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A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, J. Dodsley : 1765

Seller ID: 1170

1765 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF COMPARISON OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOR BY JOHN GREGORY, SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN WHO EXPLORED REASON VS. INSTINCT--COPY OF NOTED AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST HARRY SHAPIRO. 6 inches tall hardcover, contemporary full leather binding, spine with raised bands, red leather gilt title label, armorial bookplate of H. L. Shapiro to front paste-down, iv, 203 pp, [4]; edges of covers darkened and cracked, covers have been reattached amateurishly but functionally, binding tight, tear top of front flyleaf, contemporary signature of Catherine Gaskarth verso of second flyleaf, pages age-...
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Art de Faire Eclorre de d'Elever en Toute Saison des Oiseaux Domestiques de Toutes Especes, Soit par le Moyen de la Chaleur du Fumier, Soit par le Moyen de Celle du Feu Ordinaire

By: Reaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie Royale : 1749

Seller ID: 1241

1749 FIRST EDITION 2-VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON INCUBATION OF DOMESTICATED FOWL EGGS WITH TECHNIQUES ILLUSTRATED BY FINE COPPER ENGRAVINGS. Two hardcover volumes 6 3/4 inches tall, full calf binding, spine with raised bands, compartments gilt, gilt red title labels, red-speckled edges, xii, Vol. I: xii, 342 pp, 9 folding copper plates; Vol. II: [iv], 339 pp, 6 folding plates; each volume additionally illustrated by 10 engraved title vignettes and several in-text engraved vignettes. Edges of boards rubbed, endpapers browned, pages age-toned, very good. French language. RENE ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE REAUMU...
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Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours

By: Tanaka, Shigeho

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Daiomishoin : 1930

Seller ID: 607

SCARCE GUIDE TO JAPANESE FISH WITH 355 COLOR IMAGES, TEXT IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH. 4x7 inches volume, flexible leather covers, gilt title to cover and spine in English and Japanese, cloth endpapers, 203 pp, chomolithographs of 355 fish, some with English common names laid in, text in Japanese with index in English and Japanese, very good. 15 copies listed in WorldCat. SHIGEHO TANAKA (1878â€“1974) was a Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He published numerous works on fishes and sharks and co-authored a book on Japanese fish with famous American...
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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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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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A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World

Art de Faire Eclorre de d'Elever en Toute Saison des Oiseaux Domestiques de Toutes Especes, Soit par le Moyen de la Chaleur du Fumier, Soit par le Moyen de Celle du Feu Ordinaire

Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours

Evolution of Life

Papers Written by Holders of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship 1894-1909: Embryology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology