Embryonic Development Induction by Hans Spemann (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of this classic account of embryonic induction, first published by Yale in 1938 as part of their Silliman Lecture series. One of the publisher's Great Books in Experimental Biology series. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, text clean, no names or marks; [4], xii, 401 pages; index of authors referred to, bibliography, b/w photos & figures. Size: Small Octavo.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: missing. missing dust jacket. some general wear and markage on the covers. book plate on inside front cover from prev owner. otherwise clean, sturdy, and unmarked - rw.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No D/J. First Edition. Previous owners signature to ffep. Sellotape marks to end papers and paste downs. Rubbing to extremities. Boards a little marked. Inside hinge of front board split however binding remains solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second edition, but first by this publisher (published by Yale in 1938). Octavo. Ownership signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze, (a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex) on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Facsmile Reprint of the 1938 First Edition in English, published by Yale University Press and Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. xii, 401 pp; 192 figs. Original cloth. Slightly ex-library, else Very Good. Silliman Lectures. Hans Spemann: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1935, 'for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development.' 'All but the very last of Spemann's publications were summarized by the author himself in his Experimentelle Beiträge zu einer Theorie der Entwicklung (Berlin, 1936), translated into English as Embryonic Development and Induction (New Haven, 1938) [offered here]' (C. H. Waddington in D.S.B. XII: 569; full article pp. 567-9).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xii, 401, [1, list of Silliman Lectures] pp; 192 text figures. Original cloth. Bottom corner of the front cover and the first few leaves have a small bump, else Near Fine, in worn dust jacket (the front flap of the dust jacket is NOT price-clipped!) First Edition. Spemann's Silliman Lectures at Yale University in 1933. The lectures were first published in 1936 in German: Experimentelle Beiträge zu einer Theorie der Entwicklung. Deutsche Ausgabe der Silliman Lectures gehalten an der Yale University im Spätjahr 1933 (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1936). Hans Spemann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development". See Garrison-Morton 530 for Spemann and Hilde Mangold's 1924 paper on the "organizer" in embryological development.