Lankester Edwin Ray, Used (8 results)

1st edition. Good copy only in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age, with some loss. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 61 pp. Subjects; Nature. Human beings. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Good copy only in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age, with some loss. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 61 pp. Subjects; Nature. Human beings. 1 Kg.

One page, 12mo, fold marks, good condition. "After 31st Decr. I cease to be a subscriber to the Ray Socy. Not that I have the slightest dissatisfaction with its working, but simply because I wish to transfer my subscription to a Club, whose books are more in accordance with my own studies.".

3pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper with a thin strip of glue in gutter from previous mounting. Lankester complains that he has 'not received a copy of Mr. Sedgwick's translation of Claus' Handbook of Zoology'. He has 'a large number of students (annually over 60) at University College' to whom he would recommend the book if he had it. 'I should wish to be able to place it on the lecture table for them to see.' He claims that it is 'usual for publishers to enable teachers to do this kind of thing - by sending them copies of works likely to be recommended'. Since he uses the German edition of the book himself, he has 'no intention of purchasing a copy of the English translation', and asks them to 'send me a presentation copy to University College'. Accompanying the letter is a photographic portrait of Lankester, removed from a magazine and neatly attached to a paper mount. It is captioned 'The most prominent English scientist to-day'.

Condition: Very Good. London, C. and J. Adlard, 1848. Large 4to. Lithographed portrait,XVI,502 pp. & 1 lithographed plate. Uncut in contemporary green blindstamped publisher's cloth, slightly rubbed, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, spine sunned and bumped at head, with the coat of arms of the Ray Society in gilt and blind on covers, and the binder's label of Westleys & Co. (London). With the bookplates of Arvid Mårtensson and Gunnar Brusewitz. Annotation in pencil by Brusewitz detailing that the book was a gift from Ove Hagelin in 1993. First edition, published by the Ray Society, of this collection of letters to and from the English clergyman-naturalist John Ray (1627-1705). Ray published important works on botany, zoology, ornithology and natural theology. The classification of plants in his "Historia plantarum" influenced Linnaeus and was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ove Hagelin is a Swedish antiquarian bookseller and was an important source for Brusewitz's acquisitions.

1 lettre autographe signée 2 In-8 30 janvier [vers 1980] bon Dans cette lettre en anglais, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester remercie Louis Olivier pour l'envoi du dernier numéro de la Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées et espère pouvoir lui soumettre un article avant mai. Il en profite pour émettre une critique sur un texte du Docteur Edmond Retterer : « Allow me in the meanwhile to draw your attention to the strange statements of Dr. Retterer, a gentleman whom I do not know. I have marked the passages which astonish me. They make me doubt Dr. Retterer's competence as a critic in histology ! » Eminent zoologiste anglais, spécialiste des invertébrés. Professeur à l'University College of London et à l'Université d'Oxford, il reçut la prestigieuse médaille Copley de la Royal Society.

for a dinner of "The Kinsmen" at the Hotel Continental, the meal has consomme and soup, fish, steak, chicken and puddings and is decorated with black and white pictures of a short fat and a tall thin waiter, 7" x 5", 1 Regent Street, 3rd February.

Kein Einband. Condition: Gut. 1847-1929, brit. Naturforscher, Freund von Darwin - 2 e. Briefe mit U. und D. (ohne Jahr), zus. ca. 4 S. kl. 8°, gepr. Emblem und Briefkopf als Direktor des "British Museum" in London. Bietet der "Glasgow Lecture Association" Vorträge an: "The Elephant's Trunk - a Darwinian Story" und "Flies and Fevers": .would be illustrated with lantern slides for which I suppose there are arrangements in both lecture.