species Revisited. The Theories of Evolution and of Abrupt Appearance

By: Bird, W.R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1989

Seller ID: 490

MASSIVE 1,114-PAGE DOCUMENTATION CONTRASTING EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND ABRUPT APPEARANCE (CREATIONISM). Two volumes, 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's black cloth boards, gilt title to spines, xvi, 551 pp; xix, 563 pp; very good in very good dust jackets. FROM DUST JACKET: The Origin of Species Revisited is a comprehensive, thoroughly documented investigation of one of the great ongoing battles of this or any age: Darwin's theory of evolution versus the theory of creation and the theory of abrupt appearance. W. R. Bird, who argued the major case on the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court,...
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The Foundations of Zoology. A Course of Lectures Delivered at Columbia University on the Principls of Science as Illustrated by Zoology

By: Brooks, William Keith

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co.: 1899

Seller ID: 847

1899 FIRST EDITION COLLECTION OF LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY BY PROMINENT AMERICAN EMBRYOLOGIST--COPY OF AUSTRALIAN PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY. 9 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional handstamp to half title, signature of Launcelot Harrison top of title page, viii, 339 pp, light edgewear to covers, edges soiled, binding tight, text unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. WILLIAM KEITH BROOKS (1848-1908) entered Harvard and studied under Louis Agassiz, receiving his PhD in 1875. A year later he became a junior faculty member at ...
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Principles of Comparative Physiology

By: Carpenter, William B.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea: 1854

Seller ID: 741

1854 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF CARPENTER'S COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY THAT DEEPLY INFLUENCED CHARLES DARWIN'S INCORPORATION OF EMBRYOLOGY IN HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, full sheepskin binding, gilt title on black leather label to spine, xxxii, 752 pp, 309 wood engravings in text, 32 pp publisher's catalogue of medical and surgical books. Covers rubbed, top corner of publisher's catalogue creased, light pencil signature of previous owner to front free endpaper, binding tight and text unmarked, very good minus. WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER (1813 - 1885) was an English physici...
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Evolution of Life

By: Chapman, Henry C.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co.: 1873

Seller ID: 438

1873 REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATED OVERVIEW OF EVOLUTION PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN PHYSICIAN DURING DARWIN'S LIFETIME. 8 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, spine gilt, Fold-out map frontis showing diffusion of man across the globe, starting from paradise in the Indian Ocean, then to Africa, Asia, Australia, across Bering Straits to Americas. i-vii, 193 pp, 205 figures throughout text drawn from references listed on pp 183-186, double-page plate containing 24 profiles of primates and races of man. PREFACE. Since 1858, the year in which appeared Mr. Darwin's famous book, the literary as well as th...
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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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An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology; contained in his Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Sans Vertebres: being a literal translation of the descriptions of the Recent and Fossil Genera, accompanied by Twenty-Two Highly Finished Lithographic Plates: in which are given Instructive Views of the various Genera, and their Divisions, drawn from Nature, from characteristic and generally well known Species.

By: Crouch, Edmund A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green: 1827

Seller ID: 668

1827 TWENTY-TWO HIGHLY FINISHED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES WITH NEARLY 400 FIGURES OF SHELLS TO COMPLEMENT LAMARCK'S FAMOUS NATURAL HISTORY OF INVERTEBRATES (1801). 12 inches tall hardcover, paper-covered boards, illustrated title lithogaph to cover, brown cloth spine, institutional library bookplates to front paste-down, 4 pages of publisher's ads front and back, iv, errata slip, 47 pp, 22 lithogaphic plates. Covers soiled, spine worn, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, small hole in front endpaper, light foxing to first few pages, the text and plates crisp and unmarked. Desc...
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Science and Human Affairs from the Viewpoint of Biology

By: Curtis, Winterton C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co.: 1922

Seller ID: 569

1922 FIRST EDITION SUPPORT FOR THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION BY EXPERT WITNESS FOR DEFENSE AT SCOPES TRIAL IN 1925. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, vii, 330 pp, previous owner pencil signature front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, tight binding, no dust jacket, very good in custom archival mylar cover. WINTERTON CONWAY CURTIS (1875-1966) received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1901 and immediately joined the faculty of the University of Missouri, where he taught for the rest of his career. Curtis was an expert witness for the defense in 192...
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Atlantic Monthly Volume VI, 1860

By: Darwin, C. and Gray, A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1860

Seller ID: 909

1860 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY JULY-DECEMBER 1860--CONTAINS 3 REVIEWS OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES AND AN EDITORIAL PROMOTING LINCOLN'S CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT (BOTH MEN WERE BORN FEBRUARY 12, 1809. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with brown pebbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title, iv, 764 pp; wear to cover edges, hinges cracked but secure, binding tight, old water stains to bottom of first pages, pages crisp and unmarked with scattered light foxing, very good minus. Darwin first wrote to Asa Gray in 1855. A correspondence and intellectual comradeship quickly dev...
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Charles Darwin's The Life of Erasmus Darwin

By: Darwin, Charles and King-Hele, Desmond

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 518

CHARLES DARWIN'S BIOGRAPHY OF HIS GRANDFATHER ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED (ABRIDGED BY HIS DAUGHTER) IN 1879, NOW UNABRIDGED, EDITED BY ERASMUS DARWIN. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis of Erasmus Darwin, 172 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. ERASMUS DARWIN (1731 - 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet. His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life. D...
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Inheritance in Poultry

By: Davenport, Charles B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Carnegie Institution: 1906

Seller ID: 675

1906 ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF THE INHERITANCE OF CHARACTERISTICS IN CHICKENS BY THE LEADER OF AMERICAN EUGENICS. 10 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, 17 plates and a few text-figures. pp. v, 136, stiff wrappers, front cover chipped. repaired tear and archival tape joining cover to spine, a small paper label & an ink number to spine; upper corner of a few preliminary leaves curled; library handstamp to front endpaper indicating withdrawl from institutional library, binding tight, text and plates crisp and unmarked. CHARLES BENEDICT DAVENPORT (1866 â€“ 1944) was a prominent American bio...
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The Giant Panda. A Morphological Study of Evolutionary Mechanisms

By: Davis, D. Dwight

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago, Chicago Natural History Museum: 1964

Seller ID: 307

FIRST EDITION OF THE GIANT PANDA'S BIBLE-PROBABLY THE GREATEST WORK OF MODERN EVOLUTIONARY COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 12 inches tall folio monograph, original printed heavy paper covers, 159 superb illustrations, some colored. Cover edges lightly age-toned, top edge soiled, rippling to lower corner of last pages, overall very good. In custom archival mylar cover. Extraordinary anatomical illustrations, detailing the structure and function of the radial sesmoid bone to strip bamboo (pp 98, 138, 180). Cited by SJ Gould in The Panda's Thumb, 1980: Fortunately, the giant panda has its bible, a monograph...
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Darwin's Century. Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It. Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It

By: Eiseley, Loren

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday Anchor Books: 1958

Seller ID: 432

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT BEFORE AND AFTER DARWIN. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, beige cloth binding with gilt title and mollusc outlines to cover, gilt red label to spine, photographic portraits of Hooker, Darwin, Huxley, and Lyell on front and back endpapers, signature of Jack Dunn, 1958 to front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Near fine in very good dustjacket in protective mylar cover. LOREN EISELEY (1907 - 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books ...
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Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902

By: Goto, S., Pratt, H.S., Locy, W.A., Reighard, J., Kofoid, C.A., Davenport, C.B., Davenport, G.C., Bancroft, F.W., Eigenmann, C.H., Johnson, H.P., Linville, H.R., Ritter, W.E., Strong, R.M., Eastman, C.R., Neal, H.V., Jennings, H.S., Floyd, R., Yerkes, R.M

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 906

1903 SCARCE FESTSCHRIFT WITH 25 ORIGINAL PAPERS ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES IN HONOR OF EDWARD LAURENS MARK, DIRECTOR OF HARVARD'S ZOOLOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 12 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photogravure portrait of Mark with tissue guard, perforated library stamp to title page, xiii, 513 pp, 36 plates,some in color. Covers soiled, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. Large format festschrift in honor of Edward Laurens Mark (1847 ...
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The World of Fishes

By: Gregory, William K. and LaMonte, Francesca

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, American Museum of Natural History: 1947

Seller ID: 1052

1947 ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION OF FISHES AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BY ONE OF AMERICA'S PREMIER ICHTHYOLOGISTS. 10 1/2 volume, color printed paper covers, bookplate of physician previous owner to verso front cover, 96 pp, many black & white illustrations, unmarked, very good. WILLIAM KING GREGORY (1876 â€“ 1970) was an American zoologist, renowned as a primatologist, paleontologist, and functional and comparative morphologist. he was active in presenting his ideas to students and the general public through books and museum exhibits. His studies often had particul...
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Vom Urtier zum Menschen [From the Primordial Animal to man. An illustrated atlas for pedigree and history of the people].

By: Guenther, K.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt: 1909

Seller ID: 347

1909 GERMAN FOLIO VOLUMES DEDICATED TO CHARLES DARWIN ON HIS 100TH ANNIVERSARY: COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY IN 90 DRAMATIC LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES (17 WITH COLOR). Two volumes, folio, 13 3/4 inches tall color printed yellow cloth covered boards, soiled with edges waterstained; text and plates largely unaffected, but some pages loose. 73 black and white and 17 color lithographed plates of comparative embryology, anatomy, and anthropology (some with tissue guards with printed legends to figures in table; Plates 47 & 48 form a folding illustrated table). Plates are dramatic and printed on h...
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Divergent Evolution Through Cumulative Segregation

By: Gulick, John T.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution: 1892

Seller ID: 437

1891 FIRST DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS EVOLUTIONARY GENETIC DRIFT. 8 1/2 inches tall paper extracted from Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1891, pages 269-336 (68 pages) in archival mylar binder. Read December 15, 1887. from the Journal of Zoology of the Linnean Society, September 1888, Vol. XX, pp. 189-274. JOHN THOMAS GULICK (1832 - 1923) was an American missionary and naturalist from Hawaii. He performed some of the first modern evolutionary studies, starting with a collection of Hawaiian land snails. In 1872, Gulick was the first to propose the theory that ...
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Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

By: Huxley, Julian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper and Brothers: 1942

Seller ID: 435

PIVOTAL FORMULATION OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, beige cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 645 pages. Corners bumped, residue of library label bottom of spine, library handstamp verso of title page, library pocket back endpaper, text pages clean and unmarked, no jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. Good+. SIR JULIAN HUXLEY (1887- 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was...
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Plant-Animals. A Study in Symbiosis

By: Keeble, Frederick

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1910

Seller ID: 303

1910 CURIOUS LITTLE BOOK ON SYMBIOSIS BY BRITISH BOTANIST. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original decorative red cloth binding, color frontis with tissue guard, illustrated throughout. Spine faded, previous owner bookplate to front paste-down, inscription front free endpaper, small bookseller's sticker to bottom of rear paste-down, overall very good. From Chapter I: INTRODUCTORY: THE WORMS: CONYOLUTA ROSCOFFENSIS AND CONVOLUTA PARADOXA: THEIR HABITS AND HABITATS. Biologists who devote themselves to the investi- gation of the life histories and life processes of the lower animals are apt to enco...
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