Mexican Small Pox Vaccine Brochure
La viruela [Smallpox]
A four-page pamphlet promoting the smallpox vaccine, printed in red and blue with a strong graphic cover. Near fine.
Price: $75
A four-page pamphlet promoting the smallpox vaccine, printed in red and blue with a strong graphic cover. Near fine.
Price: $75
First Edition. Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, volume XIV. 54, [1] pages plus 59 plates showing about 3,000 shells. First edition (first printing). A very good or better copy. This copy was previously owned by the important evolutionists Ernst Mayr (his ink stamp) and Stephen.....
Price: $60
First Edition. Nine case studies plus additional essays about the use of LSD and Ritalin to treat migraines, writer's block, frigidity, anxiety, gambling addiction and other psychological issued. 172 pages. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket that.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A collection of 15 papers. 314 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, with chips and tears at the corners. This copy is inscribed by the editor, To Stephen J. Gould with compliments, Milan Zeleny. New York, Feb. 16, 1983.".....
Price: $100
First Edition. A significant work in the history of psychology. Spearman was an important early 20th century statistician who used testing to develop measures and theories of intelligence. This is a survey of the field after he and others had spent a couple of decades investigating Spearman's early findings...
Price: $125
First Edition. An illustrated introduction to bird evolution. This is the first edition; it was reissued in 2015 in revised form. 312 pages. 8-1/2 by 10-3/4 inches. First edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to.....
Price: $100
First Edition. An anthology of commentary in support of Immanuel Velikovsky and his theories of the early development of the earth. In one essay, Charles Ginenthal addresses Stephen Jay Gould's criticism of Velikovsky (collected in Ever Since Darwin, 1977). That essay gives the title to the book. [6], 795, 7.....
Price: $250
First Edition. An explanation of the racial types used as the basis of Malvina Hoffman's massive project to make more than 100 life-sized bronzes of human types for the Field Museum in Chicago. The scientific text is uncomfortably close to eugenics and is a touch condescending to non-white peoples. 40.....
Price: $50
First Edition. "Crampton made twelve expeditions to the Pacific and published three magnificent monographs—probably the finest work ever done on the evolution of land snails...How can we assess the importance of Crampton's work...? I am biased to be sure, for snail men (I am one) revere Crampton as a kind.....
Price: $125
First Edition. An early 20th century female professional in the biological sciences provides detailed descriptions of the invertebrate specimens of the Boston natural history museum. The author (1852–1938) worked under the zoologist Alpheus Hyatt for many years and was later the curator of the Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Massachusetts.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A late work summarizing Gulick's views on divergent evolution with what might today be called "contingency": "members of the same species, exposed to the same environment in isolated groups, will often arrive at divergent methods of dealing with the environment." He goes on to conclude that the assumption.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A break from Le Guin's usual fantasy and science fiction books, this is a collection of historical fiction short stories set in an imaginary central European nation. 179 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The complete set of Crampton's work on the Partula snails found on islands in the Pacific. Crampton's almost unbelievable amount of field work-—he measured and examined more than 200,000 specimens—provided valuable statistical data to document the evolution of species and variations. He showed that new species could evolve.....
Price: $750
First Edition. The text of a lecture issued as Vortragsreihe "Panta rhei" der Hans Erni-Stiftung, 3. Arber won a Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. 52 pages. First edition. A fine copy in silver boards (hardcover). This copy is inscribed to the future Nobel Prize winner.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The text of the Naumburg Memorial Lecture, about writing biographical novels, by one of the best practitioners of the genre as the author of Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), Sailor on Horseback (Jack London), and The Origin (Charles Darwin). 17 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine.....
Price: $75
First Edition. An exploration of human behavior, based on interviews with more than fifty scientists, including Stephen Jay Gould. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Corners bumped. This copy is inscribed to the evolutionary biologist and.....
Price: $125
First Edition. 237 pages. More than 75 in-text illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the original publisher's cloth binding. With the scientific bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid. Private library number on front cover.
Price: $50
New edition. A facsimile reprint of Tesla's patents. 500 pages. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. Bound in gray cloth with gold-colored stamping. Large ownership name on the front pastedown. Covers a bit grubby; text block slightly musty smelling. Covers a bit splayed (bowed out).
Price: $300
First Edition. An English translation of an 18th-century work that "hypothesize much of what has become the basis of modern genetics." Sources of Science, no. 29. 86 pages. First edition (of this edition). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with surface scuffing.
Price: $75
First Edition. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. pp. 453–527. 8-1/4 by 11-5/8 inches. First separate edition. Covers with light wear, thus very good in wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the front cover, "To Stephen Gould, with thanks for your analysis of Dollo's thoughts. Maurice.....
Price: $100
First Edition. With an introductory commentary and editorial contributions by Harry J. Jerison. Translated by Harry J. Jerison and Irene Jerison. vii, 340 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This copy with Stephen Jay Gould's ownership signature. This copy came from.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A book that explores the idea that a comet colliding with the earth could have caused the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. This is the scarce hardcover version (there was a simultaneous issue in paperback). First edition (first hardcover printing). A near fine copy in a near fine.....
Price: $75
A key work on evolution, based on snails in Hawaii. Gulick coined the term divergent evolution to describe the formation of new species due to geographical separation. The entire issue of this journal is devoted to Gulick's essay. A very good copy in the original wrappers. With a one-inch closed.....
Price: $100
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.....
Price: $200
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.....
Price: $250