Category: Marine biology

Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay: Radiates

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields : 1865

Seller ID: 200

1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to 'Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz'. 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text. Spine ends frayed, spine dulled, 1/4 inch chip to bottom corner of free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and overall very good. The 1871 edition is cited by Darwin in his reading notebook. Alexander's father, Louis, had become a passionate ant...
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Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature. Ichthyologie

By: Bonnaterre, Abbe Pierre Joseph

Price: $1,800.00

Publisher: Paris, Panckoucke : 1788

Seller ID: 1312

1788 ATLAS OF FISH WITH 102 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS BY FRENCH PRIEST-NATURALIST WHO DESCRIBED 25 NEW SPECIES OF FISH AND THE FIRST TO STUDY THE WILD CHILD OF AVEYRON. Two hardcover volumes 12 3/4 inches tall, recent green cloth covered boards with leather spines and gilt titles, new endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-down, pages uncut, Vol. I, lvi, 215 pp; Vol. II, 102 copper plate engravings numbered A, B, and 1 - 100. Bindings fine, Vol. I with light foxing to first pages, wormholes top corner of 5 leaves (pages 1-10) not affecting text; Vol. II with light browni...
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Image for Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. I. Respiratory, electric and reconstitutional gradients (authored with L. H. Hyman) TOGETHER WITH Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. II. Differential susceptibility, penetration and oxidation-reduction in development and reconstitution TOGETHER WITH Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. III. Control and modification of polarity and symmetry in reconstitution by differential exposure

Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. I. Respiratory, electric and reconstitutional gradients (authored with L. H. Hyman) TOGETHER WITH Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. II. Differential susceptibility, penetration and oxidation-reduction in development and reconstitution TOGETHER WITH Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. III. Control and modification of polarity and symmetry in reconstitution by differential exposure

By: Child, C. M. and Hyman, L. H.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Vienna, Bratislava, Baltimore, Biologia Generalis, Emil Haim & Co. : 1926

Seller ID: 1012

1926 SCARCE EARLY ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED RESEARCH PAPERS ON INVERTEBRATE REGENERATION BY BRILLIANT CHICAGO ZOOLOGIST C.M. CHILD AND STUDENT L.H. HYMAN. Three offprints 9 1/2 inches tall, printed paper covers, stapled, cover edges chipped, pages age-toned, archival tape repair to spine of No. 1, otherwise all very good. 1) Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. I. Respiratory, electric and reconstitutional gradients, pp 355 - 374, 3 figures; 2) Studies on the axial gradients in Corymorpha palma. II. Differential susceptibility, penetration and oxidation-reduction in development and r...
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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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Di alcuni spongiari del Golfo di Napoli [On some sponges in the Gulf of Naples]

By: Crivelli, G. Balsamo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Milan, Societa Itliana di Scienze Naturali : 1863

Seller ID: 1014

1863 DESCRIPTION OF THE SPONGES OF THE BAY OF NAPLES BY PROFESSOR FROM PAVIA, WITH FINE FOLDING LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, COPY OF GERMAN MARINE BIOLOGIST. 8 1/2 inches tall offprint bound in beige card cover, sewn cloth spine, title to cover, handstamp of Dr. R. Hartmeyer top of cover, ink signature of previous owner top of title page, 19 pages, 2 folding sepia lithographic plates, very good. TEXT IN ITALIAN. GIUSEPPE GABRIEL BALSAMO-CRIVELLI (1800 - 1874) was an Italian naturalist who became professor of minerology, zoology, and comparative anatomy at the University of Pavia. He was interested in ...
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Image for Faune du Calcaire Carbonifere de la Belgique. Premiere Partie. Poissons et Genre Nautile [Carboniferous Limestone Fauna of Belgium. Part One. Fish and Nautilus Genera]

Faune du Calcaire Carbonifere de la Belgique. Premiere Partie. Poissons et Genre Nautile [Carboniferous Limestone Fauna of Belgium. Part One. Fish and Nautilus Genera]

By: de Koninck, L.-G.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Brussels, F. Hayez, l'Academie Royale de Belgique : 1878

Seller ID: 896

1878 FINE LARGE ATLAS OF LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF BELGIAN FOSSIL FISH AND AMMONITES BY CHEMIST WHO BECAME AMATEUR PALEONTOLOGIST RECOGNIZED BY ACADEMIC SOCIETIES. Two folio volumes, 15 3/4 inches tall, printed card binding, printed paper spine, Vol. I, Text, 152 pp; Vol. II, Plates, 31 lithograph plates with facing descriptive text; covers soiled, wear to spine, small handstamp to covers, 1/2 inch number label to front cover of text volume, faint dampstain to corner of last plate, plates otherwise clean and bright, overall very good minus. LAURENT-GUILLAUME DE KONINCK (1809 - 1887) was a Belgian...
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Havet Dets Opdagelse og Erobring [The Sea Its discovery and conquest]

By: Feddersen A;

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Det Nordiske Forlag : 1904

Seller ID: 153

1904 DANISH BOOK OF THE SEA WITH ART DECO COVER AND MANY DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 394 pages, cloth backed color art deco cover and spine, marbled edges, over 200 black and white figures in the text and 4 superb chomolithographs, 1 highlighted with silver, all with tissue guards, 3 with captioned tracings. TEXT IN DANISH. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, small dampstain to bottom edge of rear cover, small handstamp of institutional library to front free endpaper, no other library markings. Overall, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. ARTHUR FREDERICK FEDDERSEN (...
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Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters

By: Fisher, Walter Kenrick

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1911, 1928, 1930

Seller ID: 816

TWO MASSIVE VOLUMES CONTAIN 296 SUPERB PLATES OF PACIFIC STARFISH BY WALTER FISHER, DIRECTOR OF THE HOPKINS MARINE STATION ON THE MONTEREY PENINSULA. Two hardbound volumes 12 inches tall, 2 inches thick, red cloth binding, gilt titles to spines, Vol. I, Part I. Phanerozonia and Sinulosa, vi, 406 pp, 122 black & white plates, index pp 407 - 419; Vol. II (2 volumes combined with original paper covers bound in). Part 2. Forcipulata (Part), iv, 1-161 pp, 81 plates pp 162-242 descriptions, pp 243-245 index; Part 3. Forcipulata (Concluded), iv, 1-255 pp, 93 plates pp 256-348 descriptions, 349-355 in...
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Image for The anatomy of the Madreporaria, Parts I (Studies from the Biological Laboratories of the Owens College, Vol. I, 1886), II, and III (Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Sciences, Vol. xxvii, 1886)

The anatomy of the Madreporaria, Parts I (Studies from the Biological Laboratories of the Owens College, Vol. I, 1886), II, and III (Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Sciences, Vol. xxvii, 1886)

By: Fowler, G. Herbert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Manchester, : 1886

Seller ID: 1029

1886 MONOGRAPHS ON ANATOMY OF REEF-FORMING CORALS, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. Collection of 3 offprints bound together, 9 inches tall, blue paper wrappers, autograph pen & ink title to cover, I. pp 243-261, 3 plates; II. pp 1-16, 1 plate; III. pp 17-34, 2 plates. Previous owner name inscribed top of cover, text and lithographed plates very good. GEORGE HERBERT FOWLER (1861 - 1940) was assistant to E. Ray Lankester at University College, London. In 1890 he was interim director of the recently founded Plymouth laboratory of the Marine Biological Association. In 1891 he returned t...
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Coral Reefs and Atolls. Being a Course of Lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute at Boston February 1930

By: Gardiner, J. Stanley

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd. : 1931

Seller ID: 330

ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON CORAL REEFS BY NOTED BRITISH CORAL BIOLOGIST. 9 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, corners rubbed, small institutional hand stamp to front endpaper, many text illustrations, photographic plates, folding maps. Very good. JOHN STANLEY GARDINER (1872–1946) was a British zoologist. Stanley attended Marlborough College from January 1885 until July 1890. While there his critical thinking was shaped by the science masters and where he was a great supporter of the school's Natural History Society. Stanley won an exhibition to Gonville and...
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The Sea-Side Book; being an introduction to the natural history of the British coasts, with a chapter on fish and fish diet by Mr. Yarrell

By: Harvey, W. H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst : 1857

Seller ID: 922

1857 LITTLE BOOK ON BRITISH COASTAL NATURAL HISTORY CHOICELY ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 80 WOOD ENGRAVINGS--COPY OF AMERICAN HOLLYWOOD PHOTOGRAPHER. 7 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature of Geo. Hurrell to front flyleaf, [xi], 224 pp, 80 wood engravings. Scattered foxing, very good. WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY (1811 - 1866) was an authority on algae and bryophytes (mosses), whose discovery in 1831 of the moss Hookeria laetevirens at Killarney, new to Ireland, led to a lifelong friendship with Sir William Jackson Hooker, who was then Regius Professor of Botany at Gla...
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Sea-Side Walks of a Naturalist with His Children. Illustrated with eight coloured plates and numerous wood engravings

By: Houghton, W.

Price: $200.00

Seller ID: 1385

1870 CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH FINE COLOR PLATES, COPY OF AMERICAN STEEL AND SHIPPING MAGNATE.7 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 blue calf and cloth binding, spine with raised bands, gilt title and compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, decorative armorial bookplate of James Augustine Farrell to front paste-down, i-vi, 154 pp, 8 chromolithographic plates, wood engravings throughout text. Wear to spine edges and corners, text and plates unmarked, clean and bright, very good in custom archival mylar cover.REVEREND WILLIAM HOUGHTON (1828–1895) was an English naturalist and clergyman, noted for bein...
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Image for Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc

Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc

By: Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von

Price: $300.00

Publisher: [Paris], : 1806

Seller ID: 1226

FIRST EDITION--HUMBOLDT'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF "HORSE FISHING" ELECTRIC EELS AT RASTRO DE ABAXO, BOUND WITH ENGRAVING DEMONSTRATING THE ELECTRIC ORGAN. 25x33 cm folio extract in gray paper wraps, ink inscribed title and small handstamp "Library or R. Harry, Jr." to cover. Memoire sur une Nouvelle Espece de Gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine by M. de Humboldt pp. (46-) 48, BOUND WITH Observations sur L'Anguille Electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, pp. (49-) 92 by M. de Humboldt, hand-colored engraved plate. Wrappers soiled; a corner creased; 2 marginal tears to wra...
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Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan

By: Kira, Tetsuaki

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Osaka, Hoikusha : 1955

Seller ID: 943

1955 SUMPTUOUS SMALL ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE SHELLS OF JAPAN. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title (in Japanese) to cover and spine, color photograph of shells to cover, pictorial endpapers, [x], 204 pp, hundreds of color photographs of shells on 68 pages, with names in Latin and Japanese, text in Japanese, separate English and Japanese indexes. Near fine in very good cardboard slipcase with title in Japanese and color photographs front and back.
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Biology of the Antarctic Seas Volumes I, II, III (complete)

By: Lee, Milton O., Llano, George A. and Schmitt, Waldo L.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington DC, American Geophysical Union : 1964 - 1967

Seller ID: 908

1960S SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF BIOLOGY OF THE ANTARCTIC SEAS, PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION IN THE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH SERIES. Three volumes 10 3/4 inches tall, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Vol. I, ix, 109 [76] pp; Vol. II, xi, 278 pp; Vol. III, vii, 261 pp; many figures, tables [some folding], maps and plates (some color); light wear to covers, corners bumped, institutional handstamp to bottom edge, bindings tight, pocket and sign-out sheet front endpapers, no other library marks, texts clean and bright, very good. The Antarctic Research Series serves workin...
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The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory

By: Lillie, Frank R.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press : 1944

Seller ID: 1376

ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, WOODS HOLE, BY EMINENT EMBRYOLOGIST. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, pictorial map of Cape Cod to endpapers, i-ix, 284 pp, illustrations. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. FRANK RATTRAY LILLIE (1870 - 1947) was an American zoologist and an early pioneer of the study of embryology. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lillie moved to the United States in 1891 to study for a summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Lillie formed a lifelong association with the l...
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Japanische Medusen IN Beitrage z. Naturgeschichte Ostasiens, [Japanese Medusae IN Contributions to Natural History of East Asia]

By: Maas, Otto

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Munich, K. B. Akademie der Wissenschaften : 1909

Seller ID: 1231

MONOGRAPH BY GERMAN MARINE BIOLOGIST ILLUSTRATED WITH COLORED FOLDING PLATES. 21.5x27 cm offprint, printed paper covers stapled. 3 folding plates (2 colored; 2 upper corners missing; closely trimmed, but not affecting the images). 4to, pp. 52, offprint (2 handstamps to title; upper corner to title missing). OTTO MAAS (1869-1916) studied zoology and medicine in Munich, Strasbourg and Berlin, graduated 1880 and received his PhD in 1890. After the zoological institutes in Berlin and Giessen, he habilitated in Munich, 1894, in zoology and comparative anatomy; there he received in 1902 the title an...
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Image for Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Medusae, TOGETHER WITH 4 additional monographs on medusae by A. G. Mayer

Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Medusae, TOGETHER WITH 4 additional monographs on medusae by A. G. Mayer

By: Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough and Agassiz, Alexander

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology : 1894 - 1906

Seller ID: 1051

1894-1906 FIVE MONOGRAPHS ON MEDUSAE WITH SUPERB PLATES BY PIONEERING EXPERT IN THE BIOLOGY (AND BEAUTY) OF JELLYFISH. 5 monographs on medusae in printed paper covers: 1) A. Agassiz and A. G. Mayer. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Medusae, [ii], (139-) - 175, 13 color lithographed plates, 1 large folding color map, 1902; 2) A. G. Mayer. Memoirs of Natural Sciences Vol. I No. 1. Medu...
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Image for Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Vol. 1 Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia, Vol. 2 Die Prosobranchia und Lamellibranchia neist Einem Supplement zu den Opisthobranchia

Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Vol. 1 Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia, Vol. 2 Die Prosobranchia und Lamellibranchia neist Einem Supplement zu den Opisthobranchia

By: Meyer, Heinrich Adolf and Mobius, Karl August

Price: $800.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann : 1865

Seller ID: 1223

1865, 1872 TWO FOLIO VOLUMES - LANDMARK STUDY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE ECOLOGY ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHS. Two folio volumes 14 inches tall, printed paper covered card covers, soiled and edge-worn, cloth spine. Vol. 1 with handstamp of the Bryant Walker Library, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, to cover, and bookplate of Bryant Walker with image of snail on cattail leaf to front paste-down, and hand-inscribed card listing contents of volume affixed to ffep. xxx, 87, [11], tinted lithographic map, color temperature graph, 18 hand colored lithographic plates, 6 uncolo...
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Image for Die regeneration der gonophore bei den hydroiden und anschliessende biologische beobachtungen [Regeneration of the gonophore in hydroids and subsequent biological observations].. Vol. I. Athecata; Vol. II. Thecata

Die regeneration der gonophore bei den hydroiden und anschliessende biologische beobachtungen [Regeneration of the gonophore in hydroids and subsequent biological observations].. Vol. I. Athecata; Vol. II. Thecata

By: Muller, Herbert C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Leipzig and Berlin, Wilhelm Engelmann : 1913-1914

Seller ID: 1015

1913-14 ILLUSTRATED EXPERIMENTS ON REGENERATION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN IN MARINE HYDROIDS PERFORMED AT THE ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF LEIPZIG--COPY OF RICHARD WOLTERECK. Two offprints 9 inches tall, printed green paper covers, signature of Prof. Dr. R. Woltreck and handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to cover, age-toning to covers, texts unmarked, both very good. Vol. I, pp 319-419, 23 text figures; Vol. II, pp 287-363, 15 text figures, 2 double-page plates. HERBERT C. MULLER was a member of the Zoological Institute of Leipzig. PROVENANCE: RICHARD WOLTERECK (1877 - 1944) extended the conce...
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Category: Marine biology