Hall, Elizabeth Cornelia

Printed Books 1481-1900 in The Horticultural Society of New York

New York: The Horticultural Society of New York, 1970. First edition. Pp. xiii, 279; frontispiece plate. Publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 8vo. From the library of George H. Beatty III with his oval name stamp on the front endpaper. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 4962

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Keywords: Natural History Reference Works history botany books horticulture 1481-1900 The Horticultural Society of New York George Beatty Hall

Herrera, Alfonso L.

El Valle de Mexico considerado como Provincia Zoologica

Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante, 1891. Pp. 442-508, 1 hand-colored map of the valley of Mexico, 1 hand-colored geological chart, 2 text-figures. Extract with no wrappers issued, lg 4to. From La Naturaleza, ser. 2, volume 1. This work details the zoology of the Valley of Mexico. The text is in Spanish. From the library of George Sprague Myers but without ownership stamps. Rare work. Top page edges un-cut and un-opened, the cover page (not part of the paper) is browned, overall, a very good copy..

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Book number: 8140

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Hildebrand, Milton

Analysis of Vertebrate Structure (second edition)

New York: John Wiley, 1982. Second edition. Pp. xiv, 654; numerous black-and-white halftone illustrations and line-drawings. Publisher's original pictorial tan laminated boards lettered in white on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. A detailed analysis of vertebrate morphology, anatomy and evolution by one of the leading authorities on the subject. Small signature of former owner on the front endpaper. No signs of use. Spine lightly sunned; a bright and clean copy in fine condition..

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Book number: 7436

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Hoeven, J. van der

Philosophia Zoologica

Lugdunum Batavorum: E.J. Brill, 1864. First edition Pp. (4), 401, (1). Contemporary black half leather, spine with four raised-bands, gilt-lettered and with gilt decorations, over marbled boards, 8vo. Pencil signature of early owner on title page. Tight and clean very good copy in an attractive binding..

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Book number: 2817

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Keywords: Evolutionary biology history evolution

Howard, Daniel J and Berlocher, Stewart H. (editors)

Endless Forms: Species and Speciation.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition. Pp. xii, 470; numerous text-figures (charts, diagrams and maps). Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and the front cover, lg 8vo. This is the hardcover first edition published by Oxford University Press. This edited volume presents 23 papers by 55 noted authorities in the field. Here is a sampling of twelve of those chapters: 1. Origins: A Brief History of Research on Speciation by Stewart H. Berlocher. 2. Linking Evolutionary Pattern and Process: The Relevance of Species Concepts for the Study of Speciation by Richard G. Harrison. 3. Species and Speciation: Geography, Population Structure, Ecology, and Gene Trees by Alan R. Templeton. 4. Species and the Diversity of Natural Groups by Kerry L. Shaw. 5. The General Lineage Concept of Species, Species Criteria, and the Process of Speciation: A Conceptual Unification and Terminological Recommendations by Kevin de Queiroz. 6. Theory and Models of Sympatric Speciation by Paul A. Johnson and Urban Gullberg. 7. On the Sympatric Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Alexey S. Kondrashov, Lev Yu. Yampolsky, and Svetlana A. Shabalina. 8. Can Sympatric Speciation via Host of Habitat Shift be Proven from Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Evidence? by Steward H. Berlocher. 9. Ecological Causes of Speciation by Dolph Schluter. 11. Evolution of Insect-Plant Associations: Sensory Perception and Receptor Modifications Direct Food Specialization and Host Shifts in Phytophagous Insects by Steph B. J. Menkin and P. Roessignh. 12. The Evolution of Edaphic Endemics by Mark R. Macnair and Mike Gardner and 13. The Relative Rate of Sympatric and Allopatric Speciation in Fishes: Tests Using DNA Sequence Divergence between Sister Species and among Clades by Amy R. McCune and Nathan R. Lovejoy. Small signature of former owner on the front endpaper. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 5701

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Keywords: Evolutionary biology evolution species speciation biogeography environment phylogenetic phylogeny natural selection Howard Berlocher ISBN 0-19-510900-7

Hughs, Norman F.

The Enigma of Angiosperm Origins

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, First edition Pp. xii, (1), 303, numerous text-figures and photos. Two-color pictorial boards (case-bound hardback), lg 8vo. Cambridge Paleobiology Series no. 1. Presents new ideas on the origin of angiosperms based on the EM study of microscopic fossils. A fine (as new) copy with no ownership marks..

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Book number: 2432

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Keywords: Evolutionary Biology evolution botany flowering plants angiosperms paleobiology paleobotany palaeobotany

Kelley, Mark A. and Larsen, Clark Spencer (editors)

Advances in Dental Anthropology.

New York: Wiley-Liss, 1991. First edition. Pp. xiv, 389; numerous black-and-white micrographs and photos, graphs, diagrams. Publisher's original pictorial laminated red-patterned boards (hardcover), lettered in white, sm 4to. In 1963, a new distinct area of anthropological inquiry was established - the study of the teeth as a key to the biology and behavior of past and living populations. 'Advances in Dental Anthropology' chronicles the dynamic progress made in this area in the last 25 years. The volume covers a diverse range of topics, focusing on a variety of exciting research questions and investigative agendas of current interest to dental anthropologists. The topics covered include: microwear, morphological variation, odontometrics, intentional and unintentional modification, age estimation, pathology, enamel defects, occlusal variation, and growth and development (from the rear cover). No ownership marks and no signs of use. A bright and clean copy in fine (new) condition..

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Book number: 6457

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

King, Max

Species Evolution: The Role of Chromosome Change.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Pp. xxi, 336; numerous text-figures (line-drawings and photos). Publisher's original emerald-green cloth, lettered in turquoise on the spine, two-color decorated dust jacket, lettered in white, sm 4to. A detailed analysis of the role of chromosomes and the molecular genetic mechanisms involved in the process of speciation in plant and animal populations. Bookplate of the researcher who first owned this volume. No other ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket..

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Book number: 5136

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Keywords: Evolution heredity evolutionary biology

Lawton, John H. and May, Robert M. (editors)

Extinction Rates.

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition. Pp. xii, 233; numerous graphs, maps and line-drawings. Original printed red stiff wrappers, lg 8vo. This book provides a wide-ranging and data-driven treatment of current and likely future extinction rates. The 14 chapters in the volume, by notable authorities in the field, address the issue of extinction rates in a wide variety of plant and animal species. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 6369

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Locy, William A.

Biology and its Makers, third edition, revised

New York: Henry Holt, 1915. Third edition. Pp. xxvi, 477; 123 text-figures (many half-tone portraits and other diagrams). Publisher's original wine-red ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt panel lines, sm 8vo. This work documents the scientists who contributed to the rise of the evolutionary theory. From the research book collection of Orma J. Smith with his bookplate on the front attached endpaper and signature in pencil on the facing free endpaper. There are also a few pencil annotations in the text in the hand of Orma J. Smith. The rear endpapers also a former student's schedule written in pencil. Wear to outer corners and to cloth at the head and foot of the spine, overall a very good copy..

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Book number: 8767

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Lomolino, Mark V. and Heaney, Lawrence R. (editor).

Frontiers of Biogeography: New Directions in the Geography of Nature.

Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 2004. First edition. Pp. xi, 436; 18 color plates (paleogeographic maps from the earliest Triassic to the Holocene), numerous text-figures (maps, cladograms, charts, graphs). Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with a copper-colored butterfly blind-stamped into the front cover, lg 8vo. Contains 18 chapters on all aspects of paleobiogeography, phylogeography, diversity gradients, marine biogeography and conservation biogeography. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 6234

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Martin, Robert A.

Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions through Time

Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2004. First edition. Pp. xvi, 303; numerous black-and-white line drawings and photographs. Color pictorial stiff wrappers (paperback). 8vo. This work provides readers with a compendium of scientific evidence of extinct organisms or ""missing links"" that bridge evolutionary gaps between primordial species and modern life (from the rear copy blurb). No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (as new) copy..

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Book number: 8450

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Matthew, William D.

Climate and Evolution.

New York: Academy of Natural Sciences, 1939. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xii, 223; 32 text-figures. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. Special publication of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume 1. This volume, assembled by E. H. Colbert after Matthew's death in 1930, brings together six papers by Matthews on the topic of climate and evolution. The contents include: Foreword, by E.H. Colbert; Preface, Biographical sketch of William Diller Matthew by W.K. Gregory; Climate and evolution by Matthew; Some remarks upon Matthew's ""Climate and evolution,"" by Thomas Barbour; with supplementary note by Matthew; Note on the Wegener hypothesis, etc., supplementary to ""Climate and evolution,"" by Matthew; Affinities and origin of the Antillean mammals by Matthew; The dispersal of land animals by Matthew; Tables showing the past and present zoogeographical distribution of land mammals by Matthew; Annotated bibliography of William Diller Matthew by C.L. Camp and V.L. VanderHoof. No ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in fine condition..

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Book number: 6107

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

McCormick, L. Hamilton

Characterology: An Exact Science

Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1920. First edition Pp. xxxvii, 643, 17 full-page charts, 74 full page plates. Publisher's original blue-ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and the front cover, lg 8vo. The subtitle of this volume reads ""Embracing Physiognomy and Pathognomy, Reconstructed, Amplified and Amalgamated, and Including Views Concerning Memory and Reason and the Location of These Faculties within the Brain Likewise Facial and Cranial Indications of Longevity."" This is a very unusual volume with interesting plates. No ownership marks. Small repair to front endpaper, a very bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 3575

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity

Keywords: Evolutionary biology characterlogy physiognomy pathognomy facial cranial indications longevity

Miller, James B. (editor)

The Epic of Evolution: Science and Religion in Dialogue

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2004. First edition. Pp. ix, 227; some text-figures (line-drawings, graphs, black-and-white photos). Publisher's original laminated boards (hardcover), lg 8vo. From: Advances in Human Evolution Series. Contains 20 chapters by 19 notable authorities in the fields of evolution, religious studies and history. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 8537

Catalogue: Evolution and Heredity