Category: Evolution

The Early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces

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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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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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 particular si...
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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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Evolution and Human Destiny

By: Kohler, Fred

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library : 1952

Seller ID: 482

1952 SIGNED FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH PROPOSING HUMAN EVOLUTION TOWARDS A SUPER ORGANISM. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, signed by author on title page, very good in good price-clipped dust jacket, darkened with edge tears, in mylar cover. FRED KOHLER (born 1920) is an inventor, author and lecturer. In 1952 Kohler published through the publishing house, Philosophical Library a book entitled Evolution and Human Destiny that he started writing in 1950. In this book Kohler argued that there is an integration process in evolution, homologous with other consolidation pro...
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What is Darwinism?

By: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton : 1929

Seller ID: 488

1929 SCARCE LITTLE BOOK ON DARWINISM BY NOBEL LAUREATE T. H. MORGAN, A KEY FIGURE IN THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding with red printed logo to cover, red printed title to spine, 78 pp, publisher's advertisement. Spine sunned, bottom end of spine frayed, tiny hole punched in corner of back endpaper, all pages crisp and unmarked, very good, no dust jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN (1866 - 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology o...
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Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity; Collected from the Appearances of Nature

By: Paley W;

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, John Morgan : 1802

Seller ID: 202

Binding: vi

1802 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF FAMOUS 19TH CENTURY BOOK ON NATURE'S 'INTELLIGENT DESIGN' PUBLISHED SAME YEAR AS LONDON EDITION. 8 inches tall hardcover, vi, 402 pages, original full leather binding, red leather label to spine. Covers, spine and rear hinge show residue from removal of tape, and entire cover and spine have been varnished. Front hinge has been strengthened with linen tape, binder's ticket (J.A.M. Heisington, Saint Paul, M.T. [Minnesota Territory]), bookplate of 'John Nicol's Library' to front paste-down, handstamp of Walter Kennedy to front endpaper, book ticket of 'Mrs. Wm. J. D...
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Animal and Vegetable Physiology considered with reference to natural theology

By: Roget, Peter Mark

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, William Pickering : 1834

Seller ID: 319

FINE BINDING - THE PHYSIOLOGIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE BRIDGEWATER TREATISES, UNDERWRITTEN TO REVEAL THE POWER OF GOD IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Two volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, full dark leather prize binding with gilt seal of Trinity College of Dublin to cover, spine with raised bands, gilt titles to spine on red leather, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, elaborate prize bookplates to front paste-downs, over 200 wood engravings in each volume. Cover edges rubbed, otherwise very good in custom archival mylar covers. PETER MARK ROGET FRS (1779 – 1869) was a British physician, natural theol...
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Lectures on the Kidney

By: Smith, Homer W.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas, University Extension Division, University of Kansas : 1943

Seller ID: 654

1943 FIVE LECTURES BY HOMER SMITH, DEAN OF AMERICAN RENAL PHYSIOLOGY, SPANS HIS VIEWS ON EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENTS IN MEASURING KIDNEY FUNCTION--SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, small ink inscribed previous owner's name to front paste-down, ink signature of author to front free endpaper, 134 pp, many black & white illustrations, including famous 2-page diagram of the evolution of the kidney (pages 8-9). Abrasions to covers, gilt lettering bright, binding tight, scattered light pencil underlining, good+. HOMER WILLIA...
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The Kidney. Structure and Function in Health and Disease

By: Smith, Homer W.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1951

Seller ID: 645

HOMER SMITH'S MAGNUM OPUS--1000+ PAGE MONOGRAPH ON PHYSIOLOGY OF THE KIDNEY AT MIDCENTURY BY DEAN OF AMERICAN RENAL PHYSIOLOGY SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/4 inches tall, 2 inches thick hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, printed title to cover, gilt title to spine, ink inscription on front endpaper, To Milt Grossman/ Homer W Smith/ May 21, 1951, color frontis photomicrographs of human glomeruli, xxii, 1049 pp, 153 figures in text, bibliography listing 2300 references. Light wear to edges of covers, superficial 1/2 inch tear top front hinge and 1/4 inch abrasion below it, page edges lightly s...
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Category: Evolution