‎Cass, Kiera‎
‎La sélection‎

‎Lois scientifiques du développement des nations dans leurs rapports avec les principes de la sélection naturelle et de l'hérédité‎

‎Paris, Germer Baillière et cie, 2° éd, 1877, in-8, (4), 243, (2)pp. (6)pp. sur des publications de Baillière, 30pp. de catalogue Baillière, percaline bordeaux, titre en médaillon sur la 1° plat (cartonnage éditeur Ch. Magnier), Cet ouvrage, publié pour la première fois en français en 1873, constitue le t.3 de la collection "Bibliothèque scientifique internationale". Bagehot (1826-1877) publia cet ouvrage en 1872, sous le titre "Physics and politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society". Dos passé, qqs rousseurs (4), 243, (2)pp. (6)pp. sur ‎

‎Mouchoir de Nuage.Sélection‎

‎ Anvers, Sélection, 1924. In-4 broché. Pour le numéro de Sélection : Novembre 1924. In-4 broché sous couverture illustrée. Le tout sous chemise et étui modernes. /Anvers, Sélection, 1924. 4to, softcover. With: Sélection, November 1924, 4to, pict. softcover. Modern slipcase.‎

‎Réunion de la très rare première édition du tirage à part de ce texte (tiré, on le suppose, à 104 exemplaires), ainsi que son édition originale, dans le magazine d'Art "Sélection", dans lequel se trouve un envoi de l'écrivain à son ami Michel Tapié. Ce dernier était, avec Noël Arnaud, l'un des meneurs du groupe néo-dadaïste "Les Réverbères". L'exemplaire de "Sélection" porte d'ailleurs l'ex-libris de N.Arnaud, lequel écrivit un essai paradoxal sur "Mouchoir" dont le tapuscrit constitue l'ultime pièce de ce lot. Le tout constituant un étonnant et précieux témoignage de "passage de relais" entre trois membres de l'avant-garde artistique et littéraire./This perfect set entails the rare first edition and separate printing – supposedly 104 copies printed — and the art magazine Sélection in which it was first published, later inscribed by Tzara to his friend Michel Tapié. Tapié was the animator of the neo-dada group Les Réverbères, altogether with Noël Arnaud, to whom this copy passed afterwards (personal stamp). Noël Arnaud also wrote a paradoxical essay about the Mouchoir, the typescript of which is also added. A remarkable — and very desirable — instance of the passing of the baton between three members of the literary and artistic avant-garde. * Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s). * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte sur rendez-vous. ‎

‎Two Essays: One upon Single Vision with Two Eyes" the Other on Dew. A Letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd, Lord Kenyon and an Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind, Part of whose Skin Resembles that of a Negro (+) An Account of a Female of the W... - [THE FIRST RECOGNIZABLE STATEMENT OF THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION]‎

‎London, Archibald Constable and Co, 1818. 8vo. Bound uncut in a nice recent half calf binding with five raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. A very nice and clean copy. (6), (I)-LXXIV, (2), 439, (1) pp. ‎

‎First appearance of Well's important work, which constitutes the first clear pioneering statement about natural selection. He applied the idea to the origin of different skin colours in human races, but from the context it seems he thought it might be applied more widely. Charles Darwin said: ""[Wells] distinctly recognises the principle of natural selection, and this is the first recognition which has been indicated"". (Darwin, Charles 1866. The origin of species by means of natural selection. 4th and subsequent editions, in the preliminary 'Historical sketch')In 1813, Wells read a paper to the Royal Society of London, occasioned by a white female patient with splotches of dark skin. In his paper, Wells speculated about the origin of skin color variations in humans. He suggested that long ago, there might have arisen in equatorial regions a variety of humans that were better able to resist diseases such as malaria, perhaps aided by darker skin, and they survived where other variations perished. Similarly, lighter-skinned humans might have been variations that were better able to survive in temperate and arctic regions.""Wells' paper was not printed in the Philosophical Transactions, but after he died in 1817, two of his treatises, ""On Single vision with Two Eyes,"" and ""On Dew"", were published posthumously, and Wells' brief ""Account of a white female, part of whose skin resembles that of a negro"" was added on at the very end. No one noticed, certainly not Charles Darwin, who was 9 years old at the time.Time went by, Darwin discovered natural selection on his own in the late 1830s, and he sprang it on the world in On the Origin of Species in 1859. During the year after publication, various readers noticed that certain aspects of Darwinian evolution had been anticipated by such naturalists as Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Patrick Matthew, and the anonymous author of the Vestiges. So in 1861, for the third edition of the Origin, Darwin added an ""Historical Sketch"" in which he discussed his precursors and to what extent they anticipated his own work (third image). Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Matthew, and the Vestiges all merited a paragraph in the ""Historical Sketch."" But there was still no mention of William Wells.Then, sometime before 1866, an American, Robert Rowley, drew the attention of an Englishman, Charles Loring Brace, to Wells' paper, and Rowley conveyed the information to Darwin. Darwin was apparently impressed. For the fifth edition of the Origin, he revised the ""Historical Sketch"", and he added a paragraph about Wells, in which he commented: ""In this paper he [Wells] distinctly recognises the principle of natural selection, and this is the first recognition which has been indicated."" Darwin also pointed out, quite correctly, that Wells used natural selection only to account for human races, not to explain the origin of species. But still, Wells was the only precursor of natural selection that Darwin took seriously.""( William B. Ashworth, Linda Hall Library)‎

‎Sélection du livreles meilleurs des livres Sélection Reader's Digest‎

‎Sélection du Reader's digest Sans date. Sélection du livre/Les meilleurs des livres/ Sélection Reader's Digest . très bon état‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Darwin et l'après-Darwin : Une histoire de l'hypothèse de sélection naturelle‎

‎Kimé. 1992. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 204 pages augmentées de quelques graphiques en noir et blanc,dans le texte. Ex-libris et tampon de Raymond Patchame.. . . . Classification Dewey : 570-Sciences de la vie‎

‎"Table des matières : Wallace et Darwin : enjeux d'un désaccord / Ontologie de la sélection Les objections de Fleeming Jenkin et le dilemne darwinien / Galton : ""hérédite"" / Sélection et régression chez les post-darwiniens : ""Panmixie"" : évolution régressive et sélection naturelle chez August Weismann - La critique galtonienne de la sélection naturelle / Les démonstrations de la sélection naturelle / La Théroei génétaique de la sélection,etc. Classification Dewey : 570-Sciences de la vie"‎