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Crania Helvetica

Crania Helvetica by RUTIMEYER, Ludwig & HIS, Wilhelm

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Crania Helvetica
Author
RUTIMEYER, Ludwig & HIS, Wilhelm
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Basel und Genf: H. Georg’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1864. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. With 82 unbound double-plate lithographs loose in the 6 facsicles. Text and facsicles in original printed wrappers, all contained in the original publisher's printed slipcase. Apart from slight fraying on spine of slipcase, a superb copy. First edition of this elaborate and valuable contribution to ancient and modern crania, and vertebrate paleozoology. With the publication of Darwin's Origin in 1859 and its inescapable implication that living and fossil species are linked by a common phylogeny, the primate fossil took on a new significance for documenting human genealogy in earlier epochs. Thus, in the 1860's, the fossil record of primates was only a potential source of evidence relevant to the theory of evolution. Rutimeyer (1825-1895) was Professor of zoology, comparative anatomy, and one of the most celebrated palaeontologists in the domain of fossil mammalia. With the tremendous advances in the discovery of new primate species, Rutimeyer was the first to recognized fossil prosimian. It was at this time that physical anthropology started to develop as an independent direction of research, and the need for standardization of techniques was evident. For the measurement of the skull, the use of the horizontal plane line was drawn through the nasal spine and center of the auditory meatus. It was in the present work that the horizontal plane was defined. His (1831-1904) created the science of histogenesis, or the study of the embryonic origins of different types of animal tissue. He was also one of the originators of the neuron theory. As a brilliant investigator, he studied with Johannes Müller, Robert Remak, and Rudolf Virchow. He invented a mechanical device used to slice thin tissue sections for microscope examination. Of special interest is the story of his finding the remains of and then confirming the identity of Johann Sebastian Bach, and helping the famous sculptor Alolph von Donndorf create an authentic Bach monument. According to Zittel, Rutimeyer was a convinced, although a cautious, adherent of the Darwinian theory of evolution, and a correspondent of Darwin. His genealogical trees of the Mammalia show a complete knowledge of all data concerning the different members in the succession, and are amongst the finest results hitherto obtained by means of strict scientific methods of investigation.
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Les etats desunis. Reportage (The Disunited States. A Reportage) [An Association Copy] by Pozner, Vladimir

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Les etats desunis. Reportage (The Disunited States. A Reportage) [An Association Copy]
Author
Pozner, Vladimir
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Paris: Les editions Denoel, 1938. Review Copy. Very good. Review copy; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [5], 8-308, [2]; beige wraps, illustrated in black and red; partially unopened; hinges a bit weak (text block still securely attached); deckled fore-edge a bit brittle; small nicks to tips of spine; light, uniform age-toning; very good condition. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page by Vladimir Pozner to Hungarian-British author and journalist Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983). Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (1905 - 1992) was a Russian-Jewish-French writer and translator. Born in Paris, Pozner spent his childhood in Russia and studied in Leningrad, where he frequently gathered with Aleksandr Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, etc. to read and discuss poetry. He returned to Paris in 1921, where he began writing for several left wing journals and published his first book of poetry - "Poemes de circonstances" - based on his experiences as a Russian Jew in exile. A staunch Communist sympathizer, mostly due to having met and being influenced by Maxim Gorky, Pozner threw himself into helping refugees fleeing the Nazis in the 1930s. During that time, he also manned an obscure, Communist press agency, together with Arthur Koestler and Soviet Intelligence Agent Alexander Rado (1899 - 1981). Pozner went to the US several times, conducting research for his current, in essence, leftist travelogue, documenting racism, inequality, everyday life and its characters, the gangsters, the starlets, and the poor workers. It would become an instant success and later, would be the base of the Oscar-nominated, Film noir "The Dark Mirror" (1946). Despite its success, the book was not translated into English until 2014. Although good friends, co-workers, and supporters, Arthur Koestler and Pozner would eventually have a falling-out, after the former's disenchantment with the Communist ideology. Koestler would put down in his autobiographical "The Invisible Writing," about Pozner: "He has since written...some violent attacks against me."
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THE UNINHABITED: SELECTED POEMS OF ANDRE DU BOUCHET by AUSTER, Paul (Translator)

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THE UNINHABITED: SELECTED POEMS OF ANDRE DU BOUCHET
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AUSTER, Paul (Translator)
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
(New York): Living Hand 7, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. With a three-page introduction by Auster. One of 500 numbered copies.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF GEORGE HENRY BORROW by Wise, Thomas J.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF GEORGE HENRY BORROW
Author
Wise, Thomas J.
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
London: Dawsons, 1966. cloth, dust jacket. Borrow, George. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 316 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. Fine in lightly faded jacket.

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