New York: Athenaeum, 1968. First edition. The Discovery of DNA. Watson’s elegantly written account of the greatest twentieth-century... Read More about The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
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Cambridge, Mass: June, 1865. Alexander, 1835-1910, American naturalist and industrialist was the son of Louis Agassiz. Read More about Manuscript receipt for $250, initialled by Agassiz, "for the quarterly Salary of the Agent"
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Philadelphia: E. G. Dorsey, Printer, Library Street, 1838. Read More about Observations relative to Lymphatic Hearts (in reptiles
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New York: V. G. Audubon, 1849-1851-1854. First octavo edition in the original parts. In Original Parts. The first octavo edition of Audubon’s Quadrupeds, including five plates not found in the folio edition, Audubon's final great contribution to natural history includes plates and descriptions of the quadrupeds of the United States..... Read More about The Quadrupeds of North America
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Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, [1922]. First Edition. Read More about Recherches Zoologiques dans les Provinces Centrales de l'Inde et dans les regions occidentales de...
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London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., Bunhill Row, 1880. First edition. Irsish geologist, son of Robert Ball to whom this book is dedicated. He was part of the Geological Survey of India in 1864 -1881. Read More about Jungle Life in India; or the Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist
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Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1866. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed, "A Monsieur Jules Kinckel témoingage d'affection de l'auteur E. Blanchard." Read More about Les poissons des eaux douces de la France. Anatomie - physiologie - description des espèces -...
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London: 56 Regents Park Road, 16 September 1875. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine, continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th “which wil be..... Read More about Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of...
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. First edition. Read More about A View of the Present State of the Salmon and Channel-Fisheries
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London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue with misprint "htat" on page 208. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) “completed his great cycle of evolutionary writings. It proved popular, not least because of its accessible subject matter and plentiful illustrations, including some of the earliest..... Read More about The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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Cambridge: at the University Press, 1904. First edition. Read More about Studies from the Anthropological Laboratory The Anatomy School Cambridge
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[Reading]: The Alden Press for the Library of the University of Reding, 1969. First edition. With an ALS to Montagu from Eales and an off-print laid in. Read More about The Cole Library of early Medicine and Zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. Part I. 1472-1800
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London, Ontario: 19007-1925. Read More about The Canadian Entomologist. Volume XXXIX 1907-Volume LVII, 1925
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Hamburgi et Kilonii: Carol. Ernest. Bohnii, 1778. First edition. A Pioneer of Systematic Entomology. Fabricius first major work on the system and theory of entomology, and perhaps his greatest theoretical contribution to the science. "Fabricius was undoubtedly one of the most distinguished entomologists and ranks with Carl de Geer, P.A...... Read More about Philosophia entomologica sistens scientiae fundamenta adiectis definitionibus exemplis,...
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London, British Museum: 21 August 1848. The Future Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fitzgerald acknowledges the receipt of “your obliging present of two specimens of Melania from the Falls of Essequibo” [Kaieteur Falls in Guyana] to the National Collections. Gourlie was a noted botanist and member of the Edinburgh Botanical..... Read More about ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to William Gourlie
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[Wien: aus der E.K. Hof.- und Staatsdruckerei, 1878]. First Seperate edition. Offprint of Freud's very rare third paper. Freud's Contribution to Evolutionary Biology. Freud's third paper, done while he was a medical student. Read More about Über spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon. from Sitzungsberichte der der...
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Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. First edition, special publication of the Field Museum of Natural History. Read More about Album of Abyssinaian Birds and Mammals
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Gaylordsville: Slide Mountain Press, 1931. No. 31 of 77 copies. Three stanzas beginning I know a little serval cat - Never get out! Read More about Never Get Out!
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Strasbourg: Amand König [Imprimerie de Jonas Lorenz], 1770. First edition. Uncut and Unpressed. Gouan (1733-1821) was Professor of Medicine at Montpelier and one of the first naturalists in France to follow the Linnean system. Here, in the first section, he treats the anatomy of fish; the second section consists of..... Read More about Histoire des Poissons, contenant la description Anatomique de leurs parties externes &...
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New York: Harmony Books, [1995]. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on the half title, “For Robert Silvers, with thanks for a long association, Steve / Stephen Jay Gould”. Read More about Dinosaur in a Haystack
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New Bedford: The Darwin Press, 1937. First Edition. Read More about In Quest of Gorillas
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Langensalza: Schulbuchhandlung des Thuringer Lehrerververeine, 1853, 1855. A study of the Earth, interior and exterior, its peoples, animals, the Moon and Planets. Read More about Die Erde, ihr kleid, ihre Kinde und ihr Inneres durch karten und Zeichnungen [bound with] Die...
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Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1967. First edition. The curious and facinating last book by scholar, diplomat, and novelist Robert H. van Gulik, who kept gibbons and in whose fictions they sometimes appear. The substantial introduction is illustrated from the author’s photographs of gibbons he knew. Read More about The Gibbon in China. An Essay in Chinese Animal Lore
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New York: Virtue & Yorston, n.d. First edition. Read More about History of the American Fauna … and A General Natural History of the World …
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