A short list of interesting books in biology, heredity and genetics including some classics!
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1944. First Printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, publisher's green cloth, very good sharp copy. 183 pp, illustrated.
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.....
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.....
London: A. & C. Black, 1910. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark red cloth gilt, very good. 199 pp.
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.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth, clean unmarked text, near fine copy, no dust jacket. Rare in hardcover.
'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.
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.
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).
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.
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, C. 1919. Third Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's red cloth in dust jacket, book very good, lettering on spine beginning to get effaced, owner's name and date on flyleaf, jacket fair only with wear, stains, tanning, chipping and loss to spine, spotting, etc., with "Third Impression" on spine (otherwise.....
Cold Spring Harbor, NY: M. Demerec, et al. 1936-1951. 2 bound volumes containing nos. 6, 7 and 8, and 10, 11 and 12, plus 13 loose issues in original wraps of nos. 13-25. 11 x 8.75 inches, ranging from 50 to over 100 pages each, in generally good to very.....
London: Henry S. King, 1875. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth gilt, very good, light restoration to inner hinges. 393 pp.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1921. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth, very good, inscribed to Lewis Knudson with the author's compliments and with the stamp on flyleaf, "From the Knudson Memorial Collection, Botany Department, Cornell University." We assume properly deaccessioned. Both Sharp and Knudson (an expert on orchids) were longterm.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth, very good, minor wear. 405 pp, illustrated. With ownership information of well known geneticist Richard Blanc on flyleaf, and a note to him from a student thanking him for the loan of this book. 12th impression of the third.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1905-1906. First printing. Paperback. 2 volumes, tall 8vo, publisher's grayish wraps, first volume in good condition with some light chipping, covers toned and tanned, some light wear and stains along front joint, second volume very good, minor toning to wraps. 74 pp. total, 15 plates total.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1918. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, publisher's wraps, good with light ex-library marks, light spine restoration, faint crease to front cover, perforated stamp p., 35. 68 pp, frontispiece plate.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1931. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's blue cloth, very good. 81 pp.
New York: Henry Holt, 1920. First American Printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt on spines, very good, pages quite tanned, owner's namestamp and date, 1920 (Lima, Ohio) on each flyleaf.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1906. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's dark teal green cloth gilt, very good to fine, minimal wear, the number "48" written faintly on spine and on bottom edge of text block, 320 pp, errata, illustrated, some plates in color. An usual scientist, known for his.....
New York: Macmillan, 1931. Hardcover. Later printing, signed on title page by author. 8vo, cloth, good copy with light general wear to binding, spine somewhat rubbed and dull, pages beginning to tan. 359 pp.