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De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. . .

De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. . . by BAER, Karl Ernst von

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Title
De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. . .
Author
BAER, Karl Ernst von
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1827. FIRST EDITION. With half-title, corrigenda, and 1 full-page hand-coloured engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; a fine copy on bright white paper from the library of Tho. Wainwright, with his armorial book plate. DISCOVERY OF THE HUMAN OVUM. First edition of Baer’s famous discovery of the mammalian ovum, a classic in the history of embryology. “The notion that all animals come from eggs was pronounced by Harvey, and de Graaf proclaimed that the follicle named after him was really the mammalian egg. It remained for Baer to plot the course of ovulation and fertilisation from its later stages back to the ovary and there to identify the minute cell which was the ovum. These discoveries were published in the present paper” (PMM). Baer (1792-1876) studied in Vienna and later went to Königsberg as professor of anatomy. He finally moved to St. Petersburg, where he was a brilliant success and won many honours. It is interesting to note that this paper went almost unnoticed until Baer met Anders Retzius (1796-1860) at a meeting of naturalists and physicians in Berlin, and Retzius asked Baer to demonstrate his discovery. Dibner, 196; Garrison & Morton, 477; Horblit, 9b; Printing & the Mind of Man, 288  .
False Starts

False Starts by SMITH, Terri McFerrin (Peter Taylor)

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Title
False Starts
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SMITH, Terri McFerrin (Peter Taylor)
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780394568669
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto: 171, [1] pp. Publisher's copy sent to Peter Taylor for his review, "At Terri McFerrin Smith's suggestion," with the typed letter from Knopf and promotional card laid in. Near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Peter Taylor was one of America's best short story writers, and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award.

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