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Autobiography of Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer / edited and with a preface by Jane M. Oppenheimer ; [translator, H. Schneider]

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Author:
Baer, Karl Ernst von 1792-1876  Search this
Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Editor:
Oppenheimer, Jane M (Jane Marion) 1911-1996  Search this
Translator:
Schneider, H.  Search this
Engraver:
Weger, August 1823-1892  Search this
Donor:
Beckwith, J. Bruce 1933-,- DSI  Search this
Browning, Nancy Gay DSI  Search this
Sponsor:
Order of the Knights of Estonia  Search this
Publisher:
Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn (Firm)  Search this
Science History Publications.  Search this
Printer:
Amerind Publishing Co.  Search this
Subject:
Baer, Karl Ernst von 1792-1876  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 389 pages : portrait ; 26 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Estonia
Date:
1986
1886
Notes:
Translation of Nachrichten über Leben und Schriften des Herrn Geheimraths Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer, mitgetheilt von him selbst.
Reprint. Originally published: "Account of the life and works of Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer, privy councillor, as told by himself; published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his doctoral degree on August 29, 1884 by the Order of the Knights of Estonia. Second edition; Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1886".
Frontispiece: engraved portrait of Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer, with signature "Stich u, Druck v. Weger in Leipzig", facing the first title page.
Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), 15.
SCDIRB copy 39088019621796 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection.
SCDIRB copy cataloged with funds from Dr. Alan Peterson.
SCDIRB copy has publisher's hardback binding in grey paperboard with dust jacket as issued.
SCDIRB copy has former owner's signature "J. Bruce Beckwith M. D." on page [2] of cover and pencil notes on preliminary page.
SCDIRB copy has materials laid in between front cover and first preliminary page: 1. A folded printed receipt by Bookmonger Ltd. for the title, with handwritten notes in ink and pencil on verso, regarding pp. 207 and 229; 2. Twelve loose pages (in slightly acidic paper) of a book, marked in pencil "QR, 1867, 12 pp." and numbered from pages 335 to 348, with running title "Autobiography of a Physiologist"; 3. A printed version of an online article (3 leaves with black-and-white photo and colored illustrations on the first,) from the website of the Society for Developmental Biology, with title "Jane Marion Oppenheimer, 1911-1996."
SCDIRB copy has laid in between the main title page and the author's portrait facing it, a photocopy of the portrait and a torn piece of paper with handwritten note "See Meyer 'Human Generation' for excellent photos of v. B. at 3 ages."
SCDIRB copy with some pencil marginalia.
Topic:
Biologists  Search this
Call number:
QH31.B15 A3413 1986X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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