Teratology - Monstrosities from

Paris,: C. Reinwald,, 1891.. xvi, 590 pp. 8vo (17 x 25 cm.). Original dark red publisher's buckram, spine gilt lettered & decorated, uncut. With 62 figures in the text and 16, partly coloured, chromolithographical plates with their leaves of explanatory text. ¶ A very good and clean copy of this classic work on experimental teratology. Garrison-Morton 534.65: "Dareste devoted… Read more about this item

Paris,: C. Reinwald,, 1876.. [iv], 50 pp. 8vo (15 x 23 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. ¶ Copy with author's autograph dedication (illegible) . The genuine offprint of 1876, being the very rare prospectus to the first edition (1877) of Dareste's great classic on experimental teratology (see Garrison & Morton 534.64). Dareste has distributed only a very few… Read more about this item

Leyden,: A. en J.Honkoop,, 1804.. 2 parts in one, [5]; [26] pp. 8vo (13,5 x 23 cm.). Modern blue wrappers with new end-papers, uncut. ¶ Very rare. 1: Observations of an internal Hydrocephalus, with extremely large bones of the pelvis; 2: Two observations on monsters and the conclusions derived thereof. (Separated from: Verhandelingen en Waarneemingen t.b.d. Genees- Heel- Verlos-… Read more about this item

Paris,: P. J. Loss,, 1841.. xii, 403 pp. 8vo (13,5 x 21 cm.). Late 19th century half cloth over marbled boards (rubbed, discoloured and 1 corner bumped). Scattered foxing and/or browning throughout the volume (a common with French publication of this period). ** First edition of the first important manual for plant teratology. A German translation was published as… Read more about this item

Rotterdam,: van Hengel,, 1911.. [viii], 237, [iii], 20 [viii] pp. 4to. Original marbled boards (spine sl. dam.; 1 hinge worn). With 126 illustrations and an atlas of 28 plates. ¶ Prize essay, crowned with gold, and a classic comparative study on the fetal monster with two heads. --(Nwe. Verh. Bataafsch Gen. 2e reeks: VI, 3).

London,: Frowde,, 1921.. xii, 82, [ii] pp. 8vo. Original cloth. With 1 double page table and numerous illustrations. ¶ With a foreword by Robert Jones, the geatest figure in British orthopaedics: "This book aims at establishing principles explaining the manner in which body growth is affected by injurious influences. These principles have hitherto been ignored by textbooks of pathology....… Read more about this item

Haarlem,: Erven F. Bohn,, 1907.. [viii], 160, [ii] pp. 8vo (16 x 24 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly discoloured and/or stained). With 3 double-page tables, and 11 folded plates. ¶ Thesis.