Huxley (Julian) and Kettlewell (Henry Bernard Davis) on Charles Darwin
Reference : 79662
(1974)
Book Club Associates, London Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1974 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under editor's white dust-jacket, illustrated by a black and white portrait of Darwin with a hat small In-4 1 vol. - 144 pages
numerous black and white illustrations on the life of Charles Darwin, drawings, figures, photographies and fac-simile 1974 edition (Book Club Associates) "Contents, Chapitres : Introduction - The prelude, 1809-1831 - The experience : The Voyage of the Beagle, 1831-1836 - The synthesis, 1836-1882 - Conclusion - Chronology - Notes on the pictures - Index - Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell (born February 24, 1907; died May 11, 1979) was a British geneticist, lepidopterist and medical doctor, who performed research of the influence of industrial mecanism on natural selection of moths, showing why moths are darker in polluted areas. - Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS[1] (22 June 1887 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (19351942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund. (source : Wikipedia)" near fine copy, no markings, dust-jacket very lightly yellowing, else near fine, very lightly folded on the top part, inside is fine
Corréa Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1939 Book condition, Etat : Moyen broché In-8 1 vol. - 232 pages
1 photo en frontispice année eo Contents, Chapitres : textes de Darwin avec commentaires de J. Huxley couverture un peu defraichie, bon exemplaire de lecture, meme si le papier est un peu jauni
Presses Universitaires de France - P.U.F. , Bibliothèque Scientifique Internationale Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1956 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur marron grenat grand In-8 1 vol. - 156 pages
9 figures dans le texte en noir et blanc dont quelques photographies 1ere traduction en français, 1956 Contents, Chapitres : Préface, vii, Texte, 149 pages - Le processus de l'évolution - Comment agit la sélection naturelle - Progrès biologique - Le développement de l'activité mentale - L'itinéraire du progrès biologique - La phase humaine - Index et table des illustrations - Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 juin 1887 14 février 1975) est un biologiste britannique, théoricien de l'eugénisme, auteur et internationaliste, connu pour ses livres de vulgarisation sur la science. Il a été le premier directeur de l'UNESCO et a fondé le WWF. (source : Wikipedia) couverture en bon état, à peine empoussiérée sur le plat inférieur avec une très légère petite tache sur le bord droit du plat inférieur, intérieur sinon frais et propre, cela reste un bel exemplaire
P., Baillière, 1880, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile éditeur, (rousseurs), 1 frontispice, 11pp., 260pp., 82 figures dans le texte
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- "Un pionnier dans l'enseignement pratique de la biologie" ---- "Professeur de zoologie au Collège royal des mines, puis professeur de physiologie et d'anatomie comparée au Collège royal des chirurgiens de Londres, ami de Darwin, T.H. Huxley défendit vigoureusement la théorie de l'évolution. Il fut un pionnier dans l'enseignement pratique de la biologie. Parmi ses oeuvres principales citons... une monographie de l'écrevisse" ---- DSB VI pp. 589/597**2745/A6DE
Paris, Octave Doin, 1884. 12 x 19, 387 pp., reliure carton, mauvais état (cachets du Collège jésuite Saint Stanislas à Mons, reliure sans dos).
Traduit sur la dernière édition anglaise par F. Prieur.
Paris, J.-B. Baillière 1868 xx + 368pp.avec 68 figures dans le texte, 1e édition française, belle reliure (dos en toile rouge avec titre doré), 22cm., quelques rousseurs et vagues taches, bon état, F80611
Paris, J.-B. Baillière 1868 xx + 368pp. avec 68 figures dans le texte, 1e édition française, reliure cart. (dos en cuir brun avec titre doré, charnière supérieure partiellement cassée et restaurée, plats marbrés), feuilles de garde marbrées, 22cm., texte frais, bon état, F100377
P., Doin, 1884, un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane marron, dos orné de fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), (rousseurs), 13pp., 387pp., demi-basane marron, dos orné de fers dorés, (rousseurs)
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- "As offshoots of his teaching and often based on his lectures series, Huxley wrote several textbooks...". (DSB VI p. 596) ---- Globules blancs du sang - Bactéries - Moisissures - Fougères - Hydre d'eau douce - ETC**2749/A3
London, Harrison and Sons, 1888. 8vo. In later full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", vol. XLIV. Entire volume offered. Soiling to extremities, endges of front board torn and upper front hindge with small tear. Library label pasted on to front free end-paper. Vague blindstamp to title-page of volume. Internally fine and clean. [Darwin's orbituary""] I-XXV pp. [Entire volume: viii, 464, XXXV, (1) pp.].
First appearance of Huxley's famous obituary of Darwin. ""While Huxley was composing this and other expositions of technical education in the late 1880s, he was also writing an obituary notice on Darwin for the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Though he undertook this piece in 1883, he did not complete it until five years later. In letters to Foster and Hooker in early 1888, Huxley remarked that he was still rereading Origin of Species, trying to separate the ""substance"" of the theory from its ""accidents,"" with the aim of warding off a generation of ""hostile comments and would-be improvements."". Even though he had written at least a half-dozen abstracts of the work and was reading it, he said, ""for the nth time,"" he was ""getting along slowly"" and finding it ""one of the most difficult books to exhaust that ever was written."" At this juncture in his life, it seemed that Huxley had difficulty concluding what he had always concluded previously about Darwin's theory: that its points of central importance were the facts of variation, the Malthusian principle of overpopulation, and its consequence, universal struggle. As Huxley finally came around to saying once again the obituary article , it was immaterial how organisms differed from each other or why."" (White, Thomas Huxley: Making the 'Man of Science, P. 152)Darwin-Online A344.
Lausanne, editions rencontres, collection "La grande encyclopedie de la nature", volume n.10, 1971. Format 17x27 cm, reliure toilee sous jaquette illustree, 383 pages. Tres bon etat.
P., Payot (Bibliothèque Scientifique), 1948, in 8° broché, 334 pages ; couverture illustrée.
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Société de diffusion médicale scientifique 1958 10 fasc. en 1 volume fort in-4 pleine toile, couvertures conservées. Bel exemplaire.
Bon état d’occasion
Frommann-Holzboog Cartonné avec jaquette 1978 In-8 (15,7 x 21 cm), cartonné avec jaquette, 421 pages, texte en allemand ; marques de frottement sur la jaquette, par ailleurs assez bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
INGEN-HOUSZ (INGENHOUSZ), JOHN. - DISCOVERY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS - THE CLASSIC OF ECOLOGY.
Reference : 53319
(1780)
Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1780. 8vo. Fine cont. full mottled calf, richly gilt spine and gilt titlelabel in red leather. Edges gilt. LXVIII,333,(3) pp. and 1 folded engraved plate (showing his experimental apparatus). Light browning to margins of title-page, otherwise clean and with broad margins. A fine copy.
First French edition of perhaps the most important work in plant physiology. It is in this work that Ingen-Housz for the first time expounds the ideas and experiments that lead to his discovery of Photosynthesis in plant life, and as such it is of fundamental importance in the economy of living things. ""His Experiments upon vegetables was published in the autumn of 1779 and was at once recognized as a very important advance. In brief he showed, that oxygen evolution by plant is absolutely dependent on light and that it only occurs from those parts which are green...The proof that light and green tissues are both essential for oxygen production finally cleared up the apparent contradictions and variable results of earlier experiments. Priestly was ""much pleased"" with Ingen-Housz's experiments and pointed immediately to the salient facts that he had established."" (A.G. Morton: History of Botanical Science. p. 332.). Dibner: Heralds of Science No. 29. - Garrison & Morton No. 103. - Horblit No. 55. (All the English edition of 1779).
P., Barrois, 1787/1789, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-basane à coins, dos ornés de filets dorés (reliures de l'époque), (petit accroc à une coiffe, quelques rousseurs), T.1 : 112pp., 384pp., (1), 1 PLANCHE DÉPLIANTE, T.2 : (2), 56pp., 509pp., (1pp.), (1)
---- Deuxième édition française REVUE et AUGMENTEE ---- "Inghen-Housz'further studies on plant assimilation and respiration" ---- "Ingen-Housz showed that the green parts of plants, when exposed to light, fix the free carbon dioxide of the atmosphere, but that in darkness plants have no such power. Thus he proved that animal life is dependent ultimately on plant life, a discovery of fundamental importance in the economy of the world of living things". (Garrison N° 103 & 145.52 1st english ed.) ---- Norman N° 1142 : "The second volume contains the results of Ingen-Housz's further studies on plant assimilitation and respiration, which led him to believe that plants and animals are mutually supportive, the animals consuming oxygen and producting carbon dioxide, and the plants doing exactly the reverse. The volume also contains Ingen-Housz's rebuttals to the criticisms of Priestley and Senebier, who disputed his claim to the discovery of photosynthesis and plant respiration" ---- Dibner N° 29 & Horblit N° 55 1st english ed**2758/A2
Wien, Johann Paul Krauss, 1782. Cont. boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on back. Some repairs to back and lightly rubbed. Stamp on title. LXVI,(2),415,(1) pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Broad margins. Internally fine and clean.
Scarce first German edition of 17 tracts and memoirs by the discoverer of Photosynthesis. The tracts relates to plant-physiology, chemistry, metallurgy, medicine etc.
John Wiley and Sons Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1962 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under dust-jacket In-8 1 vol. - 118 pages
1st edition Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Contents, x, Text, 108 pages - 1. Atomic orbitals - Bonding - Conjugated systems - Ligand field theory - Transition states - Ionic reactions - Displacement reactions - Concerted reactions - Metals as acid catalysts - Charge transfer complexes - High energy bonds - 2. Esterification and hydrolysis - Elimination reactions - Decarboxylations - Oxidations - Condensations - Alkylation reactions - Rearrangements - Miscellaneous reactions - Index the jacket is lightly torn, without significant missings, Boris Rybak's working copy, few annotations at ink, else very good copy
1951 INSTITUT SCIENTIFIQUE DE MADAGASCAR- 1951. Broché. 201 pages.,dos et 2e plat abscents,dans l'etat
World Publishing Company, Meridian Books Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1970 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback In-8 1 vol. - 404 pages
Contents, Chapitres : Note, Contents, iv, Text, 400 pages - 1. Revolution in the classroom - A scientific odyssey - A prophet in his own country - The tale of an unlikely prince - A premeditated romance - Barnacles and blasphemy - The most important book of the century - Convulsions of the national mind - Huxley, Kingsley and the Universe - Human skeletons in geological closets - Orchids, politics, and heredity - The subject of subjects - I am not the least afraid of death - 2. An eminent Victorian - The Metaphysical Society - The educator - Triumphal progress - The pleasant avocation of war - Il faut cultiver notre jardin - Notes and index working copy from Pierre Thuillier, annotations at ink and pencil, the wrapper are lightly dusties, else very good reading copy
P., Maloine, 1895; un volume in 4 relié en cartonnage éditeur (défraîchi, dos frotté), 21pp., (1), 146pp., (1), figures dans le texte, 21 PLALNCHES hors texte
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- L'appareil microphotographique - Le tirage - Les variétés bactériennes pathogènes - Les variétés saprophytes - Moisissures et cryptogames - Bactéries pléomorphes**2771/B5DE
Lausanne, impr. Corbaz 1894, 210x150mm, 45pages, broché.
8 planches dont 2 dépl.,
Le Livre de Poche 1985 123 pages 16x11x1cm. 1985. Poche. 123 pages.
Très bon état
P., Fayard, 1981, in 8° broché, 137 pages.
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Paris, Fayard, 1981, In huit, 135 pp, broché, couverture souple,
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in " Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique " numéro 390 du 30 Mai 1921, plaquette in8, 15 pages,bon état.
Préface du Dr Martin Knudsen.