Key, Wilhelmine E. Key

Heredity and Social Fitness; A Study of Differential Mating in a Pennsylvania Family

Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1920. First Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 102pp. Gilt lettered blue buckram, 2 fold-out charts. Extremities very lightly rubbed, faint spot near top edge, contents tanned but clean. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in pencil on front free endpaper "Mrs. Francis B. Key, Somers, Conn." , short margin tear to one chart. An attempt to promote selective breeding by means of segregation and sterilization of "the socially unfit." Very Good.

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Book number: 001301

Catalogue: Medicine, Science and Mathematics

Keywords: Heredity Eugenics Mating Lineage Singed

Vallery-Radot, René

The Life of Pasteur

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Hardcover. 484p. Blue cloth. Fading mainly to spine, splitting to endpapers, contents age-toned. What's interesting about this volume, is the inscription on the front free endpaper : "Pasteur said: Study great men and worship them, little realizing that he was one. The inspiration which I received from this book won for me two trips to Europe. I hope it takes you around the world. Jan. 11, 1923 Pasteur Centennial." Author's inscription? Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002158

Catalogue: Medicine, Biography, Science and Mathematics

Keywords: Invention Vaccination "Louis Pasteur"