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PRINCIPES DE BIOLOGIE. Tomes 1-2
Paris Librairie Germer Baillière et Cie, 1877-1878 1877 in 8 (22x14,5) 2 volumes reliures demi basane verte de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés de fleurons dorés, 2 feuillets préliminaires non chiffrés, 600 pages et 672 pages, avec de nombreuses figures dans le texte. Traduit de l'anglais par M. E. Cazelles. Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903. Envoi autographe signé par le traucteur M. E. Cazelles. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
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The Principles of Biology. 3 vols. - [COINING THE TERM ""SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST""]
London, William and Norgate, 1883,1885. 8vo. 3 uniform volumes partly uncut in the original embossed cloth. Volume 1 being the revised and enlarged third edition, Volume II (in two parts) being the second edition. Miscolouring to extremities, otherwise a fine set. XII, 883, 16 pp." (2), II, (2), 237, (1), 16 pp." Pp. VI, (4), 229-682, X, 16.
A collected set of the second edition and much enlarged third edition of this magnum opus of biology, in which Spencer coined the term ""survival of the fittest"". ""This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr Darwin has called ""natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life"""". (Spencer, Herbert. The Principles of Biology, Vol. I, p. 444).Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley, Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. His greatest and most influential work in this connection was his ""The Principles of Biology"", which forms the biological part of his grand project for a Synthetic Philosophy, which he worked on from 1862 to 1893. It is on this work that his fame today mainly rests, not least because it was here that he was the first to use the term ""survival of the fittest"" and due to this work that he greatly helped spread the acceptance of the theory of evolution.""The Principles of Biology attempted to reconcile the new Darwinian theory of natural selection with the Lamarckian mechanism of acquired characteristics which Spencer had endorsed long before publication of the Origin of the Species. In Spencer's view, while the Darwinian theory could explain most of biological evolution, the Lamarckian mechanism was necessary to explain 'higher' evolution, and especially the social behavior of humanity. Both theories however, instantiated the principle of evolution. In this sense, therefore, it is incorrect to characterize Spencer as a follower of Darwin. Although he coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest', and is often misrepresented as a thinker who merely applied the Darwininan theory to society, he did not aim to generalize Darwin, but rather to show that natural selection could be accommodated within an overarching principle of evolution that Spencer had independently developed. Biological organisms could be shown to progress, both as individuals and as species, from simple, undifferentiated, homogeneity to complex, differentiated, heterogeneity"" the Darwinian theory was only of significance in providing a partial explanation for this universally observed tendency"" (Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy vol. 2:1055).""Spencer saw higher forms emerging from a gradual process of adaptation to the environment. The Principles of Biology analyzes the principal mechanisms by which this occurs and relates them to the specialized structures and function of plants and animals."" (D.S.B.: XII, 571).The work was originally issued to subscribers in parts from January 1863 to October 1864 (Vol. I) and January 1865 to March 1867 (Vol. II).
Principes de biologie [2 volumes]
Paris, Germer Baillière 1880 Complet en 2 tomes: 600 + 672pp.avec quelques illustrations dans le texte, 2e édition, br.orig. (petits manques au dos), tome 2 non coupé, 23cm., dans la série "Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine", bon état, F80381
[Huxley:] The Progress of Anthropology (+) [Spencer:] Consciousness under Chloroform (+) The Evolution of Ceremonial Government
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1878-79. 8vo. Volume XIII, May to January of ""Popular Science Monthly"", bound in a contemporary black half cloth binding with gilt lettered title to spine. Library stamp to title-pages. Huxley's paper: pp. 668-676. Spencer's papers: 694-698"" 17-29. [Entire volume: (5), 514-777, (2), 408 pp.]. Some wear to extremities, internally fine and clean.
First printing of three papers by two of the most influential evolutionists from the Darwinian-era: Thomas Henry Huxley, known as Darwin's bulldog and Herbert Spencer, the man who coined the concept ""survival of the fittest"".
[Spencer:] Replies to the Quarterly Reviewers (+) Climate and Social Development (+) Mental Evolution and Necessary Truths. + [Huxley:] Universities: Actual and Ideal .
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1874. 8vo. Volume V of ""Popular Science Monthly"", bound in a contemporary black half cloth binding with gilt lettered title to spine. Library stamp to title-pages. (2), 514-774, (4), 384 pp. Minor wear to extremities, internally fine and clean.
First printing of four papers by two of the most influential evolutionists from the Darwinian-era: Thomas Henry Huxley, known as Darwin's bulldog and Herbert Spencer, the man who coined the concept ""survival of the fittest"".
Ueber den Primordialschädel der Säugethiere und des Menschen. Diss. Univ. zürich
Zürich, Meyer & Zeller, 1846, gr. in-8°, 39 S. + 1 Falttafel in Farbe, brochure originale.
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Chimie des colloïdes organiques - traduit par Gibello Henri
Dunod 1953 in8. 1953. cartonné.
Bon état cependant tampon sur le premier plat traces de scotch dans les plats intérieurs reste propre
Descriptions of nine new Species of Amphipodous Crustaceans from the Tropical Atlantic.
[No place], 1895. Folio. Uncut in the original blue wrappers. Offprint from ""Transactions of the Zoological Society of London"", Vol. XIII, part x, february, 1895. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: ""to Prof. Dr. Ch. F. Lütken / with very kind regards / T. R. R. Stebbing"". Plates with light occassional brown spots, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 349-371 + 5 plates.
Scarce offprint issue with author's presentation inscription to Danish biologist of this important paper in which the discovery of nine new species of Amphipodous Crustaceans were first announced. ""In 1877 the Stebbings moved to Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where they lived until their deaths. Although a teacher part of this time, Stebbing devoted most of these years to the study of amphipod Crustacea and to writing. Because of his work on the taxonomy of Crustacea, he became a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1895, fellow of the Royal Society in 1896, and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1908.Stebbing's scientific writings date from 1873"" most of them are devoted to the taxonomy of amphipod Crustacea, on which he published about 110 papers and two major monographs. He received the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger on the recommendation of a marine biologist, the Canon A.M. Norman, and published a large monograph on these creatures in 1888."" (DSB).Christian Frederik Lütken, a Danish naturalist 1827 in Sorø, and died in 1901. He obtained a teaching post at the College of Advanced Technology in 1877, and, four years after leaving university, in 1885, he succeeded Steenstrup as chair of zoology. He became a member of the Zoological Society of London in 1879.
Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker, en særegen Form for Opfostringen i de lavere Dyrklasser. [On Reproduction and Development through Alternation of Generations, a Special Form of Propagation in Lower Animals]. - [ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS IN ANIMALS AND PLANTS]
Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos, 1842. 4to. Recent half cloth with contemporary marbled boards. Light browning throughout. Small ink signature on title-page. IV,76 pp. and 3 double-page, folded lithographed plates with many figs. Withbound: Steenstrup, Undersögelser over Hermaphroditismens Tilværelse i Naturen, 1845. XIV,88 pp. and 1 plate.
The scarce first edition of the work in which Steenstrup describes his discovery of the principle of 'alternation of generations', sexual and asexual in plants and animals. ""(Steenstrup) showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return in form and nature to their grandparents or more distant ancestors."" (Garrison & Morton No 217). A German translation was published the same year, and an English in 1845. Norman 2009 (German translation). ""The second major publication - (the first dealing with geology) - of 1842 was ""Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker..."", (the work offered), Steenstrup's comprehensive presentation of the form of reproduction that he called 'alternation of generations', that is, the alternation of asexual and sexual reproduction, or metagenesis. This phenomenon had previously been described by Chamisso, but Steenstrup included a greater number of observations, based on a significantly wider range of subjects, and provided an importent chapter on its meaning. Steenstrup's growing reputation, won him an appointment as professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen, where he tought from 1846 until 1885.""(DSB XII, p. 9).
Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker, en særegen Form for Opfostringen i de lavere Dyrklasser. [On Reproduction and Development through Alternation of Generations, a Special Form of Propagation in Lower Animals]. Udgivet som... - [ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS IN ANIMALS AND PLANTS]
Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos, 1842. 4to. Bound in the original boards with silver stained papercovers. Some nicks to backstrip. Margins of covers having the silver-staining toned down (oxidation). Edges gilt. As it is printed on ""vellum-paper"" and edges gilt, it is probably one of the gift copies, but unsigned. IV, 76 pp. and 3 double-page, folded lithographed plates with many figs. Light marginal browning to plates, otherwise fine.
The scarce first edition of the work in which Steenstrup describes his discovery of the principle of 'alternation of generations', sexual and asexual in plants and animals. ""(Steenstrup) showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return in form and nature to their grandparents or more distant ancestors."" (Garrison & Morton No 217). A German translation was published the same year, and an English in 1845. Norman 2009 (German translation). ""The second major publication - (the first dealing with geology) - of 1842 was ""Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker..."", (the work offered), Steenstrup's comprehensive presentation of the form of reproduction that he called 'alternation of generations', that is, the alternation of asexual and sexual reproduction, or metagenesis. This phenomenon had previously been described by Chamisso, but Steenstrup included a greater number of observations, based on a significantly wider range of subjects, and provided an important chapter on its meaning. Steenstrup's growing reputation, won him an appointment as professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen, where he taught from 1846 until 1885."" (DSB XII, p. 9).
"STEENSTRUP, JOHANNES JAPETUS SMITH. - THE DISCOVERY OF ""ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS''.
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Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker, en særegen Form for Opfostringen i de lavere Dyrklasser. [On Reproduction and Development through Alternation of Generations, a Special Form of Propagation in Lower Animals]. (+)Undersög...
Kjöbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1842 a. 1845. 4to. Bound in one contemp. halfcalf, spine gilt. A small tear to backhinge at lower compartment of spine. IV,76 pp. and 3 double-page, folded lithographed plates with many figs. + XIV,88 pp. and 2 double-apge lithographed plates with many figs. Light browning to the last leaves of the second work.
The scarce first edition of the work in which Steenstrup describes his discovery of the principle of 'ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS'', sexual and asexual in plants and animals. ""(Steenstrup) showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return in form and nature to their grandparents or more distant ancestors."" (Garrison & Morton No 217). A German translation was published the same year, and an English in 1845. Norman 2009 (German translation). ""The second major publication - (the first dealing with geology) - of 1842 was ""Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker..."", (the work offered), Steenstrup's comprehensive presentation of the form of reproduction that he called 'alternation of generations', that is, the alternation of asexual and sexual reproduction, or metagenesis. This phenomenon had previously been described by Chamisso, but Steenstrup included a greater number of observations, based on a significantly wider range of subjects, and provided an importent chapter on its meaning. Steenstrup's growing reputation, won him an appointment as professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen, where he tought from 1846 until 1885.""(DSB XII, p. 9).
Undersögelser over Hermaphroditismens Tilværelse i Naturen. Et Naturhistorisk Forsög.
Kjöbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1845. 4to. In recent blue boards. Stamp to first two leaves. With a few occassional brownspots. Small repair to upper margin of title-page, far from affecting text. XIV, 88 pp. + 2 folded plates.
First edition. Published on the occasion of King Christian VIII's birthday celebration at Sorø Academy.
Udgivet af Vald. Meisen og Knud Larsen. Bind I (alt som udkom).
Kbhvn., 1933. Lille 4to. 191 pp. Illustr.
Papers on bacterial viruses -- EDITION ORIGINALE
Boston, Brown and co., 1960, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 30pp., 365pp., figures dans le texte
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- WATSON (J.D.) & CRICK (F.H.C.). The structure of DNA - LWOFF (A.), SIMINOVITCH (L.) & KJELDGAARD (N.). Induction of bacteriophage lysis of an entire population of lysogenic bacteria - JACOB (F.) & WOLLMAN (E.L.). Lysogeny and genetic recombination in Escherichia coli K12 ; Spontaneous induction of the development of bacteriophage in genetic recombination of Escherichia coli K12 - JACOB (F.) & KAISER (A.D.). Recombination between related temperate bacteriophages and the genetic control of immunity and prophage localization - LURIA (S.E.). The frequency distribution of spontaneous bacteriophage mutants as evidence for the exponential rate of phage reproduction - etc**7757/V1
L'équilibre dans la nature.
Couverture rigide. Cartonné. 128 pages. Cachets.
Livre. Editions Flammarion, 1969.
Paleobotany and the Evolution of plants.
Cambridge, (1983). Royal8vo. Orig. boards. X,405 pp. Illustr.
Museum d’histoire naturelle de Genève. Catalogue des invertébrés de la Suisse. Phyllopodes.
Genève, Georg & Cie, 1908, gr. in-8vo, XI + 156 p., avec 10 figures dans le texte, brochure originale.
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Recherches sur le diagnostic médico-légal de la mort par submersion. Diss.
Charleroi, 1909, 250x160mm, 157pages, broché. Bel exemplaire.
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Chemical Transformation by Microorganisms
Wiley & Sons , Chemistry of microbial products Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1957 Book condition, Etat : Très bon relié, toile In-8 1 vol. - 134 pages
Photo from H. Raistrick 1st edition Contents, Chapitres : Chemical anatomy - Organic type reactions - Synthetic powers
Recherches sur la mobilité et les cils de queslques représentants du groupe des coli-bacilles. Thèse.
Berne, 1893, 225x155mm, 43pages, broché.
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Les enzymes.
Couverture souple. Broché. 128 pages. Rousseurs.
Livre. Editions P.U.F (Collection : Que sais-je N° 434), 1960.
Jumeaux, la différence dans la ressemblance
Scali Dos carré collé 2005 In-8° carré, dos carré collé, 127 pp., importante iconographie en couleurs in et pleine page ; excellent état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers. Den Müttern, Ärzten und Künstlern gewidmet. 25. vermehrte und verb. Aufl. Mit 314 Abb. und 7 Tafeln.
Stuttgart, Enke, 1920. Lex8vo. Orig. hcloth. XIV,456 pp., textillustr. and plates.
De geboorte van Horus [5 volumes, complete]
Leiden, E.J. Brill/ Ex Oriente Lux 1963-1989 Compleet in 5 volumes: samen 773pp. (doorlopende paginering), met illustraties in tekst, 27cm., originele omslagen, in de reeks "Mededelingen en verhandelingen van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux" vols.14-17-18-22-26, goede staat, C104160
Studies in Biology. A collection of 14 parts on general biological and ecological issues in this well known series.
1972-1982 Includes the following: Ecological Energetics / Microecology / Chemistry of the Cell / Animal Growth and Development / Size and Shape / The Biology of Pollution / Introductory Statistics for Biology / Homeostasis / Genetics and Adaptation / Ecology and Archaeology / The Genetic Code / Evolution in Modern Biology / Biological Clocks / Evolution and Pollution. Each part has ca. 50-80 pages and is paperbound.
