First Edition. The first major book by a scientist who would go on to win the Nobel Prize for his work on chromosomes and heredity. In this book, Morgan disputes natural selection as a basis for evolution, a position he would later recent when he help discover the mechanism of.....
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First Edition. An influential work on the evolution of birds based on close examination of the fossil record. Some of Heilmann's conclusions have now been refuted, but based largely on new fossils unavailable to him at the time he wrote The Origin of Birds. The book is an expanded version.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A brief listing of some 6000 works, with authors, titles, and publication details. This work was published soon after Thompson (1860–1948) assumed the post of professor of natural history at the University of Dundee, Scotland, his first professional job. He is best known for his book On Growth.....
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![Item No: #361809 Die Entstehung der Mondkrater [The Formation of Lunar Craters]....](/pictures/thumb/361809.jpg?v=1665013052)
First Edition. A notable paper on the impact origin of moon craters. Wegener considers the three leading explanations at the time—the bubble or explosion hypothesis, the tidal hypothesis, and the volcanic hypothesis—and finds them inadequate. He then elaborates his own theory of projectile hypothesis, which he simulated by impacting cement.....
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First Edition. A work mostly devoted to entomology (insects being the most common subject of these essays), with a few botanical pieces. Two examples: Essay X, "On a Species of Fly produced on the Flower of a Plant" and Essay XII: "On the Production and Fructification of a Singular Species.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #361683 A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California [Jepson Manual]....](/pictures/thumb/361683.jpg?v=1665013037)
First Edition. The first complete edition of the book that is now synonymous with California botany. The "Jepson Manual" is still updated today and is the essential work for anyone studying plants in California. This book was, like many of Jepson's works, published in parts over several years. This is.....
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First Edition. An argument for a reconceptualization of time in physics. 319 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Smolin, and scarce thus. This copy belonged to Edmund H. Fischer, winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1992. It.....
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First Edition. A course of lectures exploring the connections between natural history and theology, given by the Harvard geology professor to Andover Theological Seminary in 1891 and first published here. xi, 305 pages. First edition (first printing, with matching dates on the title and copyright pages). A very good copy.....
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First Edition. Interviews with 27 cosmologists, including Stephen Hawking. Lightman achieved critical success as a novelist with his book Einstein's Dreams. 561 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a half-inch closed tear on the rear.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A scientific review of the science of the chambered nautilus. A year later, Ward published a popular account on the subject called In Search of Nautilus. Ward is a paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. First edition (states "First published..."). Corners bumped, else near fine.....
Price: $75
First Edition. 354 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy (some spine creases) in wrappers (paperback). This copy is inscribed to the Harvard evolutionary biologist and mathematical geneticist Richard Lewontin. "A R. C. Lewontin, homage sincère de Pierre P. Grassé." This copy came from the library of Stephen.....
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First Edition. A Russian work on the evolution of the amphibian skull, translated into English in 2004 and published in the series, Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union. 283 pages. Text in Russian (Cyrillic). First edition. A very good or better copy in the original printed cloth-covered.....
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First Edition. An illustrated guide to sea animals with radial symmetry, written by Elizabeth Agassiz with illustrations by her step-son Alexander. Illustrated with lovely small reversed (white lines on black background) images. 155 pages. A near fine copy in the publisher's blue-green cloth binding.
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First Edition. A collection of essays on bees. "Being part I of The Wild Bee," translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. 315 pages. First American edition. A very good copy (fore-edge spotted, a bit of foxing at the back) in a very good dust jacket with light.....
Price: $125
An illustrated introduction, in English, to the microscope by one of the largest manufacturers of the devices. 34 pages. A later edition. A very good to near fine copy, in stapled wrappers (pamphlet).
Price: $75
A catalog of microscope and attachments. Illustrated with black-and-white engravings. 47 pages. A very good to near fine copy, in stapled wrappers (pamphlet). With the price list ("No. 4", dated September 1, 1921) laid in.
Price: $75
First Edition. The English version of Beitrage zur Interferenz Mikroskopie, with new content not included in the original German work. An introduction to a branch of light and electron microscopy. Translated by J. Home Dickson. 394 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a good, price-clipped dust.....
Price: $85
Second Edition. Second edition, considerably enlarged. With 130 in-text engravings. 202, 24 ad pages. Translated from the German; edited by Frederick Currey. Wear to the publisher's blue cloth at the spine joints.
Price: $85
First Edition. A technical introduction to the microscope, including a section on projection microscopes. Illustrated with more than 170 engravings in the text. 322 pages. Text in FRENCH. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the publisher's russet cloth. Frontispiece tissue guard missing.
Price: $125
Fifteenth edition, re-constructed, re-written, revised, and enlarged throughout. "With upwards of nine hundred engraved and coloured illustrations by Tuffen West and other artists." There are eight chromolithograph (printed color) plates. xxiv, 704 pages. With the errata slip. New endpapers, else a very good copy; spine slightly faded. Bound in the.....
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A guide to the microscopic features of common animals, plants, and materials. Illustrated with 12 color plates by Edmund Evans. The book was hugely popular among amateur microscopists and stayed in print for more than 50 years. 188 pages, including an index to the text and plates. A very good.....
Price: $75
First Edition. 116 pages. Illustrated. First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, probably as issued.
Price: $50
Fourth edition. "Illustrated with upwards of five hundred engravings." xviii, 621 pages. A very good copy in the publisher's blue cloth binding.
Price: $85
Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. 165 pages. Dated May 1925 in the introduction. A very good copy (wear to the corners) in printed wrappers (paperback). With label of Spindler & Saupe on the inside front cover. Price list laid in.
Price: $60
Second Edition. Second edition of a very popular introductory work. Illustrated with 370 wood engravings. xix, 719 pages. Chipping at the top of the spine, else very good. Previous owners' names inside.
Price: $75
