Search Results: Authors starting with H from Biomed Rare Books

Boston: Oliver Everett and Joseph W. Ingraham, 1821. First edition. 1821 ORIGINAL REPORTS BY A YOUNG BOSTON PHYSICIAN USING SELF-EXPERIMENTATION TO STUDY URINARY EXCRETION OF ORAL AND INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATIONS. 5 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches paperbound book, untrimmed in green printed covers, 135 pp, covers browned and foxed, front cover detached, spine partly perished, pages unmarked. TOGETHER WITH anonymous review of the dissertations in North American Review, January 1922. The medical dissertations by the Boston physician who published these remarkable papers were awarded the Harvard University Boylston Prize for 1819 and 1821. Both papers describe self-experimentation, the second describing intravenous infusions in rabbits as well as a harrowing account of the author's intravenous injection of castor oil in himself. ENOCH HALE, JR. (1790-1848) was born on January 19, 1790, in Westhampton, Massachusetts. The family was descended from Robert Hale of Kent, England, who settled in Charlestown,… Read More

Stanford University, 1947-1948.
SCARCE POSTWAR LECTURE SYLLABUS FOR PHYSICIANS' COURSE IN THE CARE OF POLIO PATIENTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
17.5x25.5 cm blue printed paper covers, stapled, typescript text, i-ix, 79 pp, browning of cover and text pages, unmarked and very good in archival mylar cover. PREFACE: This publication has been compiled from special courses for physicians in the treatment of poliomyelitis offered at Stanford University in 1947 and 1948. The reader should remember that this series was adapted from transcriptions of lectures given. The style is informal as the material was prepared for classroom presentation rather than organized in manuscript form. As it was impractical to reproduce those parts of the program based on demonstration of patients, this record is necessarily incomplete. However, basic material concerning the problem of poliomyelitis has been included. This should be of value to all medical personnel involved in the care of the poliomyelitis patient.
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Lausanne: Marc-Michel Bosquet, Sigismond d'Arnay, 1756, 1760. First French edition (translated from the Latin by Samuel Auguste Tissot). FOUR-VOLUME PIONEERING TREATISE DISTINGUISHING NEURAL "SENSIBILITY" FROM MUSCULAR "IRRITABILITY" BY SWISS POLYMATH FATHER OF PHYSIOLOGY. Four 12mo hardcover volumes 6 1/2 inches tall, original full leather binding, gilt compartments to spine with gilt red and green leather labels, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers,. 12mo. x, 399; [vi], 500; [ii], 512, [4], 232 pp. Engraved frontis depicting vivisections, titles printed in red and black, small title vignettes, tailpieces, 2 engraved folding plates (Vol. II facing p. 432; Vol. III facing p.322). Wear to cover edges and spines, bindings tight, text and plates crisp and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar covers. French language. ALBRECHT VON HALLER (1708 – 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to… Read More

Stuttgart: Princeton University, 1903. First edition. FOLIO VOLUME NARRATIVE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXPEDITIONS TO PATAGONIA, 1896-1899, BY J B HATCHER, FUNDED BY J P MORGAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. 13 inches tall folio volume, printed paper binding, photographic frontis with tissue guard, xvi, 314 pp, 50 figures on heavy paper with tissue guards, color double-page map of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia: The Plains, The Mountains, The Rivers of Patagonia, The Lakes of Southern Patagonia; The Coast of Patagonia; Climate; The Native Indian Tribes, Settlements in Southern Patagonia, Industries and Resources of Southern Patagonia; Summary; Errata; Index. Closed tear edge of last page and bottom corner of back cover; some tissue guards creased, covers clean, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. JOHN BELL HATCHER (1861– 1904) was an American paleontologist and fossil… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and John Taylor, 1831. First edition (later printing--1st 1830). 1831 EARLY PRINTING OF HERSCHEL'S LANDMARK GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION THAT STRONGLY INFLUENCED DARWIN IN CRAFTING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 11x18 cm red cloth boards, paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Jas. R. Holcome, Jes. Coll. Oxford, laid-in list of Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library , Vol 1, and Advertisement future volumes; 12 pp publisher's advertisements, vii, 372 pp, [1], 12 pp publisher's advertisements dated January 1831. Cover edges faded, edges worn, corners bumped, spine faded. unopened, text clean and unmarked, very good minus. SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1792 - 1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer, and botanist. His Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopedia set out methods of scientific investigation with an orderly relationship… Read More

Chicago: American Medical Association, 1910. First edition. 1910 LECTURE BY PIONEERING AMERICAN PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL STUDENTS INSCRIBED TO NOTED ARTIST WHO WOULD LATER MARRY HIS DAUGHTER. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed on front free endpaper to Sergeant Kendall from C. A. Herter, Jan 27, 1910. 40 pp. Light wear to spine ends and cover corners, light foxing to endpapers, very good in custom archival mylar cover. The text is an address delivered to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, September 23, 1909, at the opening of the medical school. The lecture is an inspirational talk to the new medical school class regarding the importance of research in the advancements of medical practice, and reflects his training under William Welch at Johns Hopkins CHRISTIAN ARCHIBALD HERTER (1865 - 1910) was an American physician and pathologist noted for his work on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He was… Read More

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1973. First printing. Review copy. COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF ATTACHMENT BY LEADING U OF CHICAGO PSYCHOLOGIST--REVIEW COPY OF SIR PATRICK BATESON, CAMBRIDGE ETHOLOGIST. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, signed on front free endpaper, "Patrick Bateson/ Mar. 1973." xv, 472 pp, illustrations, scattered pencil notations, laid in notes. LAID IN review request from Science journal. Very good with small stain corner of bottom edge in very good minus jacket with sun-darkened spine, in mylar sleeve. ECKHARD HEINRICH HESS (1916 – 1986) was a German-born American psychologist and ethologist, known for his research on pupillometry and animal imprinting. He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago as an instructor in 1948. He became a full professor in the Department of Psychology in 1959, and served as its chairman from 1963 to 1968. Hess pioneered the study of animal… Read More

London: van Voorst, 1846. First edition. 1846 HANDSOMLY BOUND VOLUMES CONTAINING 138 HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF BIRDS' EGGS BY BRITISH NATURALIST--COPY OF H F WALTER WHO OWNED "THE BEST PRIVATE COLLECTION IN ENGLAND". Two hardcover volumes 8 1/2 inches tall, full leather binding, blindstamped ruled margins to covers, spines with raised bands, gilt leather title labels, all edges gilt, Vol. I, armorial bookplate of Henry Fraser Walter to front paste-down, xvi, 223 pp, 62 hand colored lithographed plates (including 3 bis plates) of birds' eggs, each life size; Vol. II, [1], 225-470 pp, 76 hand colored plates (including 4 bis plates). Light abrasions to edges of covers and spines, very light scattered foxing, binding tight, pages crisp, plates bright and unmarked, very good+. WILLIAM CHAPMAN HEWITSON (1806 - 1878) was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was devoted to beetles, and butterflies, as well as birds' nests and eggs. He contributed to and published many works on… Read More

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1808. 1808 FAMILY HERBAL BY ENGLISH PHYSICIAN BOTANIST WITH 54 FINE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF PLANTS. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 calf binding with marbled boards, gilt lines to spine, gilt black leather title to spine, signature of Rd Clatterbuck, Colchester on front paste-down, Partial ink inscribed list of contents on front endpaper, title page with no date, but plate facing page 137 engraved, "Publd. by Brightly Bungay 1808", xl, 376 pp, 54 finely colored engraved plates containing multiple plants. Corners bumped, wear to covers, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tight, text unmarked, scattered pressed flowers inserted between pages, overall very good. In custom archival mylar cover. JOHN HILL (1714 – 1775), called because of his Swedish honors, "Sir" John Hill, was an English author and botanist. He was apprenticed to an apothecary and on the completion of his apprenticeship he set up in a small shop in St Martin's Lane, Westminster. He… Read More

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1935. First edition.
LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON UROLOGY BY PIONEER INVESTIGATOR AND CLINICIAN AT UCSF--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
9 3/4 inches tall, 2 inches thick hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "To my esteemed friend/ Dr Thomas A. Storey/ Frank Hinman." 1111 pp, 513 illustrations, 48 tables. Corners bumped, endpapers browned, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good+ in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANK HINMAN SR. (1880-1961) received his A.B. degree at Stanford in 1902 and was president of his graduating class. At Johns Hopkins Medical School the degree of M.D. was awarded him in 1906. He was the first resident trained by the pioneer in urology at Hopkins, Dr. Hugh Hampton Young, under whom he worked from 1912 to 1915. In 1916 he joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, as Assistant Clinical Professor of Urology and in the following year was given the title of Clinical Professor of… Read More

New York: The Science Press, 1912. First edition. 1912 LANDMARK STUDY OF MENTAL AND MOTOR EFFECTS OF CAFFEINE IN COCA-COLA, FIRST TO USE DOUBLE-BLIND CONDITIONS--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue buckram binding, iv, 166 pp, institutional library handstamp to edges and title page, embossed seal to title page, small library sticker bottom of last text page; signed and dated author inscription verso of table of contents, "This book is dedicated to my greatest fans. People who strive to be the best, become the best! Keep up the hard work and good luck in your future. Sincerely, H. L. Hollingworth 1912." Covers unmarked, binding tight, pages age-toned, edges friable with closed tears repaired with archival tape, upper corner missing from last page, not affecting text; good+. HARRY LEVI HOLLINGWORTH (1880 – 1956) was one of the first psychologists to bring psychology into the advertising world, as well as a pioneer in applied psychology. Following his earning a PhD from… Read More

London: John Badcock, 1803-1804. First edition.
FINE SET OF ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES FOR CHILDREN EXTOLLING NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM--AN ATTEMPT TO COMPETE WITH BUFFON'S SUCCESS IN FRANCE.
Four hardcover volumes, 14.5 cm tall, 24 mo, full leather binding, gilt decorative spines, marbled endpapers, each with added engraved title page with vignette. Vol. I, frontis of lion with tissue guard, 2 title pages, i-viii, 244 pp, 41 hand-colored copper plates; Vol. II, frontis of monkey with tissue guard, 2 title pages, [i-iv], 248 pp, 41 color plates; Vol. III, frontis of stickleback with tissue guard, 2 title pages, i-viii, 216 pp, 36 color plates; Vol. IV, frontis of peacock with tissue guard, 2 title pages, i-v, 260 pp, index 12 pp, publishers advertisements 2pp, 24 color plates. Total 142 color plates collates complete (see Smithsonial copy). Spine ends frayed, some leather labels missing from spines, bindings tight, hinges intact, pages unmarked, plates bright, very good in custom… Read More

1936-1958. First editions. 1936-1958 SIX SCARCE LANDMARK PAPERS BY PIONEERING PITTSBURGH PHYSIOLOGIST DAVENPORT HOOKER, WHO RECORDED HUMAN FETAL REFLEX RESPONSES TO STIMULATION. Six offprints stapled in original wraps, documenting key discoveries in the fetal development of neuromuscular reflexes by pioneering anatomist and neurophysiologist Davenport Hooker. 1) Early fetal activity in mammals. Yale J Biol Med 8: (6) 579-602, July, 1936 [cover with ragged edges, text with 1 cm closed edge tear, otherwise very good]; 2) The origin of the grasping movement in man. Proc Am Philos Soc 79: (4) 597-606, November, 1938 [very good]; 3) Fetal behavior. Res Pub Assn Res Nervous & Mental Dis 19:237-243, September, 1939 [near fine]; 4) Fetal reflexes and instinctul processs. Psychosomatic Medicine 4: (2) 199-205, April, 1942 {near fine]; 5) The origin of overt behavior, A University of Michigan Lecture, April 30, 1943, 38 pp, Ann Arbor, U Michigan, 1944 [near fine]; 6) Evidence of prenatal function of the central… Read More

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1870. First edition.
1870 LITTLE CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH FINE COLOR PLATES, COPY OF AMERICAN STEEL AND SHIPPING MAGNATE.
7 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 blue calf and cloth binding, spine with raised bands, gilt title and compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, decorative armorial bookplate of James Augustine Farrell to front paste-down, i-vi, 154 pp, 8 chromolithographic plates, wood engravings throughout text. Wear to spine edges and corners, text and plates unmarked, clean and bright, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
REVEREND WILLIAM HOUGHTON (1828–1895) was an English naturalist and clergyman, noted for being the author of British Fresh-Water Fishes. Houghton was rector of Preston on the Weald Moors in Shropshire. A serious naturalist, he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. To produce his major work, Houghton studied fish specimens at the British Museum.
PROVENANCE: JAMES AUGUSTINE FARRELL (1863 – 1943) was president of US Steel from 1911… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. First edition. SUMPTUOUS MONOGRAPH ON BIRD BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE TO TERRITORY--BEAUTIFUL PLATES. 12 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xii, 136 pp, frontis and 10 lithographic plates on heavy stock with tissue guards by George E. Lodge, and 2 full page plans of territorial areas. Near fine in very good minus faded jacket with chipped edges in protective mylar cover. HENRY ELIOT HOWARD (1873 – 26 December 1940) was an English amateur ornithologist, noted for being one of the first to describe territoriality behaviours in birds in a detailed manner. He showed from his earliest childhood an intense love of natural history. It was not until 1914 that his first work, British Warblers, illustrated by Henrik Grönvold, was fully published, having been issued in parts since 1907. Continually working on the theory of territory, he published Territory in Bird Life, illustrated by George Edward Lodge and Henrik… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1934. First edition.
1934 FIRST EDITION OF A PLAY BY OSCAR-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT AND AUTHOR OF MICROBE HUNTERS, PAUL DE KRUIF--SIGNED BY HIM.
8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, title to cover and spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "SIgned For Dr. William Winter/ in the hope that he/ may do even more than his brother./Paul de Kruif". i-xi, 152 pp, 2 black & white plates.
YELLOW JACK opened on Broadway in 1934 starring James Stewart and was later adapted into a 1938 Hollywood movie by the same title. Both were co-written by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif. The play is based on a chapter in Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. SYNOPSIS: After the Spanish–American War, in which more U. S. soldiers were killed by yellow fever (known as Yellow Jack) than in battle, the War Department sent a medical commission to Cuba to find, if possible, the cause and cure of this deadly tropical disease. The commission was headed by Dr. Walter Reed. Limited in its experiments… Read More

1895-1905.
1895-1905 ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN TWO PROMINENT ENGLISH ZOOLOGISTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
Six letters and a postcard: 1) 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch postcard dated 9/4/95 to Rev. Stebbing from Mrs GB Howes regarding signature of a certificate; 2) 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inch folded letter dated 19/V/97 from GB Howes to Rev. Stebbing accepting an invitation to his home; 3) 4 1/2 x 7 inch folded letter dated 26/V/97 from GF Howes to Mrs. Stebbing thanking her for her hospitality; 4) 3 3/4 x 6 inch folded letter dated 30/9/99 from GF Howes to Rev. Stebbing regarding a meeting the following month; 5) 4 1/2 x 7 inch folced letter dated June 3, 1901 from GF Howes to Rev. Stebbing expressing concern for the Reverend's wife's health and discussion of an upcoming congress. In his PS he notes, "In my address I am going once again to try to convince people that Limulus is no Arachnid!"; 6) 5 x 8 inch letter dated March 26, '01 from GF Howes to Rev. Stebbing thanking him for an Ostracod "safely received, & for… Read More

[Paris], 1806. First edition. FIRST EDITION--HUMBOLDT'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF "HORSE FISHING" ELECTRIC EELS AT RASTRO DE ABAXO, BOUND WITH ENGRAVING DEMONSTRATING THE ELECTRIC ORGAN. 25x33 cm folio extract in gray paper wraps, ink inscribed title and small handstamp "Library or R. Harry, Jr." to cover. Memoire sur une Nouvelle Espece de Gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine by M. de Humboldt pp. (46-) 48, BOUND WITH Observations sur L'Anguille Electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, pp. (49-) 92 by M. de Humboldt, hand-colored engraved plate. Wrappers soiled; a corner creased; 2 marginal tears to wrappers; a tear to upper blank margin of first page repaired with paper on verso; some wrinkling to lower corners; corners curled, scattered foxing, very good minus. The two papers appeared in "Le Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804," by Alexandre de Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland (Paris, 1806, etc.), consisting of thirty folio and quarto volumes… Read More

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958. First edition.
LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON DISORDERS OF THE URETEROVESICAL JUNCTION--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, inscribed on front free endpaper, "9-9-58/ Dear Cf (?), Hope you enjoy the book. No G.P. should practice [without] it", [14], 178 pp, 96 black & white figures. Near fine in very good jacket in mylar sleeve. LAID IN: two 2 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch transparencies, Voiding cystourethrogram showing reflux in a 3 month-old girl, and Cystogram showin ureterovesical reflux in a 20 year-old woman. FROM THE PREFACE: "This study is the result of ten years of investigation. It began in 1948 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, a paraplegic center for the Veterans Administration. Here certain anatomical changes were noted in the relationship of the ureter to the bladder wall through which it passed. These observations led to the development of the ureterovesical plastic operation… Read More

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1981. Second printing (1st 1980). FAMOUS LECTURES BY NOBELIST ANDREW HUXLEY WHO WITH ALAN HODGKIN DISCOVERED THE MECHANISM OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION--INSCRIBED TO NOTED SCIENCE HISTORIAN EVELYN FOX KELLER. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "For Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller/ with best wishes/ Andrew Huxley/ August 2001," ix, 111pp, fine in very good original glassine cover. SIR ANDREW FIELDING HUXLEY (1917 – 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After graduating from Westminster School in Central London, from where he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined Alan Lloyd Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses (called an action potential) earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. They made their discovery from the giant axon of the… Read More