Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 235

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BATESON, WILLIAM. Mendel's Principles of Heredity. 3 portraits of Gregor Mendel; 6 color plates. 8vo, original cloth, spine slightly darkened and rubbed; light foxing on preliminaries and verso of plates. Publisher's compliments slip laid in. Cambridge, 1909

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Second edition, substantially revised and expanded; second printing. "The first book on Mendelism in English, and the first English textbook of genetics. It contains a reprint of the first English translation of Mendel's 'Versuch Über Pflanzen-Hybriden' . . . which Bateson had published the previous year together with the first edition in English of Mendel's second paper on Hieracium (1869). Bateson named the science 'genetics' in 1905-06"--Garrison-Morton 241 (1902 original edition). Norman 136 (this edition).