Category: Science

Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, B. Fellowes : 1830

Seller ID: 1236

FIRST EDITION OF SCATHING DIATRIBE AGAINST THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY ENGLISH ORIGINATOR OF THE CONCEPT OF THE DIGITAL COMPUTER--COPY OF PROMINENT JOURNALIST OF THE PERIOD. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches hardcover, 3/4 brown calf with marbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt, with red leather label gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate to front paste-down, ink signature of George Augustus Sala on paper affixed to front free endpaper, xvi,+ 228,+ (4). Cover edges worn, scattered foxing, binding tight, very good. CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, philosopher,...
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Some Recollections of Gap Jumping

By: Barton, Derek H. R.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, American Chemical Society : 1991

Seller ID: 1069

ILLUSTRATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ORGANIC CHEMIST AND NOBEL LAUREATE SIR DEREK BARTON--INSCRIBED BY HIM TO MAURICE PECHET WITH WHOM HE COLLABORATED IN THE SYNTHESIS OF ALDOSTERONE. Nine inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, decorative gilt title to cover, 143 pp, many illustrations, inscribed and signed on half title, To Maurice and Kitty--in memory of many happy and creative days--and of wonderful hospitality--As ever Derek. Fine. DEREK H. R. BARTON (1918 1998) was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969. In 1955 he became Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University ...
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Loose Ends from Current Biology

By: Brenner, Sydney

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Current Biology, Ltd. : 1997

Seller ID: 1290

1997 ILLUSTRATED WITH CARTOONS, A SCARCE COMPILATION OF HUMOROUS ESSAYS BY NOBELIST SYDNEY BRENNER PUBLISHED IN THE PREMIER JOURNAL, CURRENT BIOLOGY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, pale yellow cloth binding, gilt title to spine, [iv], 123 pp, illustrated with black & white humorous cartoons. Previous owner name to front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked, very good in very good jacket. FROM THE JACKET: The Loose Ends columns, which have appeared in Current Biology, the leading journal of modern biological research, since the start of 1994, are Sydney Brenner's reflections on a long and fruitful l...
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My Life in Science. As Told to Lewis Wolpert. Edited interview with additional material by Errol C. Friedberg and Eleanor Lawrence

By: Brenner, Sydney

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, BioMed Central Limited : 2001

Seller ID: 1264

MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST AND NOBEL LAUREATE SYDNEY BRENNER IN HIS OWN WORDS: SIGNED COPY OF HIS TRANSCRIBED AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS TOLD TO COLLEAGUE LEWIS WOLPERT. 8 inches tall slim volume with color printed paper wraps, signed by Sydney Brenner on title page, v, 199 pp, fine in clear protective cover. FROM THE PREFACE: This book has been produced from the transcript of a fifteen-hour videotaped autobiography, as told to Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology/ University College, London. In editing this transcript, we have striv...
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A Faithless World, reprinted by permission form The Contemporary Review; with additions and a preface

By: Cobbe, Frances Power

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Williams and Norgate : 1885

Seller ID: 1047

1885 CONDEMNATION OF LOSS OF RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE (INCLUDING DARWINISM) BY PROMINENT BRITISH ANTIVIVISECTIONIST, INSCRIBED TO COLLEAGUE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, Author's inscription front flyleaf, "For Benjamin Bryan, With her very kind regards from his Friend & Colleague Frances Power Cobbe, June, 1885", institutional library handstamps to title page and last page, 41 pp, list of recent works by the author. Wear to cover edges, small library call numbers lower corner of cover, front flyleaf detached, hinges cracked but...
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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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Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher

By: Davy, Humphry

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1830

Seller ID: 1238

1830 FIRST EDITION EARLY VICTORIAN BESTSELLER ON THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SOCIETY BY AN EMINENT BRITISH CHEMIST. 6 1/2 x 4 inches hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate to front paste-down, vi, [vi], 281, [i]. Corners bumped, wear to covers, bottom 3/4 inches of spine chipped, binding tight, text unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. SIR HUMPHRY DAVY (1778 - 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched ...
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Reflections of a Darwinian: Essays and Addresses

By: de Beer, Gavin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. : 1962

Seller ID: 445

1962 BRILLIANT ESSAYS ON EVOLUTION BY SIR GAVIN DE BEER, EVOLUTIONARY EMBRYOLOGIST AND FATHER OF EVO-DEVO. 9 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, spine gilt, bookplate of physician previous owner to front paste-down, i-xi, 212 pages, near-fine, no jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. Topics include the Darwin centennial, selection, museums, history, and science vs. humanities. SIR GAVIN DE BEER (1899 - 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and ...
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

By: Dennett, Daniel C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1995

Seller ID: 468

DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA--DANIEL DENNETT'S SURPASSINGLY BRILLIANT BOOK (PER RICHARD DAWKINS). 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black paper-covered boards, gilt title to spine, fine in fine dust jacket in protective mylar cover. DANIEL C. DENNETT (born 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett describes himself as an autodidactâ€”or, more properly, the beneficiary of hundreds of hours of ...
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The Meaning of Relativity

By: Einstein, Albert

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1945

Seller ID: 1292

1945 LANDMARK SUMMARY OF NOBELIST ALBERT EINSTEIN'S THEORIES THAT ESTABLISHED MODERN PHYSICS--COPY OF NOBELIST CARLETON GAJDUSEK WHO DISCOVERED KURU, THE FIRST PRION DISEASE. 8 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, decorative bookplate of D. Carleton Gajdusek to front paste-down, signature of D. Carleton Gajdusek to front free endpaper, [vi], 135 pp, near fine in very good+ unclipped jacket with faint splash mark to cover, light wear to spine ends and corners, in protective mylar sleeve. This first printing of the second edition contains an appendix added by the autho...
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Essays in Biology in Honor of Herbert M. Evans

By: Evans, Herbert M., Fahrquhar, Samuel T., Leake, Chauncey D., Lyons, William R., Simpson, Miriam E., Allen, F.M., Althausen, T.L., Alvarez, W.C., Anderson, E.N., Purkinje, J.E., Bensley, R.R., Cole, H.H., Goss, H., de Graaf, R., Coward, K.H., Crowe, S.J.,

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of Calofornia Press : 1943

Seller ID: 798

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF 3 EMINENT BIBLIOPHILES OF SCIENCE IN THE BERKELEY CIRCLE: FESTSCHRIFT FOR HERBERT EVANS, COPY OF CHARLES SINGER AND MELVIN EDWARD JAHN. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of Dr. Charles Singer and Melvin Edward Jahn to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Herbert M. Evans, xxvii, 684 pp, many illustrations, plate with facing descriptive text; corners bumped, edges soiled, binding tight, very good in very good dust jacket. HERBERT McLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist. In 1908, he obtained hi...
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A Medical Review of Soviet Russia

By: Gantt WH

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, British Medical Association : 1928

Seller ID: 11

AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN REPORTS ON SOVIET MEDICINE AT THE START OF THE FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black leatherette with gilt title to cover, 112 pages. Unmarked copy, very good. Reprinted from the British Medical Journal. TABLE OF CONTENTS: A Review of Medical Education in Soviet Russia; Hospitals and Health Conditions Scientific Work; Change in Type and Incidence of Disease; The Medical Profession, Soviet Science, and Soviet Sanitation ; Work of Pavlov, and Other Scientists. W. HORSLEY GANTT (1892-1980) was born in Wingina, Virginia. He received his B.S. in 1917 from th...
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Genesis and Geology: A Study of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850

By: Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press : 1969

Seller ID: 458

LANDMARK HISTORY OF THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON RELIGION. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, near fine/good dust jacket. CHARLES COULSTON GILLISPIE (1918 - 2015) was an American historian of science. He attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1940 with a major in Chemistry and gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1949. He joined the Department of History at Princeton University, establishing the Program in History of Science at Princeton in the 1960s. He was president of the History of Science Society from 1965-66.
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Image for Dissertation sur la generation, les animalcules spermatiques, et ceux d'infusions, avec des observations microscopiques sur le sperme, et wur les differrentes infusions, ouvrage traduit de l'allemand, orne de trente-quatre planches, dont plusieurs enluminees. [Dissertation on generation, spermatic animalcules, and those of infusions, with microscopic observations on sperm, and on the different infusions, work translated from German, adorned with thirty-four plates, several of which are colored].

Dissertation sur la generation, les animalcules spermatiques, et ceux d'infusions, avec des observations microscopiques sur le sperme, et wur les differrentes infusions, ouvrage traduit de l'allemand, orne de trente-quatre planches, dont plusieurs enluminees. [Dissertation on generation, spermatic animalcules, and those of infusions, with microscopic observations on sperm, and on the different infusions, work translated from German, adorned with thirty-four plates, several of which are colored].

By: Gleichen-Russworm, Wilhelm Friedrich von

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Paris, : 1799

Seller ID: 1315

1799 THE DAWN OF MICROSCOPY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS. 11 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent marbled paper covers, gilt leather title to spine, new endpapers, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste-down, [4], 238 pages, [34] leaves of plates: 1 unnumbered plate facing page 41, then numbered I-XXIII, XXIIIb, XXIV-XXXII (including 9 folded and 4 with partial coloring). Minimal foxing to half title page, the remainder of text and all plates crisp, bright, unmarked. Near fine. Wilhelm Friedrich von GLEICHEN-RUSSWURM (1717-1783), was a German biolo...
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Memoires sur la Nature Sensible et Irritable des Parties du Corps Animal (Volumes I-IV, complete)

By: Haller, Albert von

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bosquet, Sigismond d'Arnay : 1756, 1760

Seller ID: 1246

FOUR-VOLUME PIONEERING TREATISE DISTINGUISHING NEURAL SENSIBILITY FROM MUSCULAR IRRITABILITY BY SWISS POLYMATH FATHER OF PHYSIOLOGY. Four 12mo hardcover volumes 6 1/2 inches tall, original full leather binding, gilt compartments to spine with gilt red and green leather labels, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers,. 12mo. x, 399; [vi], 500; [ii], 512, [4], 232 pp. Engraved frontis depicting vivisections, titles printed in red and black, small title vignettes, tailpieces, 2 engraved folding plates (Vol. II facing p. 432; Vol. III facing p.322). Wear to cover edges and spines, bindings tight,...
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Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

By: Herschel, John Frederick William

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and John Taylor : 1831

Seller ID: 1235

1831 EARLY PRINTING OF HERSCHEL'S LANDMARK GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION THAT STRONGLY INFLUENCED DARWIN IN CRAFTING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 11x18 cm red cloth boards, paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Jas. R. Holcome, Jes. Coll. Oxford, laid-in list of Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library , Vol 1, and Advertisement future volumes; 12 pp publisher's advertisements, vii, 372 pp, [1], 12 pp publisher's advertisements dated January 1831. Cover edges faded, edges worn, corners bumped, spine faded. unopened, text clean and unmarked, very good minus. SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1792 - 18...
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Reflections on Muscle

By: Huxley, Andrew

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Liverpool, Liverpool University Press : 1981

Seller ID: mairan

FAMOUS LECTURES BY NOBELIST ANDREW HUXLEY WHO WITH ALAN HODGKIN DISCOVERED THE MECHANISM OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION--INSCRIBED TO NOTED SCIENCE HISTORIAN EVELYN FOX KELLER. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed front free endpaper, For Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller/ with best wishes/ Andrew Huxley/ August 2001, ix, 111pp, fine in very good original glassine cover. SIR ANDREW FIELDING HUXLEY (1917 - 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After graduating from Westminster School in Central London...
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Studies of Mean Sea-Level. Report of the Committee on Shoreline Investigations. National Research Council

By: Johnson, Douglas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences : 1929

Seller ID: 1050

1929 PRESCIENT STUDY OF VARIATION OF MEAN SEA LEVEL SURROUNDING NEW YORK CITY BEFORE AWARENESS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 10 inches tall paperbound volume, handstamp of R. Harry Jr. to cover, 50 pp, 9 tables, 14 figures, including map of area used for New York City tide studies and map of Jamaica Bay tide stations. Sunning to cover edges, otherwise very good. DOUGLAS WILSON JOHNSON (1878 - 1944) was an American geographer and geomorphologist known for his contributions to the understanding of coastal processes and landforms. He was a descendant of a slave-holding American family of English roots. John...
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Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering

By: Korzybski, Alfred

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. : 1921

Seller ID: 1286

1921 PIONEERING STUDY OF HUMANITY BY POLISH-AMERICAN SCHOLAR, RUSSIAN SPY IN WWI, AND CONSULTANT TO US ARMY IN WWII--INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO CALIFORNIA POET. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookplate of Fanny Hodges Newman to front paste-down, inscribed on front free endpaper, To Mrs H. P. Newman/ the compliments of/ Korzybski/ San Diego Febr. 16, 1922. xv, [1], 264 pp. Light wear to cover corners, very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: This book is primarily a study of Man and ultimately embraces all the grea...
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The Anatomy and Physiology of Capillaries

By: Krogh, August

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1924

Seller ID: 1251

FIRST EDITION (2nd PRINTING) OF LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON CAPILLARY PHYSIOLOGY BY AUGUST KROGH WHO WON NOBEL PRIZE FOR THIS WORK IN 1920. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature front paste-down of Francis M Rackermann, Feb 1928, sxvii, 276 pp. Covers clean, spine bright, light browning to endpapers and to page edges, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. AUGUST KROGH (1874-1949), professor at Copenhagen University, received the 1920 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the causes of capillary const...
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Category: Science