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London: Watts & Co., 1941. First edition.
1941--BRITISH BIOLOGIST & HISTORIAN JOSEPH NEEDHAM WARNS THAT NAZISM ENDANGERS GLOBAL SCIENCE.
12x18 cm color printed stapled paper covers, 47 pp, light browning of paper, unmarked, very good in protective mylar sleeve. REVIEW IN NATURE 1942: "In a recent Thinker's Forum pamphlet entitled "The Nazi Attack on International Science"(London: C.A. Watts and Co., Ltd., 6d.), Dr. Joseph Needham presents a brief but telling analysis of the nature of Nazism, and describes some of the effects it has produced in science and learning both inside Germany and outside. Society is now passing through an era of change from individualistic capitalistic economics to some form of collectivism, and just as the earlier change from a feudal aristocracy to capitalist democracy was marked by violent upheavals such as the Thirty Years' War and the French Revolution, so Dr. Needham believes that Nazism and Fascism are byproducts of the present phase of the evolution of society. The… Read More

Taipei, Taiwan: Newmoon Book Co., Ltd., 1956 - 1965. Reprint. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF FIRST 5 VOLUMES OF JOSEPH NEEDHAM'S MONUMENTAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN CHINA: HONG KONG, TAIWAN CONNECTIONSFive hardcover volumes, 9 3/4 inches tall small quarto, beige cloth boards, spine lettering in red, endpapers discolored, otherwise very good in very good dust jackets. VOL. I. Introductory Orientations. Joseph Needham, with the research assistance of Wang Ling (reprinted 1961; Cambridge 1954). xxxviii, 318 pp, tables, bibliographies, figures, 2 large folding maps. Inscribed and signed on title page, "for Franklin Woo and Marcus Woo/Hongkong Mar 74/Joseph Needham" with author's signature in English and Chinese. Also handstamped date, 1 May 1974, lower right corner of title page. Same date stamp right upper corner of rear endpaper, with address to left of date: "Bishop's House/Hong Kong/May 1, 1974". Rear endpaper, flyleaf and paste-down filled with notes in blue and red ink, presumably by Woo; VOL. II. History… Read More

London: Royal Society of London, 1851-1854. First edition. FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THE PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION OF THE VERTEBRATE EGG, AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS. 12 inches tall hardcover, recent 1/2 maroon cloth binding, marbled paper covers, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, list of sources of papers followed by bound extracts from 3 issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Vol 141, pp 169-242, Plate XIV (1851), Vol. 143, pp 233-290 (1853), Vol. 144, pp 229-244 (1854). Binding fine, text pages unmarked, plate margins darkened, small college library embossed stamp to bottom of plate, very good in custom archival mylar cover. GEORGE NEWPORT (1803-1854) Newport held the post of house surgeon to the Chichester Infirmary until January 1837, when he established himself in practice gradually declined; and when in 1847 he was awarded a pension from the civil list of £100 per annum for his contributions to natural history, he was able to devote… Read More

1934 - 1947 . First editions. 1930s and 1940s COLLECTION OF LANDMARK PAPERS BY EMINENT YALE EMBRYOLOGIST AND LEADER OF AMERICAN WARTIME SCIENCE MANAGEMENT. 16 offprints, 13 in printed paper covers and 3 (publshed in Science) without covers, as issued, all in very good condition. JOHN SPANGLER NICHOLAS (1895 - 1963) enlisted in the Army Medical Corps in 1918. His most important governmental contribution was his assistance in shaping the World War II policies governing the utilization of the nation's scientific human resources (documented in 4 offprints in collection). Upon leaving the Army at the end of World War I, Nicholas returned to Yale to pursue his PhD in zoology, becoming a leading experimental embryologist. He was elected Sterling Professor of Zoology in 1939, and was Chairman of the Department of Zoology from 1946–1956. Nicholas never abandoned his interest in the development of Amblystoma. In 1945 and 1948 he reported the results of studies, carried out by vital staining, on endodermal… Read More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1947. First edition.
SCARCE--AN EARLY HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION BY A POPULAR AMERICAN HEALTH WRITER.
8 1/2 inches tall staple-bound booklet, printed paper covers, 32 pp. Browning to covers and pages, unmarked, very good in mylar cover. Chapters include Non-sexual conception, Childbirth and coition not inevitably linked, Curious case reported in 1750 by London preacher, Early attemps at artificial fertilization, Earliest reported case of human impregnation, The uterine method, How donors of semen are handled, How the act is carried out, A self-administered home method, Five ways of obtaining semen, Legal aspects of artificial impregnation, Ethical considerations, sexual selection and eugenics.
ADOLPH FREDERICK NIEMOELLER (born 1903) is author of American Encyclopedia of Sex (1935), The business side of the oldest business : a survey of the organization, management and earnings of prostitution from antiquity to the present (1945), and Handbook of… Read More

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1927. First edition. 1927 EARLY ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY OF APHIBIA REFLECTING THE EARLY HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY ("EVO-DEVO"). 9 1/2 inches tall offprint in brown printed paper wraps, pencil signature of Arthur Greenhall top of cover, pp 31-128, 30 black & white figures in text, 1 photographic plate, cover edges chipped, text pages lightly browned, binding sound, unmarked, very good minus. GLADWYN KINGSLEY NOBLE (1894 –1940) was an American zoologist who served as the head curator for the Department of Herpetology and the Department of Experimental Biology at the American Museum of Natural History. Noble received bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University in 1917 and 1918, respectively, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1922. He joined the herpetology department in 1922 as a research assistant and assistant curator in 1917, and became the chairman of the department in 1924. He later formed the… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1857. First edition.
1847 "ONE OF THE MOST EGREGIOUSLY RACIST PUBLICATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY"--GARRISON-MORTON.
16x25 cm publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, 2 large folding illustrated charts: "Ethnographic Tableau--Specimens of Various Races of Mankind", and "Chart Illustrative of the Geographical distribution of Monkeys, in their relation to that of some inferior Types of Men." 9 lithographic plates, including colored frontispiece. Prefatory remarks by George Gliddon, A. W. Habersham, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Leidy. xxii, 656 pp, including list of subscribers, many wood engravings throughout. Spine ends chipped, corners worn, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, plates and folding charts clean and intact, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. Copies of Indigenous Races of the Earth are scarce, particularly with well preserved folding charts.
SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON (1799-1851) was an American physician… Read More