📚 Embryology

30 works · ordered by editions in print

From one cell to a body: the developmental sequence, its landmarks, and its classic errors.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject embryology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Evolution of Man	Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel	1876	30
Langman's medical embryology	Thomas W. Sadler	1963	26
Botany	James D. Mauseth	1991	25
Current topics in developmental biology	Alberto Monroy	1966	23
Annual report	Great Britain. Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority	1992	21
The developing human	Keith L. Moore	1973	20
Text-book of the embryology of man and mammals	Oscar Hertwig	1892	18
Living embryos	Jack Cohen	1963	18
American Stories	Henry William Brands	2008	16
Developmental anatomy	Leslie Brainerd Arey	1924	15
Text-book of embryology	Frederick R. Bailey	1909	13
The development of the human body	J. Playfair McMurrich	1902	12
An egg is quiet	Dianna Hutts Aston	2006	12
Vertebrate zoology	De Beer, Gavin Sir	1928	11
Egg to Chick	Millicent E. Selsam	1946	11
An introduction to embryology	B. I. Balinsky	1960	10
Before we are born	Keith L. Moore	1974	10
It Transforms!	Nikki Potts	2018	10
An atlas of embryology	W. H. Freeman	1963	9
Atlas of descriptive embryology	Willis W. Mathews	1971	9
Human embryology and developmental biology	Bruce M. Carlson	1994	8
Developmental Biology	Michael J. F. Barresi	2000	8
Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere	E. Korschelt	1895	7
Human embryology and morphology	Keith, Arthur Sir	1904	7
Lost endeavour	John Masefield	1910	7
A history of embryology	Joseph Needham	1934	7
Introduction to vertebrate embryology	Waldo Shumway	1935	7
Human embryology	William James Hamilton	1945	7
Oral histology and embryology	Balint J. Orban	1953	7
Anatomy	Kurt E. Johnson	1992	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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