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MAN'S ORIGIN BEFORE DARWIN. Autograph letter, signed, from James L. Cabell, University of...

MAN'S ORIGIN BEFORE DARWIN. Autograph letter, signed, from James L. Cabell, University of Virginia, Charlottesville to Robert Carter & Brothers, Publishers, New York

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1859. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM UVA PROFESSOR TO HIS NEW YORK PUBLISHER REGARDING HIS BOOK ON THE UNITY OF MANKIND PUBLISHED MONTHS BEFORE DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
James L. Cabell, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the University of Virginia. Autograph letter signed to his New York publishers Robert Carter & Brothers, regarding proof corrections to his Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind. 12.5 x 20 cm lightly age-toned leaf, closed tears to right and bottom edges, very good minus. Inscribed, "University of Va. Feb. 24, 1859/ My dear Sir/ The printed sheets sent by the same mail with this – from p. 153 to p. 248 – contains the passages which are to be transposed. I hope there will be no difficulty in understanding my wishes – I have endeavored to mark them intelligibly – partly on the margin of the printed sheets & partly on the accompanying MSS. copy./ Yours most truly J. L. Cabell/ Rob. Carter & Brothers/ 530 Broadway/ New-York."
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1980 PLAN FOR GLOBAL WARMING. Hydrocarbons from plants: Analytical methods and observations
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1980 PLAN FOR GLOBAL WARMING. Hydrocarbons from plants: Analytical methods and observations

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1980. SIGNED--NOBELIST MELVIN CALVIN, DISCOVERER OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY, PROPOSES GENERATING ENERGY FROM LIVING PLANTS TO REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING.
21x28 cm "preprint" (a version of a scientific paper that precedes formal peer review). Printed paper wraps, stapled, signed in ink on cover by Melvin Calvin. 31 pp, 13 B&W figures at rear. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Chemical Biodynamics Division, Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract W-7405-ENG-48. PUBLISHED: Naturwissenschaften 1980, 67:525-33. ABSTRACT: "We have suggested that certain plants rich in hydrocarbon-like materials might be cultivated for renewable photosynthetic products. Two species were selected for experimental plantations: Euphorbia lathyris, an annual from seed and Euphorbia tirucalli, a perennial from cuttings. The yield from each pecies is over 10 barrels of oil/acre/year vdthout genetic or agronomic improvement. In addition to plants, there are trees, such as species of Copaifera… Read More
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Dissertation Physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les Differences Reelles que Presentent les Traits...
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Utrecht: B. Wild & J. Altheer, 1791. First French edition.
1791 LANDMARK THEORY OF CRANIOMETRY BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN, LINKING SPECIES AND RACES, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE FOLDING ENGRAVINGS.
23x27 cm; quarto, original limp paper-covered boards, ink hand-lettered title to spine, 1x1.5 cm paper label bottom of spine. Decorative bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier to front free endpaper, untrimmed edges. viii, 114, [2] pp., 9 folding copper plates, 1 folding diagram. Wear to cover edges, 1.5 cm inkblot to bottom of front cover, faint perforated library stamp to title page, small number hand stamp bottom of following page, otherwise unmarked pages with bright clean plates. Very good minus, now in 19th century blue rubbed quarter cloth slipcase with gilt title to spine and cloth-covered folder, in custom archival mylar cover.
GARRISON-MORTON No. 158 for the German edition of 1792 (first published in Dutch in 1791).
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The Way of an Investigator. A Scientist's Experiences in Medical Research
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The Way of an Investigator. A Scientist's Experiences in Medical Research

by Cannon, Walter B.

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New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1945. First edition, a wartime book (stated). 1945 SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LANDMARK AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WALTER CANNON, WHO DEFINED THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 229 pages, red cloth binding, covers lightly stained, spine darkened, corners and spine ends rubbed, residue from rusty paper clip on front paste-down and front free endpaper, text unmarked, very good minus. First printings of this wartime book, an autobiography published the year of Cannon's death, are very scarce. WALTER BRADFORD CANNON (1871 - 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term fight or flight response, and he expanded on Claude Bernard's concept of homeostasis. In his autobiography The Way of an Investigator, Cannon counts himself among the descendents of Jacques de Noyon, a French Canadian explorer and coureur des bois. A high school teacher, Mary Jeannette Newson, became his… Read More
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1729 ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ROYAL COURT. La Science des Personnes de Cour, d'Epee et de Robe, de...
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1729 ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ROYAL COURT. La Science des Personnes de Cour, d'Epee et de Robe, de Sieur de Chevigni, dans laquelle, outre les Matieres contenues dans les Editions precedentes, on trouve une Instruction plus ample sur la Religion, l'Astronomie, la Chronologie, la Geographie, la Guerre, les Fortifications, le Blason, les Fables

by Chevigny, S. D. V. de and de Limiers, Henri Philippe

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Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain, 1729. 7th edition. 1729 PORTABLE 4-VOLUME ENCYCLOPEDIA WITH ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE IN COURTLY AFFAIRS, ILLUSTRATED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVED MAPS AND ROYAL PEDIGREES. Four hardcover volumes, each 6 1/2 inches tall, 3/4 leather binding, brown paper covers, spine gilt with gilt red leather labels, Vol. I, engraved frontispiece titled, Trahat sua quemque voluptas [To each his own taste], [54], 427, 16 folding plates; Vol. II, [8], 479, 33 folding plates; Vol III, [4], 408, 11 folding plates; Vol IV, [4], 410 (lacking pp 131-134, inserted in facsimile), 7 folding plates. Cover corners bumped and worn, spine gilt bright, bindings tight. Brown stain upper corner of last pages of Vol. I, not affecting plates, offsetting of some plates, text and plates clean and unmarked, overall very good. LA SCIENCE DES PERSONNES DE COUR, D'EPEE ET DE ROBE [The Science of People of Court, Sword and Robe] is an encyclopedia originally published in Paris by Sieur de Chevigny in two… Read More
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Biological Bulletin, Volume I (Issue No. 1, October, 1899; No. 2, January, 1900; No. 3, May,...
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Biological Bulletin, Volume I (Issue No. 1, October, 1899; No. 2, January, 1900; No. 3, May, 1900; No. 4, July, 1900; No. 5, August, 1900, No. 6, September, 1900); Volume II (Issue No. 1, October, 1900; No. 2, November, 1900; No. 3, December, 1900; No. 4, January, 1901; No. 5, February, 1901; No. 6, June, 1901; Also Abstracts of Papers presented at the meeetings of the American Morphological Society at Baltimore, December 27 and 28, 1900.

by Child, C. M., Conklin, Edwin Grant, Davenport, C.B., Morgan, T.H. and Wheeler, William Morton

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Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899-1901. First edition.
1899 FIRST 2 VOLUMES OF THE BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN, BEGUN BY LEADERS OF THE FAMOUS MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT WOODS HOLE MASS, CONTAINS 4 PAPERS ON REGENERATION BY T H MORGAN.
Ten inches tall hardcover, 2 volumes bound as one; black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, discard handstamp, embossed library stamp to second front flyleaf and title page, Vol I, i-v, 314 pp, Vol II, i-iii, errata slip, 365 pp, many line illustrations throughout, 6 plates. Binding tight, faint library numbers bottom of spine, handstamps to edges, text clean and unmarked, pages age-toned, good+. Contains 4 papers by T.H. Morgan on regeneration, and works by C.M. Child, Edwin G. Conklin, C.B. Davenport, and William Morton Wheeler.
The BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN was established in 1897 as the Zoological Bulletin by Charles Otis Whitman and William Morton Wheeler. In 1899 the title was changed to The Biological Bulletin, and… Read More
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Anatomie des Vers Intestinaux, Ascaride Lombricoide, et Echinorhynque Geant
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Anatomie des Vers Intestinaux, Ascaride Lombricoide, et Echinorhynque Geant

by Cloquet, Jules

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Paris: Crevot, 1824. First edition.
1824 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF ASCARIS--ITS LIFE CYCLE WOULD NOT BE DISCOVERED UNTIL A CENTURY LATER.
10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine with gilt title, decorative bookplate of Jean Theodorides to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front free endpaper, vii, 130 pp, 8 fine folding engraved plates. Light wear to spine, covers clean, binding tight, plates bright, very good in custom archival mylar cover. Large intestinal roundworms have been known since antiquity. Eggs have been identified in archeological coprolites across the globe, the oldest ones being more than 24,000 years old. In 1758 Linnaeus named them Ascaris lumbricoides. For many centuries, they were thought to arise by spontaneous generation. In 1855, Ascaris eggs were found in human faeces by Henry Ransom in England. In 1922, Shimesu Koino ingested 2,000 Ascaris lumbricoides eggs, found larvae in his sputum a few days later, then after 50… Read More
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A Faithless World, reprinted by permission form The Contemporary Review; with additions and a...
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A Faithless World, reprinted by permission form The Contemporary Review; with additions and a preface

by Cobbe, Frances Power

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London: Williams and Norgate, 1885. First edition thus. 1885 CONDEMNATION OF LOSS OF RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE (INCLUDING DARWINISM) BY PROMINENT BRITISH ANTIVIVISECTIONIST, INSCRIBED TO COLLEAGUE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, Author's inscription front flyleaf, "For Benjamin Bryan, With her very kind regards from his Friend & Colleague Frances Power Cobbe, June, 1885", institutional library handstamps to title page and last page, 41 pp, list of recent works by the author. Wear to cover edges, small library call numbers lower corner of cover, front flyleaf detached, hinges cracked but binding tight and text block unmarked and clean, residue from library pocket removed from back paste-down. Good. CONTENTS include, "I cannot but think that something is already lost to it when the reverent, tender, modest, and yet lofty spirit of a Kepler, a Newton, a Herschel, a Lyell, is exchanged for the arrogant one which we find pervading the newer… Read More
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Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men
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Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men

by Conklin, Edwin Grant

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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1915. Second edition. EMERGING QUESTIONS ON GENETICS, EUGENICS, AND SOCIETY IN MONOGRAPH BY LEADING BIOLOGIST E. G. CONKLIN, INSCRIBED TO MRS. CONEY AND SOLD AT LEGENDARY NEW YORK BOOKSHOP OWNED BY WOMEN. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookseller's label, "The Sunwise Turn, Inc., 2 E 31st St NY" bottom of back paste down. Inscribed front free endpaper, "My dear Mrw. Coney, You are a brave woman to have tackled such a book as this. I assure you that the first 429 pages are the worst. hoping that you will enjoy the rest of it, I am Cordially your friend, E. G. Conklin, Princeton, November 24, 1927." xvi, 550 pp, 82 figures. Light wear to covers, browning to first and last pages, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION: "Considerable changes have been made in Chapter III, section on Non-Mendelian Inheritance, Chapter IV section on Inheritance or Non-Inheritance of Acquired… Read More
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Organ-forming substances in the eggs of ascidians
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Organ-forming substances in the eggs of ascidians

by Conklin, Edwin Grant

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Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1905. First edition. 1905 E. G. CONKLIN--LANDMARK EARLY STUDY OF EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT WITH ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE BY PIONEER AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST AND EVOLUTIONIST--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 10 inches tall offprint, gray printed wraps, inscribed, "Dr. Robt W. Hall/ with the compliments/ of E.G. Conklin." pages 205-230 reprinted from Biological Bulletin Vol. VIII, March, 1905 with glossy actual gelatin silver photographic plate containing 24 photomicrographs of the first stages of the developing embryo of a marine invertebrate. Light browning of covers, edgewear, top of spine chipped, text and plate unmarked, very good. Conklin concludes, "These facts point to the conclusion that the complex organization of an egg, such as that of an ascidian, has not arisen through the 'reflection of adult characters upon the egg,' but rather that this organization is primary. Furthermore they seem to indicate that evolution has taken place, not through modifications of adult… Read More
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INSCRIBED TO NOBELIST AT WOODS HOLE. Man Real and Ideal. Observations and Reflections on Man's...
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INSCRIBED TO NOBELIST AT WOODS HOLE. Man Real and Ideal. Observations and Reflections on Man's Nature, Development, and Destiny

by Conklin, Edwin G.

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First edition.
INSCRIBED DURING WW2 TO NOBELIST OTTO LOEWI WHO ESCAPED NAZI GERMANY IN 1940--FELLOW RESEARCHERS IN WOODS HOLE.
14x20.5 cm hardcover, bugundy cloth binding, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To my dear friend and fellow idealist Dr. Otto Loewi with cordial thanks for his encouragement and inspiration. Edwin G. Conklin, Woods Hole, Mass. Aug. 21, 1944". i-xvii, [2], 247 pp. Spine faded, lacking dust jacket, very good in custom archival mylar cover. Light pencil notations on front paste-down (presumably by Otto Loewi) citing pages 187, 208, and 209. These correspond to pencilled marginal notations highlighting evolution, religion, and Darwin's own anguish over reconciling mechanistic evolution and morality. DEDICATION: "To my Students in Biology Of the past Fifty Years With whom I have discussed Many of the Topics in this Book, It is, with fond Memories DEDICATED." INTRODUCTION: "Mankind is now in the midst of one of the greatest… Read More
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Mitosis and amitosis in Biological Bulletin XXXIII (6):396-437, December 1917
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Mitosis and amitosis in Biological Bulletin XXXIII (6):396-437, December 1917

by Conklin, Edwin G.

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Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1917. First edition.
LANDMARK EARLY STUDY IN DEFENSE OF THE CHROMOSOME THEORY--SHOWING THAT APPARENT AMITOSIS IS "MERELY MODIFIED MITOSIS"--SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
10 inches tall offprint, gray printed wraps, green cloth tape spine, inscribed top cover, "With the Compliments of E G Conklin", and handstamp below of F. T. Baldwin Jr. pp396-437, including 10 plates with facing descriptive text. Wear to cover edges, light browning to pages that are unmarked. Very good in poly envelope.
EDWIN GRANT CONKLIN (1863-1952) was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University. He was professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan (1891–94) and professor of zoology at Northwestern University (1894–96), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1908), and Princeton University (1908-1935). He became coeditor of the Journal of Morphology, The Biological Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Zoology. He was president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1912 and… Read More
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A Series of Lectures, on the Most Approved Principle and Practice of Modern Surgery: Principally...
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A Series of Lectures, on the Most Approved Principle and Practice of Modern Surgery: Principally Derived from the Lectures Delivered by Astley Cooper, Esq. F.R.S. etc. at the United Hospitals of Guy and St. Thomas, and in which will be found Some of the Opinions of the Most Celebrated Surgeons, from the Time of Hunter, to the Present Moment, Interspersed with Numerous Cases by Charles Williams Jones

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Boston: Charles Ewer, 1823. First American from the Second London edition. 1821 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION LECTURES ON EARLY 19TH CENTURY SURGERY BY ASTLEY COOPER, SURGEON TO BRITISH ROYALTY. 10 inches tall hardcover recently rebound in red buckram with gilt title on spine, 456 pages uncut, age-toned, with scattered light foxing and occasional marginal pencil notes. Overall very good. TITLES OF LECTURES: Temperature of the blood; Inflammation; Ulcers; Furuncles; Wounds of veins, chest and gun-shot wounds; Poisons; Head injuries; Hydrocoele; Aneurism; Cataract; Removal of the eye; Puncturing the bladder; Lithotomy; Diseases of the testicle; Diseases of the breast; Amputation; Hernia; Dislocations; Gonorrhoea and syphilis; Strictures; Fractures; Scrofula; Tumours. SIR ASTLEY PASTON COOPER (1768 - 1841) was an English surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia.… Read More
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ANATOMY OF THE VIRGINIA OPOSSUM. On the Osteology and Myology of Didelphys Virginiana with an...
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ANATOMY OF THE VIRGINIA OPOSSUM. On the Osteology and Myology of Didelphys Virginiana with an Appendix on the Brain, in Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. II, Part I, No. III

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Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1872. First edition. ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON THE ANATOMY OF THE OPOSSUM BY LEADING 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ZOOLOGISTS. 12 inches tall red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of C. William Beebe on front and rear paste-downs, original printed paper covers bound in, text paginated pp 41-154, 36 wood engravings in the text, very good. ELLIOTT COUES (1842 - 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author. He graduated at Columbian University, (now, George Washington University) Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863. He served as a medical cadet in Washington in 1862-1863, and in 1864 was appointed assistant-surgeon in the regular army. In 1872 he published his Key to North American Birds, which, revised and rewritten in 1884 and 1901, did much to promote the systematic study of ornithology in America. He was a founding member of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883. His work was… Read More
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Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis and its relation to Other Forms of Meningitis. A Report of the...
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Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis and its relation to Other Forms of Meningitis. A Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts

by Councilman, W.T., Mallory, F.B. and Wright, J.H.

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Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1898. First edition. REPORT OF EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS IN BOSTON, 1897 BY LEADING PATHOLOGISTS COUNCILMAN, MALLORY AND WRIGHT, WITH FOLDING MAP & COLOR PLATES--SIGNED BY COUNCILMAN AND MALLORY. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed front flyleaf, "Compliments of W.S. Councilman, F. B. Mallory", color folding map frontis, "Cases of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, Boston, 1897," x, 178 pp, 8 heliotype color plates. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. LAID IN: Papers on immunization for meningococcal disease extracted from New England Journal of Medicine, 2020. WILLIAM THOMAS COUNCILMAN (1854-1933) was an American pathologist, serving as the first pathologist-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Dr. Councilman had arrived in Harvard Medical School earlier in 1892 and was an expert in the study of amebiasis, diphtheria, smallpox, and yellow fever. His vivid morphologic description of changes seen in the liver of… Read More
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SIGNED  The Medical Report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil
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SIGNED The Medical Report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil

by Councilman, W.T. and Lambert, R.A.

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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1918. First edition. SIGNED COPY OF MEDICAL REPORT ON TROPICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY W. T. COUNCILMAN, DISCOVERER OF THE "COUNCILMAN BODY". 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, spine gilt, many black & white photographic illustrations, a map, and color plate. Inscribed on front free endpaper "To my good friend Miss Maude Patten with affectionate regards, W.T. Councilman".INTRODUCTION: The expedition, primarily undertaken for geographical research, was organized by Doctor A. Hamilton Rice, and left New York on the steam yacht Alberta, November 16, 1916. The members of the expedition were Doctor and Mrs. A. H. Rice, Mr. Howe, geologist, Mr. Swanson, wireless operator, Mr. Couseris, engineer, Mr. Church, cartographer, and the writers. Stops were made on the way to and from Brazil at Barbados and at Porto Rico. From Barbados we proceeded on the yacht to Para, to Manaos, and to Iquitos in Peru, returning from there to Manaos. At Manaos a river… Read More
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Pathology. A Manual for Teachers and Students
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Pathology. A Manual for Teachers and Students

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Boston: W.M. Leonard, 1912. First edition. MANUAL FOR HARVARD MEDICAL STUDENTS BY LEGENDARY HARVARD PATHOLOGIST W.T. COUNCILMAN-SIGNED BY HIM. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, spine gilt, ink inscription front free endpaper to Dr. N.C. Foot ""with the kind regards of W.T. Councilman."" Edges lightly age-toned, otherwise very good+. Four 4x5 inch black & white photomicrographs laid in, with note dated 1913-18 Jan. PREFACE This manual has developed from the Syllabus of Pathology published by Councilman and Mallory in 1904, and is designed with special reference to the teaching of the subject. The work gives the plan which has been followed in teaching pathology in the Harvard Medical School, and which has proven to be successful. Illustrations were purposely omitted in the work. Excellent and accurate as are most of the illustrations in the current textbooks of Pathology, they still, when objective, represent areas carefully selected for the illustration of a point, more… Read More
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General Cytology. A Textbook of Cellular Structure and Function for Students of Biology and Medicine
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General Cytology. A Textbook of Cellular Structure and Function for Students of Biology and Medicine

by Cowdry, Edmund V.

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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1924. First printing. THE BIRTH OF MODERN CELL BIOLOGY: SCARCE FIRST EDITION LANDMARK COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY AMERICA'S LEADING BIOLOGISTS. 10 inches tall thick hardcover, original blue cloth binding, bookplate of Russell B. MacFarlane to front paste-down, [i-vii], 754 pp, many text figures and 9 black & white photographic plates. Wear to covers, corners worn, text unmarked. Good plus. TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Introduction; II. Some General Aspects of the Chemistry of Cells; III. Permeability of the Cell to Diffusing Substances; IV. Reactivity of the Cell; V. The Physical Structure of Protoplasm as Determined by Microdissection and Injection; VI. Mitochondria, Golgi Apparatus, and Chromidial Substance; VII. Behavior of Cells in Tissue Cultures; VIII. Fertilization; IX. Cellular Differentiation: X. The Chromosome Theory of Heredity; XI. Mendelian Heredity in Relation to Cytology. Cited by J Maienschein in Embryos Under the Microscope 2014: "General Cytology… Read More
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Studies on the Variation, Distribution, and Evolution of the Genus Partula. Vol. 1, The Species...
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Studies on the Variation, Distribution, and Evolution of the Genus Partula. Vol. 1, The Species Inhabiting Tahiti, 1916; Vol. 2, The Species of the Mariana Islands, Guam and Saipan, 1925; Vol. 3, The Species Inhabiting Moorea, 1932

by Crampton, Henry Edward

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Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916, 1925, 1932. First edition. EARLY 19TH CENTURY LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF LAND SNAILS REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF GENETICS OVER ADAPTATION. Three 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, Vol 1 bound in red buckram, gilt title to spine, with library call letters at bottom of spine, canceled institutional library bookplate and handstamp to front paste-down and title page, 311 pp, 19 plates including folding tinted maps, 15 color plates containing over 700 images of Partula. Minimal wear to covers, binding tight, occasional marginal note, pages crisp and clean. Vol. 2 with black cloth spine and marbled paper covers, unmarked, binding tight, 116 pp, 10 black & white plates, 4 color plates containing over 200 images of Partula; Vol. 3 with black cloth spine, marbled paper covers, binding tight, inscription to Herr Professor Schwanitz on second flyleaf, pages crisp and clean, 16 plates of photographs and island topography (2 folding… Read More
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SIGNED. The Citadel
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SIGNED. The Citadel

by Cronin, A.J.

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1937. First American edition (8th ptg).
1937 SIGNED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE NOVEL THAT LED TO DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE.
14x21.5 cm hardcover, black cloth binding, cover with title and caduceus in gilt, spine gilt, signed by author on center of front free endpaper and by previous owners on top of front paste-down and corner of front endpaper. [i-iv], 401 pp, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, spine faded, creased in midline but not cracked, corners mildly bumped, otherwise very good in custom archival mylar cover.
ARCHIBALD JOSEPH CRONIN (1896 – 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a doctor in Harley Street. The book… Read More
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