The Third-Chromosome Group of Mutant Characters of Drosophila Melanogaster.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1923. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, very good. 251 pp, illustrated, including frontispiece in color.
Biology, Heredity, Genetics
A short list of interesting books in biology, heredity and genetics including some classics!
The Law of Heredity, A Study of the Cause of Variation, and the Origin of Living Organisms
Baltimore: John Murphy, 1883. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth gilt, very good, light wear, tanning to pages, some pages a bit proud, bookplate of a Thomas H. Buckler, MD (he was an undergraduate in the 1880s at Johns Hopkins where Brooks taught). 336 pp. Brooks taught both Bateson.....
Studies of Heredity in Rabbits, Rats, and Mice
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1919. First Printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, blue cloth in dust jacket, book very good, signed by E. F. Barrows, a biologist and geneticist himself who wrote extensively on mice. Jacket is very good with tanning and edgewear (plain and unprinted). 56 pp, 3 plates. The jacket.....
Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-Pigs and Rats -- signed by Castle
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1916. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth, good to very good, light wear and a few small stains to covers, ownership signature of E. F. Barrows, a published author of work on biology and genetics, particularly of mice. SIGNED on title page by.....
The Direction of Human Evolution - inscribed by author
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book very good, light wear and toning, jacket good with some wear, stains, soil, tanning. Inscribed in 1939 by the author, signed by him. 247 pp. Inscription is to Julia Noonan, who was his secretary and.....
Heredity and the Environment in the development of men - inscribed to his secretary and assistant
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1930. Hardcover. Sixth Edition, Revised. 8vo, red cloth gilt, very good, no jacket. Inscribed in 1938, "To Julia A. Noonan, my very efficient assistant and my alter ego, with hearty good wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Edwin G. Conklin. Christmas 1938." 387.....
Race Crossing in Jamaica
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1929. First Printing. Wraps. Large 8vo, original light brown printed wraps, near fine, small ink notation on front cover, 516 pp, 29 plates including large folding chart. Distinctly uncommon in the trade. The authors collaborated with a number of other experts including Arnold Gesell who became.....
Inheritance in Poultry -- inscribed to geneticist Edmund B. Wilson
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1906. First printing. Paperback. Tall 8vo, wraps, good copy with some wear and loss to covers, brownish stain to top outer corner of most pages. INSCRIBED: "Professor E. B. Wilson with the regards of Chas B. Davenport" and with Wilson's ink stamp. 136 pp, 17 gravure.....
Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1919. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, very good, light wear, tanning to pages, stamp on flyleaf from Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics and accompanying bookplate on pastedown from their genetics department at Cold Spring Harbor. 236 pp.
Intracellular Pangenesis
Chicago: Open Court, 1910. First American Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's red cloth with black leather spine label, very good, light wear. Translated from the German by C. Stuart Gager. 270 pp.
Contributions to the Genetics, Taxonomy, and Ecology of Drosophila Pseudoobscura and its Relatives
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1944. First Printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, publisher's green cloth, very good sharp copy. 183 pp, illustrated.
Genetics and the Origin of Species -- inscribed
New York: Columbia University Press, 1957. Hardcover. Third edition, revised, third printing. Inscribed: "To Jeff Kurland with author's compliments." -- Kurland was a geneticist and evolutionary anthropologist at Penn State. 8vo, blue cloth, very good, no jacket. Books inscribed by Dobzhansky are distinctly uncommon. 364 pp. When this book came.....
Bound volume of Genetics, Vol. 22 nos. 1-6, 1937
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1937. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's brick red cloth, gilt spine, very good, original wraps bound in, plus general title page and index of authors and titles. Contains several important works including by Nobel winner H. Muller, and an article by Dobzhansky on drosophila flies.....
The First Principles of Heredity
London: A. & C. Black, 1910. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark red cloth gilt, very good. 199 pp.
Evoution (The Way of Man), inscribed by author
New York: D. Appleton, 1924. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth gilt, very good, inscribed by Kellogg to the Century Association (Washington), signed by him, dated 1924. Very good, light wear, spine dull, lettering hard to rear, contents very good. 291 pp.
Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth, clean unmarked text, near fine copy, no dust jacket. Rare in hardcover.
Bibliographia Genetica, Deel II (1925): The Genetics of Drosophila; The Genetics of the Sheep [Roberts & Crew], Genetisch-Physiologische Analyse der Heterostylie [G. von Ubisch]; Genetic Monograph on Pisum [Wellensiek]
's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1925. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, very good. Contains: The Genetics of Drosophila; The Genetics of the Sheep [Roberts & Crew], Genetisch-Physiologische Analyse der Heterostylie [G. von Ubisch]; Genetic Monograph on Pisum [Wellensiek]. 476 pp.
Chance and Necessity: an Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
London: Collins, 1972. First U.K. printing. Hardcover. 8vo, brown boards in dust jacket, book very good plus, owner's name on flyleaf, jacket very good, light wear, price clipped.
The Genetic and the Operative Evidence Relating to Secondary Sexual Characters
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1919. First printing. Paperback. Large 8vo, publisher's wraps, very good, 108 pp, 10 color plates at rear. Unusually nice condition. Morgan was the first geneticist awarded the Nobel Prize (1933).
the Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity
New York: Henry Holt, 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. Revised edition, first published in 1915 and again in 1922; this has a "2" on copyright page. 8vo, publisher's dark red cloth gilt, very good, minor wear, owner's name and info on flyleaf. 355 pp.
A Biological and Cytological Study of Sex Determination in Phylloxerans and Aphids
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1909. First Printing. Wraps. First separate printing; offprint from The Journal of Experimental Zoology. 8vo, 10 x 7 inches, pale green printed wraps, very good, light wear, discoloration and tanning to wraps, owner's name on top of front wrap, pages tanning. Very uncommon both in the.....
The Development of the Frog's Egg, an introduction to experimental embryology
New York: Macmillan, 1912. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. Very good, light rubbing along joints, spine ends, tips and corners, small stain to upper left of front board, owner's name on pastedown, text clean, a bit tanned. The author's first book, published in.....
Embryology and Genetics
New York: Columbia University Press, 1934. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket (which references an anthology of poetry on the rear panel that was published in 1941). Book very good, jacket good plus with light wear and soil.
Experimental Embryology
New York: Columbia University Press, 1927. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's pale yellow-green cloth, very good, light wear, no jacket. 766 pp, illustrated.
Experimental Zoology
New York: Macmillan, 1907. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine, about very good, light general wear to binding, including rubbing along outer joints, two vertical crease marks visible along spine, light foxing to endpapers, ownership signature of L. S. Quackenbush, who from our.....