Category: Marine biology

Coelenterata Offprints

Price: $300.00

Publisher: : 1858-1937

Seller ID: 356

COELENTERATA: BOUND IN 6 HARDCOVER VOLUMES: COLLECTION OF 71 OFFPRINTS BY 32 NOTABLE TURN-OF-CENTURY MARINE BIOLOGISTS, MANY PLATES AND SIGNED BY AUTHORS--FROM THE LIBRARY OF NOTED DANISH ZOOLOGIST INGMAR LIEBERKIND. 3 quarto and 3 octavo hardcover volumes, 3/4 blue cloth with marbled boards and gilt red leather spine labels, each front paste-down with decorative bookplate and handstamp of Ingvald Lieberkind (Danish writer and zoologist) and his signature on 1 front flyleaf and on a few offprint covers, containing 71 offprints, many with signed inscriptions on covers. 72 plates (some lithograp...
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Collection of 70 offprints on trematodes

Price: $150.00

Publisher: : 1923 - 1994

Seller ID: 1059

SPANNING THE 20TH CENTURY, 71 SCARCE OFFPRINTS ON THE BIOLOGY AND TAXONOMY OF TREMATODES PARASITIZING DIVERSE VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES. 71 offprints, 1 in Spanish, 4 in French, 66 in English; some with wrappers, some not (as issued), many illustrated, author or previous owner inscription or handstamp to several covers, otherwise unmarked and very good. The papers cover the biology of the trematodes, including anatomy, physiology, reproduction, embryology, metabolism, and life cycle. A number report descriptions of new species and other aspects of taxonomy. The variety of hosts includes fi...
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Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay: Radiates

By: Agassiz EC;Agassiz A;

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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Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and Off the Galapagos Islands, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross During 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. The Panamic Deep Sea Echini

By: Agassiz, Alexander

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology : 1904

Seller ID: 898

2 FOLIO VOLUMES ON THE ANATOMY OF SEA URCHINS WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE PLATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, CURATOR OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers, Vol. I Text, 243 pp, 319 figures; Vol. II Atlas, 111 lithographic and heliotype plates (2 color), 1 color folding map; paper covers soiled, edges chipped, lacking back paper cover and lower corner of front cover and first 2 leaves of Vol. I, text pages and plates intact and clean, no library or ownership marks, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ...
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Image for The development of Lepidosteus TOGETHER WITH 4 other offprints on embryology and comparative anatomy of fish from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College

The development of Lepidosteus TOGETHER WITH 4 other offprints on embryology and comparative anatomy of fish from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College

By: Agassiz, Alexander, Nickerson, W. S., Eigenmann, C.H., Holbrook, A. T. and Ayers, H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: American Academy of Arts and Sciences : 1878

Seller ID: 1056

1878-1894 FIVE OFFPRINTS ON EMBRYOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF FISHES FROM THE HEYDAY OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY UNDER ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. Five offprintes 9 1/2 inches tall, in printed paper covers, darkened covers with handstamps and/or inscriptions of previous owners, some edges chipped, contents very good. No. 1 published in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Nos. 2-5 published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Nos. 2, 3, 5 contain laid-in printed leaflet, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass./ with ...
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The biology of the Weddell and crabeater seals, with a study of the comparative behaviour of the Pinnipedia

By: Bertram, G.C.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, British Museum : 1940

Seller ID: 703

SIGNED BY AUTHOR--ANATOMY AND BEHAVIOR OF SEALS: ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF AN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN THE 1930s. 12 1/4 inches tall volume, orange printed paper covers, inscribed and signed by author top of cover, 139 pp, 42 figures, 10 photographic plates, corners curled, binding tight, text unmarked, good+. GEORGE COLIN LAWDER BERTRAM (1911 - 2001) Joined a three-man Cambridge Expedition to Scoresby Sound, East Greenland, transported there and back by Dr Jean-Baptiste Charcot in his ship Pourquoi-Pas?. This was followed by nine months studying coral reefs in the Red Sea, prior to accepting a pla...
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Image for Selected Morphological Monographs. Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, and the Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger

Selected Morphological Monographs. Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, and the Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger

By: Brooks, W.K. and Wilson, E.B.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore : 1887

Seller ID: 768

1880s SCARCE COLLECTION OF 4 MONOGRAPHS BY WK BROOKS AND EB WILSON, LUMINARIES OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE EMBRYOLOGY--WITH 39 FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 11 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title and Johns Hopkins seal to cover, institutional library canceled bookplate to front paste-down, title page, followed by WILSON, E.B. The Development of Renilla, pp. 721-815, 16 plates (1883); and BROOKS, W.K. Lucifer: A Study in Morphology, pp. 55-137, 11 lithographic plates (1882); The Life-History of Hydromedusae, pp. 357-430, 8 plates (1886); and Report on the Stomatopoda, ...
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Sea-Lilies and Feather-Stars

By: Clark, Austin H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution : 1921

Seller ID: 1057

1921 MONOGRAPH ON CRINOIDS ILLUSTRATED WITH 16 FINE PLATES, BY NOTED SMITHSONIAN MARINE BIOLOGIST AND EVOLUTIONIST. 9 1/2 inches tall monograph, printed paper covers, 43 pp, 16 plates, cover edges chipped, unmarked and very good. AUSTIN HOBART CLARK (1880 - 1954) was an American marine biologist. In 1901, Clark organized a scientific expedition to Isla Margarita in Venezuela. From 1903 to 1905, he conducted research in the Antilles. From 1906 to 1907, he led a scientific team aboard the 1882 USS Albatross. In 1908, he took a post at the National Museum of Natural History, which he held until h...
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Rare and Remarkable Animals of Scotland, Represented from Living Subjects: with Practical Observations on Their Nature

By: Dalyell, John Graham

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst : 1847

Seller ID: 1316

1847 MAGNIFICENT BIOLOGY OF MARINE LIFE OF SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 FINE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS AFTER PAINTINGS BY NOTED LOCAL ARTISTS. Two 11 inches tall hardcover volumes, recent 3/4 calf, spine with raised bands and gilt leather title labels, green moire cloth covered boards, bookplate of Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow front paste-down, handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to front free endpaper. Vol. I, xii, 270 pp, 53 colored engraved plates; Vol. II, [iv], 322 pp, [2], 56 colored engraved plates with tisue guards. Small abrasions to edges of spine and tips of corner...
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A transplantation experiment with Zoarces viviparus L.

By: Ege, Vilhelm

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, H. Hagerup : 1942

Seller ID: 1013

1942 DETALIED STUDY OF VIVIPAROUS EELS BY NOTED DANISH ICHTHYOLOGIST REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENT OVER HEREDITY IN ADAPTATION-SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. 9 1/2 inches tall monograph, pink printed paper covers, glued spine binding, pp 271 - 384, inscribed top of cover, Hr. Dr. phil. Anton Fr. Bruun venligst fra [compliments of] Vilh. Ege, handstamp of Anton Fr. Bruun and Aquatic Research Institute to cover, very good. VILHELM EGE (1887 - 1962) played a leading role in ichthyology during the last half-century, particularly in the elucidation of the bathypelagic fish fauna. In 1908, he ass...
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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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A few medusae from the Bermudas TOGETHER WITH On certain medusae from New England

By: Fewkes, J. Walter

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College : 1883, 1888

Seller ID: 1054

1880s TWO OFFPRINTS OF MEDUSAE WITH FOLDING PLATES, BY HARVARD-TRAINED MARINE BIOLOGIST WHO LATER BECAME LEADING ANTHROPOLOGIST AND ETHNOLOGIST. Two offprints: 1) A few medusae from the Bermudas (1883), printed paper covers, signature and handstamp of F. E. Schulze, laid in leaf, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass./ with the compliments of/ Alexander Agassiz, pp (79-) - 90, folding heliotype plate; 2) On certain medusae from New England (1888), ink inscribed title to card cover, handstamp of Dr. R. Hartmeyer and Aquatic Research Institute and signature of Franz Eilhard Schulze, lai...
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Image for Beobachtungen Uber Radiaten und Wurmer in Nizza [Observations on radiata and worms in Nice] TOGETHER WITH Nachtrag zu dem Aufsatz uber Polycoryne helleri; Gastrodelphis clausii, nov. gen. et spec. [Polycoryne Helleri, a new genus of corynids; Gastrodelphis clausii, a new genus and species]

Beobachtungen Uber Radiaten und Wurmer in Nizza [Observations on radiata and worms in Nice] TOGETHER WITH Nachtrag zu dem Aufsatz uber Polycoryne helleri; Gastrodelphis clausii, nov. gen. et spec. [Polycoryne Helleri, a new genus of corynids; Gastrodelphis clausii, a new genus and species]

By: Graeffe, Eduard

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Zurich, : 1858, 1883

Seller ID: 1061

19TH CENTURY ANATOMY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES--COPY OF PROMINENT GERMAN ZOOLOGIST. 1) 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper covered boards, green cloth spine, handstamp of Dr. R. Hartmeyer to front flyleaf, 59 pp, 10 lithographed plates, dent to top of front cover, very good. 2) 9 inches tall offprint, green paper covers, 14 pp, [1], 2 lithographed plates, corners bumped, very good. GERMAN LANGUAGE. EDUARD HEINRICH GRAEFFE (1833 - 1916) was a Swiss zoologist and naturalist. From around 1860, Graeffe was in the employ of Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, a wealthy s...
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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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Oysters and Disease. An account of certain Observations upon the Normal and Pathological Histology and Bacteriology of the Oyster and other Shellfish

By: Herdman, W.A. and Boyce, Robert

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, George Philip & Son : 1899

Seller ID: 707

1899 MONOGRAPH ON DISEASES OF OYSTERS BY A ZOOLOGIST AND BACTERIOLOGIST AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL--ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. 11 inches tall volume, printed card covers, old pen inscription top edge of cover, cloth spine, [viii], 60 pp, 8 lithographic plates (4 in color), covers worn and browned, pages age-toned, plates bright and clean, very good. WILLIAM ABBOTT HERDMAN (1858 - 1924) was Secretary to the Challenger Expedition Commission: overseeing the deciphering of the huge catalogue of information found during this important exploration. In 1880 he became Demonstrator of Zo...
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Pamphlets on Zoology 1865-1888

By: Hyatt, Alpheus

Price: $500.00

Publisher: : 1865-1888

Seller ID: 1294

UNIQUE BOUND COLLECTION OF SIGNED OFFPRINTS BY ALPHEUS HYATT INSCRIBED TO HIS COLLEAGUE ALPHEUS PACKARD--BOTH LEADING NEO-LAMARCKIAN AMERICAN ZOOLOGISTS. 9 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards, expertly rebacked in black cloth with black leather label title gilt, bookplate of Bowdoin College Library--withdrawn to front paste-down (no other library marks), hand-lettered title page, wood engraving of Prof. Alpheus Hyatt cut out from journal affixed to verso of Emerson obituary. Contains 23 key offprints by Alpheus Hyatt collected and bound in chronol...
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Contribution a l'Anatomie du Simenchelys parasiticus Gill

By: Jaquet, Maurice

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Monaco, Imprimerie de Monaco : 1920

Seller ID: 748

SUMPTUOUS MONOGRAPH FROM THE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE OF MONACO ON ANATOMY OF A DEEP SEA PARASITIC EEL--FINE DOUBLE-PAGE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 14 inches tall folio volume, paper covers with title printed on tissue jacket with coat of arms of the Sovereign Prince of Monaco, handstamp of Ernest A. Lachner top of cover and half title, 76 pp, text printed on heavy rag paper, 5 double-page lithographed plates with tisue guards, Text in French. Cover edges age-toned, text clean and unmarked, plates bright and clean, very good. This monograph forms part of a series of scientific reports on marine life...
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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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Papers Written by Holders of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship 1894-1909: Embryology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

By: Kofoid, C.A., Gerould, J.H., Goto, S., Bancroft, F.W., Rand, H.W., Bigelow, M.A., Smallwood, W.M., Carpenter, F.W., Larrabee, A.P., Congdon, E.D. and Hargitt, G.T.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology : 1894-1909

Seller ID: 635

1894-1909 THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN CELL BIOLOGY: COLLECTION OF 14 ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS FROM HARVARD'S ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY INSCRIBED BY ITS DIRECTOR. Two hardcover volumes 10 inches tall, full black leather binding with raised bands, gilt title to covers and spines, gilt tooled leather interior borders with fine decorative paste-downs and free endpapers. Each volume contains 7 offprints retaining original wrappers, most published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, containing 71 lithographic plates, some folding and/or color. Volume I contains an engraved...
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On Pourtalesia. A Genus of Echinoidea

By: Loven, Sven

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Stockholm, Kongl. Boktryckeriet : 1883

Seller ID: 1060

1883 MONOGRAPH ON DEEP SEA URCHINS BY NOTED SWEDISH MARINE BIOLOGIST--ILLUSTRATED WITH 21 VERY FINE LITHOGRAPHS. 12 inches tall folio hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, green cloth spine with paper title label, institutional handsatamps bottom of title page, contemporary ink signature top of front paste-down, 95 pp, many figures in text, 21 fine lithographed plates; wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. SVEN LUDVIG LOVEN (1809 - 1895) was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist. The Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences at both Kristineb...
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Category: Marine biology