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Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. hardcover, dust jacket. 10.75 x 17 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 594 pages. 3. The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 is one of the Folger Shakespeare Library's greatest treasures. Aside from Shakespeare's First Folio, it is the only book in the Folger collection to have an entire exhibition devoted to it, in 2004. Its 594 oversized pages depict life in Shakespeare's England in all of its brilliant complexities-from the mythical to the mundane, poetical to practical, religious to secular. Thomas Trevelyon, the compiler, was a skilled scribe and pattern-maker who had access to a stunning variety of English and Continental woodcuts, engravings, broadsides, almanacs, chronicles, and emblem books, which he transformed from small monochrome images into large and colorful feasts for the eyes. Ostensibly created for the entertainment, education, and edification of his friends and family, Trevelyon's miscellany is a lifetime achievement that continues to…
Read More On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia. First Series: On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; TOGETHER WITH Second Series, Revised: On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and On the Direct Agency of the Spermatozoon; TOGETHER WITH Third Series: Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo by Newport, George - 1851-1854
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On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia. First Series: On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; TOGETHER WITH Second Series, Revised: On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and On the Direct Agency of the Spermatozoon; TOGETHER WITH Third Series: Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo
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London: Royal Society of London, 1851-1854. First edition.
FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THE PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION OF THE VERTEBRATE EGG, AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS.
12 inches tall hardcover, recent 1/2 maroon cloth binding, marbled paper covers, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, list of sources of papers followed by bound extracts from 3 issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Vol 141, pp 169-242, Plate XIV (1851), Vol. 143, pp 233-290 (1853), Vol. 144, pp 229-244 (1854). Binding fine, text pages unmarked, plate margins darkened, small college library embossed stamp to bottom of plate, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
GEORGE NEWPORT (1803-1854) Newport held the post of house surgeon to the Chichester Infirmary until January 1837, when he established himself in practice gradually declined; and when in 1847 he was awarded a pension from the civil list of £100 per annum for his contributions to natural history, he was able to devote all his time to research. His extensive researches were rewarded with several honors. On 11 December 1843 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, of which he was one of the original 300 fellows, and from 1844 to 1845 he was president of the Entomological Society. On 26 March 1846 he became a fellow of the Royal Society, and at the time of his death he was a Member of Council. Newport's contributions to biology lay mostly within the field of entomology and the embryology of the Insecta and Amphibia. Newport's most outstanding contribution to biology was his discovery that during fertilization in higher animals impregnation of the ovum by the spermatozoon is by penetration and not just by contact as previously thought. For his work on the frog (1851) he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society. He was also the first to observe the coincidence between the first plane of cleavage in the egg made by the spermatozoon at its place of entry and the median plane of the body of the embryo and thus of the adult body (1854).
CITED BY GABRIEL AND FOGEL, Great Experiments in Biology (1955): "Although Leeuwenhoek had held that fertilization was accomplished by entry of a sperm cell into the egg, this assertion was unsupported by observation. The question of sperm entrance therefore remained a hotly contested matter until the middle of the nineteenth century. Of a number of reports which describe sperm entrance in various organisms, the account of Newport appears to be the most reliable.
CITED BY MAIENSCHEIN, Whose View of Life? (2003): "More empirical evidence about eggs quickly showed that the egg provides material continuity between the mother and offspring. But what does the male contribute? Aristotle had realized that both parents must participate in the making of offspring. Yet the egg comes only from the mother. What is the role of those spermatozoa that Leeuwenhoek had first seen? Fortunately, improved microscopic techniques and equipment helped once again. By the 1840s, researchers had observed the presence of sperm within the egg after fertilization. Pursuing the hypothesis that it is sperm that fertilize eggs and actually initiate individual development, several researchers had already discovered through experimentation that eggs with no exposure to sperm do not develop and differentiate. Yet, even showing that sperm must be present or seeing that they occasionally are there does not reveal much about what they actually do. Generally, researchers interpreted the sperm as providing a stimulus that, in effect, excited the egg to begin developing. The sperm must act as a physical, or perhaps a chemical, prod to action. George Newport's observations proved particularly compelling, described the spermatozoa's passing through the gelatinous coating and the vitelline membrane that surrounds the frog's eggs and into the yolk."
FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THE PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION OF THE VERTEBRATE EGG, AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS.
12 inches tall hardcover, recent 1/2 maroon cloth binding, marbled paper covers, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, list of sources of papers followed by bound extracts from 3 issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Vol 141, pp 169-242, Plate XIV (1851), Vol. 143, pp 233-290 (1853), Vol. 144, pp 229-244 (1854). Binding fine, text pages unmarked, plate margins darkened, small college library embossed stamp to bottom of plate, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
GEORGE NEWPORT (1803-1854) Newport held the post of house surgeon to the Chichester Infirmary until January 1837, when he established himself in practice gradually declined; and when in 1847 he was awarded a pension from the civil list of £100 per annum for his contributions to natural history, he was able to devote all his time to research. His extensive researches were rewarded with several honors. On 11 December 1843 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, of which he was one of the original 300 fellows, and from 1844 to 1845 he was president of the Entomological Society. On 26 March 1846 he became a fellow of the Royal Society, and at the time of his death he was a Member of Council. Newport's contributions to biology lay mostly within the field of entomology and the embryology of the Insecta and Amphibia. Newport's most outstanding contribution to biology was his discovery that during fertilization in higher animals impregnation of the ovum by the spermatozoon is by penetration and not just by contact as previously thought. For his work on the frog (1851) he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society. He was also the first to observe the coincidence between the first plane of cleavage in the egg made by the spermatozoon at its place of entry and the median plane of the body of the embryo and thus of the adult body (1854).
CITED BY GABRIEL AND FOGEL, Great Experiments in Biology (1955): "Although Leeuwenhoek had held that fertilization was accomplished by entry of a sperm cell into the egg, this assertion was unsupported by observation. The question of sperm entrance therefore remained a hotly contested matter until the middle of the nineteenth century. Of a number of reports which describe sperm entrance in various organisms, the account of Newport appears to be the most reliable.
CITED BY MAIENSCHEIN, Whose View of Life? (2003): "More empirical evidence about eggs quickly showed that the egg provides material continuity between the mother and offspring. But what does the male contribute? Aristotle had realized that both parents must participate in the making of offspring. Yet the egg comes only from the mother. What is the role of those spermatozoa that Leeuwenhoek had first seen? Fortunately, improved microscopic techniques and equipment helped once again. By the 1840s, researchers had observed the presence of sperm within the egg after fertilization. Pursuing the hypothesis that it is sperm that fertilize eggs and actually initiate individual development, several researchers had already discovered through experimentation that eggs with no exposure to sperm do not develop and differentiate. Yet, even showing that sperm must be present or seeing that they occasionally are there does not reveal much about what they actually do. Generally, researchers interpreted the sperm as providing a stimulus that, in effect, excited the egg to begin developing. The sperm must act as a physical, or perhaps a chemical, prod to action. George Newport's observations proved particularly compelling, described the spermatozoa's passing through the gelatinous coating and the vitelline membrane that surrounds the frog's eggs and into the yolk."
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TREVELYON MISCELLANY OF 1608: A FACSIMILE OF FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY MS V.B.232|THE
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Suncook, Pembroke, N.H., 1878. 12mo, original russet cloth, gilt title and decorative black stamping on front cover, lower cover with blind-stamped title and ornament. Frontis. portrait engraving, 63 pp., illus. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke Academy staff notified her family, a search party was assembled. That night the party found her decapitated and violated body in the woods near the school and discovered her head the next morning. Following the initial arrest of innocent parties, the actual murderer was identified as French-Canadian woodcutter Joseph Lapage. Tried and found guilty, he admitted to his crime (as well as a similar murder in Vermont) on March 15th, 1878 and was hung the following day. The town of Pembroke placed a monument to the victim near the murder site, with directions to the sites where her body and head were discovered. Keeler's forty-page poetic eulogy is preceded by a brief account of…
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New York, 1835. Broadsheet. Very good, folded vellum, edge worn, lightly soiled.. 1 sheet. 30 x 18 inches. The original document on the recto is a land indenture from George Ludlow to Gabriel W. Ludlow and his wife, Cornelia for the sum of $2,000, and is dated July 23, 1766 and signed by merchant, George Ludlow, and witnesses, Hugh Gaine and Benjamin Kissam. On verso, manuscript statement, dated January 31, 1835, providing evidence for allowing the Land Indenture to be recorded. Signed by the Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in New York City, Michael Ulshoffer. Hugh Gaine (1726-1807) was an American printer, bookseller, and newspaper publisher who moved his operations from New York City to Newark, New Jersey at the beginning of the American Revolution when the British occupied New York. He switch sides, turned loyalist, and published pro-British articles after deciding the British would win. George Ludlow (1734-1808) from an old line New York family, was a judge who remained loyal to…
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