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Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain, 1729. 7th edition. 1729 PORTABLE 4-VOLUME ENCYCLOPEDIA WITH ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE IN COURTLY AFFAIRS, ILLUSTRATED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVED MAPS AND ROYAL PEDIGREES. Four hardcover volumes, each 6 1/2 inches tall, 3/4 leather binding, brown paper covers, spine gilt with gilt red leather labels, Vol. I, engraved frontispiece titled, Trahat sua quemque voluptas [To each his own taste], [54], 427, 16 folding plates; Vol. II, [8], 479, 33 folding plates; Vol III, [4], 408, 11 folding plates; Vol IV, [4], 410 (lacking pp 131-134, inserted in facsimile), 7 folding plates. Cover corners bumped and worn, spine gilt bright, bindings tight. Brown stain upper corner of last pages of Vol. I, not affecting plates, offsetting of some plates, text and plates clean and unmarked, overall very good. LA SCIENCE DES PERSONNES DE COUR, D'EPEE ET DE ROBE [The Science of People of Court, Sword and Robe] is an encyclopedia originally published in Paris by Sieur de Chevigny in two… Read More

Amsterdam: aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1716. Third edition. 1716 MAGNIFICENT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DRUGS AND THEIR ORIGINS ILLUSTRATED WITH 25 FOLDING COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS, EACH CONTAINING 16 IMAGES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. 10 inches tall hardcover, 18th century full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt tooled compartments, gilt red leather title label, all edges stained red, original marbled endpapers, red & black letterpress title page, engraved emblem of booksellers of Amsterdam, ""Vis Unita Major"", [xx], 590 pp, [58], 25 folding copper plate engravings, each containing 16 images of plants and animals (total 400 images, each with identification). Corners bumped, covers worn, spine bright with ends frayed, binding tight, light scattered foxing of text, plates clean and bright, strong impressions. A very good copy of a scarce illustrated pharmacopeia describing the names, origins, qualities, of drugs derived from animals, vegetables, and minerals. In custom archival mylar cover. TEXT IN FRENCH.… Read More

1909 - 1939. First editions. 1909 – 1939 BOUND COLLECTION OF 124 OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT AMERICAN AND BRITISH BIOLOGISTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY. Two hefty volumes, each 9 ½ inches tall, 3 inches thick, red buckram binding, gilt titles to spine, bookplates of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, typed table of contents. Vol. I contains 61 papers, Vol. II contains 63; there are many tables, figures, and plates. Light surface wear to covers, bindings tight, some covers signed by authors or recipient (N.S.R. Maluf), occasional marginal pencil notes, otherwise unmarked and very good. The offprints span a critical 30-year period of the 20th century science, documenting the flowering of experimental embryology, employing a wide variety of organisms. These include vertebrates (chick, amphibian, reptile, fish) and invertebrates (protozoa, hydrozoa, echinoderms, annelids, flatworms, crustaceans, insects). COMPLETE LIST OF OFFPRINTS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition. 1864 ADDRESS OF ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS INVITED BY HARVARD LUMINARIES TO GRADUATING CLASS OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, EXTOLLING CONTRIBUTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS MDs TO WAR EFFORT--INSCRIBED TO POPULAR CRITIC E P WHIPPLE. 9 inches tall pamphlet, gray printed wrappers, inscribed top cover, "E. P. Whipple Esq with regards of J. A. Andrew." iv, 28 pp. Soiling to covers, string binding perished, contents complete, pages unmarked, good+. JOHN ALBION ANDREW (1818 – 1867) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politican. He was elected in 1860 as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts, serving between 1861 and 1866, and led the state's contributions to the Union cause during the American Civil War. He was a guiding force behind the creation of some of the first African-American units in the United States Army, including the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Andrew was a radical abolitionist of slavery from an early age, engaged in the legal defense of fugitive… Read More

New York: J. Seymour, 1816. First edition. 1816 DISSERTATION FOR THE M.D. DEGREE AT C. P. & S., NEW YORK, DEDICATED TO PROFESSORS WHO WERE LUMINARIES OF EARLY AMERICAN MEDICINE AND INSCRIBED TO HIS COUSIN. 8 inches tall slim volume, marbled paper covers, spine perished, front cover separated from text, string binding secure, text block unmarked and very good. Ink inscription verso dedication page, "Sent by the author as an affectionate remembrance to his cousin Mrs. Lyman." The essay is "An inaugural dissertation on Neuralgia, submitted to the publick examination of the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of the Univeristy of the State of New York, Samuel Bard, M. D. President, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on Monday the sixth day of May, 1816." and is dedicated to "Wright Post, M.D., Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; Valentine Mott, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Operations of Surgery; David Hosack, M.D.F.L.S.,… Read More

Paris: Louis Duprat-Duverger, 1813. New edition. 1813 ATLAS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN BY FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR, "THE GREATEST COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST OF THE 18TH CENTURY." 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper covered boards, recent black cloth spine with gilt leather label, decorative bookplate to front paste-down of Charles Atwood Kofoid; title page, frontispiece allegorical engraving depicting Anatomy revealing Medicine and Art by Girodet (after Alexandre Briceau), engraved by Robert De Launay, 35 copper plate engravings of the human brain (8 folding), 4 plates of comparative anatomy each containing multiple images. Covers soiled, light browning to page edges, scattered light foxing, fine plate impressions, very good. FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR (1748-1794) was a French physician and anatomist, the originator of comparative anatomy and discoverer of the theory of homology in biology. He graduated in medicine at the University of Paris and became a renowned and brilliant animal and human anatomist and… Read More

Stuttgart: Princeton University, 1903. First edition. FOLIO VOLUME NARRATIVE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXPEDITIONS TO PATAGONIA, 1896-1899, BY J B HATCHER, FUNDED BY J P MORGAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. 13 inches tall folio volume, printed paper binding, photographic frontis with tissue guard, xvi, 314 pp, 50 figures on heavy paper with tissue guards, color double-page map of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia: The Plains, The Mountains, The Rivers of Patagonia, The Lakes of Southern Patagonia; The Coast of Patagonia; Climate; The Native Indian Tribes, Settlements in Southern Patagonia, Industries and Resources of Southern Patagonia; Summary; Errata; Index. Closed tear edge of last page and bottom corner of back cover; some tissue guards creased, covers clean, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. JOHN BELL HATCHER (1861– 1904) was an American paleontologist and fossil… Read More

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958. First edition. 1958 FIRST PUBLICATION BY NOTED SOCIOBIOLOGIST DESMOND MORRIS--HIS DOCTORAL THESIS FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper-covered boards, black pebbled cloth spine with gilt title, pp vi, 154, 50 illustrations in text, cover edges and corners worn, residual abrasions from removal of library stickers from bottom spine, back, and front paste-down; previous owner signature top of front paste-down, handstamp of Smithsonian Libraries top of table of contents and handstamp "withdrawn Smithsonian Institution Libraries." Binding tight, browning to first and last pages, text unmarked, good +. DESMOND MORRIS (born in 1928) is an English zoologist and ethologist as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. In 1951 he began a doctorate in animal behavior t the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and earned his PhD for his work on the reproductive behavior of the ten-spined stickleback (offered here). In 1956 he moved to London as… Read More

Taipei, Taiwan: Newmoon Book Co., Ltd., 1956 - 1965. Reprint. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF FIRST 5 VOLUMES OF JOSEPH NEEDHAM'S MONUMENTAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN CHINA: HONG KONG, TAIWAN CONNECTIONSFive hardcover volumes, 9 3/4 inches tall small quarto, beige cloth boards, spine lettering in red, endpapers discolored, otherwise very good in very good dust jackets. VOL. I. Introductory Orientations. Joseph Needham, with the research assistance of Wang Ling (reprinted 1961; Cambridge 1954). xxxviii, 318 pp, tables, bibliographies, figures, 2 large folding maps. Inscribed and signed on title page, "for Franklin Woo and Marcus Woo/Hongkong Mar 74/Joseph Needham" with author's signature in English and Chinese. Also handstamped date, 1 May 1974, lower right corner of title page. Same date stamp right upper corner of rear endpaper, with address to left of date: "Bishop's House/Hong Kong/May 1, 1974". Rear endpaper, flyleaf and paste-down filled with notes in blue and red ink, presumably by Woo; VOL. II. History… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. 1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to "Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz". 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text. Spine ends frayed, spine dulled, 1/4 inch chip to bottom corner of free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and overall very good. The 1871 edition is cited by Darwin in his reading notebook. Alexander's father, Louis, had become a passionate anti-Darwinist, whereas Wyman had become an ally! ALEXANDER EMMANUEL RODOLPHE AGASSIZ (1835 - 1910), son of Louis Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father, Louis, in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, and in 1859 became an assistant in the United… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE BLACK AND WHITE PHEASANT, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, small crease to lower right corner not affecting image; heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has… Read More