Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 132
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BATESON, WILLIAM. Mendel's Principles of Heredity. 3 portraits of Gregor Mendel; 6 color plates. 8vo, original cloth, backstrip repaired. Cambridge, 1909

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Second edition, substantially revised and expanded. "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).