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RARE FIRST EDITION. Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease
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RARE FIRST EDITION. Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease

by Abbott, Maude E.

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New York: American Heart Association, 1936. First edition.
1936 SCARCE LANDMARK ATLAS OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE BY CANADIAN PIONEER WHO ANALYZED POSTMORTEM ANATOMY OF 1,000 CASES.
27x35 cm folio, original maroon cloth boards, cover and spine gilt, hand stamp of Blanca Smith M.D., Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, on card affixed to ffep, bookseller ticket to bottom of front paste-down, small handstamp to title page from Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. Frontispiece portraits of great scientists who have contributed to congenital heart disease, i-x, 62 pp including 25 full-page plates and table of "Statistics of congenital cardiac disease (1,000 cases analyzed)." Edges rubbed, white paint streaks to back cover, hinges cracked but binding secure, text age-toned, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.
MAUDE ELIZABETH SEYMOUR ABBOTT (1868–1940) was a Canadian physician, among Canada's earliest female medical graduates, and an internationally known expert on congenital… Read More
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1914 INVENTION OF HEMODIALYSIS. On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating...
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1914 INVENTION OF HEMODIALYSIS. On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood of living animals by dialysis, TOGETHER WITH On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood of living animals by dialysis. II. Some constituents of the blood: J. Pharm. Exp. Therap.

by Abel, John J., Rowntree, Leonard G. and Turner, B.B.

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1914 RARE OFFPRINTS BY PIONEERING AMERICAN PHARMACOLOGIST JOHN J ABEL ON DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL HEMODIALYSIS.
Two offprints in original printed wrappers: 1. On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood of living animals by means of dialysis. Offprint from J. Pharm. Exp. Therap. 5, no. 3 (Jan. 1914). 275-316pp, figures; 2. On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood of living animals by dialysis. II. Some constituents of the blood. Offprint from J. Pharm. Exp. Therap. 5, no. 6 (July 1914). 611-623pp. Together 2 parts. 18x26 cm.
JOHN JACOB ABEL (1857 – 1938) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist. He established the pharmacology department at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1893, and then became America's first full-time professor of pharmacology. During his time at Hopkins, he made several important medical advancements, especially in the field of hormone extraction. In addition to his… Read More
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CONTAINS CANNON'S FIRST USE OF HOMEOSTASIS. A Charles Richet - ses amis, ses collegues, ses...
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CONTAINS CANNON'S FIRST USE OF "HOMEOSTASIS". A Charles Richet - ses amis, ses collegues, ses eleves. (n.p., Paris), May 1926. Bound with: Discours prononces a I'occasion du jubile Charles Richet.

by Abelous, J.E., Arthus, M., Athanasiu, J., Delezenne, C., Fano, G., Fredericq, L., Gley, E., Lusk, G., Hedon, E., Houssay, B.A., Lapique, L., Nolf, P., Lodge, O., Painleve, P., Pawlow, J., Pi-Suner, A., Portier, P., Richet, C.fils, Roger, G.H., Schafer, E.

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Paris: Editions Medicales, 1926. First edition. UNIQUE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF FESTSCHRIFT HONORING NOBELIST CHARLES RICHET, COPY OF NOBELIST CHARLES SHERRINGTON, CONTAINING WALTER CANNON'S ESSAY FIRST USING THE TERM "HOMEOSTASIS".11 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, (n.p., Paris), July 1926. Two volumes in one, original stiff printed wrappers to both volumes bound in, uncut, [4],101 pp, [4]; 37 pp, [1]. Limitation indication in the first volume: copy 269 of 500, signed by the editor. Each volume with the ownership signature of the 1932 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, PAPERS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON (1857-1952). On the verso of the front fly-leaf in Sherrington's hand is a listing of the two titles bound in this volume. Sherrington contributed a paper to the first volume (pp.88-90): Addition Latente and recruitment in reflex contraction and inhibition. Faint library stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons. A very good copy.… Read More
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The Principles of Pathology, Second edition, Revised and Enlarged with 329 Engravings and 18 Plates
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The Principles of Pathology, Second edition, Revised and Enlarged with 329 Engravings and 18 Plates

by Adami, J. George and Nicholls, Albert G.

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Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1910 1911. Second edition. 1910 TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY BY COLLEAGUE OF OSLER: TWO MASSIVE VOLUMES OVER 2,000 PAGES, WITH 328 ENGRAVINGS AND 18 PLATES. 2 hardcover volumes 9 3/4 inches tall, each over 3 inches thick, publisher's red cloth binding, publisher's seal blindstamped to covers, gilt title to spines, Vol. I General Pathology, dedication to A.E.S., viii, 1027 pp; Vol. II Systemic Pathology, dedication to William H. Welch and William Osler, xv, 1160 pp. Light wear to covers, edges darkened, bindings tight, pages unmarked, very good. GARRISON-MORTON No. 2309. JOHN GEORGE ADAMI (1862 - 1926) was a British pathologist. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, studying afterward in Breslau and Paris. He took distinguished honors at Cambridge in natural science, was Darwin prizeman in 1885, M.R.C.S., and was appointed demonstrator of pathology in Cambridge University in 1887. In 1888, he exposed himself to rabies, and published an account of his treatment at the… Read More
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30 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY. Biochemistry and Causal Morphology IN Amphibian...
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30 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY. Biochemistry and Causal Morphology IN Amphibian Regeneration, Science Progress: TOGETHER WITH 123 OTHER OFFPRINTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY

by Adelmann, Howard B, et al.

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1909 - 1939. First editions. 1909 – 1939 BOUND COLLECTION OF 124 OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT AMERICAN AND BRITISH BIOLOGISTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY. Two hefty volumes, each 9 ½ inches tall, 3 inches thick, red buckram binding, gilt titles to spine, bookplates of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, typed table of contents. Vol. I contains 61 papers, Vol. II contains 63; there are many tables, figures, and plates. Light surface wear to covers, bindings tight, some covers signed by authors or recipient (N.S.R. Maluf), occasional marginal pencil notes, otherwise unmarked and very good. The offprints span a critical 30-year period of the 20th century science, documenting the flowering of experimental embryology, employing a wide variety of organisms. These include vertebrates (chick, amphibian, reptile, fish) and invertebrates (protozoa, hydrozoa, echinoderms, annelids, flatworms, crustaceans, insects). COMPLETE LIST OF OFFPRINTS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE… Read More
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Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and Off the...
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Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and Off the Galapagos Islands, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" During 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. The Panamic Deep Sea Echini

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Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1904. First edition. 2 FOLIO VOLUMES ON THE ANATOMY OF SEA URCHINS WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE PLATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, CURATOR OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers, Vol. I Text, 243 pp, 319 figures; Vol. II Atlas, 111 lithographic and heliotype plates (2 color), 1 color folding map; paper covers soiled, edges chipped, lacking back paper cover and lower corner of front cover and first 2 leaves of Vol. I, text pages and plates intact and clean, no library or ownership marks, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1835 – 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father, Louis, in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying… Read More
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Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay: Radiates.
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Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay: Radiates.

by Agassiz, Elizabeth C. and Agassiz, Alexander

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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. 1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to "Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz". 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text. Spine ends frayed, spine dulled, 1/4 inch chip to bottom corner of free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and overall very good. The 1871 edition is cited by Darwin in his reading notebook. Alexander's father, Louis, had become a passionate anti-Darwinist, whereas Wyman had become an ally! ALEXANDER EMMANUEL RODOLPHE AGASSIZ (1835 - 1910), son of Louis Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father, Louis, in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, and in 1859 became an assistant in the United… Read More
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LARGE ATLAS OF PLATES OF FOSSILS. Etudes Critiques sur les Mollusques Fossiles
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LARGE ATLAS OF PLATES OF FOSSILS. Etudes Critiques sur les Mollusques Fossiles

by Agassiz, Louis

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Neuchatel: H. Wolfrath, 1842-1845. 1845 LARGE ATLAS OF FOSSIL MOLLUSCS ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY SWISS PALEONTOLOGIST WHO BECAME EMINENT HARVARD PROFESSOR. 11 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with gilt-ruled marbled paper-covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title and gilt compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down, xxii, 1-141, [1], 143-287, 105 fine lithographed plates. Binding tight, wear to cover edges and corners, handstamp of Earth Sciences Library to verso title page, fore-edge and bottom edge, handstamp of San Francisco Microscopical Society to front free endpaper, residue from removed library labels and "withdrawn" handstamp to back endpapers, light foxing to text, occasional foxing to plates, overall very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ (1807 – 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's… Read More
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A Hen Pidgeon from the Ninkcombar Islands near Pegu in India FROM A Natural History of Birds:...
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A Hen Pidgeon from the Ninkcombar Islands near Pegu in India FROM A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

by Albin, Eleazar

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London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 NICOBAR PIGEON, RELATIVE OF THE EXTINCT DODO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has colored engravings by Albin and his daughter… Read More
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Muscovy Drake, FROM A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates,...
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Muscovy Drake, FROM A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

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London: Printed for the Author, 1736. First edition. 1736 MUSCOVY DRAKE, ADAPTED TO TROPICAL AND COLD CLIMATES, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has colored engravings by Albin and his… Read More
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The White China Pheasant, from A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one...
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The White China Pheasant, from A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life: THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES

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London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE BLACK AND WHITE PHEASANT, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, small crease to lower right corner not affecting image; heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has… Read More
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The Crown Bird from Mexico FROM A Natural History of Birds : illustrated with a hundred and one...
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The Crown Bird from Mexico FROM A Natural History of Birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

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London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE TURACO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has colored engravings by Albin and his daughter Elizabeth Albin. In that book… Read More
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Academicarum Annotationum. Liber Primus. Continet anatomica, physiologica, zoographica,...
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Academicarum Annotationum. Liber Primus. Continet anatomica, physiologica, zoographica, phytographica; Liber Secundus Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica; Liber Tertius, Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica, zoographica; Liber Quartus Continet anatomica, physiologica, pathologica

by Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried

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Leiden: Verbeek, 1754. First edition. 28 EXQUISITE COPPER PLATES OF ANATOMIC DETAILS BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS, ENGRAVED BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, JAN WANDELAAR IN 1754. 10 inches tall hardcover, 1/2 leather binding, brown speckled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title to spine, containing 4 books. 2 leaves, Book I, 96, 99-104 pp, 1 leaf, 7 plates; Book II, 114 pp, 7 plates; 1Book III, 120 pp, 7 plates; Book IV, 118 pp, 7 plates, colophon. Covers heavily worn, spine edges cracked, hinges holding, binding tight, pages age-toned, light foxing to first and last pages, plates crisp and clean, very good minus. BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS (1697 - 1770) was born at Frankfurt on the Oder where his father, Bernhard Albinus was professor of the practice of medicine. In 1702 the latter was transferred to the chair of medicine at Leiden University, and it was there that Bernhard Siegfried began his studies in 1709, at the age of 12, having for his teachers such men as… Read More
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Worlds-Antiworlds. Antimatter in Cosmology
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Worlds-Antiworlds. Antimatter in Cosmology

by Alfven, Hannes

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San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1966. First English edition. CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ON ANTIMATTER BY NOBEL LAUREATE HANNES ALFVEN - SIGNED WITH MARGINAL NOTES BY NOBEL LAUREATE MARSHALL NIRENBERG, TRANSLATOR OF THE GENETIC CODE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, signature of Marshall Nirenberg to front flyleaf, with handstamp of Section of Biochemical Genetics, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014; [vi], 103 pp, marginal notes in penciel on pages 12 and 12; very good in very good dust jacket with small edge tears. HANNES ALFVEN (1908 - 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. In 1937, Alfvén argued that if plasma pervaded the universe, it could then carry electric currents capable of generating a galactic magnetic field. His theoretical work on… Read More
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THE CREAM OF HARVARD ZOOLOGY ca. 1900. Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey...
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THE CREAM OF HARVARD ZOOLOGY ca. 1900. Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902

by Allen, G.M.; Bancroft, F.W.; Castle, W.E.; Davenport, C.B.; Davenport, G.C.; Eastman, C.R.; Eigenmann, C.H.; Floyd, R.; Gerould, J.H.; Goto, S.; Hyde, I.H.; Jennings, H.S.; Johnson, H.P.; Kofoid, C.A.; Lee, T.G.; Linville, H.R.; Locy, W.A.; Neal, H.V.; Pa

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New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1903. First edition. 1903 SCARCE FESTSCHRIFT WITH 25 ORIGINAL PAPERS ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES IN HONOR OF EDWARD LAURENS MARK, DIRECTOR OF HARVARD'S ZOOLOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 12 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photogravure portrait of Mark with tissue guard, perforated library stamp to title page, xiii, 513 pp, 36 plates,some in color. Covers soiled, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. Large format festschrift in honor of Edward Laurens Mark (1847 - 1946), Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University 1877-1902, with 25 papers by his former students, representing the cream of American zoology at the end of the 19th century. Mark received the degree A.B. in 1871 from the University of Michigan. After service as astronomer of the United States Northwest Boundary Survey, in 1873 he traveled to… Read More
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ANATOMY OF A VENOMOUS MAMMAL. Solenodon paradoxus, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
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ANATOMY OF A VENOMOUS MAMMAL. Solenodon paradoxus, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, TOGETHER WITH Notes on Solenodon paradoxus Brandt, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York

by Allen, Glover M. and Allen, Joel A.

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Cambridge MA, New York: Museum of Comparative Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, 1910, 1908. First editions. 1910 ANATOMY OF AN ENDANGERED VENOMOUS MAMMAL SPECIES FOUND ONLY ON THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE PLATES--BY CURATORS OF MAMMALS AT HARVARD'S MCZ. 12 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, red leather label with gilt title to spine, [1], 54 pp, 9 lithographed plates (3 colored). Cover edges worn, spine ends frayed, spine label worn, binding tight, page edges browned, text and plates clean, unmarked, very good minus. GLOVER MORRILL ALLEN (1879 - 1942) was an American zoologist who lectured at Harvard and was Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He traveled widely, to Central and South America, to West Africa, the Nile, the Belgian Congo, and Australia. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1915 and was president of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1927 to 1929. JOEL ASAPH ALLEN (1838 – 1921) was an… Read More
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Glimpses of Nature, Science, and Art for the Young
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Glimpses of Nature, Science, and Art for the Young

by Anderson, William

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Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, No date (ca. 1850).
SCARCE LITTLE ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF WONDERS OF NATURE, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY--PRESENTATION "BEHAVIOUR PRIZE" TO MISS MARVER.
6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, purple cloth binding, blindstamped covers with decorative gilt title to cover and spine, all edges gilt. Inscribed verso ffep: "Behaviour Prize present to Miss Marver by the Misses Whytale/ Russell House Mids. 1868." i-vi, 250 pp, publisher's list of books. Frontis wood engraving of Davis Straits, also plate of a rainbow, Niagara Falls, and Menai Bridge, Wales. Spine ends frayed, corners bumped, pages clean and unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: Natural Phenomena: Wonders of the Heavens, Wonders of the Atmosphere, Wonders of the Wind, Wonders of the Earth, Wonders of the Ocean, Wonders of Art and Science.
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An Address to the Graduating Class of the Medical School in the University at Cambridge [Harvard...
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An Address to the Graduating Class of the Medical School in the University at Cambridge [Harvard University] on Wednesday, March 9, 1864

by Andrew, John A.

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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition. 1864 ADDRESS OF ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS INVITED BY HARVARD LUMINARIES TO GRADUATING CLASS OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, EXTOLLING CONTRIBUTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS MDs TO WAR EFFORT--INSCRIBED TO POPULAR CRITIC E P WHIPPLE. 9 inches tall pamphlet, gray printed wrappers, inscribed top cover, "E. P. Whipple Esq with regards of J. A. Andrew." iv, 28 pp. Soiling to covers, string binding perished, contents complete, pages unmarked, good+. JOHN ALBION ANDREW (1818 – 1867) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politican. He was elected in 1860 as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts, serving between 1861 and 1866, and led the state's contributions to the Union cause during the American Civil War. He was a guiding force behind the creation of some of the first African-American units in the United States Army, including the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Andrew was a radical abolitionist of slavery from an early age, engaged in the legal defense of fugitive… Read More
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Archive of 6 large pencil drawings of adult male musculoskeletal system
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Archive of 6 large pencil drawings of adult male musculoskeletal system

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1940s. SUITABLE FOR FRAMING: 1940s 6 ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS OF HUMAN ANATOMY BY ANONYMOUS MEDICAL PROFESSOR.
6 drawings 14x17 inches, on art paper, some with structures labeled or with descriptive text. Browning and wear to edges. Insect damage (small holes) top or bottom margin not affecting image in 5 drawings; drawing of full skeleton with both left side and bottom affected (see images).
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U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital...
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U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China

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Tsingtao, China, 1947.
1947 ORIGINAL PHOTOS REVEAL CHALLENGES IN TRANSPORTING A US MARINE IN IRON LUNG FROM CHINA TO AMERICA.
Archive of photographs documenting U.S. Navy transfer of marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in an iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China, 1947. Included are (3) official 4 X 5-inch sepia-toned photographs, showing Watts in the iron lung prior to transfer from the ship; 2 prints with typescript paper annotations affixed to verso marked "Official U.S. Navy PHOTO", all 3 prints inscribed, "November 1947"; TOGETHER WITH (8) 2 ¾ X 4 ¾-inch photographs with deckled edges, 5 of which are inscribed verso, "USS Repose/ October 1947" including one marked, "Watts", showing the transfer of the patient to a truck on the dock. The month inscribed in one set of prints is presumably incorrect, as all images appear to portray the same event. The remaining 3 prints are inscribed, "Tsingtao, China, January 1948, one of which shows Pier 2 in the snow, and… Read More
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