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.....
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First Edition. A picture book story about the tiny denizens of tidepools. With some illustrations by Lucille Webster Holling. 87 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. Some illustrations in color. First edition (first printing, with 1957 on the title page and the copyright page). A very good copy in a very.....
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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.....
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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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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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![Item No: #361761 Arbeiten Des Botanischen Instituts in Wurzburg [3 Volumes]....](/pictures/thumb/361761.jpg?v=1653954983)
First Edition. A collection of papers on botany. Complete in three volumes. Text in German. I: iv, 634; II: iv, 722, plates I–VIII (one double-page); III: iv, 560, plates IX–XIII (one double page); plus eight large folding plates. First editions of each volume. A very good set, rebound in modern.....
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First Edition. The paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History explains evolutionary theory for a non-scientific audience. 199 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a couple of tears to the top edge. This is a scientific association.....
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First Edition. A memoir of Alfred Nobel by the executor of the industrialist's will, and the person widely credited with organizing the prize foundation. The book was published after Sohlman's death, in 1950, and first translated into English in 1983 to mark the 150th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's birth. 144.....
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First Edition. A synthesis of three decades of study and writing about evolutionary theory. Gould, ever the historian of science, traces the development of evolution in order to make his case that biologists put too much emphasis on the "design" embodied in natural selection and too little on random chance.....
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Seventh edition. Principally discusses a wide range of specimen preparation techniques, without illustrations. 526 pages. A near fine, clean hardcover copy.
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Sixteenth edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. 130 pages. 8 handcolored plates and one chromolithographed frontispiece. A very good copy. Previous owner's name inside.
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First Edition. An offprint of this descriptive monograph on the Siphonophorae order of Hydrozoans. Issued without illustrations. Reprinted from Jenaischen Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft XXII. Band. 46 pages. First edition (first printing). Spine worn, else good to very good in original pink wrappers. This copy was presented to Karl Brandt, the marine.....
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Third Edition. An early edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. This third edition indicates that 7000 copies had been sold. With hand-colored plates. 106 pages. 8 black-and-white plates. 32 pages of publisher ads. A very good copy in purple and pink cloth, with a......
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First Edition. 25 papers. 555 pages. Published in honor of Warren G. Kinzey. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy (no jacket, probably as issued). Stamped "review copy" on front free endpaper.
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Report 35, LaMarsh Research Programme Reports on Violence and Conflict Resolution. 49 leaves (printed front-side only). 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Velobound in die-cut covers.
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First Edition. Russell's last work, submitted for publication before his death but not published until eight years after. Unlike his earlier and influential books on evolution, this one has attracted relatively little attention, "despite both its technical discussion of adaptations in decapods (crabs, shrimp, etc.) and its different approach to.....
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Fifteenth edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. 130 pages. 8 black-and-white plates and one chromolithographed frontispiece. A very good hardcover copy.
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First Edition. A treatise on the anatomy of the elephant and other pachyderms. According to the section divider, the other animals considered are the hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, babirusa, pecari, and the wild boar. This is an offprint of Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum, vol. XXII, p. I. There.....
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Third Edition. An early edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. This third ediiton indicates that 7000 copies had been sold. 106 pages. 8 black-and-white plates. Rebacked with most of the original spine laid down. Internally very good.
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First Edition. "With examples selected from the reproductive, alimentary, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, muscular, osseous, locomotory, and other systems of animals... Illustrated by nearly two thousand figures, largely original and from nature." In this massive posthumous work, Pettigrew documents animal growth and motion in considerable detail with two goals in mind.....
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First Edition. A collection of popular science essays, including the title piece on grafts and transplants, the field for which Medawar won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960. Medawar (1915–1987) was a distinguished scientist whose research contributed significantly toward transplants as a medical therapy. He was also an innovative thinker.....
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First Edition. xiv, 627–1189 pages (continuously paginated from part 1). Part 2 of 4, translated from the German. Original version first published in 1929–1935. First edition in English. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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First Edition. xiii, 625 pages. Part 1 of 4, translated from the German. Original version first published in 1929. First edition in English. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
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First Edition. 108 pages. Monographs in Population Biology, no. 9. First edition (first printing, hardcover issue). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $15
![Item No: #35235 Textbook of Human Genetics [Second Edition]. Max Levitan, Ashley...](/pictures/thumb/35235.jpg?v=1604164885)
x, 1012 pages. Second edition. Near fine in illustrated boards, a touch faded at the spine. This copy inscribed by Montagu to the evolutionist and paleontologist, Stephen Jay Gould: "To Steve Gould, with best wishes from Ashley Montagu. April 1978."
Price: $100
