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Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1966. COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS OF APPLES AND PEARS DEVELOPED IN THE USSR DURING THE KRUSCHEV AND BREZHNEV ADMINISTRATIONS. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed gilt images of apple and pear and gilt title to cover and spine; 255 pages with 64 colored plates, each picturing 2 to 4 varieties. Corners bumped, marginal browning to endpapers, no dust jacket; very good. Text in Russian. From the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow Society of Nature Experimenters.
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COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS. Five Hundred New Varieties of Apples and Pears Developed in the USSR
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COLOR PLATES. An Introduction to the Science of Botany, Chiefly Extracted from the Works of Linnaeus; to which are added, Several New Tables and Notes, and a Life of the Author, corrected and enlarged by James Lee, son and successor to the Author
by Lee, James
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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…
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"CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION". Anatomy of Reality. Merging of Intuition and Reason
by Salk, Jonas
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. First edition.INSPIRING EXPLORATION OF HUMANITY AND EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE BY DEVELOPER OF POLIO VACCINE--INSCRIBED TO NOTED PHILANTHROPIST AT A MEETING OF VIPs AT THE GOLDEN DOOR SPA.
9 inches tall hardcover, beige cloth binding, embossed title to cover and spine, inscribed on front free endpaper, "To Stuart and Phyllis Moldaw/ With deep appreciation/ to Alecko Papamarkou for bringing us together,/ with friendship and affection, Jonas Salk/ 25 June 1983/ The Golden Door". i-xxvii, [4], 127 pp. Near fine in near fine jacket in protective mylar sleeve. LAID IN: Two page typed Golden Door guest list for the week of June 19, 1983, including Stuart Moldaw, Alexander Papamarkou, Jonas and Francoise Salk, as well as 30 other international luminaries. FROM JACKET FLAP: "Man now has it within his power acitvely to collaborate with the evolutionary process and, using the creative power of his mind, guide the human race to the fulfillment of his potential. Can we… Read More
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CONTAINS DARWIN & LINCOLN--BORN SAME DAY. Atlantic Monthly Volume VI, 1860
by Darwin, Charles and Gray, Asa
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition. 1860 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY JULY-DECEMBER 1860--CONTAINS 3 REVIEWS OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES AND AN EDITORIAL PROMOTING LINCOLN'S CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT (BOTH MEN WERE BORN FEBRUARY 12, 1809). 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, and gilt title and initials of previous owner (Fr. A. Bryan). Edges marbled, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Fr. A. Bryan to front paste-down, iv, 764 pp; joints starting, binding tight, light foxing to endpapers, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. Darwin first wrote to Asa Gray in 1855. A correspondence and intellectual comradeship quickly developed to the point where in July 1857 Darwin informed Gray of his as yet unpublished theory of natural selection, thereby making Gray the third person (after Joseph Hooker and Charles Lyell) to know his secret. Part of this letter to Gray was later included in the presentation to the Linnean Society in…
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CONTAINS CANNON'S FIRST USE OF "HOMEOSTASIS". A Charles Richet - ses amis, ses collegues, ses eleves. (n.p., Paris), May 1926. Bound with: Discours prononces a I'occasion du jubile Charles Richet.
by Abelous, J.E., Arthus, M., Athanasiu, J., Delezenne, C., Fano, G., Fredericq, L., Gley, E., Lusk, G., Hedon, E., Houssay, B.A., Lapique, L., Nolf, P., Lodge, O., Painleve, P., Pawlow, J., Pi-Suner, A., Portier, P., Richet, C.fils, Roger, G.H., Schafer, E.
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Paris: Editions Medicales, 1926. First edition. UNIQUE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF FESTSCHRIFT HONORING NOBELIST CHARLES RICHET, COPY OF NOBELIST CHARLES SHERRINGTON, CONTAINING WALTER CANNON'S ESSAY FIRST USING THE TERM "HOMEOSTASIS".11 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, (n.p., Paris), July 1926. Two volumes in one, original stiff printed wrappers to both volumes bound in, uncut, [4],101 pp, [4]; 37 pp, [1]. Limitation indication in the first volume: copy 269 of 500, signed by the editor. Each volume with the ownership signature of the 1932 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, PAPERS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON (1857-1952). On the verso of the front fly-leaf in Sherrington's hand is a listing of the two titles bound in this volume. Sherrington contributed a paper to the first volume (pp.88-90): Addition Latente and recruitment in reflex contraction and inhibition. Faint library stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons. A very good copy.…
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THE CREAM OF HARVARD ZOOLOGY ca. 1900. Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902
by Allen, G.M.; Bancroft, F.W.; Castle, W.E.; Davenport, C.B.; Davenport, G.C.; Eastman, C.R.; Eigenmann, C.H.; Floyd, R.; Gerould, J.H.; Goto, S.; Hyde, I.H.; Jennings, H.S.; Johnson, H.P.; Kofoid, C.A.; Lee, T.G.; Linville, H.R.; Locy, W.A.; Neal, H.V.; Pa
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New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1903. First edition. 1903 SCARCE FESTSCHRIFT WITH 25 ORIGINAL PAPERS ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES IN HONOR OF EDWARD LAURENS MARK, DIRECTOR OF HARVARD'S ZOOLOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 12 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photogravure portrait of Mark with tissue guard, perforated library stamp to title page, xiii, 513 pp, 36 plates,some in color. Covers soiled, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. Large format festschrift in honor of Edward Laurens Mark (1847 - 1946), Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University 1877-1902, with 25 papers by his former students, representing the cream of American zoology at the end of the 19th century. Mark received the degree A.B. in 1871 from the University of Michigan. After service as astronomer of the United States Northwest Boundary Survey, in 1873 he traveled to…
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Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British Museum
by Busk, George
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London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1852, 1854. First edition.1852 UNIQUE LEATHER BOUND COPY OF ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MARINE POLYZOA COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED BY CONTEMPORARY NATURALIST.
2 vols. 11x18 cm full brown leather binding, gilt borders to covers, spine with gilt bands and titles, all edges red, wear to edges, binder's ticket of Wm Detmold, Melbourne, to front paste-down, light wear to edges of covers and spine, handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to ffep, no other marks; overall very good. Text vol. contains Part I. Cheilostomata (Part), viii, 54, viii; Part II. Cheilostomata (Part), iv, 120, 4; blank pages. Ink initials WHA on title pages of Parts I and II, with notes in the same fine contemporary hand throughout text and first 3 blank pages (containing complete classification scheme). Plate vol. contains 125 (Plate LXVbis present in addition to LXV) fine lithographed plates each mounted on linen, and annotated throughout in pencil. Scattered light foxing, overall very good.
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Causes and Curative Treatment of Sterility, with a Preliminary Statement of the Physiology of Generation. With Colored Lithographs and Numerous Wood Cut Illustrations
by Gardner, Augustus K.
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New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1856. 1856 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON FEMALE STERILITY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PLATES BY NOTED PHILADELPHIA LITHOGRAPHER. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth boards, blindstamped design, bright gilt title to cover, viii, 170 pages. Spine dulled, spine ends lightly worn, only marks are handstamp of Cincinnati Academy of Medicine Library to title page and dedication page, which reads, "NOT TO THE INVENTOR OF THE CLAMP SUTURE, THE CROWNING SURGICAL APPLIANCE OF THE AGE; NOR TO THE PHILANTHROPIC PROJECTOR OF THE WOMAN'S HOSPITAL, THE NOBLEST CHARITY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, BUT TO THE MAN OF PRIVATE WORTH, TO J. MARION SIMS, M.D., THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, AS A TOKEN OF THE PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL ESTEEM OF THE AUTHOR." Five color lithograph plates by T. Sinclair with tissue guards and 49 wood engravings. Overall very good. AUGUSTUS KINSLEY GARDNER (1821-1876) earned his M.D. from Harvard in 1844 with a thesis on syphilis. After a year in Europe,…
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The Cell and Protoplasm
by Moulton, F.R., Taylor, C.V., Conklin, E.G., Chambers, R., Bailey, I.W., Jennings, H.S., Goldschmidt, R.B., Child, C.M., Harrison, R.G., Kofoid, C.A., van Niel, C.B., Stanley, W.M., Theorell, H., Szent-Gyorgyi, A., Sponsler, O.L., Heilbrunn, L.V. and Berna
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Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1940. First edition.PROCEEDINGS OF A LANDMARK MEETING OF LUMINARIES IN CELL BIOLOGY AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY IN 1939.
10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature of Victor M. Emmel to front free endpaper, [5], 205 pp, black & white illustrations. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. The sixteen papers comprised in this volume were presented in a Symposium on The Cell and Protoplasm at Stanford University, June 30-July 5, 1939. The occasion commemorated the one hundred years of advancement in knowledge of the protoplasmic unit of living things after Schleiden and Schwann's formulation of the Cell Theory.
PROVENANCE: VICTOR M. EMMEL is co-author with EV Cowdry of Laboratory Technique in Biology and Medicine, 1966.
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The Cephalaspids of Great Britain, with sixty-six plates and seventy text-figures
by Stensio, Erik Andersson
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London: British Museum, 1932. First edition.MASSIVE VOLUME WITH SUPERB PLATES ILLUSTRATING FINE DETAIL OF FOSSIL PRIMITIVE FISH.
24x31x5 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of University of London and "WITHDRAWN" handstamp to front paste-down, l9x11 cm leaflet, "Presented by The Trustees of The British Museum" laid in, i-xiv, 220 pp, 70 text-figures, 66 plates (some folding) with facing descriptive text. Light wear to corners, light browning to pages, very good in custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: "In this British Museum Catalogue the results of Professor Stensio's most recent work are embodied as an anatomic and systematic treatise. Professor Stensio is well known as the highest authority on those early vertebrates allied to Recent lampreys and known as Cephalaspids. His marvellous technique may be said to have revolutionized our methods of research, revealing, as it does, detail which enables even certain soft parts to be so reconstructed that our knowledge of… Read More
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Characteristic Sketches of Animals, Pricipally in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, Drawn from the Life and Engraved by Thomas Landseer: with descriptive and illustrative notices by John Henry Barrow, Esqre., Dedicated by Permission to the Zoological Society
by Landseer, Thomas and Barrow, John Henry
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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
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Christian Science. An Exposition of Mrs. Eddy's Wonderful Discovery, including its Legal Aspects. A Plea for Children and other Helpless Sick
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New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 1900. First edition. 1900 COLLECTION OF 30 CASES OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALERS--SIGNED BY AUTHOR, AN ATTORNEY LECTURER AT BELLEVUE HOSPITAL. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, printed decorative title to cover, inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf, frontis photograph of child's gangrenous foot treated by a "healer", 194 pp, spine darkened, corners lightly bumped, very good. WILLIAM ARCHER PURRINGTON (1852 - 1926) was Lecturer in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, upon Law in Relation to Medical Practice.
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Chronicles of Pharmacy
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London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910. First edition.TWO VOLUME ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PHARMACY, INCLUDING DRUGS DESCRIBED BY ANCIENT WRITERS.
Two hardcover volumes, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spines, top edge gilt, embossed "presentation copy" on title page. Vol. I, i-xii, 428 pp, 47 illustrations; Vol. II, [i-viii], 332 pp, 23 illustrations. Endpapers browned, pages age-toned, very good+ in custom archival mylar covers. CONTENTS: Myths of Pharmacy; Pharmacy in the time of the Pharoahs; Pharmacy in the Bible; The Pharmacy of Hippochates; From Hippocrates to Galen; Arab Pharmacy; From the Arabs to the Europeans; Pharmacy in Great Britain; Magic and Medicine; Dogmas and Delusions; Masters in Pharmacy; Royal and Noble Pharmacists; Chemical Contributions to Pharmacy; Medicines from the Metals; Animals in Pharmacy; Reminiscences of Ancient Pharmacy; Pharmacopoeias; Shakespeare's Pharmacy; Some Noted Drugs; Familiar Medicines and Some Notes of Their Histories; Noted Nostrums; Poisons in… Read More
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Ciliates from Bos Indicus Linn. I. The genus Entodinium Stein; II. A revision of Diplodinium Schuberg; III. Epidinium Crawley, Epiplastron Gen. Nov., and Ophryoscolex Stein
by Kofoid, Charles A. and MacLennan, Ronald F.
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1930, 1932, 1933. First editions.THREE ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS ON NEW SPECIES OF PROTOZOA FROM THE RUMEN OF INDIAN CATTLE BY MARINE CILIATE EXPERT C.A. KOFOID.
Three 18x27 cm paper bound volumes in gray printed wrappers, volumes I and III with handstamp to cover, "With the compliments of Charles A. Kofoid, and volume II with handstamp of "NYSL June 1932 duplicate". Vol. I, signature of J. E. Guberlet top of cover, pp 471-544, 17 figures in text, plates 49-52; Vol. II, pp 53-152, 10 figures in text, plates 4-7; Vol. III, pp 1-34, 5 figures in text, plate 1. Browning to cover edges, very good+ in custom archival card folder. The papers describe new species of the ciliate fauna of the stomach of herbivorous animals of Southern India and Ceylon based on collections by CA Kofoid. Rumen protozoa engulf and digest a wide range of bacteria and can reduce the shedding of potential pathogens from the animal, although the effect is highly dependent on the composition… Read More
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A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver, translated by Charles Murchison
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New York: W. M. Wood & Co., 1879. First American edition. 1879 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 3-VOLUME TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE LIVER BY NOTED GERMAN PATHOLOGIST. Three 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover volumes, original publisher's brown blindstamped cloth, spines gilt, xxvi, 224; viii, 228; viii, 246 pages. Corners lightly bumped, small paper library labels bottom of spines, armorial book-plate of Dartmouth College Library, "Presented by Charles Bell Converse, M.A., M.D., of the class of 1863" (with "discard" handstamp) with no markings in text. Color frontis vols 1 and 2, uncolored in vol 3. Numerous wood engravings throughout each volume. FRIEDRICH THEODOR VON FRERICHS (1819 - 1885) was a German pathologist. In 1859 he succeeded Johann Lukas Schönlein as head physician at the Charité in Berlin. He remained at the Charité until his death in 1885. Some of his better known assistants and students included Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), Adolf Weil (1848-1916), Paul Langerhans (1847-1888), Bernhard Naunyn…
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1858-1937. COELENTERATA: BOUND IN 6 HARDCOVER VOLUMES: NOTED DANISH ZOOLOGIST'S COLLECTION OF 71 OFFPRINTS BY 32 NOTABLE TURN-OF-CENTURY MARINE BIOLOGISTS, MANY PLATES SIGNED BY AUTHORS--FROM THE LIBRARY OF NOTED DANISH ZOOLOGIST INGMAR LIEBERKIND. 3 quarto and 3 octavo hardcover volumes, 3/4 blue cloth with marbled boards and gilt red leather spine labels, each front paste-down with decorative bookplate and handstamp of Ingvald Lieberkind and his signature on 1 front flyleaf and on a few offprint covers, containing 71 offprints, many with signed inscriptions on covers. 72 plates (some lithographed, some folding, colored or tinted) and many text figures. Bindings very good, offprints unmarked with age-toning, overall very good. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.Authors included: Appellof, A.; Bergh, R. S.; Bonnevie, Kristine; Broch, Hjalmar; Carlgren, Oskar; Danielssen, D. C.; Dons, Carl; Fraser, C. McLean; Greeff, R.; Grieg, James A.; Hoffmeister, J. Edward; Johannesen, Gerda; Jungersen,…
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Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds
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London: van Voorst, 1846. First edition. 1846 HANDSOMLY BOUND VOLUMES CONTAINING 138 HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF BIRDS' EGGS BY BRITISH NATURALIST--COPY OF H F WALTER WHO OWNED "THE BEST PRIVATE COLLECTION IN ENGLAND". Two hardcover volumes 8 1/2 inches tall, full leather binding, blindstamped ruled margins to covers, spines with raised bands, gilt leather title labels, all edges gilt, Vol. I, armorial bookplate of Henry Fraser Walter to front paste-down, xvi, 223 pp, 62 hand colored lithographed plates (including 3 bis plates) of birds' eggs, each life size; Vol. II, [1], 225-470 pp, 76 hand colored plates (including 4 bis plates). Light abrasions to edges of covers and spines, very light scattered foxing, binding tight, pages crisp, plates bright and unmarked, very good+. WILLIAM CHAPMAN HEWITSON (1806 - 1878) was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was devoted to beetles, and butterflies, as well as birds' nests and eggs. He contributed to and published many works on…
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A Comparative Clinical Study of Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Negro Boys: A Dissertation in Psychology
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1941. First edition. 1941 SCARCE LANDMARK CONTROLLED STUDY OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR IN BLACK TEENS BY FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO EARN A PHD FROM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 9 3/4 inches tall offprint; original grey printed staplebound card wrappers; [2], 18pp. Near Fine. Reprinted from the Journal of Negro Education, April, 1941. Dissertation presented to the faculty of the graduate school of University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Prominent psychologist's first independently published piece, earning him the first PhD awarded to an African American from the University of Pennsylvania. FREDERICK PAYNE WATTS (1904-2007) was one of five biracial children, three of whom went on to be a physician, a dentist and of course a psychologist. Watts was educated in the Washington, D.C. public school system. Upon graduating from Dunbar High School in 1922, he attended Howard University, graduating in 1926…
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A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World
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London: J. Dodsley, 1765. First edition. 1765 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF COMPARISON OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOR BY JOHN GREGORY, SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN WHO EXPLORED REASON VS. INSTINCT--COPY OF NOTED AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST HARRY SHAPIRO. 6 inches tall hardcover, contemporary full leather binding, spine with raised bands, red leather gilt title label, armorial bookplate of H. L. Shapiro to front paste-down, iv, 203 pp, [4]; edges of covers darkened and cracked, covers have been reattached amateurishly but functionally, binding tight, tear top of front flyleaf, contemporary signature of Catherine Gaskarth verso of second flyleaf, pages age-toned but crisp and unmarked, good+. JOHN GREGORY (1724 – 1773) was an eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment physician, medical writer and moralist. Following the death of his father when he was eight years old, in 1742 he and his mother moved to Edinburgh where he studied medicine. Gregory went to Leiden to continue his studies in 1745. In 1746, soon after receiving…
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Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher
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London: John Murray, 1830. First edition. 1830 FIRST EDITION EARLY VICTORIAN BESTSELLER ON THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SOCIETY BY AN EMINENT BRITISH CHEMIST. 6 1/2 x 4 inches hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate to front paste-down, vi, [vi], 281, [i]. Corners bumped, wear to covers, bottom 3/4 inches of spine chipped, binding tight, text unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. SIR HUMPHRY DAVY (1778 - 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." He was a 1st Baronet, President of the Royal Society, and Fellow of the Geological Society. Davy's lectures gave his audience a vision of human civilization brought forward by scientific discovery. Davy's lectures also included spectacular and sometimes dangerous chemical demonstrations for his audience, a generous helping of references to…
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