Search Results: Authors starting with M from Biomed Rare Books

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1906.
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MARINE MOLLUSKS INSCRIBED BY AMERICAN TO BRITISH MALACOLOGIST.
18.5x27.5 cm offprint, brown printed paper covers, inscription to cover, "Mr. Ernest Ruthven Sykes with the writer's compliments," pp 109-151, plates XVII-XXXI. Spine worn, otherwise very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANK MACE MACFARLAND (1869-1951) spent a long and productive career devoted to the study of nudibranch sea slugs, some of which are the most beautifully colored and ecologically complex of all invertebrate inhabitants of in-shore marine habitats. His studies, particularly of the species-rich communities of California, were considered to be among the most detailed and meticulous of the time, and at his death in 1951, he was broadly acknowledged to be a world expert on this ecologically diverse group of mollusks. MacFarland was born in Centralia, Illinois, and studied at DePauw University in Indiana. In 1892 he enrolled as an advanced… Read More

New York: Summit Books, 1986. First printing.
SCARCE SIGNED COPY OF A REVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF EVOLUTION BY THE WOMAN WHO DISCOVERED BACTERIAL SYMBIOSIS.
13.5x22 cm hardcover, orange paper covered boards, brown cloth spine with gilt title, inscribed on front free endpaper, "To Jack & Nita with love of life & discontinuities/ Lynn Margulis Feb 1987," 301 pp, black & white illustrations. near-fine in near-fine jacket. FROM THE FOREWORD BY DR. LEWIS THOMAS: "Microcosmos is nothing less than the saga of the life of the planet. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan have put it all together, literally, in this extraordinary book, which is unlike any treatment of evolution for a general readership that I have encountered before. A fascinating account that we humans should be studying now for clues to our own survival."
LYNN MARGULIS (1938-2011) was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn Margulis's… Read More

New York: Summit Books, 1991. First edition, first printing.
GROUNDBREAKING EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO HUMAN SEXUALITY BY CELL BIOLOGIST MOTHER AND HER ECOLOGIST SON.
8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, turquoise paper-covered boards, black cloth spine with gilt title, signed by both authors on title page, 224 pp, very good in very good jacket in protective mylar sleeve.
LYNN MARGULIS (1938-2011) was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn Margulis's name is as synonymous with symbiosis as Charles Darwin's is with evolution." In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed current understanding of the evolution of cells with nuclei – an event Ernst Mayr called "perhaps the most important and dramatic event in the history of life" – by proposing it to have been the result of symbiotic mergers of bacteria. her formative paper, On the Origin of Mitosing Cells, appeared in 1967… Read More

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1879. First American edition. 1879 ENGLISH SURGEON AUTHORED THIS FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO SECTION-CUTTING OF SPECIMENS FOR MICROSCOPIC STUDY BY A SCOTTISH SURGEON. 6 1/2 inches tall slim hardcover, publisher's dark green cloth binding, blindstamped rulings to covers, gilt title to cover and spine, viii, 90 pp with 11 blank leaves bound in between pages 87 and 89 (noted in other copies, and presumably intended for readers' notes). Covers clean and bright, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good+. SYLVESTER MARSH (1845-1890) was a surgeon, and a semi-professional microscopist. He produced high-quality microscope slides, in particular paired stained sections of human liver from healthy and alcoholic individuals (Figures 1-3). He also prepared and distributed other histological specimens, and sectioned botanical objects. In 1878, he published in London a small book (1st American in 1879, offered here) on how to prepare and cut thin sections of tissues for… Read More

1893 - 1925. First edtions. BOUND COLLECTION OF 53 OFFPRINTS BY ALBERT MATHEWS, AMERICAN PIONEER PHYSICAL CHEMIST, FROM THE LIBRARY OF EMMETT CARMICHAEL, CHAIR OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT UAB 1927 - 1966. 10 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine with owner's name (Emmett B. Carmichael) bottom of spine, bookplate of Emmett B. Carmichael to front paste-down, typescript table of contents, 53 offprints with printed paper covers bound in, covers worn, contents unmarked, crisp, overall very good. Mathews is sole author of almost all papers, which span a wide range of disciplines including physiology, pharmacology, cell biology, embryology, biochemistry, metabolism, toxicology, evolution, and philosophy of science. Notable are titles such as Adaptation from the Point of View of the Physiologist (1913), The Value of Research (1915), The Nature of Disease and of its Natural Therapy (1922), Mathematics--The Reduction of all Physical Dimensions to those of Space and Time (1923), and The… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1894 - 1906. First edition. 1894-1906 FIVE MONOGRAPHS ON MEDUSAE WITH SUPERB PLATES BY PIONEERING EXPERT IN THE BIOLOGY (AND BEAUTY) OF JELLYFISH. 5 monographs on medusae in printed paper covers: 1) A. Agassiz and A. G. Mayer. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Medusae, [ii], (139-) - 175, 13 color lithographed plates, 1 large folding color map, 1902; 2) A. G. Mayer. Memoirs of Natural Sciences Vol. I No. 1. Medusae of the Bahamas, 33 pp, 7 heliotype plates, 1904; 3) A. G. Mayer. Cruise of the Steam Yacht "Wild Duck" in the Bahamas, January to April, 1893, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz. III. An Account of Some Medusae Obtained in the Bahamas. [ii], (235-) - 242, 3 color lithographic plates, 1894; 4) A. G. Mayer. The Variations of a Newly Arisen… Read More

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875. First edition.
SCARCE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED FOLIO VOLUME ON SCOTTISH MARINE LIFE BY NOTED PSYCHIATRIST-BIOLOGIST.
27.5x30 cm blue decorated cloth binding, glit title to spine, pp. vi, 186, 9 plates (6 lithographed in colors by Mintem Bros. and 3 uncolored) with facing descriptive text and 23 vignettes. Tips of comers worn; 3 small pieces of cloth missing from spine; ends of spine frayed; title & preliminary pp. foxed; occasional light foxing to remainder of text and plates; good + in custom archival mylar cover. The book is a review of many of the species collected by the author from St. Andrews Bay in Scotland. The plates and vignettes are based on drawings by McIntosh's sister, Roberta McIntosh, whom he described as being "equally persevering in collecting and in portraying." The plates were engraved for publication by G. H. Ford. Several of the vignettes are whimsical humorous depictions of marine animals.
WILLIAM CARMICHAEL MCINTOSH (1838 -1931) was a… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition (2nd printing).
SIGNED--CLASSIC COMPENDIUM OF KEYS TO SUCCESS FOR THE EARLY CAREER SCIENTIST BY BRILLIANT NOBELIST, DISCOVERER OF IMMUNE TOLERANCE.
14.5x24 cm hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "To Polly from Peter Medawar." i-xv, 109 pp, very good in very good dust jacket with edgewear and crease to front flap, in protective mylar sleeve.
SIR PETER MEDAWAR (1915 - 1987) was a British zoologist whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet. FROM JACKET FLAP: "Sir Peter Medawar has entitled his book Advice to a Young Scientist, placing himself, as he observes, in the company of Polonius, Lord Chesterfield and William Cobbett. Taking the part of a benevolent counsellor, he delivers wry observations on how to choose a… Read More

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930. First edition.
1930 SIGNED--GUIDE TO CHILD PSYCHOLOGY BY FOUNDER OF MENNINGER CLINIC--INCLUDES BERTRAND RUSSELL!
13x18.5 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed on front free endpaper, "With the compliments of the editors/ Nelson Antrim Crawford/ Karl A. Menninger, M.D." i-viii, 198 pp. Covers clean, binding tight, pages unmarked, jacket lightly soiled with edgewear, very good in very good jacket. FROM FRONT JACKET FLAP: "Children can be brought up by common sense, say the editors of The Healthy Minded Child, but they shouldn't be. They should be brought up with all the aid that modern science can give them. This means that the discoveries of the new psychology should be applied in childhood if one is to avoid the mental ill health which overwhelms millions of adults. This book is intended as a practical guide in the mental hygiene of childhood, showing how to apply the most up-to-date scientific conclusions to the problems of the average… Read More

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1865. First edition. 1865, 1872 TWO FOLIO VOLUMES - LANDMARK STUDY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE ECOLOGY ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHS. Two folio volumes 14 inches tall, printed paper covered card covers, soiled and edge-worn, cloth spine. Vol. 1 with handstamp of the Bryant Walker Library, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, to cover, and bookplate of Bryant Walker with image of snail on cattail leaf to front paste-down, and hand-inscribed card listing contents of volume affixed to ffep. xxx, 87, [11], tinted lithographic map, color temperature graph, 18 hand colored lithographic plates, 6 uncolored plates, errata slip; Vol 2. with author's insription to cover "Prof. A. Agassiz, Cambridge, Mass., hochachtungsfoll die Verfasser [compliments of the authors]" and bookplate on front paste-down, "Alex. Agassiz Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Founded by private subscription, in 1861. Deposited by Alex. Agassiz".… Read More

New York & London: Scribner's, 1930. First edition.
ANALYSIS OF SCIENCE AND SOCIETY BY NOBELIST PRESIDENT OF CALTECH INSCRIBED TO LUMBER BARON.
13X19 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "To Mr & Mrs R. R. Blacker/ With the compliments and admiration of/ Robert A. Millikan." [i-x], 194 pp. spine faded, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN (1868 –1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. In 1896 he became an assistant at the University of Chicago, where he became a full professor in 1910. In 1909 Millikan began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by a single electron. In 1914 Millikan took up with similar skill the experimental verification of the equation introduced by Albert Einstein in 1905 to describe the photoelectric effect. He used this same… Read More

Paris: G. Masson, 1895. First edition.
SCARCE EARLY MONOGRAPH ON ANATOMY OF THE ORANGUTAN WITH SUPERB LITHOGRAPHS OF BELOVED RESIDENTS OF PARIS ZOO.
24x32 cm folio hardcover, 3/4 leather binding, spine with gilt compartments and gilt title, marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, bookplate of academic physician to front paste-down, pp. 32-118, 5 full page lithographic plates, 2 are color portraits of two orangutans represented also in text-figures. Corners bumped, title page has abrasions from removal of inscriptions and 3x6 cm repaired area to right edge not affecting text, top 1-2 cn corner of 2 rear endpapers missing. Text and plates unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. This important early monograph on the orangutan documents the internal and external anatomy of two primates from the zoological garden in the Bois de Boulogne. In addition to the fine lithographic plates, there are superb drawings in the text of Maurice and Max in life at the zoo, all by museum illustrator… Read More

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1887. First edition. A 19th CENTURY SATIRIC NOVEL PROMOTING MEDICAL REFORM BY COMPARING ANCIENT EGYPTIAN WITH "MODERN" MEDICINE--INSCRIBED BY THE PHYSICIAN AUTHOR TO A CINCINNATI POLITICAL BOSS. 8 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding with gilt title to cover including a smiling sun behind a camel, pyramids, and sphynx of Egypt, gilt title to spine. Inscribed on front flyleaf to George B. Cox, Esq. and signed by author. viii, 194 pp, near fine in custom archival mylar cover. A SUPERB SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF THIS SCARCE TITLE. Dedication to Dr. John S. Billings, Assistant Surgeon-General of the United States Army, by his old-time friend and admirer, The Author. The story traces fictional Dr. Androcydes from ancient Egypt, who raises the spirit of Anthothis--they visit a modern physician and hospital, and compare ancient with modern medicine, concluding that the hospital is run in the interest of the doctor, and not for the benefit of the sick. They then visit a… Read More

1883-1915. First editions.
ARCHIVE OF OFFPRINTS BY PIONEERING HARVARD EMBRYOLOGIST/GERONTOLOGIST--INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY HIM.
Two sammelband hardcover volumes 10 inches tall, black buckram binding, title to covers and spines, Vol. 1 containing 26 offprints, Vol. 2 containing 18 offprints, each with printed wraps as issued. Vol. 2 contains duplicates of 5 offprints in Vol. 1, and 1 title (Segmentation of the ovum) is divided into 2 issues of the journal.
CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT (1852-1914) graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1872 and studied biology at Leipzig, Paris, and Würzburg. He was the James Stillman Professor of comparative anatomy and director of the anatomical laboratories at Harvard Medical School from 1880 until his death in 1914. His book on Human Embryology published in 1892 made him famous throughout the learned world, so that he was elected to learned societies in Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany and Belgium; as well as to all appropriate American societies.… Read More

Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1898. First edition. REPORT ON THE ACTION OF RATTLESNAKE VENOM ON HUMAN AND ANIMAL BLOOD WITH 6 COLOR PLATES BY NOTED AMERICAN NEUROLOGIST. 11 3/4 inches tall hardcover, leather covers with new cloth spine, published in Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume VIII, 14 pages with color plates, unmarked, very good. SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1829 - 1914) was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia and erythromelalgia. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of MD at Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the Civil War he had charge of nervous injuries and maladies at Turners Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist in neurology. Silas Weir Mitchell discovered and treated causalgia (today known as CRPS/RSD), a condition most often encountered by hand surgeons. He is considered the father of neurology as well as an early pioneer in scientific… Read More

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1857. American of revised London edition. AMERICAN EDITION OF EARLY IRISH TREATISE ON OBSTETRICS WITH COLOR PLATES. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxiii, 568 pages, original brown cloth binding, blindstamped design to covers and spine, gilt title to spine, 2 color lithographic plates, each containing 10 figures, 48 wood engravings in text. Spine ends chipped, upper spine edges cracked and chipped, browning to preliminary and last pages, light foxing to plates, overall good +. In custom archival mylar cover. AMERICAN PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "In reproducing the present enlarged and improved edition of Montgomery's classical work, the object of the publishers has been to place within reach of the American profession a book which has been everywhere so justly received in the most flattering manner. While aiming at an exact transcript of the work, one deviation has been found necessary, in the omission of the plates representing the appearance of the mammary areola during… Read More

Paris: G. Masson, 1876. First edition.
1865 MONOGRAPH ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FISH SWIM BLADDER BY STUDENT OF CLAUDE BERNARD, INSCRIBED TO EMINENT EMBRYOLOGIST.
16x24.5 cm offprint from Annales des Sciences Naturelles in blue paper wraps, inscribed top of cover, "a Monsieur Felix Henneguy, amical et sympathique souvenir de laboratoire, Armand Moreau". Title page, 85 pp, 2 fine engraved plates showing experimental physiologic apparatus. Soiling to covers, browning to page edges, light foxing, very good minus in custom archival card folder.
FRANCOIS-ARMAND MOREAU (1823-1881) was a student of the eminent CLAUDE BERNARD (1813 – 1878), master physiologist and proponent of the concept of the milieu interieur. Moreau is co-author of the definitive edition of L'oeuvre de Claude Bernard, published in 1881. Moreau served as laboratory assistant of ETIENNE-JULES MAREY (1830 – 1904) at the College de France. Marey was a physiologist and chronophotographer, making significant contributions to the development… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton, 1929. First edition. 1929 SCARCE LITTLE BOOK ON DARWINISM BY NOBEL LAUREATE T. H. MORGAN, A KEY FIGURE IN THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding with red printed logo to cover, red printed title to spine, 78 pp, publisher's advertisement. Spine sunned, bottom end of spine frayed, tiny hole punched in corner of back endpaper, all pages crisp and unmarked, very good, no dust jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN (1866 – 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Morgan received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in zoology in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of the fruit fly Drosophila… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1922. Second (revised) edition.
1922 UPDATE OF THE 1915 "EPOCH-MAKING BOOK" BY NOBEL LAUREATE T.H. MORGAN AND DISCIPLES THAT LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEW GENETICS.
8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis diagram of gene distribution on fruit fly chromosomes, i-xiv, 357 pp, 73 figures. Library numbers bottom of spine, embossed institutional library stamp to title page, library sticker and pocket to back paste-down, binding tight, text bright and unmarked, good+ in custom archival myar cover. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION We have tried to bring the book up to date not only by adding here and there throughout the text the latest results on the subject, but also by adding entirely new chapters, and new maps of the best known mutant factors. Much new material las been added to the chapter on sex; the chapter on selection has been largely rewritten. The new chapters are one on heredity in Protozoa, and one on mutation in the evening… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1913. First edition, first printing.
1913 FIRST EDITION OF T.H. MORGAN'S FIRST BOOK OF EXPERIMENTS ON DROSOPHILA, WHICH LED TO GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERIES IN GENETICS AND THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1933.
8 inches tall hardcover, maroon cloth binding, gilt emblem of Columbia University Press to cover, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. Signature of Geo. T. Hargitt on front free endpaper and title page, i-vi, 282 pp, 121 figures, 282 pp, 4 pp publisher's advertisements. Minimal wear to corners and spine ends, page edges lightly browned, very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "Two lines of research have developed with surprising rapidity in recent years. Their development has been independent, but at many stages in their progress they have looked to each other for help. The study of the cell has furnished some fundamental facts connected with problems of heredity. The modern study of heredity has proven itself to be an instrument even more subtle in… Read More