Search Results: Authors starting with B from Biomed Rare Books

London: B. Fellowes, 1830. First edition. FIRST EDITION OF SCATHING DIATRIBE AGAINST THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY ENGLISH ORIGINATOR OF THE CONCEPT OF THE DIGITAL COMPUTER--COPY OF PROMINENT JOURNALIST OF THE PERIOD. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches hardcover, 3/4 brown calf with marbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt, with red leather label gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate to front paste-down, ink signature of George Augustus Sala on paper affixed to front free endpaper, xvi,+ 228,+ (4). Cover edges worn, scattered foxing, binding tight, very good. CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and originator of the concept of a digital programmable computer. In The Exposition of 1851, or Views of the Industry, the Science and the Government of England (1851) he pointed out the shortcomings of the British educational system. His Reflections on the Decline of Science and some of its Causes (offered here) aimed to improve British science, and more… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1884. First edition. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BIOLOGY OF AMERICAN WATER BIRDS BY FIRST CURATOR OF SMITHSONIAN. Two hardcover volumes 10 3/4 inches tall, mustard cloth binding, gilt title to spines, numerous wood engravings throughout. Vol. I, xi, 537 pp; Vol. II, [vi], 552 pp. Fine--as new. SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD (1823 - 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He would eventually serve as the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, from 1878 until 1887. He published over 1,000 works during his lifetime. He was dedicated to expanding the natural history collections of the Smithsonian and upon his death, had done so by expanding the collection from 6,000 specimens in 1850 to over 2 million upon his death. Cited by Newton in Science, Technology, and Society in the 19th Century (2001): "One of Baird's first projects at the Smithsonian was the… Read More

Waxhington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1920. First edition.
1920 SCARCE SUMPTUOUS FESTSCHRIFT FOR EMINENT EMBRYOLOGIST FP MALL INCLUDES PAPERS BY LEADING WOMEN SCIENTISTS.
22x30x5 cm hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, blindstamped borders to covers, gilt title to spine, frontispiece portrait of Franklin Paine Mall, i-v, 554 pp, many color and black-and-white plates. Corners bumped, covers and spine clean, binding tight, pages unmarked, clean and bright, very good+.
FRANKLIN PAINE MALL (1862-1917) earned his MD from the University of Michigan in 1883. After completing his degree, Mall moved to Heidelberg to study ophthalmology. However, in 1884, he moved to Leipzig where he became a student of embryologist Wilhelm His and met William H. Welch, future dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1886 Mall enrolled in a fellowship in the department of pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where he started a collaboration with William S. Halsted. In 1889 Mall was offered… Read More

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1882. First edition. 1882 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH AN UPBEAT MESSAGE ABOUT A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, PUBLISHED 30 YEARS AFTER FOUNDING OF THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN IN LONDON, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN ENGLAND. 10x16.5 cm tall hardcover, red cloth binding with stamped pictorial cover, title in gilt, pictorial gilt title to spine, frontis wood engraving, illustrated title vignette, 125 pp, [ii] publisher's adverts. Full page wood engravings. Covers darkened, edges rubbed, hinges weak. Text good. 5 copies OCLC. GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL (formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) was founded on 14 February 1852 after a long campaign by Dr. Charles West, and was the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children. THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century. The society… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1850. 1850 FIRST EDITION OF PRIZEWINNING RESEARCH: THE DISCOVERY OF EMBRYONIC RESPIRATION, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COLOR ENGRAVINGS. 11 inches tall hardcover, offprint from Mémoires présentées par divers savants à l'Académie des Sciences. recent gray cloth binding and endpapers, 224 pp (pagination 469 to 692), 14 fine color stipple-engraved plates by Martin de St-Ange and 4 monchrome plates by Baudrimont. Covers are very good, with abrasion of the surface fore edge both front and back, paste-down not affected. Binding tight, pages clean and crisp with minimal light marginal foxing to plates, very good. TEXT IN FRENCH.STIPPLE ENGRAVING is described in T.H. Fielding's Art of Engraving (1841). To begin with an etching "ground" is laid on the plate, which is a waxy coating that makes the plate resistant to acid. The outline is drawn out in small dots with an etching needle, and the darker areas of the image shaded with a pattern of close dots. As in mezzotint use was made… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1966. First edition (stated). 1966 ILLUSTRATED LAY GUIDE TO GENETICS BY NOBEL LAUREATE GENETICIST GEORGE BEADLE AND HIS WIFE MURIEL BEADLE--SIGNED BY BOTH.9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gray cloth spine, inscribed on half-title page: "Sincerely,/ George Beadle/ Muriel Beadle," x, [4], 242 pp, many illustrations in text, a few marginal pencil notes, very good in very good minus jacket with darkened edges, in Brodart protective cover. LAID IN: Newspaper review of the book by Noman Ross. GEORGE WELLS BEADLE (1903 – 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He also served as the 7th President of the University of Chicago. Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to x-rays, causing mutations. In a series of experiments, they showed… Read More

Washington, DC: Columbia Publishing Co., 1938. First edition. 1938 SCARCE VIRULENT DIATRIBE AGAINST THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, BY THE EDITOR OF "PLAIN TALK," A LIBERTARIAN MAGAZINE. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding with embossed title in blue to cover and spine, copy of Rochester Anti-Vivisection Society, inscribed and hand stamped on front endpapers and embossed seal on title page. 255 pp, 12 plates, very good in good jacket with soiling and chips top of front cover and spine--protected by mylar cover. LAID IN Two clippings from Liberty newspaper referencing Medical Mussolini and the dangers of organized medicine, affixed to verso of last page of text AND a printed testimonial for the book on a perforated sticker affixed to the back endpaper. MORRIS A BEALLE (1891-1972), from a prominent Maryland family, was editor and publisher of Plain Talk, a libertarian magazine. A pamphlet advertising Plain Talk stated that "the subjects which the new magazine will cover will range widely… Read More

London: John Calder, 1961. First trade edition, first printing. 1961 PUBLISHED BEFORE HE RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE, BECKETT'S FIRST COLLECTION OF POETRY, SIGNED BY HIM--CLARE BOOTHE LUCE'S COPY, ALSO SIGNED BY HER. 8 1/4 inches tall slim hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, slate blue dust jacket in mylar cover, signed by Clare Boothe Luce on front flyleaf, and signed by author on title page. Spine mildly askew, light browning of front and back free endpapers, very good in very good dust jacket. FROM DUST JACKET FLAP: "Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906, but has lived in Paris since before the war. Although his reputation today is based principally on his post-war novels and plays, he wrote two pre-war novels, a number of short stories and much poetry. The present volume consists of those poems written in the English language which the author is willing to have preserved. It also contains a few poems written in French, translated by Beckett himself, together with the… Read More

The American Institute of Dental Medicine, 1953. First edition, No. 77 of 300 copies. 1953 LIMITED EDITION OF MAGNIFICENT PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE MATURATION OF THE RAT SKELETON WITH 143 PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES OF RADIOGRAPHS AND PHOTOMICROGRAPHS. Two volumes 11 inches tall, full black morocco leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, Vol. I, xxxv, [1], 65 black & white photographic plates; Vol. II, xiii, [3], 78 black & white photographic plates affixed to recto and verso of stiff card stock with tissue guards between each plate. Spine ends have been repaired by master conservator, covers are in near-fine condition, hand stamp of Scientific Library, Hoffman La Roche to front paste-down and back endpaper, library pocket to back paste-down, no other library marks. Text and plates are unmarked and very good+. Images include radiographs and photomicrographs of the rat skeleton spanning 40 to 1270 days of life (analogous to 14 to 20 years in human). Both intact and hypophysectomized… Read More

New York: E. Bliss, 1829. First American edition. SCARCE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF FRENCH EARLY 19TH CENTURY TREATISE ON THERAPEUTICS ADAPTED FOR NORTH AMERICAN PHYSICIANS. Two volumes in one, 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, viii, 243; 236 pages, new black cloth boards with paper spine label, very good. Edges of pages darkened and wrinkled, with scattered marginal pencil notations. Signature of Joseph A. Eve, Dec 19th, 18** top of title page, volume 1; signature of Robert C. Eve, 1880 top of Preface. Begin classifies medications in three types: debilitating medications, direct stimulating medications, and revulsive medications. Tessier has added notes and treatments of North American diseases. LOUIS JACQUES BEGIN (2 November 1793, Liège - 13 April 1859) was a French military physician. He began his medical studies in the military hospital at Metz, subsequently serving as an assistant surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars (Russian and German campaigns). From 1815 he was associated with the civil hospital in… Read More

Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2003. First edition, first printing.
BIOGRAPHY OF NOBELIST GEORGE BEADLE (OF "ONE GENE ONE ENZYME" FAME) BY NOBELIST PAUL BERG, PIONEER OF RECOMBINANT DNA, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM.
9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed to Dick Archer and signed by both authors on front free endpaper, i-ix, 383 pp, illustrated. Fine in very good jacket. LAID IN: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches folded program for the Beadle Symposium celebrating the centennial of his birth, at the Norman Davidson Lecture Hall, California Institute of Technology. Listed are an introduction by David Baltimore and lectures by Paul Berg, Maxine Singer, Seymour Benzer, and John Doebley, followed by book signing of the volume offered here.
GEORGE BEADLE (1903 – 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating… Read More

Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1874. First edition. RARE 1874 FOLIO FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK DESCRIPTION OF STREPTOCOCCAL WOUND INFECTION BY FOUNDING FATHER OF ABDOMINAL SURGERY. 12x15 inches tall folio, original printed brown paper covered boards with leather spine, gilt title to red leather label, xiv, 244 pp, 1 text illustration, 5 copper plates engraved by Wilhelm Grohmann. Cover edges rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, spine ends frayed, later endpapers, old water stain to lower right corner of preliminary pages, marginal age-toning, text and plates unmarked, overall good+. TEXT IN GERMAN.THEODOR BILLROTH (1829-1894) was an Austrian surgeon. regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. Torn between a career as a musician or as a physician, he acceded to his mother's wishes and enrolled himself at the University of Greifswald to study medicine, but gave up the whole of his first term to the study of music; Professor Wilhelm Baum, however, took him with him to Göttingen, and his medical… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871. First English translation. 1871 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LECTURES BY FAMED GERMAN SURGEON WHO MODERNIZED SURGICAL TRAINING. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown pebbled cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, leaf of publisher's ads laid in, xviii, 676 pp, 152 wood engravings in text, 2 pp publisher's ads, binder's label lower corner back paste-down. Corners bumped, light wear to spine ends, hinges starting, binding tight, text unmarked, pages age-toned, top corner of pages 266-406 creased, very good minus. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE: "During the past ten years the microscope has greatly advanced onr knowledge of Pathology; and it will perhaps be acknowledged that most progress in the study of Pathological Anatomy has been made in Germany. Prof. Theodor Billroth himself one of the most noted authorities on Surgical Pathology, has in the present volume given us a complete resume of the existing state of knowledge in this branch of medical science. The fact of this… Read More

Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1950. First edition.
1950 POPULATION GENETICS STUDY BASED ON BLOOD GROUPS AND "RACE" BEFORE DISCOVERY OF DNA.
7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches offprint in stapled printed gray wrappers, 56 pp, 16 figures. Light browning to covers, "B6" inscribed top of cover. From the library of Stephen Jay Gould, with his catalog number: "B", surname, and "6" the filing number.
JOSEPH BENJAMIN BIRDSELL (1908-1994) of Harvard University and UCLA was an anthropologist who studied Aboriginal Australians. After meeting Australian anthropologist Norman Tindale, of the South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide, in 1936 when Tindale visited the US, Birdsell made his first field study in Australia in 1938. Tindale would study the genealogies, while Birdsell undertook the measuring, and with government support the pair travelled across south-east Australia, parts of Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania, and returned periodically to study microevolutionary processes.… Read More

1945. First edition.
ONE OF 100 PUBLICATIONS FAMOUS IN ALL MEDICINE: THE DAWN OF SURGICAL CORRECTION OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE--BLALOCK & TAUSSIG, 1945, together with RESULTS OF THE OPERATION IN 1000 CASES--TAUSSIG, 1951.
1) 14x21.5 cm offprint, reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, May 19, 1945. Vol. 128, pp. 189-202, wrapped in blue printed paper covers, stapled binding, text reimposed in single-column pages, with different page breaks, 44 pp, 7 halftone and 5 line-block illustrations in text; browning to cover edges, small ind signature "Scott" top of cover--no other marks, very good. TOGETHER WITH 2) 15x22.5 cm offprint, Helen B. Taussig, Results of operation for pulmonary stenosis and atresia (Report of 1000 cases)reprinted from the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, Vol. lxiv, pp 67-73, 1951, stapled binding without wraps, near-fine.
ALFRED BLALOCK (1899 - 1964) earned his MD at Johns Hopkins University in 1922 and completed residency at… Read More

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1795. 1st American. 1795 AN EARLY MONOGRAPH ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY PROMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIAN. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, two volumes in one, full leather binding, spine with gilt red leather label, ink signature of William H. Selby in contemporary script and his hand stamp on front endpapers, Vol. I, xvi, 229 pp; Vol. II, 247 pp. Covers and spine rubbed, back cover bowed, corners worn, hinges cracked but secure, browning to pages, good in custom archival mylar cover. JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH (1752 - 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to the classification of what he called human races, of which he determined there to be five. Although the greatest part of Blumenbach's life was passed at Göttingen, in 1789 he visited Switzerland, and gave a… Read More

Paris: Panckoucke, 1788. First edition. 1788 ATLAS OF FISH WITH 102 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS BY FRENCH PRIEST-NATURALIST WHO DESCRIBED 25 NEW SPECIES OF FISH AND THE FIRST TO STUDY THE WILD CHILD OF AVEYRON. Two hardcover volumes 12 3/4 inches tall, recent green cloth covered boards with leather spines and gilt titles, new endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-down, pages uncut, Vol. I, lvi, 215 pp; Vol. II, 102 copper plate engravings numbered A, B, and 1 - 100. Bindings fine, Vol. I with light foxing to first pages, wormholes top corner of 5 leaves (pages 1-10) not affecting text; Vol. II with light browning/foxing to margins of plates engraved by Robert Benard. Overall very good. ABBE PIERRE JOSEPH PONNATERRE (1752-1804) was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects to the Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique. Bonnaterre is credited with identifying about 25 new species of fish, and assembled… Read More

London: Wilson and Spence and R. Christopher & T. Jennett, 1803. 1803 EARLY ENGLISH CHILDREN'S NATURAL HISTORY WITH 95 COPPER PLATES CONTAINING 300 ANIMALS PICTURED AFTER ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 leather binding with gilt rules and marble paper covered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt red leather label, new endpapers, 210 pp, 300 animals illustrated on 95 copper plates, including folding plate of whaling in Greenland (reinforced with paper backing). Browning to title page and page edges, overall good+ in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS BOREMAN (1730–1743) was one of the earliest English children's book publishers particularly dealing with animals. His bookshops were located around London. Boreman published along with Richard Ware and Thomas Game from the 1730s. His Three Hundred Animals was the first, published ca 1730 and written for children. He published approximately a dozen titles. Many of his books were based on… Read More

Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1831. First edition. DISSERTATION ON MEDICAL PRACTICE, NOSOLOGY, AND EDUCATION BY PROMINENT FRENCH PHYSICIAN, INSCRIBED TO HIS MENTOR, WHOSE AUTOGRAPH CRITIQUE IS INCLUDED, COPY OF PREMIER MEDICAL PUBLISHER, JB BAILLIERE - PLUS LITHOGRAPH OF BOUILLAUD8 inches tall hardcover, period red cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, 83 pp, signed association copy. Front paste-down: Ink inscription (presumably by J.-B. Bailliere): "Ce volume contient: 1) Jugement de Bouillaud par M. Ph. J. Roux; 2) Dedicace a Broussais; 3) Jugement de Broussais, comme juge du concours ou M. Bouillaud a été nomme Professeur; 4) Jugement de M. A. Donne sur les travaux de M. Bouillaud" ["This volume contains: 1) Judgment of Bouillaud by M. Ph. J. Roux; 2) Dedication to Broussais; 3) Judgment of Broussais, as judge of the competition where Mr. Bouillaud was appointed Professor; 4) Judgment of MA Donne on the work of M. Bouillaud"]; Book-label of J.-B. Bailliere. Verso front free… Read More

Paris: P. Asselin, 1874. First edition.
1871 EARLY MONOGRAPH ON OSTEOMALACIA IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS 50 YEARS BEFORE DISCOVERY OF VITAMIN D.
16x25 cm softcover, blue paper covers, printed title to cover and spine, inscribed and signed in ink top of half-title page, "A mon cher Maitre, Mr Ranvier/ Temoignage de reconnaissance/ Dr Paul Bouley", 132 pp, Table of Contents, Legend to Plates, 4 lithographic plates. Handstamp "Histologie College de France" and ink inscription, "Mr Ranvier" top of cover, soiling to covers, light browning to page edges, text pages and plates clean and unmarked, very good minus in archival case with folding flaps. CONTENTS: I. History; II. Pathologic anatomy; III. Etiologies--nature of the disease. Heredity, age, sex, pregnacy and nursing, hygiene, nutrition, skeletal softening in domestic animals, constitution--influence of diatheses, nature of the disease; IV. Symptoms. Duration, progression and outcomes, character of urine, senile form of osteomalacia, treatment. CONCLUSIONS:… Read More