Agassiz, L.

Methods of study in natural history.

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Small 8vo. viii, 319 pp.; a few woodcuts. Original blind stamped cloth. Gilt title on the spine. Brown endpapers. Written by the experienced Swiss-born American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe "Louis" Agassiz (1807-1873). First edition. Dedication copy, to the German zoologist Julius Victor Carus (1823-1903), "Vom Verfasser". A rather common work, but copies with the author's handwritten dedication are rare. Spine sunned, a few spots, but otherwise an excellent, clean copy.

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Book number: 32703

Agassiz, A.

North American Acalephs.

(Cambridge 1865). 248p., 360 fine woodcuts. Cont. boards (rubbed). - Lacks the titlepage. Contains a large systematic table of orders and families, a geographical distribution and a bibliography of these species. Ex libris of Dr. Breitenbach.

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Book number: 27870

Agassiz, A.

Original handwritten letter, signed.

Cambridge, MA, [not published], 1893. Single leaf (20.5 x 13.2 cm). Letter by the Swiss-American zoologist Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910), dated 12 May 93, to (by implication) the French zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900). In this letter, Agassiz records the dispatch of 50 offprints of Milne Edwards's contribution to the results of the deep-sea dredgings by the USS Blake, regarding the pagurids, or hermit crabs. This work is titled Déscription des crustaces de la famille des paguriens recueillis pendant I'expedition. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), and along the Atlantic coast of the United States (1880), by the U.S. Coast Survey steamer Blake, and published in the Museum's Memoirs Volume 14. This was one of the most important deep-sea cruises by an American vessel. Most species collected were entirely unknown. Written on MCZ stationery with printed text: "Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.". Originally horizontally double-folded. A tiny speck in the lower margin, otherwise clean, very good.

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Book number: 74367

Agassiz, A.

Original handwritten letter, signed.

Paris, [not dated - after 1861]. Single leaf (20.2 x 13.3 cm). Letter written by the Swiss-American ichthyologist and marine biologist Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (1835-1910), to an unknown colleague, perhaps the French zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900). Alexander Agassiz commented upon the rare work edited by Louis Maillard (1814-1865) on the island Réunion in the Indian Ocean: "Je réussi seulement à trouver le texte et les planches des mollusques et comme il y a d'autres figures qui nous seraient importantes, je vous serais fort obligé si vous pouviez par hasard me donner quelques renseignements à ce sujet […] " ("I only succeeded in finding the text and the plates of the molluscs and as there are other figures which would be important to us, I would be very much obliged to you if you could by chance give me some information on this subject"). Apparently, Agassiz only had Gérard Paul Deshayes's (1861) part on the molluscs, and, in all probability, not the part on the crustaceans, Faune carcinologie (1862), written by Alphone Milne Edwards. Left edge a bit irregular, otherwise fine.

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Book number: 74373

Agassiz, L.

Report on the Florida Reefs. Accompanied by illustrations of Florida corals.

Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1880. 4to (29.7 x 23.3 cm). 61 pp.; 22 fine lithographed plates and one folded map of the Florida coral reefs. Original printed wrappers. A seminal paper by the Swiss-American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe "Louis" Agassiz (1807-1873). Not published until well after his death, when its importance became more appreciated. Edited by his son, Alexander. Uncut. Small library stamp on title page; spine broken and some tape damage to the front wrapper, the rear wrapper detached and more chipped; otherwise a good, clean copy. Uncommon.

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Book number: 73591

Agassiz, A. and L. F. de Pourtalès and T. Lyman

Reports on the dredging operations of the U.S. coast survey Str. "Blake". Echini. Corals and crinoids. Ophiurans.

Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1878. 8vo (26.6 x 15.1 cm). 58 pp.; ten photographic or engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. Important papers on, mainly, echinoderms collected off Cuba and Florida. The echini are described by Agassiz (with photographic plates), the corals and crinoids by De Pourtalès, and the ophiurans by Lyman. Several species are described as new. Published on behalf of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, in their Bulletin series. Uncut. Unopened. Small, weak stamp on title and last leaf blank verso, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH), p. 16.

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Book number: 64039

Agassiz, A.

Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatros" from August, 1899, to March, 1900, commander Jefferson F. Moser, U.S.N., commanding. I. Preliminary report and list of stations. With remarks on the deep-sea deposits by Sir John Murray.

Cambridge, MA, The Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1902. 4to. 114 pp., one plate (showing deap-sea deposits), 21 folded, and several full colour maps and graphs (listed as "plates" in the text, and "charts" on the front wrapper. Original printed wrappers. Important contribution to the survey and charting of the sea floor of the eastern Pacific with fine, detailed maps. Spine cover gone, one gathering loose, wrapper edges frayed, a few pages partly browned due to contamination with inferior paper, but all the maps in excellent condition. Rare.

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Book number: 64134

Agassiz, E. C. and A. Agassiz

Seaside studies in natural history. Marine animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates.

Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin, 1871. 8vo. xii, 167 pp., 185 text engravings, one unnumbered plate-sized engraving. Publisher's green blindstamped cloth. Gilt title on the spine. The work deals with Cnidaria (and Ctenophora?) and Echinodermata, and since most of the animals covered are transparent, most figures have been printed in white on a black background. This is the second edition which differs from the first in having an additional preface and some corrections in the text. Some light wear to the spine head and foot, otherwise a very good clean copy.

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Book number: 64197

Agassiz, L.

Untersuchungen über die Gletscher. [Complete text and atlas].

Solothurn, Jent & Gassmann, 1840-1841; Neuchatel, H. Nicolet, 1840. Text: 8vo (21.5 x 14.2 cm). xii, 326, [i] pp. 19th-century pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title. Greenish endpapers. Subtly marbled edges. Atlas: Oblong folio (29.7 x 44.0 cm). 18 lithographed plates of which 14 with printed overlays (as intended). Contemporary green quarter calf over green boards. Spine with gilt bands. Original pictorial title mounted on front board. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), known as Louis, was - with this work - the founder of glacial geology. Alexander von Humboldt and Georges Cuvier launched him on his careers of respectively geology and zoology (Wikipedia). He was a professor of natural history at the university of Neuchâtel and president of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences before he went to the U.S.A. in 1846, where he became a professor at Harvard. He played a major role in the founding of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the National Academy of Sciences. In 1863 he was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1837, Agassiz proposed that the Earth had been subjected to a past ice age. He presented the theory to the Helvetic Society that ancient glaciers flowed outward from the Alps, and even larger glaciers had covered the plains and mountains of Europe, Asia, and North America and smothered the entire Northern Hemisphere in a prolonged ice age. The Untersuchungen über die Gletscher, or Etudes sur les Glaciers - which was published a few months earlier - is Agassiz' most famous and most sought-after work, and the first in-depth study of glaciers. Agassiz Glacier, in Glacier National Park, Montana, is named after him. This is a complete set of the text and the atlas volume. Text volume with simple, small stamp of a former private owner, the Swedish geologist Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer (1858-1943) on the front pastedown; a few pencilled markings, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Atlas with a few pencilled markings, some minimal spotting (far less than in any other copy we have seen); otherwise a very good, clean copy. Dibner 98; DSB I, pp. 72-74; Horblit, 1; PMM 309 (French edition); Ward and Carozzi, 24.

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Book number: 77550

Ager, D. V. and E. F. Owen

Zoological record. Vol. 92-93, Sect, 7, 1955-1956. Brachiopoda.

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1957. Two volumes in two. Small 8vo. 58 [24; 34] pp. Original uniform printed wrappers. Covering the years 1955-1956, and some earlier papers not listed previously. Volume 92 with rusty staples, otherwise a very good clean set.

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Book number: 65341

Agol, I.

Dialektigeskiy metod i evolyutsionnaya theoriya [Dialectical method and evolutionary theory].

Moskva, Leningrad, Kommunisticheskaya Akademiya, 1927. 8vo (20.0 x 13.1 cm). 150 pp.; five text figures. Original printed softcover. A curious example of an early "Bolshevik ideological attempt in evolutionary theory", relating to Lamarckism and Darwinism. In Russian. Signed on cover and with many pencil notes, otherwise good. Rare. There are no other copies on the internet.

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Book number: 46267

Agranovich, V. M. and A. A. Maradudin (eds.)

Modern problems in condensed matter sciences. Volume 1. Surface polaritons. Electromagnetic waves at surfaces and interfaces. Volume editors: V. M. Agranovich and D. L. Mills.

Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing, 1982. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.5 cm). xvi, 717 pp. Numerous text illustrations, graphs and tables. Red buckram with gilt title on the spine. In printed dust jacket. A work rarely seen. It contains 15 scholarly papers, grouped into three "parts", on this subject. Includes an author index and subject index, and prefaces to the series and the volume. Light wear to dust jacket. Stamp of the publisher in the top outer corner of the front free endpaper recto. Otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 71576

Agranovich, V. M. and M. D. Galanin

Modern problems in condensed matter sciences. Volume 3. Electronic excitation energy transfer in condensed matter.

Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing, 1982. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.5 cm). xix, 371 pp. Numerous text illustrations, graphs and tables. Red buckram with gilt title on the spine. In printed dust jacket. It contains 56 scholarly papers, grouped into 8 "Chapters" on this subject. Includes an author index, subject index, references and prefaces to the series, the volume and the English translation. Part of a series with the first author, V. M. Agranovich, and A. A. Maradudin as general editors. Stamp of the publisher in the top outer corner of the front free endpaper recto. Otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 71581

Agranovich, V. M. and A. A. Maradudin (eds.)

Modern problems in condensed matter sciences. Volume 4. Spectroscopy and exciation dynamics of condensed molecular systems. Volume editors: V. M. Agranovich and R. M. Hochstrasser.

Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing, 1983. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.5 cm). x, 701 pp. Numerous text illustrations, graphs and tables. Red buckram with gilt title on the spine. In printed dust jacket. It contains 11 scholarly papers. Includes an author index and subject index, and prefaces to the series and the volume. Stamp of the publisher in the top outer corner of the front free endpaper recto. Otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 71582

Agranovich, V. M. and A. A. Maradudin (eds.)

Modern problems in condensed matter sciences. Volume 5. Light scattering near phase transitions. Volume editors: H. Z. Cummins and A. P. Levanyuk.

Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing, 1983. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.5 cm). xvii, 666 pp. Numerous text illustrations, graphs and tables. Red buckram with gilt title on the spine. In printed dust jacket. It contains 11 scholarly papers, grouped into 2 "Chapters" on this subject. Includes an author index, subject index, material index and prefaces to the series and the volume as well as an introduction by the volume editors. Stamp of the publisher in the top outer corner of the front free endpaper recto. Otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 71583