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rif. 20025Prag ( Prague ) Friedrich Ehrlich 1844 in 4 (29x22,5) 1 fascicule broché sous couverture muette, VI et 52 pages, avec 6 planches lithographiées hors texte in fine (de monstres), et un faux-feuillet non chiffré. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque du scientifique français Étienne Rabaud, avec son petit cachet ex-libris rouge. Rabaud Étienne (Antoine Prosper Jules), Zoologiste français, Saint-Affrique - Villemade, 1868. Très rare. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1950rif. 6329Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1950 ; 3 volumes, in-8, bradel demi-toile bordeaux, auteur et titre dorés ; 361 pp. , (1) p. ; 355 pp. , (1) p. ; 344 pp. , (2) pp.
rif. 62490, Oxford University Press, 1968 Hardcover with dusjacket, Pp. xiv+258, bibl., ill., maps. rare!.
1899rif. QZI-36(English description below) Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Londres, 1899. Première édition anglaise. Fort in-8 de 15,5 x 22,5 cm, (xxi) 624 pp. et plusieurs dizaines de pp. de portraits hors texte. Nombreuses cartes et photographies en noir et blanc. Reliure contemporaine en papier épais plein tissu bleu, dos lisse avec nom d'auteur et titre du livre en doré, charnières à la Bradel. Livre de référence de l'anthropologie anglo-saxonne de l'époque, "The Races of Europe" a popularisé la notion d'indice céphalique et de trois sous-groupes ethniques européens (nordique, alpin et méditerranéen), tout en rassemblant une somme considérable de données sur la taille, les taux de fertilité et bien d'autres éléments. Professeur d'université au MIT puis à Harvard, William Z. Ripley (1867-1941) fut ingénieur de formation et professeur d'économie. Son intérêt pour l'anthropologie et les types humains le conduisit à systématiser sa vision d'une humanité européenne constituée de trois grands groupes. Éclectique dans ses centres d'intérêt et ses sources, doté d'un sens puissant de la synthèse, il s'éloigna de l'anthropologie après la publication de "Races of Europe" pour se concentrer sur les problèmes liés aux chemins de fer sous l'administration Roosevelt et aurait prévu la crise de 1929 : "Une prospérité illusoire et trompeuse peut certes être indûment prolongée par des moyens artificiels, mais, en fin de compte, la vérité finit inévitablement par l'emporter." (New York Times, 17 août 1941, notice nécrologique de Ripley). *************** Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1899. First English edition. Large octavo (15.5 x 22.5 cm), (xxi) 624 pp. plus several dozen pages of plates featuring portraits. Numerous black-and-white maps and photographs. Contemporary binding in heavy blue cloth; smooth spine with author's name and book title in gilt; Bradel-style hinges. A seminal work in Anglo-American anthropology of the era, *The Races of Europe* popularized the concept of the cephalic index and the classification of Europeans into three ethnic subgroups (Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean), while compiling a vast amount of data on stature, fertility rates, and many other factors. A university professor at MIT and later Harvard, William Z. Ripley (1867–1941) was trained as an engineer and worked as a professor of economics. His interest in anthropology and human types led him to systematize his view of the European population as consisting of three major groups. Eclectic in his interests and sources, and gifted with a powerful capacity for synthesis, he moved away from anthropology after the publication of *The Races of Europe* to focus on railroad issues during the Roosevelt administration; he is said to have predicted the 1929 crash: "An illusory and deceptive prosperity may indeed be unduly prolonged by artificial means, but, in the end, the truth inevitably prevails." (*New York Times*, August 17, 1941, Ripley's obituary).
1934124 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Cover illustration of a plane with paddle wheels for wings; Sensational study of heredity may produce new race of men; Amazing new uses fround for glass; Border guard wages war on smugglers; Phonograph disks run crewless war tank!; Fiends of the desert (reptiles) found to be harmless; Photo of noted inventor George W. Bowers in his Somerville, MA workshop; Shortwave machine broadcasts death to plant enemies; Mysterious lost rivers run mills and power plants; Homemade planetarium for amateur astronomers; World's strangest circus produced by amateurs - article with great photos of the Gainesville, Texas Community Circus; You can grow mushrooms in your cellar; Great color-photo back cover ad for Camel cigarettes features Jack Ford, Engineer of the Burlington Railroad's "Zephyr" which travels 1015 miles in 785 minutes from Denver to Chicago. Average wear. Signature upon both covers. Four-inch and six-inch openings to back cover. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1933100 pages. Contributors include: Edwin Lefevre, Everett Freeman, Joseph Hergesheimer, George Bradshaw. Articles: Wasted Wallops (Interesting article about the 1929 and 1933 stock market crashes), My Ming Collection, Costuming the Movies, Boss Kettering, What's a Second Worth?, The Widow's Inheritance. Advertisements by: Maxwell House Coffee, Campbell's Soup, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Packard 1934, Hupmobile, Libby's Tomato Juice, Plymouth Six, Oldsmobile, Atwater Kent Radio. Somewhat above-average wear. Still a solid copy. Book
195756 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Duncan Macpherson shows Montreal at night; The pitfalls of the Ten Commandments, by Brock Chisholm; Are Heredity Titles on the way out in Britain?; Bright colour one-page Del Monte Catsup ad; Five pages of rare and colorful art for children from the children's book collection of Edgar Osborne; Olive Diefenbaker - her not-so-private life; Toronto's David Caplan - The Jazz-happy Tailor; The Bonnie Babes of the Bank of Lower Canada; We Found Our New World in the Arctic - Peter and Helga Bading spent an isolated year in side the Arctic Circle - article with photos; How Scrooge might spend Christmas 1957; Nice centrefold Maclean's subscription ad features Jasper the bear; Great 2/3-page colour ad for Thistle toys, including bikes and pedal cars; Fantastic one-page Philishave ad features Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens; Canada Dry Sparkling Water ad features photos of bartenders Stuart Holllander, George Clark, Geoffrey Dutson, Paul Chevrier, and Harry Arger; How Edgar Osborne collected his priceless treasures of children's books; Photos of the Tremblay family which has six surviving sets of twins!; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside back cover features construction of the first Trans-Newfoundland Highway; Back cover Coke ad features illustration of Santa eating snacks left for him on fireplace mantel; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1675In 8° (21x16 cm); 16 pp. A fogli slegati. Bella e rarissima placchetta stampata a Fermo da Andrea dal Monte nel 1675. Leggerissimo alone d'umidità nel margine inferiore delle prime e ultime due carte (quasi inivisibile). Margini leggermente corti nel margine superiore dove vengono sfiorati i numeri ma nel complesso buona copia. Bellissimo stemma della città di Fermo inciso a tutta pagina alla carta 3. Lettera al senato di Fermo firmata da Benedetto Moro. Iniziale ornata a pagina 3. RARISSIMA PLACCHETTA di interesse marchigiano. Nessun esemplare in ICCU.
rif. 12310ATLAS. In 8 reliure éditeur cartonnée, dos toilé bleu. Paris Librairie ancienne Germer Baillière et Cie. Félix Alcan éditeur 1887. Titre illustré, 13 pages, explication es planches. 32 planches, certaines dépliantes. Pâle mouillure triangulaire, en tête des planches I et II, puis planche XVI. Tableaux graphiques, statistiques, des dessins et des photographies de types criminels, ainsi qu’une incroyable planche de craniologie de criminels italiens ( planche XXV) Dernier plat légèrement déformé, avec décollement de papier. Première édition française, atlas seul, qui accompagnait le volume de texte, sous titre : étude anthropologique et médicolégale. Ouvrage emblématique de criminologie naissante et très controversée
1898rif. 48323London, Harrison and Sons, 1898. 8vo. Later full blue buckram. Spine with gilt lettering. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", Vol. LXII. VIII,458 pp. a. 6 plates. Pearson's paper: pp. 386-417.
1898rif. 48323London Harrison and Sons 1898. 8vo. Later full blue buckram. Spine with gilt lettering. In: "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London" Vol. LXII. VIII458 pp. a. 6 plates. Pearson's paper: pp. 386-417. First appearance of this importent paper in which Pearson expressed what he christened "Galton’s Law of Ancestral Heredity" in the form of a multiple regression equation of offspring on midparental ancestry. It is a statistical formulation of Galton’s law in the form of a multiple regression of offspring on "midparental" ancestry with deductions therefrom of theoretical values for various regression and correlation coefficients between kin and comparisons of such theoretical values with values derived from observational material. DSB.The title "Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Evolution" or "Mathematical Contributions. . ." was used as the general title of 17 memoirs numbered II through XIX published in the Philosophical Transactions or as Drapers’ Company Research Memoirs and of 8 unnumbered papers published in the Proceedings of he Royal Society "Mathematical" became and remained the initial word from III1896on. hardcover
rif. 13976194Genève - Bâle: H. Georg, 1885 gr. in-8, xvi-594 pages, table analytique. Reliure toile, filets dorés sur les plats, dos passé, sinon bel exemplaire.
A PARIS, chez Nyon, l'ainé - 1780 - Petit In-8 - Reliure plein veau marbré de l'époque (coiffe élimée) - Dos à nerfs à caissons fleuronnés - Pièce de titre havane - Toutes tranches jaspées - , simple filet doré sur les coupes, tranches rouges - XVI-476 pages - Bon exemplaire - Envoi rapide et soigné Troisième édition, bien plus ample que l'originale de 1761 : l'ouvrage forme un recueil de maximes pratiques sur toutes les matières de droit féodal, désormais fort obscures même pour beaucoup de jurisconsultes contemporains ; il se recommande par la clarté de ses définitions et des cas évoqués.
1889rif. 64520London UK: Macmillan and Co. 1889. 8vo. ix 5 259 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads including the inserted unpaginated errata leaf. With diagrams text figures tables. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine edgewear rubbing minor soiling to covers slightly cocked still G- copy from the library of Elof Axel Carlson 1931-2025 noted geneticist historian of science and fierce opponent of eugenics and J.H. Rickes. First edition of this first major statistical and biometric study of biological variation which established foundational concepts like regression to the mean and the law of ancestral heredity that shaped quantitative genetics. Galton was a pioneer in forensic science heredity and more fields and half-cousin to Charles Darwin whose studies on inheritance of certain traits such as the hereditary nature of later served as the basis of behavioral genetics or eugenics which later was used to justify compulsory sterilization programs across the United States and by Nazi Germany for mass extermination. Garrison & Morton 233. Macmillan and Co., hardcover
rif. 170157Fontenay, Imp. de A. Victor Habert, (1805) 54 x 42, petite déchirure à la pliure.
197272 pages. Features: Cover photo of George Meany; The Five Warring Tribes of South Africa - photo-illustrated article by James Michener discusses the Afrikaners, English, Asiatics, 'Coloureds' (of mixed heredity) and the black Bantu; Photo-illustrated article on Prince Sihanouk, head of a Cambodian government-in-exile in China; George Meany's Way isn't President Nixon's; In the Matter of H. Bruce Franklin - the very model of a modern militant radical and - until this month - a tenured professor of English at genteel Stanford University; One-page ad for Gold Key Lake Estates; Ad for the Garrard Zero 100 turntable features inset photo of Emile Berliner; Charming centerfold illustrated ad for Health-tex clothing; Fashion photos featuring ruffles and Taffeta; Geometric Mansion - photos of a Richard Meier designed modern mansion; Lovely color fashion photos; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1903"Prof. Patten's little book, which he modestly calls an essay, abounds in bold speculation and startling conclusions. Were it conveyed in some other form than that peculiar language of evolution, so clear and satisfactory to the evolutionary student, but so repellent to the ordinary untrained reader, the book would make a veritable sensation." - New York Times, 4 April 1903. "How is the social surplus transformed into permanent conditions and mental traits? An answer will be given in the following pages, or at least an endeavor will be made to throw some light on it." - page 5. Simon Patten [1852-1922] was chair of the Wharton School of Business. Pp. vii, 214. 19 x 13 cm. Former library copy with usual markings and wear, firmly rebound in green buckram. A worthy reference copy. Batson p.152. Book
rif. 214Ches Des ROCQUES - SENLIS et à PARIS - MDCCLXI - (1761) -Reliure cuir, dos titre doré, décoré.Avertissement 4 pages. Tables des chapitres 4 pages.368 pages.Coins fatigués, sinon bon exemplaire.Frais à l'intérieur.
Ches Des ROCQUES - SENLIS et à PARIS - MDCCLXI - (1761) - Reliure cuir, dos titre doré, décoré. Avertissement 4 pages. Tables des chapitres 4 pages.368 pages. Coins fatigués, sinon bon exemplaire. Frais à l'intérieur. L'auteur avertit " que de nombreux ouvrages traitent de ce sujet, mais ceux-ci sont pluy^t réservés aux "jurifconfultes", il en a tiré toutes les maximes qui peuvent être 'un ufage journalier". Manuel recommandé à tous ceux qui cherchent à connaître le dernier état de la propriété dite "féodale" et des droits qui s'y rattachaient, avant les bouleversements révolutionnaires.
1782rif. 7101s.l.: s.n. 1782. 4to pp. viii 27 1 176; 52. Extracted from a volume with portion of leather spine and label remaining. Some soiling to front and rear final page torn at gutter. Ownership inscription to title page of Sir Wm Forbes Bart. A rare document of a dispute of inheritance pursued by the daughter of Helenus Halkerston of Rathillet against the geologist Captain later Lieutenant-Colonel Ninian Imrie of Denmuir d. 1820. Miss Halkerston argues that the releveant deeds executed before her father’s death were invalid by reason of his insanity and apparently James Boswell was approached for an opinion though he declined. Halkerston had published a short work ‘Considerations on man in his natural as well as moral state’ in 1764 ‘solving all the phænomena of the animal world of our moral and physical intelligence &c. hitherto so much the subjects of dispute’ - a subsequent edition of which was appended to 400 pages of land ownership dispute under the new title of ‘An appeal to reason’ 1778 perhaps evidence for Halkerston’s mental state. Indeed the printer of the latter edition contributes much testimony here. The ESTC record is based on a single copy held in Aberdeen which lacks the title-page and the next leaf as well as the final leaf - and therefore is catalogued under a different title. ESTC T230518. [s.n.] hardcover
1923Pages 178-264 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Mystery of Ayers Valley - Miss Dorothy Belle Ayers receives an unexpected inheritance which leads to deadly peril; The Smuggled Diamonds - a perplexing mystery in Brazil; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-out Canoe - the experiences of a missionary-explorer during a trip down a little-known river in Brazil, visiting strange Indian tribes - with excellent photos; The Motor Thieves - a remarkable case of stolen vehicle recovery in southern California - with photos; A Woman in Albania - part 4 - Mrs. Lane's adventures among the remote northern mountains; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 7 of the continuing adventures of a husband and wife with their donkey; Our Trip to the Bird Islands - John Hogg's perilous journey - with many wonderful photos; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - Idelle Meng's 11 months on a deserted group of uninhabited atolls - with photo; Among New Guinea Cannibals - interesting experiences of H.C. Pratt - with photos; The Wonders of Cuba - article with nice vintage photos; Up in the Air - a ballooning story; The Ghost of Fort Severn - the story of an apparition that haunted a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in the Canadian north. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Faint pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1777rif. ARC-114251Nouvelle édition, revue & augmentée, 1 vol. in-12, reliure veau brun (très restaurée), s.n., 1777, 237 pp. Travail fondateur sur la théorie de l'embryogenèse et de l'hérédité, qui fait de Maupertuis l'un des fondateurs de la génétique. Cette nouvelle édition revue et augmentée comprend la "Dissertation physique à l'occasion du Nègre blanc", puis dans la seconde partie les "Variétés dans l'espèce humaine". Rousseurs
1848Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original 1/4 leather bdg. with boards decorated flowers. A traditional flap. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script. 163 p. [ONE of EARLIEST KARRAT JATVAL - MULTIPLICATION TABLE] Ceride-yi ferâiz li-Salih Efendi [sonunda] Mürsidü'l-vârisin ile Metn-i seraciye. First two works Turkish in Arabic script; 3rd work in Arabic. It starts with 'Sûret-i Kerrât' [i. e. Multiplication table] with Arabic numbers. There are fraction calculations. It's very important book for including earliest multiplication table and other analytical and mathematical calculations although the purpose of writing the book is to show the sharing of inheritance according to Islamic law. Extremely Rare First Edition. Özege 2958.; Not in Ihsanoglu - Sesen - Izgi.; Beydilli .; OCLC 40260123 / 780197453.
1831rif. 20234Paris, Le Normant Fils, novembre 1831 ; in-8 (230 x 147 mm), broché ; 16 pp., couverture orange, titre imprimé dans un encadrement ; annonce des livres à paraitre en décembre 1831 et en 1832 en page 2, catalogue en pp. 3 et 4, dans un encadrement en pp.4.
rif. 27338aafParis, (Paul Renouard pour) J.-B. Baillière, et Londres, H. Baillière, 1847, in-8° et in-4°, XXXVI + 479 p. + 1 tableau repl., légères rousseurs / 2 ff. + 30 p. (explication) + 20 planches chromolithographiques (gravées par Oudet d'après les dessins de l'auteur; planche 20 dépl.), papier et planches très frais, 1 exlibris héraldique (blason surmonté du monogramme -M.M.- avec devise - mel linet dulce madore -, (vol. de texte:) reliure en demi-cuir, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés et Initales "C.M.", pièce de titre, lég. fente dans la charnière du plat supérieur, petits accrocs aux coiffes, et (l'atlas:) reliure en demi-toile originale traces d'usage et tachée.>