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Santana Fossils: An Illustrated Atlas
First Edition
Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H Publications, (1991). 459 pages. 9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches. The definitive survey of the fossil fishes of the Araripe Basin in Brazil. ISBN: 9780866225496.
First edition (first printing). A very good to near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Inscribed by the author to the evolutionary paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, 20 February 2002, To Dr. S.J.G. 'Best Fishes' JGM." Maisey was the vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Gould wrote essays for the AMNH magazine for several decades and many of his books are collections of those essays. A nice association. with a commemorative bookmark designating this as a volume from Gould's library.
Book ID: 205245More details Price: $250.00 -
Fossil Woods and Other Geological Specimens, Part Three (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History)
First Edition
(Turnhout, Belgium): Harvey Miller Publishers, (2000). 424 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. A catalog of early seventeenth-century drawings from the Royal Library. With 317 illustrations, 135 in color. Includes a bibliography, concordances, glossary and indexes. ISBN: 9781872501918.
First edition (first printing). Light bump to front bottom corner of the spine else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Errata slip laid in. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Stephen Jay Gould, in admiration and with affection -- David Freedberg / March 21, 2002." A large, heavy book. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
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Book ID: 215204More details Price: $250.00 -
Vertebrate Zoogeography & Evolution in Australasia. (Animals in Space & Time)
First Edition
Carlisle, Western Australia: Hesperian Press, (1984). 1203 pages. 8-3/4 by 12 inches. "A detailed work on the present state of our knowldge of the Australian vertebrate fauna and its origins and evolutionary history" -- from the forward by John Calaby. Printed from typescript. Illustrated in black-and-white. ISBN: 9780859050364.
First edition (first printing). Corners lightly bumped and spine a bit pushed thus a near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear at one corner. Association copy with a sweet inscription: "To Steve Gould, with all the respect one human being could have for another (and as a bribe to try to persuade a forward out of you for the 2nd edition!). Cheers, Michael Archer." From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
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Book ID: 221769More details Price: $200.00 -
Studien uber die Entwickelung der Muskeln, Nerven, und der Skeletts der Extremitaten der niedern Tetrapoden
First Edition
Moscou (Moscow): Typo-lithogra. de la Societe J. N. Kouchnereff et C-ie, 1908. 432 pages, plus six folding color plates. Published as nos. 1-3 of the Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, Annee 1907. A widely cited work on the evolution of five-digit extremities in tetrapods. Uncommon. ISBN: 281AIB1042736.
First edition (first printing). Bound without the original wrappers in blue cloth and marbled-paper-covered boards.
From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 215466More details Price: $125.00 -
Factors of Evolution: The Theory of Stabilizing Selection
First Edition
Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1949. 327 pages. Translated from the Russian by Isadore Dordick and edited by Theodosius Dobzhansky. A key work in mid-20th century evolutionary theory. ISBN: B00F2WYFP2.
First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy, lacking the dust jacket, but with a distinguished provenance: This copy has the ownership stamp of noted entomologist Howard E. Evans and comes from the library of Stephen Jay Gould, the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
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Book ID: 214379More details Price: $125.00 -
Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views Since 1600
First Edition
Deptmarnt of Prehistory, Leiden University, 1995. 408 pages. 8-1/4 by 11-1/4 inches. Evaluative Proceedings of the Symposium Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views Since 1600: Leiden, the Netherlands, 28 June-1 July 1993. Illustrations in black-and-white. ISBN: 9789073368057.
First edition (first printing). Slight bump to one corner else a fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 237136More details Price: $100.00 -
Rost zhivotnyh: analiz na urovne organizma [title in Russian]
First Edition
Moscow: Nauka, 1976. 291 pages. A Russian work on ontogeny and the development of animals. Published in the Problems of Developmental Biology series.
A later book by Mina and Klevezal, looking at the development of teeth, was published in English as Recording Structures of Mammals: Determination of age and reconstruction of life history. Rost zhivotnyh is rather uncommon, with (apparently) no copies in OCLC or COPAC. ISBN: 281AIB1042585.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by both authors: "To Dr. Gould, with the best wishes from two deeply impresed readers of Ontology and Phylogeny." This book was signed soon after Stephen Jay Gould's first book was published.
From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 214385More details Price: $100.00 -
Die Evolution hydraulischer Konstruktionen: Organismische Wandlung statt altdarwinistischer Anpassung
First Edition
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1989. 201 pages. German text. Gutmann (1935-1997) founded the so-called Frankfurt Theory of Evolution (also called Critical Evolutionary Theory and Organism-Centered Theory). His work examined life from an engineering perspective, with much emphasis on hydrolics and fluid-filled cavities. Gutmann was very influential in German but did not gain much recognition among English-speaking evolutionists. ISBN: 9783782911122.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Inscribed by the author to the great American evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould.
Book ID: 193494More details Price: $100.00 -
On the Phylogeny and the Ontogeny of the Human Larynx: A morphological and functional study
First Edition
Groningen, The Netherlands: Wolters-Noordhoff Publishing, 1970. 157 pages. 8-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. The author's Ph.D. thesis. ISBN: 9789001954505.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Stephen Jay Gould who would cite this book in his Ontogeny and Phylogeny. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 222791More details Price: $85.00 -
An Evolutionary Microcosm: Pleistocene and Recent History of the Land Snail P. (Poecilozonites) in Bermuda
First Edition
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Gould's own copy, from his Harvard office library, with a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 225846More details Price: $85.00 -
Ocherk biologicheskoi aero- i gidrodinamiki (polet i plavanie zhivotnykh)
First Edition
Moscow: Nauka, 1974. Author's surname also transliterated Kokshayskiy and Kokshaiskii. 245 pages. Kokshaysky's work on bird flight are widely cited. This original Russian edition is uncommon in the US. OCLC 14118477 (11 copies). ISBN: 281AIB1038472.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author in part in Russian and then, "Steve J. Gould with the best author's compliments 31 X 1974. H. B. Kokshaysky." Kokshaysky cites Stephen Jay Gould in the bibliography and Gould included Kokshaysky in a 1973 symposium he led called The Shape of Things to Come. A nice association copy.
Book ID: 193493More details Price: $85.00 -
Vertebrate Zoogeography & Evolution in Australasia (Animals In Space & Time)
First Edition
Victoria Park, Australia: Hesperian Press, (1984). 1203 pages. "A detailed work on the present state of our knowledge of the Australian vertebrate fauna and its origins and evolutionary history" -- from the foreword by John Calaby. Printed in typescript. Profusely illutrated, mostly in black-and-white. ISBN: B000WQN2U2.
First edition (first printing). Red boards torn at the spine folds but hinge intact. A very good copy in a creased and torn dust jacket. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 213137More details Price: $75.00 -
The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory
First Edition
New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. 235 pages. In the Contributions in Philosophy series. An exploration of evoluton through logic. ISBN: 9780313255632.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Inscribed by the author, "For Steve, with admiration and affection. Lisa."
From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 223074More details Price: $75.00 -
The Species Problem: An introduction to the study of evolutionary divergence in natural populations
First Edition
Edinburgh, Scotland: Oliver and Boyd, 1928. 283 pages. An influential, but now largely superceded, book on the problem about what constitutes a species. ISBN: B0006EUWFI.
First edition (first printing). A very good to near fine hardcover; lacking the jacket.
From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 215625More details Price: $62.50 -
Vergleichende Biologische Formenkunde Der Fossilen Niederen Tiere [Biological Comparative Morphology of Lower Fossil Animals]
New York: Arno Press, 1980. 777 pages. Text in German. Reprint of the 1921 edition published in Berlin. Illustrated in black-and-white. A volume in the History of Paleontology collection of reprints by Arno Press. Series editor Stephen Jay Gould. ISBN: 9780405127106.
A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 218710More details Price: $62.50 -
Grundfragen der Palaontologie
New York: Arno Press, 1980. 505 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1950 edition published in Stuttgart. Text in German. From the History of Paleontology collection of reprints by Arno Press. Series editor Stephen Jay Gould. ISBN: 9780405127410.
A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 218714More details Price: $62.50 -
Phylogeny and Classification of Birds: A Study in Molecular Evolution
First Edition
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1990). 976 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Based on the genetic material of 1,700 bird species. With an introduction to the structure and function of DNA. ISBN: 9780300040852.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A large, heavy book. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 222957More details Price: $60.00 -
Cours Elementaire De Paleontologie Et De Geologie Stratigraphique Stratigraphiques (Two volume set)
New York: Arno Press, 1980. Volume I: 299 pages. Volume II: 384-847 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1849 - 1852 edition published by V. Masson, Paris. Text in French. Illustrated in black-and-white. From the History of Paleontology collection of reprints by Arno Press. ISBN: 9780405127250.
A fine hardcover two volume set in brown cloth with gold lettering on covers and spines. No dust jackets. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 215240More details Price: $60.00 -
Fossil Prokaryotes and Protists
First Edition
Boston: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993. 342 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A textbook for an advanced paleontology course. Illustrated in black-and-white. ISBN: 9780865420731.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould.
Book ID: 232924More details Price: $60.00 -
Population Ecology: Symposium Mainz, May 1978 (Fortschritte der Zoologie)
First Edition
New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1979. 409 pages. "The articles in this volume are the result of an international symposium held at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur zu Mainz in April 1978" -- from the preface. With contributions from Jared Diamond, Paul Ehrlich, Martin Cody, Joan Roughgarden and others. Illustrated with 202 figures and 53 tables. ISBN: 9783437302923.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued.
Book ID: 235960More details Price: $50.00