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A History of North American Birds: Land Birds

By: Baird, S.F., Brewer, T.M. and Ridgway, R.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown : 1905

Seller ID: 1354

BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BIOLOGY OF AMERICAN LAND BIRDS BY FIRST CURATOR OF SMITHSONIAN. Three 10 inches tall hardcover volumes, publisher's blue cloth binding, decorative gilt titles to spines, top edges gilt, total of 593 wood engravings in text, 64 chromolithographic plates. Vol. I, color lithographic frontis of catbird, xxviii, 596 pp, vi index to plates. ; Vol. II, color frontis of red-headed woodpecker, [iv], 590 pp, vi pp index to plates; Vol. III, color frontis of Carolina parakeet, [iv], 560 pp, xxviii indexes to English names, scientific names, and plates. Very good+ with minor edgewe...
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The Water Birds of North America

By: Baird, S.F., Brewer, T.M. and Ridgway, R.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co. : 1884

Seller ID: 1355

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BIOLOGY OF AMERICAN WATER BIRDS BY FIRST CURATOR OF SMITHSONIAN. Two harcover volumes 10 3/4 inches tall, mustard cloth binding, gilt title to spines, numerous wood engravings throughout. Vol. I, xi, 537 pp; Vol. II, [vi], 552 pp. Fine--as new. SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD (1823 - 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He would eventually serve as the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, from 1878 until 1887. He published over 1,000 works during h...
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Medical Mussolini

By: Bealle, Morris A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Columbia Publishing Co. : 1938

Seller ID: 1166

1938 SCARCE VIRULENT DIATRIBE AGAINST THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, BY THE EDITOR OF PLAIN TALK, A LIBERTARIAN MAGAZINE. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding with embossed title in blue to cover and spine, copy of Rochester Anti-Vivisection Society, inscribed and hand stamped on front endpapers and embossed seal on title page. 255 pp, 12 plates, very good in good jacket with soiling and chips top of front cover and spine--protected by mylar cover. LAID IN Two clippings from Liberty newspaper referencing Medical Mussolini and the dangers of organized medicine, affixed to verso of...
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Poems in English

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: $900.00

Publisher: London, John Calder : 1961

Seller ID: 1138

1961 PUBLISHED BEFORE HE RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE, BECKETT'S FIRST COLLECTION OF POETRY, SIGNED BY HIM--CLARE BOOTHE LUCE'S COPY, ALSO SIGNED BY HER. 8 1/4 inches tall slim hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, slate blue dust jacket in mylar cover, signed by Clare Boothe Luce on front flyleaf, and signed by author on title page. Spine mildly askew, light browning of front and back free endpapers, very good in very good dust jacket. FROM DUST JACKET FLAP: Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906, but has lived in Paris since before the war. Although his reputation to...
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Atlas of the Skeletal Development of the Rat

By: Becks, Hermann and Evans, Herbert M.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: The American Institute of Dental Medicine : 1953

Seller ID: 1129

1953 LIMITED EDITION OF MAGNIFICENT PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE MATURATION OF THE RAT SKELETON WITH 143 PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES OF RADIOGRAPHS AND PHOTOMICROGRAPHS. Two volumes 11 inches tall, full black morocco leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, Vol. I, xxxv, [1], 65 black & white photographic plates; Vol. II, xiii, [3], 78 black & white photographic plates affixed to recto and verso of stiff card stock with tissue guards between each plate. Spine ends have been repaired by master conservator, covers are in near-fine condition, hand stamp of Scientific Library, Hoffman...
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The Influence of Inanition on Metabolism, TOGETHER WITH A Study of Prolonged Fasting, TOGETHER WITH Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet

By: Benedict, Francis G., Miles, Walter R., Roth, Paul and Smith, H. Monmouth

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington : 1907, 1915, 1919

Seller ID: 696

REPORTED IN 3 MASSIVE VOLUMES: EARLY 20TH CENTURY CLINICAL STUDIES OF PROLONGED FASTING BY FRANCIS BENEDICT AND HIS FAMOUS BOSTON NUTRITION LABORATORY. Three volumes 10 inches tall, together 6 inches thick, in original paper wrappers with printed title to cover and spine: 1) The Influence of Inanition on Metabolism (1907), v, 542 pp, 258 tables; 2) A Study of Prolonged Fasting (1915), 416 pp, 66 tables (including large folding table), 5 plates, 47 figures in text; 3) Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet (1919), frontis photograph of Diet and Control Squads and Investig...
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Elements of Physiology translated from the Original Latin and interspersed with occasional notes by Charles Caldwell, to which is subjoined, by the translator, An Appendix, exhibiting a brief and compendious view of the existing discoveries relative to the Subject of Animal Electricity

By: Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich and Caldwell, Charles

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson : 1795

Seller ID: 1183

1795 AN EARLY MONOGRAPH ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY PROMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIAN. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, two volumes in one, full leather binding, spine with gilt red leather label, ink signature of William H. Selby in contemporary script and his hand stamp on front endpapers, Vol. I, xvi, 229 pp; Vol. II, 247 pp. Covers and spine rubbed, back cover bowed, corners worn, hinges cracked but secure, browning to pages, good in custom archival mylar cover. JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH (1752 - 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anth...
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Polish Countrysides. Photographs and Narrative

By: Boyd, Louise A.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, American Geographical Society : 1937

Seller ID: 1360

SCARCE COLLECTION OF STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF RURAL POLAND (AND CURRENT UKRAINE) BY AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPLORER, 5 YEARS BEFORE HITLER'S INVASION IN 1939. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, ink inscirption ffep, To E. St John Burton/ from the Geographical Society of New York/ 1940 and pencil inscription below, Presented to the Library/ Aug 6th, 1940. Small label of Bournemouth Natural Science Society Main Library to front paste-down. xi, frontis map of Poland, 235 pp,, 495 figures comprising 486 black & white photographs and 9 maps of Poland. A...
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The Coast of Northeast Greenland, with Hydrographic Studies in the Greenland Sea. The Louse A. Boyd Arctic Expeditions of 1937 and 1938

By: Boyd, Louise A.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, American Geographical Society : 1948

Seller ID: 1341

ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS, THIS REPORT BY AMERICAN EXPLORER LOUISE BOYD REVEALS GEOGRAPHY & BOTANY OF THE ARCTIC BEFORE THE ADVANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 10 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, small institutional handstamp and accession number to front free endpaper, no other markings, xi, 339 pp, 194 figures in text, including photographs and maps depicting topography, geology, and botany of the island, TOGETHER WITH matching slipcase containing 5 folding panoramic photographic plates (8.75x17.5 inches to 8.5x29 inches) and 7 folding color m...
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The Poetical Works of Geoff. Chaucer in fourteen volumes. The miscellaneous pieces from Urry's edition 721, the Canterbury Tales from Tyrwhitt's edition 1775

By: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Apollo Press : 1782, 1783

Seller ID: 1181

COMPLETE PORTABLE EDITION OF 14 LEATHER BOUND 18TH CENTURY VOLUMES OF CHAUCER'S WORKS, EACH VOLUME WITH AN ENGRAVED FRONTIS--TOTAL OVER 3,000 PAGES. Fourteen volumes, each 3 x 5 inches, full leather binding, each with engraved frontis containing a different scene (Vol. I also with an engraved portrait of Chaucer), marbled endpapers. - PAGES: 250, 259; 224. 237; 228, 275; 199, 196; 199, 195; 191, 179; 202, 245. Title pages of all volumes are dated 1782, whereas some of the engravings are dated 1783. Covers and spines worn, with pieces of most spines perished; all hinges intact, bindings tight a...
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Organ-forming substances in the eggs of ascidians

By: Conklin, Edwin Grant

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago : 1905

Seller ID: 1113

1905 E. G. CONKLIN--LANDMARK EARLY STUDY OF EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT WITH ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE BY PIONEER AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST AND EVOLUTIONIST--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 10 inches tall offprint, gray printed wraps, inscribed, Dr. Robt W. Hall/ with the compliments/ of E.G. Conklin. pages 205-230 reprinted from Biological Bulletin Vol. VIII, March, 1905 with glossy actual gelatin silver photographic plate containing 24 photomicrographs of the first stages of the developing embryo of a marine invertebrate. Light browning of covers, edgewear, top of spine chipped, text and plate unmarked, ver...
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Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis and its relation to Other Forms of Meningitis. A Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts

By: Councilman, W.T., Mallory, F.B. and Wright, J.H.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Co. : 1898

Seller ID: 1164

REPORT OF EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS IN BOSTON, 1897 BY LEADING PATHOLOGISTS COUNCILMAN, MALLORY AND WRIGHT, WITH FOLDING MAP & COLOR PLATES--SIGNED BY COUNCILMAN AND MALLORY. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed front flyleaf, Compliments of W.S. Councilman, F. B. Mallory, color folding map frontis, Cases of Ceregro-Spinal Meningitis, Boston, 1897, x, 178 pp, 8 heliotype color plates. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. LAID IN: Papers on immunization for meningococcal disease extracted from New England Journal of Medicine, 2020. WILLIAM THOMA...
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General Cytology. A Textbook of Cellular Structure and Function for Students of Biology and Medicine

By: Cowdry, Edmund V.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press : 1924

Seller ID: 1362

THE BIRTH OF MODERN CELL BIOLOGY: SCARCE FIRST EDITION LANDMARK COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY AMERICA'S LEADING BIOLOGISTS. 10 inches tall thick hardcover, original blue cloth binding, bookplate of Russell B. MacFarlane to front paste-down, [i-vii], 754 pp, many text figures and 9 black & white photographic plates. Wear to covers, corners worn, text unmarked. Good plus. TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Introduction; II. Some General Aspects of the Chemistry of Cells; III. Permeability of the Cell to Diffusing Substances; IV. Reactivity of the Cell; V. The Physical Structure of Protoplasm as Determined b...
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Archaeopteryx Lithographica: A study Based Upon the British Museum Specimen

By: de Beer, G.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Trustees of the British Museum : 1954

Seller ID: 1357

LANDMARK ANALYSIS OF AN ARCHAEOPTERYX FOSSIL, CLARIFYING ITS LINK BETWEEN REPTILES AND BIRDS. 12 1/2 inches tall folio hardcover, brown cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, bookplate of academic physician Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, frontis of model Archaeopteryx, xi, errata slip, 68 pp; 16 plates (each with descriptive text leaf); 9 figures in text. Near Fine in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: When Archaeopteryx was acquired by the British Museum in 1862 it was immediately studied by Richard Owen, then Superintendent of the Natural History...
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Les Passions de L'Ame

By: Descartes, Rene

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Paris, Jean Guinard : 1650

Seller ID: 1361

SCARCE 1650 PRINTING OF DESCARTES' LAST PUBLISHED WORK--ON THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL RESULTING FROM OUR ANIMAL SPIRITS. 6 1/4 inches tall volume, vellum binding, [2], [46], 286 pp, browning to covers and page edges, old water stains top edge, scattered light foxing, very good minus. RENE DESCARTES (1596 - 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Many elements of Descartes' philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophe...
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Accidental and congenital atresia of the vagina with a mode of operating for successfully establishing the canal

By: Emmet, Thomas Addis

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Bradstreet Press : 1866

Seller ID: 1120

1866 REPORT OF 2 CASES OF VAGINAL ATRESIA AND THEIR SURGICAL CORRECTION BY NOTED IRISH-AMERICAN SURGEON AT NEW YORK STATE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL--SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall thin monograph in gray paper wraps, author's inscription to title page, his ink inscription and signature top of first page of text, Fordham University Library Medical Department/ from/ Thos. Addis Emmet, M.D./ May 23rd 1906, [2], 17 pp. Edges of paper wraps browned and chipped, string binding partially perished, text pages clean, good only. Contains case reports of 2 patients, one with acquired and the other with congen...
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Symptoms and Physical Signs. A Formulary for Clinical Note-Taking, with examples

By: Ewart, William

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox : 1892

Seller ID: 1153

1892 THE NUTS-AND-BOLTS OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS AND RECORDING THE HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY ENGLAND. 7 inches tall slim hardcover, green pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, gray endpapers with red cloth tape to hinges, 1 inch diameter pewter (?!) seal affixed to top verso of table of contents with decorative book-plate of D. Lafano below, xiv, 82 pp, corners worn, spine bright, light uniform browning to text, pages unmarked, overall very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. WILLIAM EWART (1848-1929) was born in London to a Fren...
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Photograph of Nobel laureates Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs in a laboratory, signed by both scientists

By: Fischer, Edmond and Krebs, Edwin G.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: : ca. 2000

Seller ID: 1116

SIGNED PHOTO OF EDMOND FISCHER AND EDWIN KREBS WHO SHARED THEIR LABS AND NOBEL PRIZE IN 1992: CLOSE FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ENJOYING A LAUGH TOGETHER. 5X7 inch glossy black & white photographs signed in gold ink by both Nobel laureates; label verso of photo, Photo by Hideki Tomeoko,Seattle, WA. EDMOND FISCHER (1920-2021) died on August 27 at the age of 101, the oldest living Nobel laureate. Born in Shanghai, he was introduced to the work of Louis Pasteur when his family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he earned his PhD in biochemistry in 1947. In 1953 he was recruited by Hans Neurath to the...
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Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery AND Time on the Cross. Evidence and Methods, A Supplement TOGETHER WITH Reviews of Time on the Cross (Slavery: The Progressive Institution? AND The World Two Cliometricians Made)

By: Fogel, Robert William, Engerman, Stanley L., David, Paul A., Temin, Peter and Gutman, Herbert G.

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co. : 1974, 1975

Seller ID: 1140

1974 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF NOBEL LAUREATE ROBERT FOGEL'S HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL TIME ON THE CROSS AND CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF ITS FALLOUT EXPLAINING SLAVERY IN AMERICA. 1) Robert William Fogel & Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: two 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, brown cloth binding, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, inscribed on front flyleaf, To Simon Kuznets: These volumes are given with continuing admiration from a steadfast disciple/ affectionately, Bob Fogel/ Cambridge April 20, 1974. xviii, 286 pp; Vol. II (A Supplement), xi, 267. Near fine with very good dust jackets (a few...
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Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States

By: Forbush, Edward Howe

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Norwood, Mass., Massachusetts Department of Agriculture : 1925-1929

Seller ID: 1344

MAGISTERIAL 3-VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON THE BIRDS BY LEGENDARY ORNITHOLOGIST E. H. FORBUSH, ILLUSTRATED WITH 93 COLOR PLATES BY NOTED ARTISTS, WITH ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND NOTES SIGNED BY FORBUSH. Three hardcover volumes, 10 inches tall, green cloth binding, gilt title to covers and spines, Vol. I, bookplate of Freeman B. Currier to front free endpaper, xxxi, 481 pp, 33 color plates, black & white figures and photographs; Vol II, bookplate of Freeman B. Currier to front free endpaper, xlviii, 461 pp, color plates 34-52, 18 maps, figures & photographs; Vol. III, frontis portrait of author (published y...
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