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1900007889Jena: Gustav Fischer 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 549 pp. 2 maps in text fold-out map at rear Near Fine small edge tears at folds 6 chromolithographs 8 heliogravures 32 full page plates and 390 plates in text. Bound in quarter black cloth over paper covered boards hand-written label at spine period handwriting title page small stamp "Konigl. Seminar Lobau" title page. Very Good a quite well-bound book and SCARCE in the 1900 First Edition. Carl Chun 1852-1914 was a German marine biologist a specialist on cephalopods and plankton. Chun's expedition on the "Valdivia" in 1898-99 was the first large-scale German expedition to explore the deep sea. Gustav Fischer Hardcover
1894010600London : Macmillan and Co 1894. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated with over a hundred drawings and tables. Two pages of publisher's ads at the rear. xvi corrigenda 598 2 pp. Very Good Spine ends and corners are mildly rubbed. Both hinges just starting Prior owner name to top of front end paper. Bateson's foundational work in expanding Darwin's theory of evolution. This book introduced the term "genetics" argued for discontinuous sudden variation in evolution contrasting Darwin's gradualism and laid groundwork for modern genetics by linking variation heredity and evolution through detailed examples from nature influencing how scientists studied species origins. PMM 356. . Macmillan and Co, Hardcover
1860DEMO010833IWashington: Thomas H. Ford 1860. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. chromolithographs b&w pls. Quartos 358 40; 399 pages 21stC 3/4 calf marbled boards waterstains <br/><br/>House Exec. Doc. no. 56. Howes P3; Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 261ff; Rittenhouse 442. Vol.I has 70 chromolithographed scenes. With 3 folding maps. Vol.1 has the Report. Vol.2 has the Botany Zoology Ornithology Fish Mollusks & Crustaceans. "The plates in Book 1 are all really tinted. Book II has 8 fine colored plates of birds; 45 black & white plates of fish animals insects and plants -Whitman Bennett in his PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS p.101." Thomas H. Ford hardcover
1837007672London: John Van Voorst 1837. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition 1837 in signed Tout Binder half red morocco over marbled boards lined in gilt five raised bands gilt lined gilt lettering and tail date end pages marbled top edge gilt ribbon marker numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Armorial bookplate front paste down of Captain James Stewart Alltyrodyn a noted collector. Also laid in the card of noted 20th century American collector Lewis Vogler. Near Fine slight toning to end pages small rubs to two of the raised bands. A quite handsome copy with excellent provenance of this classic work. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1864093958Paris: F. Chamerot Libraire-Editeur 1864 Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 19th century French work on the origin and development of bone - discussing origine du squelette developpement des os en general developpement des os en particulier et ossification des cartilages dits permanents. Also have an appendix on des articulations transitoires. 271 pages. Binding has moderate wear including scuff mark on top edges; interior is in very good condition with just minor foxing. F. Chamerot, Libraire-Editeur hardcover
1868010633New York: Orange Judd and Company 1868. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First American Edition. Authorized Edition with a preface by Asa Gray. Illustrated. 494 pages plus 6 pages ads in rear in Volume I and 568 pages plus 8 pages ads in rear in Volume II. Dark brown end papers. Green cloth covered blind stamped boards with gilt lettering to the spines.About Very Good. Volume I has modest wear to tips and spine ends slight sun darkened spine minimal rubbing. Both hinges opened. Front paste down with two different prior owner book plates. Front free end paper prior owner name in ink. Pages 191 to 210 loose from binding. Volume II has small ink stain to front board wear to tips and spine ends front hinge open showing webbing but holding nicely prior owner book plate glue shadow at paste down the plate laid in. Internally clean and unmarked. The later owner of this book was the noted University of Cincinnati chemist and educator William B. Jensen. Priced to allow for hinge repair. . Orange Judd and Company Hardcover
1900008172London / New York: S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. 1900. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Thick 8vo. # 188 of 208 copies printed for America. Two volumes in publisher's original green buckram gilt lettering at spines top edges gilt. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated. Very Good spot of discoloration rear board Vol. II scattered light toning at end papers only. A handsome set of this classic of natural history. S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. Hardcover
1887004764Chicago: W.t. Keener 1887. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good in the original green cloth gilt lettering spine and front board boards are rubbed and solied lacking the rear endpage. Presentation book plate front paste down -"Presented to the Physio-Medical College of Indiana By Melville C. Keith M.D. Christmas 1888". Errata slip tipped in at final page of text. Edwin Hartley Pratt was the founder of the Chicago-based Orificial Surgery Society in 1887. Orificial surgery sought to cure many of the physical and psychological ills of the body by surgical corrections to the various orifices mainly those below the waist. This movement in mainstream American medicine flourished until the 1920s and the numbers of those subjected to orificial surgery during its brief heyday are estimated to be in the tens of thousands. It is remembered mainly today for its advocacy of circumcision in both males and females. RARE in the 1887 First Edition a wonderful curiosity for any medical book collection !. W.t. Keener Hardcover
1845009101Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars 1845. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Frontispiece portrait and memoir of Cuvier with three title pages including engraved series title page. 3rd title page for The Natural History of the Feline title page states "illustrated by thirty-eight colour plates" however Contents page lists plates numbered up to 34 and there are 32 plates with tissue guards present. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards brown end papers black calf labels with gilt lettering and rules back Very Good boards rubbed at edges evidence of small sticker removal front at end page small binder's stamp appears to read Walker Strand. Uncommon in the 1845 first edition. W. H. Lizars Hardcover
1874chd20bLondon: Smith Elder & Co. G : in good condition. Ex-lib. Library rebind with new eps. Tape repairs to maps. Page edges darkened. 1874. Second Edition Revised. Red hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 140mm 8" x 6". xx 278pp 6pp maps. 3 fold-out colour maps. . Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
1896010618New York : D.Appleton and Company 1896. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Third Edition with Maps and Illustrations. xiii 648 pp. Contemporary half red leather over marbled boards gilt lettering and rules to the spine. Top edge gilt. Very Good. Spine has small chip to top of spine; closed tear to mid spine; and rubbing at the corners and edges. Intermittent toning around paste downs and end pages. First published in 1846 Darwin's Geological Observations made up the third part of his memoir of his voyage on the Beagle during the years 1832-1836. Contains two Parts; "Part One: Volcanic Islands and Part Two: South America". Maps and fold outs present and undamaged small stains to the final two fold-outs. Uncommon in collectible condition. . D.Appleton and Company Hardcover
1868100591Germany 1868 Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. contains 12 plates on the cerebral cortex most of which are fold-out plates by the noted German-Austrian psychiatrist neuropathologist and anatomist who believed that disturbances in brain development could be a predisposition for psychiatric illness and that certain psychoses are reversible. The last plate reads "Die Windungen der Convexen Hirnmanteloberflache". There is no title page; the plates are dated either 1867 or 1868. The book lacks its spine covering the pages have significant foxing. hardcover
18775055Jena GE: Hermann Dufft 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 270 pages later cloth utrimmed; x-library. Scarce. <br/><br/>Haeckel's gastraea theory which considers the two-layered gastrula to the ancestral form of multicellular animals - Garrison/Morton no. 120. "Haeckel one of the greatest morphologists of the 19th century quickly accepted the general principles of Darwinism disagreeing on some points. He ws the first to promote Darwin's theories in Germany - Garrison/Morton no. 223. Haeckel famously opined his Darwinian statement "Ontology recapitulates phylogeny." This was one of his more significant writings: this theory influenced embryological investigations for half a century.His theory first appeared in 1874 in 'Jenaische Zeitschrift fur naturewissenschaft'. With 14 lithographed plates. Hermann Dufft hardcover
1899309IB1899. Paris Masson 1899. 4 Porträts 3 Bl. 740 S. Neuer Leinenband. Sehr gut erhalten und sauber. unknown
1848018013London Uk: Bradbury And Evans 1848. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Drawings Throughout. . Three Quarter Black Morocco Over Green Cloth. Olive Cloth Inner Softcover As New Gilt Bound In. Organized Alphabetically With Accompanying Drawings Throughout. From The Library Of Hal And Mary Hall And Signed By Mary Hall; Hal Hall Wrote A Book On Yosemite. <br/> <br/> Bradbury And Evans hardcover
1859009785London: H. G. Bohn 1859. Book. Very Good Plus. Full Calf. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Handsomely bound in full polished calf intricate gilt back marbled end papers and edges stamp-signed "Huches & Kemp Binders Oxford" bottom edge verso front end page. Very Good Plus front board top 1" slight fading boards lightly rubbed and soiled moderate foxining at first few end pages front and rear but clean of foxing internally. Presentation inscription front end page dated 1865 gifting the book to a fellow Etonian on leaving the school. New Edition Thoroughly Revised and Partially Re-Written. . Uncommon in commerce in contemporary fine binding. H. G. Bohn Hardcover
1895009267London: Balliere Tindall & Cox 1895. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. Second & Enlarged Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in original chocolate brown cloth gilt lettering. v111 207 8 42 pages illustration. Very Good Plus light rubbing at corners and spine ends rear board evenly faded 1/2" wide strip small bookseller's ticket front paste down. 8 pp. ads for microscopes followed by 42 pp. ads for Balliere Tindall & Cox publications. RARE in current commerce. Balliere, Tindall & Cox Hardcover
1864009261Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea 1864. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxviii 49-706 32 adverts. In original brown embossed cloth Very Good spine a touch sunned light edge wear. Bookplate of Edward Delos Churchill front paste down and his last name signed in pencil front end page. With excellent medical provenance from the collection of Edward Delos Churchill 1895-1972 a pioneering American thoracic surgeon best remembered for describing the Churchill-Cope reflex. Blanchard & Lea Hardcover
1871009117London and New York: Macmillan & Co. 1871. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bound in 20th c. green cloth with gilt lettering back Near Fine slight foxing at end papers only light wear to boards at edges. Mivart's critique of Darwin that came after his initial enthusiasm for Darwin's theories. Uncommon in this 2nd London edition. Macmillan & Co. Hardcover
1893009363London: Adam and Charles Black 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Published 1893-1896 the original four parts bound in quarter red leather over printed hardpaper boards gilt lettering at spines black end papers. Each volume with a contemporary bookmark promoting the Scottish Widows Fund laid in along with publisher's slips for obtaining cloth bindings and notice of next publication laid in Part I. Very Good leather at soines rubbed rear board of Part I separating from top edge. Uncommon in the original parts as most copies seen today wound up being bound by the original owners. Illustrated with drawings fold-out map Part I Fine. vii 2 304 305-576 577-832 833-1088 followed by A Dictionary of Birds at rear of part IV with separate half-title and title pages xii 124. Adam and Charles Black Hardcover
1885008533London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1885. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SCARCE in the First Edition. Bound in contemporary full polished calf by Bickers & Son marbled end papers and edges back gilt. From the collection of noted thoracic surgeon Edward Delos Churchill his bookplate front paste down. Very Good joints showing wear yet still holding gilt at back rubbed spine label missing rubs at edges and corners. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. Hardcover
1884j8372London: H K Lewis. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Browning at edges. Previous owners' inscriptions. 1884. Second Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 140mm 7" x 6". iv 164pp ads. 3 of 3 tipped in b/w plates. . H K Lewis hardcover
1856030656Albany: C. Van Benthuysen / New York State Legislature 1856. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. B/W Engravings. 4 Plates At Front Title 336 Pp. Original Brown Cloth Blindstamped Covers Gilt Lettering On Spine. First Edition 1856 Date On Title Page. Inscribed By The Author On Title Page With Ownership Signature Of The Recipient On Front Free Endpaper No Other Marks. Light Wear With Small Chips To Spine Cloth Small Loss Of Cloth At Tips Hinges Tight Light Foxing Pages Square. Per Wikipedia Asa Fitch 1809 - 1879 Was A Natural Historian And Entomologist From Salem New York. His Early Studies Were Of Both Natural History And Medicine Which He Studied At The Newly Formed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Graduating In 1827. However In 1838 He Decided To Start Studying Agriculture And Entomology. In 1838 He Began To Collect And Study Insects For New York State. In 1854 He Became The First Professional Entomologist Of The New York State Agricultural Society Commissioned By The State Of New York. This Made Him The First Occupational Entomologist In The United States. His Vast Studies Of Many Insects Helped Scientists To Solve Some Of The Problems Of Crop Damage Caused By Insects. Many Of His Notebooks Are Now The Property Of The Smithsonian Institution. <br/> <br/> C. Van Benthuysen / New York State Legislature hardcover
1886j5220Scarborough: G R Marshall & Son. G : in good condition in green solandar box. Cover rubbed. Prelims darkened. 1886. Reprint. Pictorial card cover. 180mm x 120mm 7" x 5". xviii 60pp xiv plan. Double page b/w plan. . G R Marshall & Son unknown
1861008331Boston: Crosby Nichols Lee and Company 1861. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page - "To Hon. Simon Brown with the regards of The Author". Simon Brown was the 21st Lt. Governor of Massachusetts serving from 1855-56. He was also a printer and publisher including of the New England Farmer. Simon Brown's signature in pencil at top edge title page. Very Good Plus title at spine faded and not quite legible. 164 pp. in publisher's pebbled cloth with rules in blind. Quite sturdily bound in line with its intended audience. SCARCE SIGNED and with a nice Association. Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company Hardcover
