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Paris: Hotel de Thou, 1788-1790. First edition. FIRST EDITION 4 VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS BY LA CEPEDE, EXPANDING THE WORK OF BUFFON, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS. Four hardcover volumes, 6 1/2 inches tall, full leather binding, spines with raised bands, gilt compartments, all edges red stained, marbled endpapers, Vol. I, 60, 359, 12 plates; Vol. II, iv, 461, [ii], 15 plates; Vol. III, 432, 11 plates; Vol. IV, 408, 11 plates, "Eloge du Comte de Buffon". Illustrated with 49 copper plate engravings. Light wear to covers, surface insect damage to covers of Vol. II, browning to edges of first and last pages, abrasion across front endpapers of Vol. I, bindings tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good minus. French language. BERNARD-GERMAIN DE LA CEPEDE (1756 - 1825) was a French naturalist whose early perusal of Buffon's Natural History (Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière) awakened his interest in natural history. He wrote two treatises, Essai sur… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1968. First edition. ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF ADAPTATIONS OF BIRDS FOR BREEDING BY EXPERT ON DARWIN'S FINCHES. 10 inches tall mauve cloth binding, gilt title to spine, unmarked, very good in good price-clipped dust jacket with edge tears. From dust jacket: "The primary aim of this book is an interpretation of the main adaptations of birds for breeding-whether a species lests solitarily or in colonies, whether it is monogamous or has several mates, the lumber of eggs that it lays, the relative size of its eggs, the rate of development of its eggs and young, and the age at which it first breeds. This book is the first comprehensive survey of these points that has been made, so readers can see what is known, and what emains to be discovered, and hence may be stimulated to add to knowledge. However it is much more than a summary of the facts, for these various adaptations have been interpreted in terms of natural selection, and the author has suggested how each of… Read More

London: H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1935. First edition. 1935 LANDMARK STUDIES ON TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA BY HYPERIMMUNE HORSE SERUM AND DURATION OF IMMUNITY IN FERRETS BY PIONEERING BRITISH VIROLOGISTS. 10 inches tall offprint in orange printed paper covers, stapled, two papers from The British Journal of Experimental Pathology, vol. XVI, pp 275 - 302. Previous owner pencil signature and handstamp number top of cover, very good with no internal markings. SIR PATRICK PLAYFAIR LAIDLAW (1881 - 1940) was a Scottish virologist. From 1920–23, he studied the properties of histamine at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories after which he went to Guy's Hospital as a lecturer in experimental pathology. As a virologist at the Medical Research Council in 1922 his researches on dog-distemper led to two ways of immunization against it, which achievement earned him the award of a Royal Medal by the Royal Society in 1933. In 1927 he had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was one of the… Read More

London: Moon, Boys, and Graves, 1832. First edition.
1832 FOLIO WITH DRAMATIC ORIGINAL ETCHINGS OF ANIMALS FROM THE LONDON ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS BY EMINENT VICTORIAN ARTIST--COPY OF NOTED COLLECTOR.
26x37 cm folio recent 3/4 brown calf with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt title black leather label, silk page marker, recent endpapers. Armorial bookplate of William Fuller Maitland of Stansted Hall to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier to front free endpaper. Unpaginated. 32 full-page engraved plates by Landseer interpersed with descriptive text by John Henry Barrow. Many of the text-pages have small engravings with imaginative scenes depicting interactions among species. Light foxing sparing most of the plates, very good minus.
THOMAS LANDSEER (1793–1880) was an artist best known for his engravings and etchings, particularly those of paintings by his youngest brother Edwin Landseer. Landseer was born in London, the eldest of the fourteen children of engraver John… Read More

London: John Murray, 1798. First edition.
1792 HANDSOMLY BOUND 5-VOLUME FOLIO COMPILATION OF OVER 500 ENGRAVINGS IN A SUMPTUOUS ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNAMY BY LAVATER.
Five 28x34 cm folio volumes (3 volumes in 5), full leather bindings, gilt fillets to covers, all edges gilt. Expertly rebacked with tooled leather and gilt green leather spine labels,. Vol. I, [xii], [10], 281 pp, engravings; Vol. II part 1, [x], 238 pp, engravings; Vol. II part 2, [vi], [239] - 444 pp, engravings; Vol. III, part 1, [vii], 252 pp, engravings; Vol III, part 2, [253] – 437 pp, [xi] (index & directions to binder), engravings. Total over 500 engravings, including 172 full page engraved plates. Wear to cover edges, corners worn, hinges reinforced, scattered foxing, offsetting to some plates, no previous owner or library marks. Vol. 1 with small ink blots on pages 224-225, plate opposite page 112 foxed and loose. A beautifully bound collection of remarkable engravings in 5 heavy volumes - very good minus.… Read More

London: The New Sydenham Society, 1893. First English edition (French 1891). 1893 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MALARIA BY NOBEL LAUREATE ALPHONSE LAVERAN. 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt portrait of Sydenham to front cover, gilt title to spine, all edges stained red, xii, 197, 6 plates (4 chromolithographs by Nicolet after Lavern and 2 heliotypes by Racle), each with facing descriptive text; spine ends frayed, corners worn, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, very good. CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN (1845 - 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as his profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he joined the French Army. At… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition (2nd printing).
SIGNED BY NOTED PALEOANTHROPOLOGIST: EVIDENCE FOR THE PRESENT MASS EXTINCTION--LIKELY TO INCLUDE HOMO SAPIENS.
15x24 cm hardcover, blue paper-covered boards, black spine with gilt title, inscribed on front free endpaper, "For John/ I'm glad you're interested in this--it's important!/ Best wishes/ Roger Lewin/ May I add my very warm regards & best wishes/ Richard Leakey." [i-ix], 271 pp, black & white illustrations. Near-fine in near-fine jacket.
RICHARD LEAKEY (1944-2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. As a small boy, Leakey lived in Nairobi with his parents: Louis Leakey, curator of the Coryndon Museum, and Mary Leakey, director of the Leakey excavations at Olduvai, and his two brothers. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of… Read More

London: F.C. Rivington and J. Rivington et al., 1810. 4th edition (stated). 1810 BEST EDITION OF FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LINNAEUS' PHILOSOPHIA BOTANICA, WITH 12 SUPERB HAND COLORED ENGRAVINGS. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, recent green buckram binding, gilt title to spine, portrait frontis of author with offsetting to title page, xxiv, 580 pp, 12 hand-colored copper plate engravings with facing descriptive text, blank leaf with poems inscribed on both sides in a fine contemporary hand: Anacreontic by Arthur Moore, and The Swiss Cow Herds Song by J Montgomery. Covers fine, scattered foxing to initial and end pages. Very good. This expanded 4th edition revised by Lee's son is the only edition with colored plates. CARL LINNAEUS (1707 – 1778) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". JAMES LEE (1715-1795) was an English botanist and nurseryman. While Carl… Read More

Washington DC: American Geophysical Union, 1964 - 1967. First edition. 1960S SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF BIOLOGY OF THE ANTARCTIC SEAS, PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION IN THE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH SERIES. Three volumes 10 3/4 inches tall, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Vol. I, ix, 109 [76] pp; Vol. II, xi, 278 pp; Vol. III, vii, 261 pp; many figures, tables [some folding], maps and plates (some color); light wear to covers, corners bumped, institutional handstamp to bottom edge, bindings tight, pocket and sign-out sheet front endpapers, no other library marks, texts clean and bright, very good. The Antarctic Research Series serves working scientists, students, and nonscientists interested in biological or physical research endeavors in Antarctica and, on occasion, the general public interested in the Antarctic environment. The primary purpose is to provide an effective and authoritative outlet for research conducted in Antarctica. Most Antarctic research results are, and will… Read More

London: Ray Society, 1851. First edition. THE MICROSCOPY OF SPORES IN CLASSIFICATION OF LICHENS WITH 30 SPECTACULAR COLOR PLATES--BY CLERGYMAN/BOTANIST SCHOOLMATE OF DARWIN WHO SUBSCRIBED TO THE BOOK. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, blindstamped design to covers, gilt initials of Ray Society to cover, gilt title to spine, [vi], 101 pp, 30 handcolored lithographic plates, 18 pp List of Subscribers (including "Darwin, C. esq. F.R.S., Down, Kent"), 3 pp Report of the Council of the Ray Society, Professor Henslow in the Chair. Spine faded, binding tight, armorial bookplate of Frederick DuCane Godman to front paste-down, scattered light foxing to text pages, plates bright and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "Every botanist is fully aware how valuable and avail. able a character is afforded by the form and external markings of the seeds m very many species of Phsenogamous plants; the correct determination of the species frequently depending… 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

1928-1954. First editions.
1928-1954 ARCHIVE OF OFFPRINTS BY PIONEERING EPILEPTOLOGIST W. G. LENNOX COLLECTED BY HIS SUCCESSOR, C. T. LOMBROSO.
Archive of 21 offprints of papers by Dr. William G. Lennox, from the estate of dr. Cesare T. Lombroso, who succeeded Lennox as director of the Seizure Unit at the Children's Hospital, Boston.
WILLIAM GORDON LENNOX (1884-1960) first became interested in epilepsy when working as medical missionary in China. At the Harvard Medical School, he published many papers with Frederic Gibbs with whom he was jointly awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1951. From 1935 to 1949 Lennox was president of the International League Against Epilepsy, and from 1941 to 1952 editor of the Epilepsia. From 1936 to 1937 he served as first president of the American League Against Epilepsy, which later became the American Epilepsy Society. In 1951 he described a special epilepsy syndrome, later named after him and the French neurologist and epileptologist Henri… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. First edition, first printing.
TWO RICHLY ILLUSTRATED FOLIO VOLUMES PROVIDE AN EXPANDED VIEW OF THE GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA.
Two folio volumes 11 1/4 inches tall, color printed laminated covers, Vol. 1: i-ix, [2], 214 pp, illustrations; Vol 2: i-xxiii, [2], 384 pp, illustrations. Fine, like new.
PETER M. LETOURNEAU is a research affiliate of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, and a former Visiting Scholar and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University. Dr. LeTourneau has conducted extensive studies on the geology, ecology, and cultural history of the Connecticut Valley. He has conducted substantial field research on the paleoclimates, fossils, and ancient environments of Triassic-Jurassic age rift valleys in New England, the mid-Atlantic area, the Canadian Maritimes, and the western High Atlas region of Morocco, as well as the Cenozoic through modern rifts of the U. S.… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1867. First American edition (later printing). 1867 ILLUSTRATED HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY FOR THE LAYPERSON BY TALENTED SELF-TAUGHT PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST AND ROMANTIC PARTNER OF GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS). Two hardcover volumes, 7 ½ inches tall, pebbled salmon cloth binding, blindstamped rules, gilt title to spines, each volume signed in pencil, "CW Gaylord 3/1872". Vol. I: xii, 368 pp, 4 pp publisher's ads; Vol. II: 410 pp, 10 pp publisher's ads. Wood engravings. Sunning to spines, small tear in fore edge of front free endpaper and a few marginal penciled notes in Vol. I; bindings tight, pages crisp and clean, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. CONTENTS: HUNGER AND THIRST, FOOD AND DRINK, DIGESTION AND INDIGESTION, THE STRUCTURE AND USES OF OUR BLOOD, CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD; ITS HISTORY, COURSE, AND CAUSES, RESPIRATION AND SUFFOCATION, WHY WE ARE WARM, AND HOW WE KEEP SO, FEELING AND THINKING, THE MIND AND THE BRAIN, OUR SENSES AND SENSATIONS, SLEEP AND… Read More

Anatomical Record, National Academy of Sciences, 1926 - 1949. First editions. 1926-1949 SEVEN OFFPRINTS ON CELL DIVISION AND CELL SHAPE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS BY LEGENDARY HARVARD EMBRYOLOGIST AND MORPHOLOGIST FREDERIC T. LEWIS, ONE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 1)The effect of cell division on the shape and size of hexagonal cells. Anat. Rec., 33: 331-355 (196); 2) The correlation between cell division and the shapes and sizes of prismatic cells in the epidermis of Cucumis. Anat. Rec, 38: 341-376 (1928); 3) A volumetric study of growth and cell division in two types of epitheium——the longitudinally prismatic epidermal cells of Tradescantia and the radially prismatic epidermal cells of Cucumis. Anat. Rec, 47: 59-99 (1930); 4) A comparison between the mosaic of polygons in a film of artificial emulsion and the pattern of simple epithelium in surface view (cucumber epidermis and human amnion). Anat. Rec., 50: 235-265 (1931); 5) Mathematically precise features of epithelial mosaics: observations on… Read More

Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, 1842. First edition. 1842 FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF METABOLISM INTO PHYSIOLOGY BY THE FOUNDER OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 calf with marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands and red leather label with gilt title, marbled endpapers, xl, 347 pp, 8 pp reply to publishers of unauthorized edition of Part II of Liebig's work. Covers worn, binding tight, light foxing, pages crisp and text unmarked, good+. JUSTUS LIEBIG (1803 – 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time. He has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944. First edition.
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, WOODS HOLE, BY EMINENT EMBRYOLOGIST.
9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, pictorial map of Cape Cod to endpapers, i-ix, 284 pp, illustrations. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANK RATTRAY LILLIE (1870 – 1947) was an American zoologist and an early pioneer of the study of embryology. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lillie moved to the United States in 1891 to study for a summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Lillie formed a lifelong association with the laboratory, eventually rising to become its director in 1908. His efforts developed the MBL into a full-time institution. Lillie was appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in 1900. He was named Chairman of the Department of Zoology in 1910 and Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences in 1931. His research there was instrumental… Read More

1903-1924. First editions. ARCHIVE OF 44 EARLY 20TH CENTURY OFFPRINTS BY JACQUES LOEB, PIONEERING PHYSIOLOGIST WHO DEMONSTRATED EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT FERTILIZATION; 3 PAPERS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 44 offprints 9 1/2 - 10 1/2 inches tall, in self or printed wrappers, some with notations on covers, text unmarked and most very good, several with age-toning and edgewear. Three inscribed by author: 1) Further observations on the production of parthenogenetic frogs, J. Gen. Physiol. (March 20, 1921), 1920-21, iii, 539-545; 2) The colloidal behavior of proteins, J. Gen. Physiol. (March 20, 1921), 1920-21, iii, 557-564: 3) The proteins and colloid chemistry, Address delivered October 16,1920, Science, 1920, lii, 449-456. The collection is housed in an archival document box with metal reinforced corners.JACQUES LOEB (1859-1924) was a German-born American physiologist and biologist who trained in Berlin, Munich and Strasburg and joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1992. After 10… Read More

London: Allen Lane, 2009. First edition (6th printing).
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR--JAMES LOVELOCK'S 2009 BOOK WARNS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE MAY HAVE ALREADY PASSED THE TIPPING POINT.
15x24 cm hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, author signature to title page, i-xiii, 178 pp, color illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. "James Lovelock's The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning is a prophetic message for mankind from one of the most influential scientists of our age. James Lovelock's Gaia theory, the idea that our planet is a living, self-regulating system, has transformed the way we see our planet and what is now happening to it. In this book he distils a lifetime's wisdom and observation of the Earth to reveal the rate at which our climate is altering, how conventional 'green' measures are not working, and how life as we know it is going to change forever. Only Gaia, he shows, can help us fully understand this, and prepare us for the future."--International… Read More

Stockholm: Kongl. Boktryckeriet, 1883. First edition. 1883 MONOGRAPH ON DEEP SEA URCHINS BY NOTED SWEDISH MARINE BIOLOGIST--ILLUSTRATED WITH 21 VERY FINE LITHOGRAPHS. 12 inches tall folio hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, green cloth spine with paper title label, institutional handstamps bottom of title page, contemporary ink signature top of front paste-down, 95 pp, many figures in text, 21 fine lithographed plates; wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. SVEN LUDVIG LOVEN (1809 - 1895) was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist. The Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences at both Kristineberg and Tjärnö are named in his honor. He was first Keeper then Director of the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. He was also Professor of Natural History at Stockholm University. He was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1881 and a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1885. The World Register of Marine Species… Read More